| Itaru | Ba~nri. |
| Banri | What is it? |
| Itaru | I’m gonna give you something good. |
| Banri | ? |
| Itaru | Here. |
| Banri | A controller!? I was about to take a bath. |
| Itaru | And I was about to splash some paint around. |
| Banri | Haah? |
| Itaru | There’s a team that gets on my nerves. I can’t end my day without crushing them. Help me out. |
| Banri | Geez, fine, just one match then. |
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| Banri | Huh? Chikage-san isn’t around? |
| Itaru | Did you wanna play games with him? |
| Banri | No, I’m just not great at dealing with him. |
| Itaru | It’s fine, it’s fine. He’s hardly in this room anyway. |
| Banri | Huh, he barely has any luggage. Is it just his suitcase? Is he really living here? |
| Itaru | Well... how do I put it, he.... |
| Banri | Huh? |
| Itaru | It’s nothing. There. One kill. |
| Banri | Ah, dammit, strong. |
| Itaru | I told you to focus. |
| Banri | Ok, ok. |
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| Yuzo | .... |
| Izumi | (As I thought, Oswald’s acting during the climax is still weak. Everything else has pretty much fallen into place, but the most important part...) |
| ...What do you think, Yuzo-san? |
| Yuzo | Now that everyone is more familiar with the performance, I get the impression that you’re just getting by here and there. You need to be more aggressive or else you won’t draw the audience in. |
| Rick. You’re expressing his idiotically honest side well, but you’re boring. I can’t even laugh. Think more about the pauses between your lines and exchanges. |
| Sakuya | Y-yes! |
| Yuzo | Next, the Wizard of the East... |
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| Izumi | (Beating them down as usual...) |
| Yuzo | Last, the lead, Oswald. It’s good that you’re skillful, but you’re a real daikon in the emotional scenes before and during the climax. |
| You’re gonna ruin the entire performance with an ending like that. If I can’t even see your motivation, it’s out of the question. Do something about it. |
| Chikage | ...Thank you for your guidance and support. |
| Izumi | (It doesn’t have any effect on him...) |
| Yuzo | What a shrewd guy.... |
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| Izumi | We’re going to hold a meeting after this, so could Sakuya-kun and Tsuzuru-kun stay behind? |
| Sakuya | Yes! |
| Tsuzuru | Yeah. |
| Itaru | GJ~. |
| Chikage | Nice work. |
| Citron | It’s nice work~. |
| *Door closes* |
| Izumi | Yuzo-san, the leader and the scriptwriter are both here. |
| Sakuya | Is something wrong? |
| Yuzo | Just a little something about the lead. |
| He... has plenty of potential as an actor. But he might be the type of guy who struggles with this kind of acting. |
| Izumi | (I thought so too, but he outright refused me...) |
| Tsuzuru | Should I change the direction of the ending? |
| Yuzo | If you’re just thinking about this performance, that’s probably the best move. There are actors who just can’t express nuanced emotional changes. |
| Izumi | (If we’re just thinking about this performance...) |
| But if he wants to continue theater, it’s a problem he’s going to have to overcome. |
| Yuzo | Exactly. You have to do something about it. |
| But Oswald’s acting near the end isn’t the only issue. |
| It’s no problem if it’s just him, but his addition to the troupe is throwing off how the other Spring Troupe members interact as well. |
| I can sense your distant attitude. Spring Troupe as a whole, including the new member, needs to come together more. |
| Sakuya | Spring Troupe as a whole... |
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| Sakuya | How can we make Spring Troupe come together as a whole? |
| Tsuzuru | Hmm... Maybe we should think back to our feelings from our very first debut performance? |
| Sakuya | I see.... |
| Izumi | Sakuya-kun, what do you think of Chikage-san’s acting? |
| Sakuya | Umm... There’s actually something that’s been bothering me for a while. |
| Chikage-san will look my way when we’re acting, but I don’t feel like he’s really looking at me... |
| I don’t really know how to say it, but... sometimes I feel like I’m acting with a doll. |
| Izumi | A doll... |
| (I see... Chikage-san and the Spring Troupe aren’t truly making eye contact with each other.) |
| (They’re on different wavelengths, so they can’t harmonize.) |
| It might be just as Yuzo-san says: Spring Troupe needs to get closer to one another. |
| Sakuya | Get closer—that’s right! |
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| Sakuya | Um! I was wondering if everyone in Spring Troupe could sleep on stage together tonight!? |
| Chikage | On stage? |
| Masumi | Again? |
| Citron | Brings back memories~. |
| Tsuzuru | From our debut performance, huh. |
| Itaru | Gotcha. |
| Sakuya | During our debut performance, Spring Troupe had some trouble getting in sync, just like this time. |
| But once we slept on stage together, we got closer to each other and our acting improved. That’s why—. |
| Chikage | I see. I’ll join you. |
| Sakuya | Thank you very much! |
| Then let’s meet at the theater tonight at 10 PM! Please bring your futon and pillow! |
