"Don't worry, I won't screw you over," Kotori Minami promised Senba Gari.
"...Why do I feel a little cold?"
"Relax, it's your imagination. Besides, it's raining today... Huh?" When Kotori Minami looked out the window, she suddenly stared blankly at the cloudless blue sky outside. If not for the raindrops still clinging to the glass, she would have thought it had never rained at all. "Didn't the weather forecast say it was supposed to rain all day today?"
"That's pretty normal, right? How many times does the weather forecast ever get it right?" Senba Gari said with an unconcerned shrug.
Camping Again
"Huh?!—"
"What is going on—!"
That morning, the girls' cries suddenly rang out from the school rooftop.
"This is serious."
Compared to the girls, Hanayo Koizumi was much calmer. Only, the shadow of her bangs hid her eyes, giving her an overwhelmingly gloomy air.
"Apparently, the songs we can use in the Love Live! preliminaries have to be ones we haven't used before."
"Haven't used before..."
"You mean we can't use any of our old songs?" Honoka Kosaka asked.
"Why spring this on us so suddenly?" Yazawa Nico asked, hands on her hips.
"There are more groups entering the preliminaries than expected, and among the applicants there are even groups planning to imitate popular idols."
"So they're screening everyone at this stage, right?" Nozomi Tojo said, roughly understanding the rule.
"How could they—" Rin Hoshizora shouted unhappily.
"In other words, if we don't do something in the next month, we won't be able to take part in Love Live!," Eli Ayase told everyone.
"Well, if that's how it is, then there's no helping it~"
Yazawa Nico twisted her waist, putting on a helpless expression.
"I knew this would happen, so we can just set my old lyrics for