Meanwhile, Kasumigaoka Utaha was leisurely drinking coffee at Shinazugawa Bunko. She had propped her phone horizontally on the table with a stand and was watching the election broadcast, her hands supporting her cheeks from underneath as a playful smile spread across her face.
"Hehe..."
"Hehehe..."
"You've got some nerve... Last time I added you as a contact method, you actually deleted me. So you looked down on me for being just a little writer..."
"You're something else!"
"You really are something else..."
Black aura seeped from Kasumigaoka Utaha's entire body. She was clearly on the verge of going dark.
After all, Akasaka had deleted her contact method last time. With Kasumigaoka Utaha's personality, it would have been stranger if she hadn't held a grudge...
Elsewhere, Kirisaki Chitoge was silently shoveling food into her mouth at the dinner table, her head lowered so far that she never dared look up at her mother sitting across from her.
Kirisaki Chitoge's mother, Hana Kirisaki—better known as Mother Flower—was smiling at Akasaka on the television, her eyes full of admiration.
Hana Kirisaki had built her career from nothing. Starting out as a delivery worker, she had worked three jobs by herself before establishing the business she had today.
When she had met Akasaka, he had still been a filthy little beggar, just like she had once been.
Of course, she had not been as miserable as Akasaka back then... But that did not stop her from admiring him. She had never expected him to rise to his current position, and it genuinely startled Hana Kirisaki.
The red ribbon on Kirisaki Chitoge's head twitched like rabbit ears. She looked up tentatively and asked, "Mom... should we help him?"
It was obvious that she was asking her Mother whether they should help Akasaka gain some votes.