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Sound Of The Beginning |  |
Kasumi
That was a lot of fun~!
Kasumi
It's not that often we get a day off, so I thought it would be nice to go shopping together! I'm glad I invited you two~!
Tsugumi
Yeah, I had fun too! And going out with this group was a nice change of pace!
Ran
Yeah. The three of us hanging out... Sure doesn't happen every day.
Kasumi
The stargazing trip! That's what ties us together! Heh heh! Ahh~, I was having so much fun, I ended up buying a bunch of stuff!
Kasumi
I got a sleep mask~, and this mini cactus! And there's also this cat mug and a sea urchin figure!
Kasumi
This foamy hand soap that makes your skin all soft! And then, and then~...
Tsugumi
A s-sea urchin figure?
Ran
A sea urchin and a cactus... What's with all the pointy things...?
Kasumi
I just wanted everything, I had no idea what I should get~.
Kasumi
What did you guys buy?
Tsugumi
I bought this bath spa set. They had a few different kinds, like ones with a Japanese cypress scent.
Ran
I got a few music magazines. Some CDs, some clothes.
Kasumi
CDs, huh~? I'd love to know which bands you like to listen to. Let's talk about it next time!
Ran
Okay, I guess that's fine.
Kasumi
Thanks~! Oh, yeah! Over there they had a lot of interesting-looking toys!
Kasumi
Like a plastic spring that bounces around and a remote-control helicopter!
Tsugumi
Speaking of, they were selling telescopes for kids at that hobby shop.
Tsugumi
It looks light and easy to use, but it's really expensive, even though it's supposed to be for kids...
Ran
Even a kid's telescope comes to about that price. As for the real thing, you can add another zero. At least that's what I read.
Tsugumi
Ohh, really?! Wow, Ran-chan. You know a lot about telescopes.
Ran
I was thinking about bringing a portable telescope on our stargazing trip... But it was too expensive, so I gave up on that idea.
Kasumi
I wonder if the stars would have been even prettier if we had one...
Tsugumi
Hmm, yeah. They say you can even see the moon's craters if you use one.
Ran
Yeah, but I think what we saw with our own eyes was nice enough.
Kasumi
Yeah, that's right! I'll never forget that starlit sky we saw together!
Kasumi
If I close my eyes like this, I can still see it... I'm sure it'll be a lifelong memory!
Tsugumi
Me too! It was so beautiful.
Ran
That was great but so was listening to Kasumi's story about the beat of the stars.
Ran
The sparkling and the heart-pounding... I got the sense that I would hear it from the sky that night too.
Ran
I mentioned this before, but that story made me think about the first time I played the guitar.
Ran
I don't think that feeling is something you experience that often, even throughout an entire lifetime...
Ran
So I don't think I'll forget that night.
Tsugumi
I feel the same.
Tsugumi
I was so sleepy, and it took a lot of nudging to keep us awake during the moments before the stars came out, but...
Tsugumi
The instant I saw the starlit sky, that sleepiness completely disappeared.
Tsugumi
With that glow in the pitch-black night... It was like jewels in the sky.
Tsugumi
Kasumi-chan, thank you for inviting us!
Kasumi
Hehe, I'm glad we got to see it together~.
Kasumi
When I heard Hina-san's story about the starlight, all I could say was, "Wow~."
Kasumi
Thinking about the light we see as being from hundreds of years ago... I can imagine the long journey they go on to finally reach here.
Tsugumi
Even on a long trip like that, they can keep shining, slowly but surely. It's kinda amazing.
Kasumi
Yeah! ... Maybe, just maybe, having heard the beat of the stars, or having gazed at them together...
Kasumi
Maybe those memories make the stars shine even brighter!
Tsugumi
Hmm, with the kind of memories that don't fade, no matter how much time has passed. Yeah, you could be right.
Ran
Huh. Not fading would make them similar to the starlight.
Kasumi
Exactly! I hope we can keep on making new memories that will sparkle forever and ever.
Tsugumi
Yeah! I hope so too! Ran-chan, you do too, right?!
Ran
Heh... You could say that.
Transcript
Kasumi
Mhm~♪ Mmhmhmm~ ♪
Kasumi
Twinkling, sparkling~, shooting star~♪ Shooting star~, stardust~ ♪
Kasumi
Mmhmhmm~ ♪
Kasumi
Mhm~♪ ... Hm? Ah, BanG Dreamer-san! Hello~!
Kasumi
I thought of a great phrase just now, so I was humming it ♪
Kasumi
Heh heh heh. I've become kinda like a musician, don't you think?!
Kasumi
I feel like the reason I've been able to come up with new phrases is that... a few of us went to look at the stars the other day!
Kasumi
Yep! Stargazing! I had invited Ran-chan and Tsugu to go, but we happen to run into Kokoron and Hina-san as well! Isn't that crazy?!
Kasumi
When I was younger, I was in the mountains looking at the sky... and I could feel the beating of the stars...
Kasumi
And I thought, I wanna have that feeling again! So we went stargazing.
Kasumi
We had to stay up late to see the stars at their shiniest, and that was really hard... I felt like I was dozing off, ahaha...
Kasumi
While we waited, I told everyone about the beating of the stars, and apparently, when Ran-chan first played guitar, she felt the same!
Kasumi
She said she got the sense that something was gonna happen. Just like me! Hehe, knowing that makes me happy...
Kasumi
Then we all watched the most beautiful starlit sky... And just like that, we were all wide awake.
Kasumi
We could see so many more stars than you normally see here, and every one of them was giving off their own sound and sparkling.
Kasumi
... Oh, yeah! And Hina-san told us about how the starlight we see now is from hundreds and thousands of years back!
Kasumi
Isn't the fact that we can see that now totally awesome?!
Kasumi
It's kinda hard to put into words, but it's amazing, right?!
Kasumi
There's even a chance that the light we saw that night was from the stars that I saw as a kid. Thinking about that got me really excited!
Kasumi
I wanna go back and tell the young me who heard the beating of the stars that night...
Kasumi
That sound you heard wasn't just a dream.
Kasumi
I've been chasing that heart-pounding feeling, like the one I had when I heard the stars, for a while... And now, I found it.
Kasumi
During my search, I met the members of Poppin'Party... And there's also Ran-chan and a lot of other band members as well!
Kasumi
It feels like, just like the starlight, the beat of the stars links the past and the future.
Kasumi
Heh heh heh, I get the sense I just said something kinda cool. Well? What do you think?
Kasumi
Heh heh, I know, right~? As long as you know what I mean~.
Kasumi
Okay, okay, do you wanna hear something even cooler than that~? So, you see...
Kasumi
We had this idea that we should try to bridge our sparkling from now to the future.
Kasumi
And if that light continues to shine and connect us to the future, it'll be like our mark to show that we were once here.
Kasumi
Of course, we'd do that through our music!
Kasumi
... At least, that's what Ran-chan was saying. I'm just repeating what I heard. Eheheh...
Kasumi
But don't you think that's such a lovely idea? Using music to leave our mark! Yeah, it's really something that bands would do!
Kasumi
... I felt like a new phrase we could use was coming to me, so that's why I'm here!
Kasumi
Hey, BanG Dreamer-san.
Kasumi
Just you wait! I will definitely, definitely write the perfect song!
Kasumi
And when that day comes, I want you to be the first to hear it! Look forward to it, okay?
Kasumi
Mhm, sparkling! Shooting stardust~♪ Ohh~!
Kasumi
... Well? How was that?
Kasumi
Wh-What?! No good?!
Kasumi
O-Okay, I gotta figure out something better... Ah! H-Hold on! I think I got it, be quiet for a second!
Kasumi
Mmm, hmm...
Kasumi
Stardust... Sparkling dream...? Hmm... No~. Aww~, but I almost had it~...