Location: Café “Cinnamon”
HiMERU: — “Werewolf”?
Rinne: Yeah, dude. It’s a game where, through talkin’ to each other, ya gotta uncover the lyin’ li’l werewolf who’s pretendin’ to be your friend.
The other day, some guys were playin’ it in the common area of the Starmony Dorm and I had ‘em let me join in. It was a blast.
And while we’re all here, let’s make it a competition! The loser’s gotta treat us to lunch!
If I’m the werewolf, I’m gonna eat you up first and foremost, Niki. Get ready for your just deserts, kyahaha ☆
Niki: Don’t make scary declarations like that! I like to eat, but I’d rather not be eaten.
Kohaku: Werewolf, huh? I’ve played that online before. That game needs 8 or more players, so we can’t do it by ourselves, right?
Rinne: No worries, I can just hit up the guys from ASOBI Club on HoldHands — then we’ll easily get enough peeps in here.
Niki: “Easily”, huh. Not everyone’s got the kinda free time you have, Rinne-kun.
Rinne: Aaahn? Hell are you talkin’ about, I don’t have that much time to spare either. I’ve only got this one life, and livin’ it to the fullest doin’ all kinds of hilarious shit keeps me real busy!
HiMERU: — That’s called “having free time”.
Kohaku: Huh… HiMERU-han, yer leavin’ already?
HiMERU: Yes. It seems like the business talk is over, so there’s no point in staying any longer than this.
Kohaku: Aight. But can ya answer me one question before ya go?
HiMERU: — A question? As long as it’s something HiMERU can answer, do go ahead and ask.
Kohaku: Thank ya kindly. I’m not sure how t’broach this topic, so I’ll just ask ya point-blank: Did ya screw somethin’ up, HiMERU-han?
HiMERU: Screw up? Did HiMERU do something like that?
Kohaku: I mean, I don’t think you’ve been involved in any misdeeds.
Ya see, yesterday Anzu-han asked me to tell her everythin’ I know about ya, HiMERU-han.
Niki: Ah! Oh right, it didn’t happen yesterday, but she asked me about HiMERU-kun, too.
I was hungry back then, so I turned her down with a, “Yeah, some other time.” Still, I wonder what that was all about?
HiMERU: She asked both Oukawa and Shiina? Then, that must mean…
Rinne: ‘Course, she reached out to li’l old me as well. When I said that I’d spill the beans if she beat me in a gamble, she turned tail, though.
So spit it out, Merumeru. What’d you screw up?
HiMERU: ………
Rinne: If ya don’t feel like tellin’ us what’s up, how about we reveal it through a game of Werewolf? Kyahaha ☆
HiMERU: — There’s nothing to reveal in the first place. HiMERU doesn’t have the slightest idea what this could be about.
(Actually, the only thing that comes to mind is “my” secret. Perhaps she suspects something, and that’s why she’s sounding out the people around HiMERU...?)
HiMERU will go meet with Anzu-san in person and ask what it is that she wants to know. Well then, see you.
Location: CosPro Office
HiMERU: (The person standing with their back turned towards HiMERU… As expected, it’s Anzu-san. Finally, HiMERU found her.)
(Seeing as she’s at the CosPro office, perhaps she’s still investigating HiMERU.)
(In that case, HiMERU will return the favor. Time to probe your true intentions…)
— Good day, Anzu-san. Did you come to CosPro for work today?
You’re staring at that computer screen so eagerly… Oh my.
That’s... old footage of a HiMERU performance, isn’t it? How nostalgic.
However, HiMERU believes that the DVDs that contain this footage are no longer being distributed. How did you come by them?
...Hmm, so you borrowed them from vice president Saegusa. He certainly seems like the kind of person who would have this data in his possession.
(So they're not recordings of Crazy:B, but HiMERU’s solo lives? In that case, she really must be investigating HiMERU.)
(But to what end…?)
— Fufu. Even though you’re just looking at old footage, it still feels somewhat embarrassing to be stared at so fervently.
Why are you watching something like that after all this time?
A personalized outfit? Yes, HiMERU knows of them. So you plan to create a new outfit for HiMERU soon.
Interesting. Creating the vice president’s personalized outfit was your cue to start investigating other idols in advance from now on, hm?
(Speaking of which, the vice president’s personalized outfit struck HiMERU as very befitting of him. Well, not that HiMERU knows him all that well...)
(In any case, it appears as though she wasn’t on the hunt for the secret after all.)
Could it be that you’ve been asking around about HiMERU in order to plan this personalized outfit, Anzu-san?
So that’s what it was about. You see, just earlier, Amagi and the others told HiMERU that you were inquiring about him.
Hmm… So you intended to ask HiMERU directly, but he had gone home for the day, so you asked the others instead.
Very well, HiMERU understands the situation. Certainly, he has often been going home early in recent times. Since you’re quite busy yourself, we probably just kept missing each other.
(Still, there was no need for Amagi to use such a loaded phrase like “screw up”... It made HiMERU far too suspicious for no reason.)
You’re sorry for making it seem like you’re sounding HiMERU out? Please, there’s no need to apologize.
...You want to know HiMERU’s request? In other words, what kind of outfit HiMERU would like to wear?
Please don’t concern yourself with what HiMERU wants; feel free to design whatever your heart desires, Anzu-san —
No matter what kind of outfit it will turn out to be, it will look stylish on HiMERU. Please create it as you see fit.
— What’s the matter? Do you have a question for HiMERU?
You want to think of a rough draft at home and consult HiMERU again once you’ve come up with something…?
Understood. Feel free to talk to HiMERU whenever you’d like, Anzu-san.