Kumon Hyodo/Young Future Boss
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Backstage Stories
| *METAL BAT CLANGS* | |
| Kumon | Yahooooo! HOME RUUUUUN! |
| Azami | … Really? The baseball center for our off-day? |
| Kumon | Hitting balls feels sooooo good~! Thanks for coming along with me, Azami! |
| —— —— —— ——FLASHBACK—— —— —— —— | |
| Kumon | 1, 2, 3, 4… |
| *STEP STEP* | |
| *SWISH* | |
| Kumon | (breathes out) …OK! Time for a break! |
| —Oh! I know! I should rewatch the anime while I'm at it! Where's my phone… | |
| *DOOR OPENS* | |
| Azami | —Kumon. |
| Kumon | Oh hey Azami! Are you here to do some solo practice too? |
| Azami | Nah. I was just passing by the room when I saw you in here. Here. Got some drinks for ya. |
| Kumon | For real!? Thank youuu! I was just feeling thirsty! |
| ….Pheeeew! That was super refreshing! | |
| Oh right! I was just about to watch an episode of "BANANA FISH" on my break. You should watch it with me, Azami! | |
| Azami | … Just a bit, alright? |
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| Yut Lung | "So tell me, why did you do such a thing?" |
| "If my brothers hear about this, you'll be in big trouble, you know." | |
| Sing | "I've had enough with those old geezers!!" |
| "Execute me or whatever— I don't care! The 'rules' can eat my shit!!" | |
| Yut Lung | "Feisty little fellow. I hear Shorter was one to show his respect to his elders." |
| Sing | "And I respect Shorter. That's why I've been holdin' back all this time." |
| Yut Lung | "I see… So, what are your thoughts on 'the Lynx'?" |
| Sing | "—He's a man-eating tiger. His pretty face makes him even scarier." |
| "He didn't even see me as an enemy." | |
| "I hate to admit it… But he's really a different beast." | |
| Yut Lung | "You can accept your loss. You're not as bad as you may think you are." |
| "There's no disgrace in losing to him now. A hurt tiger is the most dangerous beast on earth, after all" | |
| Sing | "Do you know then? …Why Ash did that to Shorter—?" |
| Yut Lung | "I'll tell you one day. For now, I'll tell my brothers that you saved me; they'll let you off the hook with that circumstance." |
| Sing | "So I'm being given mercy from one of the young masters now, huh." |
| Yut Lung | "...It seems like he made it out. That's Ash's car there— the car that Golzine gave to him on his 16th birthday." |
| "And he's headed straight towards Manhattan. That place is home ground for him."‘ | |
| "Congratulations on getting back into the major league, Ash." | |
| Kumon | Woooh~! The scene where these two first meet just gets me so psyched~!! |
| I really like what these two have going for them, y'know? | |
| Like, their dynamic is really different from Ash and Eiji's of course. But there's something about the way Sing can't leave the Young Master alone. | |
| Azami | Hmm. I get what you're trying to say. And Sing puts up a different face when he's acting boss among his members too. |
| … Also, since when did you start calling Yut Lung by just 'Young Master'? | |
| Kumon | Hehe! I wanna make sure I don't just accidentlally call him by name on stage, so I'm trying to get used to it. |
| Azami | Makes sense. |
| Kumon | Oh oh oh! And one more thing! |
| "Congratulations on getting back into the major league, Ash." | |
| LIKE! That's just such a cool line, don't you think!? I just HAD to try saying it too!! | |
| Azami | You better make sure you don't accidentally say that on the show either. You're the one playing Sing here. |
| Kumon | I know, I knooow! I'm just saying, there's no other work out there that could have a line just like that! |
| Azami | … It's 'cause it's a baseball thing, ain't it. |
| Kumon | Hey Azami! We're not doing rehearsals tomorrow, right? Let's head for the baseball center! |
| Azami | Ha? |
| Kumon | YOU brought up baseball, and now I'm just itching to grab a bat right now!! |
| Azami | You gotta be kidding me… |
| —— —— —— ——FLASHBACK END—— —— —— —— | |
| *METAL BAT CLANGS* | |
| Kumon | Pheeew! Alright, break time! |
| Azami | You really just have infinite fuel in your energy tanks, huh. |
| Kumon | You think so? |
| Azami | You wouldn't be playin' here on an off-day if you didn't. And we've been doin' a lot of action in practice, too. |
| Kumon | H~mmm, I mean I do have a lot of action scenes. But compared to what Banri has to do… |
| Azami | —That's a given, I guess. |
| But doesn't Sing make use of a special kind of weapon? What was it called… | |
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| Kumon | A wire dart!! It's called the "Flying Dragon Fang"! Pretty cool, right?! |
| But since I have to be miming together with the sound effects on stage, I probably won't be able to use the real thing, huh… | |
| Azami | We just have to make it seem real, yeah. |
| Kumon | Trying to act as if we're doing the real thing's tough, but all that hard work's worth it! |
| But I still WISH I could use it for real on stage…! | |
| You've seen just how cool Sing looks when he does it in the anime! Throwing it around like WOOSH! And then he's like scutter scutter SWISH—you know?! | |
| Azami | Hell if I do… |
| But… Even if you can't use the weapon on stage, then maybe it'll be good to use it like mime practice it on your own time? | |
| Kumon | … You're onto something! |
| Thanks, Young Master! I'll test that out!! | |
| Azami | … I wasn't even actin' as Yut Lung just now. |
| Kumon | Heave-ho… Here we go. |
| Sakuya | …? |
| Muku | What do you have there, Kyu-chan? Did you buy some stuff? |
| Kumon | Yep! They're materials for a rope dart! |
| Yuki | Rope dart? |
| Kumon | It's the weapon that my character in the next play's using! I won't be using the real thing on stage, but I thought this would be a good way to practice with it! |
| Sakuya | What is a 'rope dart', exactly? |
| *DOOR OPENS* | |
| Itaru | —Allow me to explain. |
| Kumon | Itaru-san!?! |
| Yuki | Where the hell did you materialize from? |
| Itaru | The rope dart— or rope javelin— is among one of the many weapons used in Chinese martial arts. |
| With a blade on the tip of a cord, the user can throw it towards their enemy and wrap them around with it. | |
| Did you know: the rope dart Sing— that's Kumon's character— uses is actually done differently between the original manga and the anime? | |
| This is just my educated guess, but they must've changed it from his rope dart to a wire dart instead to make use of the sound effects you can only do on anime. | |
| Kumon | That's so awesome!! To think you could figure out something like that, Itaru-san! |
| Yuki | As expected of the otaku. |
| Muku | Kyu-chan has admired weapons like this one even back in the day. |
| Kumon | Yeah! 'Cause they look so cool!! |
| Itaru | You said you brought out some materials… Are you planning to make one from scratch? |
| Kumon | Yep! And I'm using rope for this, not wires. |
| 'Course, I even made sure to choose a blade that won't hurt anyone with it, just in case I hit someone! | |
| Yuki | Someone’s using their brain. |
| Kumon | It doesn't seem like it's all that tough to assemble either. As far as I've looked up, anyway! We should all make one ourselves! |
| Sakuya | Ohh! That does sound fun! |
| Kumon | It's finally complete~! |
| Muku | I was worried if I was going to be able to make it, but it really is as easy as Kyu-chan said it was. |
| Yuki | It doesn't look half-bad to the real thing. |
| Itaru | Well then, shall we give these things a shot? Kumon? |
| Kumon | Alrighty! |
| —Go forth! "Skyborne Blade"!! | |
| *SWISH* | |
| —Huh?! That didn't go all that far… Agh, that was such a lame throw, too…!! | |
| Yuki | …What was he even spouting when he threw that? |
| Itaru | I think it's the name of his weapon. |
| Kumon's character, Sing, named his weapon "Flying Dragon Fang", so maybe he followed his steps and named his own blade the same way. | |
| Yuki | … This chuuni moron. |
| Muku | But it's nice to see Kyu-chan having so much fun! |
| Kumon | Mmm— Alright! One more shot! —Go!! |
| *FWIP* | |
| Sakuya | Wah! That one went even further than the last one! |
| *SMACK* | |
| Tenma | —WAAGH!? |
| Itaru | … Nice control. |
| Tenma | WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA?! |
| Kumon | AH! Sorry about that, Tenma-san!! I was just trying out this rope dart practice for my role study on Sing!! |
| Tenma | … If it's for role study, fine. But can you try not to do it in a way that WON'T get someone hurt? |
| Kumon | Rogeeeer! |
| *FOOTSTEPS WALKING AWAY* | |
| Muku | I wasn't expecting it to reach all the way over there… |
| Yuki | If that was the real thing, Tenma would've been long dead by now. |
| Itaru | True that. |
| Kumon | Anyway! I'm done with my turn; everyone else should try too! |
| Sakuya | Okay! Here I go… |
| Guy | … |
| Kumon | AH! HALT! Guy-san coming through!! |
| Guy | … Sorry, am I interrupting something? |
| Kumon | Nothing like that at all! |
| You see, we're trying these rope darts and figuring out how to use them. You were almost at target range, that's all. | |
| Guy | I see… Rope darts, is it? That takes me back. |
| Yuki | You've used them before? |
| Guy | Indeed, back while I was at Zahra. |
| Itaru | FR? |
| Sakuya | Wow…! As expected of Guy-san! |
| Kumon | That's crazy! Oh oh! Can you show us a demo of how you use it then!? |
| Guy | Of course. For starters, you ready your stance like this. And then— |
| *FWIP* | |
| Kumon | WOW! Soooooo cooool!!! |
| Oh man, so if I practice more, then maybe I can do it as cool as you did, Guy-san! Alrighty, I'm gonna keept at it!! | |
| Guy | That's the spirit. |
| Kumon | OK! One more try! |
| Muku | Good luck, Kyu-chan! |
| Yuki | … He's getting fired up and all, but I'm pretty sure he said he won't be using the real thing on stage, didn't he? |
| Itaru | … Best not to burst his bubble. |
