Chapter 15 Section five

"Why? We all know who did it and how. Is there anything else to say?" Ba Nai turned his head and spread his hands flat, as if he was pretending to be stupid. "I can't accept the explanation just now. Because I mentioned 'someone should come out to stop', but my sister didn't explain this." I also followed Misora ​​and expressed my doubts. "Mei Xing, you just asked the names of Ye Zi and Xiao Xiaogen, right? You don't seem to have said what you mean by asking." The barista gave this side a wink of approval, then passed the milk and asked Banai again:

"Why is Banai angry with Ye Zi?" "Teacher, what are you talking about. Shouldn't she be angry that she broke the latte art I was practicing so hard?" "It's not about this. I'm asking about the fact that she's dating Mr. Xiaogen, and why you two are arguing about it." "Because, she knew that I liked Mr. Xiao Gen from a long time ago, and she chose to associate with him. How could she have the nerve to do such a thing? It's really shameless!" "That's right. But if Mr. Xiaogen chose Ye Zi, I don't think you have the right to dictate, right?"

"Hey, sister, it's too much for you to say that anyway—" The barista ignored Misora's accusation. "I'm very angry. You know, the series of actions I just mentioned would not have been possible without the assistance of all the members of the culinary community present - at least the tacit consent. You know what you are doing secretly." "I just wanted to finish the fancy latte..." Banai seemed to be afraid of something, and the rebuttal stopped in the middle of the sentence. The barista Meixing ignored her words, picked up the latte art cup and started making latte art.

"In the video, Banai returned to the cooking table with a bamboo stick, and first picked up the heart-shaped cup placed in the middle. Why is that? The next thing you want to carve should not be to draw a kitten , The third cup of coffee? You have already finished the heart shape, there is no need to carve it." "That's because I saw that the latte art in that cup was beyond recognition, so-" "No." The barista said sternly and decisively, picking up the metal latte needle in his hand. "Looking at the video, I can see that you picked up the cup first, and then your face changed. In other words, you originally planned to continue carving on the already completed peach heart, but when you picked up the cup and looked at it, only It was found that the latte art inside had been destroyed. So what exactly did you want to carve at that time? Probably this is the only thing.”

The beauty star barista showed us the rim of the cup in her hand. Looking at the picture painted on it, we gasped. The garland cups draw lovely heart garlands - in the middle of the design, a lightning line breaks the heart in half. "In the latte pattern of the three cups of latte, the leaf represents the 'leaf' of the leaf, and the cat comes from the 'ネコ' (cat) contained in the name of Mr. Koya Nekoyuji (コヤネコウジ). Add A broken heart, are you going to embarrass Ye Zi in front of all the members at the press conference? Although Ye Zi has nothing to feel sorry for you."

Even if Ye Zi does not move, the heart shape cannot escape the fate of being destroyed.Not someone else, but Banai himself. Banai bit his lower lip and said nothing. "Maybe you told others about this plan, so it spread. It may also be Ye Zi or other members, knowing that you are not the kind of person who can bless two people frankly and sincerely, and guessed it after reading the content of the prior declaration. Then you told everyone about your plan. I don’t know what’s going on here. However, there’s one thing I want to make clear—” I have heard these words many times, but this is the first time I have heard Mei Xing's angry voice from the heart.She said to Banai in a voice I had never heard before:

"I didn't teach you fancy latte for this kind of thing." Banai lowered his head, unexpectedly, this posture overlapped with the bowing posture at the beginning, which reminded me of Lily of the Valley.Now, I can't help but sigh: This flower is indeed a highly poisonous plant. Everyone had their own concerns and were silent.Then, someone quietly approached the girl and patted her shoulder gently. "Just take this and apologize now. If you apologize seriously, you will be forgiven." Uncle Mogawa said so, and handed Banai a small cardboard box shaped like a house with a pointed roof.Barney opened it from above.

Inside, is the apple pie made by the uncle himself. "Why was it cut into two pieces?" Banai asked, looking at the old man with bloodshot eyes. "Isn't there a saying 'friends who eat from one pot'? Literally, the two of you are also friends who eat from the same pot in the cooking club. If two people eat apples from the same oven If Pai, we will definitely be able to get back together." You can see Uncle Mogawa's eyes under his eight-character eyebrows, always staring straight at the girl. Banai suddenly reached into the cardboard box, and then, as if remembering something, picked up a piece of apple pie and took a vicious bite.

The incident happened suddenly, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and no one could speak.She then filled her mouth with the second and third mouthfuls, and at this moment, she froze all of a sudden. Water drops pattered onto the half-sized pie. "Sweet and sour...why is it so sweet and sour?" Banai buried his face in the old man's chest, and burst into tears, like a thunderstorm that falls when a storm passes.Falling in love with a boy, when accepting the reality that everything is over, maybe the storm that accompanied the thunderstorm was also raging in her heart.

When Banai returned from Talleyrand, it was already dark outside the window. "You were so strict just now. To be honest, I was taken aback." I said jokingly while playing with Charles who was leaning over.Because if she used a reproachful tone, she probably wouldn't be able to accept it. The American star barista stopped washing the cups and showed a somewhat lonely smile. "I can't restrain my unrequited love, and turn to resent the successful rival. I understand this feeling. However, when the only choice is to give up, you must let go. For this reason, I think Someone has to stand up and scold her to wake her up."

Understand this feeling?Meixing has also had this kind of unrequited love in the past. "I thought this kid was pretty good before. Girls are such incomprehensible creatures." "Is it Charles?" I stroked its chin.As indicated by his masculine name, Charles is a tom. "Mr. Aoyama, do you remember? Banai once said 'Anyone can make spaghetti'." When Banai, who was burning with anger, approached Ye Zi, he uttered such a line. "'Most of the members can make pasta, something that is not easy to make mistakes'—from her explanation, it can be inferred that there may be other members who made pasta at the press conference. In this case , even if she was angry at the time, don't you think she said that too thoughtlessly?" "Well, that's true." "Maybe it's just me judging a gentleman's belly with a villain's heart. But when I heard that sentence, I imagined that maybe she was like this usually, and the other members didn't dislike her at all." I don't care." She purposely spoke nonchalantly, as if to avoid any unnecessary emotions.On the contrary, I seem to have a lot of feelings.It turns out that if this line did not give her such an impression, it would be difficult to imagine the situation where other members conspired together.However, this kind of preconception should be one of the things she hates the most. The same nonchalant performance, Misora's performance is completely from the heart. "From the first time I saw her, I thought she was very annoying." "Misora, I don't remember what you said to express disgust." "Well, but how should I put it, it feels like she is very competitive. She has to fight because of a broken relationship. In my opinion, this already makes me feel like 'pinching my nose'. That's why I heard my sister say that It didn’t surprise me at all.” The same is "はな", but the difference with me is that she seems to think of a nose.Misora's speech just now didn't worry about the uncle present, but I think she is closer to Banai's type.Or maybe it's called "same-sex repulsion". "The kid should be fine." I picked up Charles.Unsuspecting, the cat whose front legs were crossed meowed in front of my eyes. "It won't be all right?" Unexpectedly, the one who immediately responded to me was Misora ​​who had just finished criticizing others. "The more a child is like her, the more effective it will be if she sincerely apologizes. Originally, the culinary club didn't have an atmosphere of isolating individual members. I guess they just wanted to punish her a little bit. As long as she is willing to reflect on her excessive behavior Behavior, it’s probably okay.” "I hope so too," the barista of Beauty Stars smiled and looked towards the corner of the lobby, "Although the apple pie cannot be recovered after it is divided into two, I am willing to believe that the relationship between the two people may be broken because of sharing this An apple pie and make up." Under her influence, I also looked over there.Uncle Sagawa, who was sitting in the old seat, was leaning back with his hands folded over his chest, his face covered with a spread of newspapers, this posture seemed to have fallen asleep.It can be seen that because he feels that this thing happened because of him and the responsibility is on him, he is showing an unusual depression. Later, I heard that since then, the old man Mogawa stopped casually flirting with young girls, and became serious about his work... Is that so?But that doesn't seem to be the case at all. Still, he's pretty good at staying true to himself.Because I began to think that although these characteristics of the uncle are not outstanding, they have an irreplaceable side, and maybe sometimes they can save a girl who has lost her way on weekdays. The rude knocking on the door finally stopped. He looked out through the cat's eyes, and after confirming that there was no one there, he let out a deep breath as if clearing the mud accumulated in his lungs. Recently, those who want to pay are more arrogant than before.Just now, that man just refused to leave on the road in front of the apartment during the days when he already had an appointment.He spotted him from the window, and he couldn't just go out nonchalantly, so he had to cancel the appointment. After imagining various developments of the situation before, he got a mobile phone, which is already a blessing in misfortune.This mobile phone was purchased through some channel he learned from his previous dangerous work, so it should not be inquired by the financial company.Thanks to this mobile phone, the appointment was changed to the next day, and he went to the appointment smoothly. A date - as he lit his cigarette, the girl came to mind.The faintly flushed cheeks, the high-pitched voice, and the eyes full of some kind of over-expectation revealed in those clear eyes, as if he was fantasizing about his Prince Charming. Although I haven't experienced it personally, I heard that some people will have a virtual feeling like love as the inner love becomes stronger and stronger.Judging from the girl's expression and movements, it may be similar to this kind of emotion. However, he still has something hard to let go of.It seemed to him that she was hiding something else.The evidence is that the girl has come to see me twice since the first meeting, but she still seems unwilling to reveal her real name.He learned that she was a student, with a mother and an older sister in her family, and her parents separated before she was sensible, and that she was on summer vacation, working part-time in a cafe opened by a relative during her stay in Kyoto. That's it.If only I could discover something from these few clues.What does the girl want to convey to herself with her eyes full of dangerous expectations? Ashes landed on his fingers, he shook his head slowly. Thinking does not cause him pain, and he has used thinking to make money before.However, helplessly, this time it happened like a bolt from the blue.There is so little information at hand that his own imagination can't help at all; if he conducts an investigation rashly, it is likely to dig his own grave, then his previous efforts will be wasted, and his life will return to sitting around every day The days in this filthy room with oily smoke and no light coming in. As he stared blankly at the curtain, which was like a barrier between himself and the outside world, he recalled the past years when he was bathed in the calm light.At that time, I had a wife, a daughter, and a promising career.If that hadn't happened, this simple happiness might have lasted forever.Has a wife, has a daughter... Now it happens to be about the same age as that girl... --daughter?The cigarette brought to his mouth slipped gently. That kind of thing is impossible, how could it be?But then everything makes sense— From the extremely narrow gap between the tightly drawn curtains, he seemed to see a ray of light that was too thin to rely on, but shining straight.