After adjusting herself, Honoka Kosaka tightened her grip, afraid Minami Kotori would shake off her hand.
"Kotori, I'm sorry. I still want to be a school idol! Together with you, Kotori!"
"Even if someday this dream gets replaced by another one..." Honoka Kosaka walked up to Minami Kotori. At that moment, she saw tears already spilling from the corners of Minami Kotori's eyes, but she paid it no mind and pulled Minami Kotori into an embrace.
"Don't go!"
Having been "saved" by Honoka Kosaka at the very last moment, Minami Kotori couldn't help bursting into tears.
"I'm the one who should be sorry..."
Although their actions drew the eyes of some passersby around them, the two of them no longer cared at all.
"I... I knew perfectly well how I really felt."
"We made it just in time. Otherwise, they would've regretted it for the rest of their lives, right, Aunt Minami?" Watching Honoka Kosaka and Minami Kotori tightly hugging each other from a distance, Senba Gari looked toward Kotori Minami, whom he had happened to run into at the airport exit, and spoke.
"Yes." Kotori Minami looked somewhat relieved as she watched Minami Kotori hugging Honoka Kosaka. Compared to her child's future prospects, she hoped even more that her child could simply be happy.
Back at the school auditorium, the stage curtain had been lowered. Aside from Honoka Kosaka and Minami Kotori, the other seven stood inside the stage area.
"Uh... I'm so nervous." Hanayo Koizumi looked worriedly ahead as she spoke.
"Come to think of it, we're all still wearing our school uniforms." Rin Hoshizora tugged at the bow on her chest and said in a bit of a panic.
"Doesn't that make us look even more like school idols?" Maki Nishikino said with a smile.
"Will