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Tonight, once more, Yukina had talked about the same cat she has been sighting during her usual walks home to Lisa. The both of them exchange their farewells and good nights to one another before hanging up and going to sleep. Yukina drifted off to sleep much easier than the other nights, but woke up with cold sweat running down her rosy cheeks the next morning. She had a nightmare--the worst one she had experienced thus far. Begrudgingly, she gets ready for school, and band practice after.
After school, Yukina takes the usual route to CIRCLE, spotting the usual cat in the usual road, yet this time, her seeing the cat hits a little bit different. The cat is associated with the dream she had just experienced last night, so she was reminded of it with great detail. Yukina flinched a little, and so she hurried to where the other members of Roselia are.
“Yahoo, Yukina!” Lisa greets her first as usual, but the grave look on her face made Lisa worry.
“Yukina? Are you alright?” she asks.
“Lisa...I had a dream--no, a nightmare…”
“A nightmare?” Lisa sighs a breath of relief, “I thought you were mugged on the street or something, thank goodness you’re alright, at least!” she adds, “And? What’s this nightmare about?”
At this point, all the other members of Roselia are already listening in on the conversation.
“Mitake-san… It was about Afterglow. Mitake-san had told me they were going to surpass Roselia in popularity with a snap of her finger. The next thing I knew, they were already topping the charts, with us only in second place…” Yukina breathes for a bit before continuing, “And then, Mitake-san and I were behind the school, and she did a kabedon on me, and I…”
“...and then you…?” everyone else exclaims in unison.
“I don’t remember what happened next.” Yukina says as she blushes a little bit.
The other members of Roselia were severely disappointed because of their overwhelming curiosity about the sequence of events, but swiftly returned to their practice session after.