Lilja 4* Side Story

Brace Yourself Against Maple Across the River - Part 2

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Hikari: Wow, Koyomi-san is just keep improving!
I think you can go well with expert difficulty too now?

Koyomi: Rhythm game... Although this was my first time,
The experience feels pretty fun.

Lilja: .......
.....!

Koyomi: You girls went―
Oh, Lilja-san, you’re also here?

Ramona: Ssh, Koyomi!
Better not talking to her right now, she’s in concentration mode.

Lilja: ...... You Lose.
That was the 3rd one.

Ramona: One more try.
We’ll give it one more try.

Lilja: ... I may not be suitable with this after all.
It’s hard to understand which buttons to press in the midway.

Koyomi: But isn’t the game just about pushing buttons with the same colors?

Lilja: I’m pressing buttons while enjoying the song.
But it seems like I ended up pushing extra buttons sometimes.

Koyomi: You need to press the right buttons if that’s the case.

Ramona: Lilja is currently having fun with her playthrough. It’s certainly a way to play.
However, clearing a song seems like a good goal in here. We shall aim for it first!

Hikari: Right, right! We need to keep grinding on this one!
Don’t stop during the midway! Never give up!

Lilja: ...Ok. I will try for a bit more.


Hikari: Aah―!!
Just a bit more to the clear rate! That was very close.

Lilja: But, about the button timings,
I think they’re starting to sink in.

Koyomi: You’re going in the right direction.

Ramona: Then we’ll give it another try!
Practice makes perfect!


Hikari: ―You Win!!
Lilja-san! The enemy has been defeated at last!

Ramona: You did very well, Lilja!

Koyomi: A strong result after 10 tries.
Congratulations!

Lilja: Ramo, I did well, right?
I can aim to play in tournaments if I want to, right?

Ramona: Let’s... Practice yourself more before that.

Hikari: That was a satisfying ending. Now we’re going to look around and play other games as well!
Koyomi-san, which one do you want to do next?

Koyomi: Let’s see...
Ah, the game with cars over there seems to pique my interest.

Ramona: We’ll do that one then! I played with Lilja before and it was fun.
To our surprise, the handle was smooth to control.

Koyomi: Is that so?
Since I’m always in a situation where I need to drive, I have a bit of interest in it.

Hikari: I want to do it too!!
You’ll curve like this! Then you *BOOM―!* This one’s called a drift!

Ramona: Sounds good! Lilja and I will root for you guys from behind,
So you can go play the game with Koyomi!

Lilja: ... I see, they’re using the Wangan¹ course.
What a breathtaking view.

Hikari: 3, 2, 1... Go―!
Hikari-car, right now moving ahead!

Koyomi: Mm... Do I use this one to accelerate..?
W-wah, it seems you need to get used even when accelerating in straight...?

Ramona: Relax yourself, Koyomi.
You’re increasing the speed, but you’re not supposed to put too much power on the handle.

Loose your shoulders. Here,
Do it like this―

Koyomi: Kyah―!?

Ramona: Koyomi! Your car just went out of the course!

Koyomi: That’s because Ramona-san just went to touch me like nothing happened!?

Lilja: But it seems you took yourself a shortcut.
See, you got caught up to Hikari.

Hikari: Ack!? Koyomi-san is catching up behind me?!?

Koyomi: Hikari-san! Would you please move out of the way―!

Lilja: ... They clashed.


Ramona: Mhm! Some things certainly happened, but we managed to have a lot of fun today.
Time to wrap this up.

Koyomi: Wrap up with what?

Ramona: The answer is obvious!
Photo strips for today’s memento! Since today’s Koyomi first day to go to a game center.

Lilja: Photo strips are great. They’re easy to operate, and have many kinds of make ups.
For Koyomi’s face doodlings, you can leave it to me.

Koyomi: They’re not make ups, right...
Sigh... Since you girls sounded this like a good thing, let’s take one.


Voice from photo booth: Are you girls well-prepared?

So for today, while accumulating the joys from everyone as best pals,
Don’t forget to make a heart mark~!!

Koyomi: Heart...? Huh?
Is the posing cue necessary for everyone?

Hikari: It starts counting now!
Koyomi-san, come here quick!

Voice from photo booth: Ok, done!


Lilja: Mhm. Beauty-sparkly-eye with everyone.
This one’s also included as a new form of beauty.

Hikari: Today was fun~!
Plus with how all of us were playing Ongeki!

Ramona: For sure. We also managed to look at rare enthusiastic moments from Lilja and Koyomi.
We’ll need to show the photos to Xue as well.

Lilja: Koyomi, have this.

Koyomi: This was the photo strip, right.
So it got sealed like this too...

But isn’t the photo strip limited to a few numbers?
You don’t have to give me one, since Ramona-san sent the data to me earlier.

Lilja: That is no good. Koyomi must have this one.

A person will have more memory if they have the physical item.
Next time also with Xue. We will take a picture with the 5 of us.

Koyomi: ... Yes, that’s right.
I will come again when that happens.

TL notes:

[1] There is a JP street racing series named Wangan Midnight, it focuses on courses in Tokyo’s Bayshore Route (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wangan_Midnight). *The literal meaning of the word is bay coast.

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