Homework

[sakuraclover]

IORI: Yotsuba-san, are you progressing through the homework from school?

TAMAKI: What homework?

IORI: We can’t attend classes because of the tour, so didn’t they give you assignments to complete in the meantime?

TAMAKI: Ohh, I think they did.

IORI: I expected you’d forget... 

TAMAKI: Yeah.

IORI: Please do it.

TAMAKI: Ehh.

IORI: Don’t ‘ehh’ me! You might not be able to proceed to the next grade. Yotsuba-san, is it fine with you if you become my underclassman?

TAMAKI: Iorin as my upperclassman… I think that’s fine?

IORI: *sighs* ...You realize your little sister will be very sad? Do you want her to think she has an unreliable older brother?

TAMAKI: Ugh… Iorin, that’s unfair.

IORI: It’s not. I’ll look over it with you, so please take out your homework.

TAMAKI: ...I don’t know where it is.

IORI: My goodness, you… We’ll start after dinner so in that timespan, please find it!

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IORI: You finally found your homework. You had all that time, so why didn’t you search for it...

TAMAKI: Ehh, but when I searched it wasn’t there.

Iori: Jeez… It was because you had all of your belongings thrown around the place. We took a long time to find it. Why did it take 3 hours to find your homework…

TAMAKI: Because Iorin kept getting mad at every single thing…

IORI: That’s not it! It was because your belongings were full of snacks! Are you a candy fairy or something?!

TAMAKI: A candy fairy… Does that mean I can eat candy whenever I want? If that’s true, I wanna be one!

IORI: No, you won’t! Yotsuba-san, you will stay as a member of IDOLiSH7. ...OK. Let’s stop talking about pointless things and finish this quickly.

TAMAKI: Ehhhhh? I’m tired from searching around, so let’s do it tomorrow.

IORI: WHAT?! Of course not! You haven’t even done the first question yet!

TAMAKI: Fine. Then let me copy your homework.

IORI: I don’t get what you meant by “fine”. Open up your notebook and textbook now.

TAMAKI: Aww. Iorin, you’re like Sou-chan.

IORI: Did you say something?

TAMAKI: Nothing.

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IORI: Yotsuba-san, is there something you don’t understand in your homework? If I can answer it, I’ll teach you.

Tamaki: Ummmmm. Everything?

IORI: Everything?! ...Let’s do it in order.

TAMAKI: I tried to do my chemistry homework, but it’s all in English.

IORI: I don’t know what you’re talking about, but show it to me anyway.

TAMAKI: Here.

IORI: They’re chemical formulas. H is hydrogen, and O is oxygen. Water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen.

TAMAKI: Iorin, I don’t understand what you’re saying. Alien language?

IORI: It’s in Japanese! I recommend you first remember the element symbols.

TAMAKI: Ehh. I don’t like how studying for school is just memorizing stuff.

IORI: Don’t say you don’t like it. You remember choreography and singing so quickly… Right. The periodic table has a mnemonic phrase associated with it, so why don’t you remember that? Sailor, Liebe, my boat-- (1)

TAMAKI: What’s Liebe?

IORI: Liebe means “lover” in German--

TAMAKI: See, it’s in English.

IORI: ..It’s German.

 

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(1) You can see the phrase down here:

水兵 (H, He) リーベ (Li, Be)

僕 (B, C) の (N, O) 船 (F, Ne)

名前が (Na, Mg) ある (Al) シップス (Si, P, S)

クラーク (Cl, Ar, K) か (Ca)

(2) Someone on Twitter mentioned that liebe actually means "lover" in German, but in the game Iori mentioned it was "lover". I edited it to be more accurate since I'm sure Iori meant well www

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Gotta love the high school duo HAHA のヮの good luck Tamaki... good luck Iori...

The mnemonic phrase seems to be better understood if you can at least read a bit of Japanese or hear it irl. Or if you're like me and a fan of iDOLM@STER SideM, you probably know of this already from a certain song LOL.

This is part of a series of small events you can unlock here and there while setting the idols' schedules. Apparently they're called Backstage Stories! (Also thank god they have titles of their own so I can give them proper ones lol) This one features Tamaki and Iori. The two of them have several events with other characters, too; Tamaki and Ryuu have some that are hilarious in its own way, and Iori has several with Ten and Riku that are a bit more serious. More will be incoming once I unlock and try to translate them all~ (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧