Chapter 1 - My own choice

== A few day later ==
== Lunch break ==

== Haneoka girls' High school – Hallway ==

Yukina : (I can’t come up with anything... I feel like my head is about to burst.)

Yukina : (…Maybe it's better if I discuss this with someone.)

Ran : Sorry, I want to go to the rooftop for a bit.

Ran : Go on without me.

Yukina : Isn't that... Mitake-san...? Maybe she'll listen to me. Mitake-sa…

Yukina : Hm? Where is she going? Over there is the rooftop, right…

== Haneoka girls' High school – Rooftop ==

Yukina : Mitake-san. What are you doing here?

Ran : !? …Ha? Minato-san!? Why?

Ran : The 3rd year's classroom is not here, you know.

Yukina :. Of course, I know. I've been calling you many times, but you didn't hear me. So, I followed you all the way here

Ran : You followed me here ... that's scary. Do you need something from me?

Yukina : I just wanted to talk with you. ...About our new song.

Ran : Your new song…?

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Ran : Hmm… A song for the FES, huh.

Yukina : To be honest, I don't know what to do.

Yukina : I came all the way here because I thought the only thing I could do is to sing. [I only need to sing]... that is the only thing I must do to achieve my goal.

Yukina : I know that my feeling toward music has become distorted. But even then, singing is the only thing I have...

Yukina : That distorted feeling has gone now. But… my feeling of [I only need to sing] haven't changed.

Yukina : Have you ever experienced something when you feel [I have to do something no matter what]?

Ran : I hate doing something that I don't wanna do, so I never experienced that before

Yukina : …That’s just like you, Mitake-san.

Ran : That's why, I always run away from the things I didn’t like. I’m talking about flower arrangements of course.

Ran : But, for something that I treasured the most, I decided to face flower arrangement once again.

Ran : Before this, I saw flower arrangement as something [I must do], but now I see it as something [I wanna do]. I even participated in an exhibition before this.

Yukina : I see. It seems there are many things about Mitake-san that I don't know.

Ran : It's because I rarely talk about this to anyone outside of Afterglow. 

Ran :  Facing flower arrangement once again is my own choice. That's why, I’ve got a responsibility to keep on doing it.

Ran : I often talk about my problem with someone and ask for their advice, but in the end, everything that I do is my own choice.

Yukina : Your own choice…

Ran : …Well, It's just my opinion. Don't complain to me if it didn't help you with anything. 

Yukina : It helped me a lot, Thank you.

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Ran : …About that.

Yukina : What is it?

Ran : The FES is soon, right?

Yukina : Yes. Please come and see us.

Ran : Give us your best performance.

Ran : Not because you don't want to betray everyone's expectation or because everyone is looking forward to it… I want Minato-san… I want Roselia to show us their best performance.

Yukina : Of course. That's the reason we come all the way up here.

Ran : I hope you make good lyrics.

Yukina : Thank you.

== Minato's residence – Yukina’s room ==

Yukina : My own choice…

Yukina: Mitake-san’s words keep on resonating in my head.

Yukina : The song that I choose for Roselia...

Yukina : Just a little bit more, I almost see how is the lyrics going to be. Tomorrow, I'll tell everyone about this. 

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