Now then, let's eat. The cake here is really good. I'm gonna dig in, so go ahead and help yourself as well!

Don't mind if I do.

Chika and You had just gotten their allowances, so they ordered a whole bunch. Dia got so mad because she thought they weren't thinking ahead about their money.

Ahaha!

You seem like you've calmed down a bit.

Yeah. I'm sorry, I just kind of…got caught up in the moment.

Don't worry about it. More importantly, can you tell me what happened?

I told you before that we have to get ready for an event, right?

You did. The Nijigasaki School Idol Club will be performing a live show, so you're writing their songs. Could it be that…?

I haven't written anything yet. After talking to you I felt so much better, and I thought I was good to go, but I still haven't made any progress.

I had no idea.

We just started our school idol activities not that long ago, so we need to be on stage as much as possible if we want people to remember us.

Whatever songs they sing will be the image people have of them. That's why I have to write songs that will help everyone shine as bright as they possibly can.

You always have their best interests at heart.

Of course I do! We're all doing our best together. If it's within my abilities, I want to do whatever I can to help. I want to keep pushing on with them.

And that's why I need to put my all into writing these songs. So that the audience will remember them and fall in love with them.

But…no matter how hard I wrack my brain, I can't come up with any songs that fit the bill. I don't even know what kind of songs might be the best.

So…I ran away.

You ran away?

I wanted to forget about it all. The song. The event. Everything. So I came somewhere where none of that mattered. I avoided everyone working hard and headed off on my own.

Now I don't even know how I ever wrote songs for everyone. Yet, in some corner of my mind, I still can't stop thinking about songwriting.

I'm just so disappointed in myself. I don't know how to go face everyone anymore.

So your call that day was an SOS from you. I'm so sorry, I should have taken more time to listen to you.

You didn't do anything wrong! I didn't realize how stressed I was about this that day either.

It's my fault that I couldn't solve this problem myself.

This might be presumptuous of me to say, but I know exactly how you feel.

The more you try to think about others, the less you know what to do. I've felt like that before too. Just recently actually.

Recently?

Yes. We might actually be pretty similar. Not just our roles, but the way our minds work, too.