The new generation
“So you totally can’t control it, huh?”, Lovetan observed Miyuki, who just started to hum again and giggled a little. “Don’t get me wrong. I think it’s amazing that you train so hard to become a great idol, but…you need to control your humming a little if it’s that an unconscious thing!“, she said in a little lecturing manner. “Still…it’s pretty funny!”,the small successor added a smile to her expression.
She interestedly listened to Miyuki telling her about her school days. Lovetan herself was pretty much up to play little tricks on certain people sometimes, so she found it quite amusing. But then again she had to act like a responsible senpai somehow. At least that’s what she thought.
As a result of that, even though she laughed about Miyuki’s teacher and the cockroach she tried to lecture her again.
“It’s not good to do something like that to a teacher, you know? It’s not very idol-like!”,she said but it was clearly visible that she wasn’t very serious about what she was saying anyway.
“But you know what is even better than your cockroach-trick? I did it probably a few months ago…”,she started to speak without thinking but stopped herself immediately. “You didn’t hear that!“,the successor added hastily.
"That was close! What a relief that I could stop before telling her any details…”,she thought to herself sighing slightly.
“I might be older but that just means I have a lot more experience than you. As long as your face doesn’t look old nothing’s wrong with being a little older! So you’d better show more respect if you want to learn something from your senpai!”, she defended herself quickly with a mischievous smile. “It probably isn’t about how old you are but about how old you feel and I can sense you probably feel like a grandma already!“, she looked at Miyuki with a teasing expression.
"What do you mean, humm-” she stopped as she realised she had started dancing again. “Oh, that! Of course I can control it! Watch!” She stood stone-still for a few seconds, then seemingly got distracted by something outside the window and started dancing and humming again. She looked back at Lovetan. “See? Told ya I could control it,” she said proudly, not aware that she was doing it again.
“Ah! But I wasn’t an idol back then,” Miyuki said, grinning cheekily. “And at least she didn’t get what my history teacher got…” She said, reminiscently. “I don’t think he appreciated my…err, birthday gift to him. Especially when it bit him.” She had put the baby tiger that she was raising at the time in her teacher’s room, but had made sure to clip its claws beforehand. She had taught it not to bite too hard so it didn’t penetrate the skin, but apparently the sight of a tiger chowing down on his arm was enough to make her history teacher faint. “The best was the pack of skunks during assembly though,” she said thoughtfully. “Boy, did that get me in a load of trouble. For some reason, they immediately suspected me.” She was deep enough in thought that she didn’t notice Lovetan trip up and almost tell her something she didn’t want to.
“Well, I guess it helps that you have a babyface then!” Miyuki said. “Even the original Lovetan had a babyface…And yeah, I already feel like a grandma!” Miyuki said, exasperated. “I’m pretty sure I’m the oldest kenyuusei right now, and I just joined 0048! I’m older than everyone in the 78th, 77th and 76th generations, and I might be older than the 75th too if Kanata is younger than me!” To be honest, she was going to audition for the both the 73rd generation when she was 12, and the 74th generation back when she was 13, but had pulled out at the last second because she had felt the time wasn’t right.
