On usual, precious nights, I'd be riding by your side...
...as you take me in your car for a ride.
I hung up the phone, when you called to cancel the date...
...I tried to pretend that there wasn't a scent of lie.
The color of my manicure, as it dries...
...only serves to glamorize this night...
A-ha-ha...
The Actress in the Mirror...
Got to be more straightforward to say it...
...but uncertainty whispers into my ear...
'Cause I love you...
The Actress in the Mirror...
each time I act, the truth leaves further...
...and further from my face. You've broken my heart.
A-ha-ha...
The Actress in the Mirror...
Got to be able to cry...
...but my pride keeps revising my dialogue...
'Cause I love you...
The Actress in the Mirror...
There's no turning back now that I've realized...
...the seriousness of the crime. You've broken my heart.
Heartbroken Hikaru! Follow Her to the Winter Beach.
It all happened sometime during the final semester of...
...our last year in junior high.
You've got to! C'mon!
What?
Come on, Oniichan! C'mon!
H... Hey, Kazuya!
See? Over there!
What?!
Say, Oniichan, you wanna rock?
"Rock?!"
Yup. Rock!
C'mon, don't you wanna?
Get real, for goodness sakes! How could I possibly do that?!
Really! I can never understand how kids think!
Besides, I shouldn't even mention that Kazuya's no average kid...
Aha... A Music Festival, eh?
So... you applied for it?
Uh-huh.
I put Darling down as our leader.
Huh?
It'll be fine. You can learn to play anything quickly, Darling.
Hold on! I can't do something like that without any notice!
How could you decide on this without asking me?! No way! Forget it!
I only thought that we'd...
I only thought that it would be fun to form a rock band together...
You've made oneechan sad!
Come on... Ayukawa...
Okay... But don't blame me if anything goes wrong!
Yeah! Yeah!
Darling!
If we all give it our all, "The Pikkaru's" will get the grand prize for sure!
"The Pikkaru's?"
Yup!
Our group's name... It comes from Hikaru-oneechan's name!
The Pikkaru's "brightly shine," you see... Right! "Hikaru": to shine. "Pikkari": brightly.
Now that's funny!
Yukari...
Guys... Sorry... but could we take five?
Hey! Kazuya!
Shh! It'll be fine!
Be serious! Would you knock it off?!
"Elation"
It's gotten late, huh?
Couldn't help it... We just started, after all...
Can't get it off your mind, can you...?
They're adults. I'm sure they'll make up soon.
Huh...? Oh...
What's more important is... to put our all into The Pikkaru's!
Oh, yeah! Shuu was saying... that he'd write some songs for us.
Thank you.
Yeah... Well, then... See you tomorrow.
Since tomorrow's Saturday, can you come early?
Oh! Tomorrow's Saturday, huh?
Well, take care!
See ya.
Sorry...
Sure...
Well, then... Goodnight...
H... Hi... Good evening.
What?! What was that?!
"The P... Pikkaru's..."
Gosh... Sounds like a little league team, huh?
Uh-huh...
Have some.
Oh! No! I'm only in junior high, so...
Well, then... maybe just a sip...
What happened after that was...
...that I watched TV with Yukari, all night long.
O... Oh, shoot!
I... I... I was just, er...
If you'll excuse me!
Coming home in the morning, eh? You stud!
What were you doing, out all night long?!
Wh... N... No...
In short, I...
"Believe Me"
"H... Hikaru..."
"Darling... Where were you last night?"
"I was worried about you.
"Madoka said that you guys split around 10 pm...
"What were you really doing?"
"Something naughty with Madoka...?"
"D... Dummy!
"I wasn't doing anything with anybody!"
"I was just...
"...just...
"...I was...
"...practicing the drums all night long... trying to get better at it."
"Darling...
"I thought that was it!
"You really want us to win at the Music Festival, isn't that so, Darling?"
"I dreamt about it all along..."
"Bet it must be so nice...
"...to be listening to you play, caressed by the sea breeze."
Oniichan...
Is there anything wrong, Darling?
Kazuya!
Did something happen... to Oniichan?
Huh? Er, no... I was, er, just standing here, so...
Kazuya!
Huh?
Er...
You know something, don't you?
That can't be... That can't possibly be true!
Darling wouldn't do such a thing.
It can't be... It can't be...
It can't possibly be true!
Hikaru...
Darling...
Sempai... you weren't with Yukari last night, right?
Well? It's not true, right?
T...
The truth is that...
Hikaru!
Darling... Darling...
I hate you!
Hikaru...
"Orange Noise"
Oniichan...
The truth is, something did happen, right?
Why did you have to lie?
Will you shut up? Don't make me say it again and again!
I wanna do the "coming home in the morning" thing too!
Kasuga!
Just what did you do to Hikaru?!
You bastard!
That's enough!
He said nothing happened...
...why can't we leave it at that?!
You've all lost your minds!
Let go of me.
I'll go look for Hikaru!
I... I'll go look for her too!
M... Me too!
Why has this gotten so out of control?
Nothing's changed since yesterday.
Forming a band was a bad idea from the beginning.
If nothing happened...
...if nothing happened... why did you have to lie?!
I ran into Yukari... at the train station this morning.
"Thanks for last night..."
She said, "Tell Kasuga I said so."
Shuu was with her too.
I had a feeling that she knew...
...but, as it turns out... I'm playing the fool.
What a joke!
Oh... What's wrong, Kazuya?
Hikaru-oneechan is...
Oniichan, it's terrible...
And? Where is Hikaru?
B... By the sea...
She's by the sea, where the Festival will be!
O... Oniichan!
"If nothing happened... why did you have to lie?!"
Hikaru!
How did you know that I'd be here?
Here... in a week, the Festival will take place, right?
Sempai... The truth is that you were practicing, isn't it?
I'm sorry... 'Til just a second ago, I could only hate you...
But I heard the sound...
...the sound of drums.
And then when I saw your face... somehow I...
I'll do it, after all... Right here!
Oh! Madoka!
Maybe because I... wasn't straightforward...
Oh... I wish the Festival would start soon!
Hikaru... are you really all right now, or...
Pfhht! I'm perfectly fine!
Hey!
Oh! This feels so nice!
Madoka!
Let's go.
C'mon!
"I just dance in the sweet memories" (Sweet memories)
At a train station on a faraway day...
...snowflakes dance on the platform, and you came running, out of breath.
The days we had to be apart made the memory of you...
...a happy one, like seeing your photograph.
"I just dance in the sweet memories" Each time we're hurt we learn...
"I just dance in the sweet memories" ... what it takes to love someone.
"I just dance in the sweet memories" (He's my one and only; you never can tell)
"I just dance in the sweet memories" (Sweet memories)
"I just dance in the sweet memories"
It's the long-awaited Valentine's Day...
...but Kazuya made us switch places and now I've got to go to the dentist!
By now, that brat must be munching all my chocolates from Ayukawa or Hikaru!
Next time: "The Taste of Love? Kyosuke's Hellish Valentine."
I... am the world's most unfortunate guy!