![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"Pon, Pire Para Para Pon♪" |
![Story Miyako.png](/images/2/21/Story_Miyako.png) Miyako |
"Pon, Pureparapirupon." |
![Story Paddington.png](/images/2/28/Story_Paddington.png) Paddington |
"Conductor, Akemashite..." |
Three of Them |
"Omedetou gozaimasu~!" |
Conductor |
Kinga Shinnen. Happy New Year. I'm happy to start the New Year like this again, surrounded by all of you Train Knights. I will do my best again this year as the captain of the SSS, and as everyone's Conductor. |
![Story Paddington.png](/images/2/28/Story_Paddington.png) Paddington |
"It is thanks to Conductor that everyone in the SSS is able to celebrate the New Year like this again. As the second-in-command, I will do my best to further support you, Conductor." |
![Story Paddington.png](/images/2/28/Story_Paddington.png) Paddington |
"But today is New Year's Day! It's an off-day! It's the Hatsumoude! This shrine's famous for the many stalls that are set up for worshippers. It's like a festival, and if we don't get in line now, we'll miss out!" |
![Story Paddington.png](/images/2/28/Story_Paddington.png) Paddington |
"And thus, Conductor, until next time, toodles to you now!" |
Conductor |
Oh, when have I heard this before... |
Not just Paddington, but the other Train Knights seem to be enjoying themselves as they visit the shrine and line up at the stalls. |
This year, we visited a different shrine for Hatsumoude (New Year's visit), said to have a legend about tigers, as opposed to last year. The shrine is said to be famous for a folding screen depicting the legend, which is open to the public on New Year's Day. |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"Ooooh-, that's the exhibition hall of the folding screen where the tiger-san is said to be sealed up. The queue is so long, I can't wait to see it!" |
![Story Miyako.png](/images/2/21/Story_Miyako.png) Miyako |
"It's very exciting!" |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"Later on, there will be a stage for a pompous story where they try their best to get the tiger out of the folding screen!" |
![Story Miyako.png](/images/2/21/Story_Miyako.png) Miyako |
"There it is." |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"Yoshino is on high tension again on this year's Nyuu Iyaa. We will sing about the Oshougatsu's miryoku this year too." |
![Story Miyako.png](/images/2/21/Story_Miyako.png) Miyako |
"I'll try my best to follow the script too." |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"Osechi♪ Osechi♪ Ose cheese♪" |
![Story Miyako.png](/images/2/21/Story_Miyako.png) Miyako |
"Omochi, omochi, omo... chishibuki (blood splatter)?" (Original: ちしぶき) |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"Sei sei sei, stoppu stoppu." |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"Omochi shibuki doesn't work. It doesn't have anything to do with Oshougatsu, it should be omosugiru." |
![Story Miyako.png](/images/2/21/Story_Miyako.png) Miyako |
"I don't think Yoshino-chan's cheese has anything to do with it either..." |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"Fair enough, but let's use something a little more festive okay?" |
![Story Miyako.png](/images/2/21/Story_Miyako.png) Miyako |
"But I'm not familiar with any other words starting with 'chi' in them, so I can't think of any at the moment..." |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"Take two, then. Let's get back on track and start from the beginning." |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"Osechi♪ Osechi♪ Ose cheese♪" |
![Story Miyako.png](/images/2/21/Story_Miyako.png) Miyako |
"Omochi, omochi, omo... chikarou (dungeon). (Original: 地下牢) |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"Sei sei sei, still unrelated at all." |
![Story Miyako.png](/images/2/21/Story_Miyako.png) Miyako |
"Is that so? Many people are thrown in jail for being drunk at Oshougatsu, Versailles said that though?" |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"Oooh, so that's where you want to go. Didn't expect a reminder. Now that you put it that way, can't help but think it's relevant." |
![Story Austerlitz.png](/images/b/b4/Story_Austerlitz.png) Austerlitz |
"Hold on, both of you." |
![Story Austerlitz.png](/images/b/b4/Story_Austerlitz.png) Austerlitz |
"As for the song just now, L'Austerlitz suggests that it should be 'omo chikubi' (nipple), as a celebration." (Original: ちくび) |
![Story Austerlitz.png](/images/b/b4/Story_Austerlitz.png) Austerlitz |
"Soft and puffy like a rice cake, and it swells up so plumply, one can't help but put it in the mouth... I think it's a delicious phrase." |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"Austerlitz, thanks for jumping in." |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"But omo chikubi was written by Kyoshou Amanohashidate last year." |
![Story Austerlitz.png](/images/b/b4/Story_Austerlitz.png) Austerlitz |
"Oh no...! I didn't know my best phrase was already used...!" |
![Story Austerlitz.png](/images/b/b4/Story_Austerlitz.png) Austerlitz |
"Pardon me, I'll just pleasure my eyes at the tiger's tight buttocks on the screen and exercise my imagination again then. Have a nice day, both of you." |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"We had our first voluntary participant this year, and Yoshino is now very touched." |
![Story Miyako.png](/images/2/21/Story_Miyako.png) Miyako |
"Oh yes, Yoshino, let's go and see the tiger screen too." |
![Story Jeran.png](/images/0/09/Story_Jeran.png) Jeran |
"Garrrrh! Tiger! There's a tiger here!? Where, where is it dah~!?" |
Conductor |
Hearing the word tiger, Jeran came running up to Yoshino and us at breakneck speed. |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"If it's the tiger of legends, it looks like it's on public display over there." |
![Story Jeran.png](/images/0/09/Story_Jeran.png) Jeran |
"Legends? Is there a tiger that is even more powerful than the strongest tigers?" |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"Yes, Sure it's super awesome, Yoshino and friends are on their way there now, you want to go with us?" |
![Story Jeran.png](/images/0/09/Story_Jeran.png) Jeran |
"Go! Let's go dah~! Come, Ducky too~ faster faster!" |
Jeran urged me to go to the building where the folding screen was on special exhibition. |
![Story Austerlitz.png](/images/b/b4/Story_Austerlitz.png) Austerlitz |
"Big trouble, everyone. The tiger is gone." |
Conductor |
The tiger is gone? You mean the screen exhibition was suddenly cancelled? |
![Story Austerlitz.png](/images/b/b4/Story_Austerlitz.png) Austerlitz |
"No, that is not the case. The screen is still on display. It's just that the tiger that was painted on it seems to have jumped out and gone somewhere else." |
![Story Miyako.png](/images/2/21/Story_Miyako.png) Miyako |
"Gone somewhere? Isn't that a painting?" |
![Story Austerlitz.png](/images/b/b4/Story_Austerlitz.png) Austerlitz |
"Yes. It's like the painting in it materialised and jumped out." |
![Story Jeran.png](/images/0/09/Story_Jeran.png) Jeran |
"What do you mean? The tiger, did it escape?" |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"Tiger-san had too much energy and went outside for exercise." |
![Story Jeran.png](/images/0/09/Story_Jeran.png) Jeran |
"As expected of tigers dah! Tigers are strong and the strongest dah~!" |
![Story Miyako.png](/images/2/21/Story_Miyako.png) Miyako |
"Even though you wanted to see the tiger, Jeran-san looks happy." |
![Story Jeran.png](/images/0/09/Story_Jeran.png) Jeran |
"It's good that the tiger is healthy! The fact that no one can catch it is proof that it's the strongest! Garrrrh!" |
Just as everyone is convinced by Jeran's words, Karakawa now comes running up to us, looking panicked. |
![Story Karakawa.png](/images/6/61/Story_Karakawa.png) Karakawa |
"Everyone, big trouble! It looks like the tiger on the screen has gone somewhere else!" |
![Story Karakawa.png](/images/6/61/Story_Karakawa.png) Karakawa |
"'Gone somewhere? Isn't that a painting?' Your faces look like the question's already asked, actually--" |
![Story Karakawa.png](/images/6/61/Story_Karakawa.png) Karakawa |
"It's like the painting materialised and jumped out!" |
Conductor |
Oh, I didn't realise that. Thanks for telling me this, Karakawa. |
Karakawa is so emphatic about the news that I can't point out that I've already heard about it, so I pretended I didn't know. |
![Story Euston.png](/images/5/55/Story_Euston.png) Euston |
"Everyone, big trouble!" |
And then Euston, who has joined the Special Steel Squad from M. St. Iris, joined in, looking serious. |
She is the Knight Commander of the Railway Knights, and to have such a serious expression on her face, I wonder if Phantom Mist outbreak has occurred. |
However. |
![Story Euston.png](/images/5/55/Story_Euston.png) Euston |
"The tiger on the screen--" |
Everyone |
"We know (that) (dah)!" |
As one would expect, with Euston as the third repeat, everyone nearby pointed it out together. |