Tsumugi Tsukioka/Student Council President of Many Secrets

Becoming Room 104’s Underling!?

Backstage Stories

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Tsumugi	You think you can clean up your act after all that?
Izumi	(Was that Tsumugi-san’s voice…? He sounded really aggressive, I wonder what’s happening…)
	(I’m pretty sure I heard him from the courtyard.)
Tasuku	“Of course, I’m aware I won’t be let off the hook that easily.”
Izumi	(Tsumugi-san is wearing his old school uniform!? …If Tasuku-san is here too, they must be doing an etude then.)
Tsumugi	Ah, Director.
Izumi	I heard Tsumugi-san’s voice and thought I’d check out what’s going on. Is this for a role study?
Tsumugi	That’s right. We were acting out a situation for the gymnasium assignment you mentioned before.
Tasuku	He wanted to do some practice as a guide for that doll exhibition, so he asked me to help him out with it.
	Heard that the outfit for the event was going to be a school uniform. To get into the role, I had to grab Tsumugi’s uniform from his family home.
Tsumugi	Even though it’s for the role study, I still can’t help but feel embarrassed about wearing this.
Izumi	If you can look this natural in a gakuran, then I think it’ll be quite easy to picture the uniform outfits we’ll be renting from them!
	But besides all that, why did you decide on such an aggressive dialogue?
Tasuku	Why… Well it’s for the delinquent role, isn’t it?
Izumi	Delinquent role!?
	Tsumugi-san, your role is supposed to be a student council president, right?
Tsumugi	Well…
	When I read more into the details of the assignment sheet that Homare-san gave to us, it more specifically says: “a student council president with a shady life.”
Izumi	I… I see…
CHOICE 1: Quite the conflicting roles, huh… [+] Izumi Those are quite the conflicting roles, huh… Tsumugi In terms of the imagery, we could likely think of this setting as almost similar to a dual personality. Tasuku Sounds pretty tough to be living a dual personality like that every single day… Tsumugi But you know, it’d probably be better to act out the role in a “good boy-bad boy” sort of way. Izumi When you say you’re going to act out as a “bad boy”, I can only imagine Tsumugi-san just being a bit of a naughty kid. Tsumugi A naughty kid? Hmm… Considering the context of a gymnasium setting, I was hoping to play out the bad boy role without going too out of that context. Izumi (Considering the setting context, huh… This is turning out to be a rather difficult role…)
CHOICE 2: There’s a uniqueness to the setting context. [+] Izumi It’s quite a unique setting, isn’t it? Tsumugi I was imagining a gymnasium school with a bit of darkness in it. Izumi Should I go ask our client, the doll artist, for more specifics about the assignment? Tsumugi If I’m unable to come up with anything more, then we could ask. But for now, I’d like to consider the setting in my own way first. A student council president who is an honor student with good conduct and a respectable public image, but turns out to have a life of delinquency in the shadows… Izumi (An interpretation that Tsumugi-san came up with himself… I have to trust his gut.)
Tsumugi	I may seem troubled by it now, but actually, I did play a role as a motorcycle gang leader before.
Izumi	No joke!?
Tsumugi	Yep. I asked Tasuku to help me out in hopes I could remember how I played that role back then.
Tasuku	You say that, but it was all improv just now, wasn’t it?
Tsumugi	I figured. If only there was any footage from that time, I probably could’ve used it as a reference…
Izumi	If there’s no video to reference from, then the next best thing would be hearing from others’ experiences…
Tsumugi	The guys from Autumn Troupe have done roles that are close to that, so maybe I could ask them for advice—
Banri	WHAT’S YOUR PROBLEM!?
Juza	HUH? GOT SOMETHING TO SAY TO ME?!
Tsumugi	Wah!
Izumi	That came from Room 104…
Tasuku	(sigh) Those two are at it again, huh.
Izumi	Ahaha…
Tsumugi	That’s right! I could probably use those two as reference.
Tasuku	What kind of “reference” are you gonna get out of that?
Tsumugi	Let me change clothes and ask them after.
Banri	Stay out of this, bastard!
Juza	Shut up you fox-face.
Tsumugi	…Here goes.
	*knocks*
Izumi	Eh…!? You’re doing this now!?
Tasuku	He’s really serious about this…..
Izumi	(His greed for acting really can’t be stopped…)
	*door opens*
Juza	What?
Banri	Who is it now.
Tsumugi	Please, you two! Please teach me… what it means to be a delinquent!
Banri & Juza	…..Huh?

Tsumugi	…So in summary, I wanted to ask you two to teach me through your experiences with fighting.
Juza	Fighting experience….…
Banri	I mean, only fist fights are coming to mind more than anything else…
Tasuku	Hey, why am I included in this conversation?
Tsumugi	You said you wanted to help me out in my role study, so you should be listening in too, Tasuku.
Izumi	U-Uhm… Is there anything you could share for Tsumugi-san to use as a reference?
Tsumugi	For one, I want to hear how the two of you would pick your fights. Like how did each one start off?
Banri	Ha?
Tsumugi	Glare at them and then throw a punch… Okay, got it…
Banri	…..
Juza	……..
Tasuku	You’re really going to use that?
Izumi	Y-You never know! It’s handy to have something than nothing…!
Tsumugi	I once heard from Tenma that, because he’s a celebrity, he would end up getting involved with some rough people too.
	He mentioned that Juza-kun had saved him from them. How did you manage that?
Juza	How… I would just glare at them… I guess.
Tsumugi	Could you give me a sample?
Juza	Uh……
Tsumugi	I’d like to see for role reference.
Juza	……’Kay.
	————
	Something like that.
Tsumugi	I see, thank you!
	I think I got a good grasp of the image I want now thanks to both of you. Let’s go, Tasuku.
Tasuku	Y–Yeah………
Izumi	Thanks, you two!!
	*door closes*
Banri	The hell were we doing again….
Juza	……
Tsumugi	——!!
	…Like that, right?
Tasuku	I mean, I guess it’s close to what those two are like but… Is this really part of the role study?
Tsumugi	I guess? Itaru-kun’s role setting is pretty similar actually, so maybe I’ll have him review it.
Tasuku	Chigasaki’s in it too…?
	Hey, Director. Just to make sure again, but the theme is supposed to be a gymnasium, right?
Izumi	That’s what it’s supposed to be….
	*knocks*
Tsumugi	Itaru-kun, can I come in?
Itaru	Door’s open.
	*door opens*
	What’s up?
Tsumugi	It’s about the doll exhibition assignment we have. I was doing some role studying, so I wanted to have you see what I came up with.
Itaru	Your role is this student council president with a shady life, yeah?
Tsumugi	Yep.
Itaru	My role is also a delinquent, so I’m pretty stuck myself.
Tsumugi	Your role is much more of a delinquent than mine is, right?
Itaru	You already done with your role study?
Tsumugi	Mh-hmm. Banri-kun and Juza-kun were having a quarrel again today, so I went to talk to them about it while they were at it.
Itaru	Excuse me?
Tsumugi	Okay, here it goes.
	…(glares)
Itaru	…….
Tsumugi	What do you think?
Itaru	Uhm, that’s not exactly close to being "shady", is it?
Tsumugi	Ehh?!
Itaru	If it were me, I would assume that the “shady” part is similar to the role I did back in back in the “I Come With the Night” play….
Tsumugi	So that’s what it is!
	I’m going to go confirm my role setting and go through it again with Homare-san!
	*door closes*
Itaru	……Guess I have Tsumugi to thank for the peace and quiet next door, huh.

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