ocean waves

Every day's so boring, huh?

So what shall we do? What should we do?

I can't see you, so should I look for you?

Every day's so boring, huh?

I found you so easily

So in return, I'll hide for you

This was just a game we played as children,

When there was nothing else to do

With no other choice,

You call out,

"Are you ready?"

I'm ready, look for me, hurry and find me

I wanted you to find me right away

I'll hide and you'll seek

I play hide-and-seek

Gone, gone, I realized you're gone

Did you hide, too?

It'll be my turn to seek next, okay?

In this repeating game of hide-and-seek

Every day's so boring, huh?

So what shall we do? What should we do?

I can't see you, so should I look for you?

I can't find you

Just where did you go?

You keep hiding and won't come out

Will I never see you again?

I give up, so just come out already

This was just a game we played as children,

When there was nothing else to do

With no other choice,

I call out,

"Are you ready?"

"Are you ready?"

"Are you ready?"

"Are you ready?"

"Are you ready?"

I never heard you say, "I'm ready!"

I should've found you sooner

You hide and I'll seek

You play hide-and-seek

Not here, not here, I realized you're gone

Have you already gone somewhere else?

My turn to seek will last forever,

Mizuki: Even though I cultivated it to grow beautiful, Miku: It was damaged and slain by the rain Mafuyu: And though I did all that was asked of me, Kanade/Ena: It still overflowed and cursed you

Ena: I'm not so awkward that I could laugh this off Mizuki: We're just clueless souls just asking for an umbrella All: To shield us from the rain

Mizuki: Both my aching heart and my labored breaths Are all your fault Because I wish for your happiness, someday this will All: Come to an end

Miku/Mafuyu/Mizuki: Even the flowers I resented have become precious to me Miku/Ena: I only think that way Mafuyu/Ena/Mizuki: Because it's all your fault Miku/Mizuki/Kanade: Even if every step I take hurts, I'll keep walking

Ena: It just isn't right for you Mafuyu: To live embracing something Kanade: So filthy and so cowardly, Mizuki: I've known this since long ago

Ena: At that time, Ena/Mizuki: Was I somehow wrong? Mafuyu: From the start, Mafuyu/Mizuki: Was everything doomed? Kanade: Was wanting to save you, Kanade/Mizuki: Just folly on my part? Miku: Answer me!

Mizuki: If it was going to hurt this much, Mizuki/Mafuyu: I wish I'd never known it Mizuki: It would've been better if Mizuki/Kanade: I was abandoned sooner Mizuki: But I'm still so happy Mizuki/Ena: That I met you Mizuki: And without learning my lesson, Mizuki/Mafuyu/Ena/Kanade: I cling to you once more

Mizuki: Both my aching heart Ena: And my labored breaths Mafuyu: Are all your fault Miku: Because I wish for your happiness Mizuki: Someday this will All: Come to an end

Mafuyu/Ena: Even the flowers I resented have become precious to me Mafuyu/Ena: I only think that way Mafuyu/Ena/Mizuki: Because it's all your fault Miku/Mizuki/Kanade: Even if every step I take hurts, I'll keep walking

Mizuki: I'm sorry for being weak, I'm sorry for deceiving you, Miku: But every now and then Mizuki: Please think of me, okay? Mizuki/Miku: Please don't forget me Mizuki: Please remember me

Tsubasa: ...

Hey, you. Why are you just standing there?

Yes, I mean you, mister... Wait, what? I thought this was a girls' academy?

Hm, a transfer student, you say? Oh, yes, Kotorin told me something about that, didn't she...?

Oh, no, I'm merely talking to myself. Hm... Do you have some business with me?

Did you think I wouldn't notice or something? You've been following me for quite sooome time now. Like you were scrutinizing me!

So cut it out. It's really annoying. Well, I suppose this is something all idols deal with, right? Or perhaps you're a fan of mine?

In the first place, I'm trying to lead the life of a regular student here, so don't get all buddy-buddy with me.

...Geez. I enrolled in a girl's school to avoid this very situation! So what's with this transfer student business? I've never heard anything about Kimisaki going co-ed!

My manager should've properly verified this... I could've just gone to a different school... It's not like this was my only option (grumble grumble)

...Oh, you're still here?

You're not listening to a word I say, so why are you even following me?

You're persistent, aren't you? It wouldn't be a big deal if I just killed one person, right? As long as I could cover it up... No, out of the question... ...Anyway, if you get ANY closer, I'll scream, got it?

What? My panties? Now you're sexually harassing me? I could seriously kill you. Don't underestimate me just because I'm an idol...

...What? My skirt's flipped up?

KYAA?! HOW EMBARRASSING! How long has it been like that...?

Ever since I went to the bathroom? Well, idols don't go to the bathroom...

Ugh, how humiliating. I never let my guard down on stage, but I feel so out of my element here. Putting on this "normal" girl act is near impossible...

So that's what you were trying to tell me, senpai. I'm very sorry for treating you like some scoundrel... Just don't tell a SOUL about this, okay?

Ah...ahaha... Well, anyway, I'm Hamori Tsubasa. I'm in class 1-B and the choir club.

And I formed the idol group merry-melody~

What? You've never heard of them? I thought we were pretty famous around here...? Oh well, I guess we are just a local idol group.

That being said, I'm very very sorry about earlier! So please just forget about all that from before! Oh, I know Why don't I give you an autograph to shut you up? What do you mean you don't need it? I'm sure it'll sell for billions later!

Man, and the bell's about to ring. I've been absent for a while so my attendance is at risk here... I'm going to class. You should hurry too, senpai.

Shu: The tears I shed that day became the pearls of a necklace

Our passion and fury bled into that elegant veil

Mika: Those feelings are still so clear, as if I could reach out and grasp them,

Both: Surely, our arc of love aims for that armoire known as destiny,

And is carved

Shu: Into time

Both: Memories flow and spiral into a helix, cloaked in these painted dreams

Shu: In both folly

Mika: And in love,

Shu: Wholly as they are

Both: Even doubt can sublimate into pride when seeking perfection

Mika: Ahh, everything

Shu: Is woven together

Both: Into tailored haute couture

Mika: This sincere heart which conceals nothing,

Ran and left my stark nakedness far behind

Shu: O emotions, o beautiful passing days,

Both: Our love shall dance for eternity within that armoire known as reality,

Mika: And leave behind a singular tale…

Shu: La vie en rose

Shu: In every rendezvous there is a little romance,

Mika: And the light is followed by deep shadows

Shu: This colorful

Mika: Life is

Shu: The one we will choose

Mika: And as we do,

Both: Let us away

Shu: Memories flow and spiral into a helix,

Both: Cloaked in these painted dreams

Shu: In both hardships,

Mika: And in tenderness,

Shu: Wholly as they are

Mika: Cherishing each moment in my pursuit of the peak of perfection

Shu: Aah, such a eudaemonic

Both: Arc will continue

And forever be tailored into haute couture

Translation Notes:

The original title of this song in Japanese was 幸福論 (kōfukuron), which is "happiness theory" if you read it literally.

As 幸福 is often associated with feelings of "flourishing", "blessedness", and "euphoria", and this song seems to be about seeking to improve yourself while savoring both the highs and lows of the journey, I translated it as eudaemonism, a word derived from the Greek eudaemonia, which is often translated as "happiness" but is more accurately "flourishing". Eudaemonism is a theory that the highest ethical goal for all humans is personal fulfillment and well-being.

French translation notes are just that haute couture are expensive and fashionable clothes, and la vie en rose means to see life in a idealized way, akin to the idea that you might see some things with "rose-tinted glasses".

That troublesome item at the end of your to-do list

Won't break you, even if you say you're at your limit

And we both know I'm not talking about the far-off future,

You're the one who has to get their hands dirty, and I'll stay out of your way

So wreck it all—to your heart's content

And cry out until your voice reaches my heart

Yes, now I'm longing for even more

Losing my mind thinking of a happy ending

Just what are you hoping for?

Your wish is my command, my dearest one

There's no way this will all end cleanly,

It might seem like "preestablished harmony", but just let it be

Part of me is still holding out hope for a plot twist,

That'd be worth more than some parable about a person who can forgive endlessly

It's far too late to feel sad for myself

Oh may these feelings of mine somehow reach your heart

Yes, this meaningless closeness

Just makes me feel even farther from you

All I have is this sugar guitar,

Whose sounds get stirred into the wind and dissolve

The closer I am to you, the more it hurts

This transmitted loathing digs into me

Yes, now I'm longing for even more

Losing my mind thinking of a happy ending

Just what am I even hoping for?

My voice is stirred into the wind and dissolves away

Mafuyu: Unlike what we once thought,

Mizuki: This world isn't so kind,

Kanade: So I hope that at least

Ena: You'll let me stay by your side

Meiko: Those coarse words I spat out

Kanade: Have sullied you,

Meiko: Yet a mysterious red color

Mafuyu: Still sews us together,

Mizuki: And we are unable to move

Ena: I tightly embraced you and you crumpled in my arms,

As I found that loneliness within you

Ena: Your heart, which can't bear to be hurt again,

Mafuyu: Beats so tenderly that it pains me

Mizuki: And though you still try to suppress those festering wounds,

Meiko: You still smiled through it all, didn't you?

Kanade: and I know that there will be unavoidable pain,

Ena: So I just hope you'll let me see you cry, too

Mizuki: This world that we breathe in

Has long been broken, but (2)

Mafuyu: Those colors I saw with you

Were just so breathtaking

Mafuyu: Ahh,

Kanade: We've forgotten how to walk,

So I wonder how far we can go?

Meiko: But if you have nowhere you want to go,

That's alright with me

Ena: So let's sit here and talk

And if you have nothing to say,

Meiko: Let's just sit and admire the view together

Ena: And if you don't want to see anything,

Let's close our eyes gently

And stay here together, all I want is you by my side

Meiko: When your heart ached so much that you thought it'd burst from your chest

I heard your broken voice and started to run

Ena: I'm running to your side now,

So wait there, just as you are

Mizuki: When I felt the warmth of your fingertips, my heart (2)

Mafuyu: Beat so loudly that I couldn't conceal it, and its sound reached your ears

Ena: Even the painful clouds in my heart,

Kanade: Lifted to the point of hurting me(3)

Ena/Mafuyu/Meiko: Our hearts beat so loudly

Mizuki/Kanade/Meiko: Until their rhythms nearly synchronized

Mafuyu/Kanade: Even though we're broken, we'll press onward in this world

Ena/Mizuki: And together, we can finally breathe

Translation notes

余花 (Yoka) refer to flowers that bloom later in the springtime or closer to summer. Especially cherry blossoms.

In these parts, the lyrics use Mizuki's personal pronoun ボク (Boku). 私 (Watashi) which is Ena, Kanade, and Mafuyu's personal identifier is used in the other parts of the song, so I wanted to mark the instances where ボク is used. While it is very commonplace for songs, especially gender neutral ones, to utilize boku, since it is written in katakana it implies to me that Mizuki is no longer afraid to be herself in front of Niigo.