| Tasuku | ...*deep breath* |
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| Tasuku | Tsumugi. |
| Tsumugi | —— |
| Tasuku | Sorry I yelled at you earlier. |
| Tsumugi | Huh...? |
| If it’s about the performance today, I’m the one at fault—— |
| Tasuku | That’s not the only thing I want to apologize for. |
| I’ve always regretted not saying anything to you after we auditioned for GOD-za. |
| I’ve always wanted to do theatre with you too. Ever since that school arts festival—— |
| That’s why I asked you to take GOD-za’s enrolment exam with me. |
| Tsumugi | I failed the exam; there’s nothing we can do about that. You don’t have to apologize for anything, Tasuku. |
| Tasuku | It’s not that. Let me tell you what I wasn’t able to say to you back then. Please hear me out. |
| I’ve always liked your acting. |
| You make delicate expressions that I can never do. You’re never satisfied even when it comes to the miming you’re so good at, and you take things seriously with a strict attitude. |
| I felt proud to stand on stage with you. |
| But at the same time, I was envious. I envied your acting, something that I can never imitate. |
| Tsumugi | You did? |
| Tasuku | And yet I wasn’t able to say those things honestly to you, even though you were always beside me. |
| If I had told you, then you probably wouldn’t have quit theatre. |
| I covered up my feelings of guilt by shifting them into anger towards you for quitting theatre... I’m sorry. |
| Tsumugi | Tasuku... |
| Tasuku | Just stay the way you are. Keep acting in your own way; that’s the you whom I want to stand next to.[1] |
| It’s not just me. I’m sure those guys are thinking the same thing. |
| Tsumugi | ... |
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| Homare | I wonder how Tsumugi-kun is doing. |
| Hisoka | ...We’ll lose if we do it like that. |
| Azuma | I agree. But Tsumugi must have done that for a reason too... |
| Izumi | Let’s put our faith in him and wait. |
| Tasuku | Sorry for the wait. |
| Tsumugi | ... |
| Everyone, I’m sorry for doing something so selfish during today’s performance. |
| I wanted to improve my acting; I felt like I needed to improve my acting –– I got so flustered by those thoughts that I forgot the most important thing. |
| I want to re-examine my own acting once more. |
| Izumi | Tsumugi-san... |
| Homare | I like your acting, Tsumugi-kun. You must take more pride in it. |
| Azuma | I agree. Tsumugi, rejecting your own way of acting also means rejecting everything about this play. |
| Hisoka | ...Have confidence. |
| Tsumugi | Confidence, huh... That’s right. |
| I was wrong. This play isn’t created just from my acting alone... |
| Let’s improve it. Let’s improve our acting, in our own way—— |
| Tasuku | Yeah. |
| Homare | Mhm. |
| Izumi | Now then, so we won’t have any regrets tomorrow, let’s do some final adjustments for the performance! |
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| Tasuku | GOD-za’s stage is way bigger than this. We should probably spread ourselves out more. |
| Izumi | Be careful so that you don’t go to the inside too much. |
| Homare-san, I think that being here on this end of the stage will create a better mood! |
| Tsumugi | Director, watch out! |
| Izumi | !? |
| Hisoka | —— |
| ...Be careful. |
| Izumi | T-thank you, Hisoka-san. |
| Homare | I couldn’t see his movements for a moment. |
| Tasuku | What is he, a ninja? |
| Anyway, we’re still at the MANKAI theatre. The stage doesn’t extend that far, Director. |
| Izumi | I-I’m sorry...! I didn’t mean to! |
| Tsumugi | Please be careful. |
| Homare | We have wings, so it would be convenient if we could fly. |
| Izumi | That’s true! |
| Tsumugi | Please don’t be ridiculous. |
| Tasuku | There’d be no point in having a stage. |
| Azuma | Fufu. It’d be interesting if we could do it though. |
| Hisoka | ...Let’s ask Yuki. |
| Izumi | I wonder if he’d be able to make a contraption like that though!? |
| Tasuku | ...It might work if we use wires. |
| Tsumugi | Are you serious? |
| Izumi | Ahaha. It’ll be interesting if we use that kind of staging next time! |
| Homare | If we are to fly using wires, then why don’t we do a story about a butterfly next? I shall be a swallowtail butterfly. |
| Hisoka | ...A wing series. |
| Tasuku | They’d call us the Wing Troupe.[2] |
| Hisoka | ...Heh. |
| Izumi | !! |
| Homare | Hisoka-kun laughed! |
| Azuma | It’s my first time seeing it. |
| Tsumugi | That’s true! |
| Tasuku | What did he even find funny? |
| Azuma | Wasn’t it the Wing Troupe? |
| Tasuku | So stupid. |
| Homare | The mysterious Hisoka-kun’s sense of humour is also mysterious! |
| Izumi | What an acceptably unacceptable explanation!? |
| Hisoka | Fufu. |
| Azuma | Ahaha. |
| Tsumugi | Ahaha. |
| Homare | Hahahah. |
| Tasuku | Haha... Geez. |
| Izumi | Ahaha. |
| (I didn’t think there would be a point where the Winter Troupe can laugh together like this.) |
| (It took quite some time for them to open their hearts, but I’m really glad...) |
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| Tasuku | ...You’re still here? I was just thinking that you’re not back at the dorm yet. |
| Tsumugi | Somehow, I just don’t want to be apart from here. I always loved this mood, where it feels like the moments before a never-ending cultural festival. |
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| Tasuku | A cultural festival, you say... We’re not kids. |
| Tsumugi | I also get sad when I think that I’ll be parting ways with Michael tomorrow. |
| Tasuku | Yeah... But we’ll be able to do new roles after this. |
| Tsumugi | But before that, we have to beat GOD-za first. Or else we’ll have to close down. |
| Tasuku | Now that you mention it... I have nowhere else to go if I have to leave this place. I gotta do something. |
| Tsumugi | Even if that wasn’t the case, I want to keep going with this Winter Troupe. With this Winter Troupe together with you, Taa-chan. |
| Tasuku | ...Tsumu, stop calling me Taa-chan. |
| Tsumugi | You too, stop calling me Tsumu. |
| Tasuku | We’ll definitely win tomorrow. |
| Tsumugi | Yeah. |
