No~pe! I might be capable of that second thing, but it's the first one! The two of us go all the way back to childhood, so we're wonderfully close friends. As close as family ♪

[The teasing remark rolls right off him. Hiyori is insincere at other times, but wholly sincere in this moment, still smiling fondly at the thought of Nagisa.]

He's the one who gave me the idea of becoming an idol all those years ago, so I suppose you could say it's thanks to him that I'm here right now. On this mountain for a shoot, that is. And if I weren't on this mountain, you wouldn't have run into me, which would've been quite a pity for you. Looks like we both owe a lot to him ♪

[It's a bit of unnecessary backstory. But they're still walking, and they've got nothing else to do for the moment, so he figures why not say it?]