#080 Let’s decide on the roles!
Three days have passed since the student council and the free activity department decided to work together to put on a play.
Everyone worked hard to prepare the necessary parts for the play, and I helped with various tasks.
… To tell the truth, I played hard next to Lady Ruby.
When I was restless, thinking that I would find something to do to feel at ease, Coral handed me several pieces of paper and asked.
“Amber. “Can you take a look at this?”
“Huh? What?”
“It’s a play script. “I wanted Amber to see it first.”
The script that Coral handed over was so large that it lasted dozens of pages.
“I wrote this much in 3 days… ? Oh my god… “
“At first, I was worried about when I would finish using it, but as I started writing it, I found it fun, so I stopped… “
When Coral looked embarrassed and looked embarrassed, I said with a grin.
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“Thanks to you, we can proceed according to schedule. Thank you.”
Coral smiled with a slight blush on her face, and then she asked me carefully.
“… Amber, could you please distribute the roles?”
“I… ? But, it’s a script written by Coral… “
“I’m not good at this. “If it were Amber, I think she would be able to more easily determine roles for club members.”
When I think about it, I’ve never had any help preparing for a play before, so in a way, it was a good opportunity.
This is the first time I have been able to contribute something.
“… Okay. “I will try.”
“Really? Thank you!”
Coral smiled and wiggled her hands as if she had something to say without leaving me.
“Amber, I’m so sorry, but can I ask you one more thing?” ?”
“Which one?”
“… “Can you pat me on the back for doing a good job?”
“… Eh?”
I tilted my head at the somewhat strange request to be petted.
“Ho, it’s okay if you feel burdened… ! Because it was just a joke… “
“No. “It’s not that difficult.”
I sat down on the chair across from her and gently placed Coral’s hand on her head using her hand.
Coral flinched slightly at the touch, but then she closed her eyes and accepted her touch.
‘It’s like a puppy.’ So cute… ‘
Her short hair looks like this. It felt quite different from the texture of long, long hair.
Should I say it feels more touching? It feels like stroking a small animal.
“Good job, good job.”
“… Lol.”
Before I knew it, I was stroking her with the utmost sincerity, using both my hands.
I felt a hand on my head, and he started stroking me.
“… ?”
When I turned around, I saw Ruby touching my head with an expressionless face.
“What are you doing, lady… ?”
“Putting coral and stroking amber.”
A supernatural scene unfolded where three people, including me, lined up and patted their heads.
It would not be strange to call us a petting train.
Moreover, Ruby’s touch can be addictive like a drug.
Every time she touched every inch of her head, she felt like her mind was at ease.
As I was doing that, the club room door burst open and Amethyst came in.
“What? It looks fun. “I want to join too!”
Now, with Amethyst joining, there are a total of four people.
From then on, this was repeated every time a new person came, and before we knew it, we had turned into one colony.
The bizarre situation ended only when the bell rang, signaling lunch time.
***
While resting after lunch, I glanced over the script Coral gave me.
There were three main characters in Coral’s novel.
Knight, princess. And monsters.
There are only really royal roles, but the plot is quite interesting, so that it doesn’t stand out at all.
The remaining minor characters are the king, queen, and subjects, with short or no lines at all.
‘It’s really hard to decide…. First, let’s ask them what they want.’
In the end, I asked club members to write down the roles they wanted through a questionnaire and then collected them.
When all the club members were together, I compiled and read the questionnaire.
“Let’s see, what kind of roles did you write down?” “
The roles listed as desired on paper were as follows.
“Villager 1, Sasquatch, tree, zelkova tree, willow tree, chestnut tree, rock… ?”
After reading them all in front of them, I slammed the desk and shouted.
“There are five trees each… ? Besides, there is no role for stones!”
In response to my confused cries, DIA, who was the only one who wrote down the human role and gave it to me, smiled and answered.
“It’s because everyone is not confident in their acting, Amber.”
I thought no one would step forward, but I didn’t expect it to be to this extent.
I slowly looked through the questionnaire again and asked.
“And Miss Ruby wrote down Sasquatch… “Does this mean playing the role of a monster?”
“No, that’s the Sasquatch role.”
“… Yeah, that’s right. Sasquatch.”
Feeling like there would be no end to arguing with her about this topic, she quietly put the girl’s name in the monster’s role.
“What about other people? “Is there anyone else who would like to apply?”
People who were usually noisy were unusually quiet today.
I was avoiding eye contact and trying my best to pretend not to notice.
‘Everyone is fooling me…’ ‘
If there are no applicants, the role cannot be determined, and if the role is not determined, the play cannot be completed.
In cases like this, you should use the traditional and fair method that has been handed down since ancient times.
‘Yes, draw lots!’
I wrote down each role on a piece of paper and put it all in a round container.
“I will exclude Clara and Coral. “They both have to work off stage.”
Clara had to be responsible for various props and makeup, and Coral, as the director, needed to diligently guide her acting.
Excluding those two people, Ruby, who had already taken the monster role, was also excluded from the draw.
“Now, please pick me!”
I walked around with the box and forced everyone to pick one, and each girl picked up a piece of paper one by one.
Of course, I am no exception to this lottery, so the last remaining note automatically became mine.
I carefully opened the note and confirmed my role.
‘… Please, just a supporting role… !’
When I opened the note, the role written on it was revealed.
[Article]
‘Article… !?’
It’s not just a leading role, it’s the same as a special leading role.
The knight was almost at the same level as the princess in terms of the amount of dialogue.
As I was looking devastated with a miserable expression, someone with a similar expression to me caught my eye.
At first glance, it was clear that she was a leading lady, so I approached her and asked.
“Dia, what role did you get?”
“… “She’s a princess.”
That’s why you were so tearful. Anyway, since Diamond is a princess, it might be fitting.
“What about Amber? “What is your role?”
“I got caught.”
“Oh my, you’re both main characters?”
I have to play the knight who protects the diamond. I was already sighing at how insignificant it seemed.
“For someone like me to be a knight, it sure doesn’t suit me… “
Then, Dia shook her head and said.
“That’s not true. “How cool is Amber?”
“… “Thank you for saying that, too.”
Somehow it feels like the person who has to protect each other has changed, but it’s also awkward that I’m a princess.
Dia’s appearance is perfect for the role of a princess.
I turned and asked other people their roles.
“What about Ame and Emerald? What is your role?”
Amethyst answered my question with an ambiguous expression.
“… “The king and queen.”
“Yes? Really?”
It was a situation where a real royal was playing a royal.
“Amethyst plays the role of the king?”
“No. The king is my older sister, and I am the queen. Ha…”
“Wow… “
I was already imagining the awkwardness that would be felt on stage.
Sisters acting as a married couple, how could there be anything so awkward?
Besides them, the rest of the club members were minor characters with only one line of dialogue.
I organized the designated roles on the blackboard and finalized the role assignment.
***
I returned to my room and read the script intently.
The lead role had a lot of lines, so I had to read it two or three times to memorize it.
As she was reciting her lines, holding her throbbing head, she noticed Ruby stomping around her room in her animal pajamas.
“… “Miss, what are you doing?”
“I’m practicing acting. “To prepare for the actual battle.”
“Be careful. “Fall.”
Whenever the topic of Sasquatch came up, it felt like Ruby’s average intelligence regressed to that of a 10-year-old.
‘Huh?’
When I read the last chapter of the script, I was quite shocked by the ending.
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‘The identity of the monster was that it was the first princess who was cursed… ?’
The role that Diamond plays is actually the second princess, and the story goes that Ruby, who turned into a monster, was the hidden first princess.
The monster received a kiss filled with true love from the knight and returned to its original form.
‘Wait a minute, kiss…’ ?’
Since I am in charge of the knight, I will have to kiss the monster anyway, and the person in charge of that monster is none other than Lady Ruby…
“Ah.”
I had to kiss Ruby in front of everyone.