Scenario:Love Live! Sunshine!! Aqours Sky-High! - Chapter 3: What We Can Do - Episode 2

Love Live! Sunshine!! Aqours Sky-High! - Chapter 3: What We Can Do - Episode 2

A hopeless Io appears before the trio as they clean the stage. She asks them how they have the motivation to work so hard, and the girls reply that it's for the sake of restoring everyone's smiles. Io's eyes begin to regain their sparkle as the thinks about her beloved master who once taught her the same thing, and she offers to help with the equipment.

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Io: Hey...

Yoshiko: An assassin from the heavens!

Hanamaru: Yoshiko, knock it off, zura.

Yoshiko: My name's Yohane!

Ruby: U-um, Io... What's wrong?

Io: I saw Chika, You, and Riko trying to pass out flyers... but they didn't hand out a single one.

First-Years: ...

Io: But they didn't let it get to them at all.

Io: And here you three are cleaning this enormous stage by yourselves.

Io: The way I feel right now, I can't understand how you could possibly have the motivation to try so hard.

First-Years: ...

Ruby: U-um! I know why! Umm... Umm...

Ruby: We want to see everyone smile!

Io: Smile...

Hanamaru: It's just like Chika said earlier, zura. School idols give their all to make everyone smile.

Yoshiko: Yes. We do it to guide all the lost little demons in need of direction.

Ruby: It's a lot of work writing songs, making costumes, and thinking up and memorizing choreography...

Hanamaru: There was even a time when we didn't have a single fan to cheer us on.

Yoshiko: But it is because of those trials that we are able to continue shining as fallen angels, beating our wings until the very end...

Ruby: Our purpose as school idols is to shine and make everyone smile.

Io: You give your all to make everyone smile...

Io closes her mouth, deep in thought.

Io: My master—the man who raised me from when I was very young—said the same thing.

Io: He believes that magic exists to make everyone happy.

Hanamaru: That's wonderful, zura.

Io: Yeah! My master is really great!

As Io thinks about her beloved master, the light slowly begins to return to her eyes.

Io: Mind if I help out with the stage equipment?

Io: You can't get it working, right? I might be able to do something about it using the magic I learned from my master.

Io: I'll give my all to make everyone smile...

Io: How did I forget something so important?

The fog clouding Io's heart is far from being fully cleared, but she takes her first step forward.

Nihilith: ...

Nihilith watches, her heart full of bitterness.