YuYuYui - Midsummer theater - 1

A midsummer night's wonderful dream - 1

[Hero Club room]

Tam: Hot~...

Gin: Burning~...

Suz: Sizzling~...

Sek: Boiling~...

Fuu: Everyone, put yourselves together~...

Ren: Hmph. Someone with a cooling patch and a cold towel atop her head is in no position to make such a comment.

Fuu: Got a problem~~~...?

Nat: Fuu. Take off your socks and come in the wash tub. It's iced water. It's cold...

Fuu: Ah ah ah~~~~~ cold.

Nat: We have a lot of gori gori-kun... here, take a bite.*

Fuu: Oh oh oh~~~~~ cold.

Anz/SON/Son: Ara~♪

Its: Na-Natsume-san is strangely caring...

Nat: Fuu warmed me up in the winter... It's my turn to cool her down in the summer...

Anz/SON/Son: Fuu... warmed... you up...

Fuu: No indecent delusions!!

Yuu: But this summer is extra hot~.

Sum: I'm lowering the air conditioning temperature.

Mit: Utanon, come here. You can feel the wind better.

Aki: Huh? Shiratori-chan, are you having heat fatigue too? It's surprising...  I thought you were good with heat.

Uta: I have to water the fields three times a day and that burns through my power resources more than usual... Haa~~.

Wak: Hmm... I'd like to organize a summer night festival but I can't muster that much willpower in this heat...

Yum: What is inseparable from summer are beach summer parties! Everyone, would you be interested in one in swimsuits?

Suz: Miroku-san, quiet.... I'm evaporating when you shout... I'm drying up from your presence alone.

Yum: My presence alone!?

Tou: Should we tell each other ghosts stories to cool us down then♪?

Fuu: Rejected. Refused. Prohibited.

Hin: We're in trouble...

Aya: Flap flap... Flap flap...

Meb: Ah, Aya-chan. You don't need to fan me, please use it on yourself to cool you down a little.

Shi: So you say, but your sweat is flowing like a waterfall...

Tam: Hey~ Anzu~, don't you have something~? A story to cool you down in the summer but not scary~.

Anz: Hmm... I don't know about the cold part but the summer reminds me of "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

Gin: What is that... From the title it sounds like a nightmare story about a tropical night where you can't sleep...

Son: It's not~. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a chaotic slapstick comedy play written by Shakespeare~♪

Kir: Comedy♪ Any comedy is welcome! Anyone ready for big laughs?

Yos: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a purely classical play, the words used being complicated, laughter will be rare.

Chi: Do you know about it, Hanamoto-san?

Yos: I do. I went to the theater several times in my elementary school days.

Ren: Hmph, Miroku does likewise have a taste for Shakespeare.

Aka: Eeh. I had no idea about this.

SON: Then it's a good opportunity for us to tell an abridged version~. Anzun♪

Anz: Sure♪

Tam: Yo! I've been waiting for this~♪

Note: From Gari Gari kun, famous real life ice cream


A midsummer night's wonderful dream - 2

[Hero Club room]

Anz: Our story begins in Athens, inside duke Theseus' castle.

Gin: Duke?

SON: An important person~♪ When a noble under the name of Egeus, his daughter Hermia and two men paid him a visit~.

Anz: The first man was Demetrius, Hermia's future fiance. However, Hermia was in love with another man, namely Lysander!

Yos: Egeus who was at a loss when his daughter refused to marry the man he had chosen for her, came to ask advice from his excellency the duke.

SON: The conclusion Theseus had reached was that "If Hermia must oppose her father, she shall face death. It is either love or death!"

Suz/Aka/Kir: Awful!

Anz: The duke was too busy preparing his soon-to-come wedding with the queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta.

Nat/Mit/Its: The reason is awful too...

Anz: Hermia was troubled by the eventual choice she will have to make. "Rather than marrying a man who I do not love, I choose death."

Yos: Her lover Lysander came, and into the night, ran away along with Hermia.

Sek: Ooh~ they're eloping! Way too go, Lysander-kun♪

SON: Although one woman heard of their elopement and came to put a stop to it. Her name was Helena!

SON: Helena was Demetrius' former girlfriend and loved him still! She wanted to separate him and Hermia!

Anz: In order to stop Hermia, Helena gave word of their plan to Demetrius.

SON: The enraged Demetrius went to their pursuit in the forest. Following him, Helena went to the forest as well~!

Anz: This is the forest of Athens. The forest at night was bustling with non-human activity...

Yos: Oberon, the king of the fairies who rules over the forest was upset.

Yos: The reason being that his wife, Titania, refused parting with an adorable Indian child who was to be his page.

Anz: Oberon, whose rage did not settle, decided on using magic to distract Titania from the child, if all goes well...

Anz: She will be overcome with love for an unlikely partner, after coming up with a strategy as he would a joke, he acted this same night.

Wak: His reasons and his actions are so petty for a king...

SON: While Oberon was chuckling to himself, he saw two groups composed of a man and a woman.

SON: At a glance, he could notice it was a love square situation. How pitiful isn't it~?

SON: "This, Puck. Use the love at first sight flower to birth a new love into my wife... I know! At the same time~"

SON: "There is a man whose love a woman pursues but he denies, put some on him as well!"

Anz: The fairy, Puck, who just was ordered did as he was told and applied the flower to Titania and the human man.

Yos: However, Puck who was hasty and careless mistook who was Demetrius and...

Anz: Rubbed the flower's juice on Lysander and oh my! Lysander fell in love with Helena!

Uta/Aya/Yum: Eeeeeh~~~!?

SON: As a result, Lysander began chasing Helena, leaving both Helena and Hermia in panic!

SON: Oberon was infuriated by this mistake! The panicked Puck also sprayed the flower's juice onto Demetrius~.

SON: Demetrius was then suddenly madly in love with Helena too! Helena's sudden popularity phase threw her into a panic~♪

Fuu: Sounds like a story you'd like... So? What happened with Titania?

Anz: In fact, there was another group present this night. Nearby were craftsmen who would act in a play intended for the duke's wedding.

Anz: Puck was amused by the men who were rehearsing for the play, and!

Yos: Using some of his magic he turned one of the men's head into a donkey's head. Which threw them into a panic...

Shi: What is he doing... Panic? No... I mean Puck.

SON: Titania who passed by already had her eyelids covered in the flower juice.

Son: And fell crazy in love with donkey head~♪ As the king Oberon expected, it was funny monster love~♪

Ren: Hmph. That is indeed the height of comedy.

Tak: And and? What happened next?

Anz: Oberon who witnessed his wife falling prey to the spell all too easily suddenly felt sorry for her...

SON: "That's... enough." he said as he released her from the spell, and she fall back in love with him~

Meb: Ho-How selfish...

Anz: He released the spell from the humans in the process, although Demetrius alone still retained his love for Helena.

Yos: On order from Oberon, the relationships were restored and the midsummer night came to an end.

Yuu/Tak/Aka: It was fun~!


A midsummer night's wonderful dream - 3

[Several days later]

[Hero Club room]

Gin/Aya/Sum: .........

Uta/Wak/Nat: .........

SON: Woah~, everyone is reading at once, did that ever happen in the Hero Club history~?

Anz: Since last time, everyone took interest in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", bought or borrowed it and they're all silent...

Tou: Yuuna-chan, is there anything you don't understand? Kanjis you cannot read?

Yuu: The wording is so complex it's all gibberish to me, but now that I've heard the summary it's fine!

Tam: That's right. Without Sonoko and the other's summary, I would've thrown that complicated book in a minute.

Suz: Everything's so confusing I lose track of who's who along the way~.

Meb: But if you keep persevering and get to understand it, I think it's an actually interesting story.

Ren: Understanding...? Which part?

Meb: Eh... About the mutual love of Lysander and Hermia or Helena's longing towards Demetrius.

Kar: Ku-Kusunoki Mebuki! You could understand that!?

Meb: What do you mean, Miyoshi Karin!?

Ren: Mmmh...

Yum: Ancestor-sama, what is the matter? Is it a demonstration of your high-speed page-flipping technique?

Ren: Love... Longing... To Miroku, those are more puzzling than the classical nature of it.

Kir: Hey! Look at this! They were distributin' these in the shoppin' district!

Aki: Mh, some kind of flyer? Let me see... "Outdoors plays - Summer theater festival"?

Anz: Ah, the rumored event in Kagawa, where famous Shikoku theatrical groups meet up and play from morning to night...

Yos: Is there such an event taking place? I would be interested in watching it.

Fuu: If you're interested, we can all go together. Conveniently, there's a theater boom in the club.

SON: Agreed~! I looked up on my phone and they'll be performing "A Midsummer Night's Dream"~♪

Mit: Really? We just read the book and we'll also watch the play, that's perfect timing.

Aya: Getting to see the play acted just after finishing the book is extremely fortunate♪

Wak: Right. I read the book multiple times and remember the lines but seeing it in movement will surely change my impression.

Suz: Eh, I only read half of it! Our mental capabilities are on different leagues, great savior♪

Shi: There was a little swallow who flattered people at every chance...

Its: Eh, uuh, are there really people who read it several times and even remember the lines!?

Tam: Hyoeeh~!? How are you smart enough to do this!?

SON: Me, me and Anzu read it prior so it's only natural but it's impressive you could do that in a few days~.

Sek: Sure is~. Best I can do is go one line at a time and understand when I go "oh right, they said that".

Fuu: This is normal. I'm like this too.

Nat: T-This is... normal? I... don't remember the summary either.

Uta: Oh no! I haven't memorized the names of the characters yet~~.

Gin: Me neither, me neither! I don't know who Puck and Sander are!

Sum: You've already made a mistake...

Son: Thunder Sander~Lysander♪

Tak: Ahaha! It's okay if you can't. You'll surely understand everything by watching the play.

Chi: Looks like some sultry bunch is showing up.

Hin: How unfortunate... Just as we had forgotten about the heat and were having fun.

Tam: Alright, let's go show those Vertexes about human smarts~!

Uta: Exactly, Tamako-san! We'll kick their butts using our intelligence!

Aka: Competing with the Vertexes on intellect... That's a very muscle-brain remark to make.


A midsummer night's wonderful dream - 4

[Day of the theater festival - Early morning]

[Outdoor theater - Audience seats]

Yuu: Waah! It's a real outdoor theater! No stage no seats and no roof!

Its: This isn't only for plays, it's also used for idols lives!

Fuu: People are free to come and leave during the festival, so it seems to be free.

Tou: Although Fuu-senpai. There is a notice saying "Watch now and pay later", what about it?

Yos: Ah. I believe it means "We do accept donations".

Anz: It's an implicit system where people who find it interesting can give the money they want. That's such an artistic thing and it's wonderful♪

Kir: Eeh, I see~, sounds like a challenge to me. C'mon show me how funny ya guys can be!

Mit: I don't think she meant interesting in that way. They'll be performing dramas too...

Tam: Look, look! All these food stalls lined up around the stage♪

Gin: We've got time until "The Tropical Night's Dream", right!? So it's okay if we go?

Sum: You even got the name wrong!

Fuu: Ah~, it's fine, do as you like. Theater, check, food, check. The stalls are my only choice~♪

Gin/Tam: That's right!

Wak: You are now on free time. However when "A Midsummer Night's Dream" starts, you must all be back here. Disperse!

Kar: Jeez. I'm glad we have Wakaba to get serious when Fuu decides to be an idiot.

Nat: It's good she's like this sometimes... Fuu is always trying so hard...

Sek: Huh, Shizuku! She's eating a frankfurter sausage. Aren't food and drinks forbidden on the seats?

Shi: Nom nom... It's fine, because we're outside.

SON: Eeh, is it!? I think it's my first time being allowed to eat except during kabuki interludes~.

Yos: It is indeed rare during noble performances such as operas and musicals, or rather...

Yos: In many cases, spilled food and drinks are a source of many problems for theaters regarding cleaning.

Anz: High-class theaters have long-wooled carpets and fluffy cushions, which makes the cleaning long and costly.

Yos: Yes. That isn't to say small theaters will allow it, there are other reasons... for example in our situation.

Anz: It's cramped enough that people would lean on each other, spilled food would then spark more trouble, the smell is yet another problem...

Aki: Ha~. You just can't take it like you were at home watching TV.

Yos: Aki-senpai... Please focus on the stage rather than the food.

Aki: Yoshika-chan your eyes look ice-cold! Not even trying to hide your contempt for your senpai! Sorry!

Yos: Watching TV is well, but when you're dealing with real people, there are certain manners to follow.

Aki: I-I got it. C-Come on, Yamabushi-chan! You just heard her. Stop eating your sausage!

Shi: No~... Nom nom nom.

Anz: Ahaha, manners are important for sure, but there are other ways to think.

Aki: Are you backing me up!? Thank you! I knew I could trust you, Anzu-chan!

Anz: No, that's not what I meant...

Aki: Treat me as your senpai!

Anz: Plays in ancient Greece started at dawn when the sun rises and finished when it set.

Anz: As they lasted an entire day, plays were said to be very very long.

Anz: Which is the reason why many classic plays open on a dawn scene and concludes on a sunset scene.

Anz: However, the texts I've read did not mention breaks. If a play lasts for about 12 hours, when did the audience eat?

Yos: ...! I-Iyojima-sama... If I follow your theory...

Anz: Exactly. If the play includes a wine-drinking scene, the audience would be served wine as well and cheer.

Anz: During the meal scenes, the audience would eat along with the characters from the story, it's all integrated is my theory!

Uta/Yos: Wow! Interactive! Bravo♪. / A-As expected of a hero, how deeply insightful!

???: Fufufufu. These young people are passionately debating dramaturgy, or rather food in regards to the play's audience. Ah, I'll take this, munch.

Shi: Ah... She stole my sausage~~~~.

SHI: You bastard! How dare you take Shizuku's... Eh?

???: "The cure for an empty stomach can only be a thick frankfurter sausage." William Shakespeare.

Anz/Sek/Aki: He never said that and who are you!?


A midsummer night's wonderful dream - 5

[Outdoor theater - Audience seats]

Igu: My name is Tsuchikabe Igusa. I am a passing theatrical enjoyer. Ah, I thank you for the sausage.

SHI: Like I care about your thanks! You ate it without asking!

Igu: From your previous discussion, am I right to assume you are a theater club from a school?

Tou: No, while we have done voluntary theatrical and puppet plays in the past... We are the Hero Club.

Igu: Volunteer theater? While professional actors struggle to make profit.

Anz: Ah, but... There are people who don't have the money to watch plays and also kids so...

Yos: What is your problem? Protesting against the Heroes is deserving of capital punishment. I will bury you.

Aki: Easy, easy, calm down, Hanamoto-chan! Put down that empty bottle! We don't want a real life tragedy at a theater!

Igu: Aah, blaming you wasn't my intention. Your attitude is obviously wonderfully praiseworthy. However...

Sek: However... what?

Igu: Actors aren't guaranteed to see their efforts pay off, it is a harsh and lonely industry...

Igu: Even when are forced to eat grass and cough up blood, you still go back to the stage, and let it consume you.

Igu: Are you really prepared for this, is your love for the stage enough!?

SON/Anz/Yos: Eeeeeeh~~~~~~!?

Igu: ...Hohoho. Just kidding♪

Tak: Ah. J-Just kidding♪ Right~?

Chi: Why are you relating!?

Igu: I am sorry. I have gotten unconsciously fervent. I realize this isn't a question you ask students.

Meb: I-It's okay... but is it necessary for real actors to be prepared for this much?

Igu: Hohoho. You can forget it. You are spectators, you only care should be to enjoy today's plays. On that, I will be on my way...

SHI: The heck was that... She quietly put money for the sausage and left. And too much even!

Yum: From everything that she said, she does love theater that is for sure.

Nat: She talked about theater with passion but... maybe she's a... patron?

Suz: Wait, you mean she's rich!? A rich theater-loving lady could totally become a Hero Club sponsor!

Sek: Hey there, chun chun. You know the Hero Club doesn't accept sponsors.

Yuu: Hey! Do the actors really eat grass!? I was so focused on that part I didn't listen to what she said after!

Yos: When it comes to this era I don't know, although in ours... I did hear of it rather often...

Its: No, they also do it in the Divine era. Actors from smaller groups have to go on stage and work part-time jobs.

Sum: So they cannot eat without a second job...

Meb: Yet they still want to act. People who don't have the passion to act cannot work in this industry...

Ren: Hmph. They do say what one likes, one will do well, even so, in arts, passion does not necessarily amount to success.

Chi: Not seeing results no matter how much you train is cruel, vain...

Sek: You think they "want to entertain people" but actually they're "forced to entertain".

SON: There may be times when they put their soul into acting but the audience can criticize it harshly...

Anz: They have no security in case they're ill or hurt, it is a greatly distressful life...

Yos: The stage they act on is gorgeous and lit up but their lives may be the complete opposite.

Aka: A-Actors got it much worse than I thought...

Ren: Does a life of no money and immense hardships truly have a point I wonder.

Ren: Ultimately, is the job of acting not simply reading a script aloud on a stage?

Ren: While hyperbolic, Miroku believes the result will be identical regardless of the actor.

Anz: T-That's obviously...

Ren: The reason being, the actor has no effect on the story's outcome.

Kar: When you say it so confidently it suddenly feels like such a vague art form.

Mit: When the Hero Club did theater or puppets plays we never thought about things in this much detail...

Sek: And that's okay. It's normal. As long as we have fun, that's good enough for us.

Yuu: Yeah, today we'll be the spectators so let's enjoy watching the plays~♪


A midsummer night's wonderful dream - 6

[Outdoor theater - Audience seats]

Juliet: O Romeo... Why are you Romeo...?

Anz: Haaa... Romeo and Juliet is so great every time I see it...

Tak: I have a feeling of deja-vu when I heard this line, I wonder why...

Yum: This play is one of the world's three great tragedies.

Yos: Right. The author is the same as "A Midsummer Night's Dream", being Shakespeare.

Ren: Hmph, under Miroku's judgment, it is no tragedy but a comedy.

Kir: That's another huge denial. So? What'd ya got to back that up?

Ren: Due to a miscommunication, he assumes an imitation of death is true death and the extent of his stupidity led him to end his own life...

Ren: Only after their death does the conflict between the Montague and Capulet families end...

Ren: Hmph, how foolish...

Tam: Hmm. So that's what this story was about. Then it's okay to laugh when you watch it♪

Romeo: Sleep upon your eyes, be at peace upon your chest!

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Juliet: Romeo-sama... why have you... drank this poison...

Juliet: How could you... Why have you left no one drop for me!

Juliet: I will kiss the poison hanging on your lips so you may take me with you, Romeo-samaaaa...

Tam: Uuh... Sob...

Anz: Tamacchi-senpai... handkerchief. Juliet... she was only 13... Uuuh...

Tam: Auuh~... This is breaking my heart~... How's that a comedy... Sniff.

Tam: If that's how it was going to end, they should've just let them go out from the start~~!

Tam: It's all the adults' fault~~~. Uh uh... Hic hic...

Kar: That's a surprise. I didn't think Tamako would get this invested...

Meb: True. At the start, she even adapted to Renge's opinion and was laughing.

Yos: This is different from reading words in a book. Watching actors performing in front of you is much more...

Yum: You're right~... Uuh. Despite the foolishness, you cannot suppress the welling sympathy~.

Ren: Mmmh... So this is the theatrical art. The special ability an actor possesses...

Juliet: Aah... Cold dagger is bliss in such time. You are the only one on my side. My chest is your sheath.

Yuu: Aah...! No... Uuh... Uuh~. Juliet died too~~...

Tam: Anzuu~, Tama's never going to rely on people to tell messages ever again~.

Anz: Yes, yes...!

Tam: Whatever happens, I'll never lie about being dead and never pretend being dead~~!

Anz: Obviously... If you did I would never ever... forgive you...

Male spectator: Uuh... I can't take it...

Female spectator: This is too painful... Uuuh.

Spectators: Uuh... Uuuuh... Sniff.

Nat: There's a chorus of cries everywhere...

Sek: Tama-chan and the others crying probably caused it to snowball.

Aki: Is that the feeling of unity between the actors and spectators? Actual performances are crazy...

Chi: It almost feels like the audience is part of the play as an actor in itself...

Prince: Young lives were lost. Both families, for your hate you have all...

Prince: been struck by divine punishment. Punishment by the eternal loss of pure Romeo and Juliet...

[Square]

Fuu: That's a huge ovation. This probably means Romeo and Juliet is over.

Gin: Tamako-san went to watch it, you think she's crying?

Wak: Tamako? Hahaha. That would be absurd.

Igu: What do you mean you won't make it in time!? If you must knock down each car of this traffic jam you will be here!

Fuu: S-Sounds like someone is saying unreasonable stuff...

Hin: She may be on the phone but it seems to be more than a trivial matter.