Horror Actress – Theater 1: Scene 2

Translator: Flowingcloud  Editor: Arocks141

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Theater 1: Horror Actress Reincarnated as a Genius Child Actress – Scene 2

 

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Reminiscence: Western-style Building (Evening)
A middle-aged woman’s face is hidden by the evening’s backlight.
Tsugumi chases after that woman. Reminiscence over → Hospital Room (Evening)

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“How lovely.”

“How adorable.”

“How sweet.”

“How…”

“How…”

“Ohh, ohh, Tsugumi-sama. Please be mine.”

“What should I do? How can I get you to smile at me?

“Ahh, that’s right. If only you could live in my world.”

A woman with a crazy smile on her face chased after me, who did not know anything. As I was chased to the stairs, she pushed my body. Her crazy smile was something to behold. She has the talent to act as one of the “mental” actresses.

She was… if I remember correctly… She was my private tutor. A tutor that my father arranged for me. She was a teacher who was arranged for me in order to prepare for an event that I never heard of in my past life—elementary school entrance exams. She is a veteran tutor from a famous university who has been studying for 30 years. It seems that she had a preference for potential little girls (shoujo), and fell in love with Sorahoshi Tsugumi, a lovely Scandinavian beauty, and got herself into a mess. ¹ Thus, it must have been quite a reasonable burden to my childish personality, reviving my memories from my previous life. Tough luck.

Thanks to my fever occurring and my deep sleep, I was able to sort out my memories. I opened my eyelids as if waking up from a daydream and saw the white ceiling for the second time.

“Yaw…n.”

When I yawned loudly, the IV inevitably got in the way. Hmm… I am good at getting down on all fours in a bridge position with the IV in, but I would get in trouble if they find me doing that. I will have to give up my light exercise.

I would feel guilty to use the nurse call button just to ask someone to come. Helplessly, I looked around the bed and saw a lovely calendar. It seemed that this girl in this life and me from my previous life liked the same animals. I saw a cute print of a snake, raven, and frog. Mom and dad, I’m sorry for liking such ominous animals.

“Come to think of it, what year is it now, I wonder? —2020… Ehh?”

The era name… Reiwa, what’s that? What about Heisei? Well, even in this life’s memory, I did think that the TVs were quite thin and cell phones were awfully small, but I see, it’s been 20 years… If it has been that long since I was alive, my acquaintances and friends must be old or at a decent age. I, well, was never really young either.

Well, if that’s the case, I wondered what happened in the horror industry? If I said that I liked horror films that were famous in my time, I wonder if I’ll be mocked as a boomer?

“I want to watch TV…”

It was not just horror. How far have cell phones advanced? What about the internet? Also, what about VHS? A world I do not know. How fun it would be to be filled with entertainment with a sense of values that I do not comprehend. I wondered how exciting it would be to be able to come in contact with films that had developed and evolved over the years.

I rummaged around my bed and found a few picture books. Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Andersen, and Shakespeare. They were all masterpieces that had been handed down to my generation. From among them, I opened a picture book that I picked up randomly. I knew that the only way to contain my excitement was through theater. ²

“Sleeping Beauty. Mhm, this is good.” ³

It feels repulsive to call myself a beauty, but I was just sleeping at first. Even though I am good at getting into my role, if there is a situation setting that is easy to get into, there’s nothing better than that.

I am a sleeping princess. I was cursed by an evil witch on my birthday and put to sleep for a hundred years. Then, a prince appears, and with his kiss, I awaken beautifully.

“[Did you kiss me?]”

I put my hand on the prince’s cheek, then he squeezed my hand back.

“[I had been cursed by a witch to sleep.]”

I lightly complained to his kind gaze.

“[It was a lonely, ice-cold, cruel curse.]”

When the prince saw the sorrow in my words, he said, “You don’t have to worry anymore. From now on, I will protect you.”

“[Yes.]” I told the beautiful prince. My lips trembled, and I surrendered myself in joy and love. Happiness filled my heart, and I embraced the dawn as a ray of light shines through the darkness of my heart.

“—It’s my angel.”

Suddenly, a voice called out to me, and I stepped down from my role. Without even time to think that being a heroine wasn’t my thing, a familiar beautiful man knelt before me.

“Ohh, Tsugumi, my angel. Who are you going to win over with those lovely eyes of yours?”

He is the kind of person that would die if I randomly gave a name. Because I thought that would actually happen for some reason or another, I settled on something safe.

“Daddy and mommy!”

“Well well, am I already Tsugumi’s captive? Here, hugggg—”

My mother appeared behind my father and gave me a hug. My father was taken aback, but he easily got up and joined the circle.

“Am I dreaming right now? My goddess and my angel are playing together in such a lovely way? Would you two let me join in?”

“Hehe, what should I do? What do you think, Tsugumi?”

“Hehe, I’ll give you special permission!”

“Ohh, dear. Oh, how kind of you two to show such concern for someone like me… Now, will you give me your angel’s embrace too?”

“Sure!”

I wonder if this is what an innocent child feels like. I don’t think it was like this, but it’s not like I’m acting 100 percent of the time. Although I try not to show my shyness, my desire to play with my warm parents is something that overflows from deep inside me.

After all, I was an abused child in my previous life. Just when my violent father passed away, my mother abandoned me. If my grandparents had not saved me, I would have died. Just as I was about to take up acting and support my grandparents, they passed away peacefully. It was true that I longed for a family.

“Nonetheless, that truly was wonderful acting. Does Tsugumi perhaps want to go into acting?”

When asked, I thought for a moment. I am sure there are many more options now than in my previous life. Wouldn’t it be a waste not to try them out? Those kinds of thoughts flashed through my mind.

However, such thoughts were being drowned out by the overflowing impulse in my heart. I still wanted to be an actor. I wanted to fulfill my dream of becoming an actress who instills fear in every person in Hollywood, something I could not achieve in my previous life. ⁴

“Mhm.”

Therefore, I have no regrets about how I answered. I am sure they will let me take acting lessons. If I studied now, if I trained now, how much ability will I be able to obtain? I could not help but be excited just by thinking about it.

 

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Hospital Room (Night)
Father peeks at the bed through the door gap.
The setting sun hits the father’s face from the side who is looking at the Tsumugi.

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“[Did you kiss me?]”

The bed in the hospital room looked like it was a bed covered with thorns.

“[I had been cursed by a witch to sleep.]”

Wet eyes. The words she spun. I almost sympathized with the pain as if it was cutting at her.

“[It was a lonely, ice-cold, cruel curse.]”

I could not hear the prince’s voice. Even though that should have been the case, I had a flickering visual hallucination of the beautiful prince taking her hand.

—You don’t have to worry anymore. From now on, I will protect you.

I should not have been able to hear it, but it resounded as if following my sympathetic soul.

“[Yes.]”

Then, long-awaited words were sweet and mesmerizing.

“A foolish witch. Binding her to her sleep then setting her aside.”

“I’m sure… that’s not the intention of the story, Minako.”

Minako was peeking together at the other side of the hospital room. I came to my senses at Minako’s words.

“The witch was jealous, you see. Jealous of Tsugumi’s beauty.”

“Hehe, if you want to make our Tsugumi the main character, that would ruin the story. It would be foolish to get caught up in beauty and ugliness. If you confronted Tsugumi, you would realize that you’re just an insignificant ant.”

“There’s no doubt in that.”

Tsugumi was oblivious to our husband-wife harmonious banter. Therefore, when I gave Minako a look, she smiled softly and took a step back.

“But it was a really great performance. Does Tsugumi perhaps want to act?”

After a few exchanges, I asked Tsugumi. Then, Minako understood my intentions and nodded in agreement.

If you said no, then we would take you to the best film festival. So that you would not be bored with the pleasure of watching.

If you said you do not know, we will watch over you and see where you go. So that you can choose again in the future.

However, if you nod your head…

“Mhm.”

—I’m going to prepare the best stage for you. So that my angel will shine on the silver screen.

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1. Slavemaster (Cloud): Tsugumi is five right now. The term shoujo refers to girls who are 7~18 of age. This b*tch is the pedo of the pedos.
2. Slavemaster (Cloud): This is the “Andersen” Tsugumi is talking about if you didn’t know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Christian_Andersen
   Slothmaster (Arocks): Damn, this would be the perfect time to bring out the Matrix Mr. Anderson meme.
3. Slavemaster (Cloud): Sleeping Beauty is in Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
4. Slothmaster (Arocks): She might instill a lot of things into the people in Hollywood, though I doubt it would be ‘fear’.