| Citron | Director, I have a little something I want to consult you about! |
| Izumi | Fufu, it feels like some sort of consultation day today. What’s the matter? |
| Citron | I was having tea with the shopping district madames earlier, and one of them is an acquaintance of the head priest in a Shinto shrine. |
| They’d often share with that madame how disheartened they were seeing fewer and fewer worshippers coming by to that shrine every year. |
| So she asked me if there were any good ideas to help restore the shrine’s glory, she’d be happy to hear them! |
| Izumi | A Shinto shrine, huh… That’s quite the demand with that scale… |
| Tsuzuru | It’s not the kind of thing where you’d make a request like that so lightly… |
| Citron | They said they’re really willing to do anything they can, so even any lighthearted discussions are welcomed. Just head to the chief priest when you can! |
| The shrine would be… Around this area here. |
| Kazunari | Huh? Isn’t this close to where Fuko High is located? |
| Tsuzuru | Now that you mention it, I do recall a Shinto shrine pretty near the school. |
| Izumi | ……AH!!! |
| Tsuzuru | W-What’s wrong? |
| Izumi | If these two places are close by, why don’t we try to hold the Setsubun performance at the shrine itself? |
| We can hit two birds with one stone and liven up both of them at the same time! |
| Kazunari | OOOH! That’s a great idea, Director-chan! |
| Tsuzuru | That escalated way too fast! Just hang on— what about asking permission from both parties—— |
| Izumi | Of course, we won’t be able to do it before discussing it with the school and the shrine, but still! We won’t know till we try! |
| You must be thinking the same too, right, Tsuzuru-kun? You want to help them out with every bit of effort you can give them, right? |
| Tsuzuru | Well… Yeah, of course. |
| Kazunari | Then we gotta do the most that we can do, right?! |
| Tsuzuru | ….Alright. I’ll contact Kuraki-sensei about the Director’s response as well as the shrine’s circumstances. |
| Kazunari | NOW WE’RE COOKING! |
| Izumi | I want to explain things to Citron-kun’s side as well. Is now a good time? |
| Citron | Okie dokie! |
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| Izumi | So the thing I want to discuss with everyone today: MANKAI Company will be assisting the theatre club of Fuko High for their Setsubun play. |
| Tsuzuru | Fuko High, the high school Miyoshi-san and I went to, would hold its own Setsubun Festival within the school grounds—— |
| This year, in order to raise the excitement for the festivities, we’ve arranged for the theatre club to perform their play in the nearby Shinto shrine. |
| Kazunari | We got the permission from both sides now, right? |
| Izumi | Yep. If it will help liven up the place and the event itself, then they were both very welcome to the idea. |
| Tsuzuru | However, the problem now lies with the fact that the current Fuko High theatre club has only 2 members. So I was hoping to get everyone’s help to make up for their lack of members. |
| Tasuku | What kind of help, to be precise? Are we just making props? |
| Izumi | We’d be joining in their performance. And as for outfits and props, we’ll be assisting them with whatever is possible to make for the backstage department. |
| Tsuzuru | It was the two members themselves who wanted to ask us to participate in their play, hoping it’d really help liven up the Setsubun Fes even more if we lend a hand in that way. |
| By the way, I’ll be the one writing the script. That said, I hope you can all lend me your cooperation on this! |
| Izumi | As for the participating members, we’ve decided on our Fuko High graduates: Tsuzuru-kun and Kazunari-kun. We have Citron-kun joining too, who’s also acting as our connection with the shrine and its head priest. |
| So now we’re figuring out how many more members we need. |
| Tsuzuru | Right. It’s not going to be anything too large of a story, so I think around 3 more members would already be of big help. |
| Azami | I’ll join then. In place of Shifuto who troubled you before this. |
| Tsuzuru | Troubled? |
| Azami | Y’know. Meddling your connection with that Fuko High teacher n’ all. |
| Tsuzuru | Oh that? It wasn’t any kind of trouble for me at all. In fact, I’m thankful I got to connect with Kuraki-sensei again. |
| Azami | Still, it’s a fact that this whole thing somewhat started with me so… I want to help. |
| Tsuzuru | Alright. If you insist, I’m not one to stop you. |
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| Izumi | So after checking everyone’s schedules that could line up with the event, our participating members will be—— |
| Tsuzuru-kun, Kazunari-kun, Citron-kun, Azami-kun, Juza-kun, Tasuku-san…With a total of six members! |
| Tsuzuru | Let’s work hard, everyone! |
