"Umi, khorosho." Minami Kotori, with a long ponytail trailing down the back of her head, wore the exact same tracksuit as Eli Ayase. Her normally soft, sweet expression had suddenly turned a little stern, and with that signature hairstyle still on her head (I don't know how to describe it), the sheer mismatch was off the charts.
"Eli, you're here early," Umi (Honoka) said to Eli (Kotori).
"Rin too." The two of them looked toward Rin Hoshizora... uh, no, toward Umi Sonoda, who was wearing the orange-and-white short dress and thigh-high socks Rin Hoshizora had often been wearing lately. To imitate Rin Hoshizora in a tracksuit, her long hair had even been tied into a short side ponytail at the side of her head.
"Urk!" Rin (Umi), whose embarrassment had already gone off the charts, suddenly shuddered, then tugged very shyly at the front hem of her skirt. "I can't do this!"
"No, Umi. You have to become Rin completely!"
"Urgh..." As the knockoff Rin and genuine Umi, she looked troubledly at the knockoff Umi (Honoka) (good grief, what a tongue twister). She felt like her embarrassment had already broken through the sky, with an expression like she was about to cry.
"You're the one who said we should change up the feeling, so come on, Rin!"
Rin (Umi) blinked hard, forcing away the tears at the corners of her eyes. She squeezed her eyes tightly shut, kept thinking about how Rin Hoshizora usually acted, and then forced herself to create a dark-history moment she would want to forget for the rest of her life.
"Meow~!" Rin (Umi) seemed to enter the role as she jumped up full of energy (while internally cursing up a storm). "Come on, let's start practice today too, meow~!"
"What is that? I don't get