Suguru doesn't answer. Instead, she waves her fingers over her shoulder in goodbye. She's not going anywhere specific; she just needed to escape from Satoru and Satoru's everything. She needed some breathing room. Sometimes she wants to punch her. Sometimes she wants to kiss her stupid. Sometimes she wants both. It's too many emotions for the short time she's been in Satoru's presence.

Besides, she needs to hunt down her band members and Satoru's keyboardist, handing them music for the song, requesting they show up for the soundcheck and pre-show run-through. (She knows they'll be there, but confirming never hurts.) Satoru's keyboardist is skittish with her, eyeing her warily, and Suguru has to repress a sigh. She burned her bridges when she left, and she doesn't regret that, but half the people she worked with and so many of her new people seem to think Suguru is some demon lady straight from hell.

She disappears into her dressing room and meditates a little, has lunch, goes through her notes a few more times. And then, unsure where Satoru is but unwilling to let her trepidation get in her way, Suguru finds her way to the stage to study the blocking. They'll run through it, of course, and she has studied the layout and instructions, but seeing it live vs on paper is different.

Of course, Satoru is there. Still with her blindfold on and Ijichi next to her. If Suguru were mean, she could surprise her and spook her. But she dismisses the idea immediately, not liking the idea of using Satoru's vision problems against her. So she walks over, making some noise and making sure Ijichi can see her.

"Do you want to rehearse that song before hair and makeup or after?" she asks.