| Takao | My lady—You have received an invitation letter. |
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| Homare’s Grandmother | An invitation? |
| “Amore~ Continue your memory to make it eternal…” |
| …Such an awkward child. |
| Same as that person though. |
| We’re going out tonight. |
| Please prepare to take out the car. |
| Takao | Understood. |
| *Shifts to Backstage* |
| Homare | –Ah, the unforeseen heat shook the air. |
| It’s now or never, it’s time to light the core of this theatre–! |
| Izumi | !? What happened, Homare-san!? |
| Homare | What is it? |
| I’m just reciting my poem as per usual. |
| Izumi | No matter how I look at it, that’s not the usual thing. |
| Sakuya | It’s my first time that I actually understand the meaning of Homare’s poem! |
| Muku | Me too! |
| It clearly conveys the atmosphere of the stage right before the performance and it’s wonderful! |
| Kazunari | Ooh! Is it Aririn’s new style!? |
| Homare | Hmm, it seems that the costume’s button is misplaced. |
| Izumi | … Homare-san, are you maybe feeling nervous? |
| Homare | I don’t know such a thing as nervousness. My heart just beats slightly faster and it’s affecting my behaviour, that’s all. |
| Izumi | Isn’t that basically being nervous… |
| Kazunari | It’s unusual for Aririn to be nervous. |
| Sakuya | Is there anything happening today? |
| Homare | It’s nothing, it’s just the usual, a general performance day that’s unchanging. |
| Izumi | (The longer this conversation goes, the weirder it gets…) |
| …Ah, by the way, the invitation ticket that we gave Homare’s grandmother is for the first day right. |
| Muku | Is it because your grandmother will be coming? |
| Homare | What did you say. There’re grandmothers around on every performance of ours aren’t they. |
| See, over there too, here too, that side too, on top of your head too– |
| Sakuya | There’s no such place! |
| Izumi | (He’s really nervous…) |
| Kazunari | Aririn, relax! |
| Come, let’s gather around! |
| Homare | Ye, yeah! |
| Kazunari | Since it’s circus, let’s all raise our hands to form a circus tent– |
| Homare | It’s really nice and artistic! |
| Kazunari | Right! |
| Muku | The cheers from the troupe leader please! |
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| Homare | Hmm! Then, for the sake of the audience’s smile— |
| Luminous Circus Troupe, let’s go! |
| Kazunari | Oh! |
| Sakuya | Oh! |
| Muku | Let’s go! |
| Izumi | Do your best! |
| Homare | Yes. I’ll be going first, Director-kun. |
| Izumi | (He’s completely back to his usual self and he looks calm now. |
| I’m so glad!) |
| *Shifts to Audience’s Seat* |
| Homare’s Grandmother | … |
| *Shifts to Circus’ Backstage* |
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| George | Hey hey, you! Have you perfected the preparation for tonight’s show!? |
| Will | That’s impossible, Leader! Look at this, this swing! The handles are gone and it’s impossible to hang it now. |
| George | There’s no problem. Just hang it with a rope and it should be fine! Oh yeah, I’ve decided that the program name will be “The Jungle’s Tarzan Show”! |
| Will | I’m a trapeze artist! Not a Tarzan! |
| Nick | Anyway, we don’t even have one animal around. |
| How do you expect us to hold a show? |
| George | I’ve thought of a solution for that. Use this! |
| Nick | Animal mascot…? |
| George | Tim, you’ll become the elephant. Will will become the lion. |
| Nick | Such a childish trick, will this kind of thing be able to convince the audiences!? |
| Tim | George, the big ball has cracks too, I won’t be able to ride on it. |
| George | Then, Will, you’ll play as the big ball! |
| Will | Stop with your bullshit already! |
| Izumi | (Everyone looks calm. |
| You can tell that they’re having fun, I can’t help but to have fun over here too.) |
| *Shifts to Circus’ Stage* |
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| Tim | “Paoooon”[1] |
| Will | “Garurururu!” |
| Audience A | What kind of trick is that! |
| Audience B | Return us our money! |
| Audience A | You’re just making fool of the audience! |
| Audience B | I’ll never come back here again! |
| George | Please wait a minute. |
| There will be a big guest after this– |
| Audience | I’m going home! |
| Nick | Ha… |
| Will | I wonder if I should have roared louder… |
| Tim | I don’t think that’s the problem. |
| George | Rejoice everyone! |
| After the arrival of our big guest, we will have a lot of audiences pouring in! |
| Then that way, we can fix the swing, even getting an animal for the show! |
| Nick | That big guest of yours, when will he be coming? |
| Will | It’s been a long time since the performance negotiation. |
| George | He’ll come soon! |
| I’ve already paid the performance fee too! |
| Nick | From the beginning, why would a famous person who has been appearing in multiple TV shows agreed to perform in such a small circus troupe like ours. |
| Will | Wait… Did you just get scammed!? |
| George | That, cannot be! |
| Nick | You just used all the money we worked hard for just to get scammed, what are we going to do from now on!? |
| Will | We can’t do show anymore, we don’t have any money, isn’t this the end of our troupe! |
| George | Ah, calm down! If it’s the guest, he will arrive tomorrow! |
| It’s already late today. Let’s have dinner, rest, and prepare for tomorrow! |
| Tim | George, we don’t even have money for food. |
| Homare | What are you saying. There should be enough from today’s ticket sale– |
| Tim | I’ve been flooded with request for refunds. So everything’s gone. |
| Will | Eh! |
| Nick | No way~! |
| George | Everyone, not to worry! If that’s the case, I have an idea! |
| Homare’s Grandmother | … |
| Izumi | (Homare’s grandmother doesn’t change her expression much, I can’t tell what she’s thinking… |
| But she looks like she’s actually enjoying the show.) |
| *Shifts to Monastery* |
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| Sister | Next person please. |
| May God bless you all. |
| Nick | Leader’s idea is, to get the food rations from the monastery…? |
| Will | So today’s dinner will be a bowl of potato soup… |
| Tim | Most probably tomorrow too. |
| Nick | Ha~… |
| George | We should be able to get good food tomorrow due to the arrival of the guest. |
| Let’s just fill our stomachs today with this. |
| Will | Leader, I wonder where does your positive attitude come from. |
| Nick | I’m so jealous. |
| *Shifts to Circus Outdoor* |
| George | Oh? |
| Baby | Gyaa, gyaa. |
| Will | A baby!? Why is he in this kind of place– |
| Tim | It seems to be an abandoned child. |
| George | He’ll get cold if he stays in this place. Let’s bring him inside! |
| *Shifts to Circus’ Backstage* |
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| Baby | Gyaa, gyaa. |
| Nick | Is he feeling hungry? Or is he feeling unwell? |
| George | There there. |
| Will | Isn’t it better for us to start looking for his mother? |
| Tim | It’s no use. A mother who left him in such a place, she’ll just leave him behind in another place afterwards. |
| Nick | Then, what should we do? |
| Tim | I guess we have no choice but to leave him with the orphanage. |
| It seems that the monastery over there also functions as an orphanage… |
| Baby | Bwee… |
| George | Look at him, he’s smiling! |
| Will | So he was just cold. |
| George | Let’s use this child for tightrope walk! |
| His face looks like a face of a good tightrope walker! |
| Nick | What kind of face is that. |
| Tim | From the beginning, we can’t afford to feed him. |
| We don’t have money to buy milk. |
| Will | You’re right, we can’t even feed ourselves. |
| George | Not to worry, after the guest arrives tomorrow, you want one or two babies, even 50 babies will not be a problem. |
| Tim | George, we don’t know yet whether the guest will actually come tomorrow. |
| Are you planning to starve the baby to death? |
| George | But… |
| Baby | Fuee, fuee. |
| Nick | There there, you’re so cute. |
| This child reminds me of Leo’s kid. |
| Will | Don’t make it sounds like he’s a lion’s child. |
| George | Hey, it’s not a good idea to bring him out again at this timing, why don’t we keep him here for today. |
| Tim | How about the money to buy milk? |
| George | That, that… I know! |
| We just need to pawn this stick! |
| Tim | George, isn’t that an important thing that you received when you become the troupe leader. |
| George | What about it. I’ll get it back soon, no worries. |
| *Time Skip* |
| Baby | Zzz, zzz… |
| George | There there. |
| Nick | Leader! |
| George | What happened? Has the guest arriv– |
| Nick | The lion, Leo, has returned! |
| George | What? |
| Tim | No, rather than return, it’s more correct to say that the animal mascot has become a real lion. |
| Nick | There’re elephants also! |
| Will | The swing handles and the big ball too, it seems everything’s fixed! It’s a miracle! |
| George | What!? |
| Tim | By the way, there’s still no sign of the guest coming at all. |
| George | That’s weird, he should be arriving soon… |
| Will | Well, it doesn’t matter anymore! |
| Nick | You’re right, we can do the show with these! |
| Let’s start the preparation for the show now! |
| *Shifts to Circus’ Stage* |
| George | Then, the first appearance will be of a brilliant dancer in the sky, let’s welcome our trapeze artist, Will! |
| Will | Ha! |
| Audience A | Woah! |
| Audience B | Amazing! He can make a full turn from such a high place! |
| Audience C | It’s like he’s actually born with a wing on his back! |
| Izumi | (Since Sakuya-kun said he wanted to do circus, it seems that he has been learning a lot from Misumi-kun. He really practiced hard and the result is showing properly.) |
| George | Our next performance, the clown, Tim! |
| Kazunari | Hyoitto. |
| Audience A | That clown is juggling while riding the ball! |
| Audience B | It’s like the ball is his feet itself. |
| Audience C | If you say that, the thrown ball looks like it’s being sucked back straight to his hands. |
| Izumi | (Kazunari-kun, as expected, is really dexterous with his hand. |
| He fits the role of the easygoing Tim perfectly, the way he casually supports the lead, George, also fits him.) |
| George | The next one will be our animal tamer, Nick and Leo the lion! |
| Lion | Roar! |
| Nick | Let’s go, Leo! |
| Audience A | Woah! It jumped through the ring! |
| Audience B | He really tamed the lion well. |
| Izumi | (Muku-kun looks so alive. |
| He really fits well with a fantasy like world like this.) |
| George | Thank you for coming! |
| We look forward to your next visit! |
| Audience A | That was fun~! |
| Audience B | I want to watch again! |
| Nick | Yes, it was a great success! |
| Will | With this we will be able to afford dinner today! |
| George | That’s amazing, Will. |
| Even though you haven’t been practicing so much. |
| Will | I feel that my body was so light today as if a magic was casted on me! |
| Tim | Nick too, to be able to put on such a performance on a short notice. |
| Nick | Well, me too actually, I feel like the animal suddenly understood my words and did the tricks so smoothly. |
| Tim | I also feel like that, it’s like I don’t even need to balance myself on the big ball, the juggling balls too, they came back to my hands wherever I threw them to. |
| George | As if a magic spell has been cast huh. |
| Baby | Fuee, fuee. |
| Nick | Ah, is it going to be time for milk soon? |
| George | I see! Surely, this child is a messenger of good luck! |
| This child has brought good luck for us! |
| Tim | Cannot be… |
| Will | But, it’s true that it’s only after this child arrived… |
| Nick | That means, it’s actually true…? |
| George | There’s no mistake! |
| Baby | Fugyaa, fugyaa. |
| Tim | Anyway, let’s just give him his milk first, George. |
| Izumi | (More than anything else, Homare-san’s George is… A bit direct and straightforward, but you can’t hate him. It fits Homare-san perfectly. |
| I feel that their warm feelings, of wanting to entertain the audience, of wanting to entertain Homare’s grandmother too, are being conveyed properly.) |
