Chapter 299: Red Herring and Jiang Xia, Which Should I Choose?
Before Mao Lilan could finish, Asami Endo interrupted her with a sad expression: "You don't understand. We were sitting right behind you at the Emperor's Cup a while ago. When Jiang Xia saw you, her eyes seemed to be shining."
She secretly put the emphasis on the word "they", trying to imply that Jiang Xia was actually a two-timing... no, three-timing acrobat. The two high school girls in front of her were both relatively innocent, and they would definitely not be able to accept this situation and would retreat...
Thinking of this, Senior Mami sighed again, lowered her eyes, and showed off her beautiful, slightly curled, thick eyelashes: "Anyway, be careful."
After saying that, she didn't give the two young men much time to digest what she said. She once again stretched out half of her hand from the edge of the quilt and waved it as if she had lost her dream: "Thank you for coming to see me. You didn't sleep last night, so you must be very tired. Go back and rest. I want to sleep too."
Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko could only say goodbye first.
Asami Endo pretended to close her eyes, then secretly opened them a crack, watching the two people go away, trying to observe their attitudes, but unfortunately she couldn't see it for the time being.
After the door closed gently, she opened her eyes again, with a tired but fighting light in her eyes.
…
After leaving the house, Mao Lilan sighed and muttered softly: "Senior must have misunderstood friendship as love, romance... I will explain it to her when she feels better."
Suzuki Sonoko shook her head seriously: "No, I think she is right, it is a romance."
Mao Lilan: “……?”
Suzuki Sonoko didn't notice her friend's strange look. She clasped her hands in front of her chest and imagined the beautiful scene where Jiang Xia would be unable to walk as soon as he saw her and would insist on following her. After thinking for a while, she belatedly realized the word "the".
Then I suddenly realized that if this was really a relationship, Jiang Xia would be turned into a scumbag...
In the longed-for dream scene, the situation changed accordingly. Jiang Xia became a busy and handsome top and began to run around among countless beautiful girls.
Suzuki Sonoko: “…”
A vein popped out on her forehead, and she came back to her senses from the fantasy world and sighed faintly: "...Okay, let's call it friendship for now."
At the same time, I thought with a chill that my senior sister has really entered the small society. When she sees boys and girls standing together, she thinks they are dating. He~tui! The sour and pedantic world of adults.
Conan listened silently beside him with a complicated expression.
As a male high school student who likes Mouri Ran, what Endo-senpai and Suzuki Sonoko said just now made him instantly overwhelmed with jealousy.
But at the same time, as a rational detective, Conan subconsciously began to verify what the girls said.
He carefully recalled the feeling of "light eyes" described by the senior, and then he was shocked to find that he seemed to be more familiar with Jiang Xia's state. Objectively speaking, every time Jiang Xia met him and Hattori Heiji, his eyes seemed to be brighter...
The senior sister's words about the deterioration of friendship echoed in his mind again. Conan's expression gradually changed from jealous to horrified, and his hair stood on end: Friendship, it's friendship! ! The senior sister was wrong, really wrong, this is friendship!
Suzuki Sonoko and Mao Li Ran did not notice that there was a frightened child at their feet.
They chatted about gossip for a while and quickly shifted the focus to other things.
Suzuki Sonoko said happily: "But if Senior hadn't told me, I wouldn't have noticed that Jiang Xia's attitude towards us is so different."
It seems that the action plan of "building a strong bond" that was established before is very effective! This way, there is no need to worry about a crappy psychologist suddenly appearing to mess with Jiang Xia's mentality.
Mao Lilan nodded.
The inexplicable sense of responsibility in the two people's hearts continued to increase.
As the strange value broke through a certain line, Suzuki Sonoko was laughing and suddenly felt guilty.
She paused, thinking of something, and for a moment she was torn between her conscience and her desires. She asked Mao Lilan weakly, "How about, how about bringing Jiang Xia to the party?"
After counting the days, it felt like it had been a long time since I went out with Jiang Xia. It was senior Asami who invited me to the party yesterday, and Jiang Xia only stopped by at the end... Thinking about the topic just now, Suzuki Sonoko suddenly felt like she had become a scumbag who increased the favorability of others and then abandoned them.
The "party" she mentioned just now was actually an offline matchmaking - Suzuki Sonoko likes to hang out in various forums in her spare time. Recently, a circle in one of her magician forums was going to hold an offline gathering of magic lovers.
Suzuki Sonoko was looking forward to this party.
One reason is that when she was communicating in the forum, she always spoke as a man. Now that she has the opportunity to meet someone offline, she wants to see other netizens exclaiming, "You are such a cute girl!"
In addition, Suzuki Sonoko has an online friend with the forum id "Red Herring". Although the two have never exchanged photos, based on the other party's conversation, Suzuki Sonoko firmly believes that Red Herring is an extremely handsome guy, and she wants to go and see him.
Of course, it was not appropriate to bring Jiang Xia along for such a thing, so Suzuki Sonoko secretly said nothing before and only told Mao Li Ran about the meeting.
However, now, recalling Jiang Xia's resolute back as she rushed into the fire for her friend last night, Suzuki Sonoko thought about the magician gathering again, and suddenly she felt guilty: She had deliberately concealed it from Jiang Xia and only brought Xiaolan out to play in order to meet a stranger online. How wrong she was...
The internal struggle between Suzuki Sonoko and herself was still going on. Sometimes she was thinking about the perfect strange SSR-level handsome guy created in her mind, and sometimes she was standing alone in the shadow corner, silently watching her two good friends walk away hand in hand without taking him to play with Jiang Xia.
…In the end, the battle was slightly biased.
Suzuki Sonoko slowly took out her cell phone, gritted her teeth, found Jiang Xia's number, and sent the invitation message in one go.
Jiang Xia, who was on the other side of the phone, didn't know what he was doing, and replied almost immediately: "Okay."
Suzuki Sonoko was stunned. She flipped through the text message records and looked at the unusual speed of reply in the past. She suspected that Jiang Xia had set up special attention for her.
...The decision to ask Jiang Xia to come along was indeed the right one!
Suzuki Sonoko breathed a sigh of relief and put her phone back in her pocket.
Then, still a little unwilling, he murmured: "...I am such a good person."
…
As soon as Suzuki Sonoko mentioned the magicians' gathering, Jiang Xia immediately thought of the corresponding case.
He was not surprised by this incident, because when Kidd stole the pool cue a while ago, he said that there would be an offline gathering of magicians soon - Kidd was also a member of that forum. He wore the vest of "Red Herring" and gave himself a false name "Doi Takeshu", which was made up of the pseudonym "Kid" disassembled and reassembled.
(End of this chapter)
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