Full Metal Panic! Short Stories Volume 6 by Shouji Gatou

Author:Shouji Gatou [GATOU, SHOUJI]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2023-06-09T00:00:00+00:00

Kyoko’s words would prove true: no matter how hard they tried, Sousuke remained a bad actor.

“Scene 3, take 8! Okay, action!” The camera began rolling again.

“We-meet-again-Shoko-san-how-are-you-doing-oh-Harry-Potter-are-you-reading-those-old-documents-again?” Sousuke asked again.

“D-Don’t make fun of me, I like it,” Kaname repeated. “Anyway, what brings you to a place like this?”

“I-was-thinking-they-might-have-some-books-by-Tolkien-I’ve-always-liked-them-but-of-course-that-is-classified-material.”

“Cut! Cut, cut! Die, you lousy actor!” the director shouted, throwing the microphone at Sousuke’s head.

“Hmph...” Sousuke stood perfectly still and let it hit him, but the shooting didn’t get any easier from there. Sousuke had over ten bad takes on a single scene. They would repeat it again and again, waiting patiently for him to rise to the level of ‘decent.’

“T-Take 28... Action...”

“You’re-the-only-one-for-me-Shoko-kun-I-can’t-live-without-you-please-don’t-go.”

“Cut,” said Komuro, who was beginning to lose his steam. “O-One more time...”

It felt less like filming a romance and more like filming a wild animal documentary. The cameramen, waiting weeks in frozen Siberia for a tiger to appear and reveal its mating behavior... It demanded exceptional stamina and superhuman patience from everyone involved.

Then, on the third day after Kaname joined the shoot, Director Komuro finally snapped. “No more! You’re fired! Get out of here!” His shout echoed around the set.

“Me?” said Sousuke. “Fired?”

“Yes! I don’t have any more time to waste on a rotten actor like you! The film festival is next week!”

“Heh. You run away so easily,” Sousuke responded, his manner unperturbed.

“What?”

“You don’t like my performance—that in itself is acceptable. But to turn your back on reality and seek an easier path... You’re a second-rate creator,” he criticized. “I see now that your abilities are limited.”

“I think you just suck!” Kaname added from the sidelines, but nobody was listening.

“H-How dare you! You, of all people, finding fault with my talent?! Second-rate, you say?! Who was it who hired you in the first place?!” Komuro fumed.

“I never asked you to.”

“Shut up! You don’t know the first thing about film! You’re just... You’re just, you’re just—”

Crick. Komuro, in the middle of raising his arms in fury, suddenly froze up.

“Komuro-san?” said Kaname.

There was no response. Komuro, still as stiff as a statue, gradually began to tilt before falling flat onto the floor.

“Komuro-san?!”

“Director!!!”

The group ran up to him as Komuro went into a series of painful-looking spasms.

“Where’s the medic?” Sousuke shouted. “Medic!”

“There is no medic!” Kaname told him, quickly punching the emergency number into her PHS phone.

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