[Starlight Orchestra] Character Story: Hajime Sasazuka Part 1

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[Starlight Orchestra] Character Story: Hajime Sasazuka Part 1: Having It Boiled Isn't Bad

 

Hajime: ..... ...That's not it.

Ryosuke: Ah, good morning, Con-Mis. I'm having breakfast first.

Haijime: ....No...this isn't it...then...how about here...

 

...Sasazuka gnaws on a cereal bar while staring at his tablet. It seems he hasn't noticed us.

 

Ryosuke: That guy's kinda in work mode right now. Hehe, you look surprised. You ask why we're here on a week day? Third years like us are graduating soon so we thought of coming to Yokohama.

Ryousuke: You're having breakfast, too? Toast and boiled egg and minestrone. Yup, looks delicious.

Ryousuke: Eh? You're giving me a boiled egg, too? I somehow feel imposing. Thank you. Then, I'll gratefully eat it.

Ryousuke: Mm, delicious. That was a perfect boiled egg. The egg yolk is soft and crumbly---.

 

Then, I'll eat mine...

--It's gone!?

 

Hajime: It lacks taste. Con-mis, hand me the salt.

 

My boiled egg got eaten...!

 

"That's mine...!"

Hajime: Hm? ...Ah, having it boiled isn't bad.

 

"Don't eat it without permission".

Hajime: ...Okay. Then I'll give it back.

Ryosuke: No. Of course she wouldn't want something you've already started eating, you know.

 

Ryosuke: Haah...Sorry, Con-mis. Sit down. I'll make you another one in exchange of the one Hajime ate. How do you want your egg? Boiled, poached, or scrambled?

Hajime: ............

 

Sasazuka didn't seem to care at all....

 

 

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Friend 1: Ahaha, so something like that happened, huh. Since different people all over the country gathered together, there will definitely be someone strange among them.

Friend 1: Alright! Then this time, let's go to karaoke to distract ourselves. I want to sing 「Secret Lemon」 to my heart's content.

Friend 2: What's that?

Friend 1: Eh, you didn't know? It's 「BerryZ!」's new song. It's popular right now, though? It's a song about a girl's painful feelings towards an unrequited love

Friend 2: Ehhh, to the point of crying? You're exaggerating again.

Friend 1: You'd think, right? I really think it's something both of you will like! Anyway, listen to it first..

 

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It's true. It's a good song---.

While frying the chicken the housemother seasoned beforehand, I subconsciously started singing the song to myself.

 

Hajime: .....Karaage?

Ryousuke: We're home. What a nice aroma. Ah, the plate there is already full. Give me a sec, I'll bring out another plate.

Hajime: It's freshly fried, huh.

 

"No snitching of food!"

Hajime: ...Okay. Then I'll do a taste test.

 

"It's my masterpiece."

Hajime: Heh.

 

Hajime: It's hot... Hm, I can taste the garlic.

Ryosuke: Oh dear....

 

....Resistance is futile (against him), huh.

 

Hajime: The song just now...

Hajime: The one you're singing while your frying these.

Hajime: Is that a song that is good to sing while cooking?

 

“I wouldn't say that, but it's a good song..."

Hajime: "But it's a good song," huh.

 

“It just happened to be in my head...”

Hajime: "It's a good song," huh...

 

 

Hajime: In what way is it good?

 

I talk about the theme of painful unrequited love and the charming descriptions of beautiful scenery--

 

Hajime: So the bridge part, huh.

Hajime: It's made to mimic emotional ups and downs, that's why. The repetition of a short motif with the same sound pattern gives an impression of appealing for something.

Hajime: So it did have the intended standard effect, huh.

 

"Standard effect...?"

 

Hajime: In the pre-chorus, there was a common chord modulation when the minor third was modulated down. How was it?

 

"That was too much."

Hajime: Then that's good.

 

"That was the part that's the most tear-jerking."

Hajime: I know, right?

 

Hajime: It's easier to shake emotions that way instead of using unchanging chord progressions.

Ryosuke: Now that you mention it, isn't 「BerryZ!」's new song 「Secret Lemon」 the song they requested you to compose?

Hajime: Is that its name? When it was given to me, it was just titled, "New song for autumn CM tie-up."

Hajime: What's with the dumbfounded face, Con-Mis?

Hajime: You're asking me if I connect with the line "I'll give eternity to you," in the song? IDK, I wasn't the one who wrote the lyrics. The fact that you associate the theme one-sided love to the song is because of the lyrics. I had a totally different thing in mind while composing it.

Hajime: You ask me what my intention in the song was...

 

Hajime: ....It was a feeling of a clear sky. Seemingly enveloping me, a high sky.

 

Hajime: ....Hm, this is soy sauce-flavored, huh. This isn't bad, too. See you.

Ryosuke: ...That guy really stole another piece of the chicken as he left.

Ryosuke: Hehe, you look surprised again. Well, it's inevitable, since we're talking about him after all.

Ryosuke: Even so, he mysteriously makes music that resonates in people's hearts, doesn't he? I wonder if he's a genius. Before, he also had a heartrending song that topped the charts.

Ryosuke: But his theme for it was even worse. What do you think it was?

Ryosuke: He said it's an "I feel like eating dried sardine heads forever" song.

Ryosuke: Haha, it's really too much, though it is full of flavor. Really, it's something only he can compose.


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