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To promote their performance at the Nadeshiko Festival, Kaho and Sayaka are tasked by the seniors to write an article for the Newspaper Club. The pair diligently work to meet their expectations, but…
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It's already been a year, huh…
Oh, hi, Otomune-senpai.
Ah, Murano-san. What brings you here? If you're looking for Tsuzuri–
Oh, no, I actually didn't come here to look for Tsuzuri-senpai.
Oh, really?
You know, now that I think about it more, I don't think I could even imagine where that girl would spend her lunch break…
Ahaha… Um, excuse me, but…
…?
So anyway, what brings you to the club room?
Ah, well, the thing is…! I heard you were here, so…
Oh, did you need something from me?
Uh, not exactly, but…! H-Hello!
H-Hello… is something the matter?
Ah, I-I'm so sorry! Um, the thing is… it's–!
Murano-san.
I don't really understand what's going on, but you can tell me if you want. You don't have to be so nervous around me, okay?
Ah… I-I'm sorry…
Did something happen between you and Tsuzuri, by any chance?
No, that's not it. I was just…
Otomune-senpai…? Um… how do you feel about Tsuzuri-senpai…?
Hm… I suppose I'd say… she's a friend, since we're both in the same year and both in the School Idol Club.
She can be fairly absentminded at times, though… Well, I'm sure you're well aware of that, Murano-san.
Yes, I completely understand.
And… I would say she is very pretty, isn't she?
Huh? Oh, yes. But…
Sometimes I would find her just staring off into the distance, and looking at her beside me, she was always so pretty…
Even now, I still find myself just watching her from time to time.
Now you're making me jealous. I'm so much shorter than you two…
Hmhm. That's exactly why I told you about it.
Oh, now I see what's going on here.
Huh!?
This is for the article, isn't it? The one I tasked you and Kaho-san to write to introduce the School Idol Club.
Ah… ahaha! That's right! Y-You sure caught me…!
Hehe. Then I suppose I'll just have to say more about Tsuzuri, then. Let me guess. Kaho-san's talking with Tsuzuri right now, isn't she?
Yes, that's exactly it…!
I hope that whatever Tsuzuri says about me can actually be incorporated into an article…
Well, I suppose there's no use worrying about that. Hm…
…I'm sure this goes without saying, Murano-san, but…
Tsuzuri's an amazing girl. From the moment I met her, she always had an enthralling presence while she was onstage.
…No, I think it would be more accurate to say that she could turn anywhere she danced into her own stage.
Anywhere…
Yes. Even if she danced for the briefest of moments, she would captivate anyone who saw.
Oh… I've actually experienced that for myself.
Then you understand, right? We first met at our entrance ceremony, so I've known her since I started high school.
But for me, having held this dream of performing as a school idol… Being in the same club as her truly fills me with pride.
…You wanted to perform as a school idol from the start?
I did. I intended to work hard and become a school idol, so I enrolled at this school, because it had previously won Love Live!.
…Even in that respect, Tsuzuri and I are complete opposites.
Oh, really?
Yes.
Tsuzuri had only found out about the existence of school idols about two months prior, and she enrolled at whatever school would let her perform as a school idol.
She's the type of girl to take a full leap of faith into whatever she wants to do, after all.
So that's how Tsuzuri-senpai joined, huh…
Correct.
If she'd known about school idols earlier, then she may have specifically enrolled at a school with an established School Idol Club…
Then she may have been extremely popular from the start.
…That may be why I was so offended at first.
She knew nothing about Love Live!, so I had to teach her about everything from scratch.
Um… so what happened to that feeling of being offended?
Hm? Oh. Well, all of those feelings completely vanished when I saw her practice for the first time.
From that moment on, I was sure… Being together with her would be the best way for me to grow and improve.
To shine as brightly as her, and to captivate others as she does… It's what I truly aspire to do.
I… see.
Um, so…
Yes?
I understand how you feel, Otomune-senpai. But if that's the case, then…
Why? Why were things the way they were before I came…?
You mean… why no one was standing with her?
I… wasn't really planning on sharing that. But… hm. I suppose I could say this one thing.
Aspiring to be like Tsuzuri and standing together with her on stage are simply incompatible. It wasn't back then, and it will never be.