Prologue

Prologue:

In the clubroom, the whole brigade is there. Haruhi is browsing through our site while Yuki reads through her book as always. Mikuru wears her usual maid outfit while making tea for us. Itsuki and I play a board game which is our own way of making time pass by. Things were going on just fine, with nothing out-of-the-ordinary happening. Silence was present around the room when all of a sudden, the door blasted open. All of us looked attentively at the door.

Haruhi: Welcome! How can we help you?

Mizuki: There is a play that will take place three hours from now. The problem is we don’t have enough participants to match the roles in the play.

Haruhi: So what is it that you want again?

Mizuki: We have five roles that are yet to be taken. I would like to ask you guys to join the play. That is all I need to say. I have to go now, we still need to practice.

Before any of us could say anything, she quickly closed the door and left. All of us except Haruhi sat there flabbergasted and amazed. However, Haruhi sat there with a wide smile on her face. I looked at her signature smile and I quickly knew what was on her mind.

Kyon: Let me guess; we will participate in the play, won’t we?

Haruhi: This is a chance to publicize our club, the SOS Brigade!

Kyon: How can we manage to practice our roles in just three hours!?

Haruhi: It will work itself out. Don’t worry too much.

Kyon: Sigh . . .

Haruhi: Does everyone agree with me?

Itsuki: Count me in.

Haruhi: How about the others?

Mikuru raised her hand in approval and also, Yuki nodded. However, for me, I disagreed. Well look at the situation; we need to practice our roles in just three hours. Three hours! Since it was the majority decision and also because Haruhi will just drag me in, we went out of the clubroom to practice for the upcoming play.

We reached the gym where the participants were practicing after five or so minutes. Miyuki, Takako, Mai, and Mizuki was there practicing their song.

Wait a minute! If a play has songs played by a band, then I suppose this a musical play.

Mizuki: So will you participate in the play?

Haruhi: You bet.

Mizuki: Great. Hurry, we don’t have enough time left.

Kyon: We’ll do that but first tell me what is the title of the play? What are the roles that we can take?

Mizuki: Okay. For your first question, the title is Devoted Affection: koigokoro ue sekinin. For you last question, we need one person to check the lighting of the stage during the play, one for a maid and for the role of the assassin and the princess.

Itsuki: Count me as the one who checks the lighting.

Haruhi: For the maid, Mikuru will take it. Right, Mikuru?

Mikuru: Oh, okay.

Mizuki: Now we have the maid who is Mikuru and the lights man who is Itsuki. All that is left is the two main . . . uh for the princess and the assassin. Since Kyon is the only one left who is male, he will have to take the role of assassin.

Kyon: Sigh . . . fine.

Mizuki: That just leaves Haruhi and Yuki for the role of the princess. So who wants it?

Haruhi quickly approves for her being the chosen princess. However, Yuki also nods which probably means that she also wants the role.

Mizuki: What do you think, Kyon?

Kyon: Hmm . . . wait don’t ask me; you’re the one who organizes this.

The role of Juliet should go to Mikuru I thought because it really suits her.

Mizuki: Since Yuki is quiet and anti-social for most of the time, Haruhi can take the role. It will be fine since you and Haruhi are quite close.

Kyon: What about Yuki? What is her role?

Mizuki: Actually we just needed four persons. I made a mistake when I was counting. Sorry.

Haruhi: Hmm . . . why not make her a stage accessory?

Kyon: Stage accessory?

Haruhi: You know the ones who just stand or sit there and say nothing. A decoration for the stage.

Mizuki: Yeah and because she is silent all of the time, it will work out just fine.

Haruhi: Now that that is settled, give us the scripts and costumes so we can now practice.

Wow, she seems to be enthusiastic about this. Anyways, we started practicing for three hours. I found out that Taniguchi, Kunikida, Tsuruya-san, and Emiri Kimidori are also participating in the play. We practiced for three straight hours, only taking breaks for a minute or two. It was very hard to do because of the short time that is given to us but still we managed to break through and memorize our lines. It was kind of fun.

After the allotted three hours, now the time has come for the play to take place and a lot of people already gathered inside the gym. Just seeing all of the people present to watch makes me uneasy and tense. Someone suddenly taps my left shoulder and I quickly turn around to find out who was that. I saw Haruhi wearing a beautiful dress for a princess. She quickly entered the stage and played her role. As she was doing so, I observed her. She was giving it her best effort; it was very evident on how she acted. Then I appeared at the stage and the ending was nearing. The play was wonderfully done as it nears the ending. By the way, when we were practicing, Mizuki never told us how the play will end. In the script, there was never any ending shown. Anyways, I said my last line and the play was supposed to end there. But still the narrator continued her line and I found out that I have a kissing scene with Haruhi.

WHAT!!?

I looked back at Mizuki. She was smiling as if she was the mastermind of all this. Well, maybe she was really the one who planned all of this.

Sigh . . . here goes nothing.

I looked at Haruhi who was just as surprised as me. I acted the last scene of the play. As I kissed Haruhi’s soft lips, light engulfed us. It seems the kiss was too much and because of that, her reality-altering powers went out of control. We were then sent to a world of adventure and quest that I will surely never forget.