"Because we want to!"
"When I watch μ's perform, I feel fired up. I want to work as hard as I can and enjoy it to the fullest."
Who exactly had made the mistake? Why were other people's views the opposite of her own? If she was the one who was wrong, then where did the problem lie?
Eli Ayase stopped and thought...
"Actually, you know~" A voice came from behind her. The familiar voice and tone made Eli Ayase immediately think of one person.
"Uh... Nozomi?"
The person who had come was Nozomi Tojo.
"Ever since I became friends with Eli-chi and we joined the student council together, I've always been thinking about what it is Eli-chi really wants to do."
"Huh?"
"When you're always together, you can tell. Eli-chi has always worked hard for other people, so you've always been holding something back... You haven't thought about yourself at all." There was sadness in Nozomi Tojo's voice as she spoke.
"Mm—" Hearing those words that kept striking at her heart, Eli Ayase planned to turn around and leave at once.
"Keeping the school running is only your sense of responsibility as student council president, right? That's why the chairwoman has never acknowledged you, Eli-chi, isn't it?!"
Unlike the Nozomi Tojo she usually knew, she said what she most wanted to say, what she most wanted to know, and—
"Eli-chi, what is it that you really want to do?"
That was what Nozomi Tojo wanted to ask most.
Just then, the sounds of μ's practicing came from the rooftop.
Honoka: "Come on, one more time!"
Umi: "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8..."
"What is this..." Eli Ayase, who had been suppressing herself all this time, spoke. "Because I have