Tenma Sumeragi/The 1001st Adventure Record

The Menace from My First Performance is Now My Friend

Backstage Stories

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Tenma	Why do I have to clean the storage room…
Yuki	If you have time to complain, get a move on.
Misumi	Wah~, a shuriken! Swish swish!
Kazunari	Ah! That for our ninja play way back when!
Muku	There’s a magic lamp over there too!
Kumon	You’re right! Hey hey, gimme it for a sec.
	C'mon, genie!
Misumi	“I am Genie. I shall grant you three wishes. What is it you wish for, master?”
Kazunari	“Can’t you tell!? Do somethin’ about that wizard and the giant snake!”
Kumon	You’re as amazing as ever, Sumi-san!
Tenma	Oi, you guys, we’re going to be here forever at this rate!
Kazunari	Sowwy~! We got carried away!
Kumon	Ah! This is….!
Yuki	The giant snake. I didn’t know that was in here.
Kumon	It still looks just as awesome as the first time!
Kazunari	Y'know, the first time Tenten saw this, it was super funny!
Tenma	…No, it wasn’t.
Muku	Fufu, you said you thought it’d be projection mapping~.
Kumon	What the heck! Tell me more!
	*flashback starts*
Izumi	Everyone gather round. The props are ready, so I’m going to explain them to you.
Tenma	What’s this?
Izumi	If you move it like this, it’ll–.
Muku	Wah~ it’s a giant snake!
Izumi	Correct! I’d asked for them to make it easy for everyone to operate.
Tenma	….Wait a minute. We’re operating it by ourselves?
	Isn’t this kind of thing usually done by projection mapping or hiring stage hands?
Yuki	If you had any common sense you’d realize this run-down theater definitely doesn’t have that kind of money.
Tenma	Ugh….
Kazunari	It’ll be fun doing it ourselves! Say, let’s just try it out now!
Misumi	Let’s make a triangle with the giant snake!
Yuki	Let’s not.
Tenma	….Sigh, there’s no other choice. Let’s do it.
	*flashback end*
Kumon	Projection mapping is so awesome! I wanna try it!
Tenma	The theater’s too small for that…
Yuki	We still can’t afford it in the first place.
Kazunari	But I hope we can someday!
Yuki	Ah.
Muku	What is it, Yuki-kun?
Yuki	Come to think of it, during that play the hack also–.

	*flashback starts*
Izumi	Ah, those props over there, move them a little more to the right.
Sakuya	Is this a good spot?
Izumi	Yeah, that feels right! Thanks for all your help, Sakuya-kun.
Sakuya	Don’t worry about it, please let me know if there’s anything I can do!
Muku	Um, Director-san.
Yuki	We need to talk for a bit.
Izumi	Talk?
Muku	Yes, actually, the giant snake–.
Muku	Wah~, there’s a big audience today!
Yuki	Yeah, not bad.
Sakuya	Yuki-kun, Muku-kun, the giant snake we talked about earlier, is everything okay there?
Yuki	Yep, we’re good.
Muku	Thank you so much! It’s easier to move now, you were a big help.
	It was a little hard to move before…
Sakuya	That’s great then! If anything else happens, feel free to tell me!
Yuki	Thanks.
???	KYAAAA!
Yuki	?
Muku	T-That scream, was that…
Tenma	W-Who was it! Who put that giant snake there! It wasn’t there before!
Sakuya	Tenma-kun, shh! The audience is already in their seats, so quiet down!
Yuki	Shut up, you hack actor. It just moved a little.
Muku	Please be quiet before the show starts…!
Tenma	This is my fault…?
Yuki	I can’t believe he’s so jumpy from it moving a little.
Tenma	I’m not jumpy! It just surprised me!
Yuki	Same thing.
	*flashback end*
Yuki	–And that’s what happened.
Muku	Ahaha, that did happen, didn’t it.
Kumon	Oh my god!?
Kazunari	Tenten, could it be you’ve got some giant snake trauma~?
Misumi	Are you okay, Tenma~?
Tenma	Of course I’m okay!
	…Well, a lot happened, but this guy’s a comrade now.
Kumon	Comrade! Awesome, Tenma-san!
Yuki	…What are you talking about?

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