Junior High School
Several people came to the door of the auditorium and met up with Sato Daichi who had arrived earlier.
"Are you a scalper who can't sell tickets, Tobio? We have so many tickets to share with you." Oikawa Toru complained as he looked at the juniors invited by Kageyama.
They only got one ticket from Kindaichi, and the other one was bought from Iwaizumi's wallet.
"I'm not sure about that. Maybe Kageyama-senpai is more popular...hahaha." Sato didn't believe what he said, and made Oikawa Toru laugh out loud, holding his stomach.
Trying to quickly cover up the awkwardness, Sato quickly changed the subject:
"Hinata, this school uniform you're wearing is so cool, it suits you really well~"
It wasn't just for fun. When this group of people came over, he was attracted by Hinata Aoi's unique dark school uniform at first sight.
The Hinata Aoi we usually see is reliable and serious, with a polite gentleness wrapped in an inextricable seriousness.
He suddenly changed into a solemn black outfit that was completely different from the pure blue and white school uniform, and it unexpectedly felt more appropriate... Maybe it was because it was more in line with the title of "Men's Volleyball Devil Tutor".
"Your class is doing cosplay, right? It's a pity I didn't have time to go shopping this morning because I was helping out in class. Is this outfit also for cosplay?"
"What? Cosplay?" Oikawa Toru's twitching knuckles revealed his surprise.
"Could it be the kind where you can drink coffee? Why didn't anyone tell me?!"
One second he was just playing the background voice and agreeing with Sato's aesthetic taste, and the next second he was hit by the news that an acquaintance was cross-dressing but didn't include him.
If he knew there was such a shop in a class he knew, he would definitely go there to join in the fun, or rather, to show his support. There was no point in wasting his limited courage in a haunted house.
"Okay, don't be so loud when talking to this school girl." Iwaizumi added at the right time:
"Aren't there cosplayers in the haunted house? Why don't you seem so excited?"
Oikawa Toru covered his chest which seemed to be stabbed and was speechless.
In fact, apart from Oikawa Toru himself, no one present cared about his courage.
Hinata Aoi casually typed out "If you're interested, you can come to our class to experience it after the play is over" as a consolation, and took the lead to walk into the auditorium, ending their brief roadblock career.
The drama with absolutely no spoilers is about to begin.
Because of the random admission system, everyone's seats were spread out, so a few people shamelessly swapped seats with strangers to get together.
"... Could it be that Kindaichi and the others didn't even get a single role?"
"They didn't want to show up anyway. Shh, it's about to begin." Iwaizumi raised his index finger to remind his friend to be quiet.
The red curtain slowly opened, the lights gathered on the stage, and a soft voice began to speak:
"A long time ago, there was a princess who lived in a magnificent castle, but she was not happy..."
The beautiful princess, with her golden hair loose and a crown on her head, walked slowly down the steps into the garden. She quickly recounted the background story to herself, which was probably -
The young orphaned princess was overprotected by the king and kept under house arrest in the castle. No one dared to disobey the king's orders to look at her face or talk to her. Even the king himself had not visited her for a long time because of his busy government affairs.
"Even the most common sparrow can fly over the city wall. Why am I, a noble princess, not even allowed to talk to a servant?" The princess withdrew her gaze from the sky, hugged herself and shed a tear.
The audience was so moved by the wonderful monologue that they forgot that they were just complaining about the princess being a little noisy because she would chat with even the grass and trees.
Oikawa Toru especially would not find this paragraph lengthy.
Looking at Kageyama Tobio dressed as a big tree on the stage, he kept restraining himself from laughing out loud and breaking the atmosphere that the princess had worked hard to create.
This is how you should use the arm strength you gain from playing volleyball. Kageyama held a branch in each hand, unwavering, and stood at the side of the stage with unwavering composure, even holding his breath.
Iwaizumi, who remained calm, quickly blocked the camera of Oikawa Toru's phone.
“There’s a flash.”
"Sorry, it was subconscious..." Oikawa Toru put his phone away regretfully, thinking only that he must go backstage to take a few photos after the play.
The next act of the play begins, and the scene shifts to the interior of the castle.
The bearded king stepped onto the stage with anxious steps, dismissed his guards and came before the princess. Amidst her chattering greetings, he broke the cruel news:
"Our troops...were defeated. Now we need a princess to marry into a neighboring kingdom."
"You are my only daughter, get ready..."
The princess, who had finally waited for the king to visit her, was struck by lightning.
Being a princess of a country should have such responsibilities, but more than ten years of life like imprisonment where only material needs were met had made her a social invalid.
She had never had a friend, had never spoken to anyone except the king, and yet she was suddenly told to leave the castle, leave the country, and go to a distant land to buy peace.
The princess was so sad and frightened that she couldn't accept it, but she was still helped to change into the most gorgeous dress, take her generous dowry, and was pushed into the carriage to set off.
After crying all the way, the team found an open place in the forest to rest.
It was already quite a distance away from the castle, but the big tree next to it still had the name "Kageyama Tobio".
Unnoticed by the guards, a black cat got into the princess's carriage.
"Oh, my dear little one, were you also abandoned here?"
Holding the cat's cheeks in her hands, the princess couldn't help but tear up her red and swollen eyes.
"I don't want to go to another country to marry, even though it's my duty... But I've never been in contact with people before, and I'm afraid of it all. Can you accompany me?"
The girl's acting skills were truly superb. Hinata Aoi remembered seeing this senior's face on the drama club's poster during the club's recruitment. She was indeed someone who could be considered the face of the club.
So far, it can be said that the girl has carried the entire scene by herself, and she can even do it without being out of character when facing people playing the cat.
You have to know that the cat is played by Kunimi Hideo, who has a pair of dead fish eyes, a look of despair, and can only meow.
"Who convinced him?" Iwaizumi was shocked and asked unconsciously with his mouth opened wide.
It was surprising enough that the boy could persist in playing volleyball for so long, but I didn't expect that there was someone who could persuade him to play a living creature in a drama.
The next second, something even more shocking happened——
Kunimitsu Ying fiddled with her top with her cat paws, and her light skirt instantly spread out. She then pulled out a fairy wand from her waist and transformed herself into a cat-like fairy godmother. She couldn't stand up straight in the carriage, so she had to sit down gracefully across from the carriage.
"Hello, meow~"
"I'm a trainee fairy godmother, and I can grant you one wish... meow~"
Oikawa Toru covered his mouth and slapped Iwaizumi Ichi's thigh hard, as if he had a sudden seizure.
Iwaizumi Kazuya forgot to stop him for a moment and was stunned by his junior's drama debut.
He must have offended someone, right?
Cat + women's clothing + weird habits, and that height which would be fine if it was on a volleyball team, but seemed too superior on the stage... Thanks to Kunimitsu Ei's young appearance, the audience was not distracted by the show, and a few girls even whispered "so cute".
Thinking that Kindaichi might also have a status, Iwaizumi felt ashamed for his junior, but at the same time, he suddenly felt a sense of anticipation.
It was a bit disappointing that the next person to appear was not Kindaichi, but a real maid with wheat-colored skin, slightly curly wig, and a traditional maid outfit wrapped with tendons all over her body. She was cleaning the house of the seven dwarfs with a broom. She was about to exchange identities with the princess and go to marry her, but now she is still a proper maid.
The word "女" should be emphasized.
Otherwise, even if she was wearing women's clothes and a wig, no one would think she was a female character. They would just think she was a hunter disguised as a maid, and there must be a hidden mission in the later plot.
"Based on your sincerity, I, the Apprentice Fairy Godmother Meow Meow, am here to fulfill your wish. From this moment on, your identities will be swapped. The princess will remain here as a maid, and the maid will become a princess and travel to a neighboring country to marry. Meow~"
"Be careful, your appearances will also be swapped in the eyes of others. If other people know the truth, the magic will be ineffective, so don't let it slip, meow~"
The most challenging part of the whole play is here.
The two actors exchanged their psychological identities. The girl continued on her journey and became a silent and hardworking maid princess, while the boy became a delicate and incompetent princess maid, who was despised by the seven dwarfs when they returned home for not working as efficiently as before.
It seemed that they didn't want to let anyone go, so they asked all the students who had nothing to do to show their faces on the stage. The seven dwarfs squatted forward, with one giving the main lecture and the other six acting as echoes.
The eldest brother criticized the princess's maid from beginning to end, and left angrily with his brothers and dinner, leaving the princess's maid alone there, with another pair of eyes about to turn red from crying.
“Why am I going through this?”
"Father is right. I should stay in the castle forever and never come out... But it was also Father who made me go to the marriage that caused me to experience this. Why did fate treat me like this? Woo woo woo~"
The princess's maid looked at her reflection in the stream and muttered to herself.
The Kageyama tree next to him had a resolute expression, still standing tall. The soft-hearted Lao Liu, standing behind the tree, dropped the fruit he had been washing in surprise and rushed forward to question the princess's maid:
"Who are you? Where did you take my maid?!"
Even the simplest characters have their own biographies. The sixth brother has been secretly in love with a maid for a long time, but because of the difference in status and body size, he has never dared to confess to his brothers for fear of being laughed at.
Now he didn't care about all that and grabbed the princess' maid's neck.
The lights on the stage flickered, and the princess maid in Lao Liu's hand instantly turned into a real princess wearing a maid outfit.
The audience exclaimed in amazement, amazed by the exquisite stage design, but also anxious about this thrilling scene.
In just one day, the apprentice witch's magic was broken by the princess's maid's gossip.
At this time, the carriage heading for the marriage had not yet reached the neighboring country, and both sides were facing crises.
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