Chapter 27: Chapter 27
"..."
In response to Kamijo Mutsumi's practically gloating evaluation, Mutsumi Wakaba shot him a side-eye before quickly hurrying over to Soyo.
"Soyo..."
Sakiko and Soyo were both her friends. Being caught in the middle like this was the most painful for her.
"Hey, Mutsumi-chan..."
Perhaps because she had hit rock bottom and given up, Soyo no longer cared about her friend seeing her in such a pathetic state. She couldn't even be bothered to maintain her standard cutesy voice.
"Why... why won't Sakiko talk to me? Why won't she come back?"
"...What exactly went wrong?"
Such world-shocking wisdom, yet so utterly pathetic.
"..."
Faced with Soyo's questions, Mutsumi Wakaba was once again at a loss for words.
What could she say?
Could she say that Sakiko was no longer the Great God Saki she knew, but had become Customer Service Saki?
If she really said that, regardless of how Soyo reacted, Sakiko would definitely explode.
"Sakiko... is different now..."
Perhaps genuinely moved by Soyo's broken state, Mutsumi, for the first time, didn't act like a doll. She tried her best to give her some information without betraying Sakiko's situation.
"The new band... is good. Don't... look for Sakiko anymore..."
However, as a contender on par with Miss Taki in terms of eloquence, Mutsumi's art of language was clearly not something an ordinary person could comprehend.
"Sakiko... she has her own life now..."
She's busy being Customer Service Saki. Stop trying to drag her back to sing. Your current band is already very good.
"So that's what you think, Mutsumi-chan?"
Soyo was already emotionally unstable. After Mutsumi's poorly worded attempt to help, she naturally exploded.
"Mutsumi-chan... you never planned on helping me get close to Sakiko from the very beginning, did you?"
It wasn't that Soyo couldn't sense the good intentions behind her words, but she couldn't accept them.
When Sakiko first pulled her into this, she had promised a community of fate. She was over there fantasizing about a happy life with her family of five, and then Sakiko herself quit.
She had schemed and struggled to rebuild this broken home, only for Mutsumi to say, "Sakiko has her own life," which instantly shattered her defenses.
When you pulled me into this, you said it was a pure love girls' band game, and now you're telling me the characters have their own lives?
"I..."
Mutsumi was at a loss for words. Although that wasn't her intention, objectively speaking, it was the truth.
"You're so high and mighty, aren't you, Mutsumi-chan!"
Soyo struggled to her feet, tilting her head up at a 45-degree angle, her eyes devoid of any light.
"..."
Mutsumi never expected to have dodged Sakiko only to fail to dodge Soyo.
Always being caught between her two friends, taking blows from both sides, only to be judged like this... Mutsumi felt deeply wronged.
"You only ever do things I don't care about! You never help me with what I truly want."
Soyo let it all out, venting all the negative feelings she had held towards her friend.
"You never really wanted to help me win Sakiko back, even though you also played a part in CRYCHIC's disbandment..."
"...If you hadn't said that one sentence!"
"It's all... your fault, Mutsumi-chan!"
"..."
These words were truly meant to pierce the heart. Even the doll's face showed a flicker of pain.
"Alright,"
Seeing that Soyo was about to continue her assault, Kamijo Mutsumi, who had been enjoying the show for a while, finally reached out and placed a hand on her shoulder.
"I don't think venting at your friends is a good habit..."
Although it was entertaining to watch, Mutsumi Wakaba was, at least in name, his fiancée. He couldn't just watch her get bullied forever.
"And what right do you have..."
The already incensed Soyo had no intention of calming down; she was just switching targets. But Kamijo Mutsumi was not Mutsumi Wakaba. He cut her off directly.
"Tsk~ You, you..."
The two locked eyes.
"...You really only think about yourself, don't you!"
It was super effective. At the very least, Miss Soyo finally snapped out of it, but...
"Soyo!"
Watching Soyo shrug off his hand and flee in disarray, Mutsumi Wakaba instinctively wanted to stop her, but could only watch as her back grew smaller and smaller in the distance.
"Mutsumi..."
In the end, she could only turn her gaze to her fiancé.
"...If we just leave her alone, something bad will happen to Soyo."
"Alright then. Shall we follow her?"
"...You should go, Mutsumi. Soyo... probably doesn't want to see me."
"Mutsumi-chan, your humility breaks my heart."
Batman is already tired enough to be hospitalized. There are too many Jokers; he can't catch them all.
"It's my fault... that's why Soyo is angry..."
Although she had originally said it with the intention of taking some of the heat for Sakiko, it was true that she had delivered the final blow to that crumbling band.
And in their interactions since then, she had always sided with Sakiko, so she had always felt a sense of guilt towards Soyo.
"..."
Kamijo Mutsumi didn't reply. He just felt that the red clown nose on his fiancée's face was becoming more and more conspicuous.
"Then be careful on your own."
"...I'll have the driver take me back first."
Meanwhile, Soyo was fleeing in disarray, just as Sakiko had done moments before.
If Mutsumi Wakaba were to chase after her now, it would be a famous scene rebroadcast.
But clearly, Mutsumi was much more considerate than Soyo.
By the time Miss Soyo came to her senses, she found herself in a completely unfamiliar environment.
Where did I run to? Am I still in Tokyo?
The sky had turned completely dark. Seeing the pitch-black night and the strange surroundings, Soyo, who was at her core just a high school girl, instantly began to panic.
To make matters worse, she had unknowingly run into a remote alley—the kind of place where accidents often happened.
Feeling a sense of dread, Soyo immediately wanted to leave and find a place to hail a taxi home, but the worst-case scenario occurred.
"A young lady from Tsukinomori, eh? What are you doing in a place like this?"
Although Miss Soyo was the queen of clowns, it didn't change the fact that her looks and aura were dazzling even among the elite ladies of Tsukinomori.
Just by lingering here for a moment, she had immediately been targeted.
"Are you looking for some excitement? Want to have some excitement with us?"
This world wasn't a pure BanG Dream! universe, after all. There were still plenty of bad people around.
It was just that the areas Soyo usually frequented were relatively safe.
Coupled with the fact that she had no bad habits of staying out all night, she naturally never encountered any danger.
But this time, because she had gone to Houbun Animation for voice acting, she had stepped out of her safe zone.
Of course, under normal circumstances, a private car would have taken her home, but Miss Soyo had decided to run off on her own...
And the colorfully-dyed delinquents in front of her were the result of that willfulness.
"I'm not interested. Stay away from me!"
How could a young lady from an ivory tower have ever experienced such a situation? She was instantly terrified.
Her attempt to act tough while being terrified on the inside not only failed to scare them but made their smiles grow even more brazen.
The helpless girl remembered the plots she had read in novels and was instantly filled with despair.
In truth, Miss Soyo was overthinking things. Even if they were would-be criminals, they were still just "would-be."
At the very least, the few in front of her were just ordinary delinquents, not the worst of the worst.
If she resisted, they wouldn't really dare to do anything.
Unfortunately, Miss Soyo was so scared by her own imagination that she was about to faint and was even prepared to die.
She would rather die than let herself be insulted!
But just as this "heavy woman" was about to explode, someone pushed her down.
"Um... could you stay a little further away from my fiancée's girlfriend?"
Even though he was an annoying guy, looking at his back at this moment, the girl could only feel a sense of security
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