Act 4/Episode 37

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Act 4
Episode 37: Verdict

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Announcer Thank you very much for watching the showdown act between GOD-za and MANKAI Company today. Attention to all audience members. To those who have not voted yet, please do so immediately as the poll will close shortly. Staff The ballot box is over here! Manager We’ll be in your care! Tsumugi ... Izumi Are you nervous? Tsumugi ...No, not as much anymore. Tasuku It feels like my soul was sucked out of my body. Homare That is exactly it. I’m an empty shell. Azuma I feel burnt out. Hisoka ...Empty. Izumi That means you gave it your all. Tsumugi We just have to wait for the results. Izumi (I’m sure it’ll be fine... That’s what I think when I look at the faces of everyone here who gave their all.) (We did everything that we could. Regardless of the results, we have no regrets.) Announcer The votes have been tallied. Izumi —— Announcer GOD-za and MANKAI Company performers, please gather up on the stage. Izumi ... Reni ... Announcer I will now announce the results. GOD-za, 467 votes. Tsumugi ... Haruto ... Announcer MANKAI Company—— Izumi —— Announcer 469 votes. Izumi Huh...? Tsumugi We won...? Reni —— Announcer It’s MANKAI Company’s victory! Izumi We did it——!!! Tsumugi We won...! Tasuku ...All right! Homare We actually won...!? Azuma ——Ha ha. That’s right. Hisoka ...That startled me. Haruto No way... Tsumugi Everyone, I’m so glad—— Azuma I’m surprised... I didn’t think it would make me this happy... Homare ——At times like this, just be honest with yourself and cry! Azuma —— Izumi We did it, everyone! Sakuya Congratulations! Citron You did it!! Kazunari ‘Grats!! Muku Congratulations!! Yuki Ah ah, how unbecoming of the adults to be crying their eyes out. Reni Tch... Tsumugi ——Please wait. Reni ... Tsumugi Kamikizaka-san... I once gave up on theatre because of your words. Reni Are you reproaching me? Tsumugi But because that happened, I was able to grab hold of what’s important. So I’m grateful to you. Reni Hmph... Tachibana’s daughter. I may admit defeat for today... but I will absolutely crush you next time. Izumi ——We won’t lose. Reni Say that now while you can. Haruto Ah, please wait, Reni-san! Reni Haruto! You’re demoted! Haruto What!? No way...! Sakyo ——Oi. Surely you’re not thinking you can go home just like that? Sakoda Hey hey, you’re gonna have to pay for having everything your way, punk. Reni ...Is that a threat? Izumi S-Sakyo-san, you can’t resort to bloodshed, you know!? Sakyo Hand over the money you promised. Reni Money? Izumi Ah! Didn’t you say that if we won, you’d give us all your earnings for this performance!? Reni Tch... Here’s the check. This is enough, right? Sakyo Hand over the full detailed statement too. Reni ——I’ll send it over later! Izumi (He’s doing his job!) Sakyo Sakoda! Sakoda Aye aye sir! Izumi What are you doing on your laptop? Sakyo ... *sigh*...It’s fully paid. Izumi It’s fully paid!? Manager Fully paid? You don’t mean Kansai the region or an auditor, but fully paid, right? Sakuya We did it——!! We paid off the debt!! Itaru Kitakore. Citron Congrats! Kazunari ‘Grats!! Taichi We did it! I’m so happy! Omi All those hours of blind stitching really paid off, huh. Taichi Yeah! Izumi Everyone, we’ve got to throw a huge party today! Banri Sweet! Azuma I feel like I can drink some good liquor today. Homare Mhm. I haven’t felt this refreshed in a long time. Tasuku We’ll have to drink until morning. Hisoka ...Marshmallows. Tsumugi We’ll need lots. Azuma Hisoka will fall asleep if we run out after all. Izumi (We can keep creating plays together. We can keep performing together...!) Tsuzuru Director! Izumi ? Tsuzuru The Winter Troupe’s performance was amazing, but I got a little depressed after watching GOD-za’s performance... Izumi Depressed? Tsuzuru It made me think that my scripts still have a long way to go. I want to write scripts that showcase everyone’s acting more. Just like how everyone’s acting is improving, the scripts also need to improve... I’ll show you that I can write many more amazing ones! So please let me write more from now on too! Izumi Haven’t I told you that you’re our signature playwright, Tsuzuru-kun? Let’s continue to work hard together. Tsuzuru Yeah! Izumi (It’s not just our scripts. In order to aim for the top, our staging and our costumes also need improvement.) (It doesn’t end here.) Sakyo You better not be satisfied with this. Izumi ——Sakyo-san. Sakyo Don’t feel satisfied just because we beat GOD-za by a pitifully slight margin. Izumi I was just thinking the same thing. Sakyo That’s good then. Consider recruiting more people at some point once we’ve done more performances with each troupe. Minagi’s worldview will be limited with a main cast of five people. We’ll have elbowroom for expenses after this anyway. Izumi That’s rare coming from the frugal demon. Sakyo Necessary expenses are a different story. ——Let’s seriously aim for the dream your father couldn’t achieve. Izumi Huh? Sakyo The Fleur Award. Izumi —— (The Fleur Award...) (It’s the most honourable award that everyone involved in theatre dreams of... The dream that dad couldn’t achieve...) (I want to make dad’s dream come true. With this theatre troupe, I know that we can do it.) (Together with everyone, I want to aim for the heights that dad couldn’t reach——!)
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