Finishing breakfast brought the time to exactly nine in the morning. With no training scheduled for today and the part-time job having too many monks and too little gruel—plus feeling too embarrassed to snatch shifts away from Nina—Sakiko unconsciously wanted to head over to Starry, longing to just sit there and zone out, even if she did nothing at all.
Miki Kashiwagi had received a call from his agency telling him to go pick up his car, so he would likely be out of sight all day long, while Soyo had her own matters to attend to.
And so, Sakiko chose to ride the train to Shimokitazawa alone, standing and leaning against the carriage wall all by herself, silently watching the sunlight bathing the world and the towering skyscrapers flashing past outside the window.
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