HtH86 – A Guest Has Arrived At The Theatre House
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: A enigmatic figure appears at our theatre house. Somehow she knows Eclair.
Crisp ring-ling-lings of a bicycle bell pressed too many times speed through the front gates to our theatre house, screeching to a halt right in front of where the part of the burnt mansion meets the front garden! Kicking up the rear brake, she sets Lumi's bike to a halt, and looks upon the house in wonder and amazement!
"That's not Lumi."
From the side, Ablam had emerges with Piaccta, carrying light wooden planks for the new flooring.
That she isn't! The new girl is barely Piaccta's height, her bright red eyes brim with mischief, left eye partially obscured by her bangs. She wears a pair of rounded square glasses, a dark purple and oddly familiar beret-like hat perched on the topside of her head. A black capelet drapes over her frilled white blouse, matched by her gold-trimmed short black skirt and dark stockings. She tosses her long light purple hair that falls all the way to her waist, and breathes deeply in the direction of our home,
"FINALLY, the GREAT ONE HAS COME BACK... ... home!!!"
"... ..."
"... ...!"
Ablam blinks a couple times, unsure what to make of this new guest!
On the other hand, Piaccta is over the moon!
Because she gets... 'it'!
An instant connection!
Ablam watches the two hold hands and swing their arms in a bizarre little round dance, dancing with joyous laughter on the front garden! Of course, she could not make heads or tails of it, it is like a common understanding amongst those whose stage canvas are painted a squared circle white!
"Are you one of my mentor's tag-team partners too?"
"Ehehehe... nope!" The guest with purple hair closes her eyes, as if remembering a happy time in the past, "But I am a wrestling [41] enjoyer!"
Piaccta understands this concept all too well, for her former mentor [K] at this very theatre house is indeed an active wrestler!
All this of course, flies over the head of Ablam.
The self-proclaimed wrestling-enjoyer has sharp eyes, and when she sees that Ablam has folded her arms, a little left out; she suddenly turns her head in the girl's direction with a cheeky smile!
"Excuse moi'! I heard that this here is a theatre house?!"
Ablam nods, a little cautiously, a little intrigued by the new face's boundless energy.
"You sure speak loudly... for someone who rode here on something that's not yours."
Ablam pokes at the truth with an inkling of suspicion. In the end however, her better instincts won out,
"Yes, we are actresses who are working to become real vtubers. My name is Ablam, and my genmate here---"
"Piaccta! Piaccta Pizzaro is trained as a warrior too! Welcome to Theatre House Delaroux!"
The new guest has the strangest reaction.
At the word 'vtuber', her eyes lit up, like recalling a long and not-so distant past.
Then, when the 'name' of our home was revealed to her...
... it was like a long childhood dream had finally come true.
The girl with the Frxnch hat takes a step backwards and rubs her eyes, peering intently at mansion before her.
One might think she was afraid that if she blinked, the house might vanish.
She blinked anyway.
It did not.
She points right up at the second floor with a shocked face, shouting out,
"It's real~!!!"
"Of course our theatre house is real!" Ablam exclaims, "We live here!"
"Live? Hmm hmm! Are there others like you here?? Oh right, you are vtubers, right? Do you have a gen leader, or a mane-san here? I wanna meet them!"
The girl's request was a little burlesque, but she cut straight to the point.
Perhaps it is in her nature to be a straight-shooter!
"I was about to ask about that very thing. That bike you have there... is our friend, Lumi's ---"
"It is? Well, >you can give it back to her then, Ablam!"
Saying thus, she practically lifts the bike up and puts it into Ablam's hands! A clean handoff!
Now, it is your problem to deal with!
Before Ablam can click her tongue in protest, the second floor window slides open, and out pops the head of our brown-haired dramaturg,
"Ablam, are you alright down there? I heard a stranger's voice..."
There is a second moment of recognition.
Eclair of course, does not recognize the new face.
But the energetic girl down there certainly recognizes her!
Fragments of a flashback return to a photograph of the very same brown-haired girl clutching a golden book,
of the energetic girl helicopter whirling her finger in the air, before landing it on the white-haired boy next to her.
There's no mistaking it...! Right? Right?!
Practically leaping up so hard, her hardstuck Frxnch beret almost falls off, she nods her head while shaking a single knowing finger at the second floor,
"You!"
Glossary
[41] Professional Wrestling - Called the 'modern day theater', it is a morality play which pits a good guy and a bad guy against each other in the middle of a ring surrounded by thousands of screaming fans! Conflict is built up over weeks of 'promos'; backstage encounters, in-ring interferences, all leading up to a climatic in-ring showdown that is pay-per-view!
Characters
[K] Rie-Tan- Golden-braided showgirl of the Starfallow Troupe. She is a wrestler-in-training at [Execution Circus]. A native of Bitsborough, her family home is just next doors!
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