ALIVE STAGE Taikyoku Denki Backstage SS - 8/27/2023

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🐼Taikyoku Denki Backstage – The Backstage🐼

A grand exhibition of various conversations and scenes which were cut from the stage due to length and other issues ☆

 

It would be nice if you could imagine that this sort of conversation took place around the time of the stage 🐼

 

※For those who haven’t watched the stage and are worried about spoilers, please check this out after watching the stage.

 

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Nozomu: Hello there~!

Ren: Hello there.

 

Kensuke and Ryouta greet the two.

 

Ryouta: Hey there. Welcome.

Kensuke: Ooh, what’s up?

Ren: SOARA would like to share this with you.

Nozomu: Ta-daaah! It’s a watermelooon~! Morihito-senpai’s... uh... uncle’s cousin’s sister’s kid’s friend’s first love is a watermelon farmer, apparently!

Ryouta: I see. It’s from a complete stranger.

Ren: We received a lot and we can’t eat it all, so please do take it off our hands.

Kensuke: Ooh, for real? Thanks~!

Ryouta: Thank you. We’ll accept it.

Kensuke: Maybe we should chill it in the fridge? I feel like Mamoru’d be happy with it~♪

Nozomu: Chill it~ Chill it~♪

 

Kensuke and Nozomu go off-stage temporarily. Ren casually checks out the TV screen.

 

Ren: Is that a ballet program?

Ryouta: Oh, yes. It’s a documentary about the participants of the Lausanne international ballet competition. It’s interesting.

 

Ren: Ryouta-san, you’ve learned ballet before?

Ryouta: I’m surprised you know.

Ren: I was entranced by how beautiful your fingertips and toetips looked when dancing, so Kensuke-san told me in secret.

Ryouta: I swear, that guy... I learned a little bit when I was young and quit right after, so I wouldn’t exactly say that I learned much. (wry laugh) But I like watching it, and I’ve been watching it a lot since I was a kid. That might be why I inadvertently approach that style of dancing.

Ren: I see.

Ryouta: And Ren, too. Your posture’s fantastic, as I’d expect from someone who does kendo.

Ren: I’m told that occasionally. (laughs) I suppose the things that we come in contact with when we’re young come to have an influence on us?

Ryouta: That sounds possible. It’s a period in our lives when we’re greedily absorbing all sorts of information, and we become capable of incorporating lots of information into ourselves... It could very well influence our personalities and natures, too.

Ren: And for Ryouta-san, that’s ballet?

Ryouta: Yeah. It’s high-class, high-quality, with a strict diligence hidden behind an exterior of a gorgeous world.

I admire being that way. Ren, your kendo’s the same, isn’t it?

Ren: ...You’re right. Perhaps I came to gain this personality, which people say makes me stiff as a square, because etiquette and manners were beaten into me through kendo. (wry laugh)

Ryouta: I like that stiffness of yours.

Ren: Thank you very much. I also admire your high-class and strict diligence.

Ryouta: ...Thanks.

 

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Sora: We’re hooome~!

Morihito: We’re back!

Kouki: We’re back.

Kensuke: Oh, welcome home~!

Ren: Welcome back!

Nozomu: Welcome home~!

Ryouta: Welcome back.

 

Soushi and Mamoru come out to greet them, too.

 

Mamoru: Ah, Kou-kun, Sora-kun, Morihito-kun. Welcome home!

Soushi: You were at the leaders’ meeting, right? Good work too, Mori.

Morihito: Yep. Thanks.

Sora: We’ve brought home a special offer today~?

Okay, everyone, gather ‘round~?

 

The members gather around Sora and Kouki.

 

Soushi: What is it? Jeez, it hasn’t even been that long since you got back, yet you’re still noisy.

Morihito: A big project was announced at today’s leaders’ meeting.

Kouki: It’s a joint project between Growth and SOARA.

Nozomu: Ooh~! Are you serious!?

Sora: We’re serious, totally serious!

Ren: A joint project... Is it a concert?

Sora: Hmm~, not quite! But there’s music elements in it!

Mamoru: There are music elements in it, even though it’s not a concert...? Um......

Ryouta: Isn’t it a stageplay?

 

Sora clearly stiffens up, as Ryouta reached the answer so casually.

 

Sora: ...... (※Bull’s-eye)

 

Everyone: ...... (※Beat where they realize “Ah. He hit the bull’s-eye”)

 

Kensuke attempts to hype it up, having read the room.

 

Kensuke: .....AaaaAAAHHH~~~~ WOW, I wonder what it could be! Jeesh, I can’t even think of anything~! I’m so curious~! Aren’t you, Mamoru!?

Mamoru: Yes, definitely~! I wonder what it is~! I’m so thrilled to know~! Right!? Ren-kun!?

Ren: Y-yes, of course, me too! Whatever could the nine of us be doing together? Don’t you want to know, Sou-nii!

Soushi: ......Didn’t we just find out? It’s a stagepl—OOUGUHGHHHGGH~~~!!

 

Before he can say, “It’s a stageplay,” Ren strikes him with a no-look elbow jab to the solar plexus.

 

Nozomu: Hey, Sora, tell us? And Kou-kun-san can explain too!

 

Sora: S-sure...! Y-you’re right! So, well...

 

Ta-daaah~! It’s an announcement of a stageplay where SOARA and Growth will be the main leads!

Everyone: Ooh..... (※It was more important than they expected)

Ryouta: It’s a stageplay, but it’s not one of our cross-unit joint stages... but we’re... the leads? You said we were the leads?

Sora: I did, I did! See, isn’t it amazing~!?

Ren: Y-yes, it really is!

Soushi: It sure is incredible. Our joint stages are treated as if all units are the leads, so there’s no hierarchy or ranking in what position we have. Though that also means there are no main members. But this time......

Kouki: We’ll be performing this stage solo. We’re the mains.

 

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Nozomu: We’re back~!

Ren: We’re home.

Sora: Welcome home~!

Morihito: Welcome back, you two.

Soushi: Yeah, welcome home. Looks like you took part in the whole three days. How was it?

Ren: It was...... incredibly intense.

Nozomu: It was so much fun~! I got sooo pumped up!

Morihito: Ahaha. What contrasting reactions to it. (laughs)

Soushi: (To Ren) You said you’d get heartburn, right? (wry laugh)

 

Ren: Mhmm... It was just as I’d expected. (wry laugh) But... it sure helped me out.

I guess you could say that I obtained... impressions, developments, and realizations that I couldn’t have come up with on my own... “Ah, this sort of thing is possible.” “It’s not necessary to explain each and every thing.” “There’s a degree to which someone can allow the accepter to handle it.”

I wouldn’t go so far as to say my whole worldview was changed... but a filter was removed from my field of vision.

Sora: Ooh... Is Ren-kun about to awaken?

Soushi: Anyway, that’s a fitting impression you gave just now.

Ren: That just means I’m hardheaded, right...? I think so too, though. (wry laugh)

If I said that to Nozomu, I feel like he’d go, “Don’t do that! There’s no need to think. Just feel it.”

Nozomu: Huh? Nah, I wouldn’t shut you down~

Ren: What, you wouldn’t?

Nozomu: Mmhmm. In Ren’s case, I just think that’s how you enjoy things. You feel things by thinking about them, don’t you? You’re the type to want to investigate or explain things. I think it’s totally fine for you to wrack your brains over what they wanted to express in this scene, or why this point was interesting! If anything, I really respect you for being able to look closely and think about things so thoroughly!

 

🐼Taikyoku Denki Backstage – The Backstage - 2🐼

 

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>Break time during rehearsals

 

Sora: Mori... Sou... I wanna offer Hajime-san some water... but what do you think?

Morihito: Huh? Can’t you just do it?

Soushi: Yeah, just go.

Sora: True... You’re so right!? I’m gonna go...!!

 

dash.

 

Hajime: ...Phew.

Sora: Um!!! Hajime-san!!!

Hajime: Yeah.

Sora: ...

Hajime: ...

Sora: ...

Hajime: ? What’s the matter?

Sora: ...Um, um! It’s nothing!! Even the sweat sparkling on your chin looks handsome as always today!!!

 

dash.

 

Sora: I COULDN’TTTTT!!!! I’M SO EMBARRASSED!!! I was so nervous that I couldn’t hand him the water!!!

Morihito: I see~

Soushi: Dude. Are you aware you just said something way more embarrassing than giving him water?

 

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🐼A conversation in the Taikyoku Denki universe🐼

 

Kensuke: You’re a big deal among Jinzoku. You’re even a civil official, right?

Ryouta: Yeah.

Kensuke: Despite that, you’re used to fighting, or rather... You’re able to swing around that huge sword? That’s incredible.

Ryouta: ...Ken, you’re from the strongest species when it comes to fighting, so that compliment doesn’t mean much. I’m not nearly as strong as you all.

The arts, studies, etiquette, all of it. I’m only as capable as my limits allow.

Kensuke: Doesn’t that also mean you’re above average for all of it? Then you really are incredible.

Ryouta: ...

Kensuke: ...?

Ryouta: People who lack “something” that they can surpass others in, have no choice but to work hard. As a result of that, I’ve become halfbaked in just about everything.

I’m not intelligent enough to become a scholar.

I’m not powerful enough to become a warrior.

The only things I have are these abhorrent, blistered hands despite being a civil official.

Kensuke: Hmm? ...Ah. I see, that’s why your sleeves are long.

I’ve heard that humans above a certain social class have long sleeves as proof that they don’t dirty or use their hands. I thought that was the reason why, but... In your case, it’s because you want to hide your hands, huh?

Ryouta: ...You’re reading too much into all sorts of things. For a Gokuzoku, that is.

Kensuke: Yeah, people tell me that often~ (laughs) You don’t need to hide them, though. They’re as strong and gallant as our hands.