Track 1
Lookout Point
This has been my favourite place lately. The night breeze feels good, doesn’t it?
Ah, figures. My hair’s sticking up from the helmet. The same bit as always.
Don’t worry about fixing yours, mine’s sticking up too. See? We match.
……, …….
Um, hey……
I’ve been meaning to say this for a while now, but—
Ma… mar…, marri…
Please marry—
Because…….
*explosion*
mahorova, Central Giant Screen
...something like that. What did you think?
I couldn’t get into character during the proposal part so the delivery fell flat, but I’ll brush that up as we go.
I’m pretty confident in the punchline, at least.
Just to clarify, ‘POTHARU’ is the spell of destruction from that famous Studio Gizuri film……1
(What……)
(...on earth……)
(...did we just witness……?)
……?
Ah, that video just now was made using one of those trendy new devices that lets you record and reproduce images from inside the brain with mahorova.
I get it, you’re surprised that a tech-illiterate guy like me can use it this well. I was shocked too…
No, that's not the point!
You practically begged us to come to mahorova, so we all came in a hurry, and you decided to show us this shitty proposal video!?
And if I’m not wrong, you wiped out the entire place, too…
Yeah, no, I saw a big and proper shockwave too.
Hoh, so this device can materialise the images in your mind! How very intriguing!
…Ah! By any chance, Nagi, are you planning to propose!? C-Congratulations…! I mean, I think that’s the right thing to say!
Oh, um, no I’m not. There’s no way I could do that.
One of my shop’s regular customers is actually the owner of a wedding hall…
Flashback Start
Hmm… It’s not bad, but if we had just one more couple, it’d really come together.
Oh, you mean that promotional video you mentioned?
Yes, the Wedding Video Contest.
There are a few applicants here and there, but… for such a perfect chance to get our name out there, it feels a little lacking. If we had even one more pair of participants that stood out, it’d really liven things up.
Ah, here’s today’s delivery. Cyclamens are weak to rain and wind, so in cyc-layman terms, please keep them indoors… just kidding.2
Hahaha! Hachinoya-kun, your sense of humour really is something! If only someone would give you a place to let that talent bloom…
…Ahhhh!!!!!!
Flashback End
“If you participated, it’d be like a second Big Bang!” And before I knew it, I’d become a full-fledged participant…
There’s a limit to how much you can take. Even if he’s a regular client, tell him to shut it.
I’m just a humble, insignificant florist. The thought of turning down a regular customer’s request is unthinkable...
(Yeah. This seems like…)
Kuguri leaves.
(...It’s definitely gonna be a pain.)
Daniel leaves.
So then, a few six-person teams got together and made imems… Ah. Image movies, ‘imems’ for short.
Imems! Ahaha, what a funny-sounding word! Imems, M&Ms~♪
It’s a contest where each of the six team members will present an imem related to marriage, but with this many people—
…Hm? What happened to Kuguri-san and Bucchi-san?
Huh, what? They’re not here? Did they log out? Maybe they had a stomachache or something.
…Slooooowly~....
Hey, Fuefuki, you bastard! You trying to run!?
Eeeek, I can’t do it! I’m sorryyyyy!!
A useless, good-for-nothing bastard who will never get married even if he wanted to—like ME—appearing in a wedding movie is like dressing a mosquito up in a tuxedo! IT’S A WHOLE NEW FORM OF PUNISHMENTTTT!
Uh, you don’t have to be so self-deprecating…
And so, I will leave this to all you bright stars who are more likely to get married! Good and bye!!
Are we… more likely to get married…?
.........
Marriage is… that thing, isn’t it! The one where humans pledge their 'love' to each other!
Count me in! I really want to do ittt~~!!
Nice enthusiasm. You’ll be our ace.
…I get what’s going on, but… I have no intention of showing that side of myself to anyone other than Toi.
Leave me out of it.
…I-I… want to help—
!
…but actually, I just recently worked on a wedding feature… So I can’t take on jobs from other companies for a while… sorry…
Ah, it’s already this late…! Sorry, I have to go to work. If there’s anything I can do to help, just let me know!
…Ah, there were so many people, but they all disappeared…
As expected, I don’t really give off that leader energy… Sigh...
…? Gii looks despondent. Maybe I’ll do it too.
Despondence.
(Wh-What should I do? I wanna go back home too, but I have no reason to refuse, and I’d feel bad leaving these two alone…)
Sigh…
Sigh…
(Uh, uhhh…)
Studio Ghizli is a parody of Studio Ghibli, and the film Nagi is referencing is 'Laputa Castle in the Sky'. The original text for the spell of destruction is PANYOSU, a play on BARUSU from the film. This spell causes the self-destruction of the castle at the climax of the movie.
As stated in the L4mps main story, PANYOSU is the shortened form of “Power, Scepter, Throttle” (PA-wa, NYO-i, SU-rottoru). In this translation, this has been localised to POTHARU, “Power That Ruins”.
This localisation was first coined and used by Aera in her L4mps main story translation. (shunin-gumis on Tumblr)
In the original pun, Nagi is combining 'cyclamen' (shikuramen) with 'please' (yoroshiku) and says yoro-shikuramen.