Chapter 1

HaHa~? HiHi~? HuHu~?

HeHe~? Shisho~ Senpai~ Where are you?

HoHo~? Has Sora gotten lost? What should he do?

Wah—? Is someone there? Sora just felt someone pat his back!

Ah, Anzu! HaHa~ ♪ Happy new year! When you meet someone in the new year, you greet them ♪

Nn? Anzu, you’re wearing some strange clothes~

Uhm, Sora remembers seeing something similar in a manga that Hina-chan lent him!

That’s a shrine maiden outfit, right? Anzu, are you fighting demons?

Ooh, you’re working a part-time job to help out an acquaintance? HiHi~ ♪ Sora saw this setup in a manga too!

She sealed the demons’ movements with a ritual prayer and then dispersed them with a kagura bell to protect the peace of Japan~

It was really cool, so if Anzu is also interested, please ask Hina-chan to lend it to you ♪

Ngh~ Anzu, you haven’t seen shisho~ or senpai anywhere, have you?

Today is Switch’s New Year’s party~ It’s going to be in the game research club room!

Before the party we came here for our first shrine visit, but Sora took a wrong turn and got lost…

There are a lot of people, so it’s kinda hard to see their colors~?

Sora can’t see them very well in a place like this! So he’s wondering if he should sit tight and not move around.

Senpai also said not to move when you get lost and just stay in one place!

…? Anzu, why are you patting Sora’s head? It tickles~ ♪

Ohh. Tsuka-chan got lost just like Sora did? Ehehe, Sora’s happy that we shared this experience!

Tsuka-chan is Sora’s classmate! Sora wishes he could have seen him~!

Anzu, what did you do with Tsuka-chan? Did you eat something from the food stalls or give an offering?

HuHu~ ♪ Sora too! Shisho~ told Sora that if he makes an offering, his wish will come true, so he prayed a whole bunch~ ♪

Nn~? You want to know what Sora wished for? That’s the kind of color you’re giving off~

HeHe~ ♪ Sora wished to become a magician and bring everybody to a world of dreams!

Sora wants to make everyone—humans, animals, plants, everyone!—happy with his magic!

Ngh~? Anzu, you’re patting Sora’s head again? It’s not that he doesn’t like it—actually, it makes Sora happy.

Ehehe, Sora’s calmed down being by Anzu’s side~ It must be because you have a gentle color ♪

Can Sora ask Anzu a question? What did you wish for from the gods?

That all of the idols at Yumenosaki Academy can be happy…?

HoHo~ ♪ That sounds just like you!

But Sora thinks that wish is already coming true~ At the very least, Sora is happy!

Sora came to Yumenosaki Academy and met shisho~ and senpai and made all sorts of new friends! Every day Sora’s so happy he just wants to dance~ ♪

Is Anzu happy too? Was it fun to transfer schools and become a producer and take care of idols?

Seeing everyone’s smiles makes you happy, too? You’re busy, but you think it’s fun to do work that has meaning?

HaHa~ ♪ Anzu’s color is so pretty! It’s the same sparkling, radiant color of the guests when we cast a spell on them!

Ehehe, Sora’s wish did come true. Sora wants to make more and more people happy! Sora will do his best to make the whole world a happier place ♪

HiHi~ ♪ Sora’s feeling a lot better after talking with Anzu!

Mmm, Like Sora said before, it’s hard to see colors in a place like this…

So many colors are blending together, so it makes Sora feel kind of sick.

But now everything’s fine~ ♪ It’s because Sora got to talk with Anzu ♪

You can use recovery magic too, right?

Sora wants to be able to use magic like that too~ Actually, right now Sora wants to use summoning magic so he can see shisho~ and senpai again!

We’ve summoned Valkyrie before, so maybe Sora can draw shisho~ and senpai out just like back then~¹

Umm, the spell goes like this!

Abra cadabra! O shisho~ and senpai, please come forth!

Sora~!

Wheeeeeze, huff, huff… So this is where you were, Sora-kun. We’ve been looking for you all over the place, you know~?

Huh—?! Shisho~! Senpai! Did Sora really perform the spell successfully?

Spell…? Ah, you were with the little kittEN.

From how you’re dressED, I’d say you’re working heRE? You look very cuTE.

Fufu. You’re still working while the rest of the world is resting? That’s very like you, Anzu-chan, but if all you do is work, you’ll end up with a gray-colored youth.

But I suppose it’s rose-colored for you, isn’t it?

Umm, we’re probably getting in the way of your work, so we’ll get out of your hair.

…Hm. It’s New Year's dAY, so most of the visitors are flooding the shrine office or the offering bOX.

There are other shrine maidens than just the little kittEN, and yet it seems as if there’s not enough manpowER. It’s frustrating to say, but senpai’s right that we should move along.

Uu~… Why did you have to say it in so many words? It would have been more endearing if you’d just said okay.

Hmph. What use is it to be endearing to yOU, senpai?

Sora, there’s a food stall over theRE. Do you want to buy something on our way hoME? Let’s hold hands this time so that we don’t get separatED ♪

HuHu~ ♪ Shisho~ in my right hand, senpai in my left~ Ehehe, this way we look like a family ♪

Let’s stay like this in the new year, too, shisho~, senpai!

Anzu, Sora will see you in the new term! It’s a promise~ HaHiHuHeHo~…… ♪