Akari has picked up the schedule for the Okinawa national qualifiers and only one team can qualify! How can she tell the others without causing a rift in the group? She’s only just found her home and now it might be over! What happened? The thought that the group that accepted her in will have to go head to head to see who will compete in nationals is tearing Akari apart. She doesn’t know how to tell them and in a panic calls Ayasa and Narumi for some guidance. Narumi offers some blunt advice about it being a competition and…
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