Open The Door / Mayoi Idol Story

[fulfilledlegend]

Season: Summer


Location: 3-B Classroom



Mayoi: (Ahh... I've finally managed to step foot into class after so long.)

(Aira-san worried endlessly about me, seeing as I was the only one from ALKALOID who hadn't resumed my studies, even after what we overcame during the MDM.)

(I couldn't stand making him worry about something like me, so I chose to show up for once, though...)

(A room for shining, aspiring idols, it's hardly somewhere I belong...)

......?

(It felt like I was being watched for a moment...)

(What could anyone ever want with me...?)

Arashi: ......

Mayoi: (Narukami-san...? No, there's no way anyone could ever notice me, not when I'm surrounded by all these people who stand out way better than me. Don't get ahead of yourself, Mayoi!)

(Ahh... I wish I could disappear. Or at the very least, hide within the shadows of my desk.)

(After all, the vents is the only place best suited for something such as I. But I may cause Aira-san to be even more troubled...)

......

(It doesn't matter, I shall still attend class "properly". Gulp... Why won't this body of mine stop trembling... Perhaps I should convince myself that it's from excitement instead.)


< Lunch break >

Mayoi: (Haah... Finally, the lengthy morning lessons came to an end. At least for the duration of lunch, I'd like to vanish from the classroom, from everyone's gaze...)



Arashi: Hold on, Mayoi-chan.

Mayoi: Hiihh...!? Sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry for being alive!

Arashi: Oh my, did I give you a scare? Sorry for that.

Mayoi: N-no...

Arashi: If you've got nothing planned right now, I hope you wouldn't mind if I stole a bit of your time.

Mayoi: Eh!? M-me? Could you have gotten the wrong person...?

Arashi: Fufu, there's no way. I've got a little something I'd like to ask you about.

Mayoi: Aah, I'm sorry a being such as myself caught your eye!

Arashi: Um... I didn't expect to get an apology in response. Do I really look that intimidating to you?

I just wanted to ask you a little about hair, that's all.

Mayoi: Hair... Could you be talking about mine?

Arashi: Yup, it's so long and beautiful, I couldn't help but admire it. I wanted to know how you care for your hair.

Mayoi: That's a little... M-my hair is only long, nothing else...

Arashi: There's no need for you to be so humble. It's long and isn't frizzy, I'd say you have wonderful hair.

Mayoi: I-it's hardly anything to be impressed of... 

Arashi: ...? Hey, Mayoi-chan...

Mayoi: Hwah!?

Arashi: Your skin is wonderful, too ♪ I wonder, do you have any clue just what a beauty you are?

Mayoi: Um, uh...

Arashi: ...Oh, sorry. I really let myself go there.

But y'know, all the TV cameras have been of great quality recently, don't you think?

Because of that, I've been paying much more attention to my skin and hair nowadays. I've fallen into the habit of asking about that to anyone I see immediately...

Mayoi: I-I see. If I could assist you in any way, then do observe me as you wish...

Arashi: Thanks a bunch ♪ You're really kind, Mayoi-chan.

It sounds like I'm using you for your kindness but... Would you tell me how I can keep my skin as fair as yours? Anything I need to watch out for?

Mayoi: That's only because I'm a shut-in...

Arashi: Ufufu, how could you call yourself a shut-in, you delivered such a wonderful performance onstage at the MDM, didn't you?

Mayoi: Uu, those are two different things...

???: Oi~, Naru-chan.

Mayoi: ...Eek!

Arashi: Oh, Mika-chan ♪ Welcome, welcome.



Mika: Ah, yer talkin' to a classmate.

Arashi: Yup. Did you want to eat lunch together?

Mika: I did, but it looks 'm only disturbin' ya two.

Arashi: Don't say that. You'll never be a hindrance to me, Mika-chan.

Mika: But since when did ya get all chummy with this ALKALOID guy? And goin' out of yer way to chat with 'im, even.

Mayoi: Narukami-san and I are hardly close at all, so...

Arashi: That's a rather lonely thing to say, don't you think? And I was even thinking of inviting Mayoi-chan to lunch as well.

Mayoi: Ehhhh!? I-it's impossible for someone like me to...!

Mika: Well then, seems like us three's spendin' lunch together. Hope we's get along well, ALKALOID's... Uh, Ayase-kun, 'zat right?

...Oh right. Naru-chan called out t' me back then, too. When I was all by my lonesome, she asked me out for lunch, 'm gettin' all nostalgic now.

I ain't someone who can talk up a storm like Naru-chan, sorry 'bout that. Hope it don't bother ya too much.

Arashi: Looks to me that the two of you'll hit it off.



Mayoi: Uu... I'm honoured to be included within your circle of friends...!

Arashi: Now, don't be so dramatic. All I want is to talk to you more, Mayoi-chan.

In all honesty, I'm being quite selfish here. So it goes without saying, if you actually don't want to come with, you're free to refuse us...

I'll ask once more, how does the three of us having lunch together sound? One has to spend time together first to know whether or not you'd click with them, right?

Even Mika-chan and I, we're closer than ever now, but we were total strangers at the start.

Mayoi: Narukami-san...

Mika: What she said.

Fer me, I practically never take the first step t' talk t' anyone I dunno. If Naru-chan hadn't came up t' me back then, we'd pro'lly never get t' know each other.

Ayase-kun, hope ya don't mind becomin' a friend of mine, too.

Mayoi: (A friend...? Is something like that even possible...?)

(I've always thought that I didn't belong here, in this class, in this academy, in this world. And even around people like them...)



(But even so, if they're so willingly calling out to me—)

U-uhm, I'll be in your care, then...!

Arashi: How delightful! In that case, from today onwards, you're our friend now ♪

Mayoi: O-of course...

Arashi: It's decided, then.

Now, we'd better hurry over to the garden terrace. We don't have much time left.

Mika: 'S right. Our break'll be over before we know it if we don't get goin'.

Mayoi: Fufu, let us be off then...!