Sakuya Sakuma | [SSR] An Oni Protecting The People | Spirit・Snow Demon - Part 1
Member of Another Troupe: Good work, Sakuya-kun. Your guest performance was great again this time.
Sakuya: Thank you so much! I had a lot of fun too. I hope you’ll call me again if you ever need help with anything else!
Member of Another Troupe: Ahaha. I thought you might say that, so I actually have a quick question for you, Sakuya-kun.
Member of Another Troupe: Our next project will be a longer play, broken into three different parts, with a leading role for each part…
Member of Another Troupe: So I was wondering if I could ask you and some of the other MANKAI Company members to play the roles of the snow demons.
Sakuya: ! Are you sure?
Member of Another Troupe: Yes. I know that you and the others may have other things going on, but could you please consider it?
Sakuya: Thank you so much!
Sakuya: I’m sure everyone will be super happy to hear that, but I can’t decide on my own, so can I hold off on deciding on anything for now and take this information home with me?
Member of Another Troupe: Of course. We look forward to hearing your response.
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*Door opens*
Sakuya: I’m home!
Izumi: Welcome back.
Taichi: Sakkun, welcome back!
Tsumugi: We’re all having dinner right now.
Tsuzuru: I’ll get you a plate, Sakuya.
Sakuya: Thank you!
Izumi: You had a guest performance today, right? Good work.
Tsumugi: That’s right. How was it?
Sakuya: It was really fun and I learned a lot!
Sakuya: (Everyone’s here, I wonder if I should bring up the thing from earlier.)
Sakuya: Um, Director. Can I bring up something to discuss with everyone…?
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Izumi: So basically, you were asked to perform by a troupe you’ve done guest performances with before, and they want some of our troupe’s members to star in the performance, you included, right, Sakuya-kun?
Sakuya: Yep, pretty much.
Tsumugi: Based on what you said, it sounds like it’s about a shrine maiden named Kannagi who prays and summons spirits to protect the human village from disaster.
Sakuya: Yeah. And they wanted us to play the roles of the snow demons among those spirits.
Taichi: So the snow demon roles are like, a main part of all three parts!? That’s huge!
Tsuzuru: Those definitely seem like roles worth playing.
Izumi: So if you take one of the roles, how many other people do they need, Sakuya-kun?
Sakuya: They want two other people to also play the other snow demons.
Sakuya: Also, the third part, which is the one they want me to do, is a story centered on wintery and snowy scenes, like the name “snow demon” implies.
Tsuzuru: Wintery and snowy, huh? Considering you’ve done guest performances before, I think those themes would be really fitting for you, Tsukioka-san…
Tsumugi: That would be fine by me. I think the scheduling would work, and more importantly, I’m Interested in both the story and the structure of it.
Sakuya: Really? Thank you so much!
Izumi: Alright then, we need one more.
Tsuzuru: I’d love to do it too, but I’m buried in part-time jobs right now… But please let me know if there’s anything else I can do to help!
Sakuya: Thank you, Tsuzuru-kun.
Taichi: Hey, hey! So can I do it instead!?
Taichi: I’ve always wanted to try doing a guest performance ever since I saw how crazy cool Juza-san was when he guest-starred in Yuzo-san’s troupe.
Taichi: Plus I’ve played the role of an oni before during a training camp, so can I do it… please?
Izumi: Ah, right, at the hot springs training camp. That role really fit you nicely, so I think you should go for it.
Taichi: Really!? Hell yeah!
Sakuya: Then I’ll make sure to get in touch with the troupe. I’ll let you know when I get the scripts and the dates of the costume fittings as soon as I know them!
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*Page turns*
Sakuya: (The script is for a three-part performance, so the story has a lot of depth…)
Sakuya: (I was only assigned the third part, but I have to make sure I have a grip on the earlier parts too so I can play my role well…!)
*Page turns*
Sakuya: (My role is a snow demon who quietly lives away from the human village and protects its people.)
Sakuya: (But the isolation and loneliness of living away from others causes him to end up disguising himself as a human and descending to the human village.)
Sakuya: (But it’s forbidden for snow demons to interact with humans. So if the snow demon breaks this rule, then--.)
Sakuya: So much isolation and loneliness all because it’s forbidden… I wonder what kind of place a snow demon would spend their time at then.
*Door opens*
Izumi: It’s all thanks to your help that I was able to buy everything I needed. Thank you, Kazunari-kun!
Kazunari: No probs! Lemme help you put everything away too.
Izumi: Ah, Sakuya-kun--.
Sakuya: Maybe there’s somewhere deep in the mountains with no other people around where I can go sometime soon…
Izumi: Eh!?
Kazunari: What’s wrong, SakuSaku!?
Sakuya: …Eh?
Kazunari: If you ever need someone to talk to, I’m always here to listen, okay!?
Izumi: I know we all have times when we want to be alone, but you don’t have to go deep into the mountains for that…!
Sakuya: Ah, no, no, no…! You’ve got it all wrong!
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