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[Video feed turns on, showing a Pachirisu sitting on a bench. The Bellsprout tower can be seen in the background]

Hello everyone~! This is the newest member of my team, Ritsuko! Can you believe he's trying to learn how to dance? It's sooooo cute~!

[The Gear is panned over to several other Pokémon. An Eevee, Hoothoot, Flabébé, Espurr, and a Cleffa are playing around.]

Everyone here knows Himiko, of course! My Hoothoot is Fukuro, Sakuya is my Flabébé, Nanko is my Espurr's name, and Momomi is a Cleffa I got from a girl named Mimi! Momomi is adorable! She's attached to Sakuya, so she must love flowers.

[The Gear is turned now to Rise, who is pouting.]

I wanna get to Goldenrod as soon as possible. I've been here in Violet for a week now, and I need help! I don't want to travel all that way alone... Can someone help a girl out?

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Rise turns the PokéGear off with a sigh. She has not found anyone yet whom she could ask to travel with, so she's feeling rather down. Smiling on camera was easy. Keeping that smile after the cameras are off isn't as easy. Her Pokémon enjoyed the warm day immensely. Himiko kept playing tag with Nanako, Fukuro just let himself be resigned to his fate of horrible balance by just laying there on the ground and sleeping. Momomi and Sakuya are just happy to be exploring various little patches of grass in search of flowers.

It was a rather peaceful seen. Rise sits on the bench beside Ritsuko and grumbles. "I'm always tired now. Why can't there be cars or trains that take me everywhere. My feet hurt! It's not fair!" She looks visibly upset. "If the others were here, at least I'd have someone to travel with!"

Help an upset girl?

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You can have family related by blood, and you can have the family you pick for yourself! I'll always be related to my family, I know that. But my friends are my family, too. We might not be related by blood, but we went through a lot, and we'll always be there for each other. I feel the same about my Pokémon~!

... You can't always count on friends. Sometimes they turn on you.

I know that can happen. But I have faith in them that they won't.

[And there's that feeling again. Why won't it just go away?]

... It's nice that you have ones you can still believe in.

[Maybe he should just hang up...]

[Now she looks worried.]

Don't you have any friends here?

... Sort of.

[Wrath kind of counts, but not really. And Tsukiyama is... complicated, and he can't exactly call him a friend yet.]

[She claps her hands together and Ritsuko copies her.]

We can be friends!

[... Huhwha-]

I don't even really know you.

Isn't that how all friendships start? Besides, our Pachirisu want to dance together!

[Um.]

... I guess...

[She tilts her head.]

If you don't want to, yo can just say no. But you are the one who started talking to me first!

... Oh.

[... He did, didn't he?]

I... I guess?

Ah! I never introduced myself!

[Have a bright idol smile!]

I'm Rise Kujikawa~!

[He just smiles a little sheepishly in return.]

You can just call me Micchy. That's what a lot of people at home did.

Okay, Micchy! That's a cute nickname! Hmm...

[She's thinking...]

Well, since you're using your nickname, I'll tell you my stage name! I went by the name Risette! Though I haven't decided if I'll use that here or not.

Did you pick that yourself? It's pretty good.

[... Oh wait he probably shouldn't think of it from a marketing perspective...]

Yup! It's what I even signed pictures with. Though I think for my comeback I'll just stick with Rise.

[Because part of a new start is leaving painful things behind.]

You took a break?

[He can imagine that being an idol gets exhausting.]

Well, I started being an idol at a pretty young age. I wanted to take a break because I felt burned out. Being an idol is very tiring work, and we never got any breaks! It was always work, work, work. and I had to keep up with school at the same time! And then there was the fans! Most of them were nice, but then there was the Otaku and perverts...

Oh... that... sounds really tough. I guess I never thought of that. We practiced pretty much every day, and I was the only one in the group who still was in school, but... still it wasn't that bad...

The days with practice, photo shoots, and TV appearances one after another are really exhausting. But I had a lot o fun doing it~!

Whenever another team showed up to try to claim our spot we ended up exhausted afterwards, though I think you've got ours beat. But it's not like the battles were scheduled, they just kind of happened if someone wanted your stage.

Then how did people know when to watch you? Was there always someone with a camera around?

Pretty much? They were all near the city center so there were always people around, and no one performed at night or something like that. And anyone interested in Beat Riders usually got some kind of alert from DJ Sagara's broadcast. He was always broadcasting Beat Rider news.

[And he knows why now, but... that's not something he wants to bring up.]

Beat Rider? Was that the name of the competition?

[Sorry she keeps asking questions, Micchy, but she loves knowing things about her friends!]

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