Itaru Chigasaki/Knights of Round IV

Role-study "Lancelot"

Backstage Stories

Part 1

Yuki	Yep, the size is okay. How does it feel to move around in it and stuff?
Chikage	No problems here.
Masumi	It's easy to move around in.
Citron	As expected of Yuki!
Izumi	Yeah, the reproduction of the original outfits is high-quality and matches perfectly!
Itaru	... Hmm...
Masumi	... What.
Citron	Itaru, you're looking at it scintillatingly.
Tsuzuru	You mean scrutinizingly, right...
Sakuya	Itaru-san, is something the matter?
Itaru	... The feeling of the most OP party is missing.
Yuki	Hah? Are you saying you have a problem with my costumes?
Itaru	No, the costumes are perfect. But, how to say it, the... aura?
	The thing that's like an aura of an OP party is lacking.
Chikage	I don't understand.
Yuki	Ignore the otaku.
Sakuya	Is that something that has something to do with developing our roles?
Izumi	Perhaps something like the atmsophere of strength of the role you're playing...?
Citron	If that's so, then it'll be alright if we just raise our parameters!
Izumi	Parameters?
Itaru	"Parameters" are something like the numerical values of a character's abilities.
Tsuzuru	Now that you mention it, even in the KniRoun games, each character had several different types of stats for their parameters.
Sakuya	When you raise those numbers, you become stronger, and it gets easier to fight in battles.
Citron	If we raise our parameters as well, we'll become stronger, and people will be able to feel our auras!
Itaru	IC, nice idea.
Chikage	But parameters... This isn't a game, so how do we raise them?
Sakuya	Hmm... For example, if it was "strength" or "intelligence," then we do special training according to each stat?
Citron	Nice~! It's leveling up!
Itaru	Then, outside of Sakuya and Tsuzuru, who are playing the villains, the four of us will raise one of our parameters.
	By the way, in order to bring out the feel of an OP party, this time we'll be training thoroughly and strictly.
Citron	OK! I'll think about what kind of stat I'll be doing right away!
Sakuya	Understood! Then, I'll write about it on the whiteboard.
Itaru	Leaving it to you.
Izumi	Itaru-san and Citron-kun seem to be totally into it...
Yuki	As expected of game addicts.
Masumi	Are we seriously doing this.
Chikage	Is this really going to help us prepare for our roles?
Tsuzuru	When they're like that, it's impossible to avoid it. Just giving up is easier.
Chikage & Masumi	*Sigh*...
Itaru	Al~right, then with that, let's decide what each person's parameter they're raising is~.
	*Pant*... *Pant*... I'm gonna die...
Tasuku	Your speed is falling! You have ten seconds left.
Izumi	Repeated lateral jumps, huh... This feels nostalgic somehow.
Citron	Lancelot is a character who takes pride in being top class in "swiftness"! Itaru, now is the time to become Lancelot!
Sakuya	Itaru-san, please do your best!
Tsuzuru	Right now he's making a face like he wants to fall over, though.
Chikage	He choked his own neck.
Masumi	His movements are exhausted and sloppy...
Itaru	*Pant*... *Pant*... It's impossible, I can't get up...
Tasuku	Forty times, huh...
Itaru	I did well, right.
Tasuku	You've gotta be kidding me. You're below the below-average.
Itaru	F.
Masumi	In the last half, he wasn't even reaching the lines.
Chikage	It's the extremity of unathleticness.
Itaru	They're just saying whatever they want to without care...
Tasuku	We're doing another set. At this rate, your "swiftness" is 5.
Itaru	5... I'm such a small fry it's not even funny.
	But it's seriously impossible, I can't move my body anymore.
Izumi	It's just one more set.
Kazunari	Huh? It looks like you guys are doing something kinda interesting~!
Citron	Ohh, Kazu, welcome home! You just came home from the convenience store, right?
Kazunari	Yup! You see, a bunch of new items came out~ I ended up buying too much.
Itaru	...! K-Kazunari... could that, be...
Tsuzuru	He got up while crawling...
Tasuku	It's like he's a zombie...
Kazunari	Ah, this? It's a newly released candy!
Itaru	Please give me one.
Kazunari	Yep, ye~p, here ya go!
Itaru	*Munch*.
Chikage	Hey, don't tell me...
Itaru	Ring, rin~g! Lancelot's "swiftness" went up by 10.
Masumi	Huh?
Citron	Was that just now possibly... "swiftness candy"!?
Itaru	Correct.
Sakuya	Now that you mention it, in KniRoun there were candy items that would raise your stats if you ate them.
Itaru	So with that, yep, my parameter-raising special training is over~.
Izumi	Didn't you say that you would be strict!?
Itaru	That was that, this is this.
Chikage	You're too easy on yourself...

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