【YUTU】
"I know... and I... I haven't been nearly as good as I liked to claim to you all." «She sniffled.» "Months back, w-when That Thing came... I... I went to hide while it was rampaging in our home, and I j-... just can't hold that in with me anymore..."
«Yutu's tears fall. She can no longer hold them back, but she still won't allow a true sob to escape, or a cry to ring out.»
【YUTU】
"So... I'm fine with admitting that now... because I'm fine with saying, I lost tonight. I was in over my head, I usually am... I thought all would be easy, like I always do, and you know what? I got humiliated for it... and I had it coming... So, I lost. There it is. And I won't force you all to let me lead you anymore either. Someone who never loses... should never be that person." «Yutu said, turning her head to Namithene.» "You were right..."
«Yutu holds the mic out.»
【YUTU】
"Think whatever you want to think of me from now on. I won't tell you what to think of me anymore."
«She dropped the device. It hit the stage floor with a resounding thud, and echoed out as her arms fell to her sides, her ears drooping.»
«The crowd was like a terracotta army, frozen solid in digestion of the language she espoused. Namithene let her gaze fall to the stage floor below briefly, awkwardly, as Yutu reached up to wipe her eyelid of tears with a gloved finger. She didn't think they'd keep pouring out from what would happen next.»
【LUNAR RABBIT】
"...YUTU! I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU! YOU'RE OUR ONLY IDOL!"
«That lone fan, that one rabbit, to the left, in the audience, jumping up with both arms raised, was like the match thrown to a trail of gunpowder that was the crowd.»
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCFDMVj6asE【LUNAR RABBITS】
"YU-TU! YU-TU! YU-TU! YU-TU! YU-TU!" «Many of them began to chant. And many more of them all followed suit, roaring out with cheers again, just as they had been doing all along. But these were not cheers of excitement. They were cheers of encouragement now.»
«Because they were given the choice just now to decide. Leave and go their own way, no longer beholden to her feminine wiles, whims and ego-driven catastrophes... or cheer for her to come back and never leave, for in seeing her weakness, they were more in love with their Idol than ever before. She had talked all along about her inherent purity, but that admission of weakness, frailty and failure... that admission of losing...»
«That was beautiful. Truly beautiful.»
«Yutu lifted her head, and the tears began rolling again without so much as even a gasp.»
【NAMITHENE】
"Well... it looks like they aren't willing to defame someone so truly pure after all. They really are the best fans a star could wish for."