What's Wrong with Adding Me Among So Many Omni-Anime Geniuses?

"Eh? You're Layer's junior?"

"Yeah, and my neighbor in the school dorms..."

"I remember you're in the Music Department, right? Is she too?"

"No, she's in the Drama Performance Department."

"Huh?"/"Eh?"

"...Your school really is pretty laid-back. I'm a little jealous."

"Pareo, why not apply to a school in Tokyo next year too~"

"Please do. Commuting by train every day is way too exhausting, isn't it?"

"Hehe~ Not at all! I catch up on sleep on the train, so thanks for worrying about me!"

"No, even so, for a middle schooler..."

"..."

Meanwhile, Wakaba Mū's gaze had not left Toyokawa Shoko and Mizuki Akiyama since earlier.

Listening to the praise from the friends she had recently made around her, a small sense of pride welled up in her chest.

Since they were in the same building, Toyokawa Shoko would occasionally come to her private office to hang out and eat the snacks Ogura Asahi had left in her fridge.

However, she rarely went to the other girl's practice room, because Asahi had told her it was best not to go there—she did not know why, but she obediently stayed away.

Among the five people onstage, one was her childhood friend, and one was... huh?

She narrowed her large eyes, trying to get a clearer look at the pink-haired girl who gave her a sense of familiarity, her brows adorably knitting together.

There was always this strange mixture of familiarity and wrongness... what was it?

It was like the sense of falseness she had felt from Asahi before...

"Little Mū, how are you feeling?" Imai Risa had not forgotten her role as the gyaru caretaker and checked in on her every so often.

"I'm fine." Wakaba Mū put away her intent observation and said normally, "That Keyboard is my friend."

Perhaps