Here's to the completion of our second promotional video! Cheers!

Cheers!

Great work, Kanan. Your singing was so beautiful. I was really moved.

Thanks. We still don't know what kind of response we'll get, though, so it's too soon to call it a success.

We certainly put more effort into this one than our first video. We should try to temper our expectations, but I think we can at least be proud of our work.

Dia's right. If we don't believe in our work, then who will? It'll be okay. We just gotta have faith!

It kind of feels like a waste for that song to only be used for this promotional video. Why don't we release it as a solo song later?

Hmm, I don't know if we need to go that far. Aqours' songs are enough for me.

Aww, really? But it's a rare song with lyrics written by you.

That reminds me, Aqours was just the three of you at first, right? I heard you wrote a lot of the lyrics back then, Kanan.

When did Chika take over as lyricist?

Oh… That happened after Aqours was reborn.

Reborn? What do you mean?

As you already know, Aqours was formed by the three of us back when we were first-years. However, we disbanded for a while.

Disbanded?! Wh-Why?!

Because Kanan got the wrong idea.

What? I fretted over that decision for a long time, you know. Back then, it seemed like the best thing to do!

How can you say that? You just decided on your own without asking us!

Good grief. This is what happens any time this comes up.

In any case, between all of the misunderstandings and assumptions, we went through a lot.

I had no idea.

I thought I would never be a school idol again, but here I am today. I wonder what past me would have to say about that.

But once I started, I had no doubts. I decided to join everyone and move forward as a member of the new Aqours.

We strive to make progress every day, so that the nine of us can one day achieve what the three of us alone could not.

*Giggle* You say that now, but you were really opposed to Chika-chi and the others becoming school idols at first, Dia.

Th-That was because I was trying to test them! You cannot survive in the school idol world with half-hearted resolve!

But you did slip the name Aqours into their list of group name options, so you must have had high expectations.

Wh-What are you talking about?! I never said anything to them!

(I always felt like Kanan, Mari, and Dia had a different aura than the other Aqours members.)

(As Aqours, they chased the same dream, gave up, were reborn, and are now chasing after that dream again. To these three, Aqours must be more dear to them than anything else.)