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Perhaps they had sensed something. The moment Alice and Patchouli met each other's eyes, all the girls around them fell silent.
Remilia had seen more than once how Alice and Patchouli, normally calm and indifferent girls, would argue like needle against awl whenever they met. Her head began to ache.
Satori Komeiji, meanwhile, seemed to have read something from Alice and Patchouli's hearts. She cast a strange look at Alice, Patchouli, and even Wu Yan beside them, then quietly retreated to one side with Utsuho Reiuji and Rin Kaenbyou.
Yagokoro Eirin and Reisen chose to watch silently, while Houraisan Kaguya's eyes shifted slightly and her face took on an eager, entertained expression.
Even Flandre and Koishi Komeiji, clinging to Wu Yan's back, widened their eyes and tried to see how things would develop.
Seeing these hateful people all choosing to remain silent, Wu Yan could only smile bitterly and let Alice and Patchouli do as they pleased.
However, just as everyone thought Alice and Patchouli were about to quarrel as fiercely as usual, the two of them simultaneously revealed helpless smiles, as though they had figured something out and let something go.
"I thought you weren't coming..." Patchouli was the first to smile faintly.
"Luckily, I'm not too late..."
"Since I was invited, of course I came..." Alice nodded calmly, as though everything she had done before had merely been childish fooling around.
"Besides, with a banquet this large, wouldn't it be