Riko: *Hum*
Hanamaru: You look like you're in a good mood, zura.
Riko: Hee, hee. I was just thinking how great it is that we've become real school idols, and it made me smile.
Ruby: Yeah. We've even got a name and everything. Everyone in Aqours is a true-blue school idol now!
Dia: I understand where you're coming from, but aren't you getting a bit ahead of yourselves?
Kanan: It's true this point, Aqours is still standing at the starting line. We've got lots of work to do.
You: We've gotta start discussing what kind of songs we should pick, and what our costumes should look like.
Mari: And how we can make our performance extra shiny, so we get really popular!
Yoshiko: I want a song that's appropriate for a fallen angel. Something cool and beautiful at the same time.
Riko: A fallen angel song... Is that something all of us will be able to sing?
Hanamaru: I could probably handle being a temple fallen angel, I guess.
You: Do you have any ideas, Chika?
You: Huh? Where'd Chika go?
Riko: Oh... I could've sworn she was here a minute ago.
Mari: Perhaps she went to the classroom or the roof. Let's go look for her.
Chika: *Sigh*
Ruby: Hey, there's Chika!
Chika: Hrmm...
Mari: What's wrong, Chika?
Riko: Are you not feeling well?
You: If your stomach hurts, I'll give you a tummy rub.
Chika: T-Thanks, but it's not a stomachache.
Chika: I've just had something weighing on my mind lately.
Yoshiko: Whoa, hold your horses! It's not like you to suddenly get all philosophical, Chika.
Chika: I just keep thinking about it all day, every day. *Sigh* How am I supposed to live like this?
Kanan: Is it that serious?!
Hanamaru: Maybe we can help.
Dia: Chika, please tell us what's going on. Perhaps we can help you solve your problem.
Chika: Okay... Thanks, everyone.
Chika: I've just been wondering... After all this talk about school idols...
Chika: What the heck IS a school idol?!
You, Riko: Huh?
You, Riko: Whaaaaaaat?!
Yoshiko: You're just now asking that?!
Chika: I mean, I'm not ignorant. I know what school idols are like.
Chika: They're super cute, and they have this... this... This aura about them!
Ruby: An aura?
Hanamaru: I'm not sure what an aura is. Ruby, do you have one?
Ruby: I don't think so.
Hanamaru: Well, if you don't have one, then I definitely don't.
Chika: I thought when we became school idols, our lives were gonna completely change. Like...
Student: Whoa! That's Chika Takami, the school idol!
Student: We should all go and greet the idols together.
Student: Let's scatter rose petals all around the school entrance for when they arrive.
Student: Then we'll give them a big round of applause as they walk by!
You: Whoa, whoa, WHOA! That's nuts!
Kanan: Chika... you've got quite an imagination.
Riko: If people made that big of a fuss every time we arrived, we wouldn't even be able to come to school anymore.
Chika: A-Ah, ha, ha... Maybe you're right.
Chika: We've got all these ideas about what we want to do, but we haven't decided on anything concrete.
Chika: When I think about what the next step should be, I get so overwhelmed that my head starts spinning!
Riko: Chika, you're really worked up, aren't you?
Mari: So, to put it in simple terms, you want a specific definition of what a school idol is?
Chika: I... think so.
Hanamaru: I see. Perhaps you want to go back to the basics of a school idol?
Kanan: I don't think there's a very strict definition for school idols... but I wonder.
You: Yeah! Heck, every high school girl in the world is a school idol!
Riko: *Giggle* I think that might be going a little too far.
Ruby: Well, isn't any high school girl who sings and dances technically a school idol?
Riko: It's not like you have to take a test...
Yoshiko: Aqours is already a super-popular school idol group in the underworld.
Dia: We're not talking about the underworld. We're talking about Uchiura.
Yoshiko: Yohane lives in Numazu, not Uchiura.
Riko: Maybe there's something other school idols have that we don't.
Kanan: Well, we haven't been at it very long. You can't blame us for not being that good at it.
Chika: Ability is part of it... but there's something more.
You: Something bigger and more important than raw ability?
Mari: Hmm. If we can figure out what it is, we might make more progress.
Ruby: I'd be so happy if I could get even a little bit closer to all my favorite school idols.
You: The school idols in the magazines are definitely different from us somehow. Here, Kanan. Take a look.
Kanan: Hmm... Now that you say that, it does feel like something's different.
Dia: *Gasp*
Mari: What is it, Dia? Did you figure it out?
Dia: Yes. This is just a theory...
Dia: But the difference between us and other school idols is...
Chika: Is...
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