LLAS Ch16

God damn this was a lengthy bitch.

MC finally goes to the club room for once and wants to see Ayumu, but she's skipped practice today. The other club members reassure her and tell her that they've missed her.

Ayumu skips school and is in the dumpsters when the door rings and it's the protago- I mean Shioriko. She's here out of concern when she heard Ayumu skipped classes. Ayumu's depressed and tries to ask Shioriko what to do and if she has any recommendations on what she should ala in earlier chapters where Shioriko guided other students. Shioriko instead says they should step outside and get a change of pace.

Ayumu goes on a shopping spree and mentions damn she hasn't gotten the chance to cook, sew, etc since becoming an idol since it took so much time. Heart to heart, etc. Do you wanna quit, yes no maybe, didn't you have fun, it was the responsibility placed on me, do you have regrets becoming/quitting an idol, no. Ayumu says lets do this again before leaving a sullen looking Shioriko. God I've written her name so many times. I'm shortening it to Shio.

Idols meetup. Currently at 250 volunteers, Nico has recommended us that Ayumu just needs space. You, Umi, and Kotori empathize w/ Ayumu on the childhood friend/crush is an absolute brainlet. MC resolves to continue working on the festival and continuing to ignore Ayumu.

I think if Shio doesn't steal Ayumu from MC and they (Ayumu and MC) actually get together, they should honestly have to pay marriage counseling fees to her because bruh she's doing all the communicating in this relationship. Anyways in the meanwhile, the idol club learn how to market themselves. That is, don't look like you're begging for volunteers, but tell them you're missing out on an opportunity to participate in the biggest event in... 20XX? 2019? 2017?

Anyways, things are proceeding, but the deadline is approaching and we're only at 600/1000. Ayumu's still not back and bringing her up gets everyone all awkward, like sheesh. *pulls collar* yikes MC, look at the time, gotta be anywhere but here. Anyways we end up moping in the club room after that and we stumble onto that present Ayumu was gonna give us. Then we get flashback'd no jutsu to her giving it to us and after reading the first page, imagine what she looked like in our head writing down the supportive message on the first page inside the notebook. aaaaaaaaand we're spiraling. Is this the joker arc?

Ayumu's at home and is bored of her old hobbies. She opens up reddit and realizes her homepage is still on r/lovelive and thinks I should unsub cause I'm not cringe anymore. But she might as well check one last shitpost before that. She finds out everyone's dead and that people are talking shit on Nijigaku and MC. She runs to the club room but finds out it's empty. Shio walks in and tells her everybody has p much given up. Ayumu decides to become an idol again and gives a sp- btw once again another Shio and Ayumu scene -eech about something about idols, not giving up, and passion. Anyways Shio says, holdon do that again, but while I upload it to TikTok, you can write the script while I find a camera. Ayumu decides fuck the script she'll just talk about something that she knows she can do freestyle ez, her feelings for MC (sending me mixed messages here game, is it emotional cheating, trio, or marriage counseling?).

Honoka tells MC to check out trending on Twitter because Ayumu's livestream is a banger. MC rushes to school to apologize to Ayumu and beg for her forgiveness. The other idols also arrive to say nice to catch Ayumu's and MC's public display of affection on stream. They make up and Ayumu reaffirms her resolution as an idol by performing on stream.

They hold a party to celebrate everyone making up and also gathering the required 1000 volunteers. Also MC and Ayumu invite their third to come, but she says nah busy w/ work. Once they leave though, she admits to herself that she's glad the idol club that she loves is back to chasing their dreams.

Also there's some shit about rest of Nijigaku, Muse and Aquors saying good job, but who the fuck cares, the climax already happened.