"…Huh?"
Miki Kashiwagi was momentarily speechless. Yet faced with Nina, who had shown up with a look of earnest sympathy, she found it hard to explain that she had actually leaked the news herself. Her goal had been to make that little rascal Mortis truly believe Hitori was out of options as a guitarist, so she could pack Hitori off to the Palace and take her place—
Could she really just lay all of that out starkly to Nina? After all, Tomoka, Uihi, and Mana were on impossibly close terms. To put it simply, if Nina so much as opened her mouth, her entire plan would vanish like a bubble in the water.
Chapter 242