Chapter 51

Chapter 51

Chapter 51: The day of preparation (First half.)

We’ve held several more meetings after that, and finally we’ve arrived at the day before the show.

We’ve prepared both people and things, and almost everything we have to do on that day are all planned out, however today is the first day that we’re actually doing something about the show itself. Up until now, everyone has to read the script given to them at home and practiced independently. Mainly it was the women group that do it, and it has nothing to do with me but……

“……And yet again the person I didn’t call has come here.”

“Well of course this is the rehearsal day isn’t it.”

“The receptionist role also has to do the rehearsal……?”

“Sod off.”

And there in the middle of the hall inside community center is Tosaki Yui, who already spitted poisonous words the moment she saw me. I’m still being hated like usual.

At first I worried about whether the hall could reallyfit fifty people inside or not, but when I’m actually here myself I immediately understand that such a number of people won’t be a problem at all. Seems like this place was used to hold some kind of musical concerts and contests, as such the number of seats are more than enough.

This place is just too good, I can’t deny the feeling that this is a waste of such a good place just to hold a puppet show for some kids. So maybe if I think of it differently, maybe Sato gathering a lot more kids here might not be that much of a bothersome thing after all.

First off, I replaced some normal seats with a children’s chair one. The kids at the front row might be fine but, the kids on the second row and so on might not be able to see the stage since the normal seats are too high for them. There is the problem about whether they’ll sit still in their seat in the first place but, well I’ll just think about it on the show day.

While I was carring the box-like children’s chair from the preparation room, Tec-chan is in the lights control room adjusting all the lighting and stuff, the other three women are preparing the stage and discussing things.

Seeing it all from afar like this, the presence of Tosaki Yui really stands out. Regrettably though, she fits in perfectly with my ideal image of a splendid adult. She wears a suit today too, and most likely will head to work after she’s done with the stage practices. Surely she must’ve forcibly adjusted some of her schedule to make some time for the parents meeting. However never once did she complained, she easily held a proper meetings and mold it into a shape, and made today possible.

She’s such an outstanding person, but whenver she talks with me she always acts like a kid in which I don’t know why at all. Is she too well brought up that she doesn’t know how to get angry properly?

Eventually the puppet show practice started.

And me who finished carrying the chairs at about the same time, sat on a propriate seat and start watching them.

There’s a desk-like thing placed on the middle of the stage, and a black cloth-like thing covered on top. I guess those three are hiding under that cloth.

“――Once upon a time in a certain place, there existed a very cool person called Don Juan.”

At first the stage’s light turns dark, and then Tosaki Yui‘s narration started. Seems like she’s using a microphone and not her raw voice. And yet…… Is she a professional or something this is just too good. Capable people are just too capable that they can do literally anything huh……

That aside, let me explain the story of Tales of Verona. Since many people had written about this story, the details vary from book to book, but to sum it all up it’s something like this.

Don Juan is a handsome womanizer that just played around too much that his family got into financial troubles. And there his parents arranges a marriage for him, his fiancee is a person named Julian. However he didn’t have enough fun playing around yet, so he tries to convince Julian, before going on a woman-hunting trip with an old man called Sganarelle. Julian who finds it suspicious follows him while crossdressing. The place that those two have arrived to is Verona. A bad place where two families that possess the famous Romeo and Juliet reside in and repeatedly bickering with each other. And in there is where Don Juan finds his true love, in which he leads the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet into a comedy story.

I greatly doubt if kids will really enjoy a story like this but…… I wonder where she got this story from, maybe she made this up all by herself, but all in all the content inside the script she has given out are wonderfully made for kids. The contents about love or tragedy, and also other difficult subjects are mostly omitted, but the comical parts are kept for the most part. I think this story are far more interesting than the other stories that I’ve read countless of times, such as Momotarou and stuff. This story fits very well with kid’s tastes.

“I-, I am Don Juan. A super duper cool man!”

If only the acting was also decent as well though.

This voice is earring person’s. I guess she’s too nervous, or maybe she’s not good at acting, but clearly she’s stiff at it. Or maybe it’s just that Tosaki Yui‘s narration earlier is just too good when compared to this, but even if I include the point of her being an amateur in too her acting is still…… Well, the kids won’t care about something like that away.

“I’m sorry, I got a little too nervous.”

“It’s okay, please calm down first before continuing.”

……You’re still on the mic you know.

“Ay am Don Juan, a souppa doopa cool man!”

“My name is Sganarelle. A good friend of Don Juan-sama!”

……The person without earrings is really excited it seems. And she’s also good at it.

And so, I kept watching the practice while giving out scores in my heart.

Rehearsal time is scheduled to be about five hours long. Normally she’d get the meeting done in about thirty minutes and immediately went to work after, however it seems like she’s going to stay here for a long time today.

But still, watching them practicing like this make me want to have a part in it too. Come on let me be that Don Juan guy. He’s exactly just like me, living life freely as I see fit. And also super cool too.

Well setting that joke aside, I could sympathize a little with this Don Juan character. Although his habit of playing around with woman is not something to praise about but, seeking love and yet failed miserably, already giving up but unable to do so. I understand that feeling a little bit. He’s very similar to me, the me before meeting Misaki.

When I think about it like that, then this story fits perfectly for a child. Although that child, he’s a little bit too big though.

Lunch break.

The break time is scheduled to be thirty minutes, each one of us will eat our own home-made bento…… but me who wasn’t informed of that, has to drag myself to the nearby convenience store and buy a bread for my lunch there. And while I’m there I also buy some tea for others then return to the hall. Since it looks like they didn’t bring something to drink with too after all.

And then when I arrived at the parking lot, I heard a voice.

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“L-, listen up Romeo. T-, the folks back at my town, they called me, teacher you know!”

It’s the earrings person.

Did she kept practicing without any rest……

“Here’s your tea.”

“Eh? Ah, Tendou-san, I’m sorry……”

Perhaps because she was seen practicing, she had both embarrassed and troubled expression on her face, then she receives my the plastic bottle from my hand.

“Umm, I’m sorry that I interrupted you. But well how should I put this, I think it’s better if you take a break.”

“Ahhaha, thank you very much…… But, I can’t quite calm myself down.”

As she said that, the earrings person’s eyes look at the script in her hand. And when I take a glance at it too, the script was in a condition that suggests that she has read it many times. The page’s edge are all wrinkled, the speeches part are highlighted with a highlighter. And around those are “Slowly!” or “Calm down!” memo notes, a lot of them are written.

“……”

I can’t find the words to respond at all. And while I’m all quiet, she opens her mouth.

“You know, I want to do my best.”

With a crunching sound, I heard the sound of paper being crushed.

When I take a look at her, she’s gripping hard on the script in her hand.

“Up until now I’ve done nothing, living pointlessly…… Tosaki-san is just too amazing, I’m very happy that I’m working together with such a wonderful person like that…… I, I’ve told my son “Mama’s going to play in a puppet show you know.” He’s so happy about it that even I am surprised by it, he says that he’s going to brag about it to his friends…… But, if I keep being like this then it’s only going to end up as laughing stock isn’t it. That’s why, I want to become better at it even if it is a little bit……”

Hearing her story, it was quite unexpected. From the many meetings we have up until now, I thought of this person as someone who doesn’t care about things. But in actuality, she is……

“Well, I think having fun is the top priority after all. I’m sorry, also thank you very much for the tea.”

“……Ahhh, uhh I mean, you’re welcome.”

“Then I’m going back now, I’m going to do my best in the afternoon too!”

She went back to the community center, while also speaking as if she’s talking to herself.

After seeing her off, I hurriedly chased after her.

I think she’s cool.

There’s nothing she has to be embarrassed about.

Be it that you sucks at doing it, or you’re useless, those things have nothing to do with coolness at all.

Because a person that do their best, is a cool person nonetheless.