Love Live!: SHATTER [PART 9]

AT YOUR CORE:

*P.O.V CHANGE - AKIHIKO SUZUKI*

*YOYOGI PARK - HARAJUKU - SHIBUYA - TOKYO*

*TEN MINUTES EARLIER*

Unexpectedly, Tomari offered to help me train my core strength. She isn't an idol though, so I'm pretty skeptical about all of this.

I know she wants to free her sister from her contract, but is this really going to help that?

My fight against Katsuo Togo has no implications for that; only the girls and their live show battle hold those stakes.

On the other hand, what's going to happen between me and Katsuo is completely personal. There is no business about this.

Not after what he did to Ayu. And now it's my job to make sure he pays for it.

But how is training with a middle schooler non-idol going to help that?

TOMARI: "You're skeptical."

AKI: "Am I that transparent?"

TOMARI: "You do not trust my skills. Because I am not a school idol, correct?"

AKI: "Uh... Kinda? I don't want to waste our time if it's not gonna work. And why here? Why Yoyogi park?"

TOMARI: "I find this park to be quite pleasant. Sister Dearest and her friends have trained here many times."

AKI: "Then it'll be a problem if they come through here and see you with me.
Unless they don't know about you..."

TOMARI: "They know. I confronted them and Sister Dearest."

AKI: "Seriously? That was a big mistake, Tomari. It's the same mistake which disgraced Saint Snow."

TOMARI: "I have not heard of this winter saint, nor do I believe this was a mistake.
My Dearest Sister was being pushed around by Kanon Shibuya, and so I intervened."

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