Chapter 237: The three-party meeting is about to begin
"What do you want to order?" Gabriel looked at Raphiel, her tone indifferent.
Raphiel held the menu, glanced over it a few times, "Hm, I'll have a coffee blend."
Hearing that, the coffee shop owner's eyes lit up.
Another child who had never tried coffee blend before.
After brewing the coffee, the owner brought it out, waited for her to take a sip, then asked: "How does it taste, dear customer?"
"Very good." Raphiel narrowed her eyes, smiling as she spoke.
"As long as you like it, that's good, that's good." The owner recalled the scene when Gabriel first drank coffee blend, his heart gave a sudden twitch.
Sitting opposite, Sakurai Saki looked at her smile and had a bad premonition.
Raphiel: (˵ ¬⩊¬˵)
"Sakurai-san and Gab-chan are really close, you even came here to see her on the weekend." Raphiel said meaningfully.
"I didn't come here on purpose, it was just a coincidence."
"Oh oh~ and this girl is?" She glanced at Chika.
"The one I like."
"I see." Upon hearing that, Raphiel's expression revealed clear disappointment.
"You already found the one you like, I should have known earlier, I should have known a few years ago."
Raphiel: .°՞(っ-ᯅ-ς)՞°·.
Hearing that, Sakurai Saki's face darkened.
Can you not speak with that heartbroken tone?
Chika gently tugged at Saki's sleeve, whispering in his ear: "Is she your middle school classmate, Saki-kun?"
"A weirdo I wasn't very close with."
Raphiel nodded, smiling: "That's right, I'm the weirdo not very close with Sakurai-san, nice to meet you."
Even Fujiwara Chika was stunned at her answer.
That tone just now made her think this was Saki's ex-girlfriend.
"Just now… I misspoke, I have no right to say those things… I'm not very close with Sakurai-san, sorry." Raphiel lowered her head, slightly tossing her long silver hair to cover her face.
Hearing that, Sakurai Saki could only sigh.
Those words weren't problematic, but no matter how you heard them, they would make people who didn't know the truth misunderstand.
Perhaps this was also a kind of special ability.
Moreover, why does she feel so "Tuesday"? No wonder Gab-chan said this angel had a dark heart.
"Ex-girlfriend?" Chika widened her sparkling eyes.
"Not an ex-girlfriend."
"Eh? Saki-kun, how did you know what I was thinking?"
Sakurai Saki glanced at her, how would he know?
[Could it be you used superpower!? Saki-kun cheating!]
… Mind reading, this wasn't the first time he had encountered this ability.
"You guessed right." Sakurai Saki said, then turned off the ability.
Keeping mind reading on continuously would overload the brain with information, extremely noisy.
He glanced at Raphiel, "Whether you're doing it on purpose or not, I advise you not to test my limits."
Hearing that, Raphiel's joking expression instantly returned to normal.
"Even the power of an angel can't seal your ability, truly frightening."
This was the first time she faced his superpower directly.
"Eh? Angel?" Chika gaped: "Really?"
Chika: ヾ(｡✪ω✪｡)ｼ
She was super obsessed with mystical things like this!
"Actually, I just have chunnibyon." Raphiel looked at her seriously and said.
"I don't believe it!" Chika rummaged in her bag and pulled out a magnifying glass and a hat.
Detective Chika-chan returns!
(⌐⎚-⎚).𖥔 ݁ ˖
Being examined with the magnifying glass, Raphiel showed slight surprise.
"This human, so hard to understand."
She followed no logic at all! Was this the embodiment of chaos!?
"Speak! Where did you come from!? No! No need to say, you must be from heaven, but aren't the gods of Japan supposed to come from Takama-ga-hara?" Chika propped her right hand under her chin, beginning to deduce.
Sakurai Saki cut off her train of thought: "Drink your coffee, it'll taste bad once it gets cold."
Just came to drink coffee once, who would have thought to run into such a strange angel.
After finishing, this afternoon, change to another place for the date.
...
Raphiel watched the figures of Sakurai Saki and Fujiwara Chika leave the café, then turned to wave at Gabriel.
"Gab-chan!"
Gabriel turned her head to look at her, "What is it?"
"Come here for a moment."
With an annoyed expression, Gabriel walked over.
"What do you want to say?"
"Did you forget? This time's mission."
Gabriel tilted her head, looking confused: "There's a mission?"
(｡· v ·｡) ?
Those short messages from Heaven, she hadn't bothered to check for a long time—Gabriel only opened them when it was time to receive her monthly allowance.
"The mission is to try to keep Sakurai-san in Tokyo."
"Is there payment?"
"Didn't say, I don't know either."
"Oh, then it has nothing to do with me." Gabriel instantly lost all interest.
Gabriel: ¯\_(- > -)_/¯~~~
No pay, yet they still wanted someone to work hard? Dream on!
Not even the effort to draw a pie in the sky, the people in Heaven really didn't understand anything about this lazy angel.
Raphiel could only sigh helplessly.
The angel closest to Sakurai Saki was this girl, if she refused to cooperate, this mission was as good as abandoned.
It was said this was an event that could affect the world situation—what should she do now…
...
Sunday.
Sakurai Saki had arranged to go watch a movie with Shinomiya Kaguya.
He had checked out information about the movie beforehand, and it seemed somewhat interesting. Doing that might reduce the sense of anticipation, but on the other hand, if he knew in advance it was a bad movie, his mood while watching would be much better.
There were pros and cons.
The higher the expectation, the greater the disappointment.
The meeting place was in front of the movie theater where he had run into Miko by chance last time.
He hadn't had to wait long before the two who were supposed to meet showed up from a corner.
And what happened afterward? No need to say.
Because Hayasaka Ai was on guard against Shinomiya Kaguya as if guarding against a thief, Sakurai Saki had absolutely no chance to interact with Shinomiya Kaguya, not even a single quarrel.
Sakurai & Hayasaka & Kaguya: (,, ᴗ _ᴗ)( ｡ •̀ ᴖ •́ ｡)> (´ ▽｀)....?
Guarding as much as you want, but a thief inside the house is hard to guard against.
Sakurai Saki more or less understood Hayasaka Ai's worries, but he never thought he would like Shinomiya Kaguya.
Previously the other party had also said, humans would not like an 'ant' — that was around the time before Hayasaka Ai confessed, right at the beginning of the semester. Sakurai Saki remembered it very clearly.
...
Monday, it rained, the sky also darkened.
The autumn rain carried a strange melancholy, making people's moods much worse.
After school.
Student Council Room.
"The three-party meeting the day after tomorrow, will Uncle Shirogane come?" Sakurai Saki asked.
"Other than him, who else?" Shirogane Miyuki sighed.
He really didn't want his father to come, but since his parents had divorced when he was young, he had no choice in the matter.
"..." Shinomiya Kaguya listened to them discussing, without saying anything.
Her father definitely wouldn't come to participate. At that time, it would probably be one of her older brothers?
If she could choose, she wanted Shinomiya Un'yo to come more, because when with him, at least they could get along.
"What about you, Sakurai?"
"My mother will come. You have met her last time." Just yesterday, Sakurai Saki had received the news that his mother would attend.
If his mother didn't come, then it would probably be Ibuki Yuki, the manager of his family's wagashi shop.
Hearing that, Shinomiya Kaguya recalled that person.
The tendency to tease others was exactly the same as Sakurai himself.
Hopefully this time she wouldn't be caught in her grasp.