"You don't know that! You're just giving up without trying."

Nico pauses to consider her words, and her voice loses a bit of its rough edge as she continues. "Look, at the start of last year we were all just a bunch of mismatched strangers, and by the end of it we'd become -- us, you know? We got to know each other. We won the Love Live. That happened in just one year. When you think about it that way, it seems obvious that a lot more great things can happen this year too, right? You can make even more precious memories. Won't you regret missing it just because you're so hung up on the past?"

A bit clunkily, she sits back down next to Maki and adds: "And you still have us, stupid."