Overlapping Faces

...By the way, Sakiko, how do you always come up with your scripts?

Details 5:36
Chapter
Saltatio Beneath the Shifting Moon
Duration
5:36
Release
Nov 17
Characters
Doloris / Uika Misumi , Mortis / Mutsumi Wakaba , Timoris / Umiri Yahata , Amoris / Nyamu Yūtenji , and Oblivionis / Sakiko Togawa

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A Few Days Before the Performance

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Wakaba's Home - Basement Studio

So that you never spend a lonely night,
I will stay close to you and never leave your side for even a moment.
Please allow me to love you
with all that I am.
Princess, please choose me...!
Choose me...!
...It was not bad,
but I would say it is still one step short.
Mutsumi, do you have anything to add?
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...Uika, maybe it would be better if you showed a little less composure.
This is also a scene where we want to show
just how infatuated you are with the princess.
If it were me, I'd act like nothing else even enters my sight.
I see... yeah, I'll try it with that image in mind!
I feel Nyamu could be even more uncool.
That way, it would make the coldness of the princess whose expression never changes stand out more...
If it's a situation where another knight might take the princess,
you wouldn't be able to worry about appearances.
For Umiri, if you had a little more of a feeling that your emotions can't be stopped,
I think it would be more convincing.
Normally you're the Stern Knight, but in front of the princess, your feelings overflow until reason can't hold them back...
Try acting with that gap in mind.
Then, let's run through it once more from the beginning.
...Saki, what about a break?
You haven't taken a single break today.
...Indeed, you're right.
Then shall we take a short break?
I've bought drinks for everyone.
Please take whatever you like from here.
Oh, that's thoughtful.
Then I'll have... rooibos tea~
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...*Sigh*, I'm beat~
We've been at it since morning, after all.
But thanks to that, I feel we're gradually getting in sync.
So this is what band unity is like.
...What are you saying all of a sudden?
Don't you think so, Yūtenji-san?
...Well, I won't deny we've gotten more in sync.
Yeah.
Everyone's getting better.
I also thought acting looked hard when I first got the script,
but I feel like I'm gradually getting used to the role.
This script is a little different from usual, after all.
It's only natural that it feels difficult.
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...By the way, Sakiko, how do you always come up with your scripts?
...It's not as though I have any particular fixed method, but—
This time, I also went back
and reread Shakespeare and stage design photo books.
And then, something gave me an idea...
Yes...
I found an article about Mujica online.
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A reporter who had strung together harsh words when we disbanded
praised us the moment we came back, as if doing a complete about-face...
On social media, opinions were sharply divided as well.
Just then, a crescent moon hung in the sky...
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People only see what they want to see, in the way they want to see it...
That's what I thought.
...Only seeing what they want to see, in the way they want to see it—
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Inspiration welled up from there,
and I was able to write this script.
Well, this script's pretty interesting, isn't it?
It was so interesting I read it all in one go!
It's lovely, like a gothic fairy tale.
Yeah. I think it's a good play.
I'll perform this role with care, too.
Shall we get back to it soon?
Everyone, to your positions.
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(—Only seeing what they want to see, in the way they want to see it...)
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(That applies to me as well......)
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...! No, it's nothing...
Then, once more from the beginning.
Yeah. Let's do this, Saki.