| Izumi | Are you guys okay with Citron-kun starring as the lead character for Spring Troupe’s sixth play? |
| Sakuya | Yes! Citron-san is the only one who hasn’t been the lead actor, after all. |
| Itaru | He should be the lead actor by now. |
| Chikage | With this, everyone has experienced playing the lead roles. |
| Izumi | That’s right. I’m deeply moved by that for some reason. |
| Tsuzuru | Then, regarding Citron-san’s wish, I think he wants to take on the role of someone who plays the violin. |
| Itaru | Violin? We haven’t performed that kind of theme until now. |
| Masumi | Are we going to play the violin during performance? |
| Izumi | I don’t think it’s necessary for you guys to perform for real since it’s just a play, though…. |
| Citron | I’ve always performed on the violin during Zahra’s ceremonies every year, you know! |
| Izumi | Huh, is that so!? That’s awesome! |
| Itaru | As expected of high specs in disguise. |
| Masumi | If it’s only violin, I can do it too… |
| Sakuya | I want to hear Citron-san play violin! |
| Citron | I haven’t played violin at all since coming here, though. I don’t know if I still can play~. |
| Chikage | In the first place, we don’t even have a violin here. |
| Itaru | Yeah…. |
| Manager | We have iit! |
| Izumi | Huh? |
| Manager | We still have the musical instruments back when the first-gen did a play about orchestra! |
| Since they’re the real deal, the sound comes out properly! |
| Itaru | Heh~. I expect no less from the first-gen, they were prosperous. |
| Chikage | The yakuza holds the pulse strings in our generation, after all. |
| Manager | I’ll bring it here, so please wait a minute! |
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| Izumi | We do have it for real. It’s a decent violin. |
| Citron | «...The strings are rusty, and the bow hair is all stretched out of shape. But there aren’t any broken nor peeled off parts, so I think it’ll still make a sound.» |
| Sakuya | Huh? What is that? |
| Chikage | The violin doesn’t have any broken nor peeled off parts, so it looks like sound will still come out. |
| Citron | …. |
| Itaru | Is he tuning? |
| Chikage | His way of holding the instrument looks like someone who knows how to play, too. |
| Sakuya | He looks cool! |
| Citron | «...This should be okay.» |
| ——. |
| Izumi | Oooh, it makes a sound! |
| Sakuya | So this is what a violin sounds like, huh. |
| Tsuzuru | By the way, I feel like I’ve heard this song before——. |
| Masumi | Smash, smash…. |
| Itaru | Smash as always. The sesame miso paste, smash [1]… |
| Tsuzuru | That’s it! |
| Izumi | Why do you have to play that song, out of all things!? |
| Tsuzuru | It sounded really moving when you played it like that! |
| Masumi | Can you really play? |
| Citron | I was just kidding! Tehepero. I can play these kinds of songs well too, see. |
| ….. |
| Izumi | Whoah…! |
| Citron | «Just as I thought, my fingers are not moving like they used to in the past...» |
| That’s pretty much of it~. |
| Sakuya | You’re awesome, Citron-san! |
| Tsuzuru | I think you’ll be popular if you truly hold your tongue. |
| Itaru | A real prince. |
| Izumi | Citron-kun, that was really beautiful! |
| Masumi | I can do that much… |
| ——Hand me the violin. |
| Citron | Oh, I’ve been rolled! |
| Chikage | Do you mean robbed? |
| Masumi | ——. |
| Sakuya | The sound comes out! |
| Izumi | You’re amazing, Masumi-kun. This is your first time, right? |
| Masumi | ——tch. |
| Itaru | There, there. Don’t get so worked up. |
| Tsuzuru | You can already make a sound despite playing it for the first time—that’s good enough. |
| Masumi | Shut up! I’ll play the violin too for our next play. I’ll play just like Citron did. |
| Izumi | Eeeeh!? |
| Sakuya | Will we have two people play the violin? |
| Chikage | What kind of story will it be, then? Is it something like—a story of two people having a showdown? |
| Tsuzuru | With violins? |
| Itaru | So it’s a new kind of superhero story where the characters use violins as weapons and fight, huh. |
| Tsuzuru | That kind of story might exist, but it doesn’t look like something that Spring Troupe would perform, you know! |
| Izumi | If we do a play set in college or a school of music, then I think it won’t be strange to have a lot of musical instruments appear onstage. |
| Masumi | I’m okay with anything as long as I get to play the violin. |
| Izumi | Can you write something like that, Tsuzuru-kun? |
| Tsuzuru | Ah, well, I got inspired by the song from earlier, so I think I can do it. |
| Izumi | That song is really beautiful, after all. |
| Tsuzuru | I want to put it in the play, too. |
| Citron | But it’ll be an incomplete song if it’s only played by one violin. |
| Sakuya | Huh? What do you mean? |
| Manager | Ah, could it be that the song is meant to be played by a duo or quartet? |
| Citron | Ding dong. This song is Mozart’s “String Quartet”. |
| Tsuzuru | Heh~. |
| Manager | That’s right. How about putting a quartet in the story as well, then? |
| The group will consist of two violins, a viola and a cello, so personally, I think it’s perfect! |
| Itaru | Manager is good at something. How rare…. |
| Tsuzuru | And he’s talking about decent things for once… |
| Manager | Do you think that low of me…!? |
| Leave all things about music to me! I more or less can play any type of instruments, after all! |
| Izumi | It’s unusual for manager to look like someone who can do anything, it’s suspicious… |
| Tsuzuru | I feel like there will be a trap, somehow. |
| Itaru | Bad end flag, huh. |
| Chikage | I can imagine manager breaking all the instruments on the first day of the play. |
| Itaru | That will happen for sure. |
| Manager | You all are being cruel to me…! |
| Citron | Don’t worry, guys. The fact that this instrument was not broken is surely thanks to Isuke’s management. |
| Izumi | Is that so? |
| Manager | Huh? Uhh, well, I accidentally found that instrument in the warehouse yesterday…. I actually forgot that it even existed. |
| Tsuzuru | You really are hopeless! |
| Izumi | No matter how many times I think about it, I can’t leave things to you… |
| Manager | But I really can play instruments! |
| Izumi | Well, since we don’t have any connections, should we ask manager to help coach for our musical performance…? |
| Manager | Leave it to me! |
| Chikage | But isn’t it still difficult for us to be able to play that song before the performance? |
| Izumi | You have a point. Generally, I think we can arrange the original recording and play it during the play. |
| Citron | I’ll also help teach. |
| Izumi | Then, Citron-kun, can you teach Masu——. |
| Masumi | I can learn by myself. |
| I’ll make you fall for me with my violin performance. |
| Izumi | Huh? Eh, hold on, Masumi-kun——. |
| Sakuya | He’s gone… |
| Tsuzuru | Does that guy understand our main priority is the play, not the violin? |
| Itaru | He got motivated in a strange way. |
| Izumi | F-for now, that’s all for our upcoming play. I’m counting on you, Tsuzuru-kun. |
| Tsuzuru | Roger that. |
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| Izumi | Well then, should we end the meeting here? |
| Sakuya | Thank you for your hard work! |
| Citron | Good job~. |
| Chikage | Great work. |
| Tsuzuru | Good job. |
| Itaru | ...Ah, Tsuzuru. |
| Tsuzuru | ? |
| Itaru | Playing instruments is NG for me. |
| Tsuzuru | Huh? Why——. |
| Itaru | Do you want to see me making weird dance moves while holding an instrument onstage? |
| Tsuzuru | ….Got it. |
| Citron | …. |
| Tsuzuru | What’s wrong, Citron-san? |
| Citron | It’s important to wipe the instrument’s rosin before putting it back to its case, you see~. |
| Tsuzuru | Is rosin this white powder? |
| Citron | Yes. Sound won’t come out if we don’t attach this to the bow. |
| Tsuzuru | Heh~. I see. |
| Anyway, what kind of song is the one from earlier? |
| Citron | ——, you know. |
| Tsuzuru | Huh… Ah, I see. That’s why you played it. |
| Citron | That’s right. |
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| Tangerine | ….. |
| «The route which Onii-sama took to sneak away should be this one…» |
| «Onii-sama…» |
| Mika | «Who’s there——!?» |
| Tangerine | !! |
| Mika | «Tangerine-sama!?» |
| Tangerine | «Mika——.» |
| Mika | «What were you doing this late at night——.» |
| Tangerine | «——Follow me! This is an order!» |
| Mika | «Eh!? Ple-Please wait——!» |
