Working overtime at school—one could only say that Nagasaki Soyo's work attitude was comparable to that of Sakiko Togawa. Luckily there was no one around right now, otherwise the whole thing would have been spoiled.
Looking at Soyo kneeling in front of her, Wakaba Mutsumi fell completely silent.
Although Soyo's behavior could only help her reach the pinnacle of the comedy world, it had to be said that this move was extremely effective against the little cucumber.
After all, she wasn't Sakiko Togawa or Kamijou Mutsuki. She couldn't say something like, "You're really someone who only thinks about yourself," and thus couldn't break this tactic.
Because of that, Mutsumi's original resolve finally began to waver.
She had already knelt down—if she still refused now, wouldn't that be a bit too heartless?
Mutsumi remained silent for a long time before finally speaking.
"..."
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"What are you looking at?"
At this moment, it was already approaching evening.
Because he and Yamada Ryō had been dragged in as extra help by Ijichi Seika, he had ended up working at STARRY for the entire day.
Of course, he still got paid—though for him it was basically pocket change.
Ryō, who was eating the dinner he had bought, noticed Kamijou Mutsuki constantly staring at his phone and curiously leaned over.
"It's still about the live show…"
Mutsuki replied without even turning his head.
"I didn't expect that with only five episodes out, MyGO!!!!! would already be this popular."
"There are too few tickets, so everyone's a bit dissatisfied."
"Exactly!"
Hearing that, Ryō immediately chimed in.
"With MyGO!!!!!'s popularity, and you're holding the live at RiNG?"
"You're really doing people dirty!"
"With a place that small, how many people can even fit?"
"If others see it, they'll think you can't even afford a proper live venue!"
More importantly, it had drained all of her allowance.
If the tickets hadn't been so scarce, would she have needed to pay a fortune to scalpers?
Now she was completely broke—this was all because of Kamijou Mutsuki's live.
With the salary from STARRY, if Ijichi Nijika didn't support her, she'd have no choice but to keep eating grass.
Of course, even without the live situation, this "financial guru" Ryō probably wouldn't have saved any money anyway. After all, she had always lived like this.
"Alright, Ryō, can't eating shut your mouth for once?"
Seeing Ryō talk nonstop, Nijika simply stuffed a small rice ball into her mouth with her chopsticks.
In her view, this was Mutsuki's work matter. Even if they were friends, they shouldn't interfere.
"Ryō's not wrong, though."
However, Mutsuki nodded, agreeing with what Ryō had said.
"RiNG really is too small. Just now a rock music festival contacted me—they said MyGO!!!!!'s first concert could be held there."
That was mainly what he had been looking at earlier.
"A rock music festival?"
Hearing that, both girls curiously leaned closer.
"It's this festival. Isn't this that very famous one…"
Nijika, you're too close!
Watching Nijika nearly leaning against Mutsuki, Seika's heart was bleeding.
It wasn't that she was the kind of sister who wanted to tie her younger sister to her side for life—but as a siscon, she simply couldn't stand scenes like this.
Even though Nijika had never shown any special attitude toward Mutsuki, the fact that he was the only male friend around her little sister was enough to set off Seika's siscon radar like crazy.
Her most beloved little sister running off with some wild man outside and abandoning her big sister—she absolutely didn't want something like that!
She wanted Nijika to stay with her big sister forever. Even if not forever, at least wait another ten years before anything like that!
Meanwhile, PA-san, standing beside Seika, wore a cheerful smile as she watched the scene.
Wasn't this kind of nice?
"Wait!"
At this moment, Miss Ryō suddenly seemed to realize something.
"If the live is held at a music festival, doesn't that mean my RiNG ticket becomes useless?"
Damn it, are you trying to invalidate my ticket?!
"Pay me back!"
"It's not decided yet. We still have to see their opinion."
Seeing Ryō practically press up against his face, Mutsuki leaned back with a tactical retreat.
"And even if we switch to the music festival, your ticket won't become useless."
"Oh, right."
Mutsuki pushed the shameless Ryō away with a slightly disgusted expression, then smiled at the girls inside STARRY.
"I happen to have a few spare internal spots. If everyone has time, you can come watch then."
"Th-that… wouldn't be very appropriate, right?"
Hearing Mutsuki's offer, Nijika instinctively wanted to refuse. After all, she knew very well how valuable MyGO!!!!! tickets were right now.
"Nijika's right!"
To her surprise, Ryō also nodded in agreement.
"Eh?"
The girl looked at her friend in shock.
Had Ryō suddenly changed?
"After all, I spent so much money, yet they can watch for free."
But the shameless Ryō quickly revealed her true nature.
"Isn't that way too unfair?"
"So that's what you're worried about?"
As expected—shameless Ryō was still shameless Ryō.
"That's why I always say Ryō shouldn't spend money recklessly."
Now she had become the ultimate sucker.
Nijika crossed her arms and began lecturing her friend.
"I spend money reasonably. There are tons of people who spend way more than me!"
A very Ryō-style defense.
"Don't use other people as an excuse!"
"I'm serious—this person is the real sucker!"
To avoid being lectured by her friend, the shameless Ryō immediately pulled out a shield.
"This is… Guitar Hero?"
Looking at the screen on Ryō's phone, Nijika couldn't help stopping her lecture.
This was an online guitarist that both she and Ryō really liked.
Bocchi?
Hearing news about a certain pink tsuchinoko, Kamijou Mutsuki also leaned over.
Why are these three leaning together again?
Ijichi Seika felt a bit bitter inside.
At the top was a message showing off:
[MyGO concert ticket. Tomori is so cute!]
But the tone of the posts below quickly changed.
[Eh? Why did they refund me? Didn't I get the ticket?]
[Come to think of it, would anyone really go watch a seiyuu's live event offline? Normal normies wouldn't do something like that.]
Because the ticket got refunded, the person started coping.
[Does anyone have a ticket? Buying at a high price.]
Clearly, they had accepted reality.
[Got a ticket again. I'll come back and play MyGO's new song then.]
If the story ended here, it still wouldn't be enough to make her a bigger sucker than Ryō—but unfortunately, there was no "if."
[Got scammed out of 100,000 yen. Don't trust scalpers, they're all liars!]
Now the situation began to take a turn.
[Actually there's nothing that special about it. Better to just hang out with friends.]
She started coping again—but the next message was even more dramatic.
[Does anyone have a MyGO ticket? I got scammed out of tens of thousands again and still don't have one.]
It was obvious she really wanted to watch MyGO!!!!!'s live.
[The police said the money can't be recovered.]
The first message was from last night, and by the time of the last one, it was already this afternoon.
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