ăWelcome~âȘ Table for one? Are you with the person beside you?ă
ăYes⊠Itâs a table for two.ă
ăSure~ Not a problemâȘ Follow me to your table please~ă
Che! Youâre a couple? Just go explode! On a closer inspection, isnât that the dull looking guy and that pretty chick couple again? (Waitress)
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Honestly⊠What was up with that waitress? (Andou)
ăAnyway, Andou-kun! Y-You said there was something you wanted to tell me⊠W-W-What is it!?ă
ăEh? Oh yeah. Come to think of it, I did suddenly say to you,ăThereâs something I really must get out to you, Asakura-san⊠Can we meet up after school?ă. Iâm sorry for asking you out of the blue. This must have certainly been troubling for you.ă
ăI-Itâs not bothering me at all. B-But certainly⊠it was so sudden, I wasnât mentally prepared for it, andâŠT-That is, um~ I was hoping you would act like that with me.ă
ăâŠâŠâŠâŠ?ă
Well, as usual, Asakura-sanâs acting weird again. (Andou)
He invited me out of nowhere~~! F-F-Furthermoreâ
ăAsakura-san⊠There is something I must say to you no matter what⊠After school, come hang out with me at a fashionable cafe. O. Kay?âăăâ Beautified by Asakuraâs mind
ăâ T-Those are most certainly lines said before aălove confessionă! Yup, Iâm sure Andou-kun has fallen for myăwomanly wilesăand has come to confess his love to me! F-Fine with me⊠Whatever words you use to confess to me, Iâll take it all! (Asakura)
Well, whatever. This isnât the first time sheâs acted strangely. (Andou)
ăAsakura-san, the truth isâă
ăYes? Yes! Yes!ă
ăI want you to help me think of a happy ending for the play!ă
ăI lurbve you too!ă
ăăâŠâŠâŠâŠEh?ăă
ăEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHH!? Our play had a happy ending!?ă
ăYeah, but as you know, thereâs no way we could perform that to the elementary school kids therefore I have to come up with another happy ending but, Iâve been stuck trying to figure one outâŠă
Sir said it was fine to just leave it as is but⊠I want to at least try to think of a happy ending that would fit more with elementary school kids. However, it hasnât gone as smoothly as Iâll have like it to⊠(Andou)
ăThatâs it? âŠSo thatâs what you wanted to talk about. I was so sure youâă
ăWith that said, Asakura-san, did you misunderstood something? What was thatălurbveăthing about?ă
ăEep!? Ah! That, well⊠Oh, how silly of me! Andou-kun, donât misunderstand me! That was me simply expressing myăardent loveăforăNarouănovels as I thought for sure, you were going to recommend another interestingăNarou seriesăto me⊠I didnât think anything else besides that so donât misunderstand me!ă
ăOh, okayâŠă
Ah! Was that what that was⊠Did she misunderstood that we were going to talk aboutăNarouă? True, Asakura-sanâs expression changes the instant we start talking aboutăNarouă⊠Itâs a shame, people change.
Hah, that was dangerous. It was as if Asakura-san was towards me⊠No, idiot! Idiot! Idiot!ăNo way in hell is that going to happen! Even though Iâm aăloneră, why do I always hold such wishful thinking⊠(Andou)
ăBut Andou-kun, why are you having difficulties with the happy ending? If you only require a happy ending, then wouldnât having Romeo and Juliet not die in the end but elope work out better?ă
ăT-That makes sense⊠But you see, Asakura-san. Whilst that may be a happy ending for theăstoryăbut to me, that wouldnât be a happy ending for Romeo and Juliet.ă
ăEh, whyâŠ?ă
ăWeâre talking about the story so this is just an example. Romeo and Juliet eloped, didnât they? The story ends at that point but⊠continuing after that, Romeo and Juliet dropped out of high school, thus forced to enter society asămiddle school graduatesă. Do you think the both of them can just sustain on their feelings of beingăromantically in loveăand live happily? Surely theyâll be plagued by money troubles and without a standing in society, theyâll have no place to live. When that happens, people will look down upon them relentlessly. In such circumstances that neither wanted, can Juliet claim itâs ăhappinessăâŠă
ăT-Then, what if in the middle of eloping, they find a dungeon by accident and come into possession of an overwhelmingly large pile of moneyâă
ăEven if they had money, Iâm sure nothing would change at all⊠Sure, Juliet had cried to the dead Romeo,ăNothing matters but youă⊠But that was how she felt then in the moment. We canât say that the same sentiment holds after that.
ăWhat if after Juliet elopes with Romeo, she meets a better guy? What if Romeo gets into an unfortunate accident?
ăIâmăworriedă. It certainly is great if theyâre bound together⊠However, theăloveăthey have isnâtăeternală, doesnât it seem more of aămomentary infatuationă? Thatâs why I had them die at the end, to be together in Heaven so that theăloveăthat Romeo and Juliet will beăeternală.ă
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âI usually pull away from talking about these sorts of topics with Asakura-san. Just why on earth am I saying all these to her? (Andou)
Oh, Andou-kun, youâre so cool! I donât really quite understand what you were saying but as he was caught up talking about Romeo and Juliet, Andou-kun looked so hawt!ăâ Beautified by Asakura-sanâs eyes.
ăAndou-kun! I donât quite understand everything you said but what I do get is that for now, youâre in a pickle. So, I will help you out as best as I can!ă
ăEh? R-Reallyâ Hnngh⊠Hmm? Wait, what did you say at the start?ă
ăFor now, just leave it to me! If youâre having trouble figuring out a happy ending, then I will do my best to chime in and come up with brilliant ideas! As long as we put our two heads together, Iâm sure weâll think up a great one!ă
ăY-Yea⊠Youâre right.ă
W-Will this turn out alrightâŠ? Donât tell me, I asked the wrong person for help? (Andou)