Love Live!: TAKEOVER [PART 8]

HELLO, THIS IS ME:

*ROOFTOP - NIJIGASAKI HIGH SCHOOL - ODAIBA - TOKYO*

*P.O.V SWITCH - AKIHIKO*

SHIZUKU: "That's when I met you, Senpai."

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*LAST MAY*

SHIZUKU: "Well... I've always loved theater, but I wanted to be a school idol just as much. So I transferred to this school, since I knew this was the time in my life where I could focus on being an idol."

AKI: "I'm guessing that there weren't any idol clubs in your old school?"

SHIZUKU: "There weren't. And I knew that Nijigasaki High School was an institution strongly promoting their idols, and I figured I could really put some work in these next three years."

AKI: "If you're so passionate then, why? Kasumi told me a bit about it, but were the differences in direction really that painful?"

SHIZUKU: "It wasn't that. I thought it was really interesting how we all wanted to do different things. Personally, I wanted to put my idol experience to use in acting, and it was fun to see the differences in what everyone sought and how they expressed themselves."

AKI: "I must say you're doing an amazing job. I can really feel your resonance to the audience, like an idol would express."

SHIZUKU: "Thank you, we were all different. But Setsuna definitely stood out. I thought that if I followed her, I would get closer to my school idol ideal."

AKI: "That's what Kasumi told me she did. But then something went wrong?"

SHIZUKU: "Setsuna definitely lead us down the right path, but I could never freely express what I wanted to do as well."

KASUMI: "..."

SHIZUKU: "That got me frustrated with myself...and I wanted to become expressive enough so that Setsuna could pick up on my feelings... So I started training here."

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