Arriving in the kitchen together, Saito and Takashi had been talking about questions they needed to ask Honda-san. He greeted them hastily by going to the stairs.
"Haruki-san, wait," Saito-san called, and again Haruki was interrupted in his goal.
Saito came to him, running his hand over his back, carefully pulled a long strand of pink-pastel hair. And looking inquisitively at Haruki with the hair between his forefinger and thumb, he asked,
"Did you find a mermaid, Haruki-san?"
"Hm?! No," he scratched his neck.
Takashi also came to their side and Haruki found himself in a delicate position.
"I'm going to call the others, so I tell the story just once," he wanted to get rid of both of them and go to disturb the massage, but to his frustration, Daisuke was entering the kitchen right now. He didn't get the bust he wanted.
In doing what he had said he would do, he found that Jun was in the locker room taking a shower.
