Suzuki Sonoko noticed someone entering the room. She looked up and exclaimed in surprise, "Miss Shirai?"
When everyone had invited her to Fuyudo Villa, hadn't she said she had something to do? Why had she come anyway, and secretly at that?
Then sharp-eyed Suzuki Sonoko noticed that the moment "Miss Shirai" entered, her gaze shot toward Jiang Xia like iron filings drawn to a magnet.
Suzuki Sonoko: "?!"
Could this woman... have come for Jiang Xia? Did she want to secretly make Valentine's Day chocolate and surprise him?
As a certain high school girl quietly grew wary.
Beside her, Vermouth could not help showing a surprised look as well.
"I thought you'd never come to Fuyudo Villa for the rest of your life." As Curacao slowly passed by her, Vermouth adjusted her glasses and murmured under the cover of her hand, "Why did you suddenly change your mind?"
Curacao: "..." Why else? Because of that damned Rum.
...Unfortunately, she could not say that.
She could only put on a polite professional smile and pretend not to hear her colleague's whisper.
Unfortunately, Vermouth was not the only one who noticed that "Miss Shirai" had gone back on her word and come to the villa.
Not long after they began making chocolate, Curacao's eyes shifted as she noticed someone edging closer beside her.
As Suzuki Sonoko awkwardly chopped a block of chocolate into bits, she casually asked, "Miss Shirai, why did you come to the villa? Didn't you say you had work?"
Curacao: "..."
She wanted to ignore her as she had before, but this detestable rich second-generation girl corrupted by Uzo spoke with such booming energy. Her voice was nothing like Vermouth's mosquito-like murmur just now—Curacao was certain that everyone in the room had heard the question.
One after another, people