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...Hm?

Hey hey heeey!!!! Wasn't my performance absolute PEAK this time?

Yeah... In my opinion, you got better at what you were weak at...

SPEAK ON IT!!!

You got a bit too caught up though, and started faltering by the end. So it's all for naught.

Huuuuh? Being too strict again, ain'tcha?

Anyway uh.... Uh!!! I concede I guess. Well anyway, it'd be great if we took a restー

Umー!!

Cake.

Oh come oー Raana!

Y-You've got it all wrong!! Just because she said cake doesn't mean we made a cake for Soyorin as a surprise for her birthday or something!!

You little...

?

(sigh) ...A tad too early in revealing the surprise, huh, Raana-chan? You were all too obvious about hiding something, anyhow.

What!?! That's BS!

The hard truth, I'm not sorry to say. If I may, Anon-chan, you were especially antsy.

You're too damn clever, you know that!?

(sigh) ...And that's why I pushed back against it.

But alas, you relented. To surprise me.

...Anon won out by annoying the hell out of me, is all.

Hungry now.

Man, we'll just have to settle with eating out the normal way. I REALLY thought I'd be able to see Soyorin all shook, too...

Should I... turn off the lights, still...?

So that's your role, Tomori-chan.

Yeah... But I was nervous, so...

I can tell.... Well. Why don't we start over from the top?

Huh...?

You all took the time to rehearse all this, right? I'll just act like I didn't realize anything.

It's that part of you that's the worst, y'know...

Exactly. Now, Anon-chan, let's open the scene with your lineー