Yukiko looked at herself in the mirror and could not help but give a bitter laugh. She was truly a mess right now.
In the end, Yukiko could not bring herself to decide to leave and chose to stay. Or rather, she simply could not bear to leave.
"Maybe I owe him," Yukiko said with a helpless shake of her head and a bitter smile.
Chen did not know that Yukiko was struggling with this, but he could roughly guess.
So Chen did not disturb Yukiko and decided to let her have some peace for now.
"By the way, Vermouth, why haven't I seen Akemi or Ai? Akako isn't home either."
Vermouth was the only one left in the whole house, which struck Chen as strange.
"They went out. As for what they went out to do, do you think Sherry would tell me?" Vermouth said, shaking her head.
There was still a rift between Sherry and Vermouth, and it was no small one.
Vermouth rarely spoke to Ai, and Ai was the same. Even Chen's attempts to mediate had been useless.
Chen could not say much about it. The two women had never gotten along in the first place, so what could he possibly say?
"Oh, right. Ran came looking for you earlier, but you weren't home, so she left. There was also a girl named Kazuha Toyama with her."
Vermouth suddenly remembered and told Chen.
"Oh?" Chen was slightly taken aback. He then picked up his phone and called Ran, only then noticing that Ran had called him before.
But he had probably been in the mountains at the time, where the signal was poor, so he had not received the call.
After all, network coverage was not so comprehensive in this era. It was normal