(The KONEKO, downstairs. AYA, YOUJI, KEN and OMI are lying
around drinking beer and toasting one another.)
Ken: Congratulations, Omi-kun! Now at last your apprenticeship
is up and you are a full-fledged member of the assassins
Weiss!
Omi: Arigatou, Ken-kun, but - this is my last day with you all!
Aya,Ken,Youji: What??
Omi: Alas, it is true. I have done my best for you at
killing and flower-arranging because it was my duty to
Persia, who raised me. And UNLIKE YOUJI *ahem* I am
always a slave to duty.
Youji: Hey! I took out the garbage last time!
Omi: Only after I threatened to shrink your crop tops in the
wash!
Ken: Calm down, you two. What is this about leaving, Omi?
Don't you like the glorious assassin life? The blood,
the girls, the late nights, the early mornings-
AYA kicks KEN under the table and glares at him.
OMI's eyes fill with tears and he begins to snivel.
Omi: It was all a mistake! It was Manx's fault!
Aya, Ken, Youji: Manx's fault??
Enter MANX, down the staircase.
Manx: My fault. Alas!
Youji: Manx baby! Date me!
Manx: Shut up, Youji. (sings)
When Omi was a little boy he loved to go out fishing,
And after he was kidnapped, his uncle heard him wishing
That he could keep the hobby, though he'd lost his family -
So Persia bade me 'prentice him, a fisherman to be.
I'm sleek and cute, a babe in boots, even if they're
hip-waders;
But it must be said, when I turn my head, I don't hear
well unaided.
We fished all one day in methodical way, and soon upon
the grass
Lay a beautiful set, tangled up in the net, a marvelous
catch of bass!
Omi, eyes shining: A marvelous catch of bass!
Ken: Omi likes FISH?
Aya: Shut up.
MANX sings:
We brought them all home, Omi went off alone, and I went
to talk to Persia,
It was then that our fate was served up on a plate,
Though I never did mean to coerce ya.
Persia wanted to see, so he did order me, to make him
bring the bass in -
But the different words that I somehow heard were
"Make him an assassin."
OMI sniffles.
Manx: So that's why you are all here, I'm afraid. My sense
of duty and devotion to Persia never would let me
do things halfway.
Ken: ALL of us??
Manx: I didn't want Omi to get lonely.
Youji: But what about fighting for justice and white hunters
in the dark and all that crap?
Manx: I made it up.
Ken: The videos of Persia giving us missions?
Manx: Me in a wig.
Aya: My sister - Takatori -
Manx: I think Takatori thinks you're practicing for some sort
of amateur theatrical. Every time you see him you run
in waving a sword and telling him to shine.
Aya: That's SHI-NE!
- - -
Stay tuned for Act II, or "H.M.S Schwartz"!
OUKA, offstage: I'm called little Ouka-chan, sweet little Ouka-chan,
though I could never tell why --
SCHULDIG, offstage: I HATE that song. (gunshots)
Or maybe not.
Tell Marith she belongs in a small rubber room