Chapter 41

* * *“Auuuuagh,” Miso said, with a strange expression.Dojin was just looking down at the floor right in front of her.“Abubaba?”“......”“Ababa, abababa. Are you trying to imitate a baby?”“No, ma’am,” Dojin responded.“I told you to ask if you didn’t know how to do it, didn’t I?”“Yes, ma’am.”“So why didn’t you? Are you trying to waste time?”“I’m sorry.”“Why are you apologizing to me? You’re only hurting the club here. In any case, don’t you have something to do?”Ugh. Dojin ran outside. Ask questions if you have any… It was a great motto. A very nice way of running a club. You could always ask the other members if you happened to forget one line.But there was a rule here. A single rule that existed to stop Dojin from asking any questions.The rule itself was simple enough. If you forget your line, two laps around the field. If someone tells you your line, two more laps around the field. Dojin shouted annoyedly as he came out into the field.“Ugh! Friggin’ hell! What am I supposed to do?!”“I can hear you!”Dojin flinched when he heard Miso’s voice from above. He ran the two laps as fast as he could before coming back in. The practice resumed afterwards. He had his issues with Miso, but he couldn’t help but follow her instructions regardless. They were definitely working very well. Running cleansed him of his other thoughts. The nervousness in his body disappeared. The lines slowly returned to him as the club practiced again.“Okay,” Miso clapped her hands together. A single round of practice without looking at the script had finished.“We can’t just finish this with one practice round, can we?”Dojin nodded, along with everyone else. They were pretty confident they could do better this time.“Alright. Let’s just go at it, then. We’ll try running after one more round of this.”Running. That is, actually putting on the play. Miso always threatened to ‘murder’ them if they made a mistake during this. Dojin swallowed. He was the one that’s made the most mistakes in the past week. He knew what Miso was capable of when she got angry. The other club members seemed to have thought the same thing.“Good, good. That nervousness is good. This is for real, now. Making a mistake in a run means you’ve made a mistake on the actual performance. You need to be careful. We’ll get right into it after this.”Miso leaned back in her chair with a smile. Dojin, on the other hand, just sighed. He didn’t even want to imagine the consequences of making a mistake here.