Thank you for lending me so much of your time talking with me like this, MEIKO.
You're welcome.
Come back anytime.
Thank you too, An.
Like we talked about in SEKAI, I'll try doing what I can to have more confidence in myself!
Great! I'll try coming up with some ideas that can help you out too!
For now, I'll see you tomorrow!
Okay, see you tomorrow!
(It's already this late.
I need to get home soon...)
(But still, so much happened today.)
Well...
I'd say you're lacking...
Commitment.
This is just my guess...
But I think he meant that you need to be more confident in yourself.
Yes. You have this incredible talent for singing, Azusawa, but haven't fully realized it yet.
I believe that's what that person meant by what they said.
(Commitment and confidence...)
(Until I decided to ask everyone about it, I couldn't figure out what that person meant...)
(Is my lack of confidence also a part of why that happened?)
(But...)
In the beginning, I thought us not having enough confidence in ourselves was our biggest weakness...
But I'm starting to think that it might actually be our biggest strength now.
(I knew even before this that not having that sort of confidence wasn't a good thing...)
(But I really appreciate how Shinonome went out of his way to say what he meant.)
Hey, nice work earlier.
Huh?
(Oh, it's one of the other teams from today's event!)
(N-Nice work?! All I did was greet everyone and...!)
Hey, don't tease her like that.
You're scarin' the poor thing.
Sorry about that. They still haven't gotten over losin' to you yet is all.
O-Okay...
(Wait, when I met them, I think they said they were high schoolers too. But they seem much older than me...)
But we've been hearin' all about you, Little Miss Diva! I get why you joined up with Akito and his crew.
Huh?! I'm still nowhere near as good as them, really...
Haha! Then we're really in trouble, huh? Looks like we still got a looong way to go!
Oh no!
I'm so sorry! I didn't mean it that way...!
You're really as modest as everyone's been sayin'...
...
What did I say about teasin' her?!
But there is somethin' I wanna ask you.
Ask me?
Yeah. We tried to get a hold of you after the event, but this one got all depressed over the results...
Dude, shut up! She doesn't have to know that!
What I'm tryin' to ask is, what sort of stuff do you work on every day...?
You mean, how do I practice?
Yeah. I heard you started singin' just a little while ago. What did you do to get this good this fast?
An, Shinonome and Aoyagi all show me what to do during practices...
Um, here's a sample of what we've been working on. It's all handwritten, so I apologize if it's not completely legible...
You sure?
Huh? Yes, of course. At least, I think it's okay...
Then if you don't mind...!
You guys work on fundamentals and stuff more than I expected.
Yes, we do. But that's just what we usually do on our own. The other side has what we do day to day.
The other side? Oh whoa, it's different each day...
This is about what we really need to be doin', huh?
But can you tell me this? What percentage of your time do you spend practicin' alone?
What percentage? Oh, I'm sorry. I should've made that clear from the start...!
We do everything on the front every day and everything listed for each day on the back.
Wait, hold up!
You do everything on the front every single day?!
Y-Yes, we do...!
And your teammates do about the same..?
Not quite.
Shinonome practices even more than I do. I believe Aoyagi does as well.
An has to help out at home, so she ends up practicing about as much as I do...
I'd actually like to do more, but they told me to start with this and see how things go from there...
...
I-Is something wrong...?
We weren't takin' this seriously enough at all...
Yeah. This was an eye-opener.
It was.
You said your name is Azusawa, right? I'm glad we got a chance to talk to you...
We ain't losin'... No, we aren't going to lose next time. Not to you or Vivid BAD SQUAD.
Of course!
And we'll be waiting for you!
Phew...
They really took me by surprise there.
(But I could tell that they're trying to go as high as they possibly can too.)
(Their performance was also really good, so I should keep them in mind moving forward.)
Oh, they were so surprised by how much we practice too...
(I never actually thought about it since I was so obsessed with trying to catch up to An and the others...)
(But that does also sound like I'm suffering from tunnel vision.)
If we're going to surpass RAD WEEKEND as a team, I need to figure out how to broaden my horizons and have more confidence in myself.