Good! It's okay to do things that don't involve them! Like making friends! That should be up to you, not them. Like with Pokémon, too.

[Fake smiling and real smiles are different if you're a molded idol. But Rise doesn't want to do that anymore. Her smiles are genuine.] I hope so! Else I wouldn't have so many fans~

Eh? Hm... I have my friends at home... and I have you and two others I would actually call 'friend'. I mostly have guys talking to me who think I'm cute. I think there's even a guy who really, really likes me. But that happens a lot! [She's very confident about her appearance.]