Play/Nocturnality

Introduction

就職してから三年目を迎えるサラリーマンの瀬尾浩太。 営業先から直帰する途中、行き倒れの男と出会う。

Salaryman Kota Seo is entering his third year of employment. On his way home from work, he encounters a man who has collapsed.

About

Nocturnality is the Winter Troupe's third play.

Cast

LEAD ACTOR	Azuma Yukishiro as Reo Kuto
	The vampire who had collapsed.
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SECOND LEAD A	Tasuku Takato as Kota Seo
	A salaryman in his third year of employment.
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SUPPORTING CAST A	Tsumugi Tsukioka as Kohei Izumi
	Kota's kindly neighbour.
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SUPPORTING CAST B	Homare Arisugawa as Nonomiya
	A co-worker at Kota's company.
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SUPPORTING CAST C	Hisoka Mikage as Franz
	An immortal vampire.
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SUPPORTING CAST D	Any Character as Manager
	The manager of Kota's apartment.

Play Translation

	Salaryman Kota Seo is entering his third year of employment. On his way home from work, he encounters a man who has collapsed.
Kota	Hey, are you drunk?
	You’ll catch a cold if you sleep in a place like this.
Reo	...Ugh.
Kota	Geez, it can’t be helped.
	My place is nearby so I can take you there.
	But you leave as soon as you wake up, okay?
	The next morning, the man who had collapsed introduced himself as Reo Kuto.
Kota	*yawn* That was a good sleep.
Reo	Good morning. Thank you for taking care of me yesterday.
	I was careless to have collapsed on the roadside.
Kota	Did you make all this?
Reo	I just made it from whatever I could find in the fridge, so it’s nothing grand.
	It’s a thank you for giving me a meal and a place to spend the night.
Kota	The place is all clean now too...
	Wow. From where did a wife like you come from?
Reo	I’ve lived a pretty long life, but I’ve never been a wife before.
Kota	I’m Kota Seo. You are?
Reo	I’m Reo... Reo Kuto.
Kouta	Reo, huh. Nice to meet you.
Reo	Come, eat up before it gets cold.
Kota	If you’ve got nowhere else to go, I don’t mind if you stay here for a while.
Reo	You’d let a guy you don’t even know stay at your place?
Kota	Don’t say that yourself.
	When I first came here from the countryside, I also had nothing so I went through a lot.
	At times like this, we should help each other out.
Reo	How kind of you.
Kota	Hm? You’re not eating?
Reo	I eat during irregular hours.
	Don’t worry about me; go on and eat.
Kota	I’ll help myself then. Thank you for the meal.
	The next morning, the man who calls himself Reo Kuto does all the housework flawlessly as a token of his gratitude.
	Moved by the fact that Reo has no other place to go, Kota ends up taking him in.
	But ever since Reo started living with him, Kota began to have nightmares everyday.
Nonomiya	Hey, Seo.
	I heard you took in some guy who was collapsed on the street?
	That’s way too suspicious.
	Nowadays you only find that type of stories in dramas and manga for people nearing their 30s.
Kota	He’s a good guy. Looked like he was troubled.
	So I couldn’t leave him alone.
Nonomiya	*sigh*... You’ll get in trouble someday if you keep saying stuff like that.
Manager	Good morning, Seo-san.
Kota	Good morning.
Izumi	Good morning. It’s nice out today, isn’t it?
Kota	Good morning.
Izumi	By the way, Seo-san.
	Have you been taking days off recently?
Kota	Huh?
Izumi	It’s just that sometimes I hear sounds next door during the day on weekdays...
	I was wondering what to do if it was a thief.
Kota	Oh, I have a friend staying over for a little while.
Izumi	Is that so?
	His neighbour Izumi worries for him, and his colleague Nonomiya points out that he looks pale.
	After hearing the whole story, Nonomiya warns Kota that Reo is a suspicious character. But Kota can’t bring himself to make Reo, who has been doing housework so diligently, leave; and so they continue to live together.
	One night when Kota is having one of his usual nightmares, he sees Reo covered in blood.
	When he casually talks to Reo about it thinking that it must have been part of his dream, Reo makes a sad expression.
Franz	To think that I’d meet someone of the same kind in a place like this.
Reo	It became convenient here recently.
	It’s not so uncommon.
Kota	Reo!
Reo	――
Franz	Looks like you’ve found a nice bed.
Reo	He has nothing to do with it.
Kota	Heeey, Reo!
Reo	――
Franz	We’re acquainted now.
	Might as well get along.
Reo	I have no intention of getting friendly.
Kota	What’s up with him...
Nonomiya	Is that the freeloader?
	I knew it, he’s got to be suspicious.
	Probably part of a crime syndicate or something.
Kota	He’s not that kind of guy...
	But I wonder why he ignored me.
	Kota spotted Reo talking to a foreign-looking man. When Kota called out to Reo, Reo promptly left. Nonomiya warns a puzzled Kota once again.
	That night, Reo tells Kota that he’s moving out.
Reo	I was in your care for a long time.
	I didn’t mean to overstay, but it just felt so comfortable here.
Kota	You don’t have to be in such a hurry to leave.
	You helped me out too, after all.
Reo	That’s not true.
Kota	Have you decided on a place to live?
Reo	Yeah, more or less.
Kota	Tell me your contact information.
Reo	I’ll tell you when things have settled.
Kota	Okay. I’m glad you found a place.
Reo	I’m really grateful to you. Thank you.
Kota	You’re leaving now?
	Who leaves at this hour?
	Do it tomorrow morning.
Reo	...Right.
Kota	To celebrate your fresh start, let’s drink the night away.
	Reo thanks Kota for taking him in. Kouta is sad to see him go, but he doesn’t stop Reo.
	The next morning when Kota is about to see Reo off, they happen to meet Izumi by the doorway.
	While making small talk, it’s brought up that Reo is moving out; and then, as if remembering something, Izumi returns to his own room to retrieve a farewell gift.
Izumi	I’m sorry for the wait.
	Here’s a farewell gift from me.
	We were neighbours after all, if only for a short while.
Reo	Thank you for going out of your way—
Izumi	—Wishing for a bright future.
Reo	—Gh.
Kota	Huh... Reo?
Reo	—Could it be that you’re...
Izumi	I didn’t realize one would be this close.
Kota	What are you doi—
Reo	—Run, Kota.
Kota	What the hell are you saying, with a serious injury like that!?
Izumi	You can still move?
Kota	Stop!!
Izumi	Seo-san, please don’t interfere.
	――
Franz	Oh dear.
Izumi	—!? Reinforcements?
Franz	I thought I might as well partake in this meal.
	But I ended up drawing the short end of the stick.
Izumi	—Guh.
Franz	You still want to fight?
	I’m not as lenient as that other guy.
Izumi	—Tch.
Kota	Reo, are you okay!? Reo!!
Franz	Can you entrust that guy to me?
Kota	You were the one with Reo the other day—
Franz	We’re of the same kind.
Kota	Can you really save him?
Franz	Probably.
Kota	...Fine. I’ll leave Reo to you.
Franz	How obedient. Good boy.
Kota	But promise that he’ll come back and explain everything to me.
Franz	Fine. I’ll tell him.
	We’ve been exposed so we can’t stay here anymore.
	The headquarters would’ve already been informed.
	The next one will come soon.
Reo	What did we ever do?
	Just because we’re able to live longer than humans...
Franz	Heresy eliminates.
	It’s been done over and over again since ancient times.
	That’s what we call human nature.
	Reo escapes death by drinking blood. After regaining his strength, he visits Kota. Reo reveals that he’s a vampire, and that he had been drinking Kota’s blood every night.
	And then, he tells Kota that he will be leaving again.
Reo	This is goodbye, Kota. I’m glad I met you.
Kota	I know about your circumstances now.
	There’s no need for you to leave, is there?
Reo	If I stay here, you’ll get involved too.
	I can now believe that there’s meaning to this tedious life as long as humans like you exist.
	Thank you.
Kota	Wait! Are you planning to collapse out on the street by yourself again?
Reo	I’ll be careful.
Kota	Are you going to keep moving from place to place while spending the rest of your life on your own?
Reo	That’s our fate.
Kota	...Then take me with you.
Reo	What—
Kota	I’m saying that I’ll be your companion.
	I’ll become anything, even a vampire.
Reo	...Thank you, Kouta. Just by hearing those words from you, I—
	I...
Kota	Reo...?
	You’re biti—
Reo	Good night... and sweet dreams.
Kota	...――Re...o.
Reo	Goodbye...
	Kota tries to stop Reo from leaving again. He tells him that he’ll become Reo’s companion – that he’ll become a vampire. Reo bites the nape of Kota’s neck while conveying words of gratitude.
	The next morning, Kota gets woken up by Nonomiya, who came over because he was worried about Kota not showing up for work. Reo is nowhere to be found inside the room, and not a single trace of him remains.
Nonomiya	Hey, you can’t be dead, right!?
	Seo!?
Kota	Nn...
Nonomiya	What, so you just slept in.
	You didn’t show up at work so I got worried.
Kota	Slept in...
Nonomiya	What’s wrong?
Kota	Where’s Reo...?
Nonomiya	Oh, now that you mention it.
	Did that freeloader finally leave?
Kota	...Yeah, he left me behind.
Nonomiya	Huh? What are you saying?
Kota	――
Nonomiya	Hey, Seo. You all right?

maria

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