We talked before she went off to that art class, but she seemed really unsure about going. That kinda made me worried...

Unsure...?

Yeah, I'm not sure if it's okay for me to say this right now.

...

Can you tell us more about what you two talked about, Mizuki?

She doesn't think she's good enough...?

Yeah. She's convinced that you and Mafuyu keep finding new ways to express yourselves while she hasn't.

And she's worried that her illustrations won't be able to do your songs justice...

...

I had a feeling that she was going through something of a slump, but I didn't realize it was this serious...

This art class she's attending...
She quit once already, right?

Yeah.
Which is making it that much harder for her.

You need a lot of guts to ask someone to teach you again after leaving them.

To make things worse, this teacher's apparently not exactly a ray of sunshine.

Okay, can't she just go somewhere else...?

That's the thing. This teacher's also a really accomplished artist...

So much so that Ena wants to learn from studying art under them.

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What's wrong, Kanade...?

Oh, um...

It's as if drawing for N25 is what forced her down this terrible path...

Wait, that's...

Not the right way to look at this.

...

At the very least, I doubt she'd ever put herself on the line in such a way...

I think so too. Ena's all about whether or not she can produce something that's to her liking.

Yeah, I know what you mean.
That's just who she is...

Hehe. Remember when Mafuyu was still making music as OWN here and she said she'd come to SEKAI to give her a piece of her mind?

Yeah! I totally froze when she jumped in and screamed, “Just knock it off already!”

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Thank you, Mafuyu. You as well, Mizuki.

I understand now that Ena wasn't forced into a corner. She made this choice herself.

Not fully appreciating her situation only served to belittle her.

(That one sentence encapsulates what Ena's going through right now.)

Thank you for sharing this information with us, Mizuki.

I'll be sure to apologize to her later.

Okay. If she does get mad, I'll be there to take my punishment too.

What do you plan on doing now...?

Support her of course.

That won't change.
We'll just have to give her some time to finish her illustration.

But I know what she's going through now, so I want to tell her that myself...

Also, I want to tell her that we're willing to wait for her.

Me too...!

I'll let you guys know if I hear anything more from her.

Okay, thank you.