A one-shot written for the Appmon weekly ficart challenge in Discord. Thanks to my friend Haru Shinkai for betareading the chapter.

Genre: Friendship

Characters: Eri and Astra

Please help me do my best.

Eri was working really hard and doing everything that she could, to be one of the Nine Gods.

She had already done a lot of things, but she still thought that it wasn't enough.

She suddenly remembered that last time she had asked Astra to do a collab with her and it helped her achieve the tenth place. So she decided, that she would ask once again for Astra's help.

When she arrived at Astra's home, she knocked and waited for Astra to greet her.

"Hey there Eri, how is it going?" Astra asked greeting her.

"Hi Tora, everything is going okay." Eri greeted back. "I want to ask you for a favor."

"Sure, what is it?" Astra asked.

"I want to do another collab with you again, to help me with the elections to be one of the Nine Gods." Eri answered.

"Of course I will help you with that." Astra said.

"I'm I feeling it." He began.

"I'm not." He continued.

"I'm totally feeling it!" He finished.

They did a lot of different videos, such as trying weird foods, playing strange games and many more.

After they recorded videos the whole day, they were really tired.

"Thanks a lot Tora." Eri said. "You really helped me a lot."

"You can thank me once you are one of the Nine Gods." Astra said. "But your welcome anyway."

The day of the elections had finally arrived. Everyone expect Eri, were in the Secret Base watching the elections and they were all really nervous for their friend.

"I hope that this time Eri-san gets to be one of the Nine Gods." Ai said.

"I bet she will make it." Astra said full of confidence. "Since she has all of Astra's fans supporting her and not just that she also worked really hard."

"You really are full of confidence Astra-kun." Haru said.

"Of course I'm, because I believe that Eri will be one of the Nine Gods." Astra replied.

They watched the election and when it got to the tenth place, Eri wasn't called and they all got really happy, because that meant that their friend managed to be one of the Nine Gods.

"In the Eight place Karan Eri!" The announcer said.

"Yes, yes, yes. She made it." Astra said really excited. "I'm totally feeling it!"

"Eri-san, I'm so proud of you." Haru said.

"She totally deserves to be one of the Nine Gods." Astra said. "She worked so hard for it."

The others nodded in agreement and they decided to wait for Eri to arrive, so that they could congratulate her.

Once Eri arrived, everyone started to congratulate her.

"Eri-san, congratulations on achieving Eight place." Haru said.

"Yes congratulations." Everyone else said.

"Thanks a lot guys." Eri said. "But I just have to say, that it was all thanks to Tora's help that I managed to get there."

"It's not all thanks to me." Astra replied. "It's was because you worked really hard to achieve your dream and that work made you get there. That's the true reason you got there."

"That may be true." Eri began. "But I still want to thank you."

"You don't need to do that, that's what friends are for." Astra said.

"Either way, thanks a lot Tora." Eri said as she hugged Astra. "Thanks for lending me your support and your strength."

"You're welcome Eri." Astra said as he smiled and hugged Eri back.