(Dress Rehearsal) Live Show

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Today's the day. The club meets up and takes a quick train ride down to Hikarizaka, where the Southwest Mall is ready for the festival. Banners with fall trees and leaves are hung, store clerks welcome you and gesture to the deep discounts in their stores, and people in special mall uniforms are giving out everything from maps to tissue packs to promotional eyeshadow swatches. A few stalls around the hallways are set up selling promo goods, if for some reason you need a fall festival shirt, and seasonal snacks like grilled yams and taiyaki.

And then there's the stage. Audio equipment is standing ready and the stage is cordoned off from the crowd, and the light fixtures you've brought in are there to be set up. You've got a little time before your set while the audience is being entertained by the act before you, a group of poorly-dancing kindergarteners who are too cute to boo off the stage. How are you going to spend it?

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Rita sets the lights up quickly between shows, columns turning on to glitter in fall colours that shift to the image colours of the Harugaizumi School Idol Club. In cutesy pastel bunny jackets with matching chalk hair streaks and sparkly bracelets, the group takes the stage.

Their dance is a little more complicated than they'd shown at the Cultural Festival, thanks to Carmel's new additions to the choreography, putting the strongest dancers in the front. Ryoko is in the middle, with the largest part, singing a love song where the embarrassment might actually be a plus as far as the lyrics go.

While the stage was being set up, it looked like the crowd was starting to disperse, largely from the parents of the little kids before them. But thanks to Usagi's and Arianna's efforts in getting the word out, the crowd actually seems to grow. A lot of the influx is from curious shoppers, but you get some people coming into the mall and straight into the audience, and others carrying school idol merch in their arms. Not all of it is for you, and there's a decent amount of Powerful Garage rep since they were supposed to be here, but the people coming in with it are excitedly whispering and taking photos anyway.

As the club bows and introduces themselves, the crowd cheers warmly. And maybe it's something left behind from a performance earlier in the day that didn't quite get swept away -- who can say? -- but wherever it came from, when somebody moves, a fluffy white fashion feather lifts up from the edge of the stage in a puff of air and lands in front of this group of girls smiling under the lights.

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