Track 2
HAMA Asunaro High School – Classroom
Aight, see you there.
Bet. I’ll head over after I’m done with math.
(There’s no club today. I’ll just head home and finish my homework.)
Oh… looks like he’s leaving.
Maybe now’s the time to go up to him…
~♪
Aaand nevermind… there’s his headphones.
But that’s what makes him so cool… I love him.
HAMA Asunaro High School – Shoe Lockers
~♪ ~♪
…Hey.
You Nanaki Nanamegi?
*Nanaki removes his headphones*
Y-Yeah, that’s me… Um, and you are…?
That's got nothing to do with you. I’m just here to hand this over.
(What’s this? A black… card?)
Nanaki Nanamegi. Use that and to get on mahorova snap when you’re home.
Get on mahorova…? But why—
DON’T FUCK WITH ME!!
Gah!?
You know what you did.
You better not flake, got it? If you do… you’re dead!!
*The girl leaves*
Wha… What the hell?
What was that about…?
HAMA House – Snake Room
Akuta and Kiroku aren’t back yet… Maybe they stopped by the clubroom?
Oh, there’s an invite code on the back of the card. Looks like it’s for a restricted area in mahorova…
(Honestly, I have no reason to go, but the last thing I need is that girl coming after me again…)
…I’ll just log out the moment it gets dangerous.
D-BATTLE Arena
Woah, what’s going on here? This place is seriously packed…
Huh? Wait, my avatar’s locked to the Asu High uniform, just like everyone here.
Are we in some kind of official school area or something…?
Yeah, Blue!!! Shut ‘em up!!
The poor guy can’t even make a comeback!!
(More importantly, what is everyone even do—?)
*Boom*
SNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!
Is that…!
D-BATTLE Arena – Substage
…And that’s why the number one ingredients for everyday miso soup are seaweed and fried tofu pouches!
B-But… don’t you sea the vision? Think about it, you can drink clawsome crab-filled soup! Every! Day!
Do you really think the average person has time in the morning to be picking crab meat?
AS IF!!!
C-Crab, you’re right!!
*KABOOM*
*Ding ding ding*
D-BATTLE Arena
Looks like it’s the crabwalk of shame for the loser…
It’s, okay… You did, your best…
Heeey.
Ah… Nanamegi…
Ayyy Nanaki! So you finally clawed your way into peak…!! Welcome to the world of D-BATTLING…!!
Uh, actually—
My! It would seem you have finally arrived, Nanaki Nanamegi!
! You’re the girl from yesterday…
I’ll hand it to you for not flaking out on us.
And you’re the one from the shoe lockers…!?
Oh my, how splendid! It appears that the substage is currently unoccupied.
C’mon, get your ass up there!!
Whoa—!?
Nanamegi… just got, dragged away… by two girls…!
They reeled him away at sonic speed! A challenger caught fresh outta water!!
D-BATTLE Arena – Substage
I shall do the honours of opening, if you please.
Me.
And might I inquire which among you shall undertake this role?
Role for what!?
Ooh, ooh! Me me MEEEEEE!! Over here, this one, I call it!!
[Blue corner responder. Cornerman registration complete. Please choose a mode.]
W-Wait a sec, I seriously have no idea what you guys are doing…!
Is this some kind of follow-up from yesterday…? Because I won’t change my answer…!
…Free Battle, BO1, if you please.
(She completely ignored me…!)
[Do you accept?]
Yessir!
[Speak your truth. D-Speaker on stand-by.]
(A megaphone? Just appeared in my hand…!?)
Um, HELLO!? Can someone please answer me!?
[Here’s to a clean fight, get ready to throw, say—]
D-BATTLE, READYYYYY GOOOO!!!
I literally have no clue what’s going on—!!
*Ding ding ding*
[Red corner, open.]
It’s coming, Nanaki! Brace yourself!
Please wait, I’m begging you! I still don’t understand what’s going—
“Ugh, would you please shut the fuck up, you womanizing commoner slop!!”
Gah!?
*Nanaki took small damage*
[Blue corner D-LIFE: 82.3% remaining.]
Ah…! That was, ruthless…
“What do you not get? It’s my fucking turn right now you pleb.”
That’s my ride-or-die. Fuck him up.
(So they’re childhood friends… Wait, that’s not important right now!)
“Men serve no purpose in life except for being my slaves, but you…”
“How dare you act out and brush me off!! You’re just some commoner!!”
(Isn’t she the girl from the emergency stairs…? She’s a completely different person now…)
Huh? You brushed her? Like her hair? …Why?
No, you got it all wrong! …Besides, weren’t you being kinda pushy yourse—
“Shut the fuck up and drop dead, you worm!!”
Eep.
*Nanaki took small damage*
“Don’t think you can talk back to my girl just ‘cuz you think you’re a little hot.”
(Now her cornerman jumped in too…!)
“You know, you sure are full of yourself for a pleb! I bet you had no intention of giving me a chance from the fucking start!”
Gh.
*Nanaki took medium damage*
Akuta, what am I supposed to do—
Sheeeeesh!! She’s roasting you alive! Now that’s what I call an opponent! And I’m eating it all up as the cornerman! This footage’ll be lit~!!
“Do you think you’re the shit? You’re a piece of shit! Drop dead!”
*Nanaki took medium damage*
“For real, don’t think you can count on your pretty privilege for everything.”
*Nanaki took small damage*
“If I listened to your music, my brain would rot from how shallow it is!”
*Nanaki took small damage*
“Why don’t you try tuning yourself first before worrying about your guitar?”
*Nanaki took small damage*
*shaking and trembling very badly*
*shaking and trembling very frantically*
“So?? Do you have anything to say for yourself?? You’ve got something to say to that??”
[Blue corner, respond.]
“Pl—”
“…Please forgive me.”
*Ding ding ding*
Heh.
Don’t you dare think about crossing me again, you pleb.
*Cheering*
D-BATTLE Arena
Nanamegi got confessed to again…? Gaaah, curse him and his stupid looks!
But who would’ve thought that girl was like that all along…
That was crazy!! That was insane!! Master, step on me, PLEASE!!
…Hoh, the cornerman threw herself into the fray and the girls turned it into a relentless D-RUSH. Substage matches should never be underestimated.
…Ugh.
Are you, okay…?
To be honest, I just want the ground to swallow me whole…
But Nanaki, my man, good job hanging in there!! I thought I was gonna piss myself!!
Don’t worry. You’re gonna use this failure as a stepping stone to climb your way up the D-BATTLE world, and your buddy-friend-pal will be here to document it all…!
Yeah, um, sorry to burst your bubble, but…
What exactly is “D-BATTLE”?
Hu…?
HUUUUUUH?!? You came in here without knowing smack about the hottest, most insane viral activity on the block, aka D-BATTLE!?
Is it really that big of a deal?
I thought… you knew, about it… and just chose, not to, participate…
Nope. Someone just handed me this black card, and next thing I knew, I was getting roasted onstage…
So you received… the invitation card…
And that was it… Things just snowballed…
…I see, so “D-BATTLE” is—
A verbal smackdown where people roast each other to deal damage to their opponent's gauge until they win…
Yeah, and that gauge is called D-LIFE! When it hits 0, you’re done.
It’s, calculated by, an AI… that measures, your heart rate, and stress levels…
What does the ‘D’ in D-BATTLE mean, anyway?
Erm~ well~ no one’s really sure, but they say it’s like ‘D’ for diss and dissing.
Dissing…
So it’s basically just a glorified trash-talk contest. Why would anyone be obsessed with this…?
*Cheering*
Hm?
It’s… coming, from the, main stage…
D-BATTLE Arena – Main Stage
“Greetings everyone! The moment we’ve all been waiting for is finally heeeeeeeeeere!”
“I am the president of the Shout It Out Fair & Square D-BATTLE Club, Sho Setsumei, and I will be your commentator and emcee for today!”
D-Club! D-Club!
D-BATTLE Arena
(Never heard of that club before…)
“In the red corner, we haaaaaaave our challenger! A D-BATTLER who is mere moments away from reaching the illustrious S-rank!”
S-rank!? That’s like the top of the top cream of the crustacean crop!!
So there are ranks here too.
Yeah… Isotake and I, have only… seen low-rank, matches… so we don’t, really know much… about it, but…
There ’s only one, S-rank, right now… and they’re apparently, on a whole, different level…
Huh… I wonder who it is.
D-BATTLE Arena – Main Stage
“And standing in his way is the man in the blue corner, the most vicious, despicable heel3 ever seen in the history of D-BATTLE!”
“Will the challenger be able to defeat this man and claim his spot in S-rank? Give it up foooor… Diss Emperor K!!!”
*Cheering*
*sigh*… Can you seriously stop calling me by that weird nickname?
D-BATTLE Arena
……………
HUUUUUUUUUUUHH!?!?!?