Imagination? Uchiha Ryo knew that what he was talking about was reality.
Most works by screenwriters and authors are not written to please themselves, but to please the audience.
Even those who are dedicated to writing their own things will be forcibly brought back to reality by their superiors.
Hongo-senpai's second half of the script didn't get the support of the Drama Club, so they had to come up with a new second half.
This is possible! Or rather... highly likely.
Uchiha Ryo: "Since Irisu-senpai thinks I'm overthinking it, then so be it."
He didn't need to do anything for a Hongo he didn't know, and he was too lazy to argue with Irisu-senpai. He would just make up a second half for the script of this play...
This was just a semester task for their club. What happened to the Drama Club was not important to him.
Arriving at the rest area behind the gymnasium, under the guidance of the staff, they came to the door of a room on the second floor. The sign on it read "Seminar Room." They would be having their meeting here.
Uchiha Ryo walked into the room and saw the members of the Classic Literature Club sitting on one side, and several members of the Drama Club sitting opposite. Puzzlingly, Irisu Fuyumi did not seem to be participating in the discussion.
"Hello, I'm the vice president of the Drama Club, Nakajo Junya. Please take care of me. Just call me Nakajo."
"Oh, hello."
Uchiha Ryo pulled up a chair and sat next to Chitanda. Hayasaka Ai, who was sitting at the far end, pouted slightly, seemingly complaining about why Uchiha Ryo didn't sit next to her.
But Uchiha Ryo purely wanted to find a peripheral position. The closer to the main seat, the more heated the discussion would probably be.
When it came to slacking off, General Affairs Manager Uchiha was serious.
Nakajo Junya: "It's great to have the help of the Classic Literature Club! If we discuss together and achieve synergy, that would be absolutely Cool."
This guy named Nakajo, who looked quite strong, was also quite pretentious... Uchiha Ryo didn't speak, but just sat there quietly.
Nakajo: "Everyone, let's start discussing the script. Please speak freely!"
"Although it's a continuation, I still hope everyone can pick up Hongo-san's ideas and recreate the second half of her unborn script."
Nakajo Junya spoke very seriously.
Chitanda Eru raised her hand. "Um, I'd like to ask an off-topic question. Is the author of the script, Hongo-senpai, sick? How is she?"
"Hongo.... I don't know the specific situation, but I heard it's pretty bad, so we can only rely on ourselves."
Chitanda clenched her fists.
"Mhm! We will definitely come up with the plot that Hongo-senpai hasn't written yet! That way, when she comes back to school, she won't be sad because she missed it!"
Nakajo cleared his throat. "OK, let's get back to the topic. Our Shuchiin Drama Club's script must not be looked down upon by other students, so it must be more mind innovation."
"Please everyone start to brainstorm. I'm looking forward to everyone's speeches."
A boy with glasses sitting opposite Hayasaka Ai raised his hand.
"I think our script shouldn't be too uninteresting, so I want to propose ideas for the concept and content of the script."
(Too lazy to translate)
.....
This high-end dialogue from the Drama Club left Uchiha Ryo speechless.
No wonder Irisu-senpai didn't want to participate in the discussion. She was probably annoyed by these subordinates too.
Suddenly, Yukinoshita Yukino interrupted their discussion.
"Stop for a moment. Let me ask a few questions. First, can we see your script? And does the script really not suggest who the murderer is?"
What a straightforward question. Good job, Yukinoshita. If these guys kept pretending, Uchiha Ryo might have let them experience what a real murder case was like in a genjutsu.
"Uh.... well."
Nakajo Junya took out the script. Then Yukinoshita and Chitanda asked a few questions respectively, but the members of the Drama Club acted as if they knew nothing and didn't provide any useful information.
No wonder they had to ask people from the Classic Literature Club to help with the second half of the script....
Regarding the Drama Club's discussion, Uchiha Ryo silently gave his evaluation in his heart.
A group of pretentious literary youths, with various high-end ideas flying out of their mouths, answering and debating the direction of the script, but unfortunately making no progress.
To put it simply... a bunch of flying bullsh*tters.
Nakajo Junya sighed. "So do the members of the Classic Literature Club have any good ideas? As Shuchiin students, the drama we perform must not be cliché, but must have innovation!"
Hayasaka Ai raised her hand. It seemed she also had a suggestion.
Just as Uchiha Ryo was about to listen to Hayasaka Ai's thoughts on the script, he heard Hayasaka Ai smile at Nakajo Junya and begin to speak in a perfect British accent.
Oho, he almost forgot that Hayasaka Ai was a blonde, blue-eyed mix. With a quarter Irish blood, she had been raised by the Shinomiya conglomerate since childhood and was fluent in at least four languages.
Although Yukinoshita and Chitanda present had better grades, their foreign language speaking skills were definitely not as perfect as Hayasaka Ai's.
The corners of the eyes of Nakajo Junya and those guys who liked to mix English into their speech twitched.
This feeling was like when you were showing off your new bicycle to others, a supercar suddenly stopped and greeted them friendly.
Hayasaka Ai: "....Mhm, those are my thoughts. I believe Nakajo-senpai must have understood."
Nakajo Junya: "Ah... mhm, mhm, yes, Hayasaka-san makes a lot of sense!"
The other Drama Club members began to applaud one after another, not daring to speak another word of English.
[note: Hmm? Deja Vu? Where did I watch this. Hyouka?]
Uchiha Ryo secretly gave a thumbs-up, and Hayasaka Ai smiled playfully.
The group continued the discussion. Regarding the script of this locked-room murder case, what they had to discuss was nothing more than the real murderer and the modus operandi.
The first part of the script was also passed to Uchiha Ryo, along with other investigation reports from their Drama Club.
In the script, the deceased was the leader, but whether it was the details or the settings of the others, why did it always feel like something was missing....
Taking another piece of paper, this was the Drama Club's internal discussion sheet regarding the motive of the incident.
[Anonymous Vote on Murder Motive Conjecture]
"When was this vote taken?"
Nakajo Junya: "Oh that. Before we wanted to perform this play, because we really wanted to perform a suspense play like this, we held a vote first."
6 people chose crime of passion, 10 for revenge killing, 4 for killing for money, 8 for impulsive killing, 3 for accidental killing, and 2 for self-defense killing.
Uchiha Ryo: "Nakajo-senpai, your Drama Club has a lot of people...."
Nakajo Junya smiled. "Haha, our Drama Club has a total of thirty-four people. After all, it's a well-known club at Shuchiin."
Amakusa Shino pouted when she heard this. The Classic Literature Club only had six people, so sorry about that!
Thirty-four people, but only 33 people voted in their internal anonymous vote on the murder motive. One person was missing... who was it? The scriptwriter, Hongo-senpai?!
This was before they wanted to perform the play, which meant Hongo-senpai wasn't sick yet. She should have had her own ideas. And this was an anonymous vote, which meant that no matter which one Hongo voted for, no one would guess her decision as the script editor.
But she didn't vote.... Uchiha Ryo put down the paper. Hongo-senpai didn't participate in the anonymous vote for the murder motive. Either she was being special and didn't want to vote, or....
Hongo-senpai's script did not correspond to any of these murder motives.