Kiui reminds her its her life to choose.
But of course theres also the Kano angle.
Enter Mei, who gives her an unneccesarily exhaustive rundown of the producers career.

Kano, who is clearly upset by this development, warns Mahiru to be careful.
Yukine says this has absolutely nothing to do with her.
Yukine claims to simply have been inspired by Mahirus art.

Im not so sure it has nothing to do with it.
Kano, AKA Nonoka would be the tool she needed to entertain 50,000 at Tokyo Dome.
Silence them with your talent, her mother advises.

Its a beautiful moment of artistic ephiphany.
Then we finally learn what went down that got Kano kicked out of SunDolls.
), and learns that Mero is LookIdiot.

But Kano isactuallya valiant and morally pure idol!
So when Kano learns Mero was behind the leak, shepunched the absolute shitout of that bitch.
Yukine immediately considered this a betrayal, and worse, an obstacle to achieving her dream.Herdream.

Her daughters dreams never mattered.
To her, Kano is a tool, and one that outlived its usefulness.
So she gave her the same treatment as the Rainbow Girls and fired her from the group.

This is the weight Kano carries behind her bright cheery smile and boundless enthusiasm for growing JELEE.
She handles this poorly, but in a way one would expect, all things considered.
But now Kano and Mahirus relationship is suddenly in tatters before it even had a chance to truly bloom.

Its a hard pill to swallow.
I just hope theres a way back for them.

