“I’m being serious!” he insisted. “She just called to tell me to reply to the message she sent yesterday.”
“A message?”
“Yeah, here. Take a look,” he said as he whipped his phone out and handed it to her. There wasn’t anything he’d feel embarrassed to show other people so he figured it was okay if Fuyuka saw it.
“I’ve secured a reservation for you for Christmas Eve. Why don’t you drop by the restaurant and bring a date?” it read. The text had been the main perpetrator behind Asahi’s bleak mood the day before.
“‘The restaurant’? Is it the same one you told me about before?” she said as she looked over the message with curiosity.
“That’s the one. It’s called ‘Soleil Levant,’ if you’ve ever heard of it.”
“Soleil... Levant...?” she asked in apparent surprise.
“Oh, so you’ve heard of it?
