At the same time, there was one important matter—and that was, the preliminaries for Love Live! were finally about to begin!
And the day of the preliminaries was already close at hand. Everyone in μ's had been training constantly for the coming competition. Of course, precisely because the competition was approaching, the girls also needed to maintain enough energy and stamina, so the intensity of their training had been lowered quite a bit.
Their training ground was still the rooftop. It seemed this place had already become μ's's exclusive territory. From morning to night, unless there was some special circumstance, only the nine of them, plus Senba Gari, used this place.
"1, 2, 3, 4, 5..."
As one of their coaches, Umi Sonoda was still clapping out the rhythm for the others' training, while Hanayo Koizumi, Honoka Kosaka, and Eli Ayase rested in the shade.
Honoka Kosaka had brought her laptop and placed it on a picnic blanket, and the three of them were kneeling on it as well.
"Eh..." Honoka Kosaka let out a low sigh.
"So this is Love Live!'s dedicated website," Eli Ayase said.
Displayed on the computer was a webpage—the official Love Live! website Eli Ayase had mentioned. Perhaps because it was a newly built site meant to help participating groups and viewers better learn official information, the page was fairly simple and bright.
Then the homepage, which had originally been showing the main Love Live! stage, automatically switched to the next image. There were many photos on it, and from the looks of it, they were all kinds of stages. Beneath every photo was a place name, some of them places Honoka Kosaka had never seen before.
"What's this?" Honoka Kosaka asked.
Then Hanayo Koizumi, who knew Love Live! information like the back of her