<Good not-so-morning♪>

<Just kidding. No one's gonna around in the day—>

<Good morning.>

<Huh? Yuki?! Wait...why?!>

<What do you mean? Today is Sunday.>

<Right... I haven't been going to school much lately, so I honestly had no idea.>

<It's still unusual to see you on Nightcord at this hour on a Sunday, though. Don't you have club activities?>

<No club activities today. That's why I'm studying at home.>

<I'm almost done, though, so I was thinking of doing some work.>

<Oh, okay. Um, is it urgent work, by any chance?>

<No.>

<Great! I've been doing some research on my own after the doll exhibition the other day, so let me tell what I found♪>

<What were you researching?>

<Exhibitions! It occurred to me that looking at works and stuff may be a good stimulus.>

<The doll exhibition helped me to see that looking at things like that can be quite good for inspiration.>

...

<Trick art, fashion design...oh! And a personal exhibition being held in a small gallery too! Everything seems pretty interesting!>

<I think it's something about abstract art?

It's really cool, in any case!>

<I glanced at the art and it was...how do I say this. It's not something you can easily describe in words. Seriously, you have to see it with your own eyes to—>

<Amia.>

<Oops, sorry! That was too much info at once, huh?>

<That's not it...>

<Why do you care so much about me?>

<Huh?>

<K promised to compose a song that will save me.>

<But neither you nor Enanan have any reason to care about me that much. So...why?>

<Why, huh...?>

<Don't be such a stranger. We're friends, aren't we?>

<Friends?

I thought we were only members of the same songmaking group?>

(Well, it's definitely hard to define our relationship with any of the usual youthful friendship tropes.)

(But both of us are quite alike.

In the sense that people around us refuse to recognize our true selves.)

(The way we're forced to act out a twisted version of ourselves, and how we struggle with that...)

(What she's dealing with just feels so personal to me.)

<Amia?>

<Don't worry about it. I'm doing this because I want to.>

<So you don't have to think too deeply into it.>

<I see. I'll take your word for it, then.>

<I'm going back to work now.>

<I got it! Oh, and make sure you also think about which exhibition we'll be going to next together, okay?>

<And nowhere is not an acceptable answer!>

<I'll think about it...>

Sounds like she doesn't mind going to another exhibition together, then. Excellent.

...

I really hope Mafuyu finds what she's looking for soon.