After the stage play ended, everyone from Class 2C who participated in the Sleeping Beauty performance stood on stage, bowing together to the audience below.
Amidst the enthusiastic applause below, the crimson curtain slowly closed, completely separating the people on stage from the audience below.
The atmosphere backstage was not relaxed at all, tense like a drawn bowstring.
Maggie Phoenix Academy said nothing. She straightened up, turned, and headed backstage.
Nomura Makoto hurriedly followed, comforting words rising from her heart but stopping at her lips, silently swallowed back down.
She didn't know how to offer comfort, or rather at this moment, she couldn't guarantee that what she said would be comforting rather than adding salt to Maggie Phoenix Academy's wounds.
As a close friend, Nomura Makoto understood well the pride within Maggie Phoenix Academy.
She could only remain silent, staying by her side, to avoid leaving Maggie Phoenix Academy alone.
