When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace: Volume 8 [Parts 1 to 5] by Kota Nozomi

Author:Kota Nozomi
Language: eng
Format: epub

Scene 3. As You Loathe It

Romeo and Juliet: a play penned by the English dramatist William Shakespeare. Though generally classified as a tragedy, it wasn’t quite heart-wrenching enough to earn a place alongside Shakespeare’s Four Great Tragedies, those being King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, and Hamlet. Its central theme, in short: forbidden love.

We lay our scene in fair Verona, a metropolitan city of Italy. There lives Romeo, heir to the house Montague, and Juliet, the sole daughter of house Capulet. A chance encounter at a party ends with the two falling instantly and madly in love with each other...but their houses are the bitterest of enemies. In this era of Verona’s history, noble houses were divided based upon their support of either the Holy Roman Emperor or the Pope. The Montagues are supporters of the Emperor, while the Capulets side with the Pope, and as a result, the two houses have spent years and years engaging in an intense, often bloody feud.

Within all that open antagonism, the two houses’ progenies fall in love. Fate, however, stands in the way of that love ever reaching fulfillment. As if to laugh in the face of the young couple’s budding romance, relations between the two houses deteriorate further stillI. It seems inevitable that the irresistible tides of destiny will tear them apart...but that’s when a plan is hatched.

Juliet chooses to drink a poison that will cause her to appear dead then awaken some time later, a plot that will unshackle her from the bonds her family have imposed on her and free her to live with Romeo. Romeo, however, is never informed of this plan. Convinced that Juliet has truly died, he makes his way to her body and poisons himself with a truly lethal toxin, choosing to join her in death. When Juliet awakens and realizes that her plan has caused the death of her one true love, she falls into despair and throws herself upon Romeo’s sword. Finally, when the Montague and Capulet houses learn of Romeo and Juliet’s deaths and the irresistible love that burned between them, their leaders choose to bring an end to the feud. So ends the lovers’ star-crossed tale...

“...is the essence of the story, broadly speaking,” Sayumi said, pausing for a moment after she concluded her explanation. Our usual members had once again gathered up in the club room after school. This time, each of us was holding a sheet of paper with information relating to Romeo and Juliet written on it.

After deciding that we’d be putting on a play the day before, we split up for the afternoon to go home and think about which play we wanted to put on. When we got back together again, however, most of the proposals people brought to the table—Snow White, Cinderella, Momotaro—weren’t exactly the sort of stuff that you’d expect from a high school’s cultural festival. We reached a consensus that it would be nice to do something a little more high-brow, and that’s when I proposed that

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