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Card Story: A Grand Strategy for a Bewitching Proposal (Shylock, Shino, Akira)
Card Episode: Deceiving Sweetness (Shylock, Akira)
A Grand Strategy for a Bewitching Proposal: Chapter 1
[Location: Manor’s bar, evening]
Shylock: Good evening, Master Sage. Are you on your way back to your room?
Akira: Actually, yes. Is it time for your bar to open, Shylock?
Shylock: Indeed. The night time has just begun.
Shylock: ...Master Sage. Might I interest you in a detour for tonight?
Akira: A detour?
Shylock: I recall that you told us about the customs of Valentine’s day.
Shylock: Following that, I am offering a limited-time menu that makes use of chocolate.
Shylock: So how about a drink before you go?
Akira: (Limited… I must get it!)
Akira: Yes, please!
Akira: There’s chocolate at the bottom layer! It's like I’m eating a parfait. The sweetness is just right, it’s really good!
Shylock: I’m happy it suits your taste. Do take your time to enjoy it.
Shylock: If my memory serves me right, Valentine’s is where you give chocolates to the people you hold dear, correct?
Akira: Yes. Back in my world, people also give chocolate to the person they want to confess their love for.
Shylock: I see. Entrusting your hidden love to confectioneries is indeed an intriguing practice.
Shylock: The people from your world seem to be very sweet and adorable.
Akira: Oh, I think someone came. ...Shino?
Shino: Sage, so you’re here.
Akira: Yes, the limited-time Valentine’s day menu lured me here.
Shino: Hm. Hey, give me a glass of orange juice.
Akira: What brings you here, Shino? It’s unusual for us to meet at the bar.
Shino: I have something to ask Shylock.
Shylock: Me? Looking at the time, are you looking for relationship advice?
Shylock: Here is the orange juice you ordered.
Akira: (Here he goes again, poking fun at Shino….)
Shino: You’re right.
Akira: (He’s right!?)
Shino: I want your opinion on the ideal way to propose. Give me some pointers.
Akira: (Shino doesn’t look like he’s joking around…. But propose…!?)
Shylock: Fufu. Straight to proposals? Our Shino is all grown up now, I see.
A Grand Strategy for a Bewitching Proposal: Chapter 2
[Location: Manor's bar, evening]
Shylock: By the way, who would you be proposing to?
Shino: No one. Is that a problem?
Akira: Not exactly a problem… But then why are you proposing in the first place, then?
Shino: Just some time ago in the lounge—
[Location: Lounge]
Snow: Valentine’s is indeed a youthful and amiable event,
White: Entrusting your feelings to sweets is really a bargain; you have your heart fulfilled and your tongue satisfied!
White: And because we have nothing to do, here and now, we hereby announce the first ever—
Snow: The Coolest-Proposal-You-Can-Think-Of contest!
White: Dum dum rah-tata! Our first contestant is Shino. Yes, you. Give us your best effort.
[Location: Manor's bar, evening]
Akira: (He got involved in the most unreasonable way I could’ve imagined!)
Akira: So did you do it, Shino?
Shino: Yeah. I put my all to it.
Shino: But those guys…. They only grin ear to ear, saying it was ‘lovely’, and ‘cute’….
Shino: What ‘cute’, they should’ve told me I’m ‘cool.’ Give me another glass of orange juice.
Akira: (He’s drinking his frustrations away… with orange juice.)
Shino: I want to prove to them I can do a cool proposal. So cool that their knees will give out.
Shylock: So you came here for that reason?
Shino: You’re good at this kind of thing, aren’t you?
Shylock: That’s a high compliment. It seems that you have put your trust in me.
Shino: I’ll do it right now so tell me what you think frankly. Here I go, Sage.
Akira: (Uh, me?)
Shino: From now on, bake a pie for me everyday.
Akira: ...Pie.
Akira: (Making it everyday would be tiring, won’t it? ...Wait, how do you bake a pie again? Will I make it in time if I just start to learn the recipe now?)
Shino: How was it, Shylock?
Shylock: Most adorable. I think it’s wonderful.
Shino: ‘Adorable’? That’s not the impression I want to make!
Shino: Right, show me how you’d do it, or it won’t be fair.
Shino: Here, I’ll lend the Sage to you.
Akira: W-Wait, me again?
Shino: What, you want him to propose to a wall? Do you know this thing called ‘mood’?
Akira: (Oof, they’re really toying with me….)
A Grand Strategy for a Bewitching Proposal: Chapter 3
[Location: Manor's bar, evening]
Shino: Show me how you’d do it, or it won’t be fair.
Shylock: An impassioned request, I see. Very well, I shall play along just for tonight.
Shylock: Then… Master Sage.
Akira: Y-Yes.
Akira: (I know this is just some kind of play pretend, but knowing it’s with Shylock makes me nervous….)
Shylock: Firstly, please have this.
Akira: Wow, a beautiful cocktail, just like the color of a pellucid sea….
Shylock: < Inviebelle. >
Akira: Huh?
Akira: (There’s a ring inside the glass…!)
Shylock: I hope that you accept my feelings, my dearest.
Shylock: ...How did I fare? Have I won your heart?
Akira: T-That was wonderful! I didn’t think a ring would appear inside the glass.
Shylock: Fufu. To be honest, I wanted you to be intoxicated with me, not with any cocktail nor magic.
Shino: ...That’s cheating!
Akira: Shino?
Shylock: I’m afraid I do not understand what you mean by cheating.
Shino: You used magic, that's not in the rules.
Shylock: It is not in my nature to be bound by rules. I proposed in a way that I see most fitting to me.
Shylock: I see you are seeking the one true way of proposing, but in truth, there is no right or wrong in how we profess our love. You can say that everything is right, yet, everything is also wrong.
Shino: ...What do you mean?
Shylock: Each heart is unique to each person. And it continues to go through changes as we live on.
Shylock: I believe that to each unique heart is a unique love. There are as many ways as there are hearts to profess it.
Shino: As many hearts….
Shylock: If they are words that fit the shape of your heart, then I believe that the pie proposal is the one that is best for you.
Shylock: Even if you use flowery speech, all meanings would be lost if it didn’t come from your heart. In the end, the most important thing is to get your feelings across.
Shylock: Not for a thousand people to cheer, but only for the one you love….
Akira: (What was that meaningful glance…)
Shino: What happened? You coughed so suddenly.
Akira: Nothing…
Shino: Weird.
Shylock: Yet that is what makes them adorable.
Akira: T-This ring is a candy, right! Wow, I can drink all of it including the ring. Can I have another glass!
Shylock: Fufu, no need to panic. The night is still young, after all.
Akira: (Please stop teasing me so seductively…)
Akira: ...By the way, do you have them, Shylock? The one and only person you want to profess your love to.
Shylock: I wonder, now.
Card Episode: Deceiving Sweetness
[Location: Manor's bar, evening]
Akira: The Valentine’s-limited cocktail you served was really good, Shylock.
Shylock: Why, thank you. That drink seemed to have gained popularity among my customers. I’m delighted to know they enjoyed it.
Shylock: I know that even the most reluctant of customers took the trouble to come solely for that drink. It is all thanks to you, Master Sage.
Akira: Mine? No, the bartender’s mastery must be what made it so appealing.
Shylock: Oh, look at how good you’ve become with your words. Who did you learn that from? I must say I’m a little jealous.
Akira: O-Oh, right, among the Valentine’s special cocktails, which one would you recommend to me?
Shylock: Fufu, you have a long way to go to get off a subject. As for the recommendation… How about this?
Akira: Wow, it’s like a cocoa drink!
Shylock: With cream added on top of it, I suppose it appears so. It should taste like a drinkable chocolate dessert.
Akira: ...It’s delicious! It’s creamy and sweet, just like a dessert.
Shylock: However, I must warn you not to drink too much. This drink is originally a strong drink with a high concentration of alcohol.
Akira: R-Really?
Shylock: Yes. Rest assured, the one you have in your hands is the non-alcoholic rendition of it.
Shylock: Something sweet is never without a consequence. Please make sure to be mindful of that at all times.
Special Home Screen Line
Shylock: I’d rather stay in esteemed solitude than entangle myself in numerous superficial relationships. Are you not the same, Master Sage?
