Calculation and Fabrication

Thorvald: Good evening. Sorry to interrupt in the middle of a meal. I would like to offer a suggestion to everyone.
Thorvald: How do you feel about setting up surveillance cameras in this room?
IDOLiSH7: No!
Izumi Mitsuki: You goddamn stalker! First you follow Nagi around, then you come in and drink our miso soup, and now you wanna set up cameras!?
Nikaidou Yamato: You’re mighty bold for a stalker! Like hell we’d say yes to that!
Thorvald: It is only reasonable for all of you to react that way. Very well. I shall be bringing Nagi-san back to Northmare with me then.
IDOLiSH7: What!?
Yotsuba Tamaki: He! He’s tryna kidnap Nagicchi!
Nanase Riku: We would never hand Nagi over to a stalker! Sougo-san, do you see anything that’d work as a weapon?
Osaka Sougo: ……Here, take this!
Izumi Mitsuki: You can’t just throw glass pots around! That one’s expensive!
*door opens*
Rokuya Nagi: Thorvald…. Oh! What’s the matter, everyone!?
Nanase Riku: This dude’s been stalking you, hasn’t he!
Rokuya Nagi: Well, if you were to call him a stalker you would not be wrong, but…. He is not the stalker I spoke of the other day….
Nikaidou Yamato: Y’know…. You’ve got an awful lot of stalkers….
Rokuya Nagi: Hm…. I am quite a sinful man, if I do say so myself.
Thorvald: You misunderstand. I am not stalking Nagi-san in the slightest, I– Ah….
Yotsuba Tamaki: ……!? A bunch of stuff just fell outta his pocket!
Izumi Mitsuki: And they’re all pictures of Nagi…!
Nanase Riku: He has pictures of Nagi as a kid too! He’s a veteran stalker!!
Izumi Iori: ……This picture…. It must’ve been taken in a rather luxurious mansion…. Ah….
Rokuya Nagi: Thanks, Iori.
Rokuya Nagi: Dropping pictures of my face to the ground is rather impolite, Thorvald, is it not?
Thorvald: I apologize for the unacceptable behavior– Ah…. Sorry, Nagi-san.
Rokuya Nagi: In spite of the fact that you are behaving in a manner unbefitting of a subject of Northmare, you dare to warn me? I declare hereafter…. (1)
Rokuya Nagi: …….
Izumi Mitsuki: Oh…. They started talking in Northmarean….
Nikaidou Yamato: I have no clue what they’re talking about…. If they were talking in English, at least I’d have some idea of what’s going on….
Nanase Riku: Nagi, are you sure you don’t need to contact the police? He really isn’t a stalker?
Rokuya Nagi: ……. It is alright. Do not worry, he will be going home now.
Thorvald: Thank you for the dinner, it was very delicious. Thank you for having me over.
Thorvald: Nagi-san. You can only defer for so long. You are running out of time.
Rokuya Nagi: All because the entire lot of you are incompetent.
Thorvald: That is, unfortunately, painfully through. (2)
Yotsuba Tamaki: You mean, ‘painfully true?’
Thorvald: That is, unfortunately, painfully true. Good night. May you have splendid dreams.
*door closes*
Izumi Mitsuki: ……. He came and went like a storm. Man, what a guest….
Rokuya Nagi: A storm would have been more well-mannered than him.
Nikaidou Yamato: Nagi, are you really okay…? What the hell is this stalker business? And why didn’t you tell me about it?
Rokuya Nagi: He is my otaku friend. I was only jesting when I called him a stalker.
Nikaidou Yamato: Why’d he break the window, then?
Rokuya Nagi: Perhaps he got a little carried away in his excitement. He’s in a foreign country, after all. (3)
Yotsuba Tamaki: Really? Like, he said he was gonna take you with him back to Northmare and stuff….
Rokuya Nagi: Don’t worry. He was just copying something from an anime.
Izumi Mitsuki: You’re positive everything’s okay, right? You’re not gonna get stabbed by some weirdo outta nowhere, right?
Rokuya Nagi: Oh! My friend! Thank you for worrying about me! I am very happy!
Rokuya Nagi: I am alright. If there is ever a night where I cannot sleep, kept awake by my fear, I’ll take my Kokona DVD with me and go to your room.
Rokuya Nagi: Why don’t we watch it right now! Let’s turn on the TV…. Oh ….
TV News: Weekly magazines have been publishing a special scoop on TRIGGER’s Tsunashi Ryuunosuke-san and Hanamaki Sumire-san! Just what kind of relationship do they have?
Nanase Riku: Tsunashi-san…?

Reporter: Tsunashi-san, is it true you invited Hanamaki-san to join Yaotome Productions?
Reporter: And when did you get so close to her?
Anesagi Kaoru: Please let us through. Ryuu, hurry up!
Tsunashi Ryuunosuke: Sorry. I’m afraid can’t answer that.

Man: Did you hear? Apparently Yaotome Productions just went and snatched up Tsukumo Production’s top seller! It was all over the news!
Woman: He’s being super ungrateful to both agencies! I bet he just wanted to get his girl into the same agency as him, that’s all.
Man: Nah, I don’t think so. She was gonna be TRIGGER’s rival at Black or White, so he seduced her and made her fall for him!

Yaotome Gaku: Ryuu’s getting unilaterally bashed….
Tsunashi Ryuunosuke: I’m really sorry…. I didn’t know this was going to happen….
Yaotome Gaku: You didn’t do anything wrong. You’ve been politely declining interviews and doing the usual stuff! Yeah?
Tsunashi Ryuunosuke: Yeah…. But it feels different this time around….
Yaotome Gaku: How so?
Tsunashi Ryuunosuke: The interviewers are really…. Aggressive. It’s like they’re on the offensive.
Yaotome Gaku: ……The articles are like that too…. They’ve said all sorts of things about us, but this is the first time they’re being so blatant.
*door opens*
Yuki: Is everyone here?
Kujou Ten: Yuki-san….
Momo: Ryuunosuke, I’m sorry! I’m really sorry!
Tsunashi Ryuunosuke: What’s wrong, Momo-san?
Momo: I know I texted you about it, but all of this is my fault, Ryuu!
Yaotome Gaku: What do you mean……?

Tsunashi Ryuunosuke: Modern-day Chiba Salon…? And I’m the one who’s supposedly managing it…?
Momo: Ryou-san’s got it all wrong. He’s trying to get all of the power in the industry right now, and one of the things that’d get in his way is organizations.
Momo: Power is like a game of Othello. You get people to turn to your side, little by little, bit by bit.
Momo: If one or two people protested, they wouldn’t stand a chance. But if all of those people teamed up…. No one would have to turn to his side and they’d all be able to resist.
Momo: I gathered all my friends together so we could have fun, but he probably thinks we’re that kind of organization.
Yaotome Gaku: But isn’t that weird? If anything, he should be gunning for you and not Ryuu, Momo-san.
Momo: That’s true…. Have you ever done something that he’d bear a grudge against you for?
Tsunashi Ryuunosuke: Me!? I don’t think so….
Kujou Ten: People don’t usually hold grudges against Ryuu. He’s not that type of person. What about you, Momo-san?
Yaotome Gaku: Alright, hear me out. I’m only asking this because we don’t want to doubt your innocence, not because we suspect you. But you’re not on the same team as Tsukumo Ryou, right?
Momo: Of course not! If it came down to attacking Ryuu, then I’d rather send an assassin to off myself!
Yuki: Momo would never betray you guys.
Momo: Yuki…!
Yaotome Gaku: And why can you say that so confidently?
Yuki: Because he’d never do something that’d make me hate him. Right?
Momo: I swear on that.
Kujou Ten: I think so too. Gaku, you’re being rude. They’ve looked after us all this time.
Yaotome Gaku: I said it was just in case!
Yuki: Well, how about you, Gaku-kun and Ten-kun? Have either of you ever done something to incur Tsukumo’s wrath?
Kujou Ten: …This has nothing to do with President Tsukumo, but there’s a boy who sees me as his enemy.
Yaotome Gaku: What’s he like?
Kujou Ten: ……He’s one of the kids Kujou-san took care of.
Yuki: Kujou, again……?
Kujou Ten: …….
Yuki: Well, whatever. As long as you’re happy with Kujou-san.
Kujou Ten: If there’s something you’d like to say, please speak.
Yuki: Ten-kun, are you a masochist?
Momo: Yuki, that’s a little too direct!
Kujou Ten: I don’t really understand, but just know that I’m a sadist when it comes to senpai who ask inconsiderate questions.
Tsunashi Ryuunosuke: Ten, that’s pushing it a bit! You might actually start a fight with him!
Yaotome Gaku: Well, we can’t help it. Ryuu, you were set up by that woman. We just gotta prove that.
Yaotome Gaku: Is there anyone who could prove it? Was there anyone else who was there?
Tsunashi Ryuunosuke: ……Ah.
Yaotome Gaku: There was!?
Tsunashi Ryuunosuke: There was…. But given the situation and the fact that Tsukumo’s definitely got something up his sleeve, I can’t get them involved.
Yaotome Gaku: This isn’t the time for that shit! We’re gonna get their testimony and prove your innocence!
Tsunashi Ryuunosuke: I can’t. I won’t tell you.
Momo: Wait, is it…. Your girlfriend?
Tsunashi Ryuunosuke: N-no!
Yaotome Gaku: What the hell? You should’ve told us you were dating someone!
Tsunashi Ryuunosuke: I’m not!
Yuki: Of course he wouldn’t want to get his girlfriend involved. What kind of girl is she?
Tsunashi Ryuunosuke: I’m telling you guys, it’s not a girl!
Kujou Ten: If that’s the case, then why don’t you tell us who it is?
Tsunashi Ryuunosuke: Yeah, but…. I don’t want to get him involved….
Yuki: Fine. So be it. Momo, Gaku-kun. Hold him down.
Yaotome Gaku: What are you gonna do?
Yuki: Torture him.
Tsunashi Ryuunosuke: Torture!? Huh? Wait–
Tsunashi Ryuunosuke: Ahahaha! Ah! Stop! Stop it! Ahaha! It tickles! Ahahaha! I, I can’t take it anymore!
Kujou Ten: How merciless….
Tsunashi Ryuunosuke: Ahahaha! Ahahahaha! Okay! Okay! I give up! I’ll talk!

To be continued….

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THANKS @kuriiii FOR PROOFING!!!

THORVALD IS THE GODDAMN FUckIng drops 2098042 pcitures meme I CANT BELIEVe

(1) this bit kind of goes on for a bit without any real subject so i just tried 2 make it sound as official as possible
(2) alright there’s a japanese saying/kotowaza that goes 'mimi ga itai’ (lit. my ear hurts) which applies to anything that has been said over and over to you to the point where you’re tired of hearing OR something that is painfully true. Thorvald says 'mimi ga nigai’ (lit. my ear is bitter) LOL
(3) literally he says 'hustle’ but clearly some katakana-eigo is at work because with every example sentence I read the more i was like 'yeeeeeeeah hustle does not mean what it means in english in japanese’

As usual, if you see any mistakes/mistranslations/etc, please message me!

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