Izumi | Good work, everyone! The final performance was a success! |
Homare | Hm. Everyone, let us shake hands! |
Tsumugi | Huh? Okay. |
Tasuku | Uhh, okay. |
Azuma | Good work. |
Homare | Hisoka-kun gets a hug! |
Hisoka | …No thanks. |
Izumi | (With this, we’ve safely finished all of the troupes’ second performances… At the end of the day, lots of things happened, but I’m really glad!) |
Homare | Now then, I shall give Director-kun a hug full of love and gratitude. |
Izumi | Huh!? |
Tasuku | What’s with that. |
Tsumugi | Masumi-kun might hate you if he finds out. |
Izumi | (Well, a hug wouldn’t hurt, right?) |
| Err, good work, Homare-san. |
Homare | Hm. |
Azuma | Good for you, Homare. |
Tasuku | I was worried up until the opening day, but I was able to enjoy myself without worries during the performance. |
Tsumugi | I felt the same. It’s because the leader and the second lead had everything in place. |
Izumi | You also really did a job well done, Hisoka-san. |
Hisoka | …Marshmallows for six months. |
Tasuku | We know. |
Izumi | Ahaha! That’s really important. |
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Tenma | Good work. |
Misumi | Good work triangle~! |
Kazunari | Good work peeps! |
Tasuku | The noisy ones have arrived. |
Homare | Greetings, everyone. I see you came to watch my graceful figure on stage. |
Tenma | As expected, he’s like this as soon as he’s off the stage. |
Homare | What do you mean by that? |
Tenma | No, it’s nothing. You were perfect for the butler role. |
Misumi | You looked cool~! |
Kazunari | Aririn, you looked super duper noble! |
Homare | Right, right? Don’t you think so? It is simply because I am noble by nature! |
Tenma | I thought so too back then during your debut performance, but your acting really is perfect, Hisoka-san. I hate to admit it, but your attention to detail is something I should learn from— |
Hisoka | …Zzz |
Tenma | Listen to me! |
Kazunari | Now, now! Okay, let’s hurry home and party! |
Azuma | Sorry. The Winter Troupe members and the Director are going to be doing some nice things today, just the six of us. |
Kazunari | Nice things? |
Misumi | I wonder what~? A triangle festival~? |
Tenma | Y-you guys are not about to do anything suspicious, right? |
Azuma | Well, I wonder about that? |
Tenma | !? |
Tasuku | We’re just going drinking. |
Kazunari | Ehh~! I’m jelly! |
Tenma | Oh, you’re just going drinking. |
Tsumugi | All of us in the Winter Troupe are adults after all. I guess this is a privilege for us alone. |
Azuma | That’s how it is. |
Izumi | Which means that we’ll celebrate with everyone else next time. |
Misumi | Oka~y! |
Kazunari | Sooo are you going to a members only bar full of celebs? |
Azuma | Hehe, that sounds good too. |
Tenma | That right there is suspicious. |
Tasuku | You make it sound so dubious. We’re going to a normal place. Seriously. |
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Izumi | Now then, let’s have the leader, Homare-san, give the toast! If you would please! |
Homare | Ahem. Before the toast, I shall present the gifts I’ve prepared for everyone. |
| First, the poem dedicated to Director-kun— |
Tasuku | Looks like this’ll take a while. |
Izumi | We can do that afterwards, so let’s do the toast for now! |
Homare | Hm, is that so? |
| Very well. To celebrate the brilliant success of the second Winter Troupe play led by Arisugawa Homare, let us have a toast—! |
Tsumugi | Cheers! |
Tasuku | Cheers. |
Azuma | Cheers. |
Hisoka | …Zzz |
Homare | Now, why are you sleeping here! |
Hisoka | …It took too long. |
Izumi | Anyway, I’m glad that it ended safely~ |
Tasuku | I was a bit worried at first, but it went smoothly, surprisingly. |
Tsumugi | Things were more all over the place back during our debut performance. |
Tasuku | That was mainly your fault. |
Azuma | Hehe. Weren’t you involved in it in some ways too, Tasuku? |
Tasuku | Well, that’s… |
Homare | This is all solely thanks to me! |
Tasuku | Look who’s talking. |
Izumi | Things have completely returned to how they were before, huh. |
Tsumugi | Everyone’s acting got better as well. |
Izumi | Definitely. It makes me really happy that every troupe has stepped it up from their debut performance. |
Tsumugi | It’s all thanks to you, Director. |
Azuma | Good work. Today we’ll have to reward you as thanks. |
Izumi | Oh no, I didn’t do anything! It’s all thanks to everyone. |
Tsumugi | Ever since we finished the second round of performances, it feels like the other troupes are getting all the more excited. |
Tasuku | This takes me back to our student plays. |
Tsumugi | I know what you mean. |
Azuma | That reminds me, I’ve been seeing Muku and Saku doing sit-ups in the courtyard lately. |
Izumi | Is that so? |
Azuma | Sometimes the prince counts for them but he often goes back to previous numbers by mistake, and so they end up doing sit-ups for eternity. It’s funny.[1] |
Tasuku | Looks like they’re getting trained for nothing. |
Tsumugi | Everyone’s putting effort in basic training and fitness training. |
Izumi | It seems like everyone has come to understand the meaning behind practice even more now compared to the beginning. So maybe they’ve realized the importance of the basics too. |
Homare | I shall not lose – I must polish my beautiful voice as well. From now on, I shall do vocal training everyday until late at night. |
Hisoka | …A nuisance. |
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Tsumugi | I really do think that the appeal of a play ultimately depends on the actors. |
| The simplest aspect of a play is the fact that it’s brought to life by humans talking and moving. That’s why— |
Tasuku | But the script and the staging are important too. |
Tsumugi | Of course they are. |
Izumi | It’s true that no matter how good your script, staging, stage set, and costumes are, there are some things that can’t be helped. |
Azuma | You three sure get all the more heated up when you drink. |
Tsumugi | Huh? Is that so? |
Tasuku | It’s always like this when we drink. |
Izumi | We just end up talking about theater. |
Azuma | How interesting. I wonder if it’s a special trait among theater people. |
Homare | *sob* *sob*… Really, the fact that it ended safely, fills me with deep emotion and makes me sentimental shiny flow…[2] |
Tsumugi | Homare-san, are you okay? |
Azuma | There there. Homare cries when he’s drunk. |
Hisoka | …Seconds. |
Izumi | Huh? Hisoka-san, aren’t you drinking a lot? |
Azuma | He’s drinking about the same amount as I am. |
Izumi | Azuma-san, you’re also drinking a lot! |
Tasuku | It doesn’t show on your face at all. |
Tsumugi | The two of them are really strong drinkers. |
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Azuma | It’s gotten really late. |
Tsumugi | I haven’t gone drinking this late since I was a student. |
Izumi | It’s nice to drink like this once in a while. |
Tsumugi | You’re right. |
Homare | —Can I have a moment. |
Tasuku | Hm? |
Izumi | Is something wrong? |
Homare | I have something I wish to talk about. Will you lend me an ear? |
Tsumugi | Of course. |
Homare | I don’t understand people’s feelings. |
| I hurt my lover because of it in the past, and so I’ve always fretted about it. |
| However, acting as Sagishima made me think that despite that, I am fine the way I am. |
| I still don’t understand people’s feelings. However, I can put myself in people’s shoes. And that is fine with me. |
| Now that I can think that way, I feel much more at ease. |
| This is all thanks to Hisoka-kun, Director-kun, and all the other members of the Winter Troupe. Thank you. |
Izumi | Homare-san… |
Hisoka | …You’re weird. |
Homare | And with those feelings of gratitude, I’ve composed poems for every single one of you! I wasn’t able to recite them to you during the toast, so have a listen now! |
Izumi | !? |
Tsumugi | P-poems? |
Tasuku | And what’s more, one for each of us… |
Hisoka | …No thanks. |
Azuma | I wonder what kind of poems they are. |
Homare | First, to Director-kun… |
| The single chameleon plant that blooms on the Mankai field… The blooming rowing flor feat. Director…![3] |
Izumi | Wha- Wait, it’s already early morning! We can do this later! And what do you mean by chameleon plant…!? |
Homare | Now now, there is more to it. |
Izumi | You’ll bother the neighbours! |
Azuma | Hehe. |
Tsumugi | Ahaha. |
Tasuku | Geez… |
Hisoka | …Arisu really is so noisy. |