I am in Mihua, and the ladies all like me

Even Domoto Isshige, who was in charge of playing the organ and supervising the rehearsal, went out for some fresh air.

The three little members of the Junior Detective Team went to find Reiko Akiba.

To be precise, it was Reiko Akiba who was drinking tea.

Watching the beautiful red-eyed big sister pouring the dark green liquid with a wonderful fragrance from the thermos, Yuantai, as a qualified foodie, was the first to move forward.

"What are you drinking, big sister?"

"Tea."

"Can I have something to drink?"

"No."

A rather cold answer.

"Besides, I see that you don't seem to be very interested in playing music. It would be torture to sit here and do nothing. How about going back early?"

Reiko Akiba glanced with her beautiful red eyes at Serabel, who was yawning and walking towards them from behind Genta, following Ran, Sonoko and others.

"For example, you, I saw you almost fell asleep while listening just now."

Chapter 372 If you don’t play the violin professionally, you’ll die, right?

Uh--

Serabelle felt that this was a completely unprovoked disaster for her.

To be honest, although he almost fell asleep during the performance just now, this has nothing to do with you, a great singer who has been staring at the music score in your hand in the audience.

Besides, aren't you looking at the music score? What's the point of looking at the music score but actually staring at him?

But after all, it seems that it is not very polite to sleep in public when others are performing...

"I can't help it. I went to bed late last night and woke up early this morning. This is what happens to us who lack sleep."

Serabelle shrugged as an excuse for herself.

Of course, to people in the know, such as Masumi Sera, this excuse seems a bit far-fetched.

After all, although he went to bed late last night, he got up early today and had plenty of time to make up for his sleep. It was just that he couldn't control himself and used the time that could have been used to make up for his sleep to do "morning exercises" with Akai Mary.

I wasn't fully awake in the first place, and after the exercise I calmed down, so my whole body was in a relaxed state. It would be a miracle if I didn't feel sleepy.

But it is definitely impossible to say such words directly.

Masumi Sera raised her wheat-colored arms and smiled as she hooked them around the boy's neck.

"Brother, stop making excuses. To put it bluntly, you just don't have the artistic talent to appreciate it. It's not shameful to just admit it honestly."

“…Yes, I don’t have much artistic talent.”

Serabelle admitted it very smoothly.

On the other side, Genta, who was more interested in the tea in Reiko Akiba's hand than the concert, was still persisting.

"So, big sister, is this tea you drink good for your throat?"

"So..."

Before Reiko Akiba could speak, Mitsuhiko, who was standing next to her, suddenly thought of something and hurriedly followed.

"It would be great if it really had such an effect! If we knew the formula, maybe we could get a good place in the choir competition!"

"Choir competition?"

Although she doesn't like naughty kids very much, when it comes to her favorite job, Reiko Akiba suddenly becomes patient.

Looking at her like this, it seems that she is ready to listen attentively to the requests of the three little ones.

"Yeah, because our school is going to hold a choir competition soon, and everyone is practicing hard to get a good ranking."

Ayumi also played to her advantage as a little girl with innocence and loveability, and came forward with an expectant look on her face.

"If Sister Reiko could teach us, it would definitely help a lot with the chorus!"

"……what?"

Reiko Akita was caught off guard.

According to her expectations, these little guys would at most tell her what was not so good about the chorus, and then she would make some suggestions for improvement on a theoretical level, and that would be enough.

But looking at this, I'm afraid they are planning to directly ask me to be the choir teacher?

Are kids nowadays so outgoing?

"No... Where is your choir teacher?"

Reiko Akiba tried to evade the responsibility tactfully.

but--

"Yes, there is, but the person is not very good..."

Yuan Tai curled his lips quietly.

However, just as he finished speaking, he was gently hit on the head from behind. When he turned around, he saw Miss Sonoko with one hand on her waist and a look of displeasure on her face. Her words were full of threats.

"Hey, hey, what do you mean by not very good? You little brats better explain to me what you mean by not very good? Huh?!"

"Uh hahaha..."

Yuantai had never expected that his bad words would be heard so easily. He touched his chestnut-shaped buzz cut and smiled awkwardly.

"Ah~ You guys are not going to sing the ninth song for this chorus, are you?" Akita Reiko shook her head helplessly, "To be honest, that's the song I can't sing the most."

"Carpenter (the pronunciation of the ninth in Japanese is similar to carpenter)? It's not a carpenter's song!" Yuanta heard it wrong, "It's the school song of Teitan Elementary School!"

"Teitan Elementary School?"

Hearing this, Reiko Akiba was stunned again.

Xiaolan smiled apologetically: "I'm sorry, it was the children who acted on their own. In fact, Sonoko and I are both graduates of Teitan Elementary School, so it should be no problem to teach them to sing the school song..."

"It's okay. I promised."

"……Eh?"

This time it was Xiaolan's turn to be stunned.

The female singer heaved a sigh of relief, and for the first time a slight smile appeared on her beautiful face.

"Well, let's just consider it as we are both graduates of Teitan Elementary School."

"really?"

"Great!"

When they heard that Reiko Akiba was finally moved, Genta and Mitsuhiko immediately became overjoyed, as if they had already won the choir competition and all they had to do was open the champagne in advance.

And for some reason, Sonoko also dragged Serabelle along with her.

"By the way, Sera-kun should come with us. It will be around next Saturday afternoon."

"Ah? Why should I..."

Serabelle refused almost reflexively.

You must be kidding. Why would he be asked to join the choir practice of primary school students? Besides, he can’t sing.

"Go ahead!" Sera Masumi actually joined in the fun and grabbed his arm from the other side, showing her white teeth and grinning, "Brother, didn't you say you don't have artistic talent? If you don't have artistic talent, you should cultivate your sentiments more. If you refuse, I can only go back and tell mom~"

Eh!

Now Serabelle was really at a loss.

Yes, if Sera Masumi told this to Akai Mari after returning, the final result would definitely be that Akai Mari would ask him to accompany a certain tiger-toothed girl to watch a group of kids sing next weekend.

Since you're going anyway, you might as well do it quickly.

"Ms. Akita!"

At this moment, a familiar voice came from the steps leading back from the auditorium to the entrance.

When I looked up, it turned out to be Officer Takagi. He seemed to know that the rehearsal was cancelled, and hurried in from outside and came to Reiko Akiba's side.

"Ms. Akiba Reiko, I'm Takagi from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. I have a few questions about the bombing incident..."

"Just a moment."

Seeing that it was the policeman looking for her again, Reiko Akiba immediately put away the smile on her face, stood up and walked towards the backstage.

"I'm going to touch up my makeup now, we'll talk later."

"Ah, Miss Akita..."

Takagi wanted to chase after her, but Reiko Akiba ignored him, quickened her pace to the backstage, and closed the door behind her.

Now Takagi couldn't catch up.

Serabell looked behind her and saw that Inspector Megure did not follow, so she slowly walked to Takagi's side.

"So what happened? You looked so nervous standing guard at the door earlier."

"Well, actually it's about the explosion last week..."

Takagi's mouth is not as tight-lipped as Inspector Megure. When Serabelle asked him a question, he told her everything.

"At the time, our police found a section of the recorder body at the scene, and Ms. Kawabe Souko, who was seriously injured in the explosion, received a text message from Ms. Akiba Reiko before the incident, in which she said, 'I can't stand playing on the same stage with unprofessional people.'"

"Oh?"

Serabelle hesitated for a moment. It seemed that the police were going to list Reiko Akiba as a suspect because of this text message.

But this doesn't make sense logically, right?

It's not always - because you play the violin so unprofessionally! I can't stand playing on the same stage with someone as unprofessional as you, so I'd rather just blow you up! Boooom!!!

It's not always like this, right?

Thinking of this, he turned his gaze towards the backstage entrance.

"So now Miss Akiba Reiko is going to launch Killer Queen on Miss Yamane Shion?"

"…Hayi?"

Chapter 373 Mary: Well, not his type

Because Yamane Shion accidentally broke the strings of her violin during rehearsal and needed to replace the strings, the afternoon rehearsal had to be temporarily put on hold.

So Serabelle and the others stayed in the opera house for a short while before going back.

Without any other arrangements, everyone naturally went back to their own homes and looked after their own mothers.

So by the time Serabelle and Sera Masumi returned downstairs to the community, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon, almost evening.

Taking the elevator upstairs, they saw Mary Akai in the living room, who seemed to have just woken up from a nap. She pushed open the bedroom door and walked out of the room yawning, one hand constantly stroking her short golden hair which was a little messy from sleeping. She noticed the movement towards the door and couldn't help but look at the two of them.

Then, I happened to see Sera Masumi walking in from the entrance with her arm around Serabell, talking and laughing.

"…You guys are back."

"Ah, Mom, you're up!"

In stark contrast to Akai Mary who paused for a moment, Sera Masumi behaved quite naturally.

She quickly let go of Serabelle's arm, and very casually took off her outdoor shoes by tapping on her heels in the dust collecting area, put on home slippers, and ran into the living room like a big, nimble cat. After saying hello to her mother, she turned around gracefully and headed straight for the kitchen.

After a few seconds, the sounds of taking bowls and pouring water were heard from the kitchen.

It turned out that he went to drink water.

But come to think of it, when they were at the opera house, no food or drinks were provided in the performance hall, and after leaving the opera house they didn't go anywhere else and went straight home.

It's like I haven't drunk much water the whole afternoon except for some noodle soup at lunch, so I'm thirsty.

Ignoring her daughter who was drinking water frantically in the kitchen, Akai Mari walked through the living room and came to Serabelle, who had just changed her shoes and stepped onto the stairs at the entrance. She frowned slightly out of habit.

"Why did you come back so late? Have you had lunch?"

"have eaten."