Your mother has some sense of humor (laugh).

She does (laugh). But I couldn’t just stay that way forever, so I summoned up my courage and contacted Marina. I asked her if I could come to her room, and she said yes. But once I stood in front of her door, 5 minutes passed before I pushed the doorbell. I didn’t know what to talk about with her. But using my courage I pressed the button, entered, and what I saw there was a TV! So I sat there in front of the TV, hugging my knees, while Marina brought me some tea. Even so, I would’ve felt bad simply drinking it and leaving, so without touching it we spent two hours watching the TV without exchanging a word (laugh). I eventually had had to go to the toilets, but I also felt bad about using someone else’s toilets in a room we had just moved in so I went back to mine. After I told my father about this whole story, he suggested we should go eating together, all three of us, and came all the way to Niigata for this reason.
So on New Year’s Day, we went to a sushi shop together, and the day after my father cooked for me. After that, I became friend with Marina and we started eating together or going to the cinema. It’s like my father connected us together.

Did everything start to go well from there, including your NGT48 activities?

While it was only me and Marina, yes, but my heart started to shiver when the other 1st Generation got announced. Things were getting rough. When the results of the audition were announced and I got sent the pictures of the candidates who had passed, I was with Marina as well. We looked at them and got all hyped like “The number 50 is super cute! Yamaguchi Maho! Ah the number 5 is cute as well… Kato Minami! And the number 24 is definitely going to be popular! Her name’s Nakai Rika! ”. But as we saw more and more of them, we started becoming more and more anxious. Weren’t us draft members going to be forgotten? So we held a council of war!

What countermeasure did you come up with after your council of war then?

We decided it was actually fine doing nothing (laugh). After all, draft members had been here even earlier than the 1st Generation, right? And we also met them during the training camp. The moment we saw them, they were so cute we knew it was no use competing (laugh). Like Katomina (Kato Minami) who was so beautiful her aura was incredible. We started wondering again with Marina what we should thus do.
But afterward we couldn’t find the courage to talk to those 1st Generation members so we remained together, the two of us, all the time. Even during the lessons when we had to be in pair, I was with Marina. But at some point we realized it was no good, since we had been here for longer than the other 1st Generation, we should’ve been leading them instead. So from there onward whenever everyone was here, I would refrain from talking with Marina and engage with the others instead.

How did you “lead” them?

More than leading, we started thinking a lot about the 1st Generation. While I didn’t talk with Marina during the lessons, we were still eating together at night. During those moments we would reflect on everything that happened during the day, like “oh I think this girl would do better if she did this instead”. We were having this kind of talk everyday.
This is quite a big change from the you from the past who couldn’t see anything else than yourself.

That’s true. Then, as the days passed, the positions for our Debut event* eventually got announced. Although Marina and me were thinking about what would be the best for NGT48 as a group all the time and were trying to lead it into that direction, I personally still wanted to have the central position after all. But I didn’t get it. The one who got it was Katomina. Since she’s so cute and worked hard for it, I had to consent, but to be honest I still felt a bit bitter. As someone who had been here for longer than her even if by not a lot.

お 披 露 目 ＝ Debut event (8/21/2015)

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