| Spectator A | The trapeze act was amazing! |
| Spectator B | Right? My heart was fluttering! |
| Spectator C | It all looks like a dream! |
| Woman | ... |
| Man | Isn’t this fun? |
| Woman | Oh sure, if your idea of “fun” is watching people dangling in the air within inches of their lives. It’s dangerous, I don’t think it’s very fun at all. |
| Ringmaster | Now! Ladies and Gentlemen! Please welcome onto the stage...the clowns! |
| Woman | .... |
| Clown | Whee! |
| Woman | ...!!
Pffff...to think...that it would come to this.... |
| Man | ... |
| Woman | What? What is it? |
| Man | It’s just, this is the first time I’ve seen your smile.
Yes. It was a blessing to have come here. |
| Woman | A blessing? |
| Man | I will never forget this wonderful and precious day. |
| Misumi | That movie sure was interesting... |
| Kumon | Right? The circus scene was even done without special effects. Real stunts!! So amazing! |
| Tenma | That scene felt like it existed outside reality. |
| Yuki | The costumes were good, too. |
| Misumi | My favorite part was the huuuuge triangle! |
| Tenma | Of all the things in the movie, your favorite part was the freakin’ circus tent? |
| Muku | I liked the story of the lovers in the audience. They were a wonderful couple. |
| Kumon | Ah, it was so romantic that the clown could make their love blossom! |
| Muku | Wasn’t it?! I hope that destiny has something like that in store for me. |
| Yuki | No such chance, this is reality. |
| Muku | But, the romance in the movie Tenma starred in was based off a true story, right? So something unexpected might happen like in the movie! |
| Tenma | Ah...”true stories” are often exaggerated for movie adaptations. |
| Muku | Aww, really...? |
| Yuki | Oh come on. |
| Kumon | Yeah but, it’s good to believe in it! |
| Misumi | Yeah yeah! I think it’s gooo~d to believe! Like, in the biiiiiig triangle that can touch the clouds~! |
| Tenma | Triangles and destined love are two completely different things... |
| Azuma | Fufu, oh to be young... |
| Guy | Romance like in a film, huh... |
| Tasuku | Love like that couldn’t have been common in the royal palace. |
| Guy | Actually, there was one incident in which careers ended over an affair.
It became a problem for the palace guards to protect a certain esteemed mistress, so professionals were hired to take them out.
A cover-up story was fabricated that painted them as enemies of the state. But perhaps this is a weak premise for a film... |
| Tenma | No that’s dramatic enough! |
| Yuki | Sounds like a mess. |
| Guy | However, it is not the kind of love story that Sakisaka speaks of... |
| Muku | Well, something more romantic would be better... |
| Homare | Humu, love befitting of a movie?
According to a family legend, my grandparents’s marriage was one of great love. My grandfather was already betrothed to marry a woman as arranged by the parents on both sides.
Despite this, he chose to wed my grandmother, an up-and-coming young woman, extroverted, and unafraid to speak her mind. For the time, this was unbefitting behavior for a bride, but he loved her all the more. Just perhaps...there could be a love story like theirs written for you in the great poem of destiny, Muku-kun.
Ah, how romantic. |
| Muku | Really? Please, tell me more about it! |
| Homare | Although I want to, I know not more. My grandfather died a young man. When I asked my grandmother to tell me stories about them, she would not speak one word of it— oh?
Ah, looks like my timepiece has gone wonky again... |
| Tasuku | Again? Isn’t it about time you let go of it? |
| Homare | I’d rather love for it to be touched by the mechanic’s loving hand before I see it tick its last tock. May I ask you to do the honors? |
| Tasuku | Well, all right then... |
| Homare | (Homare’s cell phone buzzes)
It’s...from my parents’ house? How incredibly out of the ordinary. I must answer at once.
Hello?
...mhm...
——
—What on earth?!! |
