YuYuYui - Midsummer theater - 2

A midsummer night's wonderful dream - 7

[Outdoor theater - Dressing tent]

Fuu: Eeh!? The bus the actors are in is caught in a huge traffic jam and they won't arrive in time!?

Igu: Yes. They performed in the south of Kochi this morning and left after it was over but.

Igu: There is no way the Tsuchikabe troupe can perform on stage in these circumstances. We have no choice but to cancel...

Wak: Mh? Tsuchikabe? I think that is...

Hin: Are they not the troupe who will be performing the last play, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"?

Gin: We came especially to watch it!

Igu: I see... I am the troupe's representative, Tsuchikabe Igusa.

Igu: However, due to the current situation, the performance cannot take place. I am sorry for letting you down...

Fuu: Is it already canceled? Are all the actors inside that bus?

Igu: A few actors who were double-cast are coming but they are beginners and all play minors characters who have close to no lines...

Igu: Without the main cast, it doesn't change the fact that there is nothing we can do...

Yuu: Fuu-senpai! What's the emergency? Huh!? This woman is...

Igu: Ara... The girls from earlier.

Fuu: So this and that happened and...

Uta/Meb/Sek: Eeh!? The play is canceled!?

Aki: I was looking forward to it, that's a shame...

Tam: What are you saying, Masuzu!? If they're in trouble, we just gotta help them, right?

Kir: No way, ya can't remove a traffic jam, y'know!? Ya won't get off the hook with just a letter of apology!

Tam: Not like that! Wakaba and some others said they remembered the lines!

Igu: Eh...?

Wak: How is that making more sense? Amateurs cannot take the place of pros...

Igu: You remember the lines to "A Midsummer Night's Dream"?

Meb: Yes... that's right. This play is currently popular among our club.

Igu: I see... You did mention you weren't utter beginners at theater either. Hm...

Fuu: If there's anything we can do, please ask. If the main roles will be given to the beginners that will be here...

Fuu: Be it backstage work or play as trees or stones, we would be better than nothing at least... right?

Igu: In this case... Everyone. Are you saying that you... would help someone you never met before with her play?

Yuu/Aya/Tou: Yes!

Igu: A kind answer... with such pure eyes. Understood. I will be relying on you...

Yum/Sum/Its: Yes!

Igu: I am entrusting you with the main roles.

Anz/Suz/Fuu: Y-... Eeeeeeeeeh!?!?

Fuu: No, wait! T-That's reckless, unreasonable and absurd!

Kar: It is! We're not a theater club, we're just complete amateurs!

Igu: Being called an actor isn't a qualification, therefore the line between pro and amateur is an ambiguous one.

Igu: Young people with experience, knowledge of the lines, ability to project their voice and such pure eyes...

Igu: I would be a disgrace of a director if I did not make actors out of you. I choose to believe in your compelling passion!

Shi: I don't know what to think of being believed in so easily...

Yos: Furthermore, we may remember the lines but performing on a stage with no prior practice entails too much risk...

Igu: This is the script. The lines are nothing but a guide, there is no need to say them word-for-word.

Ren: Hmph, very well. Miroku shall undertake this duty. What will you decide?

Aka: Renchi! Why're you getting so fired up on your own!?

Ren: The result is identical regardless of the actor. The opportunity to verify this theory has presented itself.

Ren: I will freely experience acting... besides, I shall clear up my doubts and be showered in praise.

Igu: Ooh... Contrasting with your beauty, your actions and words are easily hated. You will be Helena!

Ren: Hmph, very well.

Its: Aaah~~... They both agreed to it without any outside opinions...


A midsummer night's wonderful dream - 8

[Outdoor theater - Dressing tent]

Fuu: No no no no! I know I say the Hero Club accepts everything but not this time!

Fuu: If we fail, we'll tarnish the troupe's reputation, did you think about this, Tsuchikabe-san!?

Igu: Cough cough cough... Ack!

Gin/SON/Wak: Eh!?

Suz: S-S-She coughed up bloooood!!!! Ambulance, ambulance, rescue, emergency~~~!!!!

Igu: This is from the esophagus. When the blood originates from the lungs, it's called hemoptysis. Remember this. Cough, ark. By the way.

Igu: I don't have much time left... Before I take my last breath, I want to make one more play on stage...

Igu: Aah! That's why, I beg you... Act "A Midsummer Night's Dream"!

Yuu: Okay, leave it to us! You can't ever lose to your illness, okay!

Igu: Cough cough... Thank you.

Sek: Excuse me~... This thing's fake blood. I could tell because it smells sweet.

Yos: Y-Yes... I have heard of fake blood made from syrup and food coloring being used for stage plays or on TV.

Uta: Then you mean she's acting!? If that's the case... Wow.

Nat: This wow... means so many things.

Kar: Aaaaaa-Are you making fun of us!? You were trying to convince us by fooling Yuuna, you monster!!

Igu: The quality of acting is determined by your ability to move people with deceits and lies. Now you understand. Only now!

Chi: Haa... We got involved with some ridiculous person...

Fuu: F-Fine. We got it, but whatever happens on stage, we won't take responsibility, is that clear!?

Igu: It goes without saying. Now that it has been decided, the roles need to be attributed... H~m?

Fuu: Awawawa... Everyone who didn't remember a single line of the play this morning, step baaaaack!

Igu: You will be Lysander, you Hermia, and you Demetrius!

Anz/Wak/Kar: Haa...

Igu: You will be prince Theseus, you the Queen of the Amazons Hippolyta and you Hermia's father, Egeus!

SON/Yum/Tou: Haa...

Igu: The fairy king Oberon and his wife Titania will be... you two!

Meb/Fuu: U-Understood...

Igu: Finally, the key role of this play. The most important actor. The fairy Puck will be played by... you!

Yuu: Eh! M-Me!? But I stepped back! I don't remember any line!

Igu: Not only you, both of you will be Puck as well!

Aka/Tak: Eh!?

Fuu: Three Pucks, uuh~, excuse me~, what are you~...

Igu: Aaaaah, inspiration and ideas are surging! A new direction, a new stage!

Shi: She isn't listening...

Aki: Sure but... strangely, I feel like that gives her artistic credit, I wonder why.

Yuu/Aka/Tak: WWWWW-What do we do!? What are we supposed to do!?

Igu: Indeed... This time these roles will not be present... Mumble. Then the craftsmen... mumble.

SON: Ah. She's entered a zone of her own~. I don't think we'll be able to reach her anymore~.

Fuu: People who've been cast, get checking the script! Those who didn't... Help me~~~!

[Open space]

Young actor 1: Sorry... Tsuchikabe-sensei asked you for something unreasonable. Please accept our apologies.

Tou: That's fine but... Uuh...

Kar: Aren't you mad at us? We just came here and stole your roles...

Young actor 2: I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little bit upset but more than that, what we want is to see this play become a success.

Young actor 3: She looks eccentric at first, but the plays she creates are genuinely great... We have a strong admiration for her.

Young actor 4: So if this is what she wants, we can only believe in her.

Wak: Incredible... You are already accepted the consequences. We cannot let your determination go to waste.

Meb: We have to... make this play a success. The Hero Club and the Tsuchikabe troupe.


A midsummer night's wonderful dream - 9

[Jukai]

Tak: I'll follow you, I'll lead you about a round, through bog, through bush, through brake, through brier.

Aka: I go, I go, look how I go. Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow. Peow!

Yuu: Takashima-chan, Akamine-chan, where are we!? My mistress to a monster... of a monster? With... a monster?

Tou: Yuuna-chan!

Yuu: Waaaah! Sorry, and thank you, Tougou-san!

Uta: Yuuki-san, I know how you feel but you should forget about the script in the Jukai!

Yuu: R-Right! I... know but...

Its: What's wrong? Usually you'd rush forward saying "You're likely to succeed if you try".

Yuu: Yeah. I want to say it but... I'm in a panic because I seriously can't remember the lines.

Kar: This isn't like you. It'll be fine. You can remember the lines to a puppet play after all.

Yuu: That's only because I have weeks to practice! Fuu-senpai changes the words that are too complicated...

Yuu: Tougou-san lets me practice with her for hours every day, Itsuki-chan records videos and shows them...

Yuu: I'm only capable of doing it after this! I don't trust myself to be able to learn a full script on the spot and recite it on stage...

Fuu: Ah~, by the way, Yuuna. I don't know if that'll comfort you but I have a message from Tsuchikabe-san "Don't play Puck".

Tam: Haaaaa!? She gave the roles on her own accord and she's saying that now, what's with her!?

Fuu: Another thing. "As long as you are Puck, all will be fine".

Yuu: I don't know what she means. Fuu-senpai, what do I do?

Gin: Uuh, everyone! Let's drag on the fight so that Yuuna-san can remember her lines better!

Nat: I see. During jukai transformation, the time in reality is stopped. Yuuki can use this time to practice...

Shi: Yes... Let's fight not too hard~...

Yum: You may say to hold back, however... Nwah! Not striking finishing blows is troublesome!

Meb: Suzume! Times like these call for your shield! Keep protecting us from enemy attacks as long as possible!

Suz: Noooooooo, I can't, I can't! Yuuna-san, hurry, learn them, right now, go memory!

Yuu: Aaaaaaaaah, I-I'll remember them now, rrr-right now, remememem...

Wak/SON/Son: Woaaaaah!?

Tou: T-This is like the battle of the midway. The enemy has fully deciphered Yuuna-chan's message?

Sek: No, she's not speaking in coded messages.

Anz: She just cannot concentrate...

Hin: Prolonging the battle is dangerous! Stop this immediately!

Kir: Ya got any dumb ideas and ya'll get the lecture, naggin' and criticizin'... Hina-chan said it!

Hin: Shizuka-san.

Kir: Ah... No, that was...

Anz/Sek/Tou: .........

Yuu: Sorry, everyone. I can't read the script in the jukai. Gotta keep things separate! They're different!

Fuu: Yeah... Y-...Yeah?

Aka: Trying to replace one with the other won't work, right? Because they're different.

Yuu: You can't study in the jukai! That wouldn't be fair! Fair and square!

Tak: Right! I agree with Yuuki-chan♪

Uta: That's our Yuuki-san! You can't live proud if you don't stay clean no matter what!

Tam: If she says so then it's fine! Let's get 'eeeeeem!!


A midsummer night's wonderful dream - 10

[Outdoor theater - Dressing tent]

Igu: You wish to decline Puck's role...?

Yuu: Yes... I can't remember the lines at all, and I don't want to cause trouble for everyone and the actors.

Yuu: Ah, but I can do anything else if you want! Even if it's manual labor or embarrassing!

Tou: No embarrassing work! If this work requires shameful acts of Yuuna-chan, I will destroy...!

Gin/SON/Sek: Easy easy easy. Wa~shawashawasha! There~, Tougou Tougou, washawashawasha!

Igu: Let me ask you this one thing. Yuuna-san... or rather, all of you, do you believe in the existence of fairies and spirits?

Kar/Fuu/Its: Eeh~Aah~Uuh~...

Igu: Well, you obviously would not believe, since they cannot be seen.

Wak/Nat/Sek: Aah~Uuh~Aaah~...

Igu: Which is the exact reason why you can become a fairy, Yuuna!

Yuu: Eh!?

Yuu: When I look at you, I see a fairy! I firmly believe it. Why is it?

Yuu: D-Dunno...

Igu: Because I have never seen a real fairy!

Meb: R-Right, without anything to compare to, it isn't strange to persuade yourself that what you see is real.

Uta: But it's your personal opinion, right? When it comes to other people, I don't know!

Igu: Fufufu. If I think something, in nine out of ten cases the audience will think so as well!

Nat: W-Why...?

Igu: If your sensitivity is similar to the general public, you can make use of it and utilize it to your advantage...

Igu: That is the sort of people directors are! Hohohohohohohoho!

Yos: This person, behind her apparent foolish remarks... she may in fact be an expert.

Tam: Ah~? How? Nothing she said made me think she's more than just a creepy weirdo...

Anz: Artists would never claim to have a similar sensibility to others, but Tsuchikabe-san dared accepting it...

SON: She understands what people want and has the confidence to provide it herself... That's what she's pleading~.

Anz/SON/Yos: She's a frightening person...!

Yuu: I'm like a fairy...?

Igu: Indeed. At the very least, more than anyone I ever met... more than any actor.

Igu: Therefore, you do not need to act as Puck, you can stay yourself. As for the lines...

Igu: It will be king Oberon's duty to make up for it!

Fuu: Haa... That's meeeeeeee!? I have to remember someone else's lines!?

Nat: Fuu, calm down. You're a king. The fairy udon king, aren't you?

Fuu: Ha! Right... I am... I am udooooooooon!!

Its: Onee-chan has finally become udon itself...

Kar: If she's going that far, I guess she's satisfied...

Hin: Leaving us with... the craftsmen and the fairies, could we attribute the roles on our own?

Igu: Since the craftsmen are rehearsing in the forest, I do not mind you bringing the script.

Gin: I see! I feel better now!

Igu: You will however need a defined guidance... Yes. You are the leader.

Sek: Eh, me?

Igu: Someone who is calm is the ideal choice to restrain those who are going off tracks and bring them back on the right path.

Kir: Sounds good. She's used to doin' this.

Tam: The craftsmen will just have to chat like the club does when we talk about events, right!?

Uta: OK, leave it to me! Let's be lively like after doing farm work♪

Shi: That I don't really get...


A midsummer night's wonderful dream - 11

[Acting practice]

[Plaza]

Igu: Wrong! More fwoosh! Fly with a bam then fwoosh! Do it again!

Yuu: Okay!

Nat: She understood her instructions...?

Son: Real directors are amazing~♪

Igu: Puck will deliver this line stage left, then in an instant Puck will come from stage right!

Yuu: Uuh~, where~...?

Yos: Yuuki-sama. In a theater setting, stage directions are given following the actors' point of view.

Yuu: Oh, I see. Then I'll have to leave from the left and immediately come back on the... Eeeeeeeh!?

Tou: No matter Yuuna-chan's superior physical abilities, making a full lap around the stage will take 10 seconds at least...

Igu: Ohohohoho! Exactly! You're right! Why did you think I nominated 3 different Pucks?

Yuu/Aka/Tak: Ah!

SON: Ha! If at the exact instant Yuuyu leaves stage left, Takashi cames out from stage right, the spectators...!

Anz: It'll look to them like Puck instantly teleported!

Gin/Tam: A-Are you a genius!?

Ren: "A woman is to be courted, not to court, I however chose to accompany you..." Mmmh.

Yum: Ancestor-sama. I have few lines to remember, will you allow me to be your training partner?

Ren: Thank you, Yumiko. However, Miroku is perplexed by those sentences.

Yum: Huh. Which line for instance?

Ren: All of them.

Yum: AAA-All!? T-That would be...

Ren: In the first place, Helena's obsessive affection for her former lover is plainly drawing hatred towards herself.

Ren: Is she not miserable from beginning to end? Miroku is oblivious to such sensation.

Suz: Well, Helena's not you... It's just a role in the end, so you got to tough it out...

Kar: She's right. If we all start complaining I'd say I'm sick of Demetrius' inability to give up!

Meb: What are you all saying? You have to make their good and bad qualities your own so you can act like them!

Shi: She's here... The great actress, Kusunoki Mebuki.

Igu: Fufufu. She's correct. The face you show people isn't what you really are.

Igu: Renge-san, the extreme feeling of rejection you are experiencing, is because you are similar to Helena!

Ren: H-How could... Miroku...? Miroku is similar to this indecisive woman...?

Kir: As her rival, ye're very obsessive about Akana and chase her around, y'know?

Ren: !?

Aka: Long ago, you wanted to learn from our instructor so much, you'd pester them to look at you again and again.

Wak: Oh?

Ren: T-That! That...

Chi: Some people haven't even got to that point but Tsuchikabe-san, you saw through Renge-san's personality when giving the roles...?

Mit: A pro's eyes are... scary.

Igu: You must not fear your disadvantageous parts. Whether they be beautiful or ugly, these faces are all you.

Ren: Kuh, Miroku has no ugly face...!

Igu: Then create one! You are an actress, Miroku Renge!

Ren: Hmph...

Yum/Meb/Suz: Eh.

Ren: Absolutely! Miroku is an actress. The one who will on this day take the title of great actress from Kusunoki Mebuki is I, Miroku Renge!

Igu: That is what I wanted to hear... Do not forget this determination.

Suz/Meb/Shi: I-I'm worried...


A midsummer night's wonderful dream - 12

[10 minutes before the play]

[Outdoor theater - Dressing tent]

Igu: You have remembered the lines and completed a full rehearsal before the play begins.

Igu: Once it does begin, the actors own the stage. Make sure to enjoy it to the fullest.

Tam: Enjoying it is fine but... Are you sure about going like that with no costumes?

Anz: It's not rare for modern theaters to act classical plays with modern costumes, so the audience is more accustomed to it than you'd think.

Igu: Exactly. With stage magic, as long as the actors are earnest, the spectators would even see fairy wings grow!

Fuu: We can't back out now. Form a circle! Hero Club's five tenets! You're likely to succeeeeeed~~~!

Hero Club: If you try!!

[Outdoor theater]

Names: Egeus(Ege)Yumiko / Theseus(The)SONOKO / Hermia(Her)Anzu / Lysander(Lys)Wakaba / Demetrius(Dem) Karin / Hippolyta(Hip)Tougou / Helena(Hel)Renge

Ege: Happy be Theseus, our renowned duke.

The: I heard your story. Your daughter Hermia objects to the man you provided her to marry in favor of another.

Ege: Stand forth, Demetrius. This man has my consent to marry her. following is...

Ege: Stand forth, Lysander. This despicable man has charmed my child. My lord.

The: Hermia. be advised. To you, your father should be as a god. Is Demetrius not a worthy gentleman?

Her: So is Lysander!

The: In himself he is... But in having your father's consent, Demetrius is deemed worthier.

Her: I would wish my father looked with my eyes. So he would understand what plagues my heart.

The: Mmh... Such stubbornness.

Hip: My love.

The: Ooh, beautiful Hippolyta. The queen of the Amazons and my wife.

Hip: How long must I wait for us to discuss our wedding? Until the fourth moon disappears from the sky?

The: Mfu... I am aware. I will end it soon, please be patient~.

Ege: M-My lord?

The: Hermia will marry Demetrius! Or else be put to death! Death penalty! That is all!

Her/Lys/Dem: Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh!?

The: Come~, Hippolyta♪ Let us leave and indulge in bleep♪

Hip: Ooh~. My love~♪

Sum: S-Sonoko's line wasn't the one we rehearsed. The meaning was kept intact but...

Gin: It's funny, there's nothing wrong with that. As expected of Sonoko-san♪

Dem: Relent, Hermia and, Lysander! The title you desire is my certain right.

Lys: How come, Demetrius? You have her father's love. Let me have Hermia, so you marry him.

Dem: Haa!? That geezer!? Ah... My apologies.

Ege: Mmh! Hermia will be granted time to reflect! Demetrius, come with me.

Lys: Hermia. Let us escape. To a land where no law or authority will tear us apart, there, may I marry you.

Her: My good Lysander! I swear to you, by Cupid's strongest arrow, to love you the most.

Lys: Tomorrow night, I will stay in the forest of Athens. Where the memories of time together remain in both of us.

Her: I will meet with you. In the forest of Athens. I hear steps... Ah, hello, beautiful Helena.

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Hel: You called me beautiful? You are beautiful for as long as Demetrius is concerned. Beautiful Hermia!

Hel: How must I catch your beauty as you would an illness? Aah, reveal it to me.

Hel: Teach me how you look and sway Demetrius' heart.

Her: I frown at him but he loves me still...!

Hel: Oh, if only your frowns would teach my smiles such skill. Teach me how you whisper!?

Her: I give him curses, yet he gives me love...!

Hel: Aah, if my prayers could inspire such affection!

Her: Take comfort, Helena. Lysander and myself will leave this place, by the woods we will.

Lys: Helena, adieu. I pray he comes to love you as you do him.

Hel: They are... running away? I wonder of Demetrius' discontent... Fufufufufufufufu.

Hel: Ahahaha! Very well. I will go tell him. Then tomorrow night, he will pursue her to the woods.

Hel: I will go to the woods as well. To have the sight of Demetrius when he comes...

Hel: I might have his thanks! So I! I will become more...!

Hel: More... tormented.