| Kumon | “I’m begging you! At this rate, they’re gonna shut down the baseball club!” |
| Tenma | “It’s a tiny, weak baseball club that loses every game anyway. I hear you even lost a called game the other day. Isn’t it better if it disappears?” |
| Kumon | “Don’t say that! If the club is shut down, how am I supposed to keep playing baseball—” |
| Tenma | “...Fine, I get it.” |
| Kumon | “You’re going to join!?” |
| Tenma | “Just to be clear, it’s only till you find someone to take my place. I don’t intend to form a battery with you ever again.” |
| Kumon | “Inoue....” |
| Izumi | (Kumon-kun is less awkward compared to before; he’s gotten a lot better.) |
| (I’m still a little worried if we’ll make it in time for the performance, but...) |
| Okay, that’s enough for now. Let’s take a short break. |
| Misumi | Ye~s! |
| Yuki | I’m tired. |
| Kumon | ...Sigh. |
| Kazunari | Kumopi, what’s wrong? |
| Kumon | I really suck compared to everyone else here. Is it really okay for someone like me to play the lead....? |
| Muku | Kyu-chan, you’ve gotten a lot better since you first came. |
| Kazunari | Yup yup, no need to worry. |
| Misumi | You’ll be fine. |
| Kumon | Really!? |
| Yuki | Well, you’re still at the “it could be worse” level. |
| Kumon | Yeah, I thought so.... |
| Tenma | Why do you think we wrote a role for you? You should try thinking about back when you played baseball. |
| That’s the shortcut to naturally getting into your role. |
| Kumon | Back when I played baseball.... |
| .... |
| Izumi | Is something wrong? |
| Kumon | Eh? Ah, not at all! I’m just thinking I haven’t played baseball lately! |
| Izumi | (He looked a little gloomy, but maybe it was just my imagination.) |
| Kazunari | That’s right! Someone gave me some baseball tickets the other day. |
| I was going to see if any of my friends were interested in taking them, but we should actually all go together! |
| Tenma | That sounds good. It’ll probably give us some hints for our acting, too. |
| Misumi | Agreed~! |
| Kumon | Which teams are playing? |
| Kazunari | U~m, it says it’s Coop versus Tiggers[2]. |
| Kumon | Wow~!! Seriously!? I love the Tiggers! I wanna go! |
| Kazunari | All right then, we’re all going to a baseball game together this Sunday! Leave your schedules open~! TY! |
| |
| Fan | Hit-a-homer—! To—ri—yama[3]! |
| Tenma | ...This place is really fired up. |
| Yuki | So this is what a baseball stadium is like. |
| Muku | It’s my first time going too. |
| Misumi | I went once with jii-chan before. |
| Kazunari | I’ve only gone with friends before~. |
| Kumon | Go, go, let’s go! Now’s your chance! Hit-a-homer~! |
| Izumi | Kumon-kun, you’re so into it. |
| *Hit* |
| Kumon | There it goes! |
| Kazunari | It’s a home run! |
| Muku | Wah! Amazing! |
| |
| Izumi | What a good game~. |
| Tenma | It was a close game, so we couldn’t take our eyes off the field till the very last moment. |
| Muku | I was on the edge of my seat! |
| Misumi | It was fun~! |
| Kumon | Ah, baseball really is the best~. |
| Izumi | You were really enthusiastic about cheering, too. |
| Kumon | ...I wanna play baseball. |
| Izumi | (Kumon-kun... maybe he really didn’t want to quit baseball...) |
| Kumon | —That’s right! |
| Izumi | ? |
| Kumon | We have 22 troupe members now, right! Can we split up into teams and play baseball!? |
| Izumi | Baseball? |
| Yuki | Well, we do have enough people. |
| Kazunari | Sounds good! We might pick up some pointers on how to perform better if we actually play! |
| Misumi | Let’s play baseball~! I’ll throw a triangle! |
| Tenma | You can’t hit that! |
| Izumi | Then let’s see what the other troupe members think. |
| Yuki | But Azu-nee definitely won’t play. |
| Kazunari | Then let’s ask Azamin! |
| Yuki | By the way, my role is the manager, so I won’t play either. |
| Tenma | Haah? |
| Izumi | Then why don’t we ask the manager? |
| Tenma | Oi, Yuki, this is part of acting too, get it? We’re trying to get into role. |
| If you’re not going to play, then you’re going to properly fulfill your role as manager, right? |
| Yuki | No worries. I’ll make bland sports drinks with the curry alien using Capori powder. |
| Kazunari | Don’t make it bland~! |
| Tenma | You don’t have to be that realistic! |
| Kumon | Ehehe, I’m looking forward to it~! |
| Izumi | (Kumon-kun really loves baseball.) |
| (Why did he quit...? Did something happen?) |
| (He looked like he was thinking really hard about something when he first got the script. I wondered if it was painful for him to face the topic of baseball at all, but...) |
| (Judging from his behavior now, that doesn’t seem right.) |
| (If he can play baseball, it means he didn’t quit because of an injury like Muku-kun....) |
| Muku | ...Kyu-chan, is this really okay? |
| Kumon | Yup, I really wanna play baseball~! Ah, Muku, you need to take care of your leg, so no sliding, okay? |
| Muku | Y-yup, I’ll be fine, but.... |
| Izumi | (If he doesn’t dislike baseball, it might not be a problem that affects his acting, but...) |
| (I’m hung up on why he quit baseball; I’ll ask him if I get the chance.) |
