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Season: Summer of ES! timeline

Location: Rooftop

Characters: Tori, Hokuto, Chiaki, Jin

Chiaki: Alright, break ends there! There’s no point in us students getting ahead all on our own, so please do your job properly and work hard with us, sensei!

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Jin: Uu~... I’m supposed to be the “master” here, but I feel like I’m really being taken advantage of by my “disciples”.

Hokuto: If you want to be respected as a master, then please work hard to earn that respect.

Jin: Guess I’ve no choice… Well then, I guess I’ll try hard a bit longer.

Aaalright. Everyone, c’mere. Let’s go over our plans from here on out one more time.

We’ve been repeating these basic lessons each week over and over again, and at this point we’ve reached a point where we’ve started to come together pretty well. I think. Probably.

Hokuto: You should be more confident in that declaration, for our sakes as well.

Jin: It's just one demand after the other with you… Anyhow, there’s no point in just continuing these basic lessons forever.

If we kept going like that, then the articles for Project-Saga would just be repeating the same stuff forever, which would be troublesome for Mr. Bossman, and we would end up getting rusty.

Which means. I’d like for us to hold a little live next month.

Chiaki: Ooh, a live! It’s finally time to reveal Rain-bows to the world… ✰

Tori: Uu. I don’t wanna reveal anything. I want to hide my past involvement with you guys away in the dark.

Jin: Well, I bet you all have your own opinions about this. Lives are the most effective and most idol-like work we could do, though.

Right now, we only have the basic funds we were given when we formed our unit, but if we were to produce results in an official DreamFes, then we’d be given additional funds.

Well, in our case, even if we had tons of money, it's not as if we have anything to spend it on.

But if we have money, we’d at least be able to rent a proper lesson room instead of having to use the rooftop like this.

The quality of our lessons would go up, and we’d be able to achieve better results in a shorter amount of time.

Chiaki: Hm. That’s true, they do say that you achieve better results when you use better equipment, both for muscle training and for other training.

Hokuto: That reminds me. Why are we doing lessons on the roof anyhow? Isn’t this place supposed to be off limits… Will we get in trouble?

Jin: It is. But I am a teacher, y’know?

They made a special exception for me, under the condition that I supervise our lessons… And thus, they allowed us to use the rooftop as our official lesson room.

Actually, the fact that this place is normally off-limits means that no one else needs to use it.

We won’t get in the way of any other units, so this was the most convenient place for us to use.

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Tori: Nn~, I like this place because the view is really nice.

Right now it’s nice because the weather’s been sunny for a while, but wouldn’t this place be pretty awful if it rained?

Jin: Yeah. We’re still a ways off, but the rainy season is approaching, after all.

I want to save up at least enough funds so that we’ll be able to move indoors right away when the weather turns bad.

We could rent an empty classroom for free as well.

But since those aren’t soundproof, we’d be annoying to our surroundings, and it might be difficult to have a satisfying lesson in that kind of environment.

Chiaki: Right. So that’s another reason why we should hold lives to earn money?

So this is an investment into our future, as expected of Sagami-sensei… You’re even keeping an eye on possible future developments ♪

Jin: Yeah. If you hold a live, you’ll get customers, which will increase our number of fans.

There isn’t much meaning to increasing fans of Rain-bows by itself, but it’s not bad to increase you guys’ reputations and popularity as individuals.

It will be profitable for your original units as well.

It seems that Himemiya isn’t feeling too enthusiastic about all of this yet, but I’d like you to work hard for Rain-bows with that thought in mind.

Tori: …

Jin: Project-Saga is being serialized in a country-wide magazine.

If we do well, you’ll be able to have your name known to a far wider audience compared to doing work only within Yumenosaki.

This might come especially in handy for Hidaka, who will be participating in this year’s SS.

SS attracts audiences from all over the country, so the more people recognize your name the better.

And since the magazine which is publicizing Project-Saga isn’t specifically an idol magazine, that means you’ll be able to appeal even to people who usually wouldn’t care about idols.

That’s a target audience you’d normally have no way of reaching, after all…

If you’re able to attract that crowd, you could get one or two steps ahead of the other idols.

Hokuto: Hm. I’ll admit, I was thinking that I would have to do such preliminary preparations for SS.

Chiaki: Right! Necessity births success! Once you have a clear goal set in your mind, it suddenly becomes easier to work hard to achieve it!

Jin: Well, we’re just a temporary unit showing up outta nowhere.

We have basically no money, so throwing a flashy live and attracting lots of guests is just a pipe dream.

So you shouldn’t get your hopes too high up. I was just fantasizing about what could happen if all goes well.

Tori: Hmph. Obviously things will go well, I’m going to be helping you out after all.

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Hokuto: That’s some confidence you’ve got there. Well, it’s not like I’m planning on failing either.

Chiaki: Right! I got a burst of motivation~! Our first goal is a live! What should we be doing now in order to reach that goal… Sagami-sensei!?

Jin: You all are almost too dependable, good job.

Thanks to that, I’m able to take it easier. As far as preparing for live performances goes, I’d say you guys are more knowledgeable than me.

Can you think of anything specific we should be focusing on from here on out?

Hokuto: How unreliable of you, “master”. This is the part where you should act the part and relentlessly order us around.

Jin: That kinda thing doesn’t suit me though… You might’ve forgotten, but I’m just a retired relic of the past.

The way I see it, letting you guys who are still active in the entertainment world be in charge of this is the safer course of action.

Tori: I guess you have a point… Uhm, so, the most important thing for the live is that we get a lot of guests!

It seems like the president is willing to cooperate with Project-Saga for some reason, so if I personally request it of him, he might be willing to help us out with publicity?

Hokuto: No, first of all we should decide on a program for our live. Just attracting lots of guests won’t do us any good if we don’t have a show prepared for them, after all.

Chiaki: Right. If we decide on the contents of the live first, that will make advertising easier as well.

That being said, we’re just a temporary unit put together recently, so we don’t have a single original song to our name.

Hokuto: Hm. It would feel weird for us to use songs from our original units, like Trickstar or Ryuseitai, as well.

Those songs all have lyrics and choreographies created to suit the atmosphere of that original unit, after all.

Tori: Eh~? But I wanna sing fine’s songs!

More importantly, I still haven’t even completely mastered fine’s songs, so even if we were to make lots of new songs right now there’s no way I would be able to learn them all!

Hokuto: Hm. I guess that’s true, fine’s songs all seem like they require lots of practice to master, after all.

Chiaki: I have a proposal. What about taking songs from our original units, and then arranging them to fit with Rain-bows’ atmosphere and using them like that?

Of course, we would need to acquire permission from each of our original units before we could use those songs, though.

Fundamentally speaking, it would be more effective and easy for us to use the weapons each of us is most acquainted with.

Hokuto: Huh. So would our best course of action be to focus mostly on re-arranging existing songs and then supplying that with some new original songs then?

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