Chapter 7: The Two Meeting at the Mirror
Lecturer: Kathrina-san, excellent work.
Lecturer: The scene with the egg withing a cramped space, and depicting the lonely chick and then showing the journey of the chick finding companions. You wonderfully demonstrated the emotions of the chick.
Kathrina: thank you very much.
Lecturer: ALright next. Shizuka,-san, if you could.
Shizuka: Alright!
Shizuka: ...
Shizuka: (The theme is "Hope and Despair of Loneliness" I've had a similar experience in the past.)
Shizuka: (I am the Sense that was born from Kokona. I have never seens another such thing in this world.)
Shizuka: (Kokona is the only one for me.)
Kathrina: (Shizuka is lying on the floor. I wonder what she's trying to express? She's curled up like a fetus--)
Shizuka: (In the beginning when I first awoke, I had no idea what I was supposed to be.)
Shizuka: (And then I met her.)
Shizuka: (Back when I was young and innocent, those warm moments were a treasure to be cherished. It was at the pier where I learned the joy of acting.)
Chisa: A satisfied expression... What is she expressing with that body language?
Kathrina: She's looking at someone having fun and laughing. In that case... Could this be a memory with Kokona?
Shizuka: (But this moment wouldn't last for long. The both of us will split, her one and only friend, to be forgotten--)
Shizuka: (When I woke up once again, I realised what I was.)
Shizuka: (At the park on a rainy day, there was a girl crying. I reached out my hand into the reflection in the water. But I wouldn't reach her.)
Shizuka: (I am alone.)
Kathrina: (After miming meeting at the mirror, she collapses onto the floor... Is this a reflection of thee sadness being separated from Kokona?
Kathrina: (Her ability to express herself like this with words is...)
Chisa: Shizuka's amazing. Just looking at her makes my heart ache...
Shizuka: (But I didn't give up. We met once again on the bullet train.)
Shizuka: (I was born in order to make Kokona a World Daistar. I have decided that that was my mission...!)
Chisa: Hmm? Is she brekaing out of the mirror?
Kathrina: Looks like it. She's trying to break out of her enclosed world. She's completely different than she was before. She's struggling but still pushing forward.
Shizuka: (And so... I want to stay by Kokona's side wherever she is. I want to shine together with Kokona by her side.)
Shizuka: (That is what I wish from the bottom of my heart.)
Kathrina: ...
Shizuka: pant...pant...
Shizuka: That's all.
Lecturer: Wonderful.
Lecturer: A wonderful performance about the nuances of the soul... I am quite surprised to see this level of performance.
Lecturer: Everyone, a round of applause for Shizuka-san.
Shizuka: Ah...
Shizuka: Thank you very much...!
Kathrina: Good work. It pains me to say, but I'm in awe.
Shizuka: Thank you...
Shizuka: But, that performance was inspired by you.
KAthrina: Is that so?
Shizuka: When you were playing the egg and and the chick, it reminded me of my past. I thought about an act where I meet at a reflection.
Kathrina: A reflection huh. That does sound fitting for you and Kokona.
Shizuka: You realised that...?
Kathrina: I've heard about your past with Kokona.
Kathrina: Would've been great if she was here...
Chisa: Yeah, I wanted her to see that.
Chisa: But maybe, you were able to express like this because Kokona's not around...?
Shizuka: That might be the case. It would be quite embarrassing to act that out right in front of her.
Shizuka: Oh well... It might be nice to show her when we meet up next.