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Kaigaku regretted opening up sign ups. Apparently no one could read fine print where he wrote 'bad boy/edgy' idols. Excepting some idols like him to try out. Nope. Apparently just everyone showed up.
Zenitsu convinced him to at least hear them sing because coords can be changed. Big mistake. Because now, they sat through 26 terrible acts. One guy, who they both recognized as being from their school, thanks to his name plus he barely changed how he looked, Obanai was decent. His voicals were a little horse but overall good and had the coords Kaigaku was looking for.
Except for the condition that his best friend and biggest pain in Kaigaku's ass Sanemi joined. Makes sense the fucking delinquents weren't hiding their identities and couldn't read the rules of just one member needed. Why should they care. Whatever punishment Headmaster Muzan gives to them wouldn't make them change their ways.
Kaigaku wonders when Headmaster Muzan is going to expel them. They do nothing to the school except make it worse. Tapping his pen on the table he looked over at Zenitsu who was busy doing his homework. He should doing his. Instead he crossed out another name before staring at the sheet. Idol Name, Lovely. Kaigaku feels his headache get worse.
"Lovely?" Kaigaku called out and in walked what Kaigaku could only describe as the complete opposite of an edgy bad boy.
Dress in pink and greens there stood quiet literally the embodiment of joy and happiness infront of him. Kaigaku shot Zenitsu a glance, mocking his 'its just coords they can change for the shows' in his head. This is fucking pointless.
"Show us what you can do" Kaigaku rubbed his head, she was the last person to sign up. So odds of being able to compete in most shows is looking slim. A lot of shows need you to have 3 members period. No more or less. And if they can't get into their shows, it'll take even longer for them to become the number one idols
"HI! So I'm Lovely and if you want to know me outside of pripara, I'm Mitsuri! And I do great with dancing! I also have some songs I've wrote so I can do that too!"
His eye twitched. Another person from Kizuki Academy. Looking back up at her, it was a little difficult, given totally different hair color and eye color and she looks…somehow more girly. Plus her singular braid turned into 3 big ones. But if he focused on her face, yeah it looked like Kanroji. She was a middle of the pack student, however her openness with her personal identity was pissing Kaigaku off.
"Right, you can placed them on the table, Zenko will look at them. Singing, can you sing Lovely?"
"OH! Yes of course!"
"Then demonstrate."
Maybe being behind on being the number one idol wouldn't be too bad. He wouldn't have to deal with headaches like this, plus Zenitsu can still be the center point. Which is the whole reason he took Zenitsu to pripara in the first place. His brother always wanted to be an idol, so for his 16th birthday, why not bend the rules and do one stage performance before leaving Pripara for good? Except everyone loved them and they won that performance so now here they are. Becoming the number one idol. For Kaigaku's sake of being the best and so Zenitsu can be famous.
Kanroji's singing is good, better as backgroun vocal like him. So it works. Though he was sure he can't make her dress less….cute. Damn, either people have terrible vocals and are in the coord he needs or in Kanroji's case has good vocals but looks completely wrong.
Looking back over to Zenitsu, he did start to look at the lyrics Kanroji wrote, which wouldn't be needed. Kaigaku wrote the lyrics and helped choreographed all of the songs they have. Kaigaku did all of that instead of letting some of the works do it, just so he would have the most success. Focusing on what fans liked and didnt like from all of the other songs. Perfectly crafting the best songs so they move the ranks up faster as well.
Oh well. At least he knows she has that skill.
"Thank you for showing up, but you arent what we are looking for. Good luck"
"WAIT! The both of you! We havent picked anyone and the next show requires three people. She is really good!"
"Are her songs that good?"
"Her vocals are and we need someone. Come on, if we drop out of the show wouldn't we lose fans?"
Zenitsu had a point. They've been placed in some adverts around pripara. If they drop out people would cause backlash. Her vocals were good along with her dance, even if it was limited by how small their room is. Sighing he circled her name
"Welcome to Thunder Strikers then, I guess"
"Wait REALLY?!? AWHH THANK YOUUU!!! I always wanted to debut in a team!!!"
Kanroji goes to hug Kaigaku and he moves out of the way, pushing Zenitsu to take his spot
"Yeah, you're luckly Zenitsu likes you. Come back here tomorrow at 6:10pm on the dot. We will start dance training and teach you the lyrics. We only have a week to prepare you."
"GOT IT!!"
Letting go of Zenitsu, Kanroji ran out of the room waving as she left. Kaigaku groaned
"Im going to stand out instead"
"Relax, you can change your coord?"
"My coords is to get the maxi um amount of fans along with your, no way we can change."
"Then ask her tomorrow to wear emo coords on stage?"
"You think Kanroji would do that? No way. I'll figure it out"
"You do that" Zenitsu hummed as he went on his phone. Kaigaku grabbed the songs Kanroji haned over and good god, she can never write a song for them period. Cats and love and pink. Not at all what they sing about.