I don't remember much about how I sang at that time.
I've made up my mind.
I will definitely make you look my way.
Fly!
Whether I'm awake or asleep
I'm nothing more than a canary
Inside a sweet, glistening cage of ideals
Whether I'm awake or asleep
This is bad. Alice is going berserk again.
I can't leave my cage
I'm always there when I wake up
It's okay.
I can keep up.
You say that's fine if everyone's here
Really, our little canary is going wild.
So come here with me
We'll catch you this time, though!
She's rushing even more than at the school performance.
When I shout, that alone makes me invincible
But unlike then, she's listening to us this time.
So please don't open this cage
This...
might work!
I'll fall
Straight down
It's not enough.
Not enough! Not enough!
I won't reach him like this!
More.
More!
Hey... Momo, what are you doing?
Is your guitar okay?
Momo?
Nino.
What is this?
She's a monster.
Even if I'm completely naked, I'm not scared anymore
I'll keep on singing, because I'm a canary
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♭06 Today and Tomorrow, We'll Walk
Score!
The single's going to sell for sure!
We definitely made her berserking work for us!
Man, that seriously felt amazing!
Did I...
Did I really sing all right?
You did.
On that big, open stage,
singing my heart out with the lights on me...
I could almost see ahead of me.
You let me sing.
Thank you.
I can't make money with your song.
I don't know how Momo spent the last six years.
I didn't sing all this time for that!
I didn't know a thing. I was only thinking of myself.
All I could do was thrust myself upon him with words.
Momo, I'm sorry.
I should have sung all my feelings to you right then.
Even if they wouldn't reach your heart.
Did you see yesterday's Music King?
I saw it!
In NO Hurry was totally awesome!
Right?
TV is amazing.
I heard the same conversation so many times at the station.
Now that you mention it,
we hadn't even heard that they'd decided on the first album's release date.
So it seems.
That Yana! He never tells us anything.
He's so mean!
My mother's been so moved ever since last night.
My little girl's on TV!
She hasn't stopped crying.
Didn't In NO Hurry seem different from their CDs last night?
Did they?
I thought they were great live.
Looks like we'll be hearing more of them.
They made their TV debut, after all.
I totally can't wait.
Amazing. There are tons of rips online.
Seriously?
Dead serious.
Dead...
Hello.
Arisugawa-san?
I'm Kuze from Möbius Music.
Sorry to bring this up out of the blue, but...
In NO Hurry was so great yesterday.
They're releasing an album, right?
I'm totally gonna buy it!
Hello, Arisugawa-san.
Sorry to call you out here so suddenly.
It's too bad about the audition.
I was one of the judges. Do you remember seeing me?
No. Um, why exactly did you invite me here?
Here. This is for you.
It's Momo's guitar.
Huh?
It got scratched, so he said he wanted to throw it out.
So I made the decision to give it to you.
Huh? Wh-Why me?
Because Momo was badly shaken.
When he heard you sing on Music King, I mean.
Oh, don't worry.
I won't tell anyone.
Momo's the only one who figured out you were Alice from In NO Hurry.
Look at this scratch.
Momo dropped his mug here while listening to you sing.
It wasn't about money.
He just couldn't stop himself from reacting.
I want you to have it.
Because it's proof that,
for an instant, your voice managed to move his heart.
Take care of it.
Guitar!
What's gotten into you, Alice?
Guitar!
Huh?
Guitar!
Uh, I know that's a guitar. What about it?
Guitar!
Are you even listening?
It's Momo's guitar.
Apparently, Momo figured out that it was me on yesterday's Music King.
He was so shaken when he heard me sing
that he dropped his mug on his guitar.
And this is that guitar. Someone from Möbius said I could have it.
Momo...
It's all thanks to you.
Thank you.
It's all because you made me into Alice.
Because you let me sing with In NO Hurry.
That's why I could reach Momo, even if only a little.
This scratch is tiny, but it makes me so happy.
Just so, so, so happy.
I wanted to tell you before anyone else.
I feel like, in the six years since I let go of Momo's hand,
this is the first time I've touched him.
Even if it's just a tiny scratch, only a few centimeters long.
I'll sing.
Next time I see Momo, I'll show him even more of how I feel.
Until it reaches him.
Until he looks my way.
I don't mind teaching you how to play guitar.
Really? I'm so happy!
Then I want to play one of your songs!
I like your songs best.
I love them!
Then I guess I could teach you "Canary."
Sure!
You gave Nino my guitar?
Why did you do that without asking?
I also told her about how you were so shaken.
Because you seemed to really regret
what happened on the day of the audition.
She was probably relieved to know that might not be how you really felt.
Just because you feel you owe someone
doesn't mean you have to push them away.
You're so unfair.
What you should be calling me is "wise," Momo-chan.
Please don't treat me like a child.
But you are a child.
I'll be back on Saturday.
Make sure you lock up.
Great!
You were so awful at first that I was worried,
but you somehow managed to get the intro down!
Yuzu! I'm a genius!
Yep! You're not listening again today!
Nice positivity!
I'm so happy!
I'm singing with Momo's guitar!
What? Arisugawa, you can play the guitar?
Baldy.
Baldy?!
He's Baldy. We went to elementary school together.
He went bald a long time ago.
I did not go bald!
It's been awhile, Baldy.
Are you listening to me?!
Arisugawa-san, you play the guitar?
Hey, that's a Greco. Sweet.
Play something!
I've only just started learning.
When I learn a song, I'll play it for you.
I thought Arisugawa-san was just some weird girl in a mask and headphones.
But she's actually pretty cute!
Yeah, I guess.
I think I've finally gotten F down.
What's going on there?
She got a guitar, so Yuzu's been teaching her every morning.
You know... Since the Music King thing went better than expected,
we've got some free time.
Yana-chan wants to keep the fans "hungry," he says,
so he's not booking anything else until summer.
I see.
Why don't you just tell him?
"Teach me, too."
I can play guitar already!
Oh, no! I dropped my earring!
Sheesh.
Here.
Thanks, Haruyoshi-senpai.
What's with those earrings?
Yuzu gave them to her.
Haruyoshi, have you gotten Miou a birthday present yet?
I figured something out.
I got one, too.
You guys are fast! What should I get her?
Gifts for Ladies
If I'm gonna buy her something, I want it to make her really happy.
How about some earrings?
Huh?
Miou got her ears pierced last month.
Did you know?
I didn't! That's a great idea.
Thanks, Haruyoshi.
Sure.
I know what to do now. Earrings, huh?
I think she'd like these.
You just can't get a break, huh, Haruyoshi-senpai?
With what, Kuro?
Nothing at all.
Arisugawa-san.
I wanted you to know how grateful I am for the guitar.
Thank you very much.
You didn't have to go out of your way.
Momo isn't even here.
Huh? No, I know that.
More like, I never figured you'd let me meet him, anyway.
If you've got a message for him, I can tell him.
I don't, really.
Are you sure?
Well, if you think of something, you can tell me anytime.
Here. My business card.
After all, I live with him.
Later.
Hase
What is Kuze-san to Momo?
She seems to know him really well.
Just what are they...
Prick
Huh?
Prick
What's this?
Prick
It hurts.
Alice, are you sick?
My chest has been hurting since yesterday.
What's up with that? Go to the hospital.
Yuzu.
If you lived with me, we'd be roommates, right?
Wh-Where'd this come from all of a sudden?
Apparently, Momo is living with the woman who gave me this guitar.
A boy and girl can live together as roommates, nothing romantic, right?
Because they're friends.
I've never once thought of you as a friend.
Huh?
Not a friend?
So what am I? An acquaintance? Just someone you know?
No, you're a friend! You're my friend, Alice!
So we'd be roommates!
You're right.
Let's practice, Yuzu.
Yeah.
That's right. They're just roommates, and nothing more.
It's nothing to be worried about.
Nothing to worry about.
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Miou.
Oh, Yuzu.
You're as short as ever today.
Are you picking a fight?
Uh, well..
I passed the audition!
Seriously? Wow...
You're amazing, Miou.
Congratulations.
We'd better not fall behind.
I heard you're making an album.
Yeah. I'm writing tons of songs right now.
Yeah?
Yana's really into it, too.
He says I need to have five songs by tomorrow.
Really?
Yeah.
Later!
Miou.
What's the matter? Not going home?
You sure have it good, don't you, Nino?
Hey.
Why did you follow me?
I want to be alone!
I just wanted to come here, too.
Yuigahama is like my own backyard to me.
I sing here every morning.
And I always come here when I want to calm down.
You make me so mad!
Wherever I go, everyone's talking about you.
Why did you have to come back into Yuzu's life?
In NO Hurry was where I belonged!
I thought that if I left In NO Hurry,
joined another band,
and In NO Hurry failed with you as my replacement,
Yuzu would try to stop me!
Miou...
Do you have feelings for Yuzu?
I'm done.
I'm tired of going in circles and waiting.
I feel so lame.
Miou?
Yuzu gave me these earrings.
I don't need them anymore.
Nino!
What are you doing, you idiot?!
Your earrings will get washed away.
There's no way you'll find them! It's fine, okay?!
Is it really? You won't regret it?
It's fine.
I told you, it's fine!
That's enough. I've already given up!
I'm not like you!
You know what?
Most people wouldn't keep singing for someone for six years.
You're the weird one!
I know that.
I know that already!
I sing here as loudly as I can every morning.
I know that isn't normal!
I've been laughed at and made fun of over and over again.
I've more than gotten used to it by now!
I know I'm weird, thanks! Got a problem with that?!
Even I...
sometimes thought singing here was pointless.
I thought about quitting all the time.
But...
You should quit only after you've gone as far as you can.
That's why I'll sing.
No matter how unseemly, stupid, or weird I look.
Sorry, Miou. You're all wet.
Let me dry—
Miou.
What?
One was stuck to my pocket.
It's very tenacious, and it shines brightly.
Just like you.
How do they look?
Really good!
They were the ones that looked most like you in the store.
Thanks. I'll always treasure them.
My medicine's all soaked, too.
Medicine for what? A cold?
I don't know.
My chest has been hurting since yesterday, when I heard Momo was living with a woman.
I'll go to a hospital for it tomorrow.
You don't need to go. It's probably just jealousy.
Huh?
Nino, aren't you just jealous of that woman?
I... I am?!
Nino, is this... the first time you've ever felt jealous?
So this is jealousy.
All right, do your best.
I'm expecting good work.
Was that Yuzu-kun?
Yep. Looks like we'll be able to get enough songs together for the album.
But you know...
Is something wrong?
The release date of Kiryuu Momo's band's debut album
is the same day as In NO Hurry's first album release.
And not just that. Look at this band name.
I can tell we're on their mind.
Wait, these guys...
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are performing at the Summer Festival?
Oh, you mean Rock Horizon?
Yeah.
We got an offer to play there, too.
Seriously?
Yep.
Yana-san, that face isn't flattering.
It's my belief that you should accept and win any fight brought to you.
Kanade?
We all
had our hearts full of these stupid, unseemly feelings that shone brightly.
You really are weird.
I'll take that as a compliment.
What's with that?
And we walk forward today.
Oh, no. I wonder if I really do have a cold.
And why is Yuzu so late?
He's usually here before me...
You're not even an early riser.
What are you doing here so early?
Today and tomorrow...
Damn it.
...we'll walk.
Damn it!
♭07 Our Lines of Sight Finally Overlapped