Chapter 145 - Love Live Preliminary Competition

Brando would have never expected to meet Momo in this place. From any location in this country, why did he have to meet her in this place?

"Is she your friend?" Shima asked.

Brando nodded and said, "Yes. She is my friend."

"Dio, who is she?" Momo asked.

"She is my....." Brando thought for a while before saying, "Friend."

Shima nodded in response with a smile. "Hello, my name is Takami Shima."

"Nice to meet you. My name is Yaoyorozu Momo," Momo introduced herself. She looked at both of them and asked, "What are you doing here?"

Brando knew that it was too troublesome to tell the real reason. "I'll tell you later."

"Later? Is it something that is hard to say?" Momo raised her eyebrow.

Brando nodded in response.

"...." Momo looked at both Shima and Brando. She could see that Shima was beautiful even though Shima was older. She suddenly remembered the conversation that she had with Uwabami and couldn't help but ask, "Are you two dating?" She regretted her decision to ask this question since she didn't date him.

Shima and Brando looked at each other before shaking their heads.

"No!" Shima said with a red face.

"...." Brando was speechless looking at Shima's reaction. He looked at Momo and saw him looking at him with a suspicious gaze. "It's something involved with my internship."

Momo raised her eyebrow and said, "Internship?"

"I am sorry. I can't give you the details," Brando said.

"....." Momo looked at Brando for a while and really wanted to have an internship with him. She was curious, but she also knew that it might be related to an important secret of his internship's office. She nodded and said, "I understand." She stood up and walked to sit down beside him.

"..."

"Is she your girlfriend?" Shima asked with a low voice.

Momo could hear Shima's question and wondered what Brando would say in this situation.

Brando wasn't dumb, but he was thinking whether he should give up a forest for a single tree. He still wanted to play and said, "She is my classmate....."

Momo pinched Brando's arm when she heard such answers.

"Very close classmates," Brando said.

"..."

Momo thought for a while before nodded and gave him a gentle smile.

Shima nodded and didn't ask anymore. She continued to talk with Brando about an orange in this Numazu.

Brando was quite interested in agriculture's conversation, especially when they heard that the orange farm was quite profitable.

Not only orange, but every fruit in this country is very steep.

Momo was by their sides and observed Brando wearing different clothes. She had to admit that he was handsome and couldn't help but nodded. She turned red and shook their heads.

"Yaoyorozu," Kendo said and sat down beside Momo bringing a snack and drink. She sat down and was surprised when she saw someone unexpected. "Dio!"

"Kendo," Brando greeted.

"What are you doing here?" Kendo was surprised and asked, "Did you come just to watch them?"

"Yeah." Brando nodded.

"You're not on your internship?" Kendo asked.

"It's part of my internship," Brando said.

Kendo was smart and thought that it might be related to a secret on the office where Brando took the internship. She wanted to talk about Yui but thought that it wasn't a good time when there was someone between them.

They talked for a while and Brando also introduced Shima to them while talking about this city.

Shima told them to visit her family's inn when they were on holiday.

Momo and Kendo seemed interested when she heard about the orange field, diving, and lastly, it was cheap.

Then suddenly the MC of the Love Live competition came out to the stage and told everyone that the competition would start.

They didn't talk anymore and waited for the show to start.

Brando had to admit that the girls that appeared on Love Live were very cute. He nodded in satisfaction only to feel that his arm was pinched once again.

"......" Momo seemed dissatisfied with his expression.

Brando only had a gesture of apologies and continued to watch the show. Though, this time his expression was normal and flat since he felt that he was being observed. He waited for a while until it was time for the Aquors to perform.

"Is it their time?" Kendo asked.

"Yeah." Brando nodded.

"I can't wait to watch them," Shima said.

Momo only nodded and felt a bit curious about the performance fo the girls who had come to meet with Brando before.

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Chika was backstage and looked at everyone.

They nodded at the same time with a confident smile.

"Let's go!"

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*BGM (Aqurs - Omoi yo Hitotsu ni Nare).

Eight girls came out from backstage and a light focussed on their figure. They were standing in different poses until the music started to play.

Chika stood in front of everyone while holding her own hands as if praying. "Let our feelings become one."

Everyone also sang at the same time in the chorus. "At this moment they join as one."

"This is the moment we've been waiting for....."

The smooth melody started to play then turned into a beat. They danced together making everyone join them.

"Once we realize it, everything will fall into place...."

"Our hearts calling to the future with all their might...."

They danced together in harmony making their performance more impressive.

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Brando nodded looking at their performance. He looked at his side and saw that Momo, Kendo, and Shima were swinging around their lightsticks when they saw the performance of the Aquors team. He didn't see Riko since he knew that the girl was going to Tokyo to join a piano competition, but in his opinion, their performance was good even though they had a missing member. He thought it was wonderful to watch the performance of cute girls rather than a fight of grown-up men.

The song was almost over and the eight girls sang the last line.

"I believe...."

Then they stopped moving and mimicked the movement of the pianist at the end of their dance.

Everyone could hear the breath of eight girls showed how tired they were then in a moment of silence everyone clapped their hands at the same time.

Clap! Clap! Clap!

Brando looked at them and could see them looking at him. He smiled and also clapped his hands looking at their performance.

"Thank you very much!"