"Are you sure we can't bow out early?" Kotetsu asked after a 12-year-old finished their ear-piercing rendition of Blue Rose's new song.

Bunny slid a look at him. "Only if you want to explain to Kaede why we didn't stay the whole time."

Kotetsu sighed and got comfortable in his seat, steeling himself to make it the rest of the way through the middle school's talent show.