Miyukin spots Megu!
“I’m sure you will! The current Yukirin is amazing, but I’m sure you’ll make an even more amazing one!” Miyuki exclaimed. It wasn’t just a reassurance either - Miyuki fully believed that Megu could do it, and it showed in her voice. When Miyuki talked about succession, she never joked about it, or said something to reassure someone. It was always completely serious, as was her goal. “I’m going to succeed Jurina! The first to succeed her name! I’m going to be Jurina the 2nd, just you watch!“
"And I’ll work hard alongside you!” Miyuki said cheerfully. “Although I’m positive I’ll surpass them one day! One day, I’m going to be the one who shines the brightest, even more so than Acchan and Chieri!“ Once again, she was completely serious and confident in her statement, with no hint of anything in her tone that said she thought it an impossible goal. To her, it wasn’t even a goal. It was a foregone conclusion.
"Ah, yes. The lemonade stand,” Miyuki said, looking back at the stand. “It’s been up for about 10 years now, and I’ve been running it for 6. And hmm, there are dorm rooms, aren’t there…" Miyuki added thoughtfully. “Though with all the traveling and lessons and stuff, I won’t have time to run the stand anymore, which is unfortunate.“
Megu beamed at the thought that another understudy supported her in her belief that she could one day succeed Yukirin. “I’ll look forward to working with you, too!”
“Whoa! That’s impressive! Shouldn’t you get a new stand if its been around for 10 years?” Megu thought about running a stand for 6 years with her life at stake. ‘I can’t possibly sell lemonade that long,’ she thought. “Oh! We also get a rare day off once in a while so maybe you can still run your stand on those days,“ she mentioned.
"Of course!” Miyuki said happilly, grabbing the other girl’s hand with a grin. “We’ll be successors one day! And then we can dance on the same stage, not as understudies, but as true 0048 members!”
“I could…” Miyuki said, pondering it while looking at the slightly run-down stand. “But I feel a connection to this one. It’s like…you wouldn’t want to throw away an old teddy bear or something, would you? This stand has weathered a lot with me, and I feel like upgrading it or getting a new one would be betraying it.” Miyuki laughed, although it was a little forced. “That probably sounds silly, doesn’t it? But I think that…I think that everything has a soul, even if it’s inanimate. Like this lemonade stand, or the microphones you sing with in 0048. They know our touch, and we’re familiar with them.”
(Source: jurinathesecond)
