| Hiro | I’m coming in. |
| Izumi | Umm, please have a seat… |
| Juza | Hiro Hyuga… |
| Itaru | It’s Hiro Hyuga. |
| Taichi | Why is the first-gen member here…? |
| Juza | Are you goin’ to challenge us to another Showdown Act? |
| Izumi | (I wonder what brings him here out of nowhere like this… Manager said he didn’t tell him beforehand this time…) |
| Hiro | Sorry for coming here so suddenly. Relax. No need to be that cautious. |
| I heard from Tenma that you’re looking for footage of the first Summer Troupe’s pirate play. |
| Izumi | Huh!? |
| Kumon | So you have it!? |
| Hiro | I don’t. |
| Misumi | Boo~. |
| Kazunari | Here I was convinced you have it~. |
| Yuki | How misleading. |
| Hiro | But I know where it is. |
| Izumi | Really!? |
| Hiro | However… |
| “Shall we make a deal?” |
| Tenma | Whaaaat!? |
| Hiro | It’s a payback. |
| Tenma | –I see. You’re the type that holds grudges. |
| Hiro | Did you say something? |
| Tenma | Forget it. So what’s your condition? |
| Hiro | I want you to show me Hakkaku-san’s treasure. |
| Izumi | Huh? That’s all? |
| Yuki | Here I thought you’d come up with something more unreasonable. |
| Muku | What a relief… |
| Hiro | Just what do y'all take me for? |
| Misumi | Wait a minute! I’m gonna bring it here~. |
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| Hiro | … |
| Hakkaku | “Somewhere in the corner of this wide world, a poor man from a deserted port city got a treasure. And all of it is here.” |
| “I sincerely thank you for being the best friends who showed me the best performance. Friends are the best treasure in one’s lifetime.” |
| Hiro | –. |
| …That’s not fair. |
| Izumi | (Hiro-san looks like he’s getting nostalgic…) |
| Hiro | Thanks. I’m glad I could listen to this. |
| Footage of the pirate play is most likely at Hakkaku-san’s home. |
| Muku | I’ve actually gone there and checked it with Madoka-san, but… |
| Hiro | No, not that house. It should be in his villa. |
| Misumi | Villa? |
| Hiro | I heard it’s around the corner of the countryside. Hakkaku-san usually went there when he got stuck with his scripts or when he wanted to concentrate. |
| I don’t know where exactly it is, but someone from the Ikaruga family should know about it. |
| Tenma | How do you know it’s there? |
| Hiro | …When he asked us to give the footage to him, he said he couldn’t wait to watch it there. |
| He finished writing the script for the pirate play at that place, after all. He apparently loved watching the play in a place where it was born. |
| I really hated that, though. |
| Yuki | Why? |
| Hiro | …The play took place around this time. To me, it was the worst summer memory I ever made. |
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| During the closing night of the first pirate play, Hakkaku-san decided to watch it from the audience seat. It was such an unusual occurrence, considering that he often opted to simply listen to our voices from the lobby. Playing the lead role, I was so happy over that. But at the same time, I was overwhelmed with pressure. |
| I messed up my lines, I slipped, I was out of tempo. I kept making mistakes that I usually did not make on the opening night. I really sucked. Looking back now, it was the worst summer I ever had during my time in the troupe. |
| Even though Hakkaku-san had taken the trouble to watch our play, I showed him such an unsatisfactory performance. And to pour salt into my wound, footage of my worst closing night ever passed into Hakkaku-san’s hands. |
| ”Hakkaku-san, I want to talk about the footage of our closing night the other day…” |
| ”Oh, what about it?” |
| ”I want to watch it for reference. Would you be willing to hand it over to me?” |
| ”My bad. I haven’t watched it.” |
| ”Huh? But you watched it the ot–.” |
| ”I’ll return it later.” |
| I wanted to take the video back from Hakkaku-san as soon as possible, but he refused while grinning. He was truly mischievous. |
| In the end, the only time Hakkaku-san watched our plays from the audience seat was during that closing night. I should have been able to make it our best performance ever, but I couldn’t do it. |
| ”In order to make the audience enjoy our performance, we need to have fun first.” |
| It should have been our motto, but I couldn’t follow it. Even when we were holding repeat performances, I wished I could beg him more persistently and had him watch it again. It’s been decades since that time, but I’m still regretting it. |
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| Hiro | I’m sure he couldn’t bear to watch it again… I know that already, but hearing his voice made me realize that again. |
| Misumj | That’s not true. |
| Grandpa is watching us from the sky. |
| I’m sure nobody was happier than Grandpa when he watched our recent Showdown Act. |
| Tenma | It was Hakkaku-san’s wish, after all. |
| Kazunari | And it was too good to pass up~! |
| Muku | I also believe he was watching. |
| Kumon | He might even take a seat in front of the first row to watch it! |
| Yuki | Too close. |
| Tenma | You think he could see anything from there? |
| Hiro | I see… You may be right. |
| No matter what you do, you only have one chance to deliver a show with the same members and to the same audience. |
| That is exactly why you’ve gotta do what you can do at the moment, and what you want to do, with all your might. |
| Enjoy the moment so that you won’t regret it later. |
| It doesn’t matter even if you fail. In fact, if you can laugh at your failure while saying, “That was the best,” that means you’ve won. |
| Well, I’m sure we all have regrets that we can’t get over with for decades. Me included. |
| ...But I’m glad I could recall that moment after such a long time. It might not be a perfect performance, but it’s still an important page of my life. |
| How many Summer Troupe plays have you done? |
| Izumi | The next one will be our seventh. |
| Hiro | So it’s still your seventh play. Do your very best, all right? See ya. |
| Izumi | Since you’ve come all the way here, would you like to have dinner with us? |
| Hiro | Today is my precious day off. My beloved son is waiting for his papa at home. |
| Tenma | Come and watch our upcoming play. |
| Hiro | Though my schedule is not as packed as yours, I’m still pretty busy, you know? Well, I’ll come to watch if I can make some time. |
| Kazunari | I didn’t know there was such a story behind the pirate play footage. |
| Tenma | It just makes us want to watch the footage even more. |
| Kumon | Now I feel like I’ve gotta watch it. |
| Yuki | We have to go to the Ikaruga residence first before we can even watch it. |
| Muku | Misumi-san, what will you do? |
| Misumi | …I’ll go. I have to go. |
| Izumi | Then, since it’s getting late today, let’s go to–. |
| Kumon | Hold on. There’s something that I really wanna do no matter what. |
