Chapter 287: Can we chat for a moment?
"Gabriel, in a matter like this, there's no point in running away."
Raphiel seemed to have expected her to react like this.
"I didn't run away. Do you have any evidence to prove that I said that?" Gabriel said disapprovingly.
Raphiel smiled and narrowed her eyes, then said slowly, "I heard you say it with my own ears. I wonder if this counts as evidence?"
"It doesn't count, unless you note it down," Gabriel denied without hesitation, "Raphi, lying is not what a good boy should do."
"That's right, as Gabriel said, lying is not what a good child should do," Raphiel also added a lot of pronunciation to the word lie.
Seeing her reaction, Gabriel guessed: "I don't think you recorded it, right?"
"…"
Raphiel didn't argue.
Because as Gabriel said, she didn't record it.
After all, she was taking a shower at the time, and she didn't expect Gabriel to say those words on the phone, so she didn't even think about recording it.
"It seems my guess was correct," Gabriel smiled proudly, "So, please don't throw inexplicable words at me."
"You have changed a lot."
Raphiel sighed helplessly. In this case, if there was no evidence, she believed Gabriel would never admit it.
It seems that when chatting with Gabriel later in the day, preparations must be made.
Otherwise, it would definitely be like today, where someone would not admit it.
"Of course, I have grown a lot after being in this world for so long," Gabriel said very proudly.
"But the tsundere aspect hasn't changed at all."
"Like I said, I'm not a tsundere!"
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It was noon in the blink of an eye.
"I'm going to buy a drink, do you want one?"
After walking to Gabriel's table and seeing her playing on her cellphone, Ren asked.
"Just buy it yourself, I have more here."
Gabriel raised her head, took the drink on the table and shook it. After learning that there was still more than half, she refused.
"Oh."
Seeing this, Ren left the classroom and walked towards the vending machine.
For him, things like water are not necessary at all, even if he never drinks water, it will have no effect on him at all.
However, in order to be like ordinary people, he still takes the initiative to drink water and buy water, becoming the same as ordinary people.
"What did I drink today?"
Looking at the dazzling array of drinks in the vending machine, Ren started to think.
Should he drink Coke or juice?
As he was thinking about this problem, there was movement from the stairs behind him.
"Nakano-san, are you sure you won't consider joining the basketball team again?"
The surname Nakano caught Ren's attention, and he looked back.
He saw Yotsuba standing in front of two tall girls, and that sentence was said by one of the two people.
He didn't care about this, he just put a coin into the vending machine and pressed the juice button.
"Yeah, you just refused on Friday. We haven't even introduced our basketball team to you yet. Maybe after you hear this, you will want to join."
Friday?
Ren remembered that during class last Friday, Yotsuba said that she was going to the basketball club.
So, when she said rejection, did she mean rejecting the invitation from the basketball team?
"I am really, really sorry. Although I really want to know more about the basketball team, I have more important things to do after school and I can't always participate in the basketball team's training."
Yotsuba bowed to the two of them and said quite seriously.
Not long after she entered school, she already knew the people on the basketball team and often helped out with the games, so the basketball team enthusiastically invited her to join.
But she was undecided about this and couldn't decide. It wasn't until last Friday that she made up her mind and clearly rejected the basketball team's invitation.
What she didn't expect was that those from the basketball team would come looking for her today.
"Of course, if the game requires foreign assistance, I can come and help at any time, just like before."
Realizing that she might have spoken too harshly, Yotsuba scratched her head and added awkwardly.
"Important things?"
The two girls on the basketball team looked at each other, then continued: "Then there is nothing we can do, it's just that a rare talent has been wasted."
"…"
Yotsuba didn't speak, just pursed her lips and remained silent.
"However, since it is your decision, we can also force you to join the basketball team. But if you change your mind, you can join the basketball club any time."
"If you don't have work, you can come to the basketball club to play. We welcome you Yotsuba."
After saying that, the two girls from the basketball club left, leaving only Yotsuba.
"For you."
While Yotsuba was still in a daze, Ren came and handed her a bottle of juice.
"Eh? Kamikawa-san? Why you are here?"
Unconsciously drinking the juice, Yotsuba noticed Ren next to her.
"I just bought a drink."
After shaking the juice in his hand, Ren answered honestly.
"In other words, you heard everything we just said?"
Seeing the distance from the vending machine to here, Yotsuba's face suddenly turned red.
"Yes, but it's not eavesdropping," Ren stressed.
He would never eavesdrop because of his curiosity, no matter how close they were, he would not eavesdrop.
He had just heard the content of their conversation, it was purely because they were talking too loudly, so it couldn't be considered eavesdropping.
"Does not matter. Even if Kamikawa-san eavesdrops, it doesn't matter.." Yotsuba waved her hand, saying that she didn't care at all.
After finishing her explanation, Yotsuba noticed the juice he gave me in her hand: "By the way, Kamikawa-san, why did you give me juice?"
"Thank you for declining the basketball team invitation because of my guidance." After thinking about it, Ren gave the answer.
He wasn't stupid, so he could naturally guess that what Yotsuba said about the more important thing to do after school was his tutoring.
"That's what I wanted to say, no need to thank me."
When Yotsuba said this, she wanted to put the juice into Ren's hand again.
However, Ren had no intention of taking over and just avoided it.
So Yotsuba had no choice but to accept the juice bottle.
After checking the time, Ren took the initiative and asked, "Can we chat for a moment?"
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