RNP Chapter 706: Foolish Victory
Chapter 706: Foolish Victory
Chapter 706: Foolish Victory
Rice Flower Theater.
When Kogoro Mori and his group walked into the theater from the staff passage led by Junko Shimizu, the actors on the stage were rehearsing.
The official performance will be this afternoon. Now is the last rehearsal, so it is a rehearsal very close to the official performance. The spotlight is on the stage and the audience seats are dark.
Junko Shimizu took everyone to sit in a good seat in the audience to watch the rehearsal.
There are now two actors on the stage, each wearing an exaggerated and funny mask, one decorated with a circle of black feathers and the other decorated with a circle of colorful feathers, giving a feeling of a masquerade.
The two actors seemed to be arguing, but strangely, they made no sound. They only used body movements to silently express their excitement and the intensity of the argument.
"Why aren't they talking?" Kogoro Mouri said he couldn't understand it at all.
Martin explained: "Because they are big names, big names don't need to memorize their lines, they just need to stand on the stage and lip sync 1234, and then there will be voice actors behind the scenes to do the dubbing."
Maori Kogoro asked again: "Then why do they wear masks?"
Martin continued, "Because a fight is about to start, how can a big star shoot a dangerous fighting scene in person? So they put on a mask so that a stuntman can take over."
Maori Kogoro sighed: "It's so easy to be a big shot."
Shimizu Junzi quickly stepped out to refute the rumor: "You are joking. They are performing a masked play called "The Victory of Folly". The performance style is based on pantomime. It uses actions and music to express emotions and advance the plot without speaking. This is its special form of expression."
"Damn it." Maori Kogoro turned his head and glared at Martin: "You are talking nonsense again and embarrassing me."
Doesn’t this let the beautiful lady see his ignorant side?
In order to save his image, Maori Kogoro lectured Martin: "As an elder, I have to give you a good talk. If you know something, just say you know it. If you don't know something, just say you don't know it. You have to pretend to know something when you don't. It's a joke!"
"At least they really fought." Martin looked at the stage, where two actors were already fighting with their hand-guard rapiers in hand. "And no one would laugh at a cat... but not necessarily a puppy."
"Shut up." Kogoro Mouri punched Martin, but Martin Sakamoto, whose reaction speed was twice that of humans, dodged it easily. Then the punch hit Conan's head right on the head.
Martin jumped onto the top of the seat back and walked leisurely away from Mouri Kogoro.
Ai Huihara suddenly spoke up: "As far as the drama performed with masks is concerned, the court drama popular in Europe in the 17th century, the Chinese Nuo opera and the opera with painted faces, the Italian improvisational comedy, and the Japanese Noh drama all fit this category. However, judging from the costumes and music, the play on stage should be a European court drama derived from ancient Greek tragedy."
"tragedy?"
"Tragedy is not primarily about sadness, but about expressing sublime and heroic ideas." Huiyuan Ai continued, "Greek tragedy in its most ancient form was based solely on the suffering of Dionysus, and for a long time the only protagonist on stage was Dionysus... Before Euripides, Dionysus had always been the protagonist of tragedy. On the contrary, all the famous characters on the Greek stage, such as Prometheus and Oedipus, were just masks of the original protagonist, Dionysus."
After saying that, she glanced at Martin and Maori Kogoro above Conan's head, and her eyes seemed to say: You two are ignorant.
Mao Lilan bowed her head and said in admiration: "Ai really knows a lot."
Even though they know a lot, a certain reasoning idiot can only say Holmes, Holmes and Holmes, and all he says are inexplicable things.
"Hehe..." Conan rubbed the big bump on his head and understood the meaning of Xiaolan's eyes. "I didn't say that." Huiyuan Ai clarified: "Nietzsche said that."
Maori Kogoro looked around with an unhappy look on his face: "Who is Nietzsche? Why is he so talkative?"
Everyone: "..."
The actors on the stage were fighting fiercely, and their swords were colliding extremely quickly, with cold light flashing and flying up and down, just like two real swordsmanship masters fighting each other.
“They fought so hard.”
"That's right. In order to perform this fight scene well, our crew found real swords for the actors to practice with." Shimizu Junko said proudly.
"Although I'm not sure about the significance of a real sword in improving my acting skills." Martin said slowly, "But the real sword is here, and we have the murder weapon."
A pair of cat eyes looked at Conan sideways, as if hinting at something.
On the stage, the winner had already been decided. The actor in the black feather mask knocked his opponent's sword into the air, spun it in the air and finally stuck it into the ground, then he stabbed straight ahead with his sword.
A real sword? Could it be——? Conan was shocked and stood up on the spot.
Dongyun Mingno quickly covered the doctor's eyes.
The long sword pierced the heart of the colorful masked actor and was pulled out neatly, with a "puff" sound effect added behind the scenes.
As his opponent's body fell to the ground, the actor wearing a black feather mask looked up to the sky and laughed silently - this actually tested the actor's acting skills, as he had to open his mouth wide without making any sound, and rely on the shaking of his body to let the audience know that he was laughing rather than roaring.
Then a loud thunder sounded, and the frightened actor in the black feather mask subconsciously took a few steps back, tripped over the castle scenery on the stage, and fell directly to the back of the stage. There seemed to be a deep pit, and the actor disappeared after falling down, leaving only a dull plop.
Shinonome Nano discovered that the actor who was stabbed to death by the sword was not bleeding. It was obvious that this was just part of the stage performance. She breathed a sigh of relief and released her hands that were covering the doctor's eyes.
Two actors died, and the third actor walked onto the stage. The feathers on his mask were gray with some gray, and half of the mask could not hide the smile on his chin.
The third person ignored the "corpse" lying in the center of the stage, walked to the throne in the center of the stage, sat on it, and poured himself a glass of red wine.
He was seen with his arms open, chattering to the air with joy on his face. Although he didn't really say anything, with the increasingly rapid music in the background, it was not difficult to understand that he was narrating his conspiracy.
Finally, after the happy third person drank the glass of red wine, his face suddenly showed pain, he stood up while pinching his neck, opened his mouth and let out a silent howl of pain. It was obvious that he was poisoned, and then his body fell forward to the ground.
The little doctor didn't quite understand. Her experience wasn't enough for her to fill in the lines with her imagination: "Mingno, what are they doing?"
And Shinonome Nano's eyes widened: "It really is a serial murder case."
Mr. Martin was not lying at all, there really is a serial murder case to watch!
(End of this chapter)