Bunny Egg Hunters: Frontier Island Adventure/Story

* Chapter 1
* Chapter 2
* Chapter 3
* Chapter 4
* Chapter 5
* Final Chapter

Celebrating Easter Together!

 **Misora:**\*munch munch\* Mph. Hrmph. \*munch\*

 **Aruru:**Misora! Are you okay?

 **Misora:**Mrf? What do you mean? What's got you so worked up?

 **Aruru:**The only time you look so serious when you're eating is when you have a cold!

 **Misora:**That's not true! Anyway, I don't have a cold or anything, so don't worry.

 **Misora:**I was just writing a thank-you letter to Shizuha-senpai, but got stuck partway through and was just mulling things over.

 **Aruru:**A thank-you letter?

 **Misora:**Remember how I forgot one of my lines at yesterday's performance? Shizuha-senpai totally covered for my slip-up.

 **Aruru:**Oh, right! That was a great ad-lib on her part! You were playing Don José and Shizuha-chan was Carmen, right?

 **Shizuha:**"Corporal, you don't need to go to such efforts to lie to me."

 **Shizuha:**"You're in love with me. I can tell just by looking at you. You want to release me from this cell, don't you?"

 **Misora:**"What? Preposterous! I--"

 **Misora:**(Uh oh, I forgot my next li--)

 **Shizuha:**"No, I understand! I know it's difficult to take a girl like me at her word!"

 **Shizuha:**"But you would do anything for me. Our fates have been bound since we first met."

 **Misora:**Shizuha-senpai realized right away that I'd forgotten, and turned my mistake into a dramatic pause.

 **Aruru:**Yeah! Tsukasa-chan was saying that Shizuha-chan hammed up her acting to draw attention away from you.

 **Misora:**I was going to send a thank-you letter to say I was going to learn how to adapt on the fly like that.

 **Misora:**But while I was writing it, I thought of so many other things I wanted to thank her for too, and I got all bogged down.

 **Misora:**And then I started to wonder if just a letter was enough... And that's when you came charging in.

 **Aruru:**Oh, I see! It'd be nice to thank her beyond a letter somehow! Shizuha-chan does help us out a lot, day in and day out, after all!

 **Aruru:**But still, I think a letter of thanks is a very "you" thing to do, Misora.

 **Aruru:**I'd just thank someone in person, but I know you like to express appreciation in writing!

 **Misora:**Really? I do?

 **Aruru:**Huh? Yeah, like back in junior high, people always said you were the go-to person for furikake and letter-writing sets. Did you not know that?

 **Misora:**I knew about the furikake, but not the letter-writing stuff.

 **Aruru:**You wrote me a bunch of letters, too! Are handwritten letters really important to you?

 **Misora:**I don't know about that... I just really like them, is all.

 **Misora:**My parents' acting troupe is small, so personal relationships were especially important. We always sent thank-you letters to people who helped us.

 **Misora:**Letter-writing sets come in so many different and pretty varieties. When I was little, I was so into them that I begged my parents to let me write letters, too.

 **Misora:**I'd look up a whole bunch of words in the dictionary and write letters to people in the troupe and then get their responses... That really takes me back.

 **Aruru:**What a lovely memory! I kind of feel like writing a letter to Shizuha-chan myself now!

 **Shizuha:**We're back!

 **Misora:**Ah, it's Shizuha-senpai. I need to put away this letter...

 **Tsukasa:**We're baaack! Today we'll be having a full-course meal of bamboo shoots!

 **Lalafin:**I figured you'd eat a lot, Misora, so I made sure to bring a bunch!

 **Misora:**Whoa, you've got you're hands full! Let me help you bring that into the kitchen.

 **Aruru:**Who did you get so many bamboo shoots from?

 **Shizuha:**The girls from the Oil Painting Course apparently went out digging for bamboo shoots. Evidently they're going to be using them as reference for their next sketching class.

 **Tsukasa:**But I guess they gathered up more than they expected, and so they were kind enough to share them with us

 **Misora:**They all look so plump and tasty... Thank you sooo much painting girls!

 **Lalafin:**I can't wait to see what Shizuha makes with this!

 **Tsukasa:**She's the only one who can cook vegetables that you'll actually eat, Lalafin.

 **Lalafin:**Wait, vegetables?

 **Lalafin:**Are bamboo shoots a vegetable?

 **Misora:**Uh... What did you think they were?

 **Lalafin:**I thought they were related to mushrooms...

 **Shizuha:**We hid the fact that they were vegetables since Lalafin doesn't like them, but I guess the jig is up.

 **Lalafin:**Waaah! You're even better than my mom at tricking me into eating my veggies!

 **Tsukasa:**Still, this is a pretty unusual school, huh? Digging for bamboo shoots isn't normally part of the curriculum.

 **Lalafin:**I really like all the different special events Frontier has! Like that space thing we had going on.

 **Shizuha:**Ah, "The Earth is Blue Exhibition" on the International Day of Human Space Flight. That was a joint effort by the AV and Photographt courses.

 **Shizuha:**And earlier this month, the Ceramics students put on a Strawberry Day. They made bowls, and then baked strawberry treats to go inside.

 **Shizuha:**Both events were rather unique, but they were pretty successful at boosting school PR, I heard.

 **Misora:**Considering that, the events the Stage Expression Course puts on are pretty reserved by Frontier standards. Lalafin: Like a performance using projection mapping, and a screening of the movie we produced with the AV students.

 **Tsukasa:**Shouldn't we hold an event to surprise students from the other programs, Shizuha?

 **Shizuha:**I'd been considering ideas for a fun, Easter-themed event for April, but none of them really came together, so I shelved it.

 **Aruru:**Easter has something to do with eggs, right? I don't actually know much about it. What sort of event is it?

 **Lalafin:**My family celebrated Easter, so I know about it! You put on bunny ears and hide eggs so people can find them!

 **Shizuha:**That's an egg hint. It's a traditional Easter game. There are others, too, like the egg roll, where you race your eggs by, well, rolling them.

 **Aruru:**Eggs and rabbits? Sounds like a pretty unique holiday!

 **Shizuha:**The celebration originated from harvest rites held by Germanic tribes. Eggs and rabbits were fertility symbols back then just like they are now.

 **Shizuha:**The word "Easter" itself is said to come from "Eostre," a spring goddess from the region.

 **Lalafin:**You know, I thought this back when we did "New Cinderella" too, but how come you know so much about history, Shizuha?

 **Shizuha:**Hehehe. It's just stuff I picked up from playing video games when I was little. Also, I guess because my family also observed Easter.

 **Misora:**An egg hunt, huh? Hmm...

 **Tsukasa:**Is Easter something you do at home? Is my family the only one that didn't celebrate it?

 **Aruru:**Misora's family and mine didn't, either.

 **Shizuha:**It hasn't caught on here the same way Halloween did.

 **Shizuha:**I used to be the rabbit, and I's hide eggs for my parents to find. It was so much fun.

 **Misora:**Why don't we do something like that, Shizuha-senpai?

 **Shizuha:**Do what? An egg hunt?

 **Misora:**Yeah! And I know you're busy with other stuff, so I can handle the preparations!

 **Tsukasa:**You mean WE can handle them, right?

 **Tsukasa:**Sounds like fun! Count me in for the egg hunt!

 **Lalafin:**I want in, too!

 **Aruru:**Me, too! With the five of us, it'll be a blast!

 **Shizuha:**I'm happy you're doing this, but it's not as if I have NO free time. If I can help with anything, just--

 **Misora:**Oh,no, you just leave it to us. This time we want YOU to have some fun for once, Shizuha-senpai!

The Three Rabbits

 **Lalafin:**Jiggle jiggle jiggle!

 **Aruru:**Jiggle jiggle jiggle jiggle!

***Jiggle jiggle jiggle jiggle jiggle!***

 **Shizuha:**I'm back! Oh, are you guys playing with the slime again?

 **Aruru:**Oh! Shizuha-chan! Welcome back!

 **Lalafin:**Hey there, Shizuha. We've been waiting for you!

 **Shizuha:**Does this have anything to do with the egg hunt we were talking about before?

 **Aruru:**Bingo! Nothing gets past you, Shizuha-chan! Lalafin, let's do the intro!

 **Lalafin:**"The eggs the rabbits have hidden point the way to a hidden treasure! Find the eggs and complete the treasure map!"

 **Aruru:**"The cast of 'Captain Twins' presents a hitherto unheard-of egg hunt..."

***"The Bunny Egg Hunters: Frontier Island Adventure"!***

 **Shizuha:**Oh, my! What an exciting name!

 **Aruru:**It's not a play or anything, but we have role assignments all the same.

 **Lalafin:**Me, Aruru, and Shizuha will be playing bunnies from Frontier Island! Tsukasa and Misora will be adventurers who have come to the island!

 **Aruru:**And then... Well, first, take a look at this map!

 **Shizuha:**A map of the Frontier campus.. Huh?

 **Shizuha:**What are all these squares?

 **Aruru:**The eggs are capsules that contain pieces of paper with writing on them. Paste the pieces onto those squares to complete the clue!

 **Shizuha:**There are 32 pieces in all, so we're going to hide 32 eggs for Tsukasa and Misora-chan to find?

 **Lalafin:**Yeah! But Tsukasa and Misora are going to come up with the text for the clue.

 **Aruru:**So. Tsukasa-chan and Misora, the adventurers, get to seek out the eggs, while we the rabbits can look forward to seeing what the map says!

 **Shizuha:**So we've got the adveturers who have brought a treasure map to an island, and rabbits who hid eggs without realizing they're clues to finding the treasure.

 **Shizuha:**And maybe the rabbits have already forgotten where they hid the eggs?

 **Lalafin:**I like it! Let's work that into the story!

 **Shizuha:**What a delightful event. I love games where the setting and worldview are reflected in the game's mechanics.

 **Shizuha:**But are you two okay with not being adventurers? I thought you two would enjoy searching for the eggs more than hiding them.

 **Lalafin:**Ah, so you noticed that!

 **Aruru:**We actually got something else to make the hunt even more exciting!

 **Lalafin:**I decided to be one of the bunnies because I wanted to wear these! Let me go put them on real quick!

 **Aruru:**We have some for you too, Shizuha-chan!

 **Shizuha:**Put on what, exactly? And what are you bringing me?

 **Lalafin:**Ta-dah! Bunnyfin is here!

 **Aruru:**And so's Bunnyruru! Here's your hat, Bunnyha-chan!

 **Shizuha:**Oh, my, it's adorable!

 **Shizuha:**How does it look?

 **Lalafin:**It looks amazing on you, Shizuha! I knew it would!

 **Aruru:**There weren't any adventuring clothes, but we were lucky enough to find the rabbit ears in the costume room.

 **Lalafin:**Okay! Let's bunny it up!

 **Lalafin:**Boing! Boing!

 **Aruru:**Boing! Boing!

 **Shizuha:**Oh, you two are just too cute.

 **Lalafin:**C'mon, Shizuha, you too! Boing, boing!

 **Shizuha:**Haha. Of course.

 **Shizuha:**Boing! Boing!

 **Lalafin:**That's the ticket! But yeah, put a little more bounce into your bunnying! Boing!

 **Aruru:**Get it, boing? You gotta vocalize your boings to be a bunny at your best, boing!

 **Shizuha:**Oh, dear...

 **Lalafin:**Now, now, Bunnyha! I think you mean "Oh, dear, boing!" Boing!

 **Shizuha:**Oh, dear, boing...

 **Aruru:**Are you a little shy there, Bunnyha-chan? I want to see you really reabbit it up, boing!

 **Lalafin:**Me, too! Boing!

 **Shizuha:**I see. If I treat this like another performance, I'll be less shy about it, boing.

 **Shizuha:**Ahem. Well, let's really boince into the Bunnyha spirit, boing!

 **Shizuha:**"Hey there. everybunny! My name is Bunnyha, boing! I hope we can be good friends! Boing! Boing!"

 **Tsukasa:**Shizuha, what are you doing...?

 **Shizuha:**Ts-Tsukasa! And Misora-chan!

 **Shizuha:**It-It's not what it looks like! I was trying to get into the rabbit spirit for the egg hunt with Aruru-chan and Lalafin.

 **Tsukasa:**Ahaha! Just kidding! We know. I was a little surprised by how into it you were, though.

 **Misora:**I'm just glad you're having fun with this, Shizuha-senpai!

 **Shizuha:**Oh, you two are so mean.

 **Tsukasa:**Heh, sorry. So when are we doing this egg hunt, anyway?

 **Lalafin:**We should do it on a day off! How about next Sunday?

 **Aruru:**Sounds great!

 **Shizuha:**That works for me, too.

 **Misora:**It's going to be the perfect way to unwind!

 **Tsukasa:**I'm okay with that, too. I already got permission from the school, so let's have fun!

 **Shizuha:**I'll put up a post about the egg hunt on the message board just in case someone else finds the eggs.

 **Lalafin:**Okay, so next Sunday, we'll hide the eggs in the morning, and then begin the hunt after lunch!

 **Aruru:**All right! I'm gonna hide mine super well!

 **Tsukasa:**This may be my first-ever Easter, but I'm gonna find every one of those eggs!

 **Shizuha:**And you will learn firsthand why I, Bunnyha, am the most renowned egg-hider in the rabbit world! Boing!

 **Misora:**I'm going to find all those eggs and get that reasure! You'll see!

 **Shizuha:**(Come to think of it, I wonder what the treasure is... The eggs are just hints that lead to finding it, after all.)

 **Shizuha:**(Guess there are some secrets to this plan I still don't know yet. Heheh. I can't wait for the big day!)

The Egg Adventure Begins

 **Tsukasa:**Mmm! Why does a spring breeze always feel so good? It's perfect weather for an egg hunt!

 **Lalafin:**You can't wait to get started, can you, Tsukasa?

 **Tsukasa:**I absolutely love treasure hunts. I'm going to find everything today, you'll see!

 **Shizuha:**We had a little incident where Aruru-chan got stuck between a pair of trees, but we've hidden all 32 eggs.

 **Misora:**Stuck between trees! Aruru, are you okay?

 **Aruru:**Shizuha-chan and Lalafin helped get me free. I'm fine!

 **Tsukasa:**Well, that's good. Just...try to be more careful?

 **Aruru:**Heh heh... Okayyy!

 **Lalafin:**Oh, it's noon on the dot! Let's get this started!

 **Shizuha:**Okay, then let's improvise a scene where the adventurers arrive on Frontier Island and get the egg hunt started with the rabbits.

 **Misora:**Im...Improvise!?

 **Tsukasa:**This is really starting to feel like a Stage Girl event now. I love it!

 **Shizuha:**"The Bunny Egg Hunters: Frontier Island Adventure"... Here we go!

 **Tsukasa:**"Misora, look! An island has come into view!"

 **Tsukasa:**"It's the fabled isle of treasure we've been searching for--Frontier Island!"

 **Misora:**"Tsukasa-san! Frontier Island really DOES exist. I'll get ready to drop anchor!"

 **Lalafin:**"Esteemed travelers from across the sea, welcome to Frontier Island! Boing!"

***"Welcome! Boing"***

 **Misora:**"Tsukasa-san, the rabbits can speak, just like the tales say!"

 **Tsukasa:**"And they seem friendly, too. Let's ask them where the eggs are."

 **Aruru:**"You two are quite fortunate to have come during our Easter celebration, boing!"

 **Misora:**"Easter celebration? What do you mean?"

 **Shizuha:**"Our island, once a year, there's a festival in the rabbit village where we hide 32 eggs across the island, and we all go and search for them! Boing!"

 **Tsukasa:**"What!? They're hidden all over the island!?"

 **Lalafin:**"Boingo! To prepare for today's egg hunt, we hid the eggs a month ago, so we don't know where they are anymore! Boing!"

 **Aruru:**"All we remember is that we've hidden them in four different places, with eight eggs apiece! Boing!"

 **Misora:**"Well, that's no good. What should we do, Tsukasa-san?"

 **Shizuha:**"You mean you didn't come to our island to participate in out festival, boing?"

 **Tsukasa:**"We actually came here to find the treasure hidden on the island."

***"Treasure, boing!?"***

 **Tsukasa:**"We'd heard that 32 eggs are the key that leads to a treasure vault somewhere on the island."

***"A treasure vault, boing!?"***

 **Shizuha:**"We didn't know our island and our eggs held such secrets, boing! But in the case, you should participate in the celebration, boing!"

 **Lalafin:**"Boing, boing! Today's the one day a year we have the egg hunt to find the 32 eggs. Boing!"

 **Aruru:**"The three of use are the rabbits who've been chosen to look for the eggs this year! If you help us, we can find them even faster, boing!"

 **Tsukasa:**"In that case, we'll look with you. We'll split the treasure equally when we find it!"

 **Shizuha:**"Oh, no. We rabbits have no need of treasure, boing. Feel free to hop off with it all by yourself, boing!"

 **Misora:**"We couldn't do that! I'm sure it's something of value to all of us!"

 **Shizuha:**That was great, girls!

 **Lalafin:**Yay! Thanks for the compliment, Shizuha!

 **Aruru:**Okay, now on to the egg hunt!

 **Aruru:**As we said before, there are four locations where eggs are hidden, with eight per location. We'll guide you to the first area!

 **Tsukasa:**Hey Misora, want to see which of use can find more eggs?

 **Misora:**You bet I do!

 **Aruru:**This is the first area!

 **Misora:**Whenever I come here, it reminds me of the barbecue we had.

 **Shizuha:**Ah, the "Ghost Story Barbecue." That brings back memories.

 **Tsukasa:**Who would've expected an event where we take turns telling scary stories while eating stuff off the grill?

 **Lalafin:**We did a vignette based on the Manor if the Dishes. Misora out on an amazing death scene!

 **Aruru:**"Ooone... twooo..."

 **Misora:**"That voice counting dishes... Kikuko! Where are you!? Please, stop it!"

 **Aruru:**"Threee... fourrr..."

 **Misora:**"It was my fault... I apologize, so...please...stop... It hurts...Kiku..."

 **Aruru:**"Fiiive... siiix..."

 **Misora:**"Ngh...It...was an...acci...dent... I'm...sorry... For...give..."

***\*thud\****

 **Aruru:**Counting those plates was fun!

 **Misora:**And I had a lot of fun playing a high schooler who gets killed by the ghost of her childhood friend. You don't get parts like that every often.

 **Lalafin:**I felt kind of bad for the girls from the Oil Painting Course who had to follow that. They seemed a little scared by how intense the performance was.

 **Misora:**And they still gave us all those tasty bamboo shoots. We really owe a lot to those painting girls.

 **Shizuha:**We did share the simmered vegetables we made with them, so I think we're good there, Misora-chan.

 **Tsukasa:**Oh, maybe the eggs are hidden where the stage was set up back then!

 **Misora:**Oh, I bet she's right. Where should I look? Aha! The seat I was in when we were eating barbecue...!

 **Misora:**Aha! I found it! There WAS an egg there!

 **Tsukasa:**There's one here, too! Now where could the other six be?

 **Shizuha:**Heheh. The other six won't be quite so easy to find.

One hour later...

 **Misora:**Ahaaah! Finally found the last one! It was painted the same color as the tree trunk so I totally didn't notice it!

 **Tsukasa:**Good job, Misora! Guess that's one stage cleared!

 **Misora:**Let's line up the eight pieces of the message!

 **Shizuha:**I guess we can't figure it out with just eight pieces.

 **Aruru:**Still, there are characters like "riches" and "king." It's really treasure hunty! This is pretty exciting!

 **Lalafin:**Hey, look at Tsukasa and Misora! They're grinnin because they know what it says!

***Hehehe!***

 **Shizuha:**Well, we know where the eggs are hidden in the next area. We can laugh right back at them.

***Heeheehee!***

 **Misora:**Having little secrets from each other like this is fun! Let's proceed with the egg hunt!

 **Shizuha:**I'm curious what the rest of the message says, myself. Now, let's head for Cafeteria No.2.

Frontier Spirit for Life

 **Lalafin:**The stage for our next scene is Cafeteria 2!

 **Misora:**Thanks for letting us use this space, ma'am!

**Lunch Lady:**It's all right. This place functions as an event space, too.

***Thank you!***

 **Tsukasa:**But won't searching inside be easier than outside? We're gonna find the eggs faster than before, Shizuha.

 **Shizuha:**Heheheh. I wonder about that!

One hour later...

 **Misora:**Three more to go... This is way harder than the last batch. Tsukasa-senpai!

 **Tsukasa:**Hmph. Let's take a break!

 **Tsukasa:**Is it cool if we rest for a bit and then go back to searching? Maybe have a little dessert?

 **Shizuha:**Yes, of course. There's no time limit, so take your time.

 **Lalafin:**Okay! I'll have a strawberry parfait!

 **Tsukasa:**A coffee jelly for me, please.

 **Shizuha:**I think I'll have some warabimochi.

 **Misora:**Tonkatsu combo, please!

 **Aruru:**Frontier pudding!

 **Lalafin:**Oh, the Frontier pudding's good, too! Aruru, mind trading bits in a bit?

 **Aruru:**Sounds good to me!

 **Tsukasa:**(Nobody ever commented on Misora's tonkatsu. It's kinda scary how we're just used to it, now.)

 **Tsukasa:**Oh, hey, this is where we did the "Creative Expression Food Court," isn't it?

 **Aruru:**Oh, yeah. Our external lecturers got together to cook stuff for us!

 **Misora:**They're all artists and creative people at the top of their fields, and we got to see what they usually eat.

 **Misora:**Getting to try it out for ourselves was almost like a dream!

 **Lalafin:**And we got to listen to their stories as we ate!

 **Lalafin:**Do you remember the dance teacher who said, "If you want to stay active in your field your whole life, be careful about your food"?

 **Shizuha:**Yes, I remember.

 **Shizuha:**Good creative expression comes from good living, which in turn comes from good food. That's so true.

 **Lalafin:**Those words made me realize I needed to be careful.

 **Lalafin:**For the first time, I knew I wanted to stay active on the stage my whole life. It might be too late now, though.

 **Tsukasa:**It's never too late for that sort of thing. Like the teacher said, it's hard to really think about it at our age.

 **Tsukasa:**But it kind of makes sense now...

 **Lalafin:**Hm? What does?

 **Tsukasa:**It was back when we did "New Cinderella"...

 **Tsukasa:**Remember your line with the Fairy Godmother, saying "We'll be together, always"?

***"We'll be together, always. And together we'll make the whole world happy!"***

**Fairy Godmother:**"Always, Cinderella? How long is that?"

**Cinderella:**"I don't really know. Always is always!"

 **Tsukasa:**When I heard you deliver that line, I got a real sense of how you felt.

 **Tsukasa:**Maybe that was your desire to keep performing on the stage forever...

 **Tsukasa:**Something like that really came across in your acting.

 **Lalafin:**Oh, wow, really? Yeah, maybe you're right! I never thought of that before!

 **Shizuha:**I got that impression from watching you play Cinderella as well, Lalafin. But I also felt it from Aruru-chan.

 **Aruru:**Wait, really?

 **Misora:**Aruru, did that teacher inspire you to think about your future, too?

 **Aruru:**Me? Umm, well...

 **Aruru:**I guess I've never really thought about it.

 **Tsukasa:**Huh!? But you don't you remember what you were saying after S-Con?

 **Shizuha:**Aruru-chan is strangely quiet.

 **Lalafin:**She had a brain meltdown from all the applause.

 **Aruru:**I was so happy... Everyone was happy, and I was, too...

 **Aruru:**Shizuha-chan, Tsukasa-chan, Lalafin... I had no idea performing on stage could be this much fun.

 **Shizuha:**Once you experience it, you get hooked on it.

 **Shizuha:**And the more you keep performing, the more people you'll delight.

 **Aruru:**Yeah! Teehee!

 **Aruru:**Yeah, when you said that to me, Shizuha-chan, I decided I wanted to keep going up on stage.

 **Aruru:**But as for staying in the field my whole life... Hmmm. Does that mean being a professional?

 **Aruru:**Misora mentioned people at the top of their fields, but is that a requirement?

 **Lalafin:**I wouldn't say that. If you're up on the stage, I think you're active in the field.

 **Shizuha:**It's something different for everyone, I think.

 **Aruru:**As long as the people I'm on stage with and the people in the audience are smiling...

 **Aruru:**I suppose it doesn't matter what kind of stage it is. Oh, but...

 **Aruru:**If it means I get to share a stage with the people I want to act with, then that's where I always want to be.

 **Misora:**Oof. This is why I'm no match for you, Aruru.

 **Aruru:**Huh? Did I say something weird?

 **Shizuha:**Not at all. What you said was really important.

 **Lalafin:**You're great at expressing yourself even when you're not acting!

 **Tsukasa:**Ahaha! I agree!

 **Tsukasa:**And Misora, I know you said you're no match for her, but you have your own acting style.

 **Misora:** Yeah, I guess so. Still, I've never really wanted to compete against Aruru anyway.

 **Aruru:**Hey! Misora, you're so mean!

 **Misora:**Am not.

 **Tsukasa:**Ahaha! Well, now that we've finished dessert, shall we get back to looking for those eggs? There are three more to go!

 **Misora:**I found six, and Tsukasa-senpai found two. Looks like I win this round!

 **Tsukasa:**Awww! I'm not losing to you next time!

 **Lalafin:**I put the pieces onto the map! Now it looks like this!

 **Aruru:**We've got more of the clue, but still can't tell what it says! Maybe the next spot will clear things up?

 **Shizuha:**Yes, I'm sure. Next, we'll hunt the Frontier way--by using the latest technology.

Williful Will-o'-the-Wisp

 **Shizuha:**Our next area is the rehearsal room.

 **Tsukasa:**The rehearsal room? So when you mentioned "latest technology," you meant VR?

 **Lalafin:**That's right! You put the goggles on like in our VR clases, and search for eggs in the environment we made!

 **Aruru:**I got nauseous the first time I tried VR.

 **Misora:**You gradually get used to it after a while, but first it was pretty rough, yeah.

 **Shizuha:**Does everyone have their goggles on? I'm about to boot up the environment.

 **Tsukasa:**Whoa, hold on... I recognize this...

 **Lalafin:**Say isn't this where Tsukasa and Shizuha's class did their Halloween Theater Cafe?

 **Tsukasa:**It is! Wait, Shizuha, stop the program!

 **Aruru:**What's the matter, Tsukasa-chan?

 **Tsukasa:**Well, it's just that...

 **Tsukasa:**Sorry to keep you waiting! Here's the eyeball pasta and zombie blood you ordered!

 **Tsukasa:**Gah, I knew it! I don't want to see myself from last year!

 **Shizuha:**It'll be okay, Tsukasa.

 **Shizuha:**Happy Halloween! May I take your order?

 **Shizuha:**See, it isn't just you. I'm here too.

 **Tsukasa:**That isn't the issue! Why the heck did you even record all this in the first place!?

 **Shizuha:**Why, to use it in the "Will-o'-the-Wisp" vignette we're about to play, of course. Come on, it's starting.

 **Shizuha:**Ladies and gentleman, has something like this ever crossed your mind?

 **Tsukasa:**What if there were real eyes in the eyeball pasta? What if the beverages contained real blood?

 **Shizuha:**Naturally, a licensed eating establishment couldn't possible serve such things, but the important thing, friends, is that you stopped to wonder.

 **Tsukasa:**We will now perform "Will-o'-the-Wisp" for you.

 **Tsukasa:**This piece is based on those strange doubts we've all had from time to time.

 **Shizuha:**But fear not! There is a happy ending to this one. So please, enjoy.

 **Shizuha:**"Spider Witch, you are a denizen of darkness, yet you help people... And I know why."

 **Tsukasa:**"Spare me your scandalous implications. I simply want to enjoy Halloween."

 **Shizuha:**"Yes, I'm sure you do--by eating people once they let down their guard."

 **Tsukasa:**"Heheh. Figured it out, did you? I suppose there's no point in hiding it, then."

 **Tsukasa:**"Shall I gobble up someone here in front of you, then? Let's see..."

 **Tsukasa:**"Oh, this one looks tasty..."

**Woman:**Eek!

 **Tsukasa:**"How to go about this? Hmm... Where do I start eating? The feet? The hands? Or do I dive right in head-first?"

**Woman:**Yikes!

 **Aruru:**That's amazing!

 **Tsukasa:**It's NOT amazing! This is so humiliating!

 **Shizuha:**Oh? I think your performance is good, Tsukasa.

 **Tsukasa:**Ugh, I can't bear to watch this.

 **Tsukasa:**All I'm doing is changing my tone of voice, and my facial expressions are all wrong...

 **Misora:**(I don't agree at all. The customer seems legitimately scared even though she knows she's not really going to get eaten.)

 **Misora:**(No, that's not it. She knows she's not going to get eaten--that's why she is able to enjoy the performance.)

 **Misora:**(This scene works because the stage and audience are connected, unlike with S-con. These two figured that out and built it into the performance.)

 **Misora:**(Man, Shizuha-senpai and Tsukasa-senpai are good...)

 **Lalafin:** Ahaha! I think it's great! You gals come off as really scary!

 **Misora:**(And Lalafin-senpai was great in "New Cinderella," too. All three of them are just super-talented.)

 **Misora:**(I'm a lucky gal. I've got Aruru and her unique sensibilities, and some amazing upperclassmen...)

 **Misora:**(Am I really holding my own around those girls?)

 **Tsukasa:**And Misora, I know you said you're no match for her, but you have your own acting style.

 **Misora:**(My own acting style...)

 **Tsukasa:**Ugh, I can't take it anymore! Misora, stop watching and let's go looking for the eggs!

 **Misora:**Whuh? Oh! Sure!

 **Tsukasa:**Okay, that makes seven! Only one more to go!

 **Misora:**Hrm...

 **Tsukasa:**Misora: you've been spacing out since earlier. Is something wrong?

 **Misora:**Ah, no, I just... I was thinking about how good your acting is, Tsukasa-senpai.

 **Tsukasa:**Oh... That's right, you saw the S-Con before you enrolled here, didn't you?

 **Misora:**Yeah! Your acting then, and your acting as the Spider Witch, were brilliant!

 **Tsukasa:**Oh, thank you.

 **Tsukasa:**Well, it's probably only natural to focus on everything the past me did wrong...

 **Tsukasa:**But still, I should give myself credit for my passion, I guess.

 **Misora:**Your passion?

 **Tsukasa:**I know it's strange to say that about myself, but I'm trying my best.

 **Tsukasa:**I suppose that if that's the best I could do as of last October, I should give myself credit for trying.

 **Misora:**...

 **Tsukasa:**Ugh, this is so embarrassing! Come on, let's hurry up and ind the last egg, Misora!

 **Misora:**Right!

 **Tsukasa:**I found seven, and Misora found one. I win! Yaaay!

 **Shizuha:**You really hated watching your former self that much huh?

 **Tsukasa:**I never expected to have seen that!

 **Aruru:**Hey, look! Here's the clue after the new eggs!

 **Shizuha:**Queen? Something about a queen and the ocean? I wonder what it could be...

 **Tsukasa:**Huh, I wonder. We'll figure it out after the next stop anyway, so let's get going.

 **Shizuha:**(Oh, dear. Maybe I went a little too far with that old Halloween footage...)

The Treasure Map

 **Shizuha:**Our final area is a special place for all of us.

 **Aruru:**There is where we did "Captain Twins"!

 **Tsukasa:**This is where I-- Oh, not just me. Where Shizuha and I made our return to the stage.

 **Shizuha:**It was a little different for me... But you're right, I was trying to avoid being on stage back then.

 **Misora:**Because your team won almost all the S-Con awards the year before, right, Shizuha-senpai?

 **Tsukasa:**Folks were saying stuff like, "Got to have Shizuha on the team if I want to win next year."

 **Lalafin:**And it's not even true, besides. Trying to perform on the same level as Shizuha is really tough!

 **Tsukasa:**Considering that, I think Aruru and Misora put together a dream team where Shizuha can really shine.

 **Shizuha:**Now, now. It's not only me.

 **Shizuha:**Tsukasa and Lalafin, too... It's the five of us together that lets us bring everything we have to the stage.

 **Tsukasa:**Yeah. I suppose you're right.

 **Lalafin:**Guess we owe our thanks to Aruru and Misora all over again, then! Thanks, girls!

 **Aruru:**Heh heh. You're welcome!

 **Aruru:**Still, I think it's Shizuha-chan who really built this dream team.

 **Shizuha:**Huh?

 **Aruru:**Misora and I dragged everyone in, but the one who suggested the right people and brought the team together was you, Shizuha-chan.

 **Misora:**I agree. You're always perceptive of what's going on around you, and you're always there with a subtle helping hand.

 **Misora:**That's why we can always bring everything we have to the stage like you said, Shizuha-senpai!

 **Shizuha:**Oh, what's with you all? I mean, I'm glad to hear it, but I'm blushing here.

 **Tsukasa:**Well then let's keep it going. I'll start first.

 **Shizuha:**Tsukasa...?

 **Tsukasa:**Shizuha, do you remember our first year here?

 **Tsukasa:**I'd only just gotten started with theater, but you were already brilliant.

 **Tsukasa:**You were on the stage, and I was in the audience... sitting right in this seat here.

 **Tsukasa:**There are plenty of seats in here, but this one is special to me. This is where I was when that spark was lit inside me... Oh, and here's a couple of eggs!

 **Shizuha:**(Huh? I don't remember hiding any eggs there, let alone two of them.)

 **Lalafin:**Okay, me next!

 **Lalafin:**Back in my first year, a lot of people complimented me on my jumps, and I always got a lot of attention...

 **Lalafin:**But Shizuha, you were the only one who told me I could jump even higher.

 **Shizuha:**Yes, I remember. It was the two of us up on this stage after school one day, right?

 **Shizuha:**You were standing here, and you told me to imagine that we had a packed house.

 **Lalafin:**I wasn't able to picture that at all, and you helped me imagine it.

 **Shizuha:**This is what I said: picture the curtain rising little by little, revealing the people in the audience like waves, becoming a sea stretching out far into the distance.

 **Lalafin:**My friends are watching over me from offstage. I'm on stage all by myself, and everyone is watching me.

 **Lalafin:**Just as my heart started pounding, you told me to jump, and I jumped!

 **Lalafin:**I jumped further than I'd ever been able to before, and landed right here! I can jump further than that now, but I still remember this spot!

 **Shizuha:**Two more eggs...this time hidden in the wings by the curtains.

 **Misora:**Shizuha-senpai, Aruru and I will go next!

 **Misora:**Aruru and I watched your soliloquy as the Pirate Queen from back here and afterwards we were talking about it.

 **Aruru:**We both hoped we'd be able to act like that someday!

 **Shizuha:**Wait, what are you...?

 **Aruru:**Remember what I said? "The cast of 'Captain Twins' presents a hitherto unheard-of-egg hunt."

 **Misora:**Shizuha-senpai, your take on the Pirate Queen was great ever since rehearsals, but the day of S-Con was when you really dazzled.

 **Misora:**Watching you got us talking about how we needed to have more fun with all this. We couldn't afford to waste time being nervous!

 **Aruru:**So we figured that this is where our memories of you were, Shizuha-chan. And look, more eggs!

 **Misora:**Two for Aruru and two for me. We've found all eight eggs, Shizuha-senpai!

 **Tsukasa:**Okay, let's put the eight new pieces on the map and complete the message.

 **Lalafin:**I'll do it! One, two, three, four... five, six, seven, eight. Okay, Shizuha! It's all done!

 **Shizuha:**Oh, uh, okay.

 **Shizuha:**The admirable queen of pirates, who clears a new path with her scythe...

 **Shizuha:**Is this about my role in "Captain Twins"?

 **Aruru:**Yeah! It was the perfect role for you, Shizuha-chan!

 **Tsukasa:**A queen with bountiful wisdom...

 **Lalafin:**Who we can always count on!

 **Misora:**You're the senpai we look up to, who's always guided us like a compass!

***"This is the fabled treasure of Frontier Island!"***

***"The quiet butterfly of Frontier!"***

***"The student representative of the Frontier School of Arts Stage Expression Course, Shizuha Kocho!"***

 **Shizuha:**Ah...

 **Tsukasa:**All right! Our sneaky little plan was a huge success!

 **Shizuha:**So then, the whole point of this egg hunt...

 **Lalafin:**You sounded so happy talking about your memories of egg hunts, so Misora came up with the plan!

 **Tsukasa:**Yeah. She asked us to help her thank you for everything you do for us.

 **Tsukasa:**So of course we joined in. Right, Lalafin?

 **Lalafin:**Yeah! We asked if we could help because we wanted to thank you, too!

 **Aruru:**We all wanted to show our appreciation, Shizuha-chan, so we teamed up to do the egg hunt!

 **Shizuha:**I see...

 **Misora:**Did you have fun on the egg hunt today, Shizuha-senpai?

 **Shizuha:**Yes, it was a wonderful time. Thank you.

 **Tsukasa:**Your voice is wavering, but I don't think it's acting.

 **Tsukasa:**But anyway, those eggs were hidden WAY too well! Lalafin, couldn't you have made them easier to find?

 **Misora:**Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. I mean, I'm glad we were able to find them, but still.

 **Shizuha:**What do you mean? You weren't just pretending to not know where the eggs were when you were looking?

 **Lalafin:**No, you're way too smart for that. You'd notice right away if were weren't looking for real.

 **Tsukasa:**Also, I had to act angry in the rehearsal room to keep you from figuring out the secret message before it was complete.

 **Shizuha:**Oh, so that's what that was about. Your acting had me fooled, Tsukasa.

 **Misora:**But now we have nothing to hide. Shizuha-senpai, we'd like you to have this map.

 **Aruru:**This map is just like you, Shizuha-chan. It's a treasure map that leads us to happiness, just like you do!

 **Tsukasa:**Thank you, Shizuha, for bringing us all together.

 **Lalafin:**Now the five of us are good friends, and we can overcome even the stormiest of seas like the pirates we are!

 **Shizuha:**Girls... Oh, of course. I'd be happy to accept the map.

 **Shizuha:**I'll be sure to look after it until the day we finally reach the true frontier...

 **Aruru:**Aren't you glad she liked it, Misora?

 **Misora:**Yeah! It's all thanks to guys' help!

 **Lalafin:**And so the troupe's adventures continued on and on... The end!

 **Tsukasa:**Wait, it's over!?

 **Aruru:**No way! There's way more to come!

 **Misora:**Heh heh.

***Ahahahaha!***