After practice today, we held a small meeting.

The topic was:

"How should we price our BOOTH products?"

MixPalette offers various things such as music, wallpapers, and illustrations.

But before anything else...

We need more people to discover us.

That was what we were discussing.

Thenβ€”

🧑 Hinata: "Are we selling well!?"

🀍 Mashiro: "The meeting just started."

🧑 Hinata: "Ohhh, I see!"

That was very fast.

Extremely fast.

🩷 Aine: "I think it's important that more people get to know us firstβ™ͺ"

πŸ’™ Rei: "Agreed."

πŸ’™ Rei: "Before people buy anything, they need to hear our music."

🩡 Ruka: "Exactly."

🩡 Ruka: "If nobody knows about us, nothing can really start."

Everyone was being surprisingly serious.

For once, it felt like a real business meeting.

Thenβ€”

πŸ’œ Shizuku: "In that case~"

πŸ’œ Shizuku: "Wouldn't it be fine if everyone simply bought them?"

The room went completely silent.

🩷 Aine: "That's not how it works!"

🧑 Hinata: "That's not the point!"

🩡 Ruka: "Shizuku, no!"

πŸ’™ Rei: "Rejected."

πŸ’œ Shizuku: "Oh my...?"

She was completely serious.

And completely sincere.

Which somehow made it even funnier.

After returning to the topicβ€”

🀍 Mashiro: "For now, we'd like to focus on helping more people discover MixPalette."

🀍 Mashiro: "So we're considering pricing things at 100 yen."

🩷 Aine: "That sounds easy to try!"

🧑 Hinata: "It's cheaper than snacks!"

πŸ’™ Rei: "Not a bad entry point."

🩡 Ruka: "Getting noticed comes first."

Then Shizuku slowly raised her hand again.

I had a bad feeling.

πŸ’œ Shizuku: "I think 100 yen is much too inexpensive~"

πŸ’™ Rei: "Here we go again."

🩷 Aine: "Shizuku, stop!"

πŸ’œ Shizuku: "Everyone works very hard~"

πŸ’œ Shizuku: "And the songs are wonderful~"

πŸ’œ Shizuku: "I think even 1,000 yen would still be quite affordable~"

Everyone: "TOO EXPENSIVE!!!"

The response was perfectly synchronized.

🧑 Hinata: "For 1,000 yen, I could buy SO MANY snacks!"

πŸ’œ Shizuku: "Really... that many?"

🩡 Ruka: "We can't use Shizuku's sense of money as a reference."

πŸ’™ Rei: "Noted and discarded."

πŸ’œ Shizuku: "I see~"

She seemed to accept that explanation.

At least for now.

After the meetingβ€”

πŸ’œ Shizuku: "Oh, that reminds me~"

πŸ’œ Shizuku: "I brought some treats for everyoneβ™ͺ"

A large gift box appeared on the table.

🩷 Aine: "Wow!"

🧑 Hinata: "Cake!"

🩡 Ruka: "That looks expensive..."

πŸ’™ Rei: "..."

🀍 Mashiro: "Shizuku."

πŸ’œ Shizuku: "Yes~?"

🀍 Mashiro: "How much did this cost?"

πŸ’œ Shizuku: "I don't quite remember~β™ͺ"

Everyone: "THAT'S THE EXPENSIVE ONE!!!"

In the end,

we successfully decided on our BOOTH pricing.

But Shizuku's sense of money remains one of MixPalette's greatest mysteries.

To Be Continued...