"Ichika, can I ask you something?" Miku said.
"Of course you can." Ichika rather liked it when her sisters treated her as the older sister.
"I mean, um... a story I saw," Miku said. "A guy asked out three girls at the same time."
"He gave each of them a note, then ran off to the meeting place without waiting for the girls to agree, saying he would wait there for ten hours. And he's already been waiting for nearly ten hours. Is he a scumbag?"
Miku was very smart.
She felt that if she gave the exact time and number of people, Ichika might realize she was talking about Su Yang.
So she changed the details slightly.
She would give him credit for not slacking off and staying downstairs in the sun the whole time.
That was what she thought.
"Is that even a question?"
Ichika said, "He's definitely a scumbag. He asked out three girls at once. What else could he be?"
"But what if that scumbag stayed out in the rain?" Miku asked again. "For nine hours, he didn't make any move to take shelter from the rain."
"Hmm..." Ichika lightly folded her arms. "Then it's hard to say."
"How should I put it? If he were a scumbag, he'd surely be the kind who waits around for easy prey, wanting to gain something without putting in any effort. But someone willing to put in that much effort..."
"If it were me..."
She paused. "I'd go see him."
Then go downstairs, Ichika. There's a scumbag waiting downstairs who's been there for almost two hours.
But even as the words reached her lips, Miku did not say them.
"I'm heading out."
"To the convenience store," Miku said.
"Ah, bring me a red bean bun," May said.
"..." Nino