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Minase Girls' Academy - Roof

NagiSo this is where you were, Natsume-senpai.

NatsumeWhat...? Could you not interrupt my practice?

NagiWill you check your messages already?

NatsumeMessages?

NagiYeah. Mahoro sent one. You still haven't said which proposed date works for our next live.

NatsumeOh... this. I didn't notice it.

NatsumeYou know how I stop checking my phone when I get absorbed in something, right?

NagiI don't, actually. Just make sure you reply to her.

NagiI assume you must be very busy, seeing as you left half your lunch untouched.

NatsumeHey... What? Quit staring at my lunch, okay?

NagiYou're the one trying to hide it. Also, that's a cute lunchbox.

NatsumeEnough! If you're done here, just go already!

NagiNo, if I head back now, I won't have time to eat... Can I eat here?

NatsumeDo what you want...

NagiIt's an egg sandwich from the school store. Nice, right?

NatsumeWhat's so nice about that?

Natsume、Nagi...

NagiSo the "Rooftop Guitarist" is back.

NatsumeYeah... Now that I'm back in the band, I need to practice too, right?

NatsumeNo idea who came up with it, but having a nickname isn't such a bad feeling.

NagiIt's more of a bad reputation than a nickname, though. You've been claiming the rooftop and playing guitar by yourself forever.

NagiWere you like that even before you met Kanata?

NatsumeSo what if I was...? If you don't play every day, you get rusty fast.

Nagi(Every day...)

Nagi(Then things must've been really bad during those six months she stayed away from school...)

NagiStill, you don't have to make such a show of practicing up here.

NatsumeOh, give it a rest. There are reasons I can't play at home.

NatsumeMore importantly, are you actually practicing? I'll know right away if you've been slacking off.

NagiI've got my own pace.

NatsumeWhat? If you're serious about aiming for Suisei Rising, you know doing what you've always done won't cut it, right?

NatsumeHotaru may be a genius, but the rest of us can't afford to fall short.

NatsumeOf course, I won't lose to Hotaru either. But I can't be satisfied with just that.

NagiYou're really fired up.

NatsumeObviously. We can't just settle for Suisei Rising.

NatsumeThe kind of cool I'm aiming for is way beyond that.

NagiHaaah...

Nagi(That's exactly why I find her so hard to deal with...)

NagiThat's pretty cool.

NatsumeYou don't mean that at all, do you?

NagiI meeean it.

NatsumeThis girl...

NagiMmm... This egg sandwich is good.