This familiar plot…
Watching the anime's storyline, Anon felt an inexplicable sense of déjà vu.
So she had gone through something similar once before. In other words, even without Kamijou Mutsuki, she would still have experienced this?
"Aren't you guys going a bit too far?"
Back when she was in the middle of it, she hadn't felt much. But now, analyzing it from a third-person perspective, even she felt aggrieved for herself.
She formed the group. She recruited the members. And in the end, she was the one who got edited out?
"Yeah, yeah,"
The donut lady also chimed in agreement.
"Obviously, if the new band could be formed, Anon-chan contributed the most."
"Sorry, Anon-chan,"
It was Soyo. She walked over, speaking in her signature cutesy voice.
"I was too happy at the time, so I might not have noticed."
"Anon,"
Under Taki's slightly sour gaze, Tomori even took the initiative to hold Anon's hand.
"You're also a member of our band. We're going to be in a band for a lifetime!"
"I didn't mean to blame Tomori…"
Naturally, Anon couldn't possibly feel dissatisfied with Tomori, the group's darling.
"Forget it. Anyway, this is all just the anime's plot."
Anon didn't pursue it any further.
"Besides, Kamijou helped me form the band. If there's really a problem, we'll just get him to fix it."
"Kamijou,"
Feigning composure, Anon looked at a certain boy, though her cheeks unconsciously flushed red.
"If something goes wrong with the band, will you take responsibility?"
Mutsuki: ?
Mutsuki felt that Anon's words sounded a bit strange.
When you say "take responsibility," you'd better be talking about the band!
["Anon, together too."
Fortunately, in the end, Tomori rejected Soyo's attempt to edit her out and pulled Anon into the band as well.
"For a lifetime, we'll stay together!"
"A lifetime?"
The girls were all surprised by Tomori's words.
However, Soyo and Taki weren't normal, ordinary high school girls like Anon. Both of them immediately swore to stay with Tomori for a lifetime instead, which ended up startling Anon—the only normal one.
"Ah, th-this is for a lifetime, a lifetime!"
What followed was naturally an argument among the girls about what "a lifetime" meant.
In the end, as a normal person, Anon still couldn't easily agree to something like a lifetime, and instead made a promise with Tomori that would last until the next live.
After that came the plot of Anon proudly enjoying herself over forming the band, Taki's changes after joining, and Umiri-sensei's first appearance.
However, slightly different from the original work, Kamijou Mutsuki deleted certain parts that would have revealed private information.
Then the scene cut to Tsukinomori Girls' Academy, where Mutsuki was watering his little cucumbers.
It vaguely revealed Soyo's ambition to "re-MC and re-C," but since she had already gone through a similar storyline once, she still managed to gloss it over.
After that came Anon's charming moments—she even tried to overturn the hierarchy and seize Tomori's position as lead vocalist.]
"Hah?"
Taki immediately looked displeased, glancing at Anon sideways.
"Lead vocalist, you?"
Don't you know your own skill level?
And you want to steal Tomori's position as lead vocalist?
"The plot in the anime doesn't need to be taken seriously, right?"
Anon directly distanced herself from her anime counterpart—whatever Chihaya Anon did had nothing to do with her, Ano-chan.
"Right, Rikki?"
"Don't call me that!"
Taki's reaction was just as over-the-top as in the anime.
"Don't get so worked up. I think that nickname is pretty cute."
Seeing Taki clench her fist, Miss Ano wisely chose to shut up.
"Speaking of which, it's been so long and our band still doesn't even have a name~"
Anon began changing the subject.
"Eh? A band name? That really is something we need to think about carefully!"
Soyo spoke in her cutesy tone, though inwardly she wasn't very interested.
After all, to her, this band was only transitional. Her real goal was reviving Crychic.
"It's not going to be called [Unknown], is it?"
Taki directly pulled out the anime plot to mock Anon.
"That's still better than [Monkey Screech], right?"
Anon refused to back down.
"You—"
"How about calling it AveMujica?"
At that moment, Kamijou Mutsuki suddenly interjected with a smile.
"I have a suggestion. In the future, when your band performs, you could start with a short stage play. Build some kind of worldbuilding for the band—like abandoned dolls or something. Then wear lace over your faces to enhance the sense of mystery. It would definitely blow up!"
Sakiko: ?
It clearly had nothing to do with her, so why did she feel like she was being subtly targeted?
And why did this proposal strangely align with some of the ideas in her own heart? Could it be that she and this scummy man were somehow on the same wavelength?
Sakiko secretly glanced at Kamijou Mutsuki, her face inexplicably flushing a little.
No, that's not right—how could she have such a terrifying thought!
Sakiko hurriedly shook her head, trying to clear it.
Being on the same wavelength as Kamijou Mutsuki—that was way too frightening.
Meanwhile, watching Sakiko's strange reaction, Soyo, who had been observing from the shadows, silently put a question mark over her head.
Sakiko, could it be that you really…
No. As long as Sakiko comes back in the end, that's all that matters. At worst, the child can take my surname.
Suppressing the sourness in her heart, Soyo thought to herself.
"Doesn't that idea sound a bit too stupid?"
At this moment, Kamijou Mutsuki's proposal also received responses from the girls. Taki crossed her arms and let out a sneer.
"No matter how you look at it,"
For once, Anon rarely found herself in agreement with Taki.
"Putting lace over your head is kind of…"
Correction—that would be a mask, not lace!
"It really doesn't feel very acceptable…"
Uika also expressed agreement with the girls' opinions.
She couldn't imagine herself wearing lace over her head. And some kind of stage-play worldbuilding? That was way too chuunibyou, wasn't it?
At least for her, there was no way she would ever do something like that!
"Abandoned dolls and stuff is way too chuunibyou, right?"
Soyo also echoed her teammates' views, then used the topic as an excuse to speak to Sakiko.
"Don't you think so, Saki-chan?"
Sakiko: "..."
Soyo felt extremely wronged. Why was Sakiko suddenly glaring at her?
And so, the topic of the band's name was temporarily dropped just like that.
The following part of the anime showed the scene that made Taki excited—her time alone with Tomori.
Though it was brief, it was already enough to make Taki happy.
She walked Tomori home—and it was just the two of them!
Sure enough, as long as the band was reformed, everything would get better!
That annoying pink-haired girl earlier had only been part of the prologue. Now that the band had formed, in the anime her relationship with Tomori would definitely grow closer and closer.
Taki felt she had already guessed the upcoming plot. The next episode would definitely focus on her and Tomori again. In the anime, she would surely be Tomori's best friend!
As for a certain pink-haired girl…
She'd already had plenty of screen time earlier. There was no way the next episode would still be about her, right?
PS: Since everyone doesn't seem to like the bullet comments, I won't write them anymore. The author will mainly move the bystanders' reactions offline.
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