Chapter 14
Coincidentally
A few minutes earlier. Lin
"Waaah!! Don't pinch my ear! Don't! Mizuki, I know I was wrong!"
Below the mixed-use building, Chisato Nishikigi clutched Mizuki Nakahara's wrist, pleading nonstop.
"If apologies worked, what would we need the police for?"
Still fuming, Mizuki Nakahara, dressed in a Japanese-style shop uniform, twisted Chisato Nishikigi's ear, then complained:
"All you had to do was take Yukinoshita to see Luo Shu, and your job would've been done. Instead, you followed them out from the other side of the underground venue and came all the way here to stuff yourself?"
"So much for your promise that it would only take a few minutes!"
"Do you know how busy Mika and I are? This is the after-school rush, damn it!"
"Sorry~ Now please, have mercy!!"
Chisato Nishikigi hastily pressed her palms together, apologizing over and over.
Seeing her like that, Mizuki Nakahara snorted, then turned toward Luo Shu and Kisara, who were watching the show from the foot of the stairs.
At that moment, Mizuki Nakahara hid the lunchbox she was holding behind her back and said calmly:
"For the sake of the lunch Kisara made, I'll forgive you for luring Chisato away this time, Luo Shu."
"Well, I'm ever so grateful."
Luo Shu voiced thanks that even he didn't believe, then asked:
"If Chief Tachibana comes back to Lycoris, remember to give her my regards."
"Your regards?" Mizuki Nakahara's expression immediately turned teasing. "You mean remind her about your order."
"I heard all about it. Some 'treasure' is going to be transferred here to you."
"Mizuki, the rules." Takina Inoue, who had been watching from the sidelines, immediately frowned in warning.
"Yes, yes, yes, confidentiality rules. I know, I know."
Mizuki Nakahara waved a hand, pinched Chisato Nishikigi's ear again, then waved