"A Happy Ending"

"Is that Flying Snow Velvet?! Are you really the famous Flying Snow Velvet?!"

"Yes, that's me~"

With Rover and her companions back at the Academy, excitement swept through the campus once more.

On the way back, Aemeath had talked with Rover about holding a fan concert at the Academy for the first time in ages.

After all, as a former school idol, if she couldn't even give her fans a proper "graduation song," her idol career would have ended on a pretty lousy note.

She also wanted Rover to see...

To see her at her most dazzling.

"Ohhh! I can't believe I get to hear Flying Snow Velvet sing live in my lifetime! What an honor!"

"After going missing, the school idol came back and chose to sing for her fans first thing! I'm so moved!"

"Exactly! The one onstage is the one and only true school idol—Flying Snow Velvet!"

After extracting Singulum's core, Aemeath had gained more than strength.

Her presence had grown stronger too. People could now see and touch her.

Unlike the fervent Aemeath fans below the stage in the Auditorium, though, Rover and Mo Bai weren't the type to follow celebrities.

Sitting together amid all that enthusiasm, they mostly found it noisy.

But Aemeath clearly enjoyed herself up there, so neither of them said anything more. They simply watched from their seats and supported her.

"What a turnout. I'd heard her songs before, but I never realized she was this popular," Mo Bai said with a sigh.

Speaking of Aemeath's songs, Mo Bai remembered that Lynae had been the one to share them with him in the first place.

And thinking of Lynae reminded him that he still owed her an answer in person.

He had left dozens of her messages unanswered. He would have