22화: 교코는 미오의 페르소나를 받아들이고 렌은 오가타 감독으로부터 그녀를 변호한다

Kyoko was given some time to think about her character, Mio, thanks to Ren. Ren also gives Kyoko a hint of why Mio would hate Mizuki but she still has a hard time understanding the cruel rich lady that she's playing. While talking with Ren's manager and thinking about the role, she finally discovers her Mio and runs off. (Yashiro tells Kyoko that Ren is in love with her, but Kyoko did not hear as she was busy thinking about the role). When Yashiro tells everyone that she's gone, Ms. Iizuka thinks that Kyoko run away from work and demands that Director Ogata fire Kyoko, but Ren persists in believing in her and persuades the director to wait. When Kyoko comes back she arrived with her own short hair colored black. When Ren calls her, she seems to be reading the Dark Moon script and ignores him. When he tries touching her face, she stops his hand with the script away and showing a look of intense hatred in her eyes. The director and Ren conclude that it's not Kyoko sitting before them but Mio. Initially the director thinks that he can't use this kind of Mio, since the original character was a shy, introverted girl, while Kyoko's Mio is prideful; but Ren convinces him to try out this new Mio. And so they ask Ms. Iizuka (who played Mio in Tsukigomori – 20 years ago, but playing Mio's mother in Dark Moon) to test Mio, to see how Kyoko would present her character. While they test Kyoko's Mio the director discovers that her Mio, while being unlike the original Mio, is much more intense and more credible. Instead of finding faults in this Mio, the director catches himself finding faults in the original Mio. The director finally decides he needs to make a whole new world for the Kyoko's Mio and she passes the test. (Source: Wikipedia)
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- 18화 · 쇼가 교코의 정체를 폭로하며 세트장에서는 긴장감이 고조되고 야시로가 렌을 의심하게 된다
- 19화 · 교코는 연기 때문에 고생하고 쇼와 미모리는 감정적 긴장감에 직면한다
- 20화 · 연기를 놓고 레인이 압박을 받으면서 교코가 연극에 스카우트됨
- 21화 · 교코가 렌과 함께 다크 문 리메이크 캐스트에 합류하며 이즈카 선생님의 감시를 받는다.
- 22화 · 교코는 미오의 페르소나를 받아들이고 렌은 오가타 감독으로부터 그녀를 변호한다
- 23화 · 교코의 미오가 인정을 받지만 렌은 공연 기준에 고전한다.
- 24화 · 렌은 카츠키 역을 맡으며 고뇌하고 교코는 그의 개인적 위기를 함께 극복하도록 도와준다
- 25화 · 렌은 자신의 감정을 되새기며 교코는 촬영 전 그가 식사를 잘 하도록 확인하러 방문한다.