Twinkle! Christmas Market! - 4

[furins]

Delicate-Looking Delinquent: ... Gh-! Shit...!

Sakura: Haah... You finally calmed down.

Tsubaki: I'm back~ ... Eh, Sakura!? What kind of situation is this!?

Sakura: Tsubaki... This guy suddenly came at me demandin' I hand over the stuffed animal.

Tsubaki: The stuffed animal? Could you be its owner?

Delicate-Looking Delinquent: —!? N-No, you're wrong...!

Sakura: He's been like this for a while now. I seriously don't get him.

Tsubaki: ......

... You're lying. This stuffed animal is yours, isn't it?

Isn't that bit of yarn stuck to your cuff the same as the stuffed animal's yarn?

Delicate-Looking Delinquent: Eh!? S-Seriously...!?

Tsubaki: ...... What do you think?

Delicate-Looking Delinquent: ...... Shit. Yeah, you're right.

Sakura: What the... If that's the case, why didn't ya just say so at the beginning?

Delicate-Looking Delinquent: ... There's no way I coulda just said that. Besides, I already stopped making 'em.

Tsubaki: Did something happen?

I don't know the details, but I do know that it seems painful for you. You can tell us.

Delicate-Looking Delinquent: ......

'S what the leader of the group I'm in said. "Stop those lame-ass hobbies"... or whatever.

So I threw that one away to officially separate from it. That's not mine anymore.

Tsubaki: And that's okay with you?

Delicate-Looking Delinquent: ...!

Tsubaki: I mean, I can tell just from this one how much passion you have for making these stuffed animals. How much love you have.

Is your "love" for this something that can turn to hate with just one word from a senior?

Delicate-Looking Delinquent: That's... obviously wrong. But...

Tsubaki: Then that's enough, right?

Delicate-Looking Delinquent: Eh?

Tsubaki: You should love the things you love with confidence. Don't abandon them.

Delicate-Looking Delinquent: Is that... really okay? Someone like me, continuing a hobby like that.

Sakura: I don't really get what your senior was tryin' to say, but.

To me, ignorin' your own passion's way more lame.

Tsubaki: ... Sakura.

Delicate-Looking Delinquent: Thank you.


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Notes:

• as always, my japanese is not native-level and thus is prone to error! please understand this is a fan translation.