Gears That Don't Mesh

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**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**Heave ho...!**

**Ashu Yuta**
**Tsubasa-chan, hello~!**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**You're already here.**

**Ashu Yuta**
**Yep, our previous job ended earlier.**

**Aizome Kento**
**It's not long enough to go anywhere so we came, is that okay?**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**Of course.**

**Aizome Kento**
**What's up with that amount of magazines you have, Tsubasa? Cleaning the office?**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**No, I had some free time, so I thought I'd check B-PRO's old articles.**

**Aizome Kento**
**Pff, hard working as always.**

**Aizome Kento**
**Should I bring them to the meeting room? I'll take them.**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**As if, I don't want to bother you...!**

**Aizome Kento**
**I can't let a girl hold on such heavy stuff. Come on, Goushi, take some, too. So insensitive.**

**Kaneshiro Goshi**
**Hah? ... Gee, can't be helped.**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**Thank you very much for bringing them here.**

**Aizome Kento**
**You're welcome.**

**Kaneshiro Goshi**
**You picked up some awfully old magazines.**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**Everything you appear on, whether alone or as a group, is kept here.**

**Aizome Kento**
**Mpfh, I'm not interested in my past self, but looking at this is moving.**

**Ashu Yuta**
**Waaah, this is a gravure from when we were in Bambi! How nostalgic~!**

**Ashu Yuta**
**Look, look! Kenken's hair here is sooo short! So pure and cute~~!**

**Aizome Kento**
**Uwah, I had a period like that? Even I forgot.**

**Aizome Kento**
**You haven't changed at all, Yuuta.**

**Ashu Yuta**
**Eeeeh~! That's so not trueee! I grew taller and I'm more mature, just so you know!**

**Aizome Kento**
**Pft, that you're taller is the only thing I will aknowledge.**

**Ashu Yuta**
**Booo~~! Kenken, you meanie!**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**Fufu, you still have that look, it's cute.**

**Aizome Kento**
**You think? Goushi hasn't been cute ever since that time, though.**

**Aizome Kento**
**Look, this is the photo taken right after THRIVE was formed. He practically wasn't looking at the camera, and even though it was a job he acted cranky.**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**Now that you mention it...**

**Kaneshiro Goshi**
**Oi.**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**I- I'm sorry!**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**But if you look at this, it's not just Kaneshiro-san...**

**Aizome Kento**
**Mh?**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**No, how do I put it, it's the same for Yuuta-kun and Aizome-san. The atmosphere seems completely different from now.**

**Aizome Kento**
**... Hmm, it looks like that to you, Tsubasa?**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**I- I didn't mean anything bad...**

**Aizome Kento**
**No, it's fine. I get what you're trying to say somehow.**

**Ashu Yuta**
**Ahahah, nothing gets past you, right, Tsubasa-chan?**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**?**

**Ashu Yuta**
**Ah, it's not like we were trying to hide it or anything, though.**

**Ashu Yuta**
**Right, try reading this interview from when we were in Bambi! It's about our future goals.**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**Okay. Let's see, Aizome-san's comment was... "Debuting as a solo artist"...**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**Is this true?**

**Aizome Kento**
**Well, yes. Surprised?**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**A bit... but each of you has an outstanding personality, so I understand that you wanted to make the best use of it.**

**Ashu Yuta**
**There's more written! "I can't mix together with others"! Ahah, such a Kenken thing to say~!**

**Kaneshiro Goshi**
**Ha, you've been sayin' some cold things from long ago, huh?**

**Aizome Kento**
**You're making fun of me, but yours was quite the comment, too.**

**Aizome Kento**
**"Once I've become the top artist, I'll deliver the world my own music".**

**Kaneshiro Goshi**
**Oi, don't go read other people's comments as you please.**

**Ashu Yuta**
**How cool, Gouchin~~! Eheheh, isn't this dream under way to realization?**

**Kaneshiro Goshi**
**...! Don't go sayin' unnecessary things!**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**At that time you both wanted to go solo, huh?**

**Aizome Kento**
**I'm more comfortable when I do things alone. Besides, I'm not the friendly type either.**

**Aizome Kento**
**That's why I remember being quite puzzled when the group was announced.**

**Ashu Yuta**
**Yep, yep. At first we were reeeaaally odd.**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**Odd...?**

**Aizome Kento**
**That's right. To be honest, the atmosphere wasn't that good. Just like in the picture you saw, Tsubasa.**

**Aizome Kento**
**It was like some kids were stuck with something.**

**Kaneshiro Goshi**
**You ain't talking about me, are you?**

**Aizome Kento**
**Who knows?**

**Kaneshiro Goshi**
**Bastard... You're much more of a kid if you provoke others like that.**

**Aizome Kento**
**How about the one who gets irritated every time that happens?**

**Kaneshiro Goshi**
**Youu...!**

**Ashu Yuta**
**Geez, on that aspect neither of you has changed since long ago~**

**Kaneshiro Goshi**
**Hah?**

**Ashu Yuta**
**I mean, as soon as you do that, you fight!**

**Aizome Kento**
**I wouldn't call this a fight, though.**

**Ashu Yuta**
**Maybe that's the case now, but in the past you were much mooore unfriendly. Just looking made me uneasy!**

**Ashu Yuta**
**The best thing that could have happened when you fought at the time was not talking to each other.**

**Ashu Yuta**
**Being in the middle of it was reaaally troubling for me!**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**Is that right...**

**Ashu Yuta**
**Because we were like that, the offers gradually decreased.**

**Ashu Yuta**
**I was really worried since they hired KitaKore and MooNs...**

**Kaneshiro Goshi**
**That's... We recovered quickly after that.**

**Aizome Kento**
**Yeah. We also had a change of heart.**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**Change of heart... did something happen to trigger that?**

**Ashu Yuta**
**Listen carefully, Tsubasa-chan!**

**Ashu Yuta**
**I tried my best to be able to get along with these two, but it was totally no good, so I was wondering what to do~**

**Ashu Yuta**
**One day, the harsh tone between the two of them suddenly disappeared.**

**Aizome Kento**
**Wait, Yuuta. Can you spare us that story? It's too lame, it gives me goosebumps.**

**Ashu Yuta**
**Eeeeh~ but I want Tsubasa-chan to know!**

**Ashu Yuta**
**About our turning point! You think so too, right, Gouchin!?**

**Kaneshiro Goshi**
**... Do what you want.**

**Ashu Yuta**
**See, Gouchin also said we should talk about it!**

**Aizome Kento**
**He didn't.**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**Uhm, if it's something you hate bringing up, you don't have to force yourselves...**

**Aizome Kento**
**Let's see... If you say you want to know more about me, Tsubasa, then it might be fine to talk about it.**

**Aizome Kento**
**Say that you're dying to know every single thing about me.**

**Kaneshiro Goshi**
**... Don't say such a thing so nonchalantly!**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**Yes. I want to know more about you, Aizome-san, and everyone else, too.**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**If I could know how the current THRIVE was shaped, I think it could be useful to support you from now on, too.**

**Kaneshiro Goshi**
**How earnest.**

**Aizome Kento**
**... It's a bit different from what I was expecting, but I'll put up with it this time.**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**?**

**Ashu Yuta**
**The reason we were able to open up is Kenken.**

**Aizome Kento**
**At that time, there was a lot to think about, but I knew it wasn't good to go on like that.**

**Aizome Kento**
**I was thinking how we could reconcile and called Goushi.**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**Called...?**

**Aizome Kento**
**I hadn't spoken to him until then, so I thought I'd have a one-on-one talk with him.**

**Aizome Kento**
**I thought that if I changed the approach, we might be able to talk in a slightly different mood.**

**Kaneshiro Goshi**
**As for me, I thought it was just a nuisance to be suddenly called at the park.**

**Aizome Kento**
**But it was much better than talking in the room, right?**

**Kaneshiro Goshi**
**... Well, that might have been the result.**

**Aizome Kento**
**And so we gave vent to what both of us wanted to say, without ill feelings more or less.**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**I seeーー**

**Ashu Yuta**
**Wait a second~~!!**

**Aizome Kento**
**What is it, Yuuta?**

**Ashu Yuta**
**The important part is completely missing! You didn't just talk!**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**Eh, what do you mean?**

**Aizome Kento**
**...**