rubestie

Season: Winter

Writer: Akira

Characters: Madara, Kohaku

Madara: Of course, our guest had experienced criticism and denial of his theories up until that point as well.

Yet he chose to believe in the sweet affirmations his followers threw at him, and closed his eyes to the real world.

And then we ripped the curtains off that illusion.

The reality our guest inhabited was in fact a hallucination, a delusion only visible to himself.

However, upon witnessing J’s rebellious rampage, that person immediately understood his own mistake and changed his view. It was truly commendable.

At the beginning of the episode, he was preaching about how he would “enlighten the ignorant masses”, but in the end, he clung to J while crying and begging for forgiveness.

He was going to enlighten the masses, but ended up reaching enlightenment himself.

Kohaku: He was both an idiot and a fool, but he wasn’t a villain. He impressed me as well. It’s a pretty difficult thing ta do, admittin’ when yer in the wrong.

Madara: Even more so when you are a grown man. And while starring in a show that’s broadcasted online to the whole world.

Kohaku: He wanted ta apologize ta the kid in front of him, who was hurt ‘cause of him. That must’ve been more important fer him than maintainin’ the influence he had built up until then.

No. He must’ve wanted ta stop the tears of the kid cryin’ in front of ‘im.

J is really somethin’ as well. Once the guest started bawlin’, J stroked his head and said that he was hungry, so they should cook somethin’ together.

Madara: And then they listened to Enka while stir-frying bananas with the skin still on.

How awful ♪

Kohaku: The plot from beginnin’ ‘til end was perfect. I almost thought it might’ve been scripted.

No, the fact that it wasn’t scripted, and happened on a show with no plotline is exactly what made it so impressive.

Madara: Yup. And the public also loved it.

“I was laughing nonstop as I watched, but at the end I felt somehow touched”. “I hate this guy, and I have no idea what he’s saying, but I’ve somehow changed my mind about him.” and other comments like that.

It seems the people who were hate-watching actually ended up with a better impression of him.

I bet they gained a more favorable impression of him once his arrogant mask was stripped away and he showed his raw human emotions.

On the contrary, his followers who became his fans in adoration of that arrogance criticized his performance, naming it blasphemy.

He stripped himself of his godlike influence and showed that he is merely a foolish human like any other, who sometimes makes mistakes. I guess some amount of condemnation is to be expected.

Humans are not omnipotent Gods. It seems that pretending to be such a godlike figure was actually a burden to our guest, so he actually seemed rather relieved after the show.

And due to his gratitude to J for enlightening him, he even volunteered to participate in our 3rd episode, even though he wasn’t asked to.

Kohaku: He was makin’ a face as if he had just woken up after bein’ exorcised, that guy.

Madara: Yup. And as expected of an influencer, it seems this guest of ours is willing to keep coming back and bringing with him various acquaintances of his.

And now people are saying stuff like “When people star in that show, their personality changes for the good!”, “You’ll be saved!” and “Would you like to join the J-church, our religion for worshipping J?”

Kohaku: Yes… They say that birds of a feather flock together, so all the people this guest brings ta see us have some kinda screw loose, they’re all weird people.

The third episode, and the fourth episode we will record now, are probably also gonna end up as some crazy slapstick routine.

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Madara: The third episode was absolutely chaotic after all...

Our guest was this cram school teacher who boasted that he could “turn any child into a genius!”. However, he went stiff as a board for like 20 minutes once he saw that J began eating the textbook because he didn’t want to study.

Kohaku: And once our influencer guest from the previous episode saw this, he started going on endlessly about ways to “cook paper into a delicious meal”.

Madara: How chaotic… There sure are many weird people living in the world.

And in the end our teacher guest got frustrated with the situation, and started preaching to J about the benefits to studying.

J refused to listen to anything he said, and simply told him he was annoying and stuffed the textbook into his mouth. In the end, we all fried up the textbook and ate it.

Kohaku: When the episode aired they added subtitles ta the scene statin’ that “Textbook ink is poisonous, so good children should avoid trying this at home”. Seems like we’re always eatin’ some weird food at the end o’ each episode.

Madara: Hahaha. Mostly only wealthy families can afford to send their children to cram school.

It seemed like our teacher guest had never interacted with any children outside of those young lords and ladies before.

It must have been his first time meeting a kid like J, it seemed like it was quite the shock for him.

Kohaku: Fer someone who has only ever been around proper people, J must have been like an alien.

Even I still can’t wrap my head around what that kid’s thinkin’ and what he wants ta do.

Madara: H~m. I’m in the same boat there. It’s probably a mistake to try to think of that kid as a normal child you could find anywhere.

At first glance, J appears to be underdeveloped and unfortunate, but his intelligence seems to be rather high.

It seemed like he fully understood everything the teacher was saying, but chose to make fun of him, after all.

For better and for worse, that kid is far from normal.

Kohaku: In the end, our guest fer the third episode was also caught up in that lil’ devil J’s pace and ended up completely overwhelmed.

He ended up reflectin’ on himself, and apologized, sayin’ “Sorry that I was unable to do anything to help this child!”. After it all, he took some stomach pain medicine an’ went home.

Madara: Right. After that, he stopped boasting about his teachings online, and rather went back to studying education from scratch, immersing himself in reading education books.

Kohaku: He must be a real serious guy… I guess he wasn’t a villain either.

Madara: I agree. He isn’t the kind of enemy us Double Face need concern ourselves with.

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