"Cooperate?", Wakaba Mutsumi tilted her head, as if she didn't understand what she meant.
Soyo still kept a shallow smile, patiently explaining, "Just the literal meaning. Now that we have an external enemy, internal strife is extremely unwise."
"Mutsumi, I've always treated you as a friend, you know?"
"In that case, cooperating with me should be easier than fighting alone, right?"
The brown-haired girl also tried to list a few benefits of cooperation.
For example, sharing information with each other, and at critical moments, they could assist each other in attacks. When facing homewreckers and vixens, they could join forces and drive the enemies away together as sisters.
But Wakaba Mutsumi only considered for a few seconds, then decisively shook her head, "Sorry, Soyo, I can't agree to that."
"Why?", Nagasaki Soyo couldn't help but frown, "This clearly is a win-win situation, right?"
Mutsumi is very beautiful. Even Soyo had to admit that.
But she also had a fatal flaw: she didn't know how to interact with others.
She had very few friends, and in the past, when Taki was around, it was only the band members.
After Taki was gone, only Sakiko and herself remained.
Now that Sakiko was missing, in the whole school, Mutsumi could only talk to someone when she was with her.
Such a girl who had pitifully few friends, completely inexperienced in pursuing boys, was as innocent as a blank sheet of paper.
Although Soyo also had no experience in this area, she was very confident in her theoretical knowledge. After all, all those emotional posts weren't read in vain.
If Mutsumi was willing to cooperate with her, Soyo's theoretical knowledge could just fill in that blank space.
And she herself could rely on Mutsumi's existence to divert some of the attention, and together they could drive out all the homewreckers without leaving a single one.
In such a win-win situation, Nagasaki Soyo really couldn't understand why the other party would refuse.
The girl with light green long hair lowered her eyes, remained silent for a long time.
'Although it might sound hurtful to say so...'
But, she always felt that Soyo would mess up all the romantic relationships one day.
Rather than cooperating with Soyo, she would rather choose Sakiko.
Of course, thinking Soyo was unreliable was only one of the reasons.
The more important point was, Mutsumi really didn't have big ambitions.
She didn't seek much, just wanted to stay beside the person she liked, and find a small place of belonging.
And now, that goal was already halfway achieved. Referring to them living together.
'Although there is still a three-month time limit… but didn't Kaito-kun also never say it can't be renewed?'
This was the first time Mutsumi was most grateful for the family she was born into.
At least, having a famous actress as a mother and a famous comedian as a father meant she didn't have to worry about expensive rent.
Nagasaki Soyo was very disappointed.
In her eyes, Mutsumi's refusal was undoubtedly a sign of lacking ambition.
A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier. A girlfriend who doesn't want to be the official one is also not a good girlfriend.
Just being satisfied with such a simple degree, content with the status quo...
'Forget it, a melon forced off the vine won't be sweet. If you're unwilling, then you're unwilling.'
'Even without your help, I can still eliminate all the homewreckers.'
Besides, although Mutsumi was lying flat, lying flat also had its benefits.
At least, if she wasn't willing to cooperate with her, then she definitely wouldn't cooperate with others either.
Her alertness level could be lowered a bit more.
"In that case, let's treat today's matter as if I never said anything," Nagasaki Soyo didn't try to force her. Although the result wasn't as smooth as she expected, it also wasn't particularly bad.
The matter with Mutsumi could be set aside for now.
Next...
The brown-haired girl rallied herself, full of fighting spirit.
She would first put all her focus on that pink-haired vixen outside.
With a gentle smile for business back on her face, Nagasaki Soyo had just taken Mutsumi out of the restroom when a commotion was heard from the direction of the hall.
After clearly seeing the scene not far away, the smile on the girl's pretty face completely froze.
A white-haired girl she didn't recognize was clinging to Kaito's shoulder, rubbing her face against his like an affectionate cat.
———
"Raana! You can't be so rude!", Store manager Ririko was trying hard to pull the white-haired girl clinging to the customer off, 'Even I haven't done that!'
The girl with short white hair and rare heterochromatic eyes looked at her, but still didn't stop her action, only seriously said, "His scent... is delicious. I like it."
"No matter how much you like it, you can't just jump on him! Isn't this already sexual harassment?"
Even Anon at the side was a little stunned, 'What kind of place is this Livehouse? Has the atmosphere become too rock and roll?'
'First the store manager secretly gropes someone, and then a mysterious girl passing by acts like a face-hugging parasite. This isn't just some ordinary pervert, it's time to use force.'
"Sorry, sorry! Raana is a good child, it's just... she's a bit free-spirited sometimes, but she really means no harm," Manager Ririko was exhausted, and finally managed to pull the heterochromatic girl off Kaito, and before catching her breath, she hurriedly bowed to apologize.
"It's fine,".Kaito didn't mind much. Though his face had been rubbed, he had a good impression of the suddenly appearing heterochromatic girl.
Although she was just an ordinary person... she felt more like a lazy cat without ears and a tail.
For some reason, he felt she would have a lot to talk about with his fat cat back home.
"Thank you very much for your understanding," Ririko patted her chest, 'Thank goodness the guest doens't mind.'
"To apologize, tonight's expenses will be covered by the store. Please enjoy your meal," The incident happened so suddenly. She had originally intended to bring out the matcha parfait, but never thought Raana would walk in at that moment, drawn by the scent of the parfait, and followed it all the way over.
Then, after seeing the indescribably handsome boy, she immediately forgot about the parfait and made a move that could be called "throwing herself into his arms."
If it were another woman doing this, one might suspect she was trying to take advantage.
But Ririko knew Raana well, the girl was still in high school, young and pure, with none of those messy thoughts. She really was like a self-willed cat, unpredictable.
What bad intentions could a cat have? The cat just wanted to get a sniff of someone.
"Want to eat?", Remembering that this heterochromatic girl had originally been attracted by the matcha parfait, Kaito simply pushed the cup in front of her, as if feeding a stray cat.
But Kaname Raana didn't even look at the matcha parfait.
The parfait was delicious, but to her right now, the man in front of her was even more delicious.
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