After receiving Rukawa's proposal, Ms. Fujii thought it over carefully for quite a while before agreeing to meet with him.
Rukawa had probably done his homework beforehand, knowing that the cafe where they had met previously had practically no customers to speak of, so appearing there wouldn't cause any commotion. True to form, they arranged to meet at the same spot again.
Both Rukawa and Fujii tacitly chose to bypass Sakuragi for now. Until terms were settled, they wouldn't involve him, leaving it to cross that bridge only when a final decision was needed.
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