Team Shop 'til You Drop is back!

Ughhh, it's so heavy my arms are gonna fall off.

Thanks for the help!

I-It was amazing… It was so bright, even at night… That must be why they call Tokyo the City of the Future, zura…

I'm pretty sure you're the only one who calls it that…

What's with all of this stuff? What on earth did you buy?

A whole bunch of candy and soft drinks!

We got some cards too!

We didn't just come here for fun and games, you know.

Eli is absolutely right. Do not forget that we obtained special permission from Nijigasaki High School to stay over and edit through the night.

I know… But you gotta take a break sometime!

Given that you've gone out of your way to buy a pack of cards, it is abundantly clear that you are not thinking of this as a break-time activity.

Oh, don't be such a wet blanket. We can't all be editing the footage at once and there's no fun in just sitting around staring off into space.

Besides, it's a sleepover at school! Who wouldn't get excited?!

She's right. I'm giddy just thinking about how much space we have all to ourselves!

Yeah, Nico! Emma! I knew you'd understand me!

That's it, keep the compliments coming. I know I deserve 'em.

Nico, you're an upperclassman. You should start acting like it.

All the shackles are off at this time of night!

Is it just me, or is the school kinda creepy at night though?

Yeah, I'm kinda scared a ghost might pop up any second.

Ghosts?!

D-Don't be silly! There aren't any ghosts around here!

R-Right. There's no way.

But, you've heard that every school has seven mysteries, right?

No, that itself sounds like a mystery to me. Who came up with that nonsense?

Also, how could every school have the same seven mysteries?

Wh-What are these “seven mysteries” you're talking about?

Oh, you don't know? Every school in Japan has seven mysteries that are passed down. Like, at night, there's an extra stair on the staircase! Stuff like that.

There are also stories about music room portraits whose eyes start moving, pianos playing on their own…

Don't forget the one about the anatomical model in the science room coming to life.

You're kidding! That sounds like fun! So basically, little school fairies come out to play, right? I wanna join in on their games!

You're a life-saver, Emma… I like the way you think… They're all just fairies playing around.

I've decided that that's the real truth behind every mystery I'll ever encounter from here on out.

Well, in that case, why don't we hurry and finish editing so we can go on a little ghost hunt?

Absolutely not!

That's a big NO from me, too.

Aw, but you said it'd be okay if it was just fairies playing around!

Zuramaru will protect you if anything does show up. Her family runs a temple so she can handle a ghost or two, no sweat.

Don't forget Nozomi either! She's a shrine maiden!

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I don't have that sort of holy power.

Me neither. And to temples, ghosts aren't monsters; they're just Buddha in a different form, zura.

In any case, no ghost hunting! The main reason we asked to stay the night at school is because our work might take a while to finish! We don't have time to waste.

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How's it going, Rinari?

Hmm…

It might take a pretty long time. I want to use all the footage, so it's hard to cut it down.

Oh! You're definitely gonna use this footage of Aqours' dance practice, right?

You HAVE to keep that in.

Huh? You filmed us practicing?

I just happened to get some footage of you guys practicing on the beach early in the morning after our meeting in Numazu.

What?! You were there?! I had no idea…

You kept your presence hidden from me? Blasphemy! People of the shadows, no doubt!

No, just regular people.

Sheesh. I couldn't believe you were being so sneaky about it. You could've invited us along to practice with you.

We thought you might've been exhausted from the long trip over, so we decided to let you all rest.

I never expected that you would have been filming us… What other scenes should we include?

Well, there is something I would really like to have included. Let's see…

[Fade in/out.]

Here's how it turned out. What do you think?

I think it's great! It's a promo video that gets you really excited just from watching it.

Yeah, I'm sure people will want to come to the festival after watching this.

It was totally worth all of the hard work. I even teared up a little!

So, does that mean we're all done then?

You betcha. Great work, everyone.

The sun's about to rise…

I'm so, so sleepy. I can't fight it anymore…

Me too… *Yawn*

*Snore*