Failed to connect with each other

That's just running away, isn't it?

Details 9:00
Chapter
Lost Stars, Echoing Cries
Duration
9:00
Release
Dec 31, 2025
Characters
Tomori Takamatsu , Anon Chihaya , Rāna Kaname , Soyo Nagasaki , and Taki Shiina
Player / Rank
Rank 4

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Chihaya's Home - Anon's Room

Anon
This is bad, this is bad...!
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Anon
(That girl Rāna... Her personality is weird,
but her guitar skills are like a pro's...!)
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Anon
(And yet...
Talking about "G" and "F," just how embarrassing can I possibly be!)
Anon
(And,
if that Rāna girl joins the band... then I'll be as invisible as air!)
Anon
Ah~~ What do I do~~!?
Anon
Even if I start practicing now,
it's not like I'll get good right away...
Anon
Hm? A notification on my smartphone?
Nyamuchi's makeup video, a new one's been uploaded!
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Nyamu
"Good Even-nyamu-nyamu~
Today, I'm going to show you more make-up recommendations~"
Nyamu
"Everyone has a certain way they want to look, right~?"
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Nyamu
"So, this time, I'm going to show you easy, perfect make-up!"
Nyamu
"With this, you'll be fine even on busy mornings!
Let's make things easier by using time-saving techniques and level-up a rank!"
Anon
Make things easier by using time-saving techniques...
Anon
...! This might be it...!
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Haneoka Girls' Academy - Classroom 1-A

Anon
Hey, Tomori-chan, what do you think about writing a new song?
Anon
I was thinking that a new band really needs a new song!
Anon
And about the guitar part,
I thought it might be nice to start off with something a bit easy.
Anon
I mean, we have other stuff to get ready, too.
So something quick and decent would be good...
Tomori
Anon-chan... I'm sorry.
I can only write lyrics...
Anon
Oh... right!
Sorry, I was getting ahead of myself... haha...
Anon
(Ugh... The "Make Things Easier by Saving Time Plan" has failed...)
Anon
Um? What's wrong?
You seem a bit down...
Anon
? Something hard to say?
Tomori
I don't... want to perform live...
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RiNG - Café

Soyo
You don't want to perform live? Why...?
Anon
We don't have a band name, and we don't have costumes either.
Tomori-chan said she wasn't sure
about doing the live show, too!
Soyo
Tomori-chan, why not do it?
Anon
I just told you!
Taki
Tomori, why...?
Anon
I just said—
Tomori
If we perform live...
That'll be the end of the band...
Anon
That'll be the end...
You mean like the last band...?
Soyo
Tomori-chan, thank you for telling us.
You're scared, right?
Soyo
But you know, this time we'll talk about everything, so it'll be all right.
So... you see? Let's try playing live, okay?
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RiNG - Emergency Stairs

Soyo
Taki-chan, are you all right?
Soyo
For Tomori-chan...
what happened with CRYCHIC really was a huge shock...
Soyo
But at this rate, everything will turn out the same way.
Soyo
Should we give up on the live show?
Soyo
We can just keep going like this, never performing live.
We can play as a band just in the studio...
Taki
I want to perform live.
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Taki
When I first heard Tomori's song... I thought it was about me.
All the feelings I couldn't put into words, Tomori turned all of them into a song...
Taki
It told me that it's all right for me to be alive.
Taki
That's why... when we were going to be a band again, it made me really happy...
I thought Tomori felt the same way... but...
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Soyo
Hehe...
You should tell Tomori-chan all of that.
Taki
It's all just coming from my own ego, so...
Soyo
Why is it that we can never say the things that are most important?
That's why everyone in CRYCHIC ended up not connecting with each other...
Soyo
But we don't want to repeat the same thing, right?
Soyo
Taki-chan, you should try telling
Tomori-chan how you feel.
Soyo
Just like Tomori-chan's song reached you,
I'm sure that your feelings will reach Tomori-chan...
I just know she'll understand.
Taki
I don't ever
want to make Tomori feel lonely again.
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RiNG - Café

Anon
So, what's this about...?
Soyo
Today, I want to have a real talk about what we're doing next.
Anon
By "what we're doing next," you mean the live show, right?
Soyo
No, I'm talking about further in the future.
Soyo
Right now, we're all on different pages, right?
Is there really any point to being in a band like this?
Soyo
When we decided to form a band again,
we said we'd make sure to talk everything through, right?
Soyo
But we're already failing to connect...
At this rate, everything will go wrong again...
Taki
I think doing the live show is the best option.
Taki
I think that for all of us to come together and move forward,
we need a common goal.
Taki
It's because we don't have a goal that we haven't been able to rehearse.
And some of us won't even try to practice.
Taki
I think everyone should hear Tomori's song.
That's why...
Taki
I think we should do it so that this doesn't end.
Do the live show.
Anon
But...
Tomori-chan is saying she doesn't want to perform!
Anon
And isn't it way too short notice to perform this time?
Let's get everything ready the right way and perform at our best!
Anon
If we do that, then I think that even Tomori-chan
will want to—
Taki
Who do you think you are?
Taki
You keep pretending you're advocating for Tomori,
but you just don't want to perform, right?
Taki
Tomori is worried that
the band will break up if we do the live show.
Taki
You're using that to run away, aren't you?
Taki
You're running from the guitar.
Anon
I... I'm not running away.
Taki
You can't play guitar, can you?
You're always trying to dodge practice.
Anon
I-I am practicing!
Taki
The only things you seem fired up about are
things like where you stand, the band name, or stuff like G and F chords.
If we don't perform live, you surely will run away.
Taki
Because that's what you've done up until now...
Anon
!! I'm not running away!!
Taki
Ah...! Tomori...!?
Soyo
It was something someone was bound to say eventually.