That's exactly right! [ Ai gives her a cheery thumbs up. ] As long as you put enough love into it, then things will work out eventually.

[ That's how it worked for me, she'd said. And it was true - the fans and the people around her loving Hoshino Ai was how she'd been made "real". Real in the sense that she was a thing that could be observed, the way a trick of the light is 'real'.

Real enough that maybe even a girl like Tap, who's scared of her own shadow, could stand up on stage too. ]

So do you think you've got enough love in you to go for it?