...Myojo November 2012 JUMP Anniversary Crosstalk The member who changed the most in these 5 years is an ex-burrs!? Yabu: Hai! So, it’s soon to be the 5th Anniversary since we became JUMP, so today we’re looking back at the history of JUMP! To start off, who do you think changed the most since we became JUMP? Arioka: Keito! Takaki: He can now say more to members. Yamada: Just a total tengu（笑）(Note: Tengu is a Japanese expression of an over confident person.) Chinen: It just means that he’s more friendly with members now. Yaotome: Back then he never talked, and he even started crying in the middle of our choreography session. （笑） Yabu: Unfortunately he changed. Okamoto: Just say “He changed.” And leave it! It’s not unfortunate. （笑） Yabu: Back then he was all like, “I don’t wanna play the guitar…” Arioka: Oh, yeah yeah! He had absolutely no intention of playing it! Inoo: He changed. Chinen: He changed. Yabu: You’re suddenly like, a guitarist.（笑） Arioka: What happened? Okamoto: Well you know, I… Takaki: Fujirock. Nakajima: Hahahaha Summer Sonic? (translator’s note: they are both famous rock music festivals.) Okamoto: Fuhahahahaha! Well, you know our debut concert at Tokyo Dome? There Yuto was playing the drums. Nakajima: Jealousy? Okamoto: Yup. I wanted to play an instrument too. Yabu: So you were influenced by that? Okamoto: Yep. Takaki: So it’s not your dad. Okamoto: No…well, I wanted to play an instrument and I had a good teacher nearby… Arioka: Lessons...
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...Chapter 1: The End and Beginning Prologue Facing the young girl and her little sister, the armored knight raised his sword. To have mercy was to take away a life in a single strike. Struck by the sunlight, the sword glistened high up in the air. The girl shut her eyes and bit down on her lower lip. Her expression showed that she never wished for this situation. She was simply accepting it since there was nothing she could do. If the girl had power of some sort, she would have used it on the man before her eyes and ran away. But— the girl had no such power. Thus there existed only one conclusion. The girl would surely perish here. The sword struck down — —Yet she did not feel any pain. The girl opened her tightly shut eyes. The first thing that the girl saw in her world was the sword that had stopped in its path downward. The next thing that entered her sight was its wielder. He had stopped in motion as though he were encased in ice. The knight’s attention was no longer on the girl. The completely defenseless state of the knight clearly revealed the shock that surged inside him. As though led by the knight’s gaze, the girl also turned her face toward the same direction. Then— she saw despair. There was darkness. Pure darkness as thin as paper, yet of an unfathomable depth. It had emerged from the ground in an ovoid shape with its lower section cut. A scene that evoked mystique with indescribable apprehension. A...
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