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| “To me, he was like a fairy godmother from fairy tales.” |
| I used to like my name a lot when I was little. |
| It is such a delicate name, like the name of the heroine in shoujo mangas. I thought it’s a name that perfectly suited me, who has loved romantic fairy tales ever since I could remember. |
| However, at some point, people began to make fun of my name and preference. |
| My childhood friend had always been protecting me at the time. He was manly. Hoping to be like him, I joined the basketball club back in high school. However, athletic clubs were just not suitable for someone clumsy like me. Furthermore, a lot of the club members made fun of me just because of my appearance and name. In the end, I quit. |
| The name that I once liked a lot became my biggest complex. |
| I didn’t join any clubs after that. Instead, I spent my days doing nothing but reading shoujo mangas and watching dramas without telling anyone. Still, the frustration I felt for not being able to be open about what I liked remained deep in my heart. |
| My secret dream that I could not tell anyone, and my admiration for romantic heroine. But then, that person who suddenly appeared before my eyes… grant my wish very easily. |
| The first spring troupe leader——Kasumi Hinamori |
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| “That guy was my hero.” |
| I have always loved the heroes from hero shows ever since childhood. |
| My old man was a hardcore fan of hero shows. We watched videos from hero shows and even went to see them live together. |
| I believed I was born to be a hero. Thus, I started studying acting. Spending days and nights practicing with all my might, I somehow managed to get into an entertainment agency. |
| Then, in my senior year of high school, I passed the audition that I had been dreaming all the time and was chosen as the starring actor on a hero series. After all the efforts I had poured into, stepping my foot on the drama set was like a dream. Not only did I get to run through the set avidly, but I also garnered attention from people all around the world. |
| However, once the filming and broadcast ended, and when my agency expected me to be even more popular, my feelings suddenly withered. The dream that I had always thought would be my lifetime dream came true in my teens. I didn’t have the slightest idea about what kind of dream should I have next. |
| That was when that man appeared and broadened my horizon right away. I found a new goal in life. That guy… was my real-life hero. |
| The first summer troupe leader——Hiro Hyuga |
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| “That guy was like a seller on home shopping channel inside out.” |
| I’ve learned ballet and martial arts since childhood. People often picked fight with me due to my appearance, and that was when I developed a talent in martial arts. |
| Before I knew, I was surrounded by underlings and spent my days fighting. For the sake of the people I could call friends for the first time, I fought over and over again even when I didn’t want to. |
| I should have had no problem with that if it was to protect the precious bond between me and my friends. However, I knew I was the only who thought of them as friends. Knowing that, I stopped fighting and drove myself away from my circle of friends. |
| I left my parents’ home after that. Not having anything I wanted to do, I made use of the skills I had and started working part-time as a dancer. I met that guy when I was working at a show pub. That guy, who was working as a gofer at the time, was the type of man who wasn’t cautious of others and would get into your mind whenever there’s a gap. |
| He was exactly like a seller, with his overbearing, perfectly suspicious attitude, as well as his vibes that appeal to others’ hearts. And thanks to him… I was able to form a bond that I could call a real friendship. |
| The first autumn troupe leader——Zen Kuryu |
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| “I’ve always hated that guy. I resent him.” |
| Theater had been a huge part of my life. To me, it was just like eating and sleeping. |
| Having been set to succeed my parents’ troupe, I had always wanted to play a member of the extremely flashy and eccentric gang of samurai. However, I grew up with a girly face that resembles my mom, while my little brother grew up to be a big and brawny man like my father. Naturally, they only let me take on female roles. |
| No matter how much I devoted myself to studies, my father and others apparently value one’s appearance more than one’s performance. |
| As my frustration built up, I met a younger boy through my parents. I sympathized with him. Just like me, he had been restrained by his family and seemed to be living uncomfortably. We continued to deepen our friendship after that, to the point where we turned into what people called childhood friends. |
| All of sudden, that guy started doing theater. He told me he’d do it until he graduated high school, so I was surprised when I heard that he set up a theater troupe with a man. Honestly speaking, I went to the audition merely because I was worried my childhood friend was being tricked. |
| I met that man later on, and was immediately convinced that he was a preposterous fraud. That guy gathered people for his own goal and made them accept his irresponsibilities, and I… I know fully well that I hate him. |
| The first winter troupe leader——Syu Otomiya |
