E7 - When a mentor character becomes a boss, they'll push you to the edge

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    You're looking well.
[00:06] ---
    I'm feeling well.
[00:08] ---
    You've certainly been keeping busy.
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    Given who we're up against.
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    These last several days have been so dull,
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    not being able to fight nanashi
    in Tackfam and all.
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    Oh? That's strange.
[00:25] ---
    Strange?
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    After all,
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    nanashi's been fighting
    NO NAME this whole time.
[00:32] ---
    Huh!
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    So I can get my hopes up?
[00:36] ---
    Well, I don't know.
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    But I've done my very nanashi best.
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    I see!
[00:58] ---
    "Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki"
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    This has been the agenda
    for the Aoi Hinami Fan Club--
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    "Lv. 7: When a mentor character becomes a boss,
    they'll push you to the edge"
[02:19] ---
    I mean...
[02:20] ---
    ...my campaign speech for Aoi Hinami.
[02:23] ---
    That was a supporting speech from
    campaign manager Takahiro Mizusawa.
[02:27] ---
    Now for the campaign speech from
    student-council president candidate Aoi Hinami.
[02:33] ---
    Go right ahead.
[02:35] ---
    "I support Minami Nanami because"...
[02:45] ---
    Good morning.
[02:47] ---
    I'm Aoi Hinami, and I'm running
    for student-council president.
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    Honestly, I bet there are a lot of
    people out there who are thinking:
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    "It doesn't matter who wins.
    We'll never see real change."
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    However!
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    There's just one little thing
    I'd like to tell those people:
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    You're right.
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    Oh, jeez--she's already going over great!
[03:19] ---
    That's Hinami for you.
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    But we've got our strategy, remember?
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    We don't have to get all the votes.
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    Right. If we can just get
    the athletes with the ball pump
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    and the first-years with the air conditioners--
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    By the way...
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    Do you have any complaints about this school?
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    Like, the school store has a poor selection,
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    or you'd like the option of
    bigger portions in the lunchroom,
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    or our sports festival is too small,
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    or you want an electric ball pump?
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    When I'm president, I'd like to find
    a solution for each complaint in turn.
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    But I've decided to make
    only one campaign promise.
[04:01] ---
    And that is...
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    ...to install air conditioners
    in every classroom!
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    Wh-What now, Tomozaki?
[04:10] ---
    How--? What's going on?!
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    We had to settle for pitching
    A/C to just the first-years,
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    and here she is in front of the whole school,
    making it her whole platform.
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    And yet...
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    Quiet, please! Can we please have some quiet?
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    Still, this is not the easiest promise
    on which to follow through.
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    Even now, the teachers over
    there are looking skeptical.
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    I can already hear those teachers
    talking amongst themselves
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    once this speech has ended
    and the assembly is over:
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    "Air conditioners in every
    classroom? Ridiculous!"
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    In their perfectly chilled
    teachers' lounge, of course.
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    Yeah!
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    What's going on?
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    A common interest.
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    Influential powers of persuasion.
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    Is this you "controlling the mood," Hinami?
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    And so, I pledge to work hard
    on this and many other issues.
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    If you feel the same way,
    cast your vote for me: Aoi Hinami!
[05:20] ---
    That choice...
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    ...is HEXactly right!
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    "Sekitomo"
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    And that's all!
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    Thanks!
[05:39] ---
    That was a supporting speech from
    campaign manager Yumiko Yamashita.
[05:41] ---
    Thanks!
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    I'm so sorry!
[05:46] ---
    I stumbled over my words there...
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    No, no, you're totally fine!
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    You did a real good job, Yumi.
[05:53] ---
    Senpai...
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    Now for the campaign speech from student-council
    president candidate Minami Nanami.
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    Here I go!
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    Go get 'em, Mimimi-senpai!
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    Let's get started.
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    Which is one reason,
    but as Ms. Kawamura said,
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    "Just, you know, whatever.
    Don't go overboard."
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    So: whatever! I'll work hard
    without going overboard!
SIGN    "Settings" "Sound and Touch" "Notifications and Alerts"
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    All jokes aside...
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    I do want our school to be fun to attend,
    one we can be proud of.
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    And that's why, first of all,
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    I want to enrich our core academic
    and extracurricular aspects,
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    Watch closely, Hinami.
    This is how nanashi fights.
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    then work on expanding
    our school events as well.
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    All in the name of bumping up
    Sekitomo High's school spirit, of course!
[06:55] ---
    Hey, Navi: Turn off the alarm.
[06:59] ---
    I've turned off the alarm.
[07:03] ---
    Hey, Navi: Who's going to
    be student-council president?
[07:07] ---
    I'm Navi, your virtual assistant.
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    I didn't ask for an introduction!
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    Enough about me. How can I help?
[07:18] ---
    Hey!
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    You can't take a foe like Hinami head-on.
    You have to strike a blind spot.
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    No, no! I'm asking you about the election!
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    I knew how Mimimi looked
    to the student body right now:
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    I found this information
    about upcoming local elections.
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    "Now there's a candidate who can really
    adlib in the face of a sudden blunder."
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    Not that! The student-council
    president election!
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    Tell me this, Navi: Will you vote for me?
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    I'm sorry. I don't understand.
[07:44] ---
    Oh, come on!
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    Well, it looks like Navi won't be voting for me,
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    but I certainly hope you all will!
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    I'm counting on you!
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    That was the campaign speech from
    candidate Minami Nanami. Thank you.
[08:04] ---
    Brain!
[08:07] ---
    Mimimi-senpai, that was fantastic!
[08:07] ---
    Brain!
[08:09] ---
    That was all adlibbed, wasn't it?!
[08:12] ---
    H-Hey, uh...
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    Mi-Mimi-Mi-Mi!
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    Whoopsie!
[08:17] ---
    Was that a little too much
    for you, Tomozaki?
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    Tee-hee!
[08:23] ---
    Well done!
[08:25] ---
    Hey, Aoi!
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    Nice job, Mimimi.
[08:29] ---
    So, Tomozaki... you were
    helping out, too, huh?
[08:32] ---
    Well... you know.
[08:33] ---
    Skip the details!
[08:35] ---
    Just know that Tomozaki did a great job!
[08:39] ---
    Huh...
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    C'mon, Takahiro!
[08:43] ---
    After all, until the final tally
    comes in, we're rivals.
[08:48] ---
    That's right!
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    Bye!
[08:52] ---
    The vibe of those two together...
[08:55] ---
    Maybe the rumors are right
    and they are dating.
[08:58] ---
    Eh?
[09:03] ---
    We did what we could.
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    "Ballot"
    "Student Council President"
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    All that's left is to wait for the results.
SIGN    "Student Council President Election Results Aoi Hinami: 416 Votes (Winner) Minami Nanami: 131 Votes"
[09:15] ---
    Good job, Tomozaki!
[09:15] ---
    "Tropical Grape"
[09:17] ---
    You were a huge help. Thanks!
[09:20] ---
    Uh, sure.
[09:29] ---
    Man, what a bummer!
[09:32] ---
    Well, I may have lost this time,
    but there's always next time, right?
[09:37] ---
    Fall today, rise tomorrow.
[09:39] ---
    Yeah, exactly! Oh, bravo, Brain! Well said!
[09:43] ---
    Always look forward, with the wind at your back!
[09:46] ---
    And if you do fall, just run
    that much faster to catch up!
[09:51] ---
    I can't tell if this is how she
    really feels or if it's just bluster.
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    But...
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    Right!
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    And you'll have other chances
    to compete against Hinami.
[10:03] ---
    You bet!
[10:09] ---
    Before we begin,
    I'd like to clarify something.
[10:13] ---
    Hmm? What's that?
[10:14] ---
    That little Navi "accident" --you had
    that all planned out, didn't you?
[10:19] ---
    Yeah. It was all scripted.
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    I knew it!
[10:27] ---
    That was going to get her over the finish line,
    but it didn't work in the end.
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    Not in terms of election results, no.
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    But you surprised me. That was fun!
[10:38] ---
    Uh... okay.
[10:40] ---
    Now that? That was very nanashi.
[10:42] ---
    "Super Attack Families"
[10:42] ---
    Seems the legend who flipped Tackfam on its head
[10:46] ---
    by bringing combo tactics to a hit-and-run
    game really is all he's cracked up to be.
[10:50] ---
    But you played dirty,
    crushing our entire strategy like that.
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    If you're going to help Mimimi, you're
    going to have to be a lot more discreet.
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    With nanashi involved, I figured
    there'd be some unique tactics--
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    so I squashed that efficient
    vote-winner of a campaign promise
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    with brute force.
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    I underestimated you.
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    I may have won this time,
    but I got a feel for your potential.
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    It was quite a surprise!
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    And a lot of fun!
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    So keep on applying yourself
    here in this thing called "life."
[11:24] ---
    Got that?
[11:25] ---
    That is the plan, but yeah.
[11:27] ---
    Excellent!
SIGN    "Small Goal Go somewhere with a girl from school (not me), just the 2 of you"
[11:29] ---
    Now, then--let's finish up that
    "go out alone with a girl" task!
[11:44] ---
    Tomozaki?
[11:46] ---
    Yuh?
[11:47] ---
    Um...
[11:49] ---
    Aren't you going in?
[11:49] ---
    "Library"
[11:50] ---
    Oh, um, yeah! I am. I'm going in.
[12:03] ---
    "Hey, do you want to see a movie this weekend?"
[12:04] ---
    "The Angel and the Caged Bird"
[12:07] ---
    That's not it.
[12:09] ---
    "There's this movie I'm interested in..."
[12:11] ---
    "Kikuchi, did you hear? There's an Andi film
    playing in Shibuya right now..."
[12:16] ---
    Or something.
[12:19] ---
    Um... is everything okay?
[12:21] ---
    Huh? Oh! Er...
[12:26] ---
    Hey, um... See, uh...
[12:28] ---
    There's an Andi film playing at this theater--
[12:31] ---
    In Shi-Shibuya!
[12:35] ---
    I... I'm sorry.
[12:37] ---
    I-It's fine.
[12:41] ---
    Tomozaki? Your face is all red.
[12:44] ---
    So is yours.
[12:50] ---
    Um, so... well, uh...
[12:53] ---
    Uh-huh?
[12:54] ---
    Would you...
[12:56] ---
    Would you like to come see it... with me?
[13:01] ---
    Uh-huh!
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    "Tomozaki"
[13:08] ---
    I'm one step closer to my goal.
[13:10] ---
    But while I'm at it, I may as well
    read more of Andi's books.
[13:15] ---
    It'll give me something
    to talk about with Kikuchi.
[13:18] ---
    And besides...
[13:20] ---
    This guy's books?
[13:22] ---
    They're good!
[13:26] ---
    I'll be closing up soon.
[13:27] ---
    Huh?
[13:29] ---
    Wow, that late already...
[13:43] ---
    Tama?
[13:45] ---
    Tomozaki!
[13:49] ---
    Were you in the library?
[13:50] ---
    Yeah.
[13:52] ---
    Aoi and Minmi are running
    way out ahead of everyone else.
[13:56] ---
    Wow.
[13:57] ---
    I think she's probably competing with Aoi.
[14:00] ---
    Heck, I know she is.
[14:03] ---
    Maybe so.
[14:06] ---
    Too bad about the election, huh?
[14:08] ---
    Yeah.
[14:09] ---
    I mean, it's Aoi. You can't beat her.
[14:12] ---
    Right.
[14:13] ---
    See, with Minmi...
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    Hmm?
[14:16] ---
    Even if Minmi can't win, she won't give in.
[14:19] ---
    So I wish she'd quit taking on Aoi, at least.
[14:23] ---
    She's a little... scary, I guess?
[14:27] ---
    And that's why...
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    That's why I want to win.
[14:31] ---
    I get that.
[14:33] ---
    It sucks being the loser.
[14:38] ---
    Mimimi had never practiced
    for that long before yesterday.
[14:43] ---
    I've always been the only one still
    hanging around to the bitter end.
[14:49] ---
    And then today, she shows up for
    morning practice even before I do.
[14:52] ---
    Huh? Seriously?
[14:54] ---
    I-I mean...
[14:56] ---
    You come here after practice every day?
[14:59] ---
    Yes, and...?
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    Like it's no big deal!
[15:03] ---
    Hey...
[15:04] ---
    Let me ask you something.
[15:08] ---
    What is it?
[15:09] ---
    You might be the same way when it
    comes to games--Tackfam in particular.
[15:14] ---
    Checking up on your goals,
    analyzing your progress,
[15:17] ---
    and getting what you need
    through trial and error.
[15:20] ---
    Moving forward in this way is
    what we call "effort," is it not?
[15:25] ---
    Yeah. Sure.
[15:27] ---
    And making repeated efforts
    with zero compromise,
[15:30] ---
    just a single-minded push forward...
[15:33] ---
    Is there something wrong with that?
[15:35] ---
    Huh? I mean, that's...
[15:38] ---
    I don't think there's anything wrong with it.
[15:41] ---
    You already have your answer!
[15:43] ---
    I don't think so, either.
    Effort's not a bad thing.
[15:48] ---
    Right. I basically feel mostly the same way.
[15:51] ---
    "Mostly"?
[15:52] ---
    However...
[15:54] ---
    When you make a lot of effort
    in the game of life,
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    things may come up that
    can't be solved so easily.
[16:01] ---
    In my experience, anyway.
[16:04] ---
    Don't give it too much thought.
[16:12] ---
    Yo, Brain!
[16:13] ---
    Whoa! Mi-Mimi-Mi-Mi-Mi-Mimimi!
[16:17] ---
    That sounds familiar!
[16:18] ---
    Thinking about something?
[16:20] ---
    Is this when you finally
    confess your love? To me?
[16:22] ---
    N-No!
[16:25] ---
    Listen...
[16:26] ---
    I hear you're putting a lot of effort
    into your practices lately.
[16:30] ---
    Yep! I'm working really, really hard!
    Same goes for my studies!
[16:35] ---
    I've got a lot of catching up
    to do after losing the election.
[16:39] ---
    I'm rooting for you. As a gamer.
[16:43] ---
    Dude, what?
[16:44] ---
    Hey, who told you about my practices, anyway?
[16:48] ---
    Hmm? Hinami did.
[16:50] ---
    Huh! Who knew?
[16:52] ---
    Ooh, how'd she tell you?
[16:55] ---
    Um... how? I mean... normally?
[16:58] ---
    Like always.
[17:00] ---
    Is that so?
[17:01] ---
    Well, whatever.
[17:03] ---
    Look, I'm heading to the lunchroom.
    What about you?
[17:07] ---
    I'm just going to grab a pastry
    or something from the store.
[17:10] ---
    Ah-ha!
[17:12] ---
    Roger that!
[17:13] ---
    Later!
[17:19] ---
    Wait, was that...
[17:22] ---
    Was that an invitation?
[17:32] ---
    Tama?
[17:34] ---
    Tomozaki.
[17:35] ---
    Watching practice again?
[17:37] ---
    Yeah.
[17:39] ---
    Mimimi's working hard.
[17:41] ---
    Yeah, she is.
[17:42] ---
    Hinami said Mimimi even beat her
    to morning practice today.
[17:48] ---
    Huh.
[17:49] ---
    Ever since the election, I bet.
[17:52] ---
    Yeah.
[17:54] ---
    Mimimi really was in it to win.
[17:57] ---
    She must have been disappointed.
    I know I was.
[18:00] ---
    Yeah.
[18:02] ---
    Was she always like that?
[18:04] ---
    I'm not sure. We don't go that far back.
[18:08] ---
    Oh? Really?
[18:10] ---
    I thought you'd been friends
    for a good long while.
[18:15] ---
    We first talked in... the second term
    of first year or so?
[18:19] ---
    Huh! You don't say.
[18:21] ---
    I'm not great at making friends,
[18:25] ---
    so I didn't talk to anyone that
    first term. Not even Minmi.
[18:29] ---
    Then how'd you get to be such good friends?
[18:33] ---
    Because Minmi's an idiot, I guess?
[18:39] ---
    Even though we hadn't
    talked at all that first term,
[18:43] ---
    she suddenly started bugging me
    in the second term.
[18:46] ---
    Poking my cheeks--stuff like that.
[18:49] ---
    I'm not good with that kind of thing,
    so I acted all annoyed.
[18:54] ---
    After that, I'd ignore her, glare at her...
[19:00] ---
    I tried everything, but she just wouldn't stop.
[19:04] ---
    I thought, "God, what an idiot."
[19:08] ---
    But that's how I came
    to make more friends
[19:12] ---
    and feel more comfortable in our classroom.
[19:18] ---
    So I...
[19:20] ---
    I think people who are good at
    making friends are really amazing.
[19:24] ---
    I kinda wished I could be like that.
[19:27] ---
    One time Aoi came over to talk to me,
    even though she was in a different class.
[19:33] ---
    She said Minmi had come to her for advice.
[19:37] ---
    Advice?
[19:38] ---
    Yeah.
[19:39] ---
    "There's a girl in our class who doesn't fit in.
    What should I do?"
[19:44] ---
    And Aoi said, "Maybe she just
    doesn't want to fit in."
[19:49] ---
    But Minmi wouldn't leave it alone.
[19:52] ---
    "Not this girl.
[19:54] ---
    She tries to fit in, but she's
    too awkward to make it work."
[19:59] ---
    I'd been... trying not to get involved, I guess.
[20:04] ---
    I was afraid, so I avoided people.
[20:07] ---
    But it's not that I didn't need friends.
[20:10] ---
    Minmi was exactly right.
[20:13] ---
    So Aoi tells her this:
[20:16] ---
    "Okay, try talking to her
    a little bit every day."
[20:19] ---
    Huh?
[20:20] ---
    Wait--so is that how...
[20:22] ---
    Uh-huh. She starts poking
    my cheeks... every dang day.
[20:27] ---
    Tell me that's not messed up!
[20:30] ---
    That's Mimimi, all right.
[20:32] ---
    But Aoi told me to keep our
    conversation between us.
[20:38] ---
    That Minmi would be embarrassed,
[20:40] ---
    and I should let her keep up her front.
[20:42] ---
    Aoi said she wanted me to know--
[20:45] ---
    and that Minmi's daily teasing
    was for my own sake.
[20:50] ---
    Huh...
[20:52] ---
    Even though I know all this about Minmi,
[20:55] ---
    she acts like she's not doing anything,
[20:58] ---
    then always comes to my rescue.
[21:01] ---
    So I go on pretending I don't know a thing.
[21:06] ---
    See?
[21:07] ---
    Minmi's a real idiot, am I right?
[21:11] ---
    You're saltier than usual today, Tama!
[21:13] ---
    Don't go comparing how people taste!
[21:17] ---
    Normally, right after practice,
    your sweat would be nice and fresh.
[21:20] ---
    But today, the salty taste has
    grown concentrated over time!
[21:24] ---
    That is nasty! Go deduce something else!
[21:28] ---
    Anything out of the ordinary happen?
[21:30] ---
    Not especially.
[21:31] ---
    I met Tama on my way out of the library.
    We talked for a while.
[21:35] ---
    Huh. I see.
[21:37] ---
    A thousand pardons, Tama.
[21:39] ---
    Now, if you'll allow me
    to snarfle your elbow...
[21:42] ---
    You just don't quit! I don't get you!
[21:44] ---
    All right, Mimimi. That's enough of that.
[21:48] ---
    You can't keep me down! I won't give up!
[21:50] ---
    Hi-yah!
[21:52] ---
    Jeez, Minmi! Chill out!
[21:54] ---
    These three share some strong bonds,
    just like Tama said.
[21:55] ---
    Elbow!
[21:56] ---
    Turn it down a notch, Mimimi.
[21:58] ---
    Ooh, yum!
[21:59] ---
    Huh? Wait--hey!
[22:01] ---
    No way...
[22:03] ---
    Mimimi!
[22:05] ---
    But the next day,
    Mimimi wasn't quite herself.
[22:06] ---
    Sorry, sorry! I'll buy you another!