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Author's Note: I actually quite like writing slightly dark non-BL stories like "Imitation Gold." You know, Nishikido-san could probably be a bottom... It looks like the seats behind home plate at Koshien are now called "Dream Seats."
Illustrator's Note: Ichiho-san requested an image of penguins lining up at Ushio's shaved ice stand. She said that penguins went with shaved ice. Personally, I think I was able to draw Ushio most like himself for this cover. The lineart is all analog.
First published in 2015 in the doujinshi My Sun.
Translator Note: The next set of side stories make references to characters and events that appear in Volume 2 of .
Part 1: Memories
"We'd like to thank everyone at the TV station for hosting us today. We are all very excited to see how our favorite shows are made and then broadcast to our homes. We hope to learn a lot from this experience so we can make the most of our summer vacation. Thank you, I'm Kunieda Kei, representing Grade 4 Class 2."
Kei finished reading his class's remarks and bowed his head. The lady announcer who was acting as their guide for the day praised him enthusiastically. "Oh, wow, you're so good at reading your speech! Maybe one day you can be an announcer! All right! Let's get going so that we can show everyone all sorts of things that we do at the station!"
This is such a pain in the butt, Kei thought. Why do we have to waste a day of our summer vacation coming here? I want make-up vacation days.
"There are groups from other schools here, so please pay attention so that you don't get left behind~"
Sure enough, there were swarms of children milling around the lobby.
"Whoa! It's Asazou! Can I get your autograph!?"
"Minagawa-kun, please be quiet!"
An autograph? Are you stupid? It's just a sweaty, short, old man in there.
"All right, Grade 4 Class 2! We'll be heading over to the studio now~!"
Kei narrowed his eyes at the idiot kid running around his group. He lined up with his class and started walking.
It was the first time in his life ever seeing a set at a television studio, and it was smaller and more cramped than he had expected. Behind the scenes, things weren't quite as nice as it looked on camera, but Ushio wasn't disappointed. It felt fresh and exciting to him.
The floor was crawling with camera cables, and it was marked with torn pieces of colored tape stuck all over the ground.
"This is called a 'spike.' We use it to mark the positions of actors and set pieces like tables and chairs. Sometimes we might use the same studio but we will change out the sets to film different shows, and so it's very important to have the spikes to show where things go."
