When you succeeded, everyone around you wore broad smiles...
As a third-rate idol, Nodoka Toyohama's team was naturally third-rate as well. In a country teeming with countless third-rate idols, they were far better off than many underground idols—at the very least, they could support themselves with it—but they were still ultimately unpresentable. Naturally, the staff did not think highly of them. Rather than impatience, it was more accurate to call it outright disdain!
But when a third-rate idol got connected to Totsuki, the treatment naturally became different...
The staff knew how to read the room. Setting everything else aside, just the fruit and snacks provided by Totsuki were already more than they could handle. A single meal of that stuff outside would cost them over half a month's salary, yet here they could eat as much as they wanted!
How could their attitude possibly be bad?
Then there were the teammates. Although Nodoka Toyohama knew she could not compare to her Mai, being too close to the matter, she did not know exactly where she fell short. The others were different. They might not have known the gap between themselves and Mai Sakurajima, but they knew their own abilities were about on par with Nodoka Toyohama's...
But this time, they had been utterly crushed!
If they had merely been crushed, some of them might have felt dissatisfied. However, Mai, who had guided Muse and the others, had put that experience to practical use. Though the time had been short, the teammates had all come to realize just how formidable "Nodoka Toyohama" was. Coupled with how she had suddenly started sharing her knowledge without holding anything back, as well as Muse and the others backing her up...
Those team members did not dare to feel dissatisfied at all. They were afraid