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Yes, please take care of me!

Margo-san walks towards Mori-san of Burnham Woods Sports Video with Saito Yuki and her manager, Fujimori-san.

Apart from Margo-san and Rei-chan swapping.

The members of the group remained the same, Mariko, Tsukiko, Kurose Anju, Marika, Erica, the Matsumoto Siblings, Igarashi Izumi, and me.

We’re walking in the school building

Fujimiya Reika!

No way!

She looks thinner than on TV!

Wow, so cool!

Rei-chan’s appearance surprised the students and visitors outside who came to visit the school festival.

I mean, since Rei-chan came to the schoolyard, more than ten spectators followed us, entering the school building, and more followed on the way.

Reika-oneesama’s so popular

Mariko said.

I.

You’ve been quiet outside, Mariko

Usually, Mariko doesn’t read the mood and just speaks up, but.

It was strange that she’s been quiet since Margo-san dealt with the TV crew and such.

That’s because Margo-oneesama’s scary

Margo-san’s scary?

She’s smiling all the time, but I feel like if she gets angry, she’ll be the scariest person I’ve ever met. That’s why I just kept quiet

Oh, Margo-san’s master is Kyouko-san after all.

If you think naively and be careless in front of her, she’ll take it out on you that it won’t be a joke anymore.

We’ve been together for long already so I know

Mariko, together for long?

It’s only been a month since we’ve met.

While we were talking, we arrived at the music room at the back of the third floor of the west school building.

Excuse me

I knocked on the music room door as a student of this school.

The music clubs are playing in the auditorium right now so.

This music room should be just a waiting room for now.

Yes? What? Woah, it’s Fujimiya Reika!

A student comes out of the music room door and is surprised.

Hello. Can we come in?

Rei-chan smiles.

I believe Margo Starkweather-san was a graduate of this school, and she asked Otani-san, the music teacher to use the room for a bit.

Rei-chan knows about that.

That just means that she was listening to the conversation in the school cafeteria from the mansion.

You can monitor everything in the school from there.

Uhm, Ootani-sensei went somewhere else after hearing that Margo-san senpai is coming

The schoolgirl who opened the door replied.

Oh, Margo-san had an incident with him in the past.

That’s why he escaped from the music room so he doesn’t meet her.

That’s unfortunate. Margo-san’s in the schoolyard, preparing for the martial arts tournament at three, that’s why I came here in her stead

Uhm, why don’t we go inside first?

Mariko tells the girl after seeing the spectators continue to increase.

Ah, yes. Osaki-senpai, is that okay? It’s Fujimiya Reika-san

The schoolgirl asks permission from the senior student inside the room.

I don’t get what’s going on but please, come in

A girl with glasses and braids come out from the back and told us.

Then, excuse us

Excuse

Rei-chan goes first and our group went inside

There are about fifteen girls in the room.

Wow, it’s Fujimiya Reika

The real one?

They started cheering, even inside the room.

Oh, only until the girl over there. Everyone else is irrelevant

As soon as Kurose Anju, the last one in our group enters the room, Mariko tells Osaki-san

Hey, Osaki, let us in too!

One of the onlooker guys told her but.

No, no unrelated people inside!

Then, Osaki-san closed the door.

I’m the head of the choir club, Osaki Zenko

Osaki-san greeted Rei-chan.

Good Day, I’m Fujimiya Reika from Kouzuki SS

I know about Fujimiya-san

Well, nearly everyone in Japan already knows her.

So, what’s your business in the music room?

Osaki-san asks us.

Well, can you do the explaining?

Rei-chan passes the baton to me

Uhm, well it’s a little complicated but the short version is that we want to borrow the piano

The piano?

Osaki-san’s surprised.

Well, that’s because we just have to hear Matsumoto-san’s performance

She’s not a student of our school, why would we make her play the piano in our music room?

Osaki-san speaks harshly, but.

Osaki-san, lets them, look at their uniform

i know about them, it’s the uniform of that famous music high school

Uhm, my cousin tried applying for it but she failed

Their performance must be on a high level

Marika’s school seems to be well known among the students who do music in our school.

This is Matsumoto Maki-san, she’s the top one in our school’s piano department

Marika speaks proudly.

We just need her to play one song, please

I bow my head to Osaki-san

Just one, okay? I understand, please go ahead

Osaki-san reluctantly agreed.

Then, I will borrow

Matsumoto-san, the elder, bows her head to the choir club girls.

Then.

Miki-san, let’s play together

She tells her sister

Yes.

Matsumoto Miki-san goes with her sister to the piano, carrying her violin case with great care.

Matsumoto Maki-san opens the piano and started preparing for her performance.

Miki-san also opened her case and took her violin.

Wow, that looks expensive

One of the choir girls saw Miki-san’s violin and said.

Maki-san presses a piano key and it makes a sound.

Miki-san also makes a light flick to check the tune.

Piano’s tuned

Marika tells me after hearing Maki-san testing it.

Marika’s also playing piano so she can tell just from hearing that.

Are we ready, Miki?

Yes, Nee-san

The siblings are ready to play.

So, what are you playing?

Mariko asks the Matsumoto siblings.

We will play the first movement of Kreutzer Sonata. Is that okay, Miki?

Yes!

The siblings said.

Kreutzer Sonata? You two?

Osaki-san speaks up in surprise.

Quiet, they’re about to start

Rei-chan stopped Osaki-san.

Then,

The Matsumoto siblings started playing.

Kyuun!

Miki-san’s violin suddenly vibrates.

We’re drawn into the performance just from that.

That’s not a middle-school performance.

This girl’s amazing.

Tan, tantan, tototouun, touun!

Maki-san’s piano follows the violin.

The quality of their music tells that they’re no amateur, even I can tell.

Then, their music gradually grows intense.

This is too amazing.

The Matsumoto siblings are in perfect harmony.

Their piano and violin compete at a high level.

The intense flood of music coming from the sisters envelops the music room.

Toutoutou, tan, tan

Before long, the performance finished.

We couldn’t move for a while due to the trailing note, but.

Wow, that was amazing!

The choir member who opened the door stood up and clapped.

Everyone also stood up and clapped for the Matsumoto siblings.

I never thought that it would be this amazing

It’s a performance that’s over ten minutes long after all

Yeah, it surprised me

Ten minutes?

Hearing that from the choir members, I looked up at the clock inside the room in surprise.

True, ten minutes have passed.

I didn’t think that it would be that long when I was listening.

Matsumoto-san, that was amazing

Mariko applauses for the siblings.

Yes, that was amazing. It’s impressive

I said. Then, Marika smiled happily

That was even more than expected

The head of the choir club, Osaki-san, recognizes the Matsumoto siblings’ skills.

Then.

Kreutzer Sonata was composed by Beethoven, but it’s also the title of the novel by Tolstoy

Behind us, from the entrance to the music room.

It’s a familiar voice.

It’s about a Russian duke, who heard his wife and his friend play the Kreutzer Sonata, and he became convinced that they were having an affair