What Sleeps on the Tape
Characters appearing:
Omi: Let's just get to it.
Izumi: From what time are those tapes?
Omi: My dad's handwriting is so messy, I can't read the label…
Izumi: Ah, it's starting. There's a cake so maybe it's a birthday party?
Omi: No, there's also a tree. It's Christmas.
Izumi: Ah! Is that you Omi-kun?
Omi: …correct.
Izumi: It's so refreshing seeing such a tiny Omi-kun!
Omi: It's not like I've always been this big. It's probably from when I was in third grade.
Izumi: Heh~.
Izumi: (His body is so much smaller but… the kind eyes are the same)
Gaku: "Why! Give it back!"
Kai: "Don't wanna!"
Omi: "Stop it you two"
Izumi: Are those two your brothers?
Omi: Yeah. The bigger one is Kai, three years younger than me, and the other one is Gaku, five years younger.
Omi: Maybe it's because their ages are closer to each other, they used to always get into fights.
Izumi: You've been used to stopping fights ever since that time huh.
Omi: They wouldn't listen if I told them to stop, so I used pro-wrestling moves on the one who started the fight.
Izumi: Haha, how dynamic. Typical boys for you.
Omi: Things aren't much different now.
Izumi: You might be right.
Izumi: (Juza-kun and Banri-kun used to fight often in their first performance, I guess for Omi-kun it was the same as dealing with his brothers)
Omi's Father: "Woah"
Kai: ""Aah! You spilt my juice~!"
Gaku: "What are you doing"
Omi's Father: "I'm sorry"
Izumi: Is that your father?
Omi: Yeah, he looks much younger here. He has always been clumsy.
Izumi: (Which means, then one who is filming is…)
Omi: "Mom, let's switch!"
Omi's Mother: "Don't drop it okay?"
Omi: "It's alright"
Izumi: --.
Izumi: (Omi's mother, who died when he was in elementary school…)
Omi: …that's nostalgic. It feels sad but warm… a complicated feeling. A video of someone who has passed away is a strange thing.
Omi: It's the same with photographs. They remind us that this person was indeed there at that time and place, laughing together with us.
Izumi: Yeah, it's a wonderful thing.
Omi's Father: "Omi how about you open your present"
Omi: "Yeah!"
Omi's Father: "Here, I'll film"
Omi's Mother: "Are you okay?"
Omi: Haha, it's really blurry.
Izumi: It started the moment it switched to your father right.
Omi: My dad is like this, so I have to take pictures and videos of my brothers.
Izumi: Right. They'll be happy when they see them in the future.
Omi: But well, first comes the guys from the Company. My brothers will get angry if I don't use all the tape.
Izumi: Seems like it's going to become a long documentary.
Omi: A documentary huh… maybe I should prepare questions, and try to film interviews.
Izumi: Sounds interesting!
Omi: Questions like the reason they joined the theater, or their current aspirations.
Izumi: Maybe you should also ask about their most memorable performance, or even inside stories.
Omi: Maybe we will even get to hear stories no one else knows.
Izumi: Yup yup.
Izumi: It might be too early to say that, but it would be nice if someday we can watch it, and think how nostalgic it is.
Omi: You're right.
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