| Izumi | Good morning! |
| Tasuku | Good morning. |
| Homare | Good morning! What a fresh smash morning! |
| Guy | Today’s my first day—let’s get along. |
| Izumi | (Guy-san looks younger with his hair down. Seeing him like this is kind of refreshing.) |
| Until Tsuzuru-kun completes the script, I’d like practice to focus on the basics of acting. |
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| Izumi | .... |
| (Guy-san handles his lines, enunciation, and movements flawlessly, but he’s unfortunately weak when it comes to emotions and feelings....) |
| (Everything comes off as bland, and he’s like a robot... Oh, wait, it’s because he’s an android....) |
| (No, no, we can’t have him just play android roles. That’s a problem.) |
| (We already decided that he’ll play the lead in the Phantom of the Opera, the Phantom....) |
| (I can have Tsuzuru-kun write him as a Phantom who has closed off his heart, but....) |
| (It’s impossible to write a revenge play without a single display of emotion.) |
| Tasuku | Guy-san, when expressing anger, try putting more strength into it—like you’re gritting your teeth? |
| Guy | “Don’t mess with me.” |
| Homare | Hm. Now you sound like you have something in your mouth. |
| Tsumugi | Try imagining a situation where you’d get mad? Let’s say something important was stolen from you. Now say your line. |
| Guy | “Don’t mess with me.” |
| Hisoka | ...You sound the same as the first time. |
| Guy | Just as I thought. It’s difficult for an android to express emotion. |
| Tasuku | Did they not program human emotions into your AI? |
| Guy | There are some, but they’re incredibly weak; they’re merely there to ensure that I have enough of a human touch. |
| An android can’t calmly carry out his tasks if he’s thrown off by momentary emotions, after all. |
| Azuma | So there are moments where you feel emotions welling up in you. |
| Guy | Yes. But they’re not enough to generate reactions. |
| Homare | Well, if you’re going for human touch, I think you can express your emotions a little bit more. |
| For example, you could be moved by the clear weather outside the window and read a poem! |
| Hisoka | ...That’s just you, Alice. |
| Guy | Poetry... I don’t understand that at all. |
| Tasuku | That’s fine. You don’t need to understand that. |
| Guy | Citronia must be right—I am probably useless. |
| Izumi | But you have all the abilities you need to act. |
| Tasuku | When you acted as a stand-in, you memorized the lines in the play after watching just once. I’m sure you have advanced learning abilities. |
| Izumi | If you experience human emotions and learn how to express them or react to them bit by bit, I’m sure you can express them on stage as well. |
| Tsumugi | From now on, every time you feel the slightest emotion, you should try to consciously express it. How does that sound? |
| Azuma | That’s a good idea. |
| Guy | I’ve never been conscious of my emotions... I didn’t need to act human. |
| But I’ll give it a try. |
| Izumi | I’d also like to ask everyone here to teach Guy-san different ways to actively express his emotions during our everyday lives. |
| Tsumugi | Yes. |
| Homare | Leave it to me! |
| Tasuku | You don’t need to teach him weird poems. |
| Homare | What do you mean, weird!? Poems are a fine form of expression as well! |
| Guy | It seems difficult, but I’ll do my best. |
| Hisoka | ...You can ignore Alice, okay? |
| Homare | Not you too, Hisoka-kun! How rude! |
| Izumi | (Teaching an android how to behave like a human... this really feels like S from “The Clockwork Heartbeat.”) |
| (I can see why Citron-kun said it reminded him of Guy-san.) |
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| Guy | .... |
| (Citronia, why did you leave me in this country? Why did you tell such a lie...?) |
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| Citron | <<Guy, riding horses like this is so much fun! Don’t you agree, Guy?>> |
| Guy | <<...It is fun.>> |
| Citron | <<Do you really think it’s fun?>> |
| Guy | <<I inferred that it was fun because you said so, Citronia.>> |
| Citron | <<Goodness, you really are useless.>> |
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| Guy | .... |
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| Citron | <<Guy... why must we quarrel among each other like this? Doesn’t this make you sad?>> |
| Guy | <<I....>> |
| Citron | <<....>> |
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| Guy | (...Whenever I fell silent, Citronia would always make a sorrowful expression.) |
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| Citron | <<Guy, look at this. The jasmines blossomed beautifully this year too. Their fragrance always puts my heart at ease.>> |
| Guy | <<...Is that so.>> |
| Citron | <<...I suppose you can’t understand.>> |
| Guy | <<....>> |
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| Guy | (Back then... did I really not understand? Or...) |
