Act 4/Episode 12

Act 4
Episode 12: The Same Morning

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Tsumugi Nn… ? (Oh, I fell asleep with this plush toy beside me. I’ll ask if anybody lost it at breakfast.) Tasuku … Tsumugi Good morning, Tasuku. Tasuku … Tsumugi (As expected, he’s still angry…) …*sigh* (I should also get going to morning practice…) Tsumugi Good morning. Izumi Good morning! Homare Cheer up, Tsumugi-kun. I thought up a poem just for you. Tsumugi (Huh? For today too?) Tasuku Hey, not again. Homare For a poet, writing poems is the same as breathing. So, here is a poem dedicated to Tsumugi-kun… Ahem! A far away montage, a repeating decantation… Youth’s fleeting memories, slowly fading theories, accumulating calories~ What do you think? Tsumugi Huh? Umm, thank you very much… (It’s the same one from yesterday though…) Tasuku That’s the same one from yesterday. Homare How rude! It’s a new one I thought up this morning. Tsumugi A new one? Azuma Homare’s poems are creative. It’s interesting how the lines rhyme. Homare Right? Tsumugi (Even Azuma-san is saying the same thing…) Tasuku Hey hey, don’t be going senile so soon. Homare What are you talking about! My mind is in top condition 24 hours a day! Tsumugi-kun, when you are down, I hope that you remember this poem and cheer up. Tsumugi (Something’s weird. I wonder what’s wrong with Homare-san…) Hisoka …Zzz Izumi Hisoka-san, we’re starting morning practice! Wake up! Azuma He sleeps while hugging the bag of marshmallows? Homare Lately, he has been avoiding me when I try poke him. So I devised a new method to wake him up. When you take a marshmallow and drop it on top of his head… Hisoka …*munch* Izumi He ate it…! Tasuku Hey, didn’t you do that yesterday too? Homare What have you been talking about for a while now? Tasuku I’m telling you, you did that yesterday— Azuma Maybe you’re experiencing that thing called déjà vu? Izumi Ahh, that feeling when you should be seeing something for the first time but it feels like you’ve seen it before. It happens! Tasuku Déjà vu…? Tsumugi (That can’t be it. There’s no way that Tasuku and I would be experiencing the same déjà vu…) (It can’t be…) Excuse me for a bit. Izumi Your phone? Did someone call? Tsumugi No— (It’s the same date as yesterday…) Tasuku, look. Tasuku What? Tsumugi Just look at the date. Tasuku ―― Not you too— Are you making fun of me with everyone? Tsumugi I’m not. Tasuku Your phone is just broken. Mine has the right— Tsumugi …Well? Tasuku It has the same date as yesterday. Tsumugi Director, what’s the date today? Izumi Today? It’s the 12th, right? Tasuku Isn’t it the 13th? Azuma It’s the 12th. There’s no mistaking it. Tsumugi (It doesn’t look like they’re joking. As I thought—) Tasuku Let’s take a quick break. Hey, Tsumugi. Tsumugi ―― Tsumugi Tasuku, could this be… Tasuku Don’t say it. There’s no way. The whole group is obviously playing a trick on us. We’ll know once we turn the TV on. Announcer This is the morning news for Saturday, the 12th. Tasuku ―― Tsumugi This is pretty elaborate for a prank… Tasuku …I’m not buying it. Tsumugi I guess strange things like this really do happen. Tasuku … Tsumugi Anyway, let’s go back to practice for now. Tasuku …Yeah. Tsumugi (Even what we did in practice today was the same as yesterday…) Izumi We’ll end practice here. Tsumugi-san, let’s discuss what we’re going to do about the showdown act in the meeting. Tsumugi …Yes. (My feelings aren’t any different from yesterday either…) …In order to pay the theater’s debt, I think that we should accept the challenge to a showdown act. But I think it’s impossible to win with someone like me as the leader and the lead actor. Tasuku … I don’t want to stand on the same stage with an irresponsible person like you. Tsumugi (I guess Tasuku’s feelings aren’t any different from yesterday either…) Homare It might be better if we do a proper discussion again sometime later. Izumi Tsumugi-san, I’m sorry. I’ve burdened you with too much responsibility. Let’s turn down the showdown act. Tsumugi It’s fine… (It’s the same cycle… Nothing has changed in the repeated events…) Tsumugi … Tasuku … Tsumugi (In the end, it turned out to be the exact same day as yesterday. I wonder if tomorrow will actually be a real tomorrow…) (Come to think of it, this plush toy… Yesterday it fell on the courtyard, but it was on my bed all day today.) (This is the only thing different from yesterday…) …When we wake up, things should be back to normal tomorrow, right? Tasuku …Obviously. Tsumugi Good morning. Izumi Good morning! Homare Cheer up, Tsumugi-kun. I thought up a poem just for you. Tsumugi ―― Tasuku Not again… Homare For a poet, writing poems is the same as breathing. So, here is a poem dedicated to Tsumugi-kun… Ahem! A far away montage, a repeating decantation… Youth’s fleeting memories, slowly fading theories, accumulating calories~ What do you think? Tsumugi —T-thank you very much. Tasuku Can you let us take a quick break? Let’s go, Tsumugi. Tsumugi —Yeah. Announcer This is the morning news for Saturday, the 12th. Tasuku … Tsumugi … Tasuku …Let’s get this situation straight. Tsumugi Agreed. Tasuku Looks like we’re looping the 12th over and over again. Tsumugi Plus, the only ones aware of it are the two of us. Tasuku What are we supposed to do to get out of the loop… Tsumugi Hmm… Tasuku Did you notice anything? Tsumugi Just one thing… There’s something that was different from the first day. Tasuku Something that was different? Tsumugi Hold on. I’ll go grab it. Tsumugi This plush toy. Tasuku What’s with this ugly thing. Tsumugi I don’t know, but the day before the loop started, it just suddenly dropped to where I was. I went to sleep with it on my bed that night, and from then on it never left my bed. Tasuku In other words, that plush toy is the only thing that’s not looping. Tsumugi That’s how it is. I wonder if there’s some kind of connection… Misumi Ah, found it~! Tsumugi !? Tasuku Ikaruga…? Tsumugi He didn’t show up yesterday…
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