18_side-b ending
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Time flied. Lots of things happened.
First, there was our confession at the beach. And there was everyone crying and breaking down at the train station. Finally, we got our spirits back for the toughest finals.
Nico's godlike luck made her drew out the most important performance order straw. We go last. Nico bragged as if it were just a piece of cake, but in truth she was nervous like hell.
We performed last in the finals and did what we thought was perfect. In the ear-blasting "ENCORE! ENCORE!", we went up stage again.
I believed, in that moment, everyone knew we were the champion.

Soon, the competition was over, μ's won the first place in the 2nd LOVELIVE! competition.
And so, the graduation ceremony came. During the ceremony, Honoka, the president of student council made everyone sang a song for the third years.
It looked like everything ended, but an unexpectedly thing happened.
LOVELIVE! was starting for the 3rd time, and holding its finals in the Tokyo Dome, asking the past champions to perform.

We went to New York to promote ourselves thanks to the chairwoman's help. We sang in the New York Culture Center and Times Square. It was more fantastic than a dream and more unrealistic too, but it's all real.

Unfortunately, we still had to face the truth that the third years graduating and μ's disbanding. At that time, Honoka popped out a fun idea. We invited school idols throughout the whole country and hold a LIVE concert in Akibahara.
Even A-RISE decided to join us. Kira Tsubasa didn't let down her leader identity. She was so cool that I practically blushed just being close to her.
In the end, all of us worked together and wrote a song that belonged to all school idols, and we announced that μ's will disband on the previous day.
Unexpectedly, it raised a huge echo. On the performing day, thousands of school idols were waiting for us in Akibahara.

"We are one! We are school idols!"

The LIVE concert started. It was the first concert of LOVELIVE! that the whole country participated, and the last one of μ's.

We stood in a circle in the room behind the stage. We were in white and pink clothes. Our specific colors were on the clothes too.
We arrived at the Dome to perform the song that belonged to the nine of us.
"Are you all ready?" Honoka smiled. We all smiled and nodded.

"One!" Honoka yelled.
"Two!" Kotori yelled, followed by Umi's "Three!".
"Four!" I shouted. Rin followed with "Five!" and Hanayo's "Six!".
"Seven!" Nico announced.
"Eight!" Nozomi shouted. Eli ended with a "Nine!"
We stood, shoulder to shoulder, and held each other like some sort of athlete players before game.
We shouted out that encouraging sentence that belonged to us for one last time.

"μ's—"

"Music…START!"

We stepped onto the bud-shaped stage. The pedals closed. It was too dark to see anything inside, so we held on to each other's hand to prevent our formation from scattering. The stage began to move.

"I feel like a flower elf inside the bud."
"Then Kayo-chin would be a flower elf Nya!"
"But I look like a peach."
"Come on, Honoka, you're still thinking about food now?"
"No, Umi-chan, I think it's more like Momo-Taro(a famous Japanese story character that was born from a peach)."
"Momo-Taro..If Honoka's Momo-Taro, Umi would be the grandpa?"
"Hang on, Eli, why am I grandpa?"
"Uh…feels like it?"
"No! I will not accept it."
"If Umi's grandpa, then Nai-Nai is—"
"Pmph!"
"Eli-chi? Why are you laughing?"
"Nozomi…why are you suddenly speaking in Chinese?"
"Well, I've been studying my Zhong-Wen hard lately—"
"…Stop! Nozomi, my stomach is aching from trying not to laugh."
Eli was trying hard to hold back her laughter.
"Oh!"
"What's wrong, Honoka-chan?"
"The machine on my shoulders is falling off!"
"Ho! No! Ka! Didn't I ask you not to fool around before starting? What if you're the only one to turn completely orange during our dance?"
"It's a misunderstanding, Umi-chan! My hands weren't empty!"
"Well, yeah…"
"Hang on, Honoka, I'll check it for you—okay! It should be fine."
"Thanks, Kotori-chan—"
"Hehe."
"What's so funny, Maki-chan?"
"Nothing, Nico-chan, I just feel really happy."
"Well, me too!"
I could feel Nico tightened her grip on my hand. Although it's still dark, cheering from the crowds was easily heard.
At last, we felt the stage stopped moving. We all remained silent and waited for the music to start.

It was the song I composed that only belonged to the nine of us.

Music started. The pedals opened.

The glow sticks formed an ocean of starlight around us. It was too beautiful to describe with words.

Who would think it'd be better if time rewinds?

This moment right now is the best!