"Mei, what are you two doing here?"
To put it nicely, she was straightforward. To put it bluntly, she acted without thinking.
In a few quick steps, Kiana, who had just been troubled, shot over to Raiden Mei's side, a fawning smile on her face.
If you ignored her human form, she looked exactly like a house-wrecking Huskiana.
"We were watching you from behind the whole time," Raiden Mei replied.
This made the expression on Kiana's face freeze for a moment.
She thought her tracking skills were flawless, but it turned out not only had she been exposed long ago, but she had also been led around like a dog by these two.
This is… this is!
Forget it. If it's Mei, she can forgive anything.
But that didn't mean the matter was over.
"Why were you following me? Weren't you two…"
The actress within awakened. Kiana's expression was as pitiful as an abandoned puppy's.
Brian chimed in, "Kiana, you've got it all wrong. We didn't come out just for fun. We have some serious business to take care of, and it requires the two of us."
Serious business?
"…" Kiana pouted.
This damned Blondie's so-called serious business was just stealing her personal cook from her.
Prejudice is a great mountain, difficult to move no matter how hard one tries.
Brian shrugged and gave Raiden Mei a wry smile.
"Looks like we have no choice but to let our actions speak for themselves."
"Mm." Raiden Mei turned her head and instructed, "Kiana, you go back first. We still have important things to do."
"…" Kiana didn't answer immediately.
Instead, her gaze fell on the distance between the two.
As everyone knows, social distance represents the closeness of a relationship.
More than three meters away is 'strangers, keep out'. More than one meter is 'professional'. Within half a meter…
More than friends, less than lovers!
Her food bowl threatened, Kiana instinctively awakened her talent for measuring distance with her eyes. In the blink of an eye, she measured the distance between them.
No more than half an arm's length!
If she continued to sit by and let this guy do whatever he wanted to her Mei…
Then the next time she blinked, she would really have to move out of Raiden Mei's room and into the doghouse!
Her status in the family was facing an unprecedented crisis. Kiana decided to act now.
There's nothing to be afraid of anymore!
Her blue eyes darted around. Her brain, working faster than ever before, instantly thought of an excuse to intervene.
"Mei, didn't you say you were going to buy me something?"
"If I'm not there, how will you know if it's usable?"
"Although it's not a lot of money, we can't just waste it like that, right?"
Gripping Raiden Mei's arm, Kiana's expression was extremely pleasing. Pitiful and humble, she was truly hard to refuse.
And Raiden Mei had always been soft-hearted. She couldn't bear to see Kiana beg her like this.
"Brian…"
"Let's take her with us. It's not like we're doing anything shady anyway."
Their world for two became a world for three, with the white-haired fluffball Kiana constantly chattering beside them.
Maybe it was her imagination, but Kiana always had a feeling that her presence seemed to make the atmosphere between the other two more harmonious, giving them more topics to talk about.
If Kiana had a rich knowledge of love theories, she would know.
In any relationship with only two people, after a brief period of passion, they would inevitably enter a phase of having nothing to talk about.
Her appearance happened to fill this gap, giving the other two more topics to discuss centered on her.
The ultimate, invincible, super-duper cute Kiana had, in the end, misplaced her efforts.
But she didn't know that.
"Mei, I'm a little thirsty. Why don't we go buy something to drink?"
Her energy was rapidly depleting. Using her hands and brain at the same time was, after all, a bit difficult for Kiana, who was more skilled with her muscles.
The three of them walked into a dessert shop on the side of the road and found a table by the window.
Raiden Mei and Kiana sat together, with Brian sitting opposite them.
"What would the three of you like to drink?" a young waitress asked, handing them a menu with a polite smile on her face.
Raiden Mei: "I'll have a cappuccino. What do you two want?"
Kiana: "I'll have what Mei is having."
"A latte will be fine."
"Two cappuccinos and one latte, is that right? Please wait a moment."
The shop wasn't crowded. A few scattered groups of people were talking quietly at their tables, making the place seem very peaceful.
Perhaps influenced by the environment, Kiana, who was boisterous outside, was exceptionally quiet here. Paired with her delicate and beautiful face, she seemed like a moon goddess who had walked right out of a painting.
If she didn't speak, that is.
"Hey, what's this 'serious business' you were talking about?"
She lowered her voice, but you could still sense that pervasive silliness from the white-haired fluffball.
It was obvious that in her eyes, nothing mattered except for Raiden Mei.
From an angle she couldn't see, Raiden Mei gave an awkward smile.
Brian understood and explained, "Don't be anxious. We just need to walk around a bit, and the people we're looking for will come to us automatically."
Having seen through Cocolia's group's intentions, there was naturally no need to rush.
Their goal was to set him and Raiden Mei up, and then pull something big.
That being the case, in a situation like this, they would definitely show their hand.
It couldn't be helped. Kiana, this third wheel, was simply too much of an eyesore for them.
"Here you are, your coffees."
The waitress placed the coffees in front of the three but didn't leave immediately.
"We're having a special event at our shop. If you spend over 3000 yen, you can participate in our lottery."
"The grand prize is a seven-day voucher for a deluxe suite at a LOVE♥HOTEL."
Three cups of coffee cost about 1800 yen in total, just a little short of the lottery threshold.
It seemed like just an ordinary sales promotion.
But Raiden Mei and Brian looked at each other and saw the same thought in each other's eyes.
Let's do it!
"Then we'll have a tiramisu for each of us."
The waitress's smile grew even brighter. "Please wait a moment. We'll prepare it for you right away."
The tiramisu, already prepared, appeared before the three not long after, and the lottery draw followed.
"Me, me, me!"
Kiana took the lead. When it came to lotteries, she was the one for the job.
As long as she was the one drawing, the result would definitely be in her favor.
This was the confidence of the ultimate, invincible, super-duper cute Kiana in her European heritage.
Euro-Emperor Kiana!
Now, it's Kiana time!
However, the moment her intuition led her to grab a small ball…
The waitress: "Congratulations, miss! You've drawn the one and only grand prize."
Grand prize.
Grand prize!!!
A seven-day voucher for a deluxe suite at a LOVE♥HOTEL!
Kiana: "…"
The heavens have forsaken me!