"All right, everybody!" "Kaleido Star is going to start!" "When you watch Kaleido Star, please keep your room brightly lit, and sit as far from the TV as you can." "Well, well, well." "Rosetta here!" "Did everyone watch my trapeze act?" "I was so happy to perform with Sora, the person I admire." "I'm going to do intense training like Sora did, and become even better!" "I'm giving the trapeze another try during my next circus tour, but I've met a certain person there." "That person is..." "Okay, let's make a great show together again today!" "Let's!" "Let's!" "Um..." "Okay, that's how it is." "I've gotten the Boss' approval too." "Wait..." "I've got to meet my mom, so I'm going on ahead." "Oh..." "That's right, that's right..." "These are eight plane tickets." "Here." "Thanks." "Uh, so..." "There's information about the place we're going too." "Okay." "So..." "Okay then, see you in France!" "Uh, yeah..." "France..." "FRANCE?" "!" "Leon's Amazing Past" "Leon's Amazing Past" ""Leon's Amazing Past"" "Leon's Amazing Past" "I see." "So she had her mother, Miss Anne, manage it all." "Mr. Kenneth's show really lit a fire." "Apparently the condition is that she has to do diabolo in the show Miss Anne has planned." "Ah, so that's why she left a week early." "Well, the clown team never even dreamed of having this chance." "Isn't this great, Ken?" "This time I'm only along as your manager!" "We haven't been to France since the Circus Festival, huh?" "This time we have to make it a France full of smiles, don't we?" "Yep!" "Yeah!" "Excuse me..." "A smile?" "How long are you people going to stand around chatting?" "Let's get going already!" "But her words are still sharp..." "The taxi stand is this way." "Don't dawdle." "Let's go, everyone." "Okay..." "I figured it out at that show." "As Sora performs, she watches the audience." "I was always just watching Sora or Leon." "What Sora has that I was missing is the power to please the audience." "The power to create smiles." "In order to develop that power," "I have to first get back my own real smile." "That's what Miss Layla was trying to teach me." "Um..." "Um..." "Um..." "Um, cirque, um, noir, um..." "Oui, mademoiselle." "Oh, great!" "He seems to understand!" "We'll have to split up into two taxis, won't we?" "Um, cirque, um, noir, um..." "Come on now, wake up!" "Don't be taking a nap when you've got customers!" "Oui!" "Oui oui oui, mademoiselle!" "Welcome to Noir Circus, Rosetta!" "The others should arrive soon too." "Can I wait here until then?" "But of course!" "By the way..." "Could you do just a little diabolo performance for us in the show that starts tomorrow?" "That would entail a separate fee." "You were able to contract former top star Sora Naegino and Circus Festival winner May Wong at this price on the condition that you cast me as a trapeze artist, isn't that right?" "Okay, I get it, I get it!" "Pretend we never had this conversation." "I'm inexperienced, but I'll do my best not to disappoint you or the audience." "I've got high hopes for you." "That's our star, Rene." "Wow, that was a beautiful move." "Looks like you're in top form today, Rene." "I'm the same as always." "Hey." "Alain..." "You again?" "Don't get so angry." "I'll leave soon." "I've asked you not to come here." "That's cold, with the relationship you and I have." "I'm not your pupil anymore." "You see, I've sort of run out of cash..." "You'll just buy alcohol with whatever I give you." "You understand well, don't you?" "Come on, please." "For goodness's sake..." "Thanks." "I'll be by to pay you back, I promise." "You don't need to repay me!" "Just never show your face in front of me again." "You're so generous." "So long." "That bastard..." "Who is that?" "Alain Rubel." "He used to be a famous trainer of trapeze artists." "Trapeze artists?" "Alain was what you'd call a freelance trainer." "He'd scout kids who seemed like they had a future ahead of them, and then bring them up to be first-class trapeze artists." "Rene there was one of his students." "Actually his skill as a trainer was world-renowned, but he quit doing that several years back, and you've seen what he's become." "A trainer with world-renowned skill..." "Huh?" "Hey, Rosetta!" "Wait!" "I'm Rosetta, from Kaleido Stage." "Teach me the trapeze!" "I want to be able to do it right away!" "Wait!" "You're the Kaleido people?" "You're late!" "But doesn't the show start tomorrow?" "What are you talking about?" "We're starting rehearsal right away!" "Okay!" "You can follow me, but it won't do you any good." "I'll never give up until you teach me the trapeze." "This place..." "It's a circus' rehearsal space?" "Right now it's only roomful of junk, though." "Can I get on the trapeze?" "You're pretty bad." "Kaleido Stage is slipping, if they let an amateur like you in." "Don't make fun of the Kaleido Stage." "I'm doing the trapeze because I want to!" "Even though you have such talent..." "You're an interesting girl." "What is this?" "!" "Sora!" "Nobody told us about this!" "What are you talking about?" "This is our main attraction!" "You're joking!" "3, 2, 1!" "You're kidding me!" "Wait a second, what's with this?" "!" "Stop it!" "This is the best!" "So..." "This is the Noir Circus, right?" "This is the Etoile Circus." "Sorry we're late!" "We're the Kaleido Planets, the group scheduled to perform today!" "Excuse me!" "I thought I was going to die..." "Oh, but it was interesting!" "It had thrill." "Welcome to Noir Circus!" "We've been waiting for you!" "We're sorry we're late!" "We're the touring team from Kaleido Stage." "Is Rosetta here yet?" "Yes, if you're looking for her I think she might be at Alain's place." "Alain?" "What's the matter?" "Going to quit already?" "I won't quit." "Sora never complained about Leon's special training." "What?" "So I'll also..." "Leon?" "You mean Leon Oswald?" "Yes, that's right." "How do you know him?" "He's with the Kaleido Stage right now." "Do you know Leon?" "I certainly do." "He was my last pupil." "Bonjour!" "Excuse me, is there anyone here?" "Sora!" "Rosetta?" "Sora..." "Mr. Leon learned here?" "Yes." "It's almost ten years ago now since Leon and his little sister Sophie were here." "Little sister..." "Their parents died when they were very young and they were taken in by relatives, but apparently they weren't on good terms with them." "When I said I'd like to take them in, their adoptive parents agreed right away." "They were brilliant students." "They mastered the basics of the trapeze in no time." "Leon!" "Throw Sophie up in the air!" "No good!" "Do it over again from the beginning!" "Leon..." "Did Sophie have enough ability to be Leon's partner?" "Yes." "Or rather," "Leon didn't have what it took to be Sophie's partner." "So she was more amazing than Leon?" "I can't imagine it." "Sophie might have been able to really do it." "A perfect Angel's Maneuver..." "The Angel's Maneuver?" "Yes." "It was my dream." "I thought that in order to make the Angel's Maneuver a success it was important for the woman's partner to become strong, so I set about training Leon thoroughly." "Sheesh." "Here, I'll pick them up for you." "What's with this ball?" "Is it leaded?" "But no matter how much I trained Leon, the Angel's Maneuver just wouldn't gel." "That was when I started to think that maybe it was impossible for Leon after all." "Sophie!" "Leon!" "Sophie jacked herself up, as if she were as light as a feather." "When I saw that, I finally understood." "The Angel's Maneuver didn't just require the partner to be strong;" "it also required a performer with an innate instinct that sensed the flow of that strength during performance." "Then if she could just perfectly maintain the pose," "I was sure we could really produce the Angel's Maneuver." "So after that, I trained Sophie very harshly too." "Sophie!" "Are you okay?" "!" "Get off the stage!" "I'm sorry." "Give us our money back!" "Sophie's been training hard and she's exhausted!" "She can't help it!" "Is that our problem?" "You're here to entertain us!" "You're being impertinent!" "My, now we can't pay them their fee." "Stop the special training." "What did you say?" "Sophie can't withstand this." "It's okay, Leon." "Sophie!" "But you..." "Say, do you know about "true stars"?" ""True stars"?" "The circus troupe we were working with before told me." "They said the performance of a true star brings everybody's hearts together as one." "I have a feeling that the Angel's Maneuver could be a maneuver to become a true star." "Leon, I want to try doing it." "I want to perfect the Angel's Maneuver, and try to become a true star." "The people who see it, the audience and the other performers, all their hearts will be one." "Even if they're not related by blood, they'll be just like family..." "The Angel's Maneuver is a maneuver to become a true star..." "At the time I thought she was talking crazy talk, but somewhere along the way even I started thinking that I wanted to bring a true star into the world." ""Only a demon can raise an angel."" "I remembered hearing that saying from a circus troupe I was in long ago." "As we aimed seriously to perfect the Angel's Maneuver the special training became more and more merciless." "That special training..." "It's the same as the special training I did before the Festival." "Sophie..." "Do you think you can do a perfect Angel's Maneuver like that?" "!" "No, sir..." "You say you're going to leave?" "There's nothing more for us to learn from you." "What?" "!" "I'll perfect the Angel's Maneuver, and make Sophie a true star." "You're just a stepping stone on the way to that." "Do you think you can do it?" "Do you think you can become a real demon?" "!" "When some years had passed and I heard a rumor that Sophie was dead, my dream was over." "To think Leon had that kind of past..." "I thought Leon's special training was just him trying to break Sora..." "But it did have a point after all." "The Angel's Maneuver is connected to the path to becoming a true star..." "No, this "true star" thing is a fantasy." "It's impossible to become a star without being hated or begrudged by anybody." "Even if you have completely perfected the Angel's Maneuver." "That's not so." "I think true stars can really exist." "Miss Sophie's belief that beyond the Angel's Maneuver" "Lies the path to being a true star..." "I believe that too." "Please teach me to do a perfect Angel's Maneuver." "I don't believe in such a thing now." "I'd just drag you down." "If we'd met at least three years ago..." "Rosetta, will you keep practicing?" "Yes, of course!" "All right, that's the end of boring stories about the past." "Sora's eyes are burning more than I've ever seen them burn before..." "I've finally found the path to becoming a true Kaleido Star." "I'll walk this path!" "No matter how much time it takes, I'll become a true Kaleido Star!" "Do it like you've become a part of the trapeze!" "Don't go against the flow!" "Watch where the bars will be three seconds into the future!" "How many times do I have to tell you before you understand?" "!" "The bars three seconds into the future..." "I did it!" "Don't relax your efforts now!" "We're going on to the next stage." "Hey, pretty good." "She came this far in just one day?" "Cater!" "Pill-ill-ill-illar!" "Huh?" "Any villain who tries to kill the princess will have to fight me!" "Interesting!" "But why am I the villain?" "!" "Amazing!" "Scary!" "Weird!" "Scary!" "Evil queen, say your prayers!" "I'll turn the tables on you!" "Her move is on a larger scale than it was in the rehearsal." "Sora's movements are getting more and more lively." "The last show was like that too, but this isn't just making the audience smile." "As another performer, I'm getting excited too somehow." "This is Sora's true power..." "Southern Cross Illusion!" "Gigashock Explosion!" "Infinity Tornado!" "Fanatic Firestorm!" "Four Thousand Legend Cosmic Dream Spin!" "She's pretty into it for someone who didn't want to do it..." "Super Beauty Hurricane!" "She's pretty into it for someone who didn't want to do it..." "Galactica Unbelievable Splash Thunder!" "That girl's performance is drawing out other people's charm." "If you don't let me defeat you soon, we'll run out of time..." "I don't want to, but fine, I will!" "Okay, then..." "Was that in the script?" "I think she's having fun, in her own May way..." "I won't forget what you've done to me!" "On the next one, Rosetta." "Right." "Good!" "Wow!" "She did it blindfolded!" "That's just like you, Sora." "You've bounced back from your depression after the Festival as if it was nothing." "I'm sure that's..." "Hello." "Say, that player named Sora Naegino is pretty good, isn't she?" "Judging by your physique, you're a trapeze artist too, aren't you?" "She certainly does have a strange charm." "She might just make that "true star" thing a reality." "You think so too?" "I've seen you somewhere before..." "Oh!" "You're Yuri Killian!" "Yes." "Is the Kaleido Stage plotting something?" "Something big?" "Well now, who knows." "I've decided on the path that I'm aiming to walk." "I'm going to master the Angel's Maneuver." "Someday, I'll do it for sure!" "Next Kaleido Star:" "New Wings" "I thought I'd give you a chance to take your revenge." "And so, the Kaleido Stage is reopening!" "But..." "The truth about what happened between Leon and Yuri three years ago will finally be revealed." "The cruel demon who slashed an angel's innocence to pieces." "Both of you, stop it!" "Next time on Kaleido Star, "The Amazing Fated Duel"" "The Amazing Fated Duel" "Next time on Kaleido Star, "The Amazing Fated Duel"" "The Amazing Fated Duel" "My wings are my dream and on towards the sky..." "The Amazing Fated Duel"