"All right..." Just as Kotori Minami was wondering whether she should leave for the sake of her dignity, Kotaro Katsura suddenly turned serious. "Enough with the nonsense, Kotori-chan. Sogo's musical accomplishments are far beyond what ordinary people can compare to. If he's willing to help..."
"Huh?" Kotori Minami froze. The commercial boasting between those two had been so over-the-top just now that she had no way of telling whether this was true or false.
"Wait!" But while she was still stunned, Sogo Doma spoke up. "Katsura, why is it that whenever you help someone, I'm the one who has to do the work?"
"I'll pay you..."
"You have money?" Sogo Doma shot him a glance. Katsura wanted to talk about payment? Of course, if the payment he offered was a favor owed, that would be another matter. Though Katsura seemed rather unreliable, he was still an expert no weaker than Hijikata. That favor...
As he pondered it, an unfamiliar female voice suddenly came from beside him. "How much do you want?"
"Friends-and-family price—two or thirty million per song..." Sogo Doma said instinctively. Forget two or thirty million—even two or three million was something Katsura could never come up with!
But halfway through his sentence, he suddenly realized—female voice? Had Katsura picked up a convincing female voice from working at the crossdresser bar?
Everyone else was already dumbfounded by the exchange.
Kotori Minami: !!!∑
T-two or thirty million for a single song? Even robbery wasn't that fast, was it?
Elisaki:
She had thought the ten-something million she'd seen at Mr. Katsura's house that day was the most money she would ever see in her life, but now someone was casually offering two or thirty million...
Kotaro Katsura: -_-!
Friends-and-family price, my ass! Even if he sold himself, he wouldn't have two