| Hirato | When I bumped into Banri-san at that cafe, I realized something… |
| I was wondering to myself then if you were perhaps a model, or perhaps popular with women, or that you were out on a date with a girlfriend… It just came to my mind. |
| Kazunari | Settsuar at a cafe… |
| Azuma | Ah, the usual cafe-hopping hobby, perhaps? |
| Tsumugi | And the person he promised to meet… Might be me, I think? |
| Hirato | After that, I thought it’d be a good idea to recruit students to be the actors for the play… |
| When I went to visit Amabi, I came upon Banri-san there yet again. It was only then that I realized that he was Settsu Banri of MANKAI Company. |
| With what little I knew of Banri-san, I got the strong impression that he was more of a star… rather than someone who was very passionate about theatre, that is. |
| I had imagined that you’d be a person with such skill that you can do anything without any worry. |
| Masumi | That part’s not wrong. |
| Misumi | “Piece o’ cake~!” |
| Kazunari | —is what he’d usually say, right~ |
| Banri | Now’s not the time to tease me… So after that? |
| Hirato | Uhm, but when I heard about you from your classmates and did my own research, all of those images were just preconceptions after all… |
| What I found instead was a young man who’s very sincere and passionate about acting; someone who liked shopping and going around cafes with his friends. |
| And, this is once again from my own eyes— or my own imagination, rather, but… |
| Perhaps there’s always been these assumptions, preconceptions, and biases that have been directed to you even until now. |
| I thought of it… Because that is the same as the written characters being portrayed within this performance. |
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| Banri | …… |
| Kazunari | ……. |
| Hirato | I did have a specific casting in mind myself, but I wasn’t sure who would be right for which role… |
| So I thought that instead of an outsider deciding on that, I figured it’d be better for troupe members who understood each other to know the answers better than I could. |
| That is why I left that up to you. |
| Banri | I see. Assumptions and preconceptions, huh…. |
| Well, I guess I can see what you mean by all that. |
| Hirato | I’m really sorry. |
| Banri | It’s fine. It’s a good thing I did ask. I knew there’d be a reason why you chose me for a role… But I didn’t expect it to be that. |
| ——It’s decided then. |
| Sakuya | What’s decided? |
| Banri | Tsumugi-san, let’s switch roles after all. |
| Izumi | Eh!?? |
| Hirato | EHH!? |
| Banri | I know that if we switch, I have to abandon all of the character that I’ve been building up for the role, and that I have to completely start from scratch. |
| I know I’m asking for something unreasonable, but… |
| Tsumugi | Of course. |
| I’d like to say I’m lucky to have gone through two roles, actually. Plus breaking down characters and starting all over from zero is just my specialty. |
| Banri | Haha, there’s no getting you down, huh? |
| Tsumugi | And what makes you say that? |
| Banri | You know why, you theatre junkie. |
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| Misumi | Director-san, we’ve finished changing~ |
| Kazunari | Look at me, I’m an absolute beauty☆ |
| Masumi | How do I look? Am I pretty? |
| Izumi | Yeah, really pretty!! |
| (Why am I having mixed feelings from all this…) |
| Azuma | Fufu, I had heard about how thorough they were to get our dresses to suit us. |
| Sakuya | But everyone really did turn out so beautiful though! |
| Kazunari | Totes unexpected, right~ Settsuar said he looked even worse in the dress more he thought he would, though. |
| Sakuya | Is it because his face is more masculine than expected? |
| Azuma | Really? Here I was getting worried if mine would even look good on me. |
| Masumi | Same. Turned out better than expected. |
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| Banri | Expected this, expected that, yadda yadda. My plans were turned almost upside down, so ‘course it’d be shocking for me. |
| Tsumugi | You think so? |
| Banri | Back during Inner Palace, Itaru-san mentioned that he had his sister’s face when he wore women’s clothing. I thought that I’d end up the same if it happened to me too. |
| But when I looked at the results, it was more like seeing my sister’s “male version” instead. To think this would be the first time in my life I feel like cringing at my own face. |
| Izumi | Now now, even if it’s not the most suiting, you can think of this as… spicing things up for today! |
| Banri | I feel like eating my own words right now. |
| Fine, it’s only the start after all. The main thing we gotta focus on is to give a good show. |
| Misumi | Yeah! |
| Kazunari | That’s the spirit ♪ |
| Tsumugi | Let’s do it. |
