Scenario:Handsome Gorilla - Chapter 6: The Debate - Episode 2

Handsome Gorilla - Chapter 6: The Debate - Episode 2

The old man, who happens to be a member of the book fair committee, is absolutely livid at the sight of the romantic storybook corner and threatens to shut it down. He vilifies the travesty he deems the medium to be, but Sierokarte comes in retorting that Lunalu's work is indeed true art.

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Elder: Romantic storybooks? Do you intend to discredit the entire nation of Sphiria!

Elder: Enough is enough! Illustrated storybooks as a whole are bad enough, but this is going too far!

Elder: This won't stand! Who's in charge here!

A thunderous outcry drowns out the conversation Lunalu is having with a fellow artist.

All but one are speechless before the indignant, invective-hurling elder.

Lunalu: Um, can you please calm down? What's the matter all of a sudden?

Elder: Yakety-yak! Don't talk back!

Elder: I'm shutting this corner down at once! You'd better all get ready to go home!

Lunalu: Wait... What right do you have to—

Elder: I have all the authority here! I'm a board member of Sphiria's book fair committee!

Elder: I've been trying to let the younger staff run things lately, but the depravity I've witnessed today must not go on any longer!

Lunalu: A board member?

Elder: That's right. Some things are just too sacrilegious for this world!

Elder: The entire purpose of the fair is to help cultivate and promote understanding of the arts!

Elder: Not to support this boys' love drivel!

Lunalu: But... This genre's popularity has been spreading across the world... And there are more and more artists every day...

Elder: Humph, trying to argue the point, are you? Then I'll just have to show you what real art is. I used to be part of an art salon in the good old days...

Elder: We often had to seclude ourselves from the rest of the world, at times going mad from the anguish of the creative pressure... But true art was born when we faced ourselves and overcame it all.

Elder: Have any of you ever had such an experience? This romance rubbish you ply your trade in is nothing more than a means of self-gratification.

Lunalu: ...!

Elder: I think I've said enough. If you've got time for this nonsense, then I suggest you devote it to being good to your parents.

Elder: Have I made myself clear—

Sierokarte: Hm... In that case, Lunalu's work is indeed true art.

Lunalu: Siero!

Elder: Oh? Now you've got my attention. Do you have any idea what you're saying?

Sierokarte: Romantic storybooks fall perfectly into your description of true art.

Sierokarte: Lunalu stayed cooped up drawing in her room—and no matter how much anguish she felt, she faced herself and never gave up!

Sierokarte: Right, Lunalu?

Elder: Ngh... Just who are you?