| Yuzo | I'm comin' in. |
| Kasumi | Sorry, but you have to leave if my daughters get scared of you. They once wet themselves after watching a horror movie… |
| Yuzo | You think I'm a horror movie or somethin'? |
| Sakura | Welcome home! |
| Kaede | Papa, who is this man? Is he a guest? |
| Tsubaki | A scary person? |
| Kasumi | He's a friend of Papa, you see. |
| Yuzo | Here, I've brought some gifts for you. |
| Sakura | Did you say gift!? |
| Kaede | It's a bunny! So cuteeee! |
| Tsubaki | Thank you, scary uncle! |
| Yuzo | I once met you guys when you were thiiis small, y'know~. |
| Kasumi | You're meticulous; it doesn't suit you… |
| Yuzo | Even I could do this much once I grew older. |
| Kasumi | To think that Yuzo has gotten soft like this… I suppose I've gotten old too. |
| Yuzo | That's one strange way to accept this kind of thing. |
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| We can finally open this sake. For cryin' out loud, how could you just ghost people? |
| Kasumi | Sorry… |
| Yuzo | Come on, you drink some too. Just one glass. |
| Kasumi | I'm trying not to drink in front of my daughters. |
| Yuzo | Well, your daughters will certainly be surprised if they see you drunk. Guess I won't drink much too. I still have to go somewhere after this. |
| Speaking of, thanks for lettin' me be featured on "Spotlight". That was your idea, wasn't it? |
| Kasumi | Oh, yeah… |
| Yuzo | Why didn't you come to interview me yourself? |
| Kasumi | I just felt awkward since I had always been avoiding you. Besides, I had a feeling you were going to talk about MANKAI Company... |
| Yuzo | Dude, until when are you goin' to be hung up on that? |
| ...But well, I was actually kind of nervous when I received that interview offer. |
| Now that their troubles with GOD-za have been resolved, it should be easier for Syu-san to visit the troupe. He had been stuck on Reni-san. |
| I plan to invite Zen-san and Hiro too. You should drop by as well. I'm sure Yukio-san's daughter will be happy. |
| Kasumi | ...Sorry. |
| I no longer deserve to be involved with that theater troupe. I'm too ashamed to face them all. |
| I was the one who started the conversation, after all. |
| Yuzo | … |
| (Looks like this issue is deeper than I imagined… I've got no choice but to be patient for now.) |
| Kasumi | But there's something I want to ask you for the sake of our childhood friendship… |
| ...Here it is. |
| Yuzo | What's that? |
| Kasumi | When I had quit the troupe, I got this… From that person. |
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| Reni | … |
| Kusumi | … |
| Madoka | … |
| Izumi | (What a tense atmosphere… Misumi-san's father, Kusumi-san, doesn't look too good, and Madoka-kun is kind of awkward.) |
| (Guess nothing can be done given the circumstances…) |
| (But now that I think about it again, it feels sort of strange to have these people here in our dorm.) |
| Misumi | … |
| Izumi | (Even Misumi-kun seems more quiet than usual with his father here.) |
| Reni | First of all, I'd like to apologize for the plagiarism. Even though I knew nothing about this, it doesn’t change the fact that it was done by one of our people. |
| I'm terribly sorry. |
| Kusumi | --. |
| Izumi | No, it's all right. After all, you changed your script in the end… |
| Reni | To tell you the truth, I intended to go as planned and not change anything. |
| Izumi | Huh? |
| Reni | When I learned of the plagiarism, I decided that it was impossible to change the script. |
| But then our Madoka Ikaruga here, our top actor Shifuto, and Haruto decided to change the content of the play without consulting me. |
| Izumi | Is that so!? |
| Reni | If I were to be honest… I was saved by them. |
| I was about to repeat another mistake that could not be undone, and for that, I apologized. |
| I didn't mind if the current MANKAI Company was to be smashed. I planned to stop at nothing for the sake of producing the best play ever. |
| But you showed me that kind of performance… I have to admit I was wrong. |
| This thing called talent is far too… No, nevermind. It's not like there's something that can be done even if I say it now. |
| Izumi | Kamikizaka-san… |
| Reni | Moving on to Kusumi Ikaruga's punishment… |
| Kusumi | --. |
| Reni | Before we go on to that, do you not have anything to say? |
| Kusumi | ...I, I can't apologize… enough… for… what… I did this time. |
| Reni | You have the responsibility to explain to us in detail about the plagiarism. How did you get your hands on MANKAI Company's script? |
| Why did you decide to plagiarize it? |
| Kusumi | --T-That. |
| ...I, I… ugh… |
| Izumi | (He's trembling so much and his eyes can't focus. He looks frightened.) |
| Misumi | ...Father, are you okay~? |
| Kusumi | --Y-You, Why are you… |
| Misumi | Father? |
| Kusumi | ...Uggh. |
| Madoka | Father… |
| Reni | We'll get nowhere if the person in question is being like this. |
| In that case, we're going to confirm with him ourselves regarding the chronology of the plagiarism. We'll explain it to you at a later date. |
| However, Kusumi Ikaruga won't be able to work as a scriptwriter from now on. |
| You should have realized that at the very least. |
| Kusumi | … |
| Izumi | Are you telling him to put an end to writing? Why do you have to go… |
| Reni | That person asked me to give this man his final notice if he ever takes the wrong road as a scriptwriter. |
| Kusumi | --. |
| Izumi | That person… |
| Reni | It's Hakkaku-san. |
| Misumi | Grandpa!? |
| Izumi | (So even after leaving MANKAI Company, Kamikizaka-san still kept in touch with Hakkaku-san…) |
| Reni | Besides a few words, he left this in my care. |
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| Izumi | This is… a manuscript? |
| ("Traces of a Dream"...) |
| Misumi | ...This is Grandpa's handwriting. |
