E8 - There are some problems a bottom-tier character can't fix alone
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"Saitama Prefectural Tournament"
[00:20] ---
"Asahara" "Kusunoki"
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Aw, man. We lost.
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But I'm glad we made it so far again this year!
[00:36] ---
Great work out there!
[00:37] ---
Shake it off!
[01:16] ---
"Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki"
[02:35] ---
Nanami! Are you listening?
[02:35] ---
"Lv. 8: There are some problems
a bottom-tier character can't fix alone"
[02:38] ---
Whoa! Um, sorry about that!
[02:40] ---
I wasn't sleeping--I just
blacked out for a sec.
[02:44] ---
But I wasn't sleeping!
[02:46] ---
Yeah, okay, okay.
[02:48] ---
Now, this depiction here...
[02:51] ---
This was a common way to portray
their beliefs or principles at that time.
[02:59] ---
Nanami's been like that
since the election, hasn't she?
[03:04] ---
Uh-huh. That might have set her off.
[03:07] ---
Nanami's trying to compete with Hinami, right?
[03:12] ---
Yeah, but... where'd you hear that?
[03:16] ---
I didn't. I can imagine it.
[03:19] ---
Imagine it?
[03:20] ---
Like how?
[03:22] ---
Like, why would this person
do something like that,
[03:26] ---
or how might that person be feeling.
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Because, um, my novel...
[03:32] ---
Oh. It helps you write.
[03:38] ---
I just sort of imagine all
kinds of people's feelings.
[03:43] ---
I mean, it's mostly idle daydreaming.
[03:46] ---
What kind of person is Hinami?
[03:50] ---
Huh?
[03:51] ---
I don't really understand her.
[03:54] ---
Her motivation,
the reasons driving her actions...
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I try to imagine it, but I draw a blank.
[04:02] ---
It must be awfully tough to compete with someone
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whose motivations you don't understand.
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You can't see the goal.
[04:11] ---
A goal you can't see, huh?
[04:24] ---
Minmi's overdoing it. Again.
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What should I even do when she's like this?
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Should I get her to stop?
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Or let her keep going?
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Yeah. I wonder.
[05:12] ---
Ah, it's so nice and cool at this time of night!
[05:16] ---
Um... Hey.
[05:18] ---
Hmm?
[05:19] ---
As a friend who fought Hinami
beside you, craving that win...
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Are you overworking yourself now
because you still want to beat her?
[05:36] ---
How can I put this?
[05:38] ---
I'm saying this because
I think you'll understand:
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It sucks so much that I want
to quit right here and now.
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But it'll probably suck even more if I do.
[05:50] ---
I get how rough it is to stop making
an effort halfway through and lose.
[05:55] ---
So I want to respect Mimimi,
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sore loser of a gamer that I am.
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In that case... go get 'em, Mimimi.
[06:16] ---
Oh, Aoi. Morning!
[06:20] ---
Good morning, Mimimi.
[06:22] ---
Early again, huh?
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Yeah, I guess!
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"Asahara" "Kusunoki"
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Aw, man. We lost.
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But I'm glad we made it so far again this year!
[06:43] ---
Great work out there!
[06:44] ---
Shake it off!
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How can you smile--and laugh?
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That girl who beat us out there
just now put in a ton of effort.
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We've only made it to the prefectural
tournament! That's nothing!
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It's not good... not good at all!
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We know you worked hard, Minami...
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But the prefectural tournament? That's huge!
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And you're the one who got us this far.
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We did fine--really!
[07:15] ---
Yeah. I guess... I guess you're right.
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I'm glad.
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Mimimi!
[07:30] ---
Yikes. That was a close one!
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I nearly took a tumble! Tee-hee!
[07:38] ---
"Sewing Room 2"
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If this keeps up, she'll soon
reach her breaking point.
[07:44] ---
She's probably practicing at home, too--
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and likely not sleeping much at all.
[07:50] ---
I'd like to talk some sense
into her before she collapses,
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but it's bound to backfire,
coming from me.
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Hey, why is Mimimi so obsessed with you?
[08:03] ---
It was a prefectural basketball
tournament in middle school.
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I'm the one who made her school lose.
[08:11] ---
But that's not my story to tell.
[08:20] ---
Here I am, Tomozaki!
[08:23] ---
What did you want to talk about?
[08:24] ---
Oh, uh...
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I wanted to ask you about middle-school Mimimi.
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Mimimi was a starter from year one.
She was really good.
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I guess you could say it was a one-woman team.
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But she felt a little out of place, too.
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We faced Hinami's team in the last
tournament of our third and final year,
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it was basically a showdown between two aces,
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and we wound up taking the L.
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The others were like, "I'm just glad
we made it to the prefectural tournament,"
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but I think Mimimi was really and truly crushed.
[09:09] ---
It's raining.
[09:10] ---
Yeah.
[09:12] ---
Maybe that's a good thing.
[09:14] ---
The clubs won't meet in this weather,
and Hinami can't practice.
[09:20] ---
Mimimi can take the day off, too.
[09:22] ---
Right? She did leave really
quickly after homeroom--
[09:29] ---
Hey. Is that...?
[09:33] ---
Oh, no way.
[09:36] ---
We have to stop her!
[09:43] ---
Aoi?
[09:44] ---
Yeah.
[09:46] ---
And Minmi...
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She must have... gone home.
[09:51] ---
Probably.
[10:06] ---
Minmi? Hey, Minmi!
[10:09] ---
Oh, sorry! What's up, Tama?
[10:13] ---
Did you take the day off yesterday?
[10:15] ---
Sure did! I'm all rested up and feeling great!
[10:18] ---
I'm heading to practice. What about you?
[10:21] ---
Yep! I'll be there in a sec.
[10:23] ---
Oh...
[10:49] ---
Oof, those clouds... Looks like rain again.
[10:52] ---
Hmm?
[10:54] ---
Mimimi?
[11:20] ---
Tomozaki?
[11:27] ---
Mimimi, what about today's practice?
[11:30] ---
Ah, well, you know.
[11:32] ---
Um... Yamashita--she told me.
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About your middle-school basketball team.
[11:40] ---
Aw, nuts! My cover's been blown!
[11:43] ---
Curse you for ratting out your senior,
Yumi, you scoundrel!
[11:48] ---
Is that when it started?
[11:50] ---
This whole not wanting to lose to Hinami?
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It's because I don't shine.
[11:58] ---
Huh?
[11:59] ---
After I lost to Aoi,
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I went alone to see her play
in the national tournament.
[12:01] ---
"The 47th National Middle-School
Basketball Tournament"
[12:06] ---
Aoi's school wound up finishing in second place.
[12:11] ---
All her team members were smiling
and congratulating one another,
[12:16] ---
but Aoi looked disappointed,
biting her lip and glaring at the emcee.
[12:21] ---
"Kusunoki"
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The moment they announced: "First place
goes to Such-and-So Middle School,"
[12:27] ---
Aoi started crying,
the tears welling up and falling.
[12:32] ---
She didn't cry when her team came in second.
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She only cried when she heard
another team came in first.
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Like, is being number one all this girl sees?
[12:42] ---
That's... wow.
[12:45] ---
Right?
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But at the same time, I was ashamed of myself,
because I couldn't be like Aoi.
[12:52] ---
I'd changed my behavior to match the mood.
[12:56] ---
I realized that I was just an ordinary person.
[13:00] ---
All the more reason for me
to want to be special, like Aoi.
[13:04] ---
I was surprised to spot Aoi at our
high-school entrance ceremony.
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Especially when she came up
to me afterward and said:
[13:12] ---
"Didn't we play each other in round two
of the prefectural tournament?
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I've been thinking about you
ever since that game."
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And that's not all.
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She said, "You must have practiced like crazy.
I could tell, playing you."
[13:27] ---
And then: "I wish I could have
played on the same team as you."
[13:33] ---
That really saved me, you know?
[13:38] ---
So Aoi is someone I'm grateful for,
someone I look up to the most--
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and the person I least want to lose to.
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We became friends after that,
joining the track-and-field club together.
[13:52] ---
But... around the second term
of first year, was it?
[13:55] ---
Even though Aoi's specialty was the sprint,
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she took first place on our team
in my event, the high jump.
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Her beating me made me realize once again:
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I really can't be someone special after all.
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If you want to shine,
you've got to come in first.
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But I felt like even that was impossible.
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Mimimi...
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That's pretty much it!
Sorry to be such a downer.
[14:21] ---
No, not at all.
[14:23] ---
Thanks. I feel better having talked about it!
[14:25] ---
But... but you don't have to come in first.
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The way I see it,
you shine pretty brightly already.
[14:34] ---
Thanks!
[14:37] ---
Sorry, Tomozaki--looks like I forgot something.
Head on home without me.
[14:42] ---
Later!
[14:42] ---
Hey, Mimimi--
[14:46] ---
My words hadn't gotten through to her.
[14:49] ---
It was painfully clear,
even to a bottom-tier scrub like me.
[14:56] ---
She didn't show up.
[14:57] ---
Not to Saturday's practice,
not to today's morning session.
[15:01] ---
Oh.
[15:02] ---
Even though coming in first isn't everything...
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That's something I never expected.
[15:08] ---
Huh?
[15:09] ---
I mean, you're just like me, aren't you?
[15:12] ---
The Tackfam-mastering nanashi?
[15:16] ---
What do you mean, I'm just like you?
[15:16] ---
"Teachers' Lounge"
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Of course I want to win in a one-on-one battle.
[15:19] ---
"Club Resignation Notice"
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But if only first place matters,
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that would make pretty much
the whole world useless.
[15:27] ---
In fact, I'd say it's more like I
don't want to lose to me.
[15:32] ---
Is that how you really feel?
[15:33] ---
Yeah.
[15:34] ---
Tackfam's a battle against myself.
[15:38] ---
I see.
[15:41] ---
Minmi, you're quitting the club?!
[15:44] ---
Yeah. Thought about it over the weekend.
[15:46] ---
Is it true?
[15:50] ---
Sorry, Aoi!
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I gave it a lot of thought and, well,
my body just can't take any more.
[15:55] ---
I wanted to keep running track with you, Mimimi.
[15:59] ---
I'm sorry, Aoi.
[16:01] ---
No, it's not that! No need to apologize!
[16:06] ---
I wonder what happened?
[16:08] ---
Hmm... a misunderstanding, maybe.
[16:12] ---
And yet... no one did anything wrong.
[16:17] ---
Sorry, Tama--I'm heading home, okay?
[16:20] ---
Eh?
[16:21] ---
Bye, Tama! See you tomorrow!
[16:23] ---
Mimimi!
[16:26] ---
Want to... go home together?
[16:28] ---
Huh?
[16:31] ---
Come on. With Tama, too. The three of us.
[16:37] ---
I'll skip practice!
[16:42] ---
Apologies!
[16:43] ---
Out of consideration for Tomozaki's courage,
I'll be leaving with those two.
[16:50] ---
Wow, it sure is muggy. That's summer for you!
[16:53] ---
And this is totally a textbook Japanese summer!
[16:57] ---
Hey, Minmi?
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Hmm?
[17:00] ---
Do you hate Aoi now?
[17:04] ---
You did quit track and all.
[17:07] ---
O-Of course I don't!
[17:10] ---
Really?
[17:11] ---
I mean, Aoi's a really great girl.
She can do anything.
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She's respectable, dependable.
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She really gets me.
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And she shines... and she's special...
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Then why are you quitting?
[17:27] ---
You know I could never... hate Aoi.
[17:32] ---
Uh-huh.
[17:34] ---
And even though...
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Even though I could never...
I could never hate her...
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Aoi's just...
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She's such a great girl. Always working so hard.
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But never bragging about it.
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Always looking out for me.
[17:51] ---
Understanding exactly how I feel.
[17:55] ---
So really, I love Aoi.
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Uh-huh.
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I mean, I should love her,
[18:04] ---
but she beats me in schoolwork,
beats me in sports...
[18:08] ---
And then, all of a sudden,
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I'm jealous of her.
[18:12] ---
Like, she bugs me, or she's in my way...
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...or I want her g-gone!
[18:18] ---
And here I am,
thinking these things, and I... I...
[18:24] ---
And it's awful! It's just the worst!
[18:27] ---
If a sore loser like me stayed in that club,
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I'd wind up thinking that way again.
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And I'd hate myself for it.
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So much that I couldn't stand it.
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Even when we practiced together, I'd think,
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"Why doesn't she stop practicing?"
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"If she really cared about me,
she'd quit right away."
[18:52] ---
"How clueless can you get?"
[18:54] ---
I actually thought that!
[18:56] ---
And I...
[18:58] ---
I don't want to think
that way about Aoi anymore.
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Sure.
[19:08] ---
That's why I quit.
[19:11] ---
How can she work so hard, I wonder?
[19:19] ---
T-Tama?!
[19:21] ---
Hey! Stop tha-- It tickles!
[19:24] ---
You want to be number one, no matter what?
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I-It's just...
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I'm nothing.
[19:33] ---
But Minmi...
[19:35] ---
You're my hero.
[19:38] ---
Huh?
[19:39] ---
Always smiling and saying you're fine,
then working yourself too hard.
[19:44] ---
But you keep that to yourself
as you help me out.
[19:48] ---
I like Aoi a lot, too,
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but you're my one and only hero, Minmi.
[19:56] ---
But...
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And if you still wanna be number one...
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To me, you're the world's number-one idiot!
[20:05] ---
So make do with that!
[20:12] ---
Wh-What's the big idea?!
[20:14] ---
Just doing what an idiot does!
[20:17] ---
Tama!
[20:18] ---
H-Hey, now!
[20:20] ---
Who's an idiot, hmm? Say it again!
[20:21] ---
C'mon, Minmi!
[20:23] ---
Mmm, your neck smells amazing!
[20:26] ---
Quit sniffing me, idiot! Back off already!
[20:33] ---
And so,
[20:34] ---
after Mimimi apologized to the club,
[20:38] ---
she was approved to rejoin--
the day after she'd resigned.
[20:43] ---
Her feelings for Hinami--a mix
of gratitude, respect, and envy--
[20:47] ---
seem to have mellowed quite a bit,
thanks to Tama.
[20:51] ---
Though Mimimi's sexual harassment
seems to have increased threefold.
[20:56] ---
And I'm preparing to face my biggest challenge
[21:00] ---
before summer vacation starts tomorrow.
[21:03] ---
Shuji, um... Here. A birthday present.
[21:07] ---
Oh, hey. Thanks.
[21:11] ---
Your task for today:
SIGN "Today's Task Give Nakamura his present and talk to him for 3+ minutes"
[21:13] ---
Give Nakamura his birthday present
and talk to him for at least three minutes.
[21:17] ---
"PitCam"
[21:22] ---
Na-Nakamura!
[21:23] ---
Yeah? What is it, Tomozaki?
[21:25] ---
Um... this is... a birthday present.
[21:28] ---
Huh?
[21:32] ---
A controller?
[21:33] ---
See, um, the controller is key,
uh... especially in versus play.
[21:38] ---
I-I can get behind someone who
works hard and hates to lose...
[21:43] ---
And as a gamer and huge Tackfam fan, I, um...
[21:47] ---
I'll take it.
[21:53] ---
What?! That wasn't three minutes?
[21:56] ---
N-Now what?
[21:58] ---
Uh, hey!
[21:59] ---
What?
[22:00] ---
Well, um... er...
[22:06] ---
S-So is it true that Hinami
and Mizusawa are dating?
[22:10] ---
"Cafe Restaurant Gesto"
[22:13] ---
"S-So is it true that Hinami
and Mizusawa are dating?"
[22:22] ---
C'mon, Minmi, cut that out.
[22:26] ---
I-I'm so sorry, Tomozaki!
[22:28] ---
Jeez, give it a rest.
[22:29] ---
And? Is there any truth
to the rumors, Miss Hinami?
[22:35] ---
The truth is... we're dating.
[22:38] ---
What?!
[22:38] ---
What if I actually said that?
[22:40] ---
Huh? Jeez!
[22:44] ---
Of course we're not dating.
[22:49] ---
Well, now that everything's out in the open...
[22:54] ---
I'm really sorry for everything, gang!
[22:57] ---
This sure is out of the blue, Minmi.
[23:00] ---
By way of apologizing for causing such a fuss...
[23:05] ---
...please accept these!
[23:08] ---
And these are...?
[23:10] ---
Apology gifts! Also known as
proof of our friendship!
[23:14] ---
Just like mine, but in different colors!
[23:17] ---
Aren't they the cutest?
[23:19] ---
I don't know, Mimimi...
any way you look at it--
[23:22] ---
They're adorable.
[23:23] ---
Huh?!
[23:24] ---
They're so cute!
[23:27] ---
Oh, this is fantastic!
[23:28] ---
Yeah! Are you sure we can have these?
[23:31] ---
Of course! Abso-fruit-ly!
[23:36] ---
You call this...
[23:38] ---
...cute?