Rabbit House.
"Today is another day where the rabbit dango are completely sold out." Kita Ikuyo said while mopping the floor inside the shop: "So it really was impossible to have any left over."
"That's just how it is with popular limited edition items; JKs simply cannot resist sweets with the word 'limited' on them." Kawaragi Momoka said while keeping accounts behind the counter: "After all, even that buttocks-fart daifuku thing had people liking it once a limited label was added..."
"That one was actually quite delicious, you know?" The trend-setter Kita Ikuyo said.
"Really?!"
"It's about the level of the average horizontal water-level of the other sweets in our shop."
"Oh, then it really is quite delicious."
Kawaragi Momoka calmed down and continued keeping the accounts.
"Since the rabbit dango were already all sold out at noon, we could have just closed up this afternoon, right?" Kita Ikuyo muttered.
"Don't customers still occasionally come in to buy other sweets?"
"Hmph, they simply don't know what they're missing!"
"Why does Kita Ikuyo have to say that kind of thing with such a grand face?" Kawaragi Momoka said helplessly.
"Damn it, this stain is so hard to clean..."
"Eh, when did such a large stain get there?"
"It was just a little while ago; a customer ordered a cup of Great Darjeeling tea, and after taking one sip, they shouted 'I feel sin crawling up my spine' while spraying out a volume of liquid clearly far exceeding what they drank, although I cleaned it up a bit at the time, I didn't expect a stain to remain."
Kita Ikuyo said while holding the mop: "Or else, Momoka, you should stop making drinks in the future..."
"No, no, no, actually the drinks I make now have an audience too!"
"...~"
"Why use that 'air-customers-don't-count-as-customers' expression?! I'm not hallucinating, there really are repeat customers who come for my specials!"
"...?"
"...?"
"And don't look at me with an expression like 'did they lose their sense of taste?' It's rude to take advantage of the disabled! I am someone with a normal sense of taste!"
"...!"
"What's with that 'is the world about to be destroyed' expression? It's art, you know? They say my specials can inspire their souls... Is this the unspoken understanding between people who play with art?"
"Their work's name must be 'Explosion' right."
"What I make is a drink, not a bomb!"
"Then it must be 'Destruction'."
"What I make is a drink, not wontons!"
"'Primordial Chaos'!"
"Why is the scale of destruction getting bigger and bigger!"
Kawaragi Momoka muttered 'there's progress' 'getting closer' 'it's not undrinkable' and so on, while organizing the ledger and stuffing it back under the counter.
On a side note, Asakura once mentioned that electronic accounting was fine, if she needed it he could provide a public-use laptop, but he was rejected by Kawaragi Momoka.
In Kawaragi Momoka's words, 'after learning a whole new set of accounting software usage, I'll probably forget all the usage for music-related editing software'.
However, Asakura felt she was just being lazy, after all, from her usual state, Kawaragi Momoka seemed quite normal, not like Yamada Ryo who was a complete single-thread processor.
"Speaking of which, I originally thought I could work with Kuroneko-chan today, results didn't expect she would ask for leave the very first time she worked..." Kita Ikuyo said with some regret.
"It seems she has something important to do with the Boss and they went out together." Kawaragi Momoka said casually.
"Eh, could it be that Asakura-kun has made a move on a middle schooler?!" Kita Ikuyo discovered she had seemingly sensed something incredible.
"If that were the case, it would be fine."
Kawaragi Momoka, although herself still a virgin who had never been in a relationship, but after drifting outside for a long time, she could be considered to have seen and heard much.
In her view, between her own Boss and that middle school girl, although there was indeed a somewhat unclear feeling, but more of it was a one-sided crush from the little girl, while her Boss instead looked like he didn't care.
Or it could be said that he seemed to have no interest in romance itself.
Or it could be said that he seemed to have no interest in romance itself.
Because he was gentle so he wouldn't refuse, and because he didn't value romance so he appeared somewhat frivolous and casual.
Although it hadn't reached that step yet, Kawaragi Momoka felt her Boss would perhaps turn into a scumbag in the end.
"Momoka feels it doesn't matter? Falling in love in middle school or something..." Kita Ikuyo asked while cupping her cheeks.
"I personally don't really care... Rather, how about you Kita Ikuyo? Looking at you, you should be quite popular, right? Didn't anyone confess to you in middle school?" Kawaragi Momoka asked back.
"I previously attended an all-girls school, so there wasn't that kind of opportunity."
"...Was there not?" Kawaragi Momoka's movements paused, and she asked suspiciously.
"Why is it a questioning tone? Does Momoka think it's okay between girls too?!"
"Recently isn't it very popular, the 'koko' between girls..."
"It's 'teete'! Seriously, don't mix up reality and trendy things!"
Just as Kita Ikuyo was complaining, the phone Kawaragi Momoka had placed on the bar suddenly rang.
"Whose call is it? A suspicious telemarketing scam?"
"I feel like Kita Ikuyo you have some strange ideas about my social circle..." Kawaragi Momoka muttered, reaching out to take the phone to her eyes, immediately with some surprise she said: "It's a call from the Boss."
"Could it be that Kuroneko-chan alone isn't enough, and he wants to bring Momoka over to tread on two boats?!" Kita Ikuyo was greatly shocked.
Kawaragi Momoka rolled her eyes at her exuberant imagination, and answered the phone.
"Hello? Boss what's up? What? Hmm, I personally have no problem." She said into the phone, finally glanced at Kita Ikuyo, and added: "Right, Kita Ikuyo is also here. Okay, I understand."
Then she hung up the phone.
"Nani nani? Could it be a 3P?!" Kita Ikuyo had a face of shock.
"For 4 people it's generally not called a 3P." Kawaragi Momoka said calmly, "The Boss went to see a friend's band live, now they are having a victory party, asking if we have interest in attending."
"Eh? Really? Interested interested! I just want to see what this kind of victory party is like!" Kita Ikuyo immediately said happily.
"But Momoka would actually agree?"
"But Momoka would actually agree?"
"If I can mooch a meal, not going would be for nothing. And I heard the Boss say that band should be quite promising, giving juniors a chance to understand the situation in the industry, it's also considered the last ripple of a useless senior like me who retired early."
Kawaragi Momoka said with a faint smile on her face.