Playwriter Stage Girl is the eleventh chapter of the main story of Shōjo☆Kageki Revue Starlight Re LIVE.
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Playwriter Stage Girl
Part 1
Karen:Hyaaah!
Akira:Huh!?
Tamao:I'm falling—!
Karen:...Huh? Why am I in the audience?!
Aruru:Huh?! Karen-chan?!
Karen:Huh...? Aruru-chan?!
Aruru:Seisho Music Academy, Siegfeld, even everyone from Rinmeikan...!
Aruru:Why are you here?!
Kaoruko:I don't know... Before I knew it, I landed here!
Maya:It felt like I was pulled here by someone...
Aruru:Pulled here...? Huh? The only one I pulled was Elle-chan...
*buzz*
Akira:...?! That's... Is that the starting buzzer?!
Tamao:Does that mean that...the stage curtain is rising...?
Aruru:The stage... No way...!
*flip*
Girl:
"You, why did you betray the Sun Nation? Why did you betray me?! Explain yourself!"
*flip*
Girl:
"Mariavera and Catalina..."
Girl:
"Drawing their swords, the two clashed. Once, best friends who walked together..."
*flip*
Girl:
"Then, as their swords clashed..."
Girl:
"That's when..." ...Huh? Oh, ooh...!
Girl:
Wait, wait!
Girl:
Huff, huff... Wait!
Girl:
Whoa, I'm going to fall...!
Maya:Be careful!
Girl:
...!?
Maya:Are you injured, young miss?
Girl:Huh...?
Maya:It's dangerous to rush down stairs.
Girl:Ah... Ummm... My...
Maya:Oh, your doll is right here.
Girl:Oh...!
Maya:"I'm fine! I'm glad you're not hurt either!"
Girl:...
Maya:...? What's wrong?
Girl:That's not how Andrew talks...
Maya:...
Maya:...My apologies. What was his name...? Andrew, was it?
Maya:Well then, I'll give him back to you. Keep a tight grip on him from now, okay?
Girl:Oh, erm... Thank you...
Maya:Heh heh, you're welcome.
Girl:Erm, um...
Maya:Yes?
Girl:Uh... Well...you were...just like Mariavera!
Maya:Huh?
Girl:Just like when Mariavera saved the princess and the queen from the Black Lion Nation's castle!
Maya:Mariavera, Black Lion Nation... Oh, you mean "The Wartime of Farewells", right?
Girl:Yeah, that! "The Wartime of Farewells"!
Maya:Well... This, this is...a worn picture book... You really like it, don't you?
Girl:Yeah! I love it! You too?
Maya:Yes, of course.
Maya:The essence of knights who waver between discipline and camaraderie. The bonds of friendship and betrayal...
Maya:It's a profound, heart-wrenching tragedy. It's one of my favourite plays.
Girl:Discipline...? Camaraderie...?
Maya:Oh... Perhaps these are difficult words for you.
Maya:I... I played the part of General Mariavera in the play "Wartime of Farewells".
Girl:Played? Uhm... Are you—?
Elle's Mother:
Sorry I'm late! I got caught up shopping...
Elle's Mother:
Huh? Where did you go, Elle?! I told you to sit here and read your book!
Maya:Ah. The young miss is over here.
Elle's Mother:
Huh? Oh... There you are... Thank goodness...
Elle's Mother:
Erm, um, and you are?
Maya:I'm Maya Tendo, Seisho Music Academy's 99th class.
Maya:There we go, young miss. Your mother has come back.
Elle:Maya... Tendo...?
Maya:Yes, ma'am, Maya Tendo. Well, if you'll excuse me.
Elle:Erm, um... !
Maya:Please come see us one day.
Maya:Seisho Music Academy's performance of "The Wartime of Farewells", and...
Maya:My performance of Mariavera il Sole, general of the Sun Nation!
Elle:...
Elle:Yes... I would like to see that.
Elle:You want to see it too, right, Andrew? Maya Tendo's...Wartime of Farewells.
Elle:I want to see it...
Elle:Yeah!... So...!
Elle:...That's why, I write!
Elle:...This is why, I started writing.
Elle:Based on my favourite story of "The Wartime of Farewells"...
Elle:My own personal play...starring Maya Tendo.
Elle:Mariavera and Catalina... Their fateful confrontation...
Elle:The general of the Sun Nation... Maya Tendo would look really great in costume...
Elle:You think so too, don't you, Andrew?
Elle:Yeah, I think so too!
Elle:Right? Hehehe ♪
Maya:Excuse me, miss...!
Elle:That day... The girl who picked up Andrew and gave him back to me...
Elle:I'm Elle Nishino. A five year-old girl attending kindergarten...
Andrew:That's...Elle's true self.
Kaoruko:Oh my, it's the Abominamole!... Huh...?
Kaoruko:That five year-old girl...is Elle-han? W-What's going on?!
Elle:...
Playwriter Stage Girl
Part 2
Kaoruko:That five year-old girl...is Elle-han? W-What's going on?!
Elle:...
Elle:Elle...loves books and stories. She's quiet, not great at speaking and a bit of an introvert.
Elle:Both of her parents are busy working... She's always left on her own.
Elle:But Elle isn't sad. I mean...
Elle:Andrew, her doll that her mother made for her...
Elle:He's always with her through many stories.
Elle:"Elle" is the creator. "Andrew" is the audience.
Elle:Elle reads picture books, watches tv, gathers information...
Elle:Using all that, she creates a lot of stories and writes them in her notebook.
Elle:One day... Elle wrote in all of her notebooks, so mama bought her a new notebook.
Elle:It looks like a regular notebook.
Elle:However... When she started writing stories in her notebook, something strange happened.
Elle:Girls in beautiful costumes, performing the stories that she wrote in the notebook. She began to have these dreams.
Elle:In those dreams, Andrew got a lot bigger...
Andrew:I've come to pick you up Elle!
Elle:Huh.. W-Wait... Is that you, Andrew?!
Andrew:That's right! I'm the cute Andrew!
Andrew:The stories you drew will be performed on stage. Let's go see them together!
Andrew:Come on, come! Grab your notebook and let's go!
Elle:N-No, I won't...
Elle:I'm not allowed to go anywhere without my mama or papa... Children aren't supposed to go anywhere alone, right?
Andrew:*strange mole noises* Don't you worry!
Andrew:See, take a look in that mirror.
Elle:Huh... Mirror...?
Elle:Ah...!
Elle:...!
Elle:This is...me?
Andrew:In your dreams, you are a beautiful adult. Now you can go see the plays alone!
Elle:See the stage...alone...
Andrew:Elle, let's go!
Elle:...Okay, Andrew. I want to go! I want to see them!
Maya:What...? So this is...
Maya:You were... You were that young miss from back then...
Elle:The Elle that young Elle sees in her dream... How can I say this...?
Elle:Big Elle, and talking Andrew — it's all part of young Elle's dream...
Elle:Neither me, nor Andrew, can talk with the dreaming young Elle.
Aruru:A dream... It's a dream...
Elle:Sitting with Andrew in the audience, enjoying a fantastic performance by stylish girls... A wonderful dream...
Elle:When five year-old Elle wakes up, she can only vaguely remember her dreams...
Elle:Even so, she wants to see it again. That dreamlike stage...
Elle:This strange notebook... If you write a story in the "Elle Note", you can see that performance on the dream stage.
Elle:With that, five-year old Elle became caught up in making lots of stories...
Elle:She reads books in the library, and pushes herself to read even more difficult books...
Elle:She asks her parents about the dramas they watch, and asks them to read to her before she sleeps every night...
Elle:All of the new information is overflowing, and with the unlimited imagination of a child...
Elle:She created a dream stage in which stylish girls perform...
Elle:These girls perform a real version of their LIVE (stage), on the stage created by Elle...
Elle:Her dream stage... That's...Re LIVE.
!?
Karen:Re LIVE...was written by that little girl?!
Elle:...Yes.
Elle:But there was something strange... Something she doesn't remember writing about appeared on stage.
Elle:The dark, strangely shaped Korosu that keep interfering with you...
Elle:But you always defeat the Korosu in a really cool way on stage...
Elle:This always thrills her... And she wants to see it more...!
Aruru:...!?
Elle:As if it urges her, that notebook — she draws them out in the Elle Note.
Aruru:You mean to tell me that all of the books on that shelf... Elle-chan wrote all of them?!
Andrew:That's right.
Andrew:It's as if someone is making Elle write all of these stories...
Elle:Then one time, she found that picture book in the library. That was...
Elle:"Starlight"...
Elle:A story from long ago, about a distant star in the far future. Seeking the light of the star, always lost in tragedy...
Elle:The night of reading the story of Starlight... Five year-old Elle, once again had a dream.
Elle:"Guided by the light of the stars... Stage Girls."
Elle:"Wouldn't you like to see many different Stage Girls working together on a dream stage...?"
Elle:In a dream, Elle heard this word for the first itme.
Elle:The word was...Stage Girl...
Andrew:Such a spectacle... Many Stage Girls aiming to reach the top of the tower, defeating the Korosu that block their path...
Andrew:I want to see that performance, she thought... When she awakened, she began to write with enthusiasm.
Andrew:What she wrote is "The Disappearance of the Story of Starlight".
Karen:Huh...? What does that mean?!
Karen:Starlight disappeared because of the Korosu...
Elle:...
Elle:That is...
Andrew:"Starlight will disappear"... If you incite it...
Andrew:"You can probably see the Stage Girls true performance...", she thought...
Karen:She thought?! That means...!?
Kaoruko:W-Wai... Wait... The reason that the memory of Starlight disappeared from us was...
Andrew:Elle wrote in the Elle Note that "If you do not eliminate the Korosu from the story, then the story will disappear"...
Kaoruko:Whaat?!
Kaoruko:What...What is this...Elle Note...?
Kaoruko:You said that, "right now, the story of this world, the stage of this world, the drama of this world...are being corroded by the Korosu, and are in danger of disappearing," but...
Kaoruko:That was all just nonsense. You used us...
Kaoruko:The truth is...that it was happening because that child put it in her notebook...?
Andrew:...That's right.
Kaoruko:So this was all part of your plot?!
Andrew:Yeah, the plot... This is a stage, after all.
Kaoruko:How can you say such things?! I'm getting annoyed!
Elle:...
Elle:That said... Neither myself nor Andrew understood that at the time.
Elle:The true, terrifying power of the Elle Note...
Maya:Erasing the memory of Starlight from everyone... Even that feels terribly powerful...
Elle:What if the thing that disappeared, was someone in particular...?
Maya:Huh...?
Karen:...! That means—!
Playwriter Stage Girl
Part 3
Elle:That said... Neither myself nor Andrew understood that at the time.
Elle:The true, terrifying power of the Elle Note...
Maya:Erasing the memory of Starlight from everyone... Even that feels terribly powerful...
Elle:What if the thing that disappeared, was someone in particular...?
Maya:Huh...?
Karen:...! That means—!
Elle:...Yes.
Elle:The girl that Maya-san met at the shopping mall, her heart was stolen in a single glance...
Elle:In her heart, the concept of an "actor" was born...
Elle:She didn't just want to see all the stylish girls perform "The Wartime of Farewells"... She wanted to see Maya Tendo-san...
Elle:With clear intentions and a strong desire, she wrote it in the Elle Note.
Elle:As a result...Maya Tendo-san was cast by the young Elle...
Elle:...And ended up in the story in the Elle Note...
Karen:In the story... Brought onto the stage...
Karen:That's...exactly like Hikari-chan's Stage of Destiny...!
Elle:That's right... Elle's dream stage...
Andrew:Still, the erasure of Maya Tendo from the world was completely unexpected.
Andrew:That said, both adult Elle and me had no way of telling young Elle to never write another name in the notebook.
Elle:...That's when...
Elle:"If you erase the "Korosu" from the story...and carry out the play until the end..."
Elle:"Then perhaps...the Stage Girl who played the role...might return..."
Elle:"That is why...the Stage Girls must jump onto the stage, but..."
Elle:...
Maya:That's when...Saijo-san jumped onto the stage, and performed "The Wartime of Farewells"...
Maya:Thus I was able to finish my role and return to the stage.
Elle:...Yes.
Akira:Wow... Then the same is true for our "Elysion"?
Elle:Yes.
Elle:One night, my parents told me about something I might like, it was Siegfeld Institute of Music's performance of "Elysion".
Elle:Akira Yukishiro-san's starring role in "Elysion - Chapter of the Gods"...
Elle:However, next year's performance might not feature Akira Yukishiro and Michiru Otori...
Elle:Liu Mei Fan-san, Yachiyo Tsuruhime-san, and Shiori Yumeoji-san would be the focus of the play...
Elle:What kind of performance would "Elysion" be without Akira-san or Michiru-san...?
Elle:While imagining many different stories and writing them in her notebook, five year-old me, fell asleep...
Elle:And in her notebook, the names "Liu Mei Fan", "Yachiyo Tsuruhime" and "Shiori Yumeoji" were written...
Akira:That is why, only those three were on the stage of "Elysion"...
Tamao:But...five year-old Elle-chan wasn't aware that Rinmeiki was lost decades ago.
Aruru:And there were no plays worth writing or Stage Girls worth mentioning in her notebook from Frontier...
Maya:That was...the truth about "Erased" and "Re LIVE"...
Karen:All of it was written in the Elle Note...
Kaoruko:Something as dangerous as that... Why didn't you do anything to stop it faster!?
Andrew:That's just it... No matter how many times we tried, there was no way to communicate with five year-old Elle...
Kaoruko:So what? Tendo-han almost disappeared!
Kaoruko:You're moldy, and your face is disgusting, just like a squished daifuku. All you do is tell lies and put us in danger...!
Kaoruko:You really are an Abominamole!
Andrew:*gulp* I can't blame you for being angry...
Andrew:But... But...
Andrew:Even if there was a way to stop her — a way to tell her... I'm sure I couldn't have told her...
Kaoruko:Huh?! What do you mean by that?!
Andrew:The day after she saw her dream of the Stage Girls...
Andrew:Elle had the biggest smile on her face...
Andrew:Surely a smile from seeing that performance...
Andrew:I wanted to show her. I wanted to show the lonely and sad Elle...
Andrew:Her five year-old self admired the stage — she dreamed of it...
Andrew:I wanted to show her what true Stage Girls are, what a real stage is... Even if only in a dream...
Kaoruko:Ngh...
Elle:...
Elle:What he said just now is the truth about young Elle, Andrew, myself...
Elle:...Erased and Re LIVE.
...
Elle:...Everyone.
Elle:I have something to ask of you all.
Aruru:Huh?
Elle:Please find the five year-old me.
Elle:And then...find that dangerous notebook, rip it up, and throw it away.
...!
Tamao:If we rip it up and throw it away... What will happen?
Kaoruko:...Tamao-han?
Tamao:I mean, Elle-chan and Andrew were born from the stories written in the Elle Note, right?
Kaoruko:Right... If we rip it up...
Elle:...I don't know.
Elle:But...if any more stories are written in the Elle Note...
Karen:...!
Karen:Non, non! That is non, non!
Elle:Huh!?
Karen:I mean... These are all the stories that five year-old Elle wrote in the Elle Note, right?! ...This entire bookcase!
Karen:It's amazing, it's too amazing!
Karen:Taking it all away... I don't want to do that!
Aruru:Karen-chan!
Aruru:You see? Look!
Aruru:She wrote all these stories and pictures — it's amazing... Truly amazing!
Aruru:I don't want to erase all this!
Aruru:I want to perform them!
Aruru:"Elle-chan's Three Musketeers", "Elle-chan's Phantom of the Opera", "Elle-chan's Beauty & the Beast", "Elle-chan's Cinderella"...
Aruru:"Elle-chan's Sherlock Holmes", "Elle-chan's Three Kingdoms", "Elle-chan's Urashima Taro", "Elle-chan's Alice in Wonderland"!
Akira:Oh... This is great — it's full of stories we haven't done yet.
Tamao:With all of these great stories... It would be a waste to end her dream.
Kaoruko:Well, sure... She is only a five year-old child, after all.
Karen:She may only be a child, but she writes stories and brings them to life. She can't live without them...
Karen:She... She's a Stage Girl! She's the definition of a Stage Girl!
Maya:Indeed, just like everyone from Group B at our school's Stage Production Department.
Elle:She...can't live without her stories...?
Aruru:Hey, Elle-chan. Write more. Write more stories.
Elle:Huh...?
Aruru:Don't stop her from using the Elle Note... Don't stop her stage...
Playwriter Stage Girl
Part 4
Aruru:Hey, Elle-chan. Write more. Write more stories.
Elle:Huh...?
Aruru:Don't stop her from using the Elle Note... Don't stop her stage...
Aruru:She has nothing else — Andrew, you said so, didn't you?
Andrew:Yes...
Aruru:She does, she does.
Aruru:Elle-chan has a lot of possibilities! I mean, she was able to think of all of these stories!
Karen:That's right! "Starlight" disappearing — it hit me right in my chest, more than anything normally does!
Maya:A story that captivates its performers... How many times in a person's life, do they have a chance to stand on that kind of stage?
Maya:Change the end of the performance, pull back the curtain on the story...
Maya:The possibilities for the stage are endless... I was able to feel this, all because of Erased and Re LIVE...
Akira:It is because of that play...that I was able to reaffirm the bond between the knights, and what the king's stage was like.
Tamao:I'm almost sure that if we hadn't met you on stage, we would have just accepted our department's closure...
Aruru:Same goes with us... We wouldn't be standing on the new frontier.
Aruru:Thank you, Elle-chan!
Elle:W-Why...?
Elle:I... I've done a terrible thing to you all...
Maya:It's just the result of a five year-old young miss, making up stories as she goes along.
Maya:Besides... If that were me, I would've finished the story and just returned everyone to their daily lives.
Maya:You really are a worrier...
Karen:It's just like Clau-chan said. Once a Stage Girl stands on stage, she never forgets.
Karen:Even Stage Girls who once created the stage...
Aruru:Yes, that's right! That's why...
Aruru:Keep on making Re LIVE, Elle-chan!
Karen:Aw... Aruru-chan! You stole my line...!
Kaoruko:Hey, wait a minute!
Kaoruko:You want to keep doing Re LIVE? That's crazy! You want to put us all in such a frightening position...?
Karen:And yet, don't you want to stand on Elle-chan's stage too, Kaoruko-chan?
Maya:That's true... The Etude in which we defeated the Korosu, was a great way to hone our skills as Stage Girls.
Kaoruko:...Well, that might be true, I guess.
Andrew:I also have a request!
Andrew:I love seeing Elle as she writes her stories!
Andrew:I love seeing Elle's smiling face as she watches the performances in her dreams!
Andrew:I want to show her a real Stage Girl, a real performance...
Andrew:I'm sorry I said such awful things to everyone...
Andrew:But if it's alright for Elle to keep writing in the Elle Note... Please... Please don't stop writing!
Kaoruko:...!
Kaoruko:What...? When people know your true intentions, you suddenly try to act charming...
Kaoruko:If you think that you can just change our opinion of you, you're wrong!
Andrew:Oh, well then, I'll stop acting charming.
Andrew:Fine then — it won't bother me if an ill-natured Kyoto girl like you doesn't want to take part in Re LIVE.
Kaoruko:There we go! Your true identity... You sharp tongued Abominamole!
Aruru:Ahahaha!
Aruru:That said, everyone seems to have the same opinion.
Aruru:Everyone wants to take part in more of Elle-chan's stages!
Elle:...!
Aruru:So, Elle-chan... If we take away the Elle Note from your younger self...
Aruru:Huh...? There are too many Elles...
Aruru:That's it! "Ellelle"!
Elle:...Huh?
Aruru:If we keep talking like this, it is going to get really confusing, Ellelle! I'm Aruru, so...you're now, Ellelle!
Aruru:Come tell us when Elle-chan has written a Re LIVE for us to perform!
Aruru:We're going to get ready and be waiting for it!
Aruru:Watch out for that moment, Andrew... The moment when Elle-chan brings a lot of stories to life.
Andrew:O-Okay...
Kaoruko:*Sighs*... Everyone's crazy. Stage crazy!
Elle:...Is it really okay? To keep writing stories... To keep on doing Re LIVE...
Karen:Bring it on!
Maya:Whatever performance comes — Stage Girls are always prepared!
Akira:Right, the possibilities are endless on the stage of dreams.
Tamao:Yeah... Siegfeld's performance of "Starlight", Rinmeikan's performance of "Captain Twins"...
Aruru:The only one who can make the stage of dreams is Elle-chan!
Karen:We're looking forward to it, Ellelle!
Elle:...!
Elle:*sobs quietly*
Karen:Oh no, what's wrong? Did I say something to make you upset?
Elle:N-No...
Elle:Until now, no one has ever praised me for writing my stories.
Elle:I've always been alone— I mean, with Andrew...living in a world of stories.
Elle:This is the first time that someone praised me for it.
Aruru:Ellelle...!
Aruru:I was really happy to jump onto Ellelle's stage!
Aruru:...Hey, WAIT!
...!?
Aruru:Hmm... Got it!
Aruru:Elle-chan was also one of the "Oz — Wild Pirates" cast!
Elle:Huh...?
Aruru:She who controls the story — "The Witch of the West".
Elle:Witch...of the West...
Aruru:That's right! We saw through her magic...and we met you, Ellelle!
Aruru:So that you could make the stage of dreams with us!
Elle:...!
Aruru:Let's make performances together, Ellelle!
Karen:We are always waiting on stage for the stories that Elle-chan makes...!
Maya:We'll wait for the day that you grow up — the day that we'll have a chance to make plays together.
Aruru:Right! That's right!
Aruru:This may be a dream, but Re LIVE — that stage isn't a dream!
Ellelle, Elle-chan... We're waiting for you on stage!
Elle:Everyone...!
Elle's Mother:
Wake up! It's time to get up, Elle!
Elle's Mother:
You'll be late for kindergarten!
Elle:Hmm... Ugh...
Elle:Morning...mama.
Elle:Morning, Andrew. I feel like I saw—
Elle's Mother:
Oh, Elle. What's the matter?
Elle's Mother:
Why are you crying?
Elle:Am I...?
Elle's Mother:
Did you have a nightmare?
Elle:...I don't know... I don't remember...but...
Elle:There was a wonderful...stage...
Elle's Mother:
A stage?
Elle:Yeah, on the stage...there were...
Elle's Mother:
Is that so? A dream about a stage...
Elle's Mother:
Well then, on my next day off, shall we go and see a play together?
Elle:Huh?
Elle's Mother:
Papa will be home by then... If you see a real play on stage, you're sure to love it, right?
Elle:Yeah... Is it okay? Aren't you busy with work?
Elle's Mother:
It's fine. It's for you. Do you want to go and see one?
Elle:...
Elle:...I want to go.
Elle:I want to go and see a play!
Elle's Mother:
Then it's decided. All right now, you need to get up!
Elle's Mother:
Get dressed, eat breakfast and brush your teeth! Don't forget Andrew.
Elle:Okaaay!
Elle:Hmm... Clothes...
Elle:Andrew... We're going to see a play! A real play!
Elle:I wonder which one it'll be... Maybe "The Three Musketeers" or maybe "Beauty and the Beast"?
Elle:"Cinderella"? Or even "The Wizard of Oz"?
Elle:Let's write some more stories in the notebook after we watch!
Elle:If I write in the notebook... I'll see everyone in my dreams...
Elle:...Because they're waiting on stage!