Masumi Usui/Festival of Blooming

Roommate Mission! Masumi as Tsuzuru

Backstage Stories

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Masumi	*Stare*…
Tsuzuru	…
Itaru	What’s going on with them?
Citron	It’s park of the roommate mission.
Itaru	Part. …I see. If it’s an assignment from Director-san and Yukio-san, then of course Masumi’s gonna pull out all the stops.
Tsuzuru	I get that it’s an assignment, but I’m being watched way too closely so it feels unnerving…
	I wonder if this is how Director felt all the time…
Masumi	It’s not like I’m looking at you because I like you. Don’t get full of yourself.
Tsuzuru	I know, that. Geez.
Masumi	Don’t let it bother you then.
Tsuzuru	Even if you say that…
	Well, I guess I just gotta bear with it…
Masumi	(I tried observing Tsuzuru. But when it comes to my skit, I can’t decide how I should act out what kind of scene…)
	(Let’s review what Yukio-san told us again…)
Madoka	Masumi… oh, I’m sorry. Were you in the middle of something?
Masumi	Not really. I was just thinking a bit.
Madoka	I see.
	Those… don’t look like notes from your lecture.
Masumi	These are notes I made when Yukio-san paid the dorm a visit and spoke to us the other day.
Madoka	Oh, I see. I’m a little surprised to hear you took notes.
Masumi	It’s important, after all.
Madoka	…?
	…Ah, got it. You’re going to act like your roommate, huh?
	That sounds like something MANKAI Company would do.
Masumi	The range of Tsuzuru I see everyday is way too wide though.
	I can’t decide what I should cut out and what I should show.
Madoka	Well, you have a point…
	But you’re the who’s living in the same room as him. I assume there must be a side of Tsuzuru-san that only you can act out.
Masumi	A side of Tsuzuru only I can act…
	…I’ll take another look at my notes and think it over.
Madoka	Sure, good luck with that.

Tsuzuru	Is it a tad large?
Masumi	…A little bit. But this much is fine.
Tsuzuru	I thought I would feel weirder about it…
	But it’s kind of like when my little brothers wear my hand-me-downs.
Masumi	I’ve never worn hand-me-downs before.
Tsuzuru	No surprises there~.
Masumi	…
	How much do these clothes cost in total? Like 50,000 yen?
Tsuzuru	Eh? Uh, no, I doubt they’re that much…
Masumi	Around 5000 yen then?
Tsuzuru	Now you’re low-balling! They’re worth a little more than that, okay!
Masumi	Well, it doesn’t matter either way.
Tsuzuru	Don’t ask then!
	*Sigh*… anyways, you’re going to do a skit with me as the theme? Let me see what you’ve got.
Masumi	Lend me your laptop.
	Alright… watch from a distance.
Tsuzuru	O-okay…?
Masumi	…
	*types*
	“For the last line… what about this?
	Wait, no. If it’s this guy we’re talking about, then…”
Tsuzuru	(Is this me when I write my scripts…)
Masumi	“This is a really common development… But…”
	“I got it. Here, I’ll make this guy…”
	*types*
	“Oh yeah, it’s all coming together…
	After that, he’ll definitely—”
Tsuzuru	(I… write our scripts with that sort of expression, huh…)
Masumi	“IT’S DONE…!”
	“I gotta hurry… to Director… everyone…”
	*faints*
Tsuzuru	EHH!? H-hey, Masumi—.
Masumi	…Finished.
Tsuzuru	T-that gave me a heart attack…
Masumi	…You used to do that all the time.
	Your style was to keep writing with your whole body and soul until you collapsed, wasn’t it?
Tsuzuru	Yeah, I’m sure that shocked and worried everyone…
	Sorry about that once again.
Masumi	I’m used to it now.
	I know you decided you aren’t going to go overboard with your writing methods anymore after our Literary Master play…
	But you’re so full of life whenever you’re working on our scripts, I can tell you love it from the bottom of your heart.
	There might come a time where you act reckless again one day.
	So before that, I thought I’d show you an objective glance at how you were before.
	The one who sees you writing our scripts the most… is me.
	This is the Tsuzuru that only I can show the world.
Tsuzuru	…Yeah. Thanks for always supporting my writing.
	It’s helped so much.
Masumi	If you ever write until you faint again, then I guess it can’t be helped. I’ll feed you an energy drink.
	I mean, there’s still a story I want you to write… and I’m your roommate, after all.
Tsuzuru	…You’re being unusually honest.
Masumi	This was an assignment from Director and Yukio-san. I was just doing it seriously.
Tsuzuru	That sounds like you, alright.
	Oh yeah. We have to take a polaroid picture, don’t we?
	Have you decided on a pose?
Masumi	…I thought of one just now.
	*click*
Tsuzuru	Are you saying that pose is me?
Masumi	You do that when you’re feeling shy.
Tsuzuru	Eh?
Masumi	You also did that just a moment ago.
Tsuzuru	T-thanks for letting me know about that too…

Anna