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“Good morning! Sorry I’m late. I lost track of time on the way here…” Tsukasa greeted, panting from running.
“Tsukasa! Gooooood morning~!” Nene greeted, her arms waving in the air. Tsukasa smiled warmly at the welcome.
“Tsukasa-kun, about time you show up.” Emu scoffed. As cynical as ever, that Emu. Although Tsukasa knew there’s no real harm behind her words.
“Morning, Tsukasa-kun,” the last member greeted him. Alright! Another normal day in the summer, now to change into their stage clo-
…huh?
Wait. Hang on. Something isn’t right.
“...Rui?” he flashed a scary smile at the genius who immediately broke down in a cold sweat. “Ah.. ahaha,” the other laughed awkwardly.
“Don’t laugh, damn it! Whatever this is, it's your doing is it?!” the blonde jabbed an accusing finger to his chest, in which Rui held up his hands in defense. “Now, now Tsukasa-kun…”
Emu groaned, giving a cold glare towards the two. “Ugh, it’s still morning and you’re already so noisy, honestly…”
“E-Emu?!” Tsukasa gasped, his face is of that of pure shock.
“Yeah, Tsukasa, this might be fun!” Nene tittered, fisting her hands excitedly, her eyes glimmering.
“Can anyone tell me what’s happening first?!”
“So let me get this straight…” Tsukasa started. He stands in front of the three who are now seated.
“You tried to make a device that can swap bodies of two people,” he sighed, massaging his temple.“but because of an error, you swapped their personalities instead?”
There is not a normal day with Rui, he swears.
“Yep, they act like that but they actually retained their own mind,” Rui elaborated. “Pretty impressive isn’t it?”
“Yeah, actually it is…” Tsukasa mumbled, “- not! How the hell are we supposed to do our show now?! It’s in two days!” he ruffled his hair in anger.
“Not to worry, the effect would probably only last until tomorrow,” the genius explained. Hearing that, Tsukasa let out a sigh in relief, “until then, how about we cancel the practice for today?”
“Huh? Why can’t we just continue on? I don’t think there’d be a problem..” Tsukasa crossed his arms. They were actors after all! Even when their respective characters don't match exactly with their personalities, he’s sure they would still give a fantastic performance and nothing less. He glanced to the side from afar where the girls were sitting. Nene was talking to Emu with such enthusiasm, her body seemingly not being able to stay still. Meanwhile, Emu just listened to her attentively, nodding her head as she spoke. Yeesh, that’s a really weird scene to look at.
“I don’t think the practice would be effective like this. And besides, I still don’t know what other side effects that malfunction will have, and I’m not sure if they will retain their memory of today. So even if we did, it could be all for naught,” Rui explained. Tsukasa closed his eyes and put his hand on his chin as he thought deeply.
“Well… we still have another day to rehearse. I guess it’s the best we can do,” the blonde sighed in defeat. Hearing that, Rui gave him his signature cat-like smile.
“Fufu, right?” he chuckled, before leaning in to whisper to the shorter man’s ear. “Besides, aren’t you curious how this would unfold?”
“No??!” he cried, jumping away from him in horror, “seeing Emu that cold and cynical is torture enough!”
“You’re too loud Tsukasa-kun, I can hear you from a mile away. This wouldn’t even happen if you weren’t late, you know?” a figure shouted from afar.
“See?! My sweet Emu would never say that to me!”
“Now, now. I promise you Nene’s personality isn’t actually that mean,” the taller man assured and patted the other's back as Tsukasa groaned into his hands. Tsukasa glared at him but was ignored as he walked towards the other two. Not gonna lie though, he was kind of curious.
“Alright, since there are unforeseen circumstances, let’s take the day off for today,” said Rui. “We don’t know if any other side effects will occur, so it be best to just take it slow.”
“Eeh, but I wanted to rehearse~!” Em- Nene whined. Which Rui gives a smile in return.
“Then think of today as a small break, to ease the nerves before the show,” he added. “If we’re well rested we’ll make a greater performance, won't we?”
Hearing that Nene’s face morphs into an ‘ oooh!’ and Rui smiled again. “Well since it’s still morning anyway, let’s tidy up quickly and leave.”
“Alrighty~! Oh, oh, let’s go somewhere together after this, Rui!” Nene cheered, clinging to the taller boy’s arms. Eugh, that's a really weird scene going on in front of Tsukasa's eyes.
“I guess it can’t be helped..” Emu shook her head, “hey, Tsukasa-kun.”
“HUH- Y-Yeah?!” he yelped, voice cracking. Ne- Emu , raised an eyebrow. “You don’t have to react like that, geez…”
“A-ah, yeah. Sorry, I’m just not used to seeing you like… this,” he averted his eyes and laughed bashfully, rubbing his neck. Emu huffed, “Hm. Well, can I hang out at your house today?”
Tsukasa blinked as he turned to her, her pink eyes looking at his with less expression than usual, but he could see a tiny bit of warmth from them. “Huh? S-sure…”
“Great. Then let’s go. See you, Rui-kun, Nene-chan,” Emu grabbed his arm and dragged him away.
“Oi, don’t pull me!” Tsukasa protested. “Hah- whatever. See you guys.”
“Yep! Bye-bye, Emu and Tsukasa!”
“See you tomorrow~”
Well… this was going to be an interesting day… probably.