Sigh, lunch break at long last.

Hey, where should we go for lunch today?

How about the courtyard, since the weather's pretty good?

(Yes, the weather's great, but any time spent moving around is time I can't use to enjoy my lunch break.)

(Instead, I should use that time to complete some daily missions or spend some stamina in the games that I'm playing...)

Neeeneee♪ Where aaare youuu? Ahh!

(Hm? I've heard that voice somewhere before...)

There you are, Nene! Found you!

Wait, what?

Hehehe, here I am♪

Let's have lunch together, Nene♪

Huh... No... Whaaaaaat?!

Huff... Huff...

I was so surprised, Nene!

I've never heard you shriek so loudly before!

I didn't know I had it in me either...

(Sigh... I'm so surprised that my heart is still beating

so quickly.)

(I have so many questions, like what're you doing here? Outsiders aren't allowed on school grounds, you know? But...)

Anyway, let's have lunch together♪

I'm sooo hungry!

(Yup, it's not like she's going to get the hint, and it'll just make me more tired, so I guess that's that.)

Okay... I don't think anyone will be coming to the rooftop, so we should be safe here.

(There's nothing I can do today, I guess...

But she's really going to get caught and scolded by the teachers one day.)

Well, since we've already found our lunch spot, I'll call Miku out now♪

Huh? Miku?

<Yaaay♪ Hi ho, Emu!>

<Oh, we're having lunch with Nene today, right?

Hi Nene!>

Wh-What's going on?

Why is she appearing like it's completely normal?

Huh? You didn't know, Nene? If you have a smartphone capable of playing holograms, you can have a normal conversation with Miku like this!

<Yup yup! I can totally appear on your smartphone too, Nene!>

<Just wait for it...

And now I'm saying hello from Nene's smartphone!>

Wow, you're right...

No wait, that's not what I meant!

Um, when did you start talking with Miku like this, Emu?

Let me see... When she came to cheer me on during my school's sports day, I think♪

<After that, Emu told me I was welcome to visit her at school anytime, and so I did♪>

Oh, okay... Does that mean you can appear like this on anybody's smartphone?

<Nah, only from smartphones loaded with songs that were born from true feelings.>

Ah, someone else is here? Let's get them to have lunch with us too! Food always tastes better when we eat them together with someone else♪

Wait, we can't let people find out that there's an outsider in the school! You need to hide, quickly—

Whoa! I knew I heard her voice!

Emu, what're you doing here?

Eh, Tsukasa?

And Rui too? But how come?

Tsukasa and Rui!

Yahohoy!

Yahohoy yourself! Do you know what you've done?!

Uhh, am I not welcome here? It's so sad that I'm the only one in a different school, and I only wanted to have lunch together with Nene...

Ugh... I mean I understand how you feel, but it's still not good to break into another school like this.

In that case, why don't we all gather at SEKAI for lunch?

Hmm?

Considering the short travel time and lower risk of being discovered by the teachers, it's a lot better to eat there, don't you think?

<That's a great idea, Rui!>

Alright♪ Now I can always have lunch together with Nene and Tsukasa and Rui♪

What? Us too?

Of course! And if we're all together, we can talk about our shows too!

Lunch is starting to sound very entertaining now.

(Emu looks happy about this. I'm always eating lunch alone anyway, so it doesn't matter if I have it at school or in SEKAI, I guess...)

(But why does she want to eat lunch with me so much?)

(I'm not going to ask her, though, it's too embarrassing... I could just be overthinking this, anyway.)

(Oh... I know. I could send a message.)

And then I was like—ah, hang on. I just got a message.

Oh?! Hehehe♪

You get an immediate reply♪

(Hm? She replied already.)

!!

<Because Nene is a dear friend of mine!>

(A dear...friend...)

Oh...

Hehehe!

(You already have so many other friends, though...)

(But this feels kind of nice, I guess.)