Tsumugi Tsukioka/MANKAI☆Kaika Sengen

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Backstage Stories

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Tenma	Haah. My troupe really has to do something about our lack of calmness.
Banri	Us too. Geez, it’d be nice if Winter Troupe could share some of their calmness with us.
Tsumugi	Rather than calm, it would probably be more accurate to say that we move at our own pace…
Sakuya	All of us in Spring Troupe are slow starters, so I’d like for us to watch and learn from Summer and Autumn Troupes, who have lots of energy and power!
Izumi	The grass is always greener on the other side, huh.
Banri	Seriously, that's it.
Izumi	I know! How about we try exchanging troupe leaders for a day?
Sakuya	Exchanging leaders for a day?
Izumi	Yup. You’ll learn from other troupes as you discover more about them, and you can correct what your troupe has been doing, so I think it’s a good opportunity.
Tsumugi	I see. You’ll also be able to understand the other troupes’ characteristics and strengths.
Tenma	Mm… Sounds interesting. You came up with a good idea, huh.
Sakuya	I agree too!
Banri	Yup, me too.
Izumi	So it’s decided. Well then, let’s hurry and decide on the exchanges.
	Do any of you have any requests as to which troupe’s leader you want to try being?
Banri	I don’t have any in particular. How ‘bout Tsumugi-san?
Tsumugi	Hmm, well. It seems like it’ll be fun no matter which troupe I go to so I’m troubled, but…
	If I have to choose, I’d say Autumn Troupe, I think.
Tenma	Hmm, how unexpected.
Tsumugi	I’ve actually always kind of admired action scenes.
Banri	Seriously?
Sakuya	Waah, I want to see Tsumugi-san’s action scenes!
Izumi	I want to see that too. I’m interested to see what kind of feeling they’d give off.
Banri	Our action scenes are pretty showy so the movements are pretty intense.
	Tsumugi-san, you’re slim, so wouldn’t it be better if you did this after becoming muscular like Tasuku-san?
Tsumugi	I don’t know when I’ll become like that, though.
Tenma	Well the exchange will only last one day, so why not?
Izumi	So Tsumugi-san will take over Autumn Troupe, okay?
Banri	Just be careful not to injure yourself.
Tsumugi	Thank you, I’ll be careful. But aren’t you exaggerating?
Banri	I wonder. Those guys don’t know how to hold back, after all…

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Tsumugi	I’ll be here for one day. Please take care of me.
Taichi	Tsumugi-san, please take care of us too—!
Juza	'Kay.
Omi	Same here, please take care of us.
Sakyo	The circumstances here are different from that in Winter Troupe, but I’m sure you understand that. Speak up if there’s anything you’re curious about.
Tsumugi	Yes.
	Well then, shall we start? What kind of practices do you guys in Autumn Troupe usually do?
Sakyo	We usually do etudes with action scenes incorporated into them, but today——.
Tsumugi	That’s fine! Can you give me examples of the kinds of situations you act out?
Omi	Things like escaping from a building just before an explosion.
Juza	Yesterday I was surrounded by 100 zombies and defeated them with my bare hands.
Taichi	I threw a 200-kilogram wrestler who was several times my size over my shoulder!
Sakyo	… I think you already know, but they’re talking about our plays.
Tsumugi	That’s amazing! I’ve never done etudes with action scenes incorporated into them, so I’m looking forward to it.
Taichi	Eh?
Omi	Are we proceeding with the usual practices then? I was sure that we were going to do today’s practice in Winter Troupe’s style…
Juza	That’s what I thought too.
Tsumugi	This is Autumn Troupe, so I’d like you to let me practice in Autumn Troupe’s style. I want to learn lots of things too.
Sakyo	…
Taichi	Ah… Autumn Troupe, assemble!!
	Tsumugi-san, hold on a moment, okay!
Tsumugi	???
Juza	Hey, what’re we gonna do.
Taichi	If we do our usual practices, Tsumugi-san’s gonna get injured!
Omi	It would be good if he were able to get away with light scratches…
Sakyo	We’re in the same company but nonetheless, if anything happens to the heads of the other troupes, there’ll surely be infighting.
Taichi	It sounds like Sakyo-nii’s talking about something totally different!
Omi	At any rate, it’s true that Tsumugi-san isn’t used to doing action scenes. We can’t let him do anything unreasonable.
Juza	Should we hold back as much as possible?
Sakyo	Yeah. But don’t cut corners when practicing the actual plays themselves.
Taichi	Roger that!
Taichi	Sorry for making you wait~!
Omi	Then, let’s start.
Tsumugi	Yeah, please.

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Tsumugi	Mmph...!
Sakyo	Wow… He ain’t bad.
Omi	Tsumugi-san has unexpectedly reached this level. He’s rather skilled at this kind of thing.
Juza	Tsk..
	Take this!
Tsumugi	Uwah!!
Juza	! Damn, I accidentally…!
Taichi	Hey-, Juuza-san, what’re you doing~!
Omi	Tsumugi-san, are you hurt——.
Homare	Hey, our leader is here, right?
Autumn Troupe	!!!!
Winter Troupe	...
Azuma	It seems that we’ve arrived at an amazing time yet again.
Juza	Th-This is bad, if we let them see this scene…!
Taichi	Awawawawa!! There’ll be the danger of in-fighting within the company?!
Omi	Please don’t misunderstand, this was an accident! It was an accident.
Juza	Yeah, we weren’t pickin’ a fight with the head of Winter Troupe!
Taichi	Th-Th-That’s right! We aren’t trying to take over Winter Troupe!
	Of course, we want to get along with Winter Troupe from here on, so——.
Tasuku	…Geez, what’re you doing.
Tsumugi	Ahaha, you’ve seen me doing something uncool.
Taichi	H-Huh? …You aren’t angry?
Hisoka	Why would we be angry?
Homare	We were a little surprised, it’s pretty refreshing to see Tsumugi-kun doing action scenes.
Juza	Ah, sorry. You aren’t hurt, are you.
Tsumugi	I’m fine. I’m sorry too, because I wasn’t able to do a proper defense.
Taichi	Haah… what a relief~ . I thought it was going to become the scene of a massacre~.
Sakyo	The same goes to you guys, do you need anything?
Azuma	We don’t exactly need anything, though.
	Once we heard that Tsumugi would be taking part in Autumn Troupe’s practice… a certain someone was so worried about whether he’d get injured that he couldn’t stay calm.
Tasuku	…
Tsumugi	He’s a worrywart, huh. I learnt many things, you know.
Omi	We learnt many things from Tsumugi-san too.
Sakyo	The guys from Winter Troupe just arrived, and it’s just about time to end practice.
Taichi	It ended in the blink of an eye!
Juza	Thanks.
Taichi	I hope you can come again! Ah, but next time make sure you have muscles like Tasuku-san’s!
Juza	That’s right. That way, we won’t have to hold back.
Tsumugi	All of you are saying the same thing as Banri-kun.
Omi	Oh? Banri said the same thing, huh.
Tsumugi	In order to perform action scenes like Autumn Troupe, I’ll start some muscle training from today onwards.
Hisoka	Was Autumn Troupe’s practice fun?
Tsumugi	Yeah, very.
Azuma	That’s the most important thing.
Homare	But action scenes do indeed seem interesting. Why don’t we try incorporating simple action scenes as Winter Troupe too!
Tasuku	You say decent things from time to time, huh. Then shall we hurry and start practicing now?
Tsumugi	Eh, right now? I just finished a practice, though…
Tasuku	Are you not doing it?
Tsumugi	…Of course I am.

Krhs

Notes

This backstage is part of the MANKAI☆Kaika Sengen set, which includes Sakuya, Tenma, Banri and Tsumugi. All backstages share the same opening dialogue.