"Well," Nico flips a twintail, grinning, "Nico-nii gave a dazzling performance, of course! They're announcing those who move onto the next stage in ten days. Unless they're blind and deaf, there's no way I won't make it." She sounds, remarkably, as confident as she did talking about the last four auditions she's taken since graduation.

"What about you? Have you been giving Eli and Honoka's sisters a proper introduction to idoling?"