“Ayanokoji-kun…”
Toyokawa Sakiko also noticed over there, lowered her voice, pointed at the large glass cups held by the three girls at the adjacent table, and widened her eyes slightly,
“The things they are holding in their hands look like beer!
They look really delicious, can we also…”
“No.” “Absolutely not, Sakiko.”
Ayanokouji, who served as the Band manager, and Nagasaki Soyo, who played the role of the Band mother, spoke at almost the same time, tacitly rejecting the dangerous intention of this young lady.
“Alright…”
Toyokawa Sakiko, rejected twice, drooped her head despondently like a deflated ball.
“Um…”
Takamatsu Tomori pointed at a picture on the menu and comforted her in a soft voice, “If Sakiko wants to drink that kind of carbonated beverage, I feel like…
ordering this iced sparkling water…
can also be a substitute.”
“It really seems to be, Tomori, I want to order two cups!”
Under the lead of Taki, everyone quickly ordered various skewers, fried chicken nuggets, and fried noodles.
Just as the ordering finished and everyone was ready to chat while drinking barley tea, a fierce argument suddenly came from the adjacent table.
“Why are you speaking up for them?!”
A petite girl among the trio with brown shoulder-length short hair and low twin tails suddenly glared and loudly questioned the companion sitting beside her.
“I already said, I am not speaking up for them.”
Sitting opposite her, an older sister with silver-gray long hair who looked slightly more mature was picking up a piece of grilled meat with chopsticks, her tone revealing a trace of helplessness.
“But your actions mean exactly that!
Please think carefully, today is Diamond Dust, and it is completely different from when you were there before, isn’t it?!”
The petite girl, full of thorns like a hedgehog, asked relentlessly across the uniformed girl who was sandwiched between the two of them and solely focused on devouring meat skewers.
“So what?”
The silver-haired older sister seemed somewhat annoyed by her endless pestering attitude, raising her voice a few notches, “I am no longer there now, and how they walk is the freedom of other people.
I also do not have the right to deny them.”
“I am asking whether you hate them or not!”
“Can not really say…” This chapter is updated first at g.com.
The gradually escalating argument at the adjacent table attracted sideways glances from quite a few diners in the Izakaya.
Ayanokouji and the others were uncontrollably drawn in by the atmosphere over there.
“They are arguing so fiercely…” The tone of Toyokawa Sakiko was somewhat worried.
“Judging by what they are saying, it seems they are also discussing matters about a Band.”
Nagasaki Soyo said quietly, “Diamond Dust…
I heard people discussing this name a few days ago, it seems to be a rather famous Band.”
“Listening to their words, the girls over there…
seem to be former members of that Band.” Takamatsu Tomori gripped the glass cup in her hand, her eyes revealing confusion and a trace of sadness, “Band members were clearly all together before…
why…
did they separate later on?”
“Probably conflicting ideologies again.”
Shiina Taki took a bite of the meat skewer in her hand, acting like she was used to all this, “For a Band, parting ways because of differing pursuits in music or being unable to stand the tempers of each other is actually the most common thing in the world.”
“The ones who can walk all the way to the end are the minority.”
Wakaba Mutsumi, on the other hand, kept silently staring in the direction of the argument, a flicker of dimness quietly flashing through her completely placid eyes.
Playing in a Band can lead to such unpleasant things.
While the few of them were discussing in low voices, the situation at the adjacent table had completely spiraled out of control.
“So annoying!
Anyway, Nina, all you care about is that new vocalist, right!” The silver-gray-haired older sister slammed down her chopsticks and said coldly.
“Not at all!!”
With a muffled thump, the short girl called Nina, who looked like she had eaten dynamite, abruptly stood up and forcefully slammed the huge glass cup filled with beer onto the wooden table.
The alcohol splashed out.
“I care about whether—can you truly accept Diamond Dust turning into this current appearance that caters to the public?!
Do you not feel resentful at all?!”
Seeing that the emotions of the two could not be pulled back and were already severely affecting the dining experience of other surrounding customers, the uniformed girl who had been sandwiched in the middle playing dead and stuffing her face hastily put down the meat skewer in her hand.
While turning her head to smile apologetically and wave repeatedly at Ayanokouji and the others who were closest, saying “Very sorry, please do not mind us,” she helplessly looked at her companions and urged them to calm down as a last resort. You are reading on novelping dot com, the official source.
The result appeared pale and feeble.
After a brief exchange of gazes full of awkwardness and apology with the purple-eyed girl sandwiched in the middle, Ayanokōji Kiyotaka silently shifted his butt and leaned a little closer to the direction of Nagasaki Soyo beside him.
Relying on his intuition, he already had a premonition that the emotional conflict over there was about to escalate to a physical level.
Sure enough, his premonition was fulfilled in the next second.
“That kind of thing is not Diamond Dust!”
At the same time the petite girl named Iseri Nina reached the peak of her emotions and roared this sentence with a somewhat out-of-control voice,
Kawaragi Momoka opposite her finally lost her patience, abruptly grabbed the cup of iced juice with more than half remaining in front of her, and angrily flung it forcefully toward Nina, who was sitting an extra seat away.
With a crash, the clever drummer Awa Subaru quickly covered her head and lowered it, escaping this disaster, while the juice splashed head-on onto the face of Nina.
But the people around were not as lucky as her.
Because the distance between the two tables was too close, coupled with the agitated strength of Kawaragi Momoka, this extremely sudden water-splashing attack exploded in mid-air.
A few droplets of splashed juice failed to completely land on the palm-sized face of Nina, carrying momentum all the way backward, and splashed onto the side face of Ayanokōji Kiyotaka, who was closest to Iseri Nina and had just prepared to move his position the previous second but could not completely avoid it due to the cramped space.
Toyokawa Sakiko, Takamatsu Tomori, and the others were all startled by this sudden turn of events, letting out short gasps of surprise.
A sticky and cold sensation came from the side face, slowly sliding down the cheek.
Before Ayanokouji could sigh in his heart and reach out to wipe it, Nagasaki Soyo, whose face had paled slightly, had already quickly pulled out a few tissues from the table.
She leaned over full of concern, gently and meticulously helping him wipe away the stains on his cheek.
“Ayanokoji-kun, are you alright?
Did it get into your eyes?”
After confirming that Ayanokouji shook his head to indicate that it just felt a bit uncomfortable and was nothing serious, a rare trace of anger also surfaced on the usually kind face of Toyokawa Sakiko.
Seeing that their own Band manager, who had always been dedicated, gentle, and harmless to humans and animals, was actually innocently affected, this young lady who always paid attention to etiquette and cultivation instantly flared up as well.
She wanted to stand up and argue with those few girls over there who were causing trouble for others.
But she found that someone had already taken action a step faster than her.
“Hey.”
Shiina Taki had already pushed her chair away and stood up.
Regardless of whether the petite girl, who had directly picked up her beer glass to launch an unceremonious counterattack after being splashed with juice, was still in a fit of rage, she let out a cold and stiff “hey” and glared fiercely at Awa Subaru, who was sandwiched in the middle, had black hair and purple eyes just like Taki herself, and had immediately stood up to apologize to Ayanokouji.
“What ideological differences cause you few to argue here is your own business, I do not care at all.”
“However, why splash water onto our people?”
“The woman over there who poured the drink just now, immediately, apologize to me in person!”