| Izumi | Tenma-kun's supposed to be home tonight. |
| Itaru | Heh, that's great to hear. |
| Chikage | Should we pick him up by car? |
| Izumi | It looks like his manager, Igawa-san, will take him back to the dorm. |
| Citron | Let's celebrate his disgrace! |
| Masumi | Discharge. |
| Tsuzuru | I'm planning to make hamburgers for our dinner today, just in case. |
| Hiro | Excuse me!! |
| Izumi | !? |
| Sakyo | What the hell was that? |
| Yuki | He sure is loud. |
| Kumon | What's happening!? Is this a dojo challenge[1]!? |
| Misumi | Let's go check it out~. |
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| Yuzo | ...Sup. |
| Reni | For crying out loud, why do we have to do this dumb stuff...? |
| Zen | We're coming in. |
| Syu | Heh, this place ain't changed at all. |
| Hiro | It sure brings back memories… |
| Izumi | Yuzo-san, Kamikizaka-san--. |
| Kumon | Hiro Hyuga!? Unbelievable!! But why!? |
| Sakyo | A bunch of geezers from the first gen… |
| Izumi | (That means, the beautiful person and the cool man in the back are also the OG members?) |
| Yuzo | This Sakyo brat, don't take the opportunity to call us geezers just because you're usually treated as one. |
| Hiro | Sakyo… Man, he's gotten so big! |
| Yuzo | 'Course he has. How many years d'you think have passed? |
| Manager | Long time no see, everyone~! You all look fine! |
| Syu | Hey, and you're as shabby as ever. |
| Banri | Hi again, old man. I never would've thought you were the old Autumn Troupe leader. |
| Zen | For God's sake, all of you, stop calling me old man. And that should be my line. |
| Misumi | Who are they~? |
| Yuzo | He's Hakkaku-san's grandson. |
| Syu | So it's you, huh… I see. He does have his eyes. |
| Misumi | Are you guys grandpa's friends? |
| Syu | Yea. |
| Tsumugi | You… |
| Izumi | Do you know him, Tsumugi-san? |
| Tsumugi | We had a little chat in front of GOD Theater before… |
| Syu | Thanks for kicking Reiji's ass. |
| Reni | I wasn't beaten to a pulp. |
| Tsumugi | So you are the old Winter Troupe leader, Syu-san? |
| Syu | Yea, pleased to meetcha. |
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| Sakyo | So, just what business d'you have with us? |
| Yuzo | We, the first-gen MANKAI Company members, would like to challenge the newborn MANKAI Company to a showdown act. |
| Izumi | Eeeh!? |
| Sakuya | The old and new members!? |
| Banri | Showdown act… |
| Sakyo | Why are you bringing this up out of the blue? |
| Yuzo | When we were discussing Hakkaku-san's posthumous work, Hiro said he wanted to do it at MANKAI Theater. |
| Hiro | Considering that the first-gen members will be performing Hakkaku-san's work, I figure it's only appropriate to do it at MANKAI Theater. |
| Izumi | If so--. |
| Yuzo | However, MANKAI Theater belongs to the current troupe members. |
| We assume we can stand side by side as challengers if we're holding a showdown act. |
| Citron | It's not a dojo challenge but a theater challenge, I see! |
| Izumi | (I never thought of having a showdown act with the OG members. In terms of abilities, they are much better than us.) |
| Yuzo | Just so you know, this is also a challenge for the newborn MANKAI Company's general director. |
| Izumi | --. |
| (Right, we did talk about how we need a driving force like the showdown act in order for the entire troupe to grow.) |
| (No matter whether we win or lose, no, if we can win against the first-gen members, we can gain more popularity and get closer to the Fleur Award in an instant.) |
| (Even if we lose, that experience will definitely enrich our body and soul. This challenge is worth accepting.) |
| (Moreover… Dad will handle their production.) |
| (Watching Dad's production, and competing with it… is scary, but it also gets me excited.) |
| ...Guys, this may come off as selfish, but I want to accept this challenge. |
| Having a showdown act with far better opponents seems very tough, not to mention the pressure. |
| However, I think we can gain something very valuable from it. |
| Masumi | I'll do anything if you say so. |
| Chikage | If that's what our general director has decided, then why not? |
| Citron | I support it! |
| Tsuzuru | I also think it'll be great. |
| Banri | Gotta take on any fight anyone picks with us. |
| Tsumugi | The experience you get during a showdown act is irreplaceable. I keenly realized that the last time. Let's do it. |
| Misumi | Okaaay, let's do our best~! |
| Izumi | Based on the rules, the theme will be decided by the challenger, right? |
| Yuzo | Hakkaku-san's posthumous script has "Genpei War" as the setting, so how about Genpei? |
| Itaru | That's so refined, as I expected. |
| Tsuzuru | A historical play, huh… |
| Yuki | Since we're gonna do a showdown act, what do we bet here? |
| Yuzo | You have a point… Do y'all have anything you want? |
| Zen | ...In that case, I want Kamekichi. |
| Kamekichi | Me!? |
| Izumi | Eeeh!? |
| Manager | Don't tell me you're going to make roast kamekichi as the new menu item at your restaurant, Zen-san!? |
| Kamekichi | Hey! Don't eat me! |
| Zen | Me and Yukio used to take care of this bird in the past. It feels nostalgic. I want to have him attract customers for several days a week. |
| Manager | If that's the case, you're more than welcome to take him anytime~! |
| Kamekichi | So you're just gonna make me work, huh!? Listen, you gotta gimme 10 grains of rice per day! |
| Zen | That's cheap. |
| Yuzo | If so, I want Juza. |
| Tsuzuru | So you're going to poach him, after all!? |
| Izumi | I can't hand over our precious troupe member! |
| Kumon | I won't give you nii-chan, Weirdo Yuzo! |
| Yuzo | Who's weird? I ain't gonna poach him. I just want him to make a guest appearance and help out behind-the-scenes for my next show unpaid. |
| The people in my troupe have taken a liking to Juza. |
| Juza | So that's what you mean. You could have asked me anytime; I've always been in your ca--. |
| Yuzo | It'll be pointless to have a match, then. I'm gonna pay you a proper amount of money if you win. |
| Kumon | Even if you say that, I know you're gonna throw nii-chan off guard and hide him afterward! Unforgivable! |
| Yuzo | Don't just make someone a criminal as you please. |
| How about you, Syu-san? |
| Syu | ...Guess I'm goin’ with the utility bills. |
| Sakyo | Hah? |
| Syu | Don't worry. I ain't gonna make y'all pay my bills. I'll just stop payin' this dorm's utility expenses. |
| Izumi | Eh!? |
| Come to think of it… Manager once mentioned that one of the theater troupe's urban legends is the fact that we’ve never received an invoice for the utility expenses… |
| Sakyo | Have you been paying it, Syu-san? |
| Syu | It's just something I do for fun. |
| Yuzo | I didn't know that. |
| Syu | I was just plannin' to invest in this theater troupe's future. But if y'all lose to us, that means y'all are beyond hope. |
| Sakuya | If we have to pay for the bills out of our own pockets… |
| Banri | But well, that kind of thing is originally somethin' we're supposed to do. |
| Sakyo | First of all, we're gonna encourage energy saving within the dorm. Then, we're gonna collect money from each troupe based on the ratio of their electricity consumption. |
| Yuki | Well, that makes sense. |
| Banri | Can't be helped, then. |
| Tsumugi | We have no problem here. |
| Tsuzuru | Why does it have to be each troupe, not each room… |
| Sakuya | I need to get more part-time jobs… |
| Masumi | This sucks. |
| Chikage | Electricity consumption, huh… No matter how you look at it, our room is hands down in the lead. |
| Itaru | Gulps. |
| Citron | Let's generate electricity with bicycles! |
| Yuzo | What about you, Hiro? |
| Hiro | ...Give me the flag at the dorm entrance, then. |
| Zen | Flag? |
| Hiro | We all wrote messages on the backside of that flag, remember? |
| Izumi | (Speaking of, that flag has always been hanging there so it's hardly noticeable. I didn't know there was something written on the back…!) |
| Syu | Now that you mentioned it, we did write something there. |
| Yuzo | You sure remember that well, huh? |
| Zen | Your love for the company sure is heavy. |
| Hiro | Shuddup! |
| Yuzo | Last one is Reni-san. |
| Reni | I don't want anything. |
| Yuzo | But all of us have said our wishes. You can't do that. |
| Reni | ...I want the rehearsal tape for the first-gen members' debut performance. |
| Izumi | Rehearsal tape? |
| Syu | That's a Yukio Tachibana otaku for ya. |
| Reni | That's the only thing I could come up with. |
| Yuzo | Since a lot of us were still beginners back during our debut show, Yukio-san often coached us while acting. |
| Hiro | Bet you want to see Yukio's acting. |
| Reni | You all are being annoying. |
| Izumi | I want to watch that too! Where is it? |
| Manager | Debut show, huh… I think it's stuck at the innermost part of the warehouse… |
| Reni | Look for it. |
| Izumi | Make sure you find it! |
| Sakyo | That makes it the fifth condition. How about Kasumi-san, then? |
| Yuzo | I'll ask him once he joins us. |
| Sakuya | I want to meet him… Spring Troupe's leader Kasumi-san. |
| Yuzo | Give me a call once you decide on the cast. |
| Izumi | Understood. |
| Hiro | On another note… The lead actor Hakkaku-san appointed is me. Pass along this info to Tenma-kun. |
| Izumi | ...Yes. |
| (Tenma-kun's sense of rivalry will definitely be crackling again when he learns of this.) |
| (Hm, I wonder if Hiro-san feels the same, since he took the trouble to tell us this.) |
