Maki sighed, then left the stairwell.
But she did not notice that someone was watching her from behind.
Strictly speaking, it should have been "them."
"Looks like those girls have no intention of giving up, Nico?" Nozomi Tojo leaned against the wall and spoke to Yazawa Nico.
No matter how forgetful someone was, they would not forget this girl's twin tails tied up with red ribbons. Her blue school uniform was left unbuttoned, revealing the knitted pink vest she wore underneath.
That was right. She was the mysterious person who had attacked Honoka that morning.
"Hmph—" Yazawa Nico snorted in dissatisfaction.
Was it distrust, or jealousy? No one knew.
The Six Who Weren't Acknowledged
After leaving school, Senba Gari and all the members of μ's gathered on the second floor of a fast-food restaurant beside an intersection.
Aside from Honoka Kosaka and Umi Sonoda ordering an extra serving of fries, with Honoka Kosaka also getting a hamburger, everyone else only ordered a drink.
Honoka picked up two fries, her expression extremely foul as she kept cursing this damn weather in her heart.
"Honoka, if you take out your stress on your appetite, it'll turn into something terrible," Umi Sonoda, who was sitting across from her, advised.
"Why won't the rain just stop?" Honoka Kosaka complained unhappily.
"Even if you say that to me..."
"We're so fired up to practice, so God, read the room a little, seriously."
"You complain way too much, Honoka," Senba Gari said helplessly.
And on the other side of a low wall, someone with a very strange hairstyle and outfit was eavesdropping on their conversation, with a pink ice-cream-shaped hat on her head too (where did she even buy that?).
That was right. She was still Yazawa Nico. Only she could pull off something like this.