AS AN EXTRA, LET'S HIT THE STREETS
[Scene: The city streets. Patricia is standing and waiting.]
Patricia: Hmm. Hmm. Hmm! Konata is late!
Yutaka: There she is! (Yutaka rushes over to Patricia.) Patricia-saaannn!
Patricia: Yutaka?
(Yutaka makes her way over to Patricia, but is winded because of anemia. )
Yutaka: (gasping for breath) I'm sorry. I'm late.
Patricia: It's fine. But more importantly, what's up with Konata?
Yutaka: She caught a cold. I came here to let you know.
Yui: (walks over to them) You were supposed to go
shopping with her.
Patricia: Oh, is that what happened? Wow, even Yui came all the way out here.
She could have just called.
Yutaka: Konata-oneechan doesn't remember where she put her cell phone.
Patricia: Ouch!
Yui: You were going shopping with Konata, right? Well, we'll go with you in
her place.
Yutaka: Is that no good?
Patricia: I'm okay with it but . . . we'll be going to buy anime goods and games.
Are you all right?
Yui: Yes! Let's wa go!
Yutaka: I don't mind. I'm sure that I'll like whatever you or Konata-oneechan like.
Patricia: Okay then, let's head on out! For all day today, I'll give you an otaku experience!
Yutaka: (nervous) Hold up, that's --- eeeee!
[LATER]
(The group is walking around the shopping district.)
Patricia: By the way, how is Konata's cold? Is she doing okay?
Yui: Oh, she's fine. It's just a summer cold.
Yutaka: Though I have trouble recovering from those.
Yui: Remember what they say? Stupid people can't catch colds!
Patricia: I get it. It fits that she was first in line. What a meaningful turn of phrase.
A kind of life medicine.
Yutaka: (thinking) No, that's not it. That's just wrong.
[Yutaka notices Minami and Miyuki walking on the sidewalk.]
(aloud) Iwasaki-san!
Patricia: Hello Minami. What a coincidence!
Minami: Why yes. It is.
Miyuki: Kobayakawa-san, Patricia-san, good afternoon.
Narumi-san, it has been a while.
Yui: Oh, you're one of Konata's pals! It certainly has been a while. I think I know you
too - you helped out Yutaka, right?
Yutaka: Yeah!
Minami: Oh, it wasn't anything big.
Yui: Don't be so modest. You carried her to the nurse's office and stayed with her.
You're awesome. I was really surprised.
Patricia: She's impressive.
Yutaka: Yeah!
Miyuki: Maybe that's a little oppressive, coming from a policewoman.
Minami: Before we discuss this, perhaps there's something else we should
focus on.
[LATER]
Patricia: Are you and Miyuki here to buy anime goods?
Minami: No, I want a computer. There are a lot of people walking around here.
Miyuki: There are tons of monitors set up. What are those for?
Patricia: Those are demo movies for games and commercials for anime. They
also have test spaces set up for people to try out games.
Yui: This is the first time I've seen something like this. Hmm?
[Someone is playing a game nearby. The sound of Mario being hit and
losing a powerup can be heard.]
Kuroi: Dang it! I lost! (ragequits)
Patricia: Wow. I've seen that person somewhere before.
Minami: She's Miyuki-san's homeroom teacher.
Yutaka: (laughs nervously)
Yui: Hey! Kuroi-san!
Kuroi: Oh hey! If it isn't Narumi-san! It looks like you got dragged
along.
Yui: Yeah, today I'm acting kinda like a homeroom teacher.
Kuroi: Ah. Oh. I don't see Izumi with you.
Patricia: Even though she's dumb, she caught a cold.
Kuroi: Oh. That's a shame. (whispered) And her friend called her dumb.
Patricia: But is that shocking?
Kuroi: Well, I'm just here to kill time. I thought I might try out a STG.
But I can't seem to win lately. I'm getting shot up.
Patricia: Those types of games are getting rarer these days.
Kuroi: (unhappy) Yeah. That's right. (laughs) (thinks) Her innocence
is starting to make me mad.
[LATER]
Konata: (coughs) I see. You met up with everybody. (coughs)
Yutaka: That's right. Are you all right?
Konata: I'll pull through. I was worried I'd done something bad to Patty.
(coughs) It sounds like she had fun anyway. Good.
Yutaka: And then later on, they had something like a Road Live.
Patricia-san was really pumped.
Konata: Road Live!?
Yutaka: That's right. Patricia explained that it had some personalities or
people singing about anime stuff.
Konata: Who!? Do you remember who it was?
Yutaka: Oh, let's see. Kogami Akira, I think.
Konata: Dang iiiiitttt (coughs and hacks) I didn't hear anything about a
secret event!
Yutaka: That's how it was.
Konata: If I had known that was gonna happen, I would have dragged myself
out of bed to see it! I missed my chance to see Akira live!
Yutaka: Live . . .
Konata: Craaaaaaap!
END PART 11