Chapter 7: Broken Stage

Announcer: Today's performance has finished. Thank you for coming here today.

Spectator A: What happened to today's play... Did they run into some trouble?

Spectator B: Did they have to adlib part of the performance?

Spectator A: Well adlibs are fine...

Spectator B: The climax was a bit different to the original work. Did they make some alterations to it?

Spectator A: Didn't it look like the lead actor was a bit anxious?

Spectator B: It's possible that that's also part of the performmance.

Spectator B: That would be very like Eden.

Daikoku: I wonder if Daikoku's alright... After the curtain call, she went off somewhere without saying anything...

Shigure: Who knows. Just leave her alone.

Nikako: ...Surely there was something going on? The play ended all of a sudden.

Nikako: I was standing behind the stage so I couldn't see much of what as going on. I couldn't even tell if something went wrong...

Daikoku: ...

Shigure: You don't have to worry about that. You still have your head attached, Miss Jokanaan.

Iruru: ...

Hatsumi: There's no need to worry.

Hatsumi: Iruru I'll just tell you this one thing.

Hatsumi: My ideal will not be broken by your ego.

Hatsumi: Iruru, show me your evolution.

Hatsumi: You said you wanted to play a lead with one of my scripts right?

Hatsumi: This play was your chance to do exactly as I planned.

Hatsumi: How many times did you think I bet on you? So you could succeed?


Iruru: ...

Iruru: ...

Hatsumi: So this was where you went.

Iruru: Ah...

Hatsumi: ...

Iruru: ...Hatsumi.

Hatsumi: A while ago, I told to you perform from the bottom of your heart. And you said that you would fulfill that.

Hatsumi: That was the case up until the real thing, and you promised you would bet on yourself.

Hatsumi: ...But you went and relied on your Sense?

Iruru: ...

Iruru: I didn't like it.

Iruru: I didn't want it to be like that...!

Iruru: It's better to deliver a passing performance than to have the occasional one fail...!

Iruru: And then you had to go ahead and seal away my Sense! I can't believe you did that in the middle of the show!

Iruru: Of course the audience is going to be thrown off by that...! Everyone knew that something weird was going on. And thats why I...!

Iruru: I...

Hatsumi: Is that all you have to say?

Hatsumi: I believed in you...

Hatsumi: I believed in you! That's why I did all this preparation for you!

Hatsumi: And still...

Hatsumi: Why?

Iruru: ...

Nikako: C-calm down you two...!

Nikako: Why are you two yelling all of a sudden?

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Pub: 25 Aug 2024 00:31 UTC
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