Misumi Ikaruga/Boys of Summer

One More Treasure

Backstage Stories

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Misumi	Triangle, triangle…
	Done—!!
	Look, look, gramps!
Hakkaku	What’s this, a fish cake ghost?
Misumi	It’s Triangle-kun~.
	Triangle-kun likes fish cakes, but he’s not a fish cake, ok?
	Triangle-kun is really strong and kind!
Hakkaku	Heh. I don’t really get it, but good for you for drawing him so well.
	*music plays*
Izumi	…
	Huh? This song…
	(It’s the song we used for the recent show, right?
	There should be no more need to practise though…)
Tenma	We get sluggish around here sometimes, huh?
Muku	The move before that part is hard, so sometimes our movements fall behind…
Kumon	True, true!
	But then again, it feels good when we nail it down, right~.
Izumi	(Ah, is the Summer troupe holding a performance review meeting?)
Misumi	Trian~gle, trian~gle, triangle an~gle.
Yuki	It’s not that kind of song, you know?
Misumi	Even though the show’s over, you start wanting to dance when you hear this song, right~.
Kazunari	Totes, totes! This song’s such a mood~.
Misumi	I’ll dance together with Triangle-kun!
	*rips*
	Uwahh!
Tenma	That was an impressive sound just now.
Kazunari	AH!! His arm came off!
Misumi	Wahh, Triangle-kun!!
Muku	W-we have to call an ambulance…!
Yuki	Calm down.

Misumi	*Sigh*…
	I wonder if Triangle-kun will really be alright…
Muku	It’ll be fine!
	Yuki-kun said he’d fix him for you! Right!
Yuki	I don’t have thread that matches his colour right now, but I’ll get some more soon so I'll be able to fix him tomorrow.
Misumi	Mhmm…
Kazunari	Sumi, look, the Summer Triangle constellation!
Kumon	It’s pretty!
Misumi	Ah, it really is!
	…
	*flashback starts*
Hakkaku	“Misumi, the world is overflowing with many, different things. However, you can only make a perfect shape with three of them.”
	“If you are able to find those three things in your life, I’m sure you will become happy.”
	*flashback ends*
Misumi	(Three treasures—)
Tenma	What’s wrong?
Misumi	Oh you see, a long time ago, gramps told me the origin of my name.
	The world is overflowing with various things, but you can only make a perfect shape with three of them.
	If I’m able to find my three treasures in life, I’ll become happy.
	It has that kind of meaning.
Kumon	Oh, is that right!
Kazunari	“Three” has been treated as a special number for a long time, eh?
Misumi	My treasures, you see, are triangles, acting, friends—.
	(Madoka… I guess Madoka can’t fit in as one of my treasures.)
	…
Yuki	What?
Misumi	Nope, it’s nothing!
Muku	Those treasures are just like you, Misumi-san.
Kumon	I’m the same way with acting and friends!
Kazunari	Those are treasures for me too!
Yuki	Here. Take care.
Misumi	Triangle-kun!!
Yuki	I mended the other parts that were frayed too.
	So now they won’t come off if you swing him around.
Muku	He's as flawless as ever!
Tenma	As expected, huh?
Yuki	Isn’t that obvious?
Misumi	Yuki, thank you!!
Izumi	That’s a relief, right, Misumi-kun?
Kazunari	Congrats on his discharge!
Kumon	Now you can dance with him again.
Misumi	Yeah! Triangle-kun’s home again~
Izumi	That reminds me, Misumi-kun’s the one that came up with Triangle-kun, right?
Misumi	That’s right~. I made him when I was little.
Izumi	Do you have prototypes too?
Misumi	Yeah!
Izumi	(I wonder what they were like… I’m a bit curious.)
Misumi	Hyper Triangle-kun, King Triangle-kun, God Triangle-kun and Triangle-chan…
	Thanks to everyone in Summer troupe, they’ve increased a lot.
Izumi	Then, all of them are your “treasured” triangles, right?
Misumi	…
Izumi	Misumi-kun?
Misumi	Even though I was told that there are three treasures, mine have increased by one more…
Izumi	Increased?
Misumi	Madoka is also my precious treasure.
	If I'm greedy, gramps might get angry at me.
Tenma	Isn’t that fine though?
Izumi	Yeah. I think it’s fine if you haven’t decided on your three things just yet.
	I mean, you still have a long life ahead of you.
	As you live your life, you should cherish what you consider your “treasures”, and then come to understand what’s truly important to you at the very end.
	Even if, perhaps, you can’t narrow them down to three, then you just have that many treasures, right?
	I don’t think that’s a bad thing.
Muku	Rather, Hakkaku-san would be happy about that too.
Kazunari	It’s way more fun to have lots of treasures, ain’t that right!
Kumon	I think so too!
Yuki	I mean, you already have tons of "Triangle"s to begin with, right?
Misumi	I see... That's right!

Misumi	Heading out, heading out~.
Tenma	Are you going out?
Misumi	Tenma is too?
Tenma	I’m going to work now.
Misumi	I’m off to this~.
Tenma	A paper airplane? Are you going to fly it?
Misumi	After our talk yesterday, I felt like I wanted to meet Madoka~.
Tenma	In that case, I’ll give you a ride in our car.
Misumi	Really? Thanks!
Tenma	See you.
Misumi	Tenma, Igawa, thanks!
Igawa	Not at all, please be careful on your way.
Tenma	That reminds me, the weather will be nice this weekend so it looks like you'll get a good view of the stars.
	How about you show him how pretty the Summer Triangle looks from the dorm's roof?
Misumi	!! Thanks, Tenma!
Madoka	…
	—.
	?
	A paper airplane… Nii-san?
Misumi	Welcome back~.
	You knew it was me, huh?
Madoka	Well… It’s because doing something like this seemed very like you.
Misumi	I see~. Ehehe.
Madoka	…By the way, what is this triangle-shaped picture that’s drawn here?
	A fish cake ghost?
Misumi	Pfff, ahaha.
	Gramps said the same thing!
Madoka	?
Misumi	He's called “Super Triangle-kun”!
	This is a Triangle-kun eraser, and this here is a Triangle-kun keychain. I’ll give them to Madoka!
Madoka	U-ummm… I’m alright.
Misumi	Oh…?
Madoka	That reminds me, why are you here today?
Misumi	Ah! You see, Madoka, let’s look at the big triangle in the sky together this weekend!
Madoka	The big triangle in the sky… Could you mean the Summer Triangle constellation?
Misumi	Right!
Madoka	I’m free this weekend, so that sounds fine.
Misumi	Yay—! Oh yeah, we’ll look at it from the dorm’s rooftop!
Madoka	Eh, on the roof? Are we climbing up?
Misumi	It’s not scary at all. Here, you’ll be fine if you climb up together with this Super Triangle-kun plushie!
Madoka	S-sure, I'm alright for the plushie, but I'm looking forward to it.

Anna