Of course, Riya Hamano had no desire to agree to Tangze's suggestion.
He quickly exchanged glances with Kikue Tanaka. Clearly, both of them felt that this sudden change was bad news. Yet although Tangze sounded like he was joking, his reasoning was simply too solid.
At gatherings, even familiar classmates, coworkers, or even intimate family members could trigger all kinds of incidents over old grudges. They were merely a group of friends who knew each other online; claiming there were no conflicts between them at all would be putting far too much faith in human nature.
Hadn't they even agreed to let Kagemasa, the forum mascot, sign up for the gathering?
The assigned tasks themselves were trivial, but if any one of them handled the drawing and happened to pick people who did not get along, it could indeed easily lead to misunderstandings...
Riya Hamano fell into an awkward silence, wanting to object but having no grounds to do so. Once the others thought it over, they all agreed with Tangze, and the matter was settled.
"Mm, fine. I'll write down everyone's names." Tangze pulled a pen from his messenger bag, removed the cap, and meaningfully looked at Riya Hamano, who had proposed making things fancy. "The few of us aren't members of your group, so we shouldn't be included in the acting chairman position or anything, right? Then I'll just write everyone's usernames. As for the tasks, aside from an acting chairman responsible for coordinating things, what else is there?"
Asked that, Riya Hamano instinctively blurted out his original plan. "...Choose an acting chairman, then add a banquet director for tonight's event, and finally set up a penalty option—pick someone to tend the boiler and prepare tonight's bathwater."
"Eh? I never heard anything about that beforehand!" Naoko Kuroda raised