Lily Needs a Date

**Lily Needs a Date** is the thirty-eighth installment in *Silylily - The Story*.

## Summary

### Main Story

Following a news report about Lily's performance from Lily Has a Problem, Anri Rune announces the magnificent dance celebration that is happening in the coming days. Lily and Gumi watch the news from their couch and Lily prepares to ask Gumi to the dance, but Gakupo interrupts her to state that Gumi is a guest of honor and is not permitted to bring a date. Later, Lily complains to kokone about her inability to find a date, but is ignorant of kokone's attempts to ask her out. She decides to ask Luna and heads to her house with kokone.

At Luna's house, she nervously explains that someone is taking her to the dance and shuts the door on Lily. Lily angrily kicks a bucket and hits a tanning Kagamine Len in the head. kokone compliments her aim, which Lily claims to have been working on. Once again, kokone tries to ask Lily out, but Lily is distracted by another idea. Lily asks SpongeBob SquarePants to the dance, but he turns her down, claiming she was just a one night stand for him. Lily asks several others but Poison Ivy is going with Harley, flower is a guest of honor, Sonika is being chased by a Gyarados, Iroha is in jail, CUL has to watch her sister, and Cocorobo is busy doing Lily's chores. After many failed attempts to ask Lily out, kokone gives up on trying.

At the dance, Lily and kokone discover Luna's date to be Lily's enemy Namine Ritsu, who boasts about dating her ex. Throughout the night, Lily is unable to find someone who will dance with her, but she notices the table where the guests of honor are seated. She heads over to ask Gumi for a dance, but Gakupo catches her and forces her to sit in the "Time-Out Zone" away from everyone else. In the process, Lily pickpockets his katana.

In the restroom, kokone slams Luna against a bathroom stall and demands an explanation as to why she is dating Ritsu. Luna explains that Ritsu has serious information on Lily that she threatened to release to the public. Luna only agreed to date Ritsu to prevent her from doing so. She describes the information as being Lily's darkest secret that nobody can ever find out. kokone agrees not to tell anyone about Luna's reasoning before going to find Lily. In the Time-Out Zone, kokone realizes she can still hear the music from the dance hall, so she invites Lily to dance with her. The two share a dance to *Kiss from a Rose* by Seal and once they finish, kokone confesses that she has to tell Lily something.

Outside, Ritsu takes Luna to a high balcony overlooking the gardens below them. Lily rushes in with kokone behind her, wielding Gakupo's katana and demanding for Ritsu to get away from Luna. Ritsu takes out a katana that Lily recognizes as "VY2," then the two of them duel. They fight until they are on top of a gargoyle statue, but Lily recalls how she had been working on her aim. Lily tosses her katana at Ritsu, hitting her with the hilt and knocking her over the side of the building. Lily then slips and falls off after her.

While eating a carrot in the garden, Gumi sees Lily falling and is able to catch her. Ritsu, however, hits the ground and develops amnesia. Lily tells Ritsu she is the friendliest UTAU ever and she loves spreading joy wherever she goes. Believing this, Ritsu happily runs off as Luna and kokone arrive to see if Lily is okay. Luna apologizes to Lily for dating Ritsu and Lily apologizes for being jealous about it. Gumi also apologizes for not spending the night with Lily, saying she never wanted to be a guest of honor. Realizing there is a lot of time left, Gumi invites Lily to dance, but Gakupo interrupts to remind Gumi she cannot dance with anyone. Gumi replies with "Fuck off, Gakupo" before running off to dance with Lily.

Elsewhere, a hooded figure scolds Ritsu for failing to defeat Lily. The figure shrugs it off, claiming the failure does not matter as long as they know Lily's secret. Back at the dance hall, Lily finds kokone stargazing outside. She thanks kokone for the dance and calls her brave for telling her about Luna. She invites kokone to come back inside before leaving, but kokone takes one last look at the stars, then gazes at a picture of her and Lily before sighing.

### Background Story

While fishing in a pond outside Luna's house, Sonika reels in a Pokémon called Gyarados. She attempts to battle it with a sword while Kagamine Len suntans nearby. Sonika loses the fight and tries to run away. While she runs away, Lily asks Sonika to a big upcoming dance, but Sonika is forced to turn it down due to her being "busy." Later, at the dance in question, Sonika is shown dancing with Gyarados. She is then thrown across the dance hall.

## Characters

* Anri Rune
* Lily from anim.o.v.e
* Gumi
* Aoki Lapis *(Mentioned)*
* Harley Quinn
* Munchlax
* Poison Ivy
* SpongeBob SquarePants
* The Tails Doll
* Winnie the Pooh
* Kamui Gakupo
* kokone
* Luna
* Sonika
* Gyarados *(Debut)*
* Kagamine Len
* flower
* Nekomura Iroha
* CUL
* ROSA *(Mentioned)*
* Cocorobo
* IA
* SeeU *(Debut)*
* Uni
* Yanhe
* Yuzuki Yukari
* Namine Ritsu
* Sandy Cheeks *(Debut)*
* Hatsune Miku
* Kagamine Rin
* Otomachi Una
* Hooded Figure

## Trivia

* Durine Anri Rune's newscast, a bulletin reads "Gumi suspected in store explosion," hinting that the events from the comic in Lily Disappears may be canon.
* Iroha is in jail due to the events of Lily and Gumi Babysit Cats.
* Meiko and Yanhe are seen at the dance together, continuing their relationship from Camp Lily.
* One of the newscast bulletins reads "Aoki Lapis addresses controversy." This is a reference to a recent controversy concerning Lapis' involvement in NFTs.