| Izumi | I'm home~. |
| (Guess I'll clean up the paperwork in the afternoon--) |
| Misumi | 100 times~! |
| Kazunari | Taks and Tenten are both sick! |
| Izumi | (Looks like they're having a blast in the courtyard.) |
| |
| Tenma | Huff, huff... |
| Tasuku | Huff, huff… |
| Juza | Huff, huff… |
| Izumi | (They're all working out?) |
| Muku | 104, 105… are you still going? |
| Kazunari | No matter how you look at it, you guys are overdoing it! |
| Yuki | And thus we have more muscle fools in the house. |
| Kumon | Isn't that enough? |
| Misumi | Let's take a break~. |
| Tasuku | --You're right. I think this much is enough for today. |
| Juza | Yea. |
| Tenma | No, I can still go on--. |
| Tasuku | Looking at your usual amount of exercise, it should be enough. If you push yourself so hard you get injured, it'll backfire on you. |
| Tenma | --. |
| I'm gonna go for a light jog to cool down. |
| *runs* |
| Kazunari | Wait, Tenten! Can you really call that a cool down!? |
| Kumon | He's overdoing it! |
| Juza | He doesn't look like he's going for a light jog at all. |
| Tasuku | I'm gonna follow him. |
| *runs* |
| Yuki | ...What's he being so desperate for? |
| Izumi | He seems to be so pumped up. |
| Muku | He's doing special training for the action scene in his upcoming drama. |
| Izumi | That explains it… |
| Kumon | Come to think of it, isn't he going to Yuzo-san's action workshop tomorrow? |
| Kazunari | I'm a lil bit worried that he's overworking himself. |
| Juza | I'll look after him. I've participated in that workshop several times so I'm used to it. |
| Izumi | I'm counting on you. |
| Kumon | I feel better if nii-chan is with him! |
| |
| Juza | Yuzo-san. |
| Yuzo | Oh, you came. |
| Tenma | I'll be in your care. |
| Yuzo | Hmph. Your body sure is stiff, huh? You're gonna hurt yourself if you're that tense, y'kno? Make sure to do some stretching first. |
| Tenma | Yes. |
| Yuzo | Looks like your problem is more of an emotional rather than a physical one. Relax. |
| Tenma | Understood. |
| Yuzo | ...You don't look like you understand, though. |
| We're gonna proceed with the basic pairs today. First, create some easy roles. |
| You can do whatever you like, be it creating a hero and a villain pair or delinquents pair. It doesn't matter whether you wanna do something you can easily do, or something you can easily imagine. |
| I also don't mind if you wanna challenge yourself and pick something that is far from action, like a wife and her mother-in-law, or a doctor and their patient. |
| Tenma | ...What should we do? |
| Juza | How about choosing a similar setting as your drama? You've been undergoing special training for that, anyway. |
| Tenma | That'll be helpful. Can you be the culprit, then? I'll play the rookie detective. |
| Juza | Got it. Do you have any other settings you wanna input? |
| Tenma | Let's see… Then, after that, it's revealed that the culprit and the rookie detective are childhood friends. |
| Yuzo | Have y'all come up with your own settings? Next, think about the action performance. |
| All in all, your motion should consist of three hooks and small kicks, and two straight punches and kicks. Last but not least, perform one striking technique. |
| I don't care if you wanna change it into a turning kick or a shoulder throw. Divide it however you want. |
| Now, what kind of scene do you wanna perform? |
| Juza | … |
| Tenma | It's so obvious that he's smiling at us. |
| Juza | Bet he's looking forward to our turn. |
| Tenma | We can't afford to show him something poor, then. |
| Juza | Heck yeah. |
| |
| Tenma | Hook, hook, small kick--. |
| *kicks* |
| Last is the striking technique--! |
| *kicks* |
| Juza | --. |
| Tenma | How was it? |
| Juza | Hmm… I think it's good. You don't seem tired from our intense training yesterday. |
| But--. |
| Yuzo | Alright, practice time's over. Gather here. |
| When I call your names, come up here and perform your piece. |
| |
| The flow wasn't bad, but it got boring when you kept doing the hook. You should slow down the tempo a little bit. |
| And you gotta practice some basic movements more. |
| Next, Juza Hyodo and Tenma Sumeragi. |
| Tenma | Yes. |
| Juza | Yes. |
| Yuzo | I'm sure you guys already know the basics, right? |
| Tenma | … |
| Yuzo | Start! |
| Juza | "I can't believe you're now a detective, man. You think this kind of job suits a weakass like you?" |
| Tenma | "The same goes for you. Why did you become a murderer… It's still not too late. Turn yourself in." |
| Juza | "Shuddup!" |
| *attacks* |
| Tenma | "--." |
| Juza | "Who’s catching who now--!?" |
| Tenma | "--Hold on!" |
| Juza | "Ugh--." |
| Tenma | "--No. No, I can't let him get away--." |
| Participant A | Holy shit… |
| Participant B | They're so fast… |
| Tenma | "Haa!" |
| *attacks* |
| Juza | "--Arrgh!" |
| |
| Tenma | That's all. |
| Participant A | ...It was cleanly executed and very impressive. |
| Participant B | They looked like they were hitting each other for real. |
| Yuzo | … |
| The story line was interesting, and your acting wasn't bad. |
| Tenma | How about the action? |
| Yuzo | ...It only looked good in appearance. |
| Tenma | So you mean it was shallow? |
| Yuzo | Yea. |
| I have no complaints for your acting, but the crucial action scene crumbled in an instant. |
| Especially you, Tenma. Your action and role were inconsistent. |
| Is that detective a martial art prodigy or something? Wasn't he supposed to be attacking the criminal out of desperation? |
| Tenma | --. |
| Yuzo | Since you paid more attention to the movements that you had already planned beforehand, it only looked neat on the outside. In fact, it was too neat. |
| It didn't go well with the story. It wasn't realistic. I felt like a different scene was embedded in the story out of nowhere. |
| The viewers would lose interest in an instant. You ain't an amateur; your issue is more than just the action itself. |
| Tenma | … |
| Yuzo | You should've understood that the most, Juza. |
| Juza | ...Yes. |
| Yuzo | You should've pointed it out, then. What's the point of forming a pair? |
| Juza | My apologies. |
| Yuzo | Your sense itself wasn't bad. If you can relax and do as usual, I'm sure you can do better. |
| Tenma | --Yes. |
| |
| … |
| Juza | … |
| Tenma | ...Juza-san, can you teach me how to fight? |
| Juza | --. |
| Tenma | If I become good at fighting like you, Juza-san, I can move more natura--. |
| Juza | --You’ve got it all wrong. What you're doin' ain't "fighting," it's "acting." |
| Fightin' is something you do to beat up your opponent, but actin' is like talkin' back and forth. They're totally different. |
| Tenma | ...Sorry. |
| Juza | I was also at fault today. |
| It's obvious that you're better when it comes to acting, but if we're talkin' about action scenes, there's something that I can also do. Despite that, I wasn't able to help you out. |
| For some reason I ended up restrainin' myself and couldn’t give you even a single piece of advice properly… I'm disappointed with myself. |
| Tenma | No, it was my fault today. |
| Juza | Still, I could have done more to back you up. |
| Tenma | Why do you have to go that far… Did Kumon tell you something? |
| Juza | Nah, I ain't doing this because I was asked to or because you've been takin' care of Kumon--we're friends, aren't we? We belong to the same theater troupe. |
| Tenma | --. |
| ...Thanks. I might also have strained myself too much. |
| ...Say, can you help me practice my action scene? |
| Juza | Yeah, sure thing. |
| But can we go eat that first? |
| Tenma | By that, you mean… that "bun with fresh cream filling"? |
| Juza | Yeah. |
| Tenma | Alright, I'll treat you to some as thanks for helping me practice. |
