Nagi

So this is where you were, Natsume-senpai.

Natsume

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

Nagi

Will you check your messages already?

Natsume

Messages?

Nagi

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

Natsume

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

Natsume

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

Nagi

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

Nagi

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

Natsume

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

Nagi

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

Natsume

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

Nagi

No, if I head back now, I won't have time to eat... Can I eat here?

Natsume

Do what you want...

Nagi

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

Natsume

What's so nice about that?

Natsume・Nagi

...

Nagi

So the "Rooftop Guitarist" is back.

Natsume

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

Natsume

No idea who came up with it, but having a nickname isn't such a bad feeling.

Nagi

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

Nagi

Were you like that even before you met Kanata?

Natsume

So 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...)

Nagi

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

Natsume

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

Natsume

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

Nagi

I've got my own pace.

Natsume

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

Natsume

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

Natsume

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

Nagi

You're really fired up.

Natsume

Obviously. We can't just settle for Comet Rising.

Natsume

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

Nagi

Haaah...

Nagi

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

Nagi

That's pretty cool.

Natsume

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

Nagi

I meeean it.

Natsume

This girl...

Nagi

Mmm... This egg sandwich is good.