School Idol Festival Journal Log SEASON TWO – #08

EPISODE 08: The Group Name is…

In this world, there are group of girls who inspire people to chase for their dreams. They have splendid and beautiful performances that can touch everyone’s hearts. They are just girls who started as students having their own dreams from scratch. These young and cute ladies were called as “School Idols”.

Today, when you have successfully formed a group or band, there is only one thing that you must need to remember in order to make the people know on who you are. Basically, you should be needing of what we call your “Group Name”. The people can’t really find out on who really you are if you don’t have a group name, especially if you have a group in which you all have one common dreams!

Now that Chiharu and the others finally have their own room to use for their meetup and other operations, such as fulfilling Lierre’s mission.

And then, Lierre finally thanked the two for helping her.

“Thank you, and I am finally encouraged to do this mission with you guys.”

“You’re welcome! It is all thanks to Takayoshi’s mom for making this possible!”

“Generally, it is not because my mom, and we are all standing right here in this same place.”

“It is all because of me, and that’s why you were all here.”

“No. It is only because of me, and that’s why we are all here! I brought Lierre into the mess like this, and we are all here because of it!”

“Whatever. Anyway, where we should begin?”

“First of all, this wide storage room is dirty and dusty. Do you guys mind in cleaning this up first before we begin?”

“Sure, why not? Takayoshi! You must take out these big boxes, and put them aside in the corner!”

“Okay… (Since when did you become our leader? Well, whatever. I will do it!)”

And so, the three had begun cleaning the room, while putting the big boxes aside in the corner, and stacking them whenever they can.

Later, in just few hours, they had put everything in position. Now, their room is finally completed and clean.

But then, Chiharu noticed something missing. So then, she said to her crewmates, “I need to go back to my home! I will get more stuffs for our room to use and display!”

As only Lierre and Takayoshi are remaining, Takayoshi then said, “I shall also get something upstairs. Maybe those items could enhance the quality of our room!”

And Lierre is only left behind. Finally, she had done her thing. And that is to sweep the dusty floor!

Back at Chiharu’s home, her little sister, Chinatsu, has noticed her big sister carrying something and asked, “Where are you going bringing those stuff?”

“Um, we need this for our presentation activity!”

“Presentation activity? You looked too weird.”

“Don’t worry, Nacchan! I will be back around evening! Don’t wait for me for the dinner tonight! See you!”

And then, Chiharu has left.

So far, I am doing my usual strategies in order to grind more Event Points, and to maintain my Event Points Rank. I can do that in my Global Side, but not on my JP Side. The question still remained unanswerable and mysterious, due to the fact that my Global Side account is getting more good things than in my JP Side, when it comes to UR draws.

And the good thing is… I should not really focus in getting more URs, since upgrading Bond Boards of my respective School Idols are a key in winning against harder songs, in which you must achieve Voltage Rank S to assure total victory!

But then, the struggle in achieving higher ranks in Events still continues, especially if it ties along with my LLSIF Event grinding. But other than that, what were the things encountered recently during the past weekend, and in this week on ALL STARS?

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It was already afternoon, and Chiharu is carrying a lot of things at her backpack. Along the way where she was walking, she saw a big jumbotron screen. That big jumbotron screen shows the happenings right now — the LoveLive! Finals! And then, she saw her classmates from Shinonome Academy watching the finals.

Her classmates finally saw her standing nearby.

“Chiharu! It’s already the day of the LoveLive! Finals!”

“Haruka Konoe and her group is there!”

“I wondered what could be their kind of performance that they are gonna pulling out this time around?”

And then, Chiharu and her classmates saw a glimpse of live show performance of Haruka’s group. They also had seen the top School Idol Groups who had made it to the LoveLive! Finals, as well as showing their glimpse of their live show performances.

Chiharu was amazed of the girls’ live performances, especially on Haruka’s group. And finally, a call from her phone has finally distracted her. It was a call from Lierre.

“Chiharu, you need to go back to our home base! We need you to be there immediately! We are going to have our first meeting!”

And then, as she is moving away from the jumbotron screen, she finally finishes watching some parts of live performances coming from Haruka’s group. And so, she returned back to the maid cafe going to the home base, where Takayoshi and Lierre are waiting.

“I am sorry for the delay! That time today was their LoveLive! Finals performance, and my eyes can’t take out from it!” said Chiharu to Lierre and Takayoshi as she was able to go back to the home base.

“I see. And don’t worry, we can able to watch that footage via my digital tablet book later.”

“For now, to start our mission, we need to think of a group name. Definitely, a group name where some people can call us with!”

“Whew, thinking about it right now can be difficult for me because I was in the middle of watching that live performance in the LoveLive! Finals!”

“Hmm… I think there is only one solution so that you could think properly.”

“Perhaps, maybe we should watch that live performance footage so that we could think of some ideas?”

When they had accepted Chiharu’s idea, Lierre casts the screen contents of her digital tablet book to an open space of a room, and Takayoshi finally turns off the lights of the room. And then, they began watching the LoveLive! Finals broadcast.

They all watched the live performances until the very end. Until, they had finally found out the winner of this year’s LoveLive! Finals.

“I see… Haruka’s group have lost. They just landed on the 2nd place in the Finals,” said Chiharu as Lierre and Takayoshi are also thinking the same.

“Quite predictable that they have lost. It seems that all of their fans’ support and love are almost at them.”

“To tell, they all have splendid, and eye-catchy performances. Winning is just like drawing an Ultra-Rare from a Gacha.”

As they had found out the disappointing result, Chiharu hears the last words from the catchphrase, just before the broadcast ends.

“Make our dreams alive! To chase for your dreams, and to make them follow you, follow where your feelings go to! LoveLive!”

The broadcast has been ended.

It seems that Chiharu was saddened because of the result, and Haruka’s group was ended in second place.

“I can’t believe that they have lost, despite that they had given out their best. It’s all my fault because I didn’t give out my love and support to them. At the same time, I broke her promise!”

Takayoshi and Lierre finally followed the conversation with Chiharu.

“Generally, what was your fault today is also our fault.”

“It is already fate, and we can’t reverse the result and time after all.”

“I understand now. This is what School Idols, after all.”

“To speak about that quote from the game, you can’t give up on something if you couldn’t even get it for the very first time.”

“He’s right. Basically, failing once does not mean it is the end of your life.”

“With those moments that I had seen today, as well as that catchphrase that I have heard, I had finally thought up of our group name!”

“Eh?? Despite that you had witnessed the loss of your favorite School Idol Group, what something entered your mind? And what could be that group name that we could finally use?”

“I am just curious. Can you tell us the name of our group, from now on?”

“From now on, we are called as… the Idol Chasers! Heard that? We are called now as Idol Chasers!”

“Idol Chasers… Looks like a courageous and a powerful group name!”

“Interesting, Chiharu. It seems that we are looking forward to our new and future activities, from now on!”

“Idol Chasers… We are the people who were the supporters and fans of these lovely School Idols! Not only we just follow them in order for them to keep continuing to chase for their dreams, but we are also chasing for our dreams in order to see them closer face-to-face! We are definitely chasing them in order for us to realize our own true dreams, and to follow our own hearts leading to our unforeseen future!”

It seems that Takayoshi and Lierre had finally understood what Chiharu is saying.

“That’s why we are Idol Chasers! And our goal is to see these actual School Idols by ourselves! Definitely, we shall give them some love and support! And of what that sentence told me from my dark dreams before: I am a School Idol and… a Supporter!”

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You can be a cute and sexy girl with a beautiful frilly costume. There are also factors that someone can be attracted or be infatuated at you. What could be a missing catalyst in order to make them follow and support you in your School Idol activities?

“Appeal… Is this what I am lacking after all?”

Next time on School Idol Festival Journal Log SEASON TWO, “Appeal is a Factor!”.

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