I'm back from talking to the Committee! They're taking back their decision to cancel the festival!

For real?!

Good work, Mari! I guess only the school chairwoman could convince them that quickly!

The chairwoman? Who's that?

Mari is. She's a third-year student at the school, but she's also the chairwoman of it, too!

Wh-What?! A student, the chairwoman, and a school idol? Wh-What kind of life do you live?

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*Giggle* It's always best for a girl to have some mystery to her.

Aqours is a fearsome group.

We're not all like that!

But with all the work we're putting into cleaning up the town and repairs, we're going to have to scale it down.

That's okay. It's more than enough that they reconsidered canceling it.

That's right. We have to do everything we can to get the festival started as soon as possible.

They're going to call for help with cleaning and repairs over the town P.A.

The town P.A.? I remember announcing our live shows on that when Aqours was just Riko, Chika and me. How nostalgic.

That's much easier than going around door to door, zura!

Great! I was worried about whether I could talk to all those people I didn't know.

It would've taken all day to go door to door.

Hey, Mari. Do you think I can make the announcement?

I was the one that suggested we work with everyone in the town, so I want to take the responsibility of asking for their help.

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Are you really saying that now?

Huh?

You're not the only one that's going to be the hero.

Have you thought about what you're going to say?

U-Umm…

We all feel the same way about this. Let's go together.

…Okay!

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Garbage bags, check! Tongs, check! Gloves, check! Let's get some trash!

Yeah!

You're all such go-getters.

Well, it's better than skulking around, considering how they've officially announced that the festival is on.

I wonder if everyone heard the announcement. I hope a lot of people show up.

We told them how we feel about it. Now, we just have to do everything we can!

Whoa, I heard things were scattered around, but this is really bad!

The typhoon winds might have kicked around some garbage cans.

All the paper lanterns are gone. Did they get blown away?

I assume they took them down before the typhoon came. We have to put those back up, too.

There are plastic umbrellas everywhere. It certainly looks like the aftermath of a typhoon.

We'll have to break them down and dispose of them in their proper areas, zura. The poles are metal and the plastic has to go into plastic recycling.

Everyone, bring the umbrellas over here!

Huh?

There are a lot of broken umbrellas thanks to the typhoon, so let's just get them all in one place for now.

We won't let a little typhoon ruin our festival! Let's get to working on cleaning this place up!

Y-Yeah…!

Excuse me, can I buy some garbage bags at the convenience store?

What? Why not use one of these? We have plenty of extras!

Are you sure? Thank you. I heard the announcement before. I came here for the festival, so I thought I'd help out!

Thank you so much!

Hey, is that person a tourist?

This is amazing. Not only Numazu locals, but even tourists are helping!

I really want to take a picture of this. Everyone working together for the festival… I want this to be a moment people remember.

Good idea! Go for it, photographer!

Just leave it to me!

Hey, let's gather all the big garbage and bring it to a storage spot.

Kanan, is this a wagon? Where did you get this?

A store owner in town brought it over for us. They said it'd be easier than taking each piece by hand.

People lent us all sorts of tools. It's a big help!

Not only the store owners, but many other people are lending tools from their houses, too.

All the locals and everyone looking forward to the festival heard our wishes.

I'm glad we didn't give up and did what we could. Our hopes helped us reach our goal.

Okay! Let's clean all this stuff up and get the festival started! Let's bring our hopes and wishes to the festival!