After her conversation with Ms. Sunshine, Lala tried to get Nao's attention while hiding behind a grass, but this failed, so she left the area with a sad expression.

"That failed to get her attention," the woman whom she just talked to arrived with a sad expression and a hand to her shoulder. "If you really love her, even if she hates you now, you must let her go and move on."

Hearing those words coming from her caused Lala to run away with tears on her eyes. Ms. Sunshine looked at the girl she tried to get her attention to with disappointment.

Meanwhile, Nao is still playing with her new friends. That is, until some mysterious figure with white hair, orange eyes, and a black costume that has skulls on both her shirt and headband. Despite this, her face is obscured in shadow.

"Hello there," she said with a sinister tone and the girls run away.

"What do you want?" Nao asked, and it seems that she is not afraid of her.

"I'm here to grant you your wish. I saw everything that had happened. Lala told you that she's an idol with the same name, but you didn't took the revelation well because your PriTicket got confiscated by the headmistress of your school, so you said you hate her and her alter ego before running off. You're just jealous that she's an idol, and you're not."

"Will you just leave me alone with that topic?! How did you know my reason?!"

"Simple. It's the oldest excuse in my book," the figure showed her a book known as 'How to Hunt Idols', and it's author is Mary Alice Doombringer; that is her name. "Like I said, I'm here to grant you your wish. What would it be like if you were an idol on stage instead of her? Would things be better this way?"

Upon hearing this proposition, Nao started to think of the deal. If she's being asked to accept a deal from some stranger, it would be like she's having a deal with the devil.

"I was thinking about getting her PriTicket and giving it to you. What do you say? Do we have a deal or not?" the sinister figure holds out her hand.

"I accept," Nao grabs her hand in reply. "On one condition..."

"Name it."

"Even though I hate her now, I don't want her to get hurt."

"Fine then. I won't harm a single hair on her. Here's a whistle. Use this to call me when the time has come."

Nao is given a golden whistle, and the figure just runs off.

Lala is seen swimming by the pool while crying when suddenly some girl is about to approach her and give her warning ticket. However, it backfired when the latter got it instead.

As soon as the two girls have their heads out of the water, Lala is surprised that the girl trying to approach her got a warning ticket instead.

"Head Disciplinarian?" she asked. "You got a ticket on your forehead."

"And I want to know who did this!" the girl exclaimed.

"It was me," Ms. Sunshine shows up with her bathing suit. "Hello, I'm Ms. Sunshine."

"Nice to meet you. I'm Mirei Minami, the Head Disciplinarian of the school she enrolls. Anyway, why did you slap this ticket on my forehead when I was about to slap this on her forehead?"

"Oh, I'm sorry. Didn't know. I am so sorry," the young adult grabs the ticket and just gives it to Lala's hand. "Just what is this ticket for? She didn't break any school rules."

"No, she just broke idol rules."

"Idol rules?" Lala asked.

"Yes. An idol must never be seen crying," Mirei stated.

"I see..." Ms. Sunshine said with understanding while Lala wipes off the tears from her eyes. "Like I said, I'm really sorry for interfering with your job."

"Don't apologize. It doesn't matter. Anyway, I heard the whole thing."

"Huh, you were watching?" Lala asked.

"Same here," the woman added.

"I think I really hurt her."

"Same here for my case."

"One of your duties as an idol is to make her smile. Isn't being on stage in PriPara the most important right now? Do you really think you can make all of your fans smile if you can't even do the same for a single friend?" Mirei asked the questions.

"Making my friend smile from the stage..." Lala started to have a thought on the matter.

No matter how low I'm feeling, seeing Lala's smile always makes me smile! Nao exclaimed.

Back to reality...

"Let's go. My swimsuit coord calculations are finished!" Mirei stated.

"Capisce!" Lala exclaimed happily.

"Good luck with your plan to make Nao smile while I stay here to tend to her," Ms. Sunshine said with a smile before the two young girls left the pool. As they did, she got a golden star off from the ticket that was supposed to be for Lala and found dust while it was struck on Mirei. "I thought so."

"What's wrong?" the young girl comes back.

"Oh, it's nothing. Just bring your friend back."

As soon as Lala left, Ms. Sunshine has decided to watch Nao in order to let her see the show that will commence in about a minute or so.