Yuki Rurikawa/The 1001st Story
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The Return of Fear, a Hundred Midnight Stories
Backstage Stories| —Lounge (Night)— | |
| Muku | Eek...! |
| Yuki | You don't need to read if you're that scared. |
| Muku | B-but the illustrations are so cute...! |
| Misumi | Ah, Yuki and Muku~. They're reading a book together~. |
| Kazunari | Hey there, fellas~. Whatcha reading? |
| Yuki | Here. |
| Kumon | "100 Ghost Stories"...? |
| Kazunari | Ghost stories?! The cover book looks pretty cute tho... |
| Yuki | Yeah, I found it in the reference room. |
| I remembered reading it before, so I brought it with me. | |
| Kumon | So you've already read about it! |
| Misumi | This oni has a triangle horn~! Ah, there's a cat here! |
| Kazunari | I know this story! It seems scary, but it's actually quite a good one~. |
| Yuki | Ohh, the one where a bakeneko saves its master. |
| Muku | Such a wonderful story! |
| Kazunari | Let's look at other stories! |
| Misumi | Oh, this person's hood is a triangle~! |
| Kumon | Tengu's here too! Hella cool~! |
| Tenma | I'm home~. |
| Muku | Welcome home, Tenma-kun. |
| Tenma | What're you guys gathering here for? |
| Yuki | We were reading this. |
| Tenma | You-! That's...! |
| Kumon | What's wrong, Tenma-san? |
| Yuki | Truth is, before our first stage play-. |
| —Room 201 (Night)— | |
| Tenma | Aren't you gonna do any role study for Scheherazade? |
| Yuki | Role study? |
| Tenma | There must be something you can do, like what Sakisaka did by reading the original book. It's important to know about your role in depth. |
| Yuki | ...Acting like a leader. |
| Tenma | I'm not acting! I really AM one! |
| Yuki | Yeah, yeah. |
| Tenma | Don't give me that "Yeah, yeah"! That's no way to behave towards your leader-! |
| Yuki | *sigh* ...So noisy. I'll turn off the lights. |
| *click* | |
| Tenma | H-hey! ...Geez. |
| Yuki | (Role study, huh...) |
| (...Ah, I know.) | |
| *click* | |
| Hey. | |
| Tenma | What, I'm going to sleep-. |
| Yuki | Help me with the role study. |
| Tenma | ...Role study? |
| Yuki | You told me to do it a while ago, remember? |
| Tenma | Hmph, so you're finally up for it. What're you gonna do? |
| Yuki | I was thinking of doing a storytelling. |
| Tenma | Storytelling? |
| Yuki | Scheherazade used to tell Ali Baba bedtime stories, right? Thought I should try doing the same thing to deepen the understanding of my role. |
| Tenma | Ahh, I see. Sure, I'll help you out. |
| Yuki | Okay, we'll start with "100 Ghost Stories"-. |
| Tenma | G-ghost stories?! |
| Tenma | I-I won't listen to ghost stories! |
| Yuki | Huh? You said you will just now. |
| Tenma | Only because I didn't know what story you'd read! |
| Yuki | ...Are you scared? |
| Tenma | I-It's not like I'm scared or anything. Besides, ghost stories aren't exactly for a bedtime story, you know? |
| Yuki | There weren't any books other than this in the reference room. It's not that scary, so you should be fine. |
| Tenma | Hngh... |
| Yuki | Once upon a time-. |
| Tenma | ...S-stop it! |
| Yuki | There lived... |
| Tenma | Ugh-! |
| (I got no choice but to listen...) | |
| Yuki | ...That's all for tonight. |
| Tenma | Finally, it's over... |
| Yuki | Huh, you're still awake? You wrapped yourself in blanket and didn't move an inch at all, so I thought you slept already. |
| Tenma | I-I just couldn't fall asleep because of your bad reciting-. |
| Yuki | Is that so. Good night, then. |
| Tenma | H-hey...! |
| ...... | |
| Yuki | *sleep soundly* |
| Tenma | ...... |
| Tenma | ...I can't sleep. |
| —Practice Room— | |
| Kazunari | G'morning~! |
| Yuki | Morning. |
| Tenma | ...Good morning. |
| Kazunari | OMG! What happened, Tenten? You look like a panda! |
| Tenma | ...Nothing. |
| Yuki | Were you so scared of the ghost story last night that you couldn't fall asleep? |
| Tenma | ...! |
| Yuki | Was it a spot-on? |
| Tenma | Sh-shut up! |
| Yuki | -and that's what happened. |
| Kumon | Ahaha, I see~! |
| Kazunari | So nostalgic~! That did happen, huh! |
| Misumi | You were no good with scary things since then~. |
| Tenma | That's not true! |
| Muku | So you were referring to this book when you mentioned a ghost story back then. |
| Tenma | Oh, right. I don't think you guys know, but there's a history behind that book. |
| Kazunari | History? |
| Tenma | Yeah... Soon after that, a lot of bad things happened... |
| Like, I felt a person's gaze on me while I was washing my hair, or when I hear some noise in the kitchen and dropped a cup... | |
| Yuki | That's just you being freaked out. |
| Muku | But still, the Scheherazade during the play was very wonderful. Maybe it was a good thing that he did the storytelling for his role study! |
| Tenma | Well... I do admit that. |
| Yuki | Hm~. It's been a while, so should I read you a story tonight? |
| Tenma | NOOO-!!! |
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