Kazunari | Chi! |
Citron | … |
Azuma | Pon. |
Sakyo | … |
Izumi | ? |
| (An unusual group of people are all gathered together…) |
Kazunari | Pon! |
Sakyo | …Aiming for the cheap spots as always. |
Kazunari | That means that I have light footwork~ |
Citron | Pon it is. |
Azuma | I can’t read what the prince is thinking. |
Kazunari | Prince? You mean Ron-Ron? |
Azuma | Yup. Doesn’t he kind of give off a princely vibe? |
Sakyo | That doesn’t matter. I don’t get why you called out for that. |
Citron | I have a secret weapon! |
Sakyo | … |
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Azuma | …Tsumo. |
Sakyo | Tch, a yakuman… |
Azuma | Sorry. |
Kazunari | Azuu is on top again! |
Izumi | (All of a sudden there’s a Mahjong club…!) |
Manager | Uu…! |
Izumi | What’s wrong, Manager? |
Manager | It’s almost as if the Company’s olden days have returned, and I’m just so happy I… |
Izumi | (Now that I think about it, this isn’t the first time he’s cried like this…) |
Kazunari | Ah! That’s right! They’re all done! |
Izumi | ? |
Kazunari | This, this! |
| Here, this is Ron-Ron’s, Azuu’s, and Furuuche-san’s! |
Sakyo | Aren’t you gonna do something about that nickname… |
Kazunari | Ehh? If you keep saying “Furuichi,” it just turns into “Furuuche”! Furuichi Furuichi Furuuchi Furuuchi Furuuche! |
Sakyo | That’s not the problem. |
Azuma | …What’s this? A name tag? |
Kazunari | Proof that you’re a member of the theater~ This one is Director-chan’s and this is Sukecchi’s! |
Izumi | …Theater Member Number 0? What do I use this for? |
Kazunari | It’s something like an identification? You can use it in place of a license! |
Sakyo | As if! |
Kazunari | Anyhow, we even have members of the Winter Troupe now. Doesn’t it make you want matching somethings~ |
Sakyo | What’s with that. |
Azuma | But, it makes us feel that we’re colleagues. It’s nice. |
Citron | It feels that I’m really a shichirin of MANKAI Company![1] |
Azuma | A shichirin? |
Izumi | A member (ichiin)? |
Citron | That’s it! |
Izumi | A member of the theater, huh. You’re right! Thank you, Kazunari! |
Kazunari | You’re welcome! Take one too, Takusu! |
Tasuku | It’s Tasuku. |
Kazunari | Here’s Tsumu-Tsumu’s, Hiso-Hiso’s, and Aririn’s! |
Izumi | What’s that, it sounds like an incantation…! |
Kazunari | Winter Troupe nicknames~! Best regards, everyone! |
Tsumugi | Tsumu-Tsumu… |
Hisoka | …Hiso-Hiso? |
Homare | Aririn… |
Izumi | (It’s like they’ve become a mascot trio from an educational program…!) |
Kazunari | I especially made Sumii’s triangle-shaped! |
Misumi | Yay! Triangle, triangle~! |
Azuma | In the part here that says “Since…”, is that the year when the theater was founded? |
Manager | Yes! I wasn’t yet a part of the theater at the time, but it’s already been 26 years since then. |
Azuma | This place has a lot of history. |
Manager | There’s lots of mysterious anecdotes as well. |
Homare | Anecdotes? |
Manager | They’re known as the theater’s Seven Mysteries… |
Kazunari | One of them turned out to be Sumii though~ |
Manager | Oh no, I have lots more in store! |
| Like the “Infinity Doll”, the “Locked Room”, and the “Truthful Magnifying Glass”… |
Izumi | Telling this kind of stories during winter is sort of…[2] |
Kazunari | Oh, it’s fine. I’m curious! |
Azuma | What’s the “Infinity Doll”? |
Manager | Once upon a time, there seemed to be two theater members who had a fallout. One day, a doll apparently appeared beside them… |
| Until those two made up, that doll wouldn’t forgive them and they would be stuck wandering in incessant hell forever… |
Izumi | S-scary…? |
Sakyo | They won’t be forgiven unless they make up? Not sure if that’s supposed to be scary or not. |
Citron | If anything, the doll is a good person! |
Tsumugi | You’re right. |
Izumi | I wonder what kind of doll it is. |
Kazunari | It’s probably a generic traditional doll. |
Citron | It might be a scarecrow (kakashi)! |
Sakyo | A scarecrow isn’t considered a doll. |
Azuma | You mean a kokeshi? |
Citron | That’s it! |
Misumi | I want to meet the doll! |
Kazunari | I don’t think it’s that type of doll! |
Manager | I don’t know since I haven’t seen it, but those who have fallouts should be careful. Everyone get along! |
Tasuku | …Hah. There’s no way that kind of occult exists. |
Azuma | What’s the “Locked Room”? |
Manager | As the name suggests, it’s a locked room. |
| One day, a theater member suddenly disappeared, and when they went to look for him he was trapped in the “Locked Room”… |
Tasuku | That’s probably just that guy spewing nonsense. |
Manager | Oh no, it wasn’t just one of them that got locked in. The person who went to look for him also got locked in the room. |
| But afterwards when they went to go confirm it, that room they got trapped in wasn’t there anymore… |
Izumi | S-scary…! |
Tasuku | They probably just made up that story together. |
Sakyo | That sounds logical. |
Hisoka | …What’s the “Truthful Magnifying Glass”? |
Manager | Oh, this one isn’t that scary. |
| They found a mysterious magnifying glass that was mixed up with the stage props. When you use that magnifying glass, you’d be able to read your companions’ true feelings! |
Sakyo | Sounds like a gadget of a certain cat robot.[3] |
Izumi | It would be interesting if something like that really existed. |
Hisoka | …Yeah. |
Homare | Impossible. There is no way something like that exists. |
Izumi | Homare-san, you’re surprisingly a realist. |
Homare | I do not believe in those types of stories. Especially in the “Truthful Magnifying Glass.” Such a convenient thing like that… |
Izumi | I think it’s good to have dreams. |