Welcome... Oh, it's you.
Hey, is that any way to treat a customer?
Alright, my loyal patron.
What would you like?
Whiskey...is what I want to say, but I'll have a coffee. Hot.
Yeah, yeah.
Hi, Uncle Taiga!
Hello.
Hey, I didn't know you guys were here.
We just finished practicing, so we're here to take a break.
You guys practice during your days off? Aren't you all hard-working!
Hey, we're not little kids anymore.
What are you talking about? Of course you are.
Either way, I definitely think you guys have more moxie than most people around here...
Hehe. Thank you.
Don't let him fool you, Kohane.
That's just his way of pulling one over on you.
Hahaha! I'm serious.
Really...?
Oh, that reminds me. Some stuff came up and I ended up telling everyone about how I ran away when I was little...
Oh, that story...?!
You really had the entire town in a panic that time.
Haha...
So, when I started looking back on what happened...
This is where we met Ken. Things weren't easy back then since he and Taiga didn't really get along at first...
But everyone around town thought that they were good rivals and helped stop them from fighting. As a result, they began to understand each other better.
Without them, we probably wouldn't be a team right now...
Nagi said that...?
Yeah. That really stuck out in my mind and kinda want to hear more about what you guys were like back then.
I'd like to know as well...
We're a team, so the possibility of us having strong disagreements isn't zero.
I'd like to hear too.
Did you have conflicting ideas regarding your team's music?
Yeah, we definitely had our fair share of disagreements when it came to how to interpret our music, the way we sang and whatnot...
Pretty silly things in retrospect.
Also, here's your coffee.
Hey, thanks.
And yeah... A lot of our disagreements and fights were about the dumbest things...
However, back then, we weren't willing to bend on some things because of our convictions.
Our convictions, huh...?
I'm still not sure how to feel about that Hawaiian shirt of yours.
Hawaiian shirt?
Yeah, he wore this unbelievably lame Hawaiian shirt one time to this really important event...
Whoa, hold on. How many times do I have to tell you? That wasn't my idea... It was a gift from some people who helped me out, so I had no choice.
The plan was to wear it during a big event and have them see me wearing it.
And you're just as guilty.
I still clearly remember how you wore these pathetic-looking socks that day.
Hey, I told you on more than one occasion that those were a part of my lucky outfit...
Wait, Dad, you had a lucky outfit?
What kind of socks were they?
Oh, um...
Oh, they were the kind of pair with a little design stitched into each sock.
They had these cute, little glasses of cream soda embroidered into them, right?
Cream soda?
That's right. Actually, they were...
Whoa, stop right there!
Ken seems awfully flustered...
Now this is something we don't get to see every day.
Cream soda embroidery...? Wait, I've heard that before somewhere...
Oh, I remember now...!
Mom gave them to you for your birthday!
An, how...?
That happened before we got married.
Hehe. I heard from Mom when I was little. We went out shopping together to get you a birthday present...
Before we were married, I gave your father socks this one time for his birthday.
Socks? Why?
He takes very good care of all the various outfits he wears during shows, including his flashy necklaces and such...
But he has a habit of losing individual socks because he doesn't show the same respect for them.
And he always ends up tossing the other from the pair, claiming that he can't wear them unless he has the matching set.
What?! Those poor socks!
Isn't it a shame? Which is why I figured that he'd take better care of them if he received a pair as a birthday present.
Hehe. Your father was in love with the cream soda this cafe in the neighborhood made, so I decided to get a pair with some glasses of them embroidered in.
Daddy likes cream soda?
I thought he only drank really bitter coffee.
That's true now, but he couldn't get enough of sweets and sugary drinks back then.
Really? And did he take good care of those cream soda socks you gave him?
Yes, very!
Right, Dad?
Yes...
That's such a beautiful story.
Yes, it is.
Hahaha! But they still look terrible on you.
I mean, you're so superstitious that you felt compelled to wear the socks that your then girlfriend got for you.
Quiet, you...
Haha.