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REAL⇔FAKE 2nd Stage Episode 2 Summary

CAST:
Aramaki YoshihikoasMakino Nagisa
Ueda KeisukeasIkuta Yuusuke
Wada MasanariasSena Masayuki
Sato RyujiasSuzuki Kakeru
Matsumura RyuunosukeasUmehara Reijirou
Someya ToshiyukiasMoriya Hidetoshi
Aoi ShoutaasAkane
Ino HirokiasUno Kouki
Sasamori HirokiasInamori Mizuki

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Opening theme
RUMOR by Stellar CROWNS with Akane

Ending theme
Garasu no Kutsu by Aoi Shouta

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Summary under the cut.

sorry i cut out the fluff and focused on the main story

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Same night
The one who called Akane in the last part of the previous episode turns out to be Masayuki. Akane asks to meet up with Masa tomorrow so they could talk.

Next day, early morning
Masa wakes up and sees that Nagisa still hasn’t come home. He was about to leave when he comes across Reijirou who was making bentou for their practice later. He explains the situation to him and heads out. Rei was gonna follow him but he was already out of sight when he went out the door.

Rei opens up his laptop and hacks into the mainframe to locate Masa’s phone using GPS(?).

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Yuusuke reads fan tweets / replies on his phone, most of them expressing their sadness and disappointment due to the scandals coming out. Kakeru snatches the phone away from him, and found tweets from other fans defending Stellar CROWNS and expressing their belief in them.

They found the bentou on the table, with a message from Rei saying that he and Masa will be out looking for Nagisa.

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QUEEN RECORDS building
The guard told Masayuki that Nagisa didn’t come to the building, and that no one came last night.

QUEEN RECORDS indoor parking area(?)
Masa receives a call from Yuusuke, but gets cut off because his phone ran out of battery. He looks at the clock and sees that he has 50 minutes left before the arranged meeting with Akane, so he sets out for the meeting place.

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Dance Studio(?)
Yuusuke and Kakeru arrive together, and saw that Kouki and Mizuki (ASTRA RING) were already there. Kamishiro, ASTRA RING’s manager, explained that it was for the documentary that they’ll be shooting for STELLAR CROWNS and ASTRA RING’s joint live. Yuusuke and Kakeru were both surprised, and Kamishiro explained that it was Akane who decided this to recover from the recent scandals.

Kamishiro then asks them where the rest of Stellar CROWNS are.

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QUEEN RECORDS indoor parking area
Using the GPS(?), Rei arrives at the last location where Masa was before his phone went out. There he sees a set of keys with a strawberry keyholder on the ground.

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–flashback–
Rei remembers that the keyholder was given by Masa to Nagisa. Nagisa names it “berry-yuki” (strawberry + Masayuki).

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Moriya arrives in his car at the parking area and sees Rei. Together, they went to the guard to ask him about Nagisa. They found out that all security camera footage from yesterday was deleted, as instructed by Akane.

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Dance Studio
Yuusuke explains the situation to ASTRA RING and their manager. Kakeru turns to leave to help with the search for the missing Nagisa. Kamishiro guilt-trips Yuusuke to stay. Yuusuke also convinces Kakeru to stay, telling him that both of them should do what they can do.

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QUEEN RECORDS indoor parking area

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Moriya is working on his laptop trying to restore the deleted security footage. Rei offers to help but Moriya declined saying that it’s not something amateurs can do. Moriya fails, and Rei takes over. He proceeds to do the fancy hacking thing while Moriya looked on in awe

(I said I cut out the fluff but I found the ‘hacking’ scenes so extra, I love it)

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Dance Studio

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Kouki picks a fight with Kakeru and Mizuki and Yuusuke stops them. Kakeru tries to leave, but Mizuki stops him to apologize, and then manages to force Kouki to apologize as well. Kakeru tells them to change to their practice clothes so they can start.

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Unknown location
Nagisa manages to free his feet so he got up and looked around. He found an envelope on a table and opens it.

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QUEEN RECORDS indoor parking area
The security footage got recovered successfully. (Moriya is like, “wtf?”) They looked at the footage from the camera in the parking area. They see Akane pushing a trolley with something like a body bag on it. As we walked by, something fell on the ground. They looked at it closer and it turned out to be the keys with the strawberry keyholder. A few moments later, a black van exits the parking area.

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Unknown location
Nagisa looks through the file inside the envelope. It turned out to be an investigation report about Kouki and Mizuki. It details Fyrklöver’s activities in chronological fashion, including the time when Yuusuke withdrew from the group and the time when Nagisa became busy with his acting career.

–flashback: 2014–
Nagisa is just about to enter the dance studio where Fyrklöver is practicing, when he hears Kouki and Mizuki talking. Kouki wonders what would happen to the two of them, since Yuusuke quit and Nagisa’s acting career is going well. Mizuki tells him that Kouki will do just fine, it’s just that no one has taken notice of his talent yet. Kouki asks him if he’s being sarcastic, or just trying to cheer him up. Mizuki answers that he really believes what he said. The two begin practice, and Nagisa only looks on.

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Just then, someone started to violently turn the door knob, trying to get in. Nagisa thinks it’s Akane and hurriedly tries to free his hands and arms.

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Masa is walking towards his and Akane’s arranged meeting place. A black van can be seen following him.

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Dance Studio, dressing area
Mizuki reads another article that just broke out, accusing Reijirou of being a part of an international hacking group.

Kouki asks Mizuki why he stopped him earlier when it seemed like it would’ve gone well. He tells him they should just hurry up and do it, when Mizuki kabedons stops him. Mizuki tells him to stop acting on his own, because it may be the end for the two of them.

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this photo gives me strange feelings

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Meeting Area (underpass)
Akane apologizes to Masayuki for dragging them into something once again. He tells them that they’re in danger. Before Masa could ask him for an explanation, a black van speeds straight at them. They both manage to get out of the way in time. But then, unknown men gets out of the van and rushes towards them. Akane gets tasered, and eventually Masayuki gets tasered as well. They were carried back to the van, and it speeds off to somewhere.

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Nagisa is struggling to free himself while someone is trying to get in the room.

Moriya and Reijirou are in Moriya’s car, hurrying to somewhere.

While Nagisa is still trying to untie himself, the door is opened. Two people walk in.

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End of Episode 2

Musical Touken Ranbu ~ Shizuka no Umi no Paraiso~
Singles CD ~ “Freestyle”
Release date: Wednesday, May 25, 2022
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