By the second half of the sentence, perhaps because of what the teacher had said yesterday about her voice being too quiet, her pitch suddenly rose, and Hanayo Koizumi covered her mouth too.
"All right, that's enough."
"Uh... yes."
"Then next... Sato."
Noticing that Hanayo Koizumi had seemed a little distracted lately, Rin Hoshizora and Maki Nishikino looked at her worriedly.
"What kind of feelings is Jiro expressing in this passage?"
At lunch break, Hanayo Koizumi sat alone beneath a big tree, sighing.
"What are you doing?" Maki Nishikino's voice came from in front of Hanayo Koizumi.
"Nishikino..."
"Your voice is really nice. As long as you open up and practice more from now on, won't that be fine?"
"But..."
"Haa..." Maki Nishikino let out a helpless breath, then closed her eyes. "Ah↘ ah→ ah↗ ah→ ah↘"
Maki Nishikino sang a sequence of notes from low to high, and Hanayo Koizumi looked at her with a vague sense of awe despite not really understanding.
"Come on." Maki Nishikino signaled for Hanayo Koizumi to do it with her.
"Huh?"
"You try."
"...Ah↘ ah→ ah↗ ah→ ah↘" Hanayo Koizumi copied the melody Maki Nishikino had just sung and sang it once.
"Louder!" Maki Nishikino said in a tone like a teacher scolding her, waving her hand upward. "Come on, stand up."
"Uh, yes..."
"Ah↘ ah→ ah↗ ah→ ah↘" Maki Nishikino demonstrated again.
"Ah↘ ah→ ah↗ ah→ ah↘" Hanayo Koizumi sang along too, her voice much higher than before.
"Together!"
"Ah↘ ah→ ah↗ ah→ ah↘" Their singing echoed through the campus. After they finished, Hanayo Koizumi felt very refreshed.
"It feels good, right?"
"Hehehe, yeah, it makes me happy."
Seeing Hanayo Koizumi's expression, Maki Nishikino inexplicably blushed and turned her head aside, pretending to look around at the scenery.
"All right, one more