Sakyo Furuichi/Rehearsal

Rehearsal

Backstage Stories

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Izumi	(Hmm—m……Just as I thought, the seats for a popular stage play are really filled up……I wonder where I should seat?)
	(Oh, the seat over there’s empty)
	Um, is it alright if I sit beside you?
Guy	Yeah.
Izumi	(Hm? I somehow feel as if I’ve heard that voice before……)
	Sakyo-san!?
Sakyo	——What, so it was you huh.
Izumi	That was surprising……So you were interested in this stage play too?
Sakyo	It’s because I heard about its reputation from over various places. I thought that I’d watch it live since I might as well do so.
Izumi	I was also recommended to watch it by my friend. I’ve somehow managed to get a ticket on the day itself but it seems like they’ve all been sold out.
Sakyo	Heh, they’re also sold out huh.
Izumi	Apparently, it seems like the protagonists are very popular and they’ve become a hot topic!
Sakyo	Sounds very likely. Though it’s a group that’s just formed, I heard that they do pull off a good act.
Izumi	Come to think of it, they were featured in the theater’s magazine too.
	It seemed like they didn’t get along at all at the beginning, just like a cat and a dog and fought quite a number of times together.
	But it seems like those arguments had made them improve and managed to draw the attention of the performance mainly towards them.
Sakyo	……That sound like a certain 2 people that I know of.
Izumi	I know, right! Banri-kun and Juza-kun, I wonder if they’d be able to go in direction too.
Sakyo	It would be great if only that happened.
Izumi	Oh, it’s starting.
Sakyo	I guess we’ll have to just look and see how it goes.
Izumi	That was really satisfying! It’s as interesting as how it’s reputed to be!
Sakyo	Yeah. It wasn’t only the protagonist, the other actors’ performances were also well done which contributes to its high level of completeness in the end.
Izumi	I agree! I saw it during the moment it started.
	But, the leading role’s presence was really outstanding after all.
	Especially during the scene where they had to break up! Even though the crying was just an act, it really caught me up it in!
Sakyo	……
Izumi	……Sakyo-san, why are you laughing?
Sakyo	Not at all? It just seems like you’re more hyped up than usual.
Izumi	Rather than being hyped up….. whenever you see a good stage play or performance, of course it’ll be natural for you to feel the tension increase!
	Besides, it makes me feel somewhat nostalgic when I see them acting like this.
Sakyo	It’s for certain that the songs used had been in line with the generation it was set in.
Izumi	That’s right! I often heard this song back in my school days—! The one about the growing temple of lead!
	Also, the scene where the both of them talk while riding a swing. Though it’s classic, it brings back nostalgia——
	!! Sakyo-san, look! Nice timing, they’re talking together on the swing right now!
Sakyo	I can hear you plenty fine even without you being so loud. Don’t make such a fuss over it.
Izumi	But the production scene was really good, wasn’t it? Through their exquisite expressions, the feelings of the both of them——
Sakyo	Just as I though, you’re really more hyped than usual after all.
Izumi	Uu….. I feel that that’s really the case if you’re putting it that way.
Sakyo	…..
Izumi	Sakyo-san?
Sakyo	……Ahh, My bad. I was just reminiscing a little about the past.
Izumi	What? Could it be that you’ve also talked on the swing like those two before……?
Sakyo	Wrong. I’m talking about you.
Izumi	……Me?

Sakyo	Wrong. I’m talking about you.
Izumi	Me? ……Could it be something that happened while dad was still in the theater company?
Sakyo	Yeah. There was once where he had asked me to babysit you.
Izumi	Really!?
Sakyo	Since I’ve never watched over a kid before, I had no idea what I should even be doing.
	But anyway, I thought that kids would like parks so I had brought you there, where you got onto the swing.
Izumi	I see……I don’t remember at all.
Sakyo	Well, I guess it isn’t unreasonable for you to not remember. I mean, you didn’t even remember me either.
Izumi	……Sorry. But my memories from the time when I was still little is vague……
Sakyo	Do you know how many times you cried back then?
Izumi	W-Well I was still a child—!
Sakyo	All you did was to swing in the swing and slide on the slides.
	Moreover, once you got tired, you said that you’d make dumplings in the sandbox. And finally you started crying about how your favourite clothes got dirty——
Izumi	T-That’s enough!
Sakyo	What? I’m talking about your childhood. Hasn’t it gotten nostalgic?
Izumi	I don’t remember anything from back when I had been that young!
Sakyo	……I see.
	In other words……you don’t remember how you cried when we had to part because you didn’t want to and that you had also said that you’d marry me.
Izumi	I-it’s a lie, right!?
Sakyo	Who knows. I wonder if it is?

Ran