Chapter 1/Episode 9

### How Each of Us Can Shine

(The members of the School Idol Club now see a thread of hope with the return of former members Kanata and Emma. Your next hopeful is Karin, a popular amateur magazine model! However, she has a very particular stipulation.)
 **Kasumi:** Now that you’re back, Emma, it seems like this will really work out!
 **Emma:** I didn’t quit in the first place, but, you know!
 **Kasumi:** Look at you, worrying people like that! Harrumph!
 **Kanata:** Are you anyone to taaalk?
 **Kasumi:** Ahh!
 **Player:** Anyway, that aside. Let’s talk about getting the last former member back in the club!
 **Shizuki:** Setsuna Yuki, right?
 **Ayumu:** What kind of person is she?
 **Kanata:** Hm, wellll… She’s hard to sum up in a word, and the details…
 **Ayumu:** The details…?
 **Kanata:** The details make me want to sleep.
 **Emma:** Let’s share few enough to keep you awake, then.
 **Shizuku:** I’m sure you already know this, but Setsuna called the shots around our club.
 **Kasumi:** She was like a dump truck with a cute face.
 **Player:** A cute dump truck…
 **Emma:** She was the most motivated of us, and since she’d been a solo school idol, she was pretty famous.
 **Kasumi:** I’d heard of her, too. I was really surprised that someone so famous joined our club!
 **Ayumu:** Wow, Kasumi, you really know your stuff when it comes to school idols.
 **Kasumi:** I’ve got to nip potential rivals in the bud - er, rather, I want to pick up a lot of promising hopefuls for the group!
 **Player:** Well, she sounds like she’d really stand out, but… I haven’t heard a thing about her around school.
 **Shizuku:** Yeah, really.
 **Emma:** I know she’s in Nijigasaki, but I’ve never seen her anywhere but the club.
 **Kasumi:** I’d always run into her when going to school idol live shows before, but she hasn’t been to any of those lately.
 **Ayumu:** Wait, could she have… quit being an idol?
 **Kanata:** No way. She loved school idols from the bottom of her heart, so there’s no way she’d quit.
 **Kanata:** She really wanted to spread her love all over the world, so I can’t help but think that she’s hiding.
 **Shizuku:** Setsuna was amazing. She was so good at singing and dancing. And her proportions were great.
 **Kanata:** Oh-hoh! Speaking of proportions! I remembered there was a girl I wanted to invite to the club! Let’s get her before we look for Setsuna!
 **Ayumu:** What’s she like?
 **Kanata:** Apparently she’s an… amateur model in magazines.
 **Emma:** Oh really?
 **Kanata:** I’ll call her!
 **Karin:** Hmm… School idols, huh?
 **Player:** How about being a school idol with us? You’ll have lots of fun, guaranteed!
 **Karin:** I see. Well, I’ve gotten a lot of invitations, but never to the school idol club. But… could I pull it off?
 **Player:** Of course you could! You look like a model, so I think costumes would look amazing on you!
 **Ayumu:** …Feeling relieved, Kasumi?
 **Kasumi:** …No. Just thinking about how unfair god is.
 **Karin:** Hmm… It does sound interesting, but…
 **Player:** Th-Then?!
 **Karin:** Are you sure you want me, though? Frilly dresses and stuff don’t agree with me. I’m pretty good with tight-fitting or revealing stuff, though.
 **Ayumu:** R…Revealing?
 **Karin:** Yeah, like… costumes that show off the moles on my chest the girl next to you keeps glancing at.
 **Kasumi:** I-I’m not looking at anything!
 **Shizuku:** Kasumi, you… just admitted it.
 **Kasumi:** B-But I just thought she was so pretty, and… Uwah…
 **Karin:** \*Giggle\* Thanks for the compliment.
 **Karin:** Sure, I’ll be a school idol, but I have one condition,
 **Karin:** I want to become my own type of school idol. Is that all right? I’ll join the club, but I guess you could say that I don’t work too well in groups.
 **Player:** Ahh, I see! That’s it! That’s perfect!
 **Player:** Nijigasaki’s school idol club won’t force its members to work as a group!
 **Everyone:** Huh?
 **Player:** Kasumi, you said that school idols can go solo, right?
 **Kasumi:** R-Right.
 **Player:** And Shizuku, you said it was cool how everyone wanted to do different things, right?
 **Shizuku:** Yeah…
 **Player:** I think things fell apart last time because you forced yourselves to work as a group too much - even though everyone’s really unique and has things they all want to do.
 **Player:** So what if we all came together as a group, but we all tried to become our own ideal school idols?
 **Player:** We’d both compete with and help each other. Wouldn’t that type of club be perfect for us?
 **Player:** We don’t have to all go in the same direction. Everyone can go down the path they want to!
 **Kanata:** Hey, that sounds great. I’m for it.
 **Emma:** …You mean we don’t need to act as a group?
 **Player:** Well, we’ll try things. We don’t have to act as a group, or act alone all the time. How about we work on our strengths and interests.
 **Player:** Karin, please, work with us to become exciting school idols like there’s never been before!
 **Karin:** Like there’s never been before, huh? Heh, sounds interesting. I’ll join up, then.