Raika

Okay, everyone's favorite Pockin'ice is here~! Let's eat together~!

Chieri

Chieri will have a whole one.

Raika

No, you can't, because we only have two. Break them in half, and it's just enough for four of us.

Yomogi

Then please take mine... A person who can't even talk to the newcomer doesn't deserve to eat, so...

Raika

No~! It only tastes good because we share it.

Raika

Okay... It broke cleanly~ These are for Cherie and Yomogi... And this is for Miku!

Miku

Wow~ Thank you.

Raika

Alright everyone, put our hands together...

Chieri

Let's eat~!

Yomogi

Let's... eat...

Chieri

Hehe, how's that? Chieri said it first.

Raika

That was a false start! Alright, let's do it again!

Chieri

No do-overs. And Yomogi has already started eating.

Raika

Huh~!? You should say "Let's eat" first, Yomogi! Greetings are the basics of family!

Yomogi

I-I said it...!!

Raika

Really? Sorry, I didn't hear it!

Raika

Well, can't undo it because you've already eaten. Then I'll start too, let's eat~

Miku

Let's eat... *Munch*...

Miku

(*Sigh*... This is the worst...)

Miku

(No matter how many times I check the documents, the property is correct, and my signature and my father's are both right there.)

Miku

(If I look closely, it actually says in the footnote at the bottom that working part-time at the live house is mandatory... And I missed it, I'm such an idiot.)

Miku

(There's also a note saying "people who can play an instrument preferred." I guess that means I'm supposed to play in a band with these girls...)

Raika

Mm~ Delicious~! Eating with family really makes it taste twice as good!

Miku

Raika-chan... Um... What does "family" mean?

Raika

Huh? It means exactly what it says.

Miku

Um... Does that mean we're bandmates? Or that... Living in the same dorm makes us family?

Raika

Both! A family should live together and play in a band together, right?

Miku

Hmm... I don't think I've really heard of that~

Chieri

See! This whole "family" thing you talk about is definitely weird, Raika!

Raika

No, it's not~ We have our rules, they have theirs!

Raika

My family has been like this since I was living with Granny and others!

Miku

Your grandma and "others?"

Raika

Yeah. Me, Granny and her family... Oh, we were living with her band members together.

Miku

Huh... By the way, do you have a blood connection with those band members...?

Raika

No! The only one I'm connected to is Granny!

Miku

I see...

Miku

(So, they were just sharing rooms with a bunch of strangers, but they called that... a "family?")

Raika

This house and the live house are both Granny's, and I was born and raised here!

Raika

Until last year, I had been eating and playing in a band with Granny and others every day...

Raika

Granny and others said, "We should go on a tour around the world before we die☆ World tour, let's go!" and took off on their trip.

Raika

At that moment, I made up my mind. I decided to stay in Japan and create my own family!

Raika

So, I got the house and the live house passed on to me, and I turned it into a dorm last year!

Miku

Huh...

Yomogi

Ra... Raika-san, maybe you see it that way, but I kinda moved in thinking it was just a regular dorm...

Raika

Oh really? I've thought of everyone as family ever since you came to this dorm!

Raika

Eating, working part-time, and playing lives together every day... Just doing all that already makes us the best family ever!

Raika

Let's enjoy our peaceful family life of us four from today on!

Miku

(Ah, so for her, that's what "family" is.)

Miku

(This is the natural form of a family. A symbol of happiness. She grew up in a place that made her believe that.)

Miku

(I think that's fine... As long as I'm not involved.)

Yomogi

I... I can't do it...! I'll just end up causing trouble to everyone...!

Raika

Bring on the trouble! That's all part of being family!

Yomogi

...!

Chieri

It's not okay at all! And besides, Chieri isn't your family...

Yomogi

There it is!!! Raika-san's Godo-kun move!!

Miku

Huh...? Godo... what?

Yomogi

Huh? Ah...

Yomogi

Whoaaaaa! It's nothing!! I'm definitely not talking about "Saga of the Steel-spirit (Hagane)Bancho: Onishigure"!

Miku

Um... Is that a movie title or something?

Yomogi

Gyaaah!! I can't believe I blurted out stuff about the manga I treat as my bible... This is way too embarrassing...!

Chieri

Hey, Yomogi! As the subordinate of Chieri, you shouldn't get flustered over something like this!

Yomogi

I-I-I'm sorry! When my heart is about to burst, I can't even stop myself...!

Raika

Yomogi, when that happens, just take a deep breath! Okay, breathe in~ breathe out~

Yomogi

Ugh... How embarrassing... I'm always like this...!

Miku

(This girl doesn't listen to people either... But she probably just doesn't have the mental space for it.)

Miku

(If you're mentally overwhelmed, you can't hear the voices around you, and you can't meet anyone's eyes either.)

Miku

(I know that, because I've seen people like that every single day.)

Miku

(Whether that person is in a bad mood today, whether she can talk calmly... I was always thinking about stuff like that...)

Miku

!

Miku

(Why am I thinking about this? I don't need to do that anymore.)

Yomogi

*Inhale*... *Exhale*...

Yomogi

I'm sorry, I'm fine now... I'm really sorry...

Chieri

Yomogi, you apologize way too much! It's just a manga, isn't it?

Yomogi

J-Just... a manga...

Miku

(Ah~ Come on... She just calmed down, and you say that kind of thing...)

Miku

For Yomogi-san, it isn't just a "manga," right?

Yomogi・Chieri

Huh?

Miku

I think I get it a little, from what you just said.

Miku

You got so emotional about it that you can't hold it in. It must be a really important work to you.

Yomogi

Th-Thank you very much!!

Miku

Oh, you don't have to thank me...

Yomogi

That line you just said is exactly like something Sayuri-chan would say. She's the heroine from volume 3 of "Saga of the Steel-spirit Bancho: Onishigure!" I'm so moved!!

Miku

Huh...?

Yomogi

Godo-kun never talks about himself to girls, but that day, somehow he told Sayuri-chan about his beloved car! That's a famous scene!

Yomogi

"Geez... Why did I talk about all that..." "That means it's that important to you. I get it."

Yomogi

That's the moment the two of them get much closer! I never imagined the same thing as "Onishigu" would happen to me...!!

Yomogi

I feel like, I can try a little harder now!!

Raika

Amazing! Yomogi's try-hard energy is fully charged!

Chieri

Mmm... Just Raika and the newcomer...

Chieri

Yomogi, please be as moved by Chieri's words as you were just now!

Yomogi

Yes! Huh...!? That might be a bit difficult...!

Chieri

Wh-Why!? Chieri is so amazing!

Yomogi

Umm, if you say something like "Onishigu," maybe it can do, perhaps...!

Chieri

Newcomer Miku! What kind of skill have you used?

Miku

Huh, I didn't do anything... I heard of the manga just now.

Chieri

Ch-Chieri is also an amazing leader who cares about subordinates!

Raika

I know, I know! Cherie's that kind of person, like a love slap!

Raika

You know that word? A four-character kanji phrase for a Spartan style of encouragement...

Yomogi

A four-character phrase for encouragement... Maybe it's the one Godo-kun carries—"Ai Mei Jin Gu(Amazing)"...!

Chieri

I get it! That's "Ten Sai Den Setsu!"

Raika

Hmm... I feel like it had more of a sharp, crisp ring to it...

Raika・Yomogi・Chieri

Hmm...

Miku

Maybe... it's "Shi Tta Geki Rei?"

Raika

That's probably it~~~!! Amazing! Miku knows everything!

Yomogi

The way you're good at four-character phrases is so like "Onishigu" too...!!

Chieri

Grrr... Getting more attention than Chieri, I just can't forgive that!

Miku

(Ugh, what am I doing now...!)

Miku

(These girls are absolutely idiots. There's no way I can have a normal conversation with them.)

Miku

(Anyway, I should stay away from them, or I'll become an idiot too!)