"Alisa, you came to watch your sister's performance too?" Senba Gari said gently to Alisa Ayase.
Ever since the seaside training camp ended, Eli Ayase had often brought Alisa Ayase and the other girls of μ's to his house as guests, so they were no longer strangers. Senba Gari also quite liked this somewhat adorably ditzy little sister.
"Mm. Big Brother Senba, didn't you bring an umbrella?" Alisa Ayase asked, staring at Senba Gari with that adorably blank look.
"Yeah. Alisa doesn't mind if I hide from the rain here, right?" Senba Gari teased.
"Mm, Alisa doesn't mind."
"You are...?" Yukiho Kosaka looked at Senba Gari with some curiosity, while also feeling a little puzzled as to why there would be a boy at Otonokizaka.
"Oh, hello. You're Honoka's younger sister, right? I often hear your sister mention you."
"How did you kn—"
"It's starting!"
Before Yukiho Kosaka could finish, Alisa Ayase's words cut her off, and at the same time, everyone's gaze turned toward the stage ahead.
On the stage, nine girls in black short jackets and short skirts, with white inner layers, stood side by side before the stage lights. Even as raindrops struck them, the confident smiles on their faces did not diminish in the slightest.
It's fine. I can do this. I can make it...
On the stage, Honoka Kosaka clenched her fists.
We've always worked hard like this. As long as I believe I can do it...
Honoka Kosaka opened her tightly shut eyes and looked out at the audience ahead.
Then I can overcome anything!
A flag printed with the large characters "μ's" fluttered in the dim, rainy scene.
At that moment, the light of dreams shone on the stage once again.
All: [Oh yeah!
Oh yeah!
Oh yeah!]
[One, two, Jump!] (Let's jump