The Phantom of the Opera [ishimondo]

ACT 2 SCENE 2

(kirumi is hurrying away from the masquerade ball, byakuya following)

Byakuya Togami:
Madame Kirumi? Madame Kirumi!

Kirumi Tojo:
Sir, don't ask me - I know no more than anyone else.

Byakuya Togami:
That's not true, you've seen something I haven't.

Kirumi Tojo:
I don't know what I've seen . . . Please don't ask me, sir . . .

Byakuya Togami:
Madame, for all our sakes . . .

Kirumi Tojo:
Very well. It was years ago. There was a travelling fair in the city. Tumblers, conjurors, human oddities . . .

Byakuya Togami:
Go on . . .

Kirumi Tojo:
And there was . . . I shall never forget him: a man . .
Iocked in a cage . . .

Byakuya Togami:
In a cage . . ?

Kirumi Tojo:
A prodigy, monsieur! Scholar, architect, musician .

Byakuya Togami:
A composer . . .

Kirumi Tojo:
And an inventor too, monsieur. They boasted he had once built for the Shah of Persia, a maze of mirrors . . .

Byakuya Togami:
Who was this man . . .?

Kirumi Tojo:
A freak of nature . . .
more monster than man . . .

Byakuya Togami:
Deformed . . .?

Kirumi Tojo:
From birth, it seemed . . .

Byakuya Togami:
My God . . .

Kirumi Tojo:
And then . . . he went missing. He escaped.

Byakuya Togami:
Go on.

Kirumi Tojo:
They never found him it was said he had died . . .

Byakyya Togami:
But he didn't die, did he?

Kirumi Tojo:
The world forgot him, but I never can . . .
For in this darkness I have seen him again . . .

Byakuya Togami:
And so our Phantom's this man . . .

Kirumi Tojo:
I have said too much, sir.
And there have been too many accidents . . .

Byakuya Togami:
Accidents?!

Kirumi Tojo:
Too many . . .

(kirumi leaves before byakuya can ask her any more questions)

Byakuya Togami:
Madame Kirumi . . .!