Who says meal replacements can’t be eaten as meals?

【NyaAki】…

However, she has seen even more bizarre names before. After complaining a little about the boss's naming taste this time, Hai Ling decisively stretched out her right hand towards the poster.

In mid-air, another slender hand was automatically brought into his palm.

There are traces of practice, guitar? No, since the goal is the same as mine, it should be bass.

Hai Ling kneaded the little hand that came to her on her own initiative. Although she didn't show it on her face, she felt a little impressed in her heart.

The fingers are a good length, which makes them very convenient for finger rolling and slapping.

There are calluses, but they are not thick. This is what happens when you play bass for a long time. The calluses will be worn off and new ones will grow. But it feels good to pinch because I haven't practiced for a while.

These are hands that are perfect for playing bass. Ms. Hailing made a summary.

It was also very comfortable to rub, and the feel could be given a score of 9. Miss Hailing added to the previous evaluation, but her right hand did not stop moving at all. It was not until she was glared at angrily by the flaxen-haired ponytail girl in front of her that she withdrew her hand with a little regret.

The girl in front of me seems to be a natural. Is this her first time at RiNG?

It seemed that my apology proposal was rejected, but since I didn't have an appointment today, I might as well try a slightly less efficient way.

Looking at the familiar black hair passing by in the cafe upstairs, Hachiman Kailing thought so.

"Want to go for a drink?"

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After walking up the wooden staircase with a natural wood color, Ichinose Sakuya arrived at the cafe on the second floor.

It looks quite formal, with a good atmosphere, simple and quiet, which is soothing. The decorative plants and chandeliers look very expensive. The soft light is mixed with the daylight, creating a gradient of warm yellow tones as if it is playing a musical instrument. In the corners of the store, there are also neat guitar solos by a white-haired girl.

"Please sit down." Hailing familiarly helped Sakuya pull out the chair at the bar, and casually put her Best bag aside.

So, in Shiina Riki's opinion, the classmate who he had been able to get along with for the past two weeks just came to the store where he worked part-time with a somewhat troublesome woman without any concealment.

I even specifically chose the bar closest to me!

Her long dark brown hair was casually draped behind her, and her heroic face was made even more charming by the teardrop mole at the corner of her eye. Her beautiful purple eyes were filled with unhappiness, her eyebrows were raised in anger, and her expression was as if everyone owed her 5,000 yen. She was wearing the blue and black work uniform of RiNG, but she didn't seem to have a service spirit at all.

"Hey! You two, what are you doing here?" Shiina Riki sounded unhappy.

"Come to see you." Hai Ling remained calm and looked straight into Li Xi's eyes.

"Huh? What about this guy?" Ms. Lixi crossed her arms angrily.

"I see." Hai Ling answered irrelevantly, raising her hand to her chin. "Are you jealous?"

"ha!!?"

Ms. Sakuya, who had been watching the whole process from the side, was a little confused at this time.

Should I sit in this seat or not?

After quietly putting away her bass backpack, Ms. Sakuya sat obediently in the seat that Hailing had helped to open. The waitress who was not very nice at the side finally stopped her one-sided attack on Hailing, turned around and asked in an impatient tone:

"What are you doing here today? And you came with Hai Ling."

Eh? Me? As expected of a RiNG service staff, although his attitude is not very good, he is quite friendly.

"Ah... maybe it's about the band?" Sakuya thought for a moment and nodded.

"Tsk... Take care of the band's affairs yourself, don't come to me, and don't involve Hai Ling." Ms. Li Xi pressed down heavily on the glass in her hand after wiping it, and added: "Also, I'm not responsible for taking orders..."

"Two cups of panda milk jelly, citrus flavor." Hailing interrupted, then handed the cafe menu to Sakuya and asked curiously: "So you two know each other?"

"Do... do we know each other?" Miss Sakuya, who was empty-headed, asked unconfidently.

"It's almost the same as not knowing him. Also, there's no blancmange on the menu!" Shiina Tachi interrupted with gritted teeth.

"Then change to chocolate flavor." Hai Ling raised her eyebrows.

"No!" Shiina Riki turned around decisively, as if to call the senior who was in the corner to help clean up the loudspeaker.

"RiNG's waiter... doesn't seem very polite..." Holding the menu, Ms. Sakuya complained to Hailing in a low voice, completely forgetting about the impolite meeting etiquette just now.

Not only did she not use honorifics, her attitude was not very good... no, it could be called bad. She also kept calling him "you". I feel like if she appeared in a maid cafe with some kind of role-playing, it might be surprisingly popular.

"Really? I think it's quite cute." Hai Ling smiled.

A guy who contributes to the sales of the maid cafe appears...

Sakuya complained quietly in her mind.

The senior with brown hair and a high ponytail came over in a hurry to apologize, but was interrupted by Hailing before he could say a few words. After ordering a hot orange juice, he turned to look at Sakuya. "Just order whatever you want, it's my compensation for what I did before."

Sakuya suddenly felt that the frivolous girl in front of him became relatively reliable, and ordered the most expensive matcha parfait with the thought of revenge.

After placing an order with the brown-haired, blue-eyed, high-ponytailed senior whose character always seemed to be duplicated, Hailing casually asked Sakuya, "By the way, what's your name?"

"Ichinose Sakuya. I don't really want to say it, but please give me your guidance."

Chapter 23 My Buffy——

The ice crusher was rumbling as it made smoothies, mixing ice cream and whipped cream together. In the distance, Shiina Riki was slicing fruit carefully. Miss Sakuya finally remembered why she agreed to come up for a drink.

It's impossible that someone would agree to such a frivolous invitation just because they are greedy, right?

"Hachiman... classmate?" Ichinose Sakuya asked uncertainly, but finally chose to address him as classmate. "Your bass level should be very high."

"Not bad. Any questions? Ichinose-san." Hachiman Kailing readily decided on the address.

"It's just a little strange. With Hachiman's professional style, why would he want to be a support musician in a band like NyaAki that looks so casual?" Sakuya asked, glancing at the custom-made bass guitar bag on the ground that was probably more expensive than many people's basses.

"Because of money and efficiency." After a pause, Hailing seemed to think it was okay to say it, and continued. "Ichinose-san should have noticed that the notice board said 'recruitment' instead of 'calling'. Although it is just a band for fun, the patrons this time are not ordinary."

Sakuya stood in awe, and her originally lazy sitting posture instantly straightened up. "That... Of course, but the other members of the band are just ordinary students, right?" Sakuya was puzzled as he recalled the musicians' information written on the flyer.

"Who knows? We'll probably know during the interview." Hai Ling changed her previous straightforward attitude and became a riddle-teller.

hiss~

Ms. Sakuya took a deep breath.

Although I don't know, I feel it's powerful. Could it be that RiNG is actually a large underground mercenary organization? On the surface, it is a live house where high school girls play happily, but this is just a means to cover up the truth. In the dark, various band support mixed with interest exchanges is the main business! The naive and ignorant cute girl Ichinose Sakuya was accidentally involved in the vortex of interests. Let's see how Sakuya uses the bass in her hand to break the dark blockade of the entertainment industry!

Just when Ms. Sakuya finally turned her former rival into a friend through a hearty bass performance and gathered the power of everyone's friendship★★ to launch a general attack on the evil agent, a black-haired waiter indifferently interrupted Sakuya's adventure, which had already written nearly 20 words, with a tray.

"Hot orange juice and matcha parfait, and the panda milk jelly you requested. If you want to drink it, just go to the vending machine downstairs and buy it." Shiina Riki's tone was still not very friendly, but one could hear a hint of complaint in his voice.

On the left side of the tray, hot orange juice was placed in a transparent juice cup with a heat-insulating lid, and the straw was not directly inserted into the cup, probably to prevent it from scalding careless customers. In addition, there were two boxes of melted milk jelly with cute little pandas on them, one box of citrus, and one box of chocolate.

The right side of the tray is occupied by a huge ice cream cup, and the crystal clear cup body shows the layering very well. At the bottom is matcha agar, covered with a thick layer of tofu mousse, and then there is dense red bean paste, followed by fresh diced mango, and the top of the cup is filled with matcha cream, and the flower-shaped cup is piled with sliced ​​fruits and whole chocolates.

"Thank you for the treat, Hachiman-san!" Miss Sakuya stood up and took the matcha parfait in a very cowardly manner. The remaining unhappiness in her heart had long been swept into the recycling bin.

"As long as you like it." Hai Ling maintained her usual calm tone. She did not touch the lid of the orange juice, but opened the box of citrus-flavored Panda Milk Jelly.

But someone was not so calm.

"Huh? When did you two become so close?" For some reason, Shiina Riki's tone sounded a little unhappy.

"About five minutes ago?" Hai Ling answered while sipping milk jelly.

"Hachiman-san, do you want to eat parfait?" Miss Sakuya, who had just finished taking a photo, raised the spoon a little embarrassedly and asked in a deliberately shy tone.

After all, the price is not cheap, and Hachiman can't really eat it, right? Just be polite and enjoy it.

Miss Sakuya's mind was clacking with calculations, and she scooped a large spoonful of liquid and left it hanging in the air.

"Want to eat."

A clear, somewhat childish female voice came from the other side.

what?

While his brain was still working, his body subconsciously turned half a circle, along with a full spoonful of matcha parfait.

The first thing that caught my eye was a pair of stunning blue and yellow eyes like a cat. He had a short white jellyfish-like head of hair that hung messily behind his neck. The clothes seemed to be a little ill-fitting. The loose short-sleeved T-shirt was barely supported by the slender shoulders, and the right shoulder was exposed without any cover, as if actively showing the owner's fair and rosy skin. There were even several cuts on the hem. I don't know if it was designed on purpose or left unintentionally, but it looked very rock and roll.

The cat-like white-haired girl had a look of confusion on her face, and stared at Buffy that Sakuya was holding without blinking.

Sakuya blinked twice, but before she could say anything, she saw the white cat open its mouth and bite the full dessert spoon in her hand.

At this moment, Ms. Sakuya only felt that she was like Guan Yu who lost the three counties of Jingzhou, the Overlord of Western Chu who committed suicide by slashing his throat on the bank of Wujiang River, Edison who was forced to pay the invention tax, and Tom Cat who lost Jerry Mouse.

I was so sad that I couldn't help but utter a sound.

"Hey - my Buffy..."

"Hmm...can I still eat it?" The greedy cat swallowed the matcha ice cream with kiwi slices in his throat and asked more.

Ms. Lixi was about to slam the table and question, but she burst into laughter. It was a rare feeling that the stray cat did a good thing today.

Ms. Sakuya looked pitifully at the empty dessert spoon in her hand, then turned around and found that the cat's heterochromatic eyes had already fixed on the matcha parfait on the table that was missing a large piece.

"I'm sorry, little Renai, you can't control yourself when it comes to anything related to matcha. Sorry, sorry, I'll make you another one." The senior who was watching the show on the side and repeated the setting - Yamabuki Saya hurriedly stepped forward to apologize, and by the way, held down the cute cat who stretched out his hands forward and wanted to eat more.

Perhaps the contrast between the girl and the girl was too great, and the slow-witted Ms. Li Xi finally discovered the Yuqiu uniform that Nagasaki Suyo was wearing. For a moment, she was a little unsure whether Nagasaki Suyo was doing some kind of novel role-playing.

Miss Hailing had already finished the milk jelly in her hand. She looked at Shiina Riki who was lost in thought, and then turned to look at Ichinose Sakuya who was looking away from the dessert spoon.

"So you two do know each other?"

Chapter 24: You Never Know Who Will Come First, Buffy or Lenore

Cherish today, cherish the present, who knows which one will come first, Matcha Buffy or Kaname Lenna.

But Matcha Parfait will always come, but if Lenai comes first, the Matcha Parfait will no longer be your Matcha Parfait.

————Ichinose Sakuya, in April this year, was at the Matcha Parfait Festival in RiNG.

Although a large bite of Matcha Parfait was eaten by an unknown cat, Miss Sakuya seemed to have found new fun. The long-handled dessert spoon moved from left to right, and the white-haired girl in front of her also moved her beautiful heterochromatic eyes.

It really looks like a cat.

"Is your name Lenna?" After scooping a small spoonful of Buffy, Sakuya shook the 'cat toy' in her hand up and down.

"Yeah." Yao Lenai still maintained a serious expression, staring at the long-handled ladle with serious eyes.

"Hey~ Was it Rakuna who played the guitar just now? That's great. Come on, tell me—"

The matcha parfait was getting closer and closer to the cat's cheek, and Lenai had to open her little mouth in cooperation. It seemed that she was fed a lot by everyone in the store.

Ms. Sakuya, who originally wanted to tease the cat some more to avenge the sword, was instantly captured by the cuteness in front of her.

The cat just wanted to eat Buffy, what's wrong with the cat?

"Su Shi, what on earth are you doing?" Although in front of her was a heartwarming picture of a girl feeding her child, Ms. Li Xi could not sit still. Patience is a good thing, but unfortunately not everyone has it.

After Shiina Riki called out the familiar name of Suyo, Miss Sakuya finally understood the situation. She was distracted for a moment, and Rakuna took the opportunity to take the spoon in her hand and it disappeared into the cat's mouth.

Without the interference of Matcha Buffy, the Great Detective Sakuya is back online!

Are they close enough to call each other by name? But they had a bad attitude before... Are they just bad friends?

No! She had clearly said before, "It's almost like we don't know each other anymore." This was a statement that could be considered a severance of ties.

I pushed the non-existent plain glasses and found that there is only one truth!

There was no mourning for the departure of Matcha Buffy for a moment! The one who immediately rushed to the battlefield was his sister's spare tire number three!

If we include Wakaba Mutsuki, it would be about number four?

"I'm actually my older sister's younger sister, a twin!" After explaining, Ms. Sakuya proudly puffed out her chest.

"Huh? That...Moshie actually has a twin sister?" Shiina Riki's expression was as if he had heard that Toyokawa Shoko's family went bankrupt and he had to work at a customer service company to pay the rent.

After the shock, I suddenly felt embarrassed and ashamed. Why did I treat a stranger I just met with such a cold face? And I slandered her sister in front of her twin sisters, calling her "you bastard" all the time. I will definitely be complained about.

After almost figuring out the size of the rental house that Xiangzi rented, Sakuya's voice interrupted Ms. Lixi who was still working on it.

"So... since we're acquaintances, could Shiina-san make me another serving of matcha parfait?" Ms. Sakuya added.

"Sister Saaya is already doing it. It was originally a stray cat who caused the trouble. Of course, I will compensate you." Shiina Riki's eyes moved to the white-haired cat who was constantly eating matcha parfait. "Stray cat, don't run away after you finish eating this time. You didn't pay last time."

"I don't have any money." Kaname raised his head innocently, thought carefully, scraped off a small tip of Buffy with a long-handled ladle, and handed it to Li Xi reluctantly. "Here, let me go, please."

"What is this? A bribe?" Shiina Riki held his forehead with one hand, showing a helpless expression.

It was such a rare sight. It was unknown whether Maomao's bribe moved Ms. Lixi, but it really touched Ms. Sakuya's heart.

"I, I, I want to eat. If you give me some, I'll pay for Buffy for you~" Sakuya whispered seductively to the cat.

Kaname's ears twitched like a real cat, and she blinked at Sakuya with expressionless eyes. Upon hearing that, she imitated the way she had been fed before and held out the spoon. A childish and ethereal voice came.