| Izumi | Good work, everyone! The final performance was a success! |
| Homare | Mhm. Everyone, let us shake hands! |
| Tsumugi | Huh? Okay. |
| Tasuku | Uhh, okay. |
| Azuma | Good work. |
| Homare | Hisoka-kun gets a hug! |
| Hisoka | ...No thanks. |
| Izumi | (With this, we’ve safely finished all of the troupes’ second performances... At the end of the day, lots of things happened, but I’m really glad!) |
| Homare | Now then, I shall give Director-kun a hug filled with love and gratitude. |
| Izumi | Huh!? |
| Tasuku | I don’t know about that. |
| Tsumugi | Masumi-kun might hold a grudge if he finds out. |
| Izumi | (Well, a hug wouldn’t hurt, right?) |
| Err, good work, Homare-san. |
| Homare | Mhm. |
| Azuma | Good for you, Homare. |
| Tasuku | I was worried up until the first day, but I was able to enjoy myself without worries during the performance. |
| Tsumugi | I felt the same. It’s because the leader and the co-lead had everything in place. |
| Izumi | You also really did a job well done, Hisoka-san. |
| Hisoka | ...Six months’ worth of marshmallows. |
| Tasuku | We know. |
| Izumi | Ahaha! That part is important after all. |
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| Tenma | Good work. |
| Misumi | Good work triangle~! |
| Kazunari | Good work piko! |
| Tasuku | The noisy ones have arrived. |
| Homare | Greetings, everyone. I see you came to watch my graceful figure on stage. |
| Tenma | As expected, he’s like this as soon as he’s off the stage. |
| Homare | What do you mean by that? |
| Tenma | No, it’s nothing. You were perfect for the butler role. |
| Misumi | You looked cool~! |
| Kazunari | Aririn, you looked so noble, it was sick! |
| Homare | Right, right? Don’t you think so? It’s simply because I am noble by nature! |
| Tenma | I thought so too back then during your debut performance, but your acting really is perfect, Hisoka-san. I hate to admit it, but your attention to detail is something I should learn from—— |
| Hisoka | ...Zzz. |
| Tenma | Listen to me! |
| Kazunari | Now, now! Okay, let’s hurry home and party! |
| Azuma | Sorry. The Winter Troupe members and the Director are going to be doing some nice things today, just the six of us. |
| Kazunari | Nice things? |
| Misumi | I wonder what~? A triangle festival~? |
| Tenma | Y-you guys aren’t about to do anything suspicious, right? |
| Azuma | Well, I wonder about that? |
| Tenma | !? |
| Tasuku | We’re just going drinking. |
| Kazunari | Ehh~! I’m jelly! |
| Tenma | Oh, you’re just going drinking. |
| Tsumugi | All of us in the Winter Troupe are adults after all. I guess this is a privilege for us alone. |
| Azuma | That’s how it is. |
| Izumi | Which means that we’ll celebrate with everyone else next time. |
| Misumi | Oka~y! |
| Kazunari | Sooo, are you going to like, a members-only bar full of celebs? |
| Azuma | Fufu, that sounds good too. |
| Tenma | That right there is suspicious. |
| Tasuku | You make it sound so dubious. We’re going to a normal place. Seriously. |
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| Izumi | Now then, let’s have the leader, Homare-san, give the toast! If you would please! |
| Homare | Ahem. Before the toast, I shall present the gifts I’ve prepared for everyone. |
| First, the poem dedicated to Director-kun—— |
| Tasuku | Looks like this’ll take a while. |
| Izumi | We can do that afterwards, so let’s do the toast for now! |
| Homare | Hm, is that so? |
| Very well. To celebrate the brilliant success of the second Winter Troupe performance led by Arisugawa Homare, let us have a toast——! |
| Tsumugi | Cheers! |
| Tasuku | Cheers. |
| Azuma | Cheers. |
| Hisoka | ...Zzz. |
| Homare | Now, why are you sleeping here! |
| Hisoka | ...It took too long. |
| Izumi | Anyway, I’m glad that it ended safely~ |
| Tasuku | I was a bit worried at first, but it went smoothly, surprisingly. |
| Tsumugi | Things were more all over the place back during our debut performance. |
| Tasuku | That was mainly your fault. |
| Azuma | Fufu. Weren’t you involved in a lot of ways too, Tasuku? |
| Tasuku | Well, that’s... |
| Homare | This is all solely thanks to me! |
| Tasuku | You’re one to talk. |
| Izumi | Things have completely returned to how they were before, huh. |
| Tsumugi | Everyone’s acting got better as well. |
| Izumi | Definitely. It makes me really happy that every troupe has stepped it up from their debut performance. |
| Tsumugi | It’s all thanks to you, Director. |
| Azuma | Good work. Today we’ll have to reward you as thanks. |
| Izumi | Oh, no, I didn’t do anything! It’s all thanks to everyone. |
| Tsumugi | Ever since we finished the second round of performances, it feels like the other troupes are getting even more excited. |
| Tasuku | This takes me back to our student plays. |
| Tsumugi | I know what you mean. |
| Azuma | That reminds me, I’ve been seeing Muku and Sakuya doing sit-ups in the courtyard lately. |
| Izumi | Is that so? |
| Azuma | Sometimes the prince counts for them but he often goes back to previous numbers by mistake, and so they end up doing sit-ups for eternity. It’s funny.[1] |
| Tasuku | Sounds like they’re getting trained for nothing. |
| Tsumugi | Everyone’s putting effort in basic training and stamina training. |
| Izumi | It seems like everyone has come to understand the meaning behind practice even more now compared to the beginning. So maybe they’ve realized the importance of the basics too. |
| Homare | I shall not lose — I must polish my beautiful voice as well. From now on, I shall do vocal training everyday until late at night. |
| Hisoka | ...A nuisance. |
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| Tsumugi | I really do think that the appeal of a play ultimately depends on the actors. |
| The simplest aspect of a play is the fact that it’s brought to life by humans talking and moving. That’s why—— |
| Tasuku | But the script and the staging are important too. |
| Tsumugi | Of course they are. |
| Izumi | But that’s true. Even if your script, staging, set, and costumes are all good, sometimes that just doesn’t cut it. |
| Azuma | You three sure get even more heated up when you drink. |
| Tsumugi | Huh? Is that so? |
| Tasuku | It’s always like this when we drink. |
| Izumi | We just end up talking about theater. |
| Azuma | How interesting. I wonder if it’s a special trait among theater people. |
| Homare | *sob, sob*... Really, the fact that it ended safely, fills me with deep emotion and makes me sentimental shiny flow...[2] |
| Tsumugi | Homare-san, are you okay? |
| Azuma | There, there. Homare cries when he’s drunk. |
| Hisoka | ...Seconds. |
| Izumi | Huh? Hisoka-san, aren’t you drinking a lot? |
| Azuma | He’s drinking about the same amount as I am. |
| Izumi | Azuma-san, you’re also drinking a lot! |
| Tasuku | It doesn’t show on your face at all. |
| Tsumugi | The two of them are really strong drinkers. |
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| Azuma | It’s gotten really late. |
| Tsumugi | I haven’t gone drinking this late since I was a student. |
| Izumi | It’s nice to drink like this once in a while. |
| Tsumugi | You’re right. |
| Homare | ——Can I have a moment. |
| Tasuku | Hm? |
| Izumi | Is something wrong? |
| Homare | I have something I wish to talk about. Will you lend me an ear? |
| Tsumugi | Of course. |
| Homare | I don’t understand people’s feelings. |
| I hurt my lover because of it in the past, and so I’ve always fretted about it. |
| However, acting as Sagishima made me think that despite that, I am fine the way I am. |
| I still don’t understand people’s feelings. However, I can put myself in people’s shoes. And that is fine with me. |
| Now that I can think that way, I feel much more at ease. |
| This is all thanks to Hisoka-kun, Director-kun, and all the other members of the Winter Troupe. Thank you. |
| Izumi | Homare-san... |
| Hisoka | ...You’re weird. |
| Homare | And with those feelings of gratitude, I’ve composed poems for every single one of you! I wasn’t able to recite them to you during the toast, so have a listen now! |
| Izumi | !? |
| Tsumugi | P-poems? |
| Tasuku | And what’s more, one for each of us... |
| Hisoka | ...No thanks. |
| Azuma | I wonder what kind of poems they are. |
| Homare | First, to Director-kun... |
| The single chameleon plant that blooms on the Mankai field... The blooming rowing flor feat. Director...![3] |
| Izumi | Wha- Wait, it’s already early morning! We can do this later! And what do you mean by chameleon plant...!? |
| Homare | Now now, there is more to it. |
| Izumi | You’ll bother the neighbours! |
| Azuma | Fufu. |
| Tsumugi | Ahaha. |
| Tasuku | Geez... |
| Hisoka | ...Arisu really is so noisy. |
