[ She looks back up then, trying to get her normal smile back on. ]

Right? That's how I felt when I first read it; a story about close people being separated from each other is just too sad...

But... a lot of famous plays in our field are like that. [ Takarazuka love that melodrama. ] I guess people are just drawn to these sorts of tragic stories... like Romeo and Juliet or Orpheus and Eurydice. They know how it ends but still begin to sing it again...

[ As if it might turn out this time. ]

Still... sometimes I wish I could just freeze the story before it gets to the ending and let them be happy forever.