Announcer | Thank you very much for watching the showdown act between GOD-za and Mankai Company today. |
| Attention to all the 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 feel like an empty shell. |
Azuma | I feel burnt out. |
Hisoka | …Empty. |
Izumi | That means you gave it your all. |
Tsumugi | All that’s left is 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—!! |
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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 theater 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 | Please wait, Reni-san! |
Reni | Haruto! You’re demoted! |
Haruto | What!? No way…! |
Sakyo | —Hey. Surely you’re not thinking you can go home just like that? |
Sakoda | Hey hey, why don’cha hand over the money you owe us, 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 | Oh! Didn’t you say that if we won, you’d give us all your earnings for this play!? |
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?[1] |
Sakuya | We did it—!! We paid off the debt!! |
Itaru | Kitakore.[2] |
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 | Hm. 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 start doing 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 honorable award that everyone involved in theater dreams of… The dream that dad couldn’t achieve…) |
| (I want to fulfill dad’s dream. With this theater group, I know that we can do it.) |
| (Together with everyone, I want to aim for the heights that dad couldn’t reach—!) |