Yuri Tama (eBook)

From Third Wheel to Trifecta The Fifth

toshizou (Autor)

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2025
250 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-7030-2 (ISBN)

Infos

The good news: Yotsuba's plan to unite her class in support of Yuna, Rinka, and Makina was a smashing success! The pervasive atmosphere of awkward discomfort that had been looming over her and her classmates is gone, and everyone's finally ready to buckle down and make sure that their cultural festival idol show turns out as well as it possibly can!
The bad news: A whole new problem for Yotsuba to stress over almost immediately rears its head! Mio Kuruma, Shooting Star's second-in-command, bursts onto the scene in a desperate attempt to drag Makina back into show business! Worse still, she pulls Yotsuba into her scheme! How will Yotsuba contribute to the cultural festival, keep Mio from causing too much trouble, and resolve the ever so slight issue of Makina's totally unaddressed feelings for her all at once?!

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Chapter 1: Autumn Winds Bring New Encounters

October had arrived, and the wind had finally started to take on that distinctive chilly autumn bite. It was time for us to say goodbye to our summer uniforms and say hello to the Eichou High cultural festival, which was now looming just around the corner.

It had only been half a year since the last time I’d worn my winter uniform, but putting it on still gave me the most weirdly intense feeling of nostalgia. That probably had something to do with the enormous changes that had come about in my life since I started my second year of high school. Up to that point, I’d assumed that romance would be a foreign concept to me from the day I was born till the day I died—but then, somehow, I ended up with two wonderful girlfriends instead!

The me from back in April—a me who was still dressed in my winter uniform—never could have possibly imagined things would turn out this way. The two of them were still just friends to me back then. Who would have ever believed that I’d be asked out by two people, both of them girls, and who would have ever believed that I’d decide to say yes twice and two-time them?! I sure couldn’t believe what I’d done, that’s for sure...and somehow, in the end, the two of them had actually accepted my more-than-a-little-selfish decision.

It was like a big bang centered entirely on my love life—the biggest, most shocking development in my existence to date. And it didn’t even stop there! Ever since then, I started making new friends, learned about the feelings for me that my little sisters had been keeping hidden away, and reunited with my childhood friend who’d gone off and become a nationally famous idol since the last time I saw her in kindergarten. Honestly, it was kind of hard for me to believe that the person I’d become and the person I was back at the start of the school year could possibly be the same individual. The last six months had been just that eventful, and every one of those events had been just that intense. So intense, in fact, that I could practically see each and every one of them playing out before my eyes in perfect, vivid detail...

“...Huh?! Wait a second—is my life flashing before my eyes right now?!”

For a moment, I’d been so distracted by the sequence of images parading through my mind—each more impossibly hard to accept as a real thing that had really happened than the last—that the actual, present-moment me had accidentally dropped the pair of scissors I’d been holding.

“Whoa! Are you okay, Hazama?” asked Mukai, who happened to be standing nearby. Her eyes were wide with shock.

“Ah, yeah, I’m fine! Sorry about that,” I frantically replied.

Mukai scooped up the scissors and handed them to me. “You shouldn’t space out when you’re working with these! It’s dangerous.”

“Ugh—sorry. Ha ha ha... I was just sorta reminiscing, I guess,” I explained.

“Ahh...”

Mukai chuckled in a way that told me she knew where I was coming from. I had a feeling that the things that sprang to her mind were pretty different from the ones I was thinking of...but then again, everything that had happened between me and her was easily significant enough to make it onto my list too.

“Hey, Chiaki! Can you help us out over here for a second?” called out one of our classmates.

“Ah, s-sure!” Mukai replied, slightly flustered. She glanced over at me, and for some reason she looked almost a little apologetic...but then she went off to help our classmates before I could figure out why.

“She sure is busy, huh?” I said to myself as I watched her go. Then I went back to my work, this time taking great care to keep a firm grip on my scissors. Not that my “work” was anything major in the first place—I was just helping make really simple decorations for the performance. In other words, I was doing the same sort of busywork that I’d been occupied with since the start of our preparations for the festival.

Mukai, on the other hand? Oh, boy, were things different for her now!

I think it’s fair to say that Mukai probably hadn’t stood out much in our class before. Ever since the late-September meeting about advertising our festival offering, though, our classmates’ impression of her had been completely turned on its head. The cute, pretty, downright amazing pictures that she drew, after all, got picked up as the official art we’d be using to advertise class 2-A’s idol show!

Thanks to that decision, Mukai had suddenly become a super important leadership figure within our class. She’d pretty much turned into the head of our advertising efforts, and ended up getting constantly dragged this way and that by classmates who needed her input. The days of the two of us quietly working away on petty chores in a corner of the classroom were long gone...well, maybe just half gone, considering I’d been left behind in the same corner as ever.

It was only natural that things had turned out this way for Mukai. Not only were her illustrator skills the real deal, she was also just plain nice, not to mention a hard worker and a tremendously brave person. Of course everyone would realize what made her so great, I thought as I stood back at a far, far removed distance, arms crossed as I nodded with satisfaction.

On the day of the advertising meeting—the day that Mukai suddenly skyrocketed to the heights of stardom—a change came about class 2-A. We as a class had decided to put on an idol show starring our school’s very own Sacrosanct duo, Yuna Momose and Rinka Aiba, plus the real-life celebrity and center of the idol group Shooting Star, Makina Oda. It was a truly, excessively star-studded cast for an event like this, so all of us leaped straight to the conclusion that there was no way it could possibly fail...and in the process, we completely lost the drive to actually put any effort or passion into the event ourselves. After all, no matter what we did, the show would still be a smash hit in the end.

That all changed at the advertising meeting, though. In its aftermath, our whole class was caught up in a raging explosion of pure, fiery enthusiasm! We weren’t going to sit back and let the whole weight of the event’s success rest on our performing trio’s shoulders. No, every one of us would put in the work to support them and lift them to greater heights! We’d put this show on together, and make it all of ours!

It was already clear how the class would contribute to the advertising effort, but that was only the start. People with the appropriate know-how also quickly gathered up to help design and produce decorations for the stage, as well as the costumes that our trio of performers would wear for the show. Makina, Yuna, and Rinka would write the song they’d sing at the festival together, using one of the songs from Makina’s idol career as a base, but other capable classmates would help them arrange the song as well. We even put together a plan to recruit volunteers to play as a live band for the actual performance! Like, wow! Oh, and while we’re on the subject, this was an idol show, and it wouldn’t be an idol show without idol merch. It was decided that we’d make and sell a variety of merchandise with designs inspired by Mukai’s drawings.

It felt like the whole class was suddenly overflowing with ideas. There was just no stopping us! Handling all these preparations on top of our usual studies was really, really hard, of course...but everyone was also enjoying themselves so much more than before, and most importantly of all, Yuna, Rinka, and Makina were all way more upbeat. They seemed that way to me, anyway.

Huh? What about me?

Well...let’s just say that even if a person suddenly feels really, really enthusiastic and motivated about flying, it wouldn’t give them the ability to flap their arms and take off, just like that. I totally got in the spirit of it all too—I was like, “All right, let’s do this!” and everything—but there was still only so much that I could contribute to at all, and most of it was the same sort of chore-handling and errand-running that I’d already been doing.

But, I mean, you do need someone to be a gofer for this sort of thing sometimes, right? And it wasn’t like I minded playing that role. It was fulfilling in its own sort of way! The one tiny little issue was that now that Mukai wasn’t around to do those chores with me, I was on my own basically all the time. It made me feel a little lonely, I guess. That was why I’d been so glad when Mukai went to the trouble of coming over and talking to me a little. Then again, it was also possible that she just happened to be passing by and just happened to say something on impulse when she noticed me...

No, no, stop that. You can’t keep letting yourself get all discouraged like this!

Yuna, Rinka, and Makina were working their hardest, and now Mukai and the rest of the class were too. I had to do my part as well! I slapped my cheeks, hyping myself up to do my best!

“All right, let’s do this!”

Then I got right back to my chores, telling myself that I would finish all the work I had laid out in front of me within the day, no matter what it took!

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“Hee hee hee...” I...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.12.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Yuri Tama: From Third Wheel to Trifecta
• Illustrationen: Kuro Shina
• Übersetzer: Tristan K. Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: female protagonist • Harem • High School • impostor syndrome • Light Novel • Slice of Life • Yuri
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-7030-X / 171837030X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-7030-2 / 9781718370302