"Right now, all the teachers and students at school are really grateful to you."
"Mm-hmm!" Hideko nodded in strong agreement.
"A lot of people came to know about our school indirectly because they watched μ's perform!" Fumika said happily too.
"Hehe, thank you." Honoka Kosaka gradually recovered her spirits as well.
"Then let's go." Fumika took Honoka Kosaka's hand.
"Mm..." After answering in a voice slightly weaker than usual, Honoka Kosaka ran off with them.
At the same time, Umi Sonoda, who had been following behind Honoka Kosaka the whole time, simply watched in silence as they left the school.
Whoosh—!
The wooden arrow struck the bull's-eye with perfect accuracy. Umi Sonoda, both a school idol and a member of the Archery Club, breathed out inside the Archery Club.
"You've been practicing really hard lately," a club member behind her said with relief.
"Mm! Because the competition is coming up soon."
"You really don't need to practice on the school idol side?" An unexpected question came, one that was hard to answer.
Umi Sonoda lowered her brows and thought for a moment, then picked up another wooden arrow beside her and set it on the string.
She raised the bow, drew it, aimed, released, and hit the target, all in one smooth motion.
Meanwhile, in the student council room, only the vice president and president remained—Nozomi Tojo and Eli Ayase.
"Is it really all right to keep going like this?" Nozomi Tojo stood before the window and asked Eli Ayase, who was organizing documents.
After putting the documents into a folder, Eli Ayase stood up.
"A μ's that isn't ten people isn't μ's. Weren't you the one who said that, Nozomi?"
"Though that's true..." In Nozomi's eyes, there was a trace of reluctance.
"And just like Gari said that day,