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(Dress Rehearsal) Live Show

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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[Usagi looks out into the crowd, from where she's been using some hair chalk to put pink streaks into her pigtails.]

Aww, the little ones are so cute...

[She smiles.]

I just hope the crowd isn't all their parents.

Let me see! [Ayaka puts on her glasses and tries to mash her face up to the crack between the temporary backstage partitions.] I can't really tell. What if people might be watching now so they have good seats when we come on? That'd be ameowzing, wouldn't it?

Do you think so? I'd love that if it were true!

I don't know if we're actually popular enough for that. But sometimes people do it! Maybe we should make that our goal.

[She plays with the rabbit ears on her jacket. These costumes are adorable, okay.]

I think that's a really good goal. We can make it happen.

[holding up her hands in the shape of a heart]

It's still hard to control, though, isn't it? But then, that might be what makes it exciting!

Doesn't look too much like that, to me. But even then they might stick around.

I'm more concerned that their set finishes close to on-schedule. Knew I should gotten here early to do the light rigs.

[Not like the mall would've let her, but she would've tried!]