Momochi no Kimochi: Afterword

Thank you very much for enthusiastically reading until the very end.

Didn’t you come to like Momochi even more by reading this book?

At the very least, I came to like myself even more ♥

I hope that as many people as possible enjoy it.

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Q4. Please place the members of ℃-ute into family roles (Father, Mother, Older Sister, Younger Sister, Pet).

Morning Musume。´17	Father	Mother	Older Sister	Younger Sister	Pet	Type of Pet
Fukumura Mizuki	Okai Chisato	Yajima Maimi	Suzuki Airi	Nakajima Saki	Hagiwara Mai	Cat
Ikuta Erina	Okai Chisato	Nakajima Saki	Yajima Maimi	Suzuki Airi	Hagiwara Mai	Dog
Iikubo Haruna	Okai Chisato	Nakajima Saki	Yajima Maimi	Hagiwara Mai	Suzuki Airi	Cat
Ishida Ayumi	Yajima Maimi	Nakajima Saki	Suzuki Airi	Hagiwara Mai	Okai Chisato	Bird (Parrot)
Sato Masaki	Okai Chisato	Yajima Maimi	Suzuki Airi	Nakajima Saki	Hagiwara Mai	Cat
Kudo Haruka	Okai Chisato	Suzuki Airi	Hagiwara Mai	Nakajima Saki	Yajima Maimi	Dog
Oda Sakura	Yajima Maimi	Suzuki Airi	Okai Chisato	Hagiwara Mai	Nakajima Saki	Cat
Ogata Haruna	Okai Chisato	Yajima Maimi	Hagiwara Mai	Nakajima Saki	Suzuki Airi	Dog (Toy poodle)
Nonaka Miki	Yajima Maimi	Nakajima Saki	Okai Chisato	Hagiwara Mai	Suzuki Airi	Cat
Makino Maria	Yajima Maimi	Nakajima Saki	Hagiwara Mai	Okai Chisato	Suzuki Airi	Hamster
Haga Akane	Yajima Maimi	Nakajima Saki	Okai Chisato	Hagiwara Mai	Suzuki Airi	Cat
Kaga Kaede	Yajima Maimi	Okai Chisato	Nakajima Saki	Hagiwara Mai	Suzuki Airi	Dog
Yokoyama Reina	Nakajima Saki	Yajima Maimi	Suzuki Airi	Okai Chisato	Hagiwara Mai	Dog (Toy poodle)
ANGERME	Father	Mother	Older Sister	Younger Sister	Pet	Type of Pet
Wada Ayaka	Okai Chisato	Yajima Maimi	Nakajima Saki	Hagiwara Mai	Suzuki Airi	Dog
Nakanishi Kana	Yajima Maimi	Suzuki Airi	Nakajima Saki	Okai Chisato	Hagiwara Mai	Dog
Takeuchi Akari	Yajima Maimi	Nakajima Saki	Suzuki Airi	Hagiwara Mai	Okai Chisato	Dog
Katsuta Rina	Okai Chisato	Yajima Maimi	Nakajima Saki	Hagiwara Mai	Suzuki Airi	Cat
Murota Mizuki	Yajima Maimi	Okai Chisato	Nakajima Saki	Hagiwara Mai	Suzuki Airi	Hamster
Aikawa Maho	Okai Chisato	Nakajima Saki	Yajima Maimi	Suzuki Airi	Hagiwara Mai	Hamster
Sasaki Rikako	Nakajima Saki	Suzuki Airi	Yajima Maimi	Hagiwara Mai	Okai Chisato	Dog
Kamikokuryo Moe	Yajima Maimi	Nakajima Saki	Hagiwara Mai	Okai Chisato	Suzuki Airi	Cat
Kasahara Momona	Hagiwara Mai	Okai Chisato	Nakajima Saki	Yajima Maimi	Suzuki Airi	Dog
Juice=Juice	Father	Mother	Older Sister	Younger Sister	Pet	Type of Pet
Miyazaki Yuka	Nakajima Saki	Yajima Maimi	Suzuki Airi	Hagiwara Mai	Okai Chisato	Dog
Kanazawa Tomoko	Yajima Maimi	Suzuki Airi	Nakajima Saki	Hagiwara Mai	Okai Chisato	Dog (Shiba Inu)
Takagi Sayuki	Okai Chisato	Yajima Maimi	Suzuki Airi	Hagiwara Mai	Nakajima Saki	Bird
Miyamoto Karin	Okai Chisato	Yajima Maimi	Suzuki Airi	Hagiwara Mai	Nakajima Saki	Dog (Shih Tzu)
Uemura Akari	Yajima Maimi	Okai Chisato	Suzuki Airi	Hagiwara Mai	Nakajima Saki	Bird (Owl)
Country Girls	Father	Mother	Older Sister	Younger Sister	Pet	Type of Pet
Tsugunaga Momoko	Yajima Maimi	Nakajima Saki	Suzuki Airi	Hagiwara Mai	Okai Chisato	Dog
Yamaki Risa	Yajima Maimi	Suzuki Airi	Okai Chisato	Hagiwara Mai	Nakajima Saki	Dog (Chihuahua)
Morito Chisaki	Okai Chisato	Yajima Maimi	Suzuki Airi	Hagiwara Mai	Nakajima Saki	Cat
Ozeki Mai	Yajima Maimi	Nakajima Saki	Suzuki Airi	Hagiwara Mai	Okai Chisato	Dog
Yanagawa Nanami	Yajima Maimi	Nakajima Saki	Okai Chisato	Suzuki Airi	Hagiwara Mai	Dog
Funaki Musubu	Yajima Maimi	Suzuki Airi	Hagiwara Mai	Okai Chisato	Nakajima Saki	Cat
Kobushi Factory	Father	Mother	Older Sister	Younger Sister	Pet	Type of Pet
Fujii Rio	Okai Chisato	Yajima Maimi	Hagiwara Mai	Suzuki Airi	Nakajima Saki	Goldfish
Hirose Ayaka	Yajima Maimi	Okai Chisato	Nakajima Saki	Hagiwara Mai	Suzuki Airi	Cat
Nomura Minami	Nakajima Saki	Hagiwara Mai	Yajima Maimi	Okai Chisato	Suzuki Airi	Cat
Ogawa Rena	Okai Chisato	Yajima Maimi	Suzuki Airi	Hagiwara Mai	Nakajima Saki	Dog (Maltese)
Hamaura Ayano	Yajima Maimi	Nakajima Saki	Suzuki Airi	Okai Chisato	Hagiwara Mai	Dog (Chihuahua)
Taguchi Natsumi	Yajima Maimi	Nakajima Saki	Suzuki Airi	Hagiwara Mai	Okai Chisato	Dog
Wada Sakurako	Yajima Maimi	Nakajima Saki	Hagiwara Mai	Okai Chisato	Suzuki Airi	Bunny
Inoue Rei	Nakajima Saki	Yajima Maimi	Hagiwara Mai	Suzuki Airi	Okai Chisato	Dog (Spitz)
Tsubaki Factory	Father	Mother	Older Sister	Younger Sister	Pet	Type of Pet
Yamagishi Riko	Okai Chisato	Yajima Maimi	Nakajima Saki	Hagiwara Mai	Suzuki Airi	Dog (Pomeranian)
Ogata Risa	Okai Chisato	Yajima Maimi	Suzuki Airi	Hagiwara Mai	Nakajima Saki	Bird (Cockatiel)
Niinuma Kisora	Nakajima Saki	Yajima Maimi	Hagiwara Mai	Suzuki Airi	Okai Chisato	Dog
Tanimoto Ami	Yajima Maimi	Nakajima Saki	Suzuki Airi	Hagiwara Mai	Okai Chisato	Dog (Toy Poodle)
Kishimoto Yumeno	Yajima Maimi	Okai Chisato	Hagiwara Mai	Nakajima Saki	Suzuki Airi	Bird (Parrot)
Asakura Kiki	Yajima Maimi	Nakajima Saki	Suzuki Airi	Hagiwara Mai	Okai Chisato	Dog
Ono Mizuho	Okai Chisato	Yajima Maimi	Nakajima Saki Suzuki Airi Hagiwara Mai
Onoda Saori	Okai Chisato	Yajima Maimi	Suzuki Airi	Hagiwara Mai	Nakajima Saki	Dog (Toy Poodle)
Akiyama Mao	Nakajima Saki	Yajima Maimi	Suzuki Airi	Hagiwara Mai	Okai Chisato	Dog (Bulldog)

Momochi no Kimochi: Tears (Essay #22/22)

I got to go to a primary school for a month to do practical teacher training as part of my university studies. I’m an idol 24 hours a day, and my aura of cuteness shines bright around the clock. But since I’d be at school, I’d have to work hard to conceal that aura. At any rate, the nickname ‘Momochi’ and the Momochi Musubi were no-nos. As a result, my students didn’t seem to have noticed, and my teaching practice went by without a hitch. Of course it was better that way, but to me, it felt a bit sad, like a piece of myself had been taken away from me……

In that state of mind, I approached my final day. My students had never called me anything but ‘Tsugunaga-sensei’. But after I had said my farewells, with a ‘one two’, they said ‘We love Momochi~!’ I hadn’t expected this surprised, so I was caught off-guard. No matter when I dealt with my students, I’d tried not to let that part of me show. I’m known to be an iron-hearted woman, who would hardly, if ever, show my tears in front of people. And yet, I was crying buckets…… Like something out of a drama, it was a beautiful story, a beautiful scene, and they were also beautiful tears. The smiles on the faces of my students were of course so wonderful that it was almost blinding.

You know. Because of that, how do I put this…… Thinking about it now, there was a camera when it happened! Since it was really a truly lovely scene! Perhaps if we had given it another try, I would have properly looked at the camera, and cried nicely. I’m confident that I could pull it off! But I definitely would like to be in the Momochi Musubi if we did that ♪

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Tsugunaga-san, this might be the last time you'll be appearing in this magazine.

Yanagawa: Huh~

Tsugunaga: Oh my! So, about that front cover......

Everyone: Ahahaha!

And with that, I think it would be nice if things moved along as usual.

♥♥♥

So when you go out for meals, it's normally Tsugunaga-san who extends the invitation? Is it difficult to ask her out without some sort of underlying reason?

Yamaki: Actually, there isn't a problem with inviting her out without any reasons. But I find it difficult. I can't just ask a great-senpai out for a meal without a reason. The other day, the two of us went for mushroom nabe. I felt like having some, but it turned out that the others weren't big fans of mushrooms when I asked them. I didn't want to drag along people who weren't really fond of mushrooms, so I asked Momochi-senpai whether she'd like to have mushroom nabe. She was okay with that, and she was fine with me asking her out. I was actually really shocked by the fact that there weren't any problems with me asking her out for a meal on a private basis. And though we happily headed to the store, (looks at Tsugunaga) she turned peevish.

Tsugunaga: I was really happy that Risa-chan extended an invitation to me. It's not uncommon for me to have a meal with the kouhai, but the invitation would generally come from me. That was the first time that Risa-chan had asked me out, so I was on cloud nine as we headed to the store, with a spring to my step. I was even having fun picking things out from the menu. But then I got embarrassed at how excited I was. Could it be that perhaps Risa-chan had something to discuss with me? Now that my graduation's set in stone, she'll become the oldest in the group, so I wondered if there was some sort of problem concerning the group.

Like she may have wanted to ask you something.

Tsugunaga: That's right. I was wondering if there was something she wanted to bring up. To find out if she wanted to talk with about something, I asked her why she'd invited me out. And so it turned out that it was because none of the other members liked mushrooms that much. I was like 'Huh?' (laughs) I'd been chosen via the process of elimination. And what's more, she added that nabe isn't something she could order without at least 2 people.

Yamaki: I couldn't go alone. (laughs)

Tsugunaga: Isn't that horrible!

I'd have thought that Tsugunaga-san would have been the first person to ask. (laughs)

Yamaki: And that's where we differ. I didn't think that it would be all right to ask Momochi-senpai out without a reason. If I'd told her that I just invited her for some vague reason or the other, it'd be awkward.

Tsugunaga: You could've just said that you wanted to have a meal with me.

All: That's right!

Tsugunaga: You just happened to want mushroom nabe, and I happened to be the only person who was convenient, right?

Yamaki: ...Well, that's true, you happened to fit the bill. That is a fact. (laughs) The big takeaway I got from this huge incident was that it's fine to invite Momochi-senpai out just because I want to have a meal with her. So I'd like to ask her out for more meals until her graduation.