That should be good for practice today.

Nice work, everyone.

Yikes! No more!

My fingers are cramping up...!

Haha. To be fair, Saki, your part is pretty hard.

Saki, make sure you ice your hands so that you don't get tendonitis.

Oh, yeah, I forgot!

Thanks, Shiho!

Right... It'd be awful to get injured just before our show.

But I still need more time to practice. My fingers really freeze up when I ice my hands.

I understand how you feel, but resting is just as important, okay...?

O-Okay...!

(But...

I'm still terrible. I really don't want to fall even further behind than I already am...)

(Wait, that's right...!

I have a way to help everybody out...!)

So about coming up with our own song...

Oh, sorry... I wasn't able to come up with anything new.

Me neither...

I thought about it afterward when I got home, but drew a complete blank...

I could only come up with one, and even then, it's just copying this band I listen to...

How about you, Saki? Did you manage to come up with something?

Heh heh heh...

Ta-daa! Look!

I've got a bunch here!

What...?!

You mean all of these, Saki...?!

One, two, three...

You made ten?

Hehe. I got so many good ideas last night, and I wrote them all down!

That's incredible, Saki.

There's so many...!

You're right. All of these in one night...?

Hehe. Aren't I amazing♪

Yeah, you are...

I'd like to hear some of them. Mind playing one for us, Saki?

Sure! I'll play some right now!

And that's the last one.

What do you think...?

...

I... I thought they all sounded really nice but...

Exactly...

They sounded modern like they were made to become popular...

But...

But...?

I can't put my finger on it...

But I have a hard time imagining us playing any of these during an actual show.

Us during an actual show...

It's so strange too. These melodies are so well made too, and I wouldn't be surprised if I heard these played for a music show on TV...

Yeah, they even sound cool but...

Nooo! Why is this so hard?!

I-I'm sorry, Saki! I know it's a little unfair for us to say anything like that since we didn't really contribute...

Each phrase was put together really well and I could tell that a lot of thought went into them.

But if we can't agree on it as a band, they won't really be our songs... *Sob*

Saki...

There's no need for you to feel rushed. We agreed that it's going to take time for us to come up with our own songs, right?

Yeah, I know...

But I understand how you feel, Saki.

I want our song to be the best it can be too.

I agree with Ichika, and thank you for doing this for us, Saki...

Then how about we use Saki's work as a basis next time to think about what kind of music we want to play as a band...?

Okay. Let's sleep on it and see what we all come up with.

Yeah...!

And I'll keep doing my best to come up with something that really hits home!

(It's a small step forward, but I'm helping everybody out...!)

(But...)

(I spent so much time on these yesterday...)

...

Hmm...

What should I do...?

I focused on melodies yesterday, so I could try thinking about chords today...

Okay, let's do that!

Maybe it'll sound more original then!

Alright, time to get to work!

Hmm...

I want to try making a few more, but I feel like I'm all over the place now...

This isn't working...

What can I do to make it better?

I feel like I'm close, but none of them still sound right...

I really thought that I'd be able to help everyone by doing this too...

...

Come to think about it, what kind of music do I want to play...?

We decided to go pro together...

But I don't think I ever thought about what exactly I wanted to try playing.

*Sigh*

It's like nothing's going the right way now...