Riki walked Kaname Runa to her front door, parked the bicycle, and walked home by himself.
"Click."
The door opened. Kaname Runa's silver-haired grandmother looked at Kaname Runa, then at the already-distant Riki, and asked, "Did someone bring you home?"
"Mm. Riki."
"Oh, that boy you mentioned before? What do you think of him?"
"He's an interesting man." Kaname Runa smiled with interest.
Kaname Runa's grandmother sighed. "That way of putting it will cause misunderstandings. If he has a girlfriend, you'll make her angry."
"Riki doesn't have a girlfriend yet."
Kaname Runa thought for a moment as she watched Riki walk away.
She remembered Nagasaki Soyo saying that. Her tone had been so intense at the time that Kaname Runa remembered it.
Why had Nagasaki Soyo sounded so intense?
Kaname Runa didn't understand.
But it felt interesting.
Kaname Runa smiled with the intrigued look of a cat.
Morning.
Toyokawa Sakiko walked to her workstation and gave her coworker a slight nod in greeting.
"Sakiko, are you wearing lipstick today? That color suits you so well." Her coworker looked curious. "I want to use this kind of high-end makeup too. It must be very classy."
"No, my neighbor's good friend happened to win it in a raffle and gave it to me." Toyokawa Sakiko waved her hand and named the brand.
"Sure enough, it's a major brand. I feel like I'll never be able to use it in my whole life." Her coworker sighed, then suddenly remembered. "That brand of yours... I think I saw someone else wearing it when I passed by today."
"There isn't only one tube, so that's normal." Toyokawa Sakiko explained.
"No, no. I remember it because she was a student from Tsukinomori." Her coworker tapped her chin as she recalled.
Tsukinomori?
Toyokawa Sakiko froze.
"Yeah,