Act VI
During Act V of the performance
“Ah, what was that…? That girl, she said her name
Was Romeo: She, the veritable
Venus whose beauty did dim the stars’ shine—
Alas, she stole away, and on her heels
Innumerable guards and a wild mob
Of rioters. O, I pray thee safety…!
The moment that mine eyes did lay on her
Was too the moment that did hang my soul
Upon a crucifix. If it be sin,
Then let me raise mine arms and reach for it
That I may grasp my sin with my two hands.
Is this love? O nurse, mother, is it this
Which you did laud a rare and precious thing?
But Romeo! That woman thou wouldst be—
If in this world we cannot be as one,
Then wherefore did we ever come to meet?
If marriage be all that brings women joy,
Then God in heaven, then Law on the earth,
Why do you not consent to our union?”
“……”
“…Mm~ Snzz ♪”
“Zzz, snzzz… ♪”
“…Who mightst thou be? Perchance thou has enter’d
The wrong chamber to sleep? But where indeed
Didst thou come from? Where, indeed?”
“Nn~ mm…”
“Huh? Where am I?”
“The castle of the esteemed Capulets,
And in its corner, the birdcage wherein
Resides the pitiable Juliet.
Hum… Mightst thou be the child of a servant?”
“Huh? Juliet-nee~chan…?”
“Thou knowest me?”
“Huh? Huh?! Nee~chan, you can see me?”
“Ay, if mine eyes do serve me. What art thou?
Thou speakest as if thou go oft unseen—
A fairy, then, or something else?”
“Hey nee~chan, were you crying? There, there. You should cheer up ♪”
“Oh me… Pat not mine head. ‘Tis rude to touch
A lady thus.”
“It’s gonna be okay! Don’t worry, we’re gonna make sure you get your happy ending!”
“We speak of different things. Hast thou not yet
Awoken? A strange child thou art!”
“Ehe, I get that a lot!”
“Anyway. Juliet-nee~chan, have you seen someone around who’s dressed like me?”
“I lost him at some point, and I am in the pits, I tell ya!”
“No one can see me, so I’d been sneaking food and stuff at the ball…”
“But then I accidentally got a taste of some alcohol and totally forgot what I was doing.”
“I tried taking a walk to sober up, but then I got real sleepy, and I guess I passed out?”
“Tush, tush…! A child is not to drink.”
“Ahaha! But you’re a child too! You’re only fourteen, right?”
“…Thou searchest for one dress’d like thee? Good now,
I saw a boy with Romeo a mere
Few minutes past. Howe’er, he did have naught
A presence; ‘tis, perhaps, because the light
Which Romeo did shine was much too bright.”
Oh, so he’s with Romeo-nee~chan?”
“He’s doing his best to put the story back in order, so I’ve gotta lend him a hand!”
“The story? What, then, is the order?”
“Um? It’s like, Romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love, then they die before they can even tie the knot! Sucks for them, right?”
“We die…?”
“Yup. I’m pretty sure they drink poison ‘cause even though they can’t be together in this world, they can still get hitched in the afterlife or something?”
“Pretty dumb if you ask me! What if there isn’t even an afterlife? It’s better to stay alive no matter what, is what I think.”
“…Thou art correct. I do agree with thee.
Sir fairy? Wouldst thou swear before the Lord
That what thou say’st is true?”
I’m not a fairy, I’m the chorus!”
“I dunno much about any real, actual god or anything, but I was created by the god of this story—the author!”
“Looks like god—the author, I mean—wasn’t happy with the tragic end Romeo and Juliet had to face…”
“So they adapted the story to try and give them a happy ending.”
“And in order to do that, they put a Reversi spell on the whole world.”
“It’s been a while since the Shakespeare—that’s the original author—wrote this story, so now someone else is trying their hand at it.”
“I guess they wanted to ‘reverse’ the sad ending, so they adapted it to be like this?”
“But they weren’t powerful enough for the spell, so now the story’s taking this, like, half-baked form.”
“Or at least that’s what my friend, the other chorus guy, told me.”
“Ehehe, I don’t really get all this high-level stuff ♪”