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PORTRAIT - Ah, still delay—thou art so ■■■ 1

Author: Akira

Characters: Akiomi, Izumi, Makoto

Translator: Mika Enstars

"Get it together, Sparkling Old Man."

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Season: Winter

Location: Kid's Photography Studio

Fourteen years ago prior to ES’ first year of establishment. At a photography studio somewhere in Tokyo…

Akiomi: —The Sparkling Prince of the Modeling Industry has arrived to the scene!

Thank you for your time today too…! I’ll do my best!

Wait, ah, there’s a photoshoot in progress! I was being loud! I’ll hush now!

Eh, young people are just full of energy? They are, aren’t they! I feel that’s my most important quality too!

Hmm, kids these days are so unenergetic that it’s rare to find one that sparkles as much as I do?

Haha, well I am the Sparkling Prince, aren’t I? Of course I’m sparkling!

Izumi: …Sparkling prince?

Akiomi: Hm? Who’s this? A fan of mine? Heheh, so I’ve become so well-known even a small child has heard of me, huh?

Izumi: Shut up. It’s lame. And horrible.

Akiomi: ……!?

Wha, you!? D-D-D-Don’t be so rude! I’m doing whatever I can to hold in my embarrassment and play the sparkling prince!

Izumi: ……

Akiomi: (—He ignored me?! The cheek of this kid! What are his parents teaching him!?)

(Narukami-kun from my agency is no different, but this is exactly why those older than us are always grumbling about “young people these days”, you know…!)

(Now! As their slightly-older-than-you onii-san! I’ll just have to give this kid a talking-to, as his senior in life!)

(You’ll never make it anywhere in life if you don’t know how to speak to your superiors!)

Um! You, you right there!

Izumi: …My name isn’t “you”, though.

Akiomi: Ggh!? Um, umm, come to think about it, I’ve seen you around in magazines and the like a lot lately—You must be Izumi-kun. You’re from another agency, right?

Izumi: ……

Akiomi: Izumi Sena-kun, was it? It sounds a bit western it. Actually, your face is too, somewhat—

Izumi: It’s Sena Izumi, though.

Akiomi: Huh?

Izumi: I just told you. My name isn’t Izumi Sena, it’s Sena Izumi.

Sena is my surname, and Izumi is my given name. It’s real rude to get people’s names wrong.

Impolite people like you are exactly why old men are always going “young people these days” and all that.

Get it together, Sparkling Old Man.

Akiomi: It’s the Sparkling Prince![1]

Izumi: …Shut up. Your voice is loud. Makes me annoyed.

Akiomi: I’m the one who's annoyed here, though?!

Izumi: Quiet. Stop talking. I can’t focus.

I’m busy watching over Yuu-kun.

Akiomi: Yuu-kun…?

Makoto: ☆☆☆☆☆

Akiomi: (Oh… The kid that’s having a photoshoot right now must be Yuuki Makoto-kun. Izumi Sena—I mean, Sena Izumi-kun is watching over him, huh?)

(I know about this kid. In the child modeling scene right now, he’s what everyone’s been talking about calling him a “child prodigy” and such.)

(Well, I was called a “child prodigy” and “gifted” when I was a little kid too, you know! Compared to me, what’s so special about that?!)

(Still, I can tell he’s worthy of that praise. That kid’s real beautiful.)

Makoto: ☆☆☆☆☆

Izumi: Ah, shoot!

Akiomi: …? What’s wrong?

Izumi: I wasn’t talking to you, umm… Sparkling Old Man.

Akiomi: I’m Kunugi Akiomi, also known as the Sparkling Prince. I’m your senior as a model.

It’s nice to meet you. Here’s my business card.

Izumi: What’s the point. Kanji’s too difficult for me to read.

Akiomi: Ahh, you’re only five or six years old or so, aren’t you? Early elementary school, huh—

Izumi: So what? What’s more important is Yuu-kun, he’s at his limit.

Get a towel and water ready. Oh, and a place he can rest where no one can see.

You can do that much, right, Senpai?

Akiomi: (T-This kid seriously is all cheek…! I thought I’d try getting along with him as fellow models, but I think I’m gonna change my mind!)

(But… This kid, he sounds pretty earnest… Almost like he’s scared.)

(I don’t exactly understand his intentions, but, well… I’ll be the adult here and do what he says.)

(This kid’s pretty ill-manned and doesn't seem like he relies on adults for help.)

(Right now, although he’s ordering me around arrogantly, he’s depending on me even though I’ve just met him.)

(I guess that’s how much of an emergency it is… I feel like it’d be pretty cruel to refuse this kid’s request, then.)

Izumi: Hurry up.

Akiomi: Ow ow ow ow!? Don’t pinch my thigh! If it leaves a mark, it’ll be a problem for my swimsuit shoots!

Makoto: ☆☆☆☆☆

(—Ah, it’s Onii-chan.)

(It kinda looks like Onii-chan’s a little happy today… Hehehe~♪)

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"Prince" in Japanese is "ouji" (王子), and "Old Man" is "ojian" (おじさん). I couldn't find a good localization for an insult that resembles "prince", so it sounds a little out of left field in my translation. Sorry!

The chapter names for this story is a line from Goethe’s Faust (translated into Japanese). The original line in German is “Verweile doch! Du bist so schoen!”, which translates to “Linger a while, for you are so beautiful!”. The translation used for the chapter names is the common translation for the line. It is also very much worth noting that within the work, the phrase acts as a “password” that calls out the Devil to collect Faust’s soul… Akira tends to be a pretty big fan of Faust, and this isn’t his first time referencing the work.

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