Outside stood two more people: Mary Akai and Masumi Sera. Masumi looked utterly embarrassed, while Mary did not seem embarrassed in the slightest.
"Why should I be polite?" Mary turned to Chen and said. By now, she was practically treating this place as her own home.
To Mary, she had come to see Ai and Akemi, and she considered this to be Ai and Akemi's home, so there was no need to stand on ceremony.
Masumi, however, was not nearly as thick-skinned. At the same time, she was puzzled—why was her mother's skin so thick?
In any case, Masumi could only sigh in admiration. This was something she truly could not compare to—she simply could not measure up.
"You're probably here to mooch a meal again, aren't you?" Chen gave Mary a disdainful look. Her appearance here made it obvious that she had come to freeload a meal.
Otherwise, Mary would never have shown up.
Hearing Chen's words and feeling his disdain, Mary's face reddened slightly. That was right—her goal in coming here was to mooch a meal.
"I came to see Ai."
Naturally, Mary could not directly admit that she had come to freeload a meal. It would be far too humiliating if she did, and her daughter would be embarrassed along with her.
"Come up with another excuse next time. You say you come to see Ai every day, but have you actually ever looked at her?"
Chen's gaze toward Mary grew even more disdainful. Every time, she claimed she had come to see Ai, yet after arriving, she never even spared Ai a glance.
Of course, the reason was that Ai was rather cold toward Mary and simply did not talk to her much.
At first, Mary would still chat with Ai a little, but later on,