Chapter 6: Mistaken Intentions
"Bang! bang!"
Just when Chiyo's crying was getting a little flustered in the bar, Urashima walked to the stage next to him at some point, and gently tried the microphone with his hand.
"That...... I'm sorry to see my friend seem to be in a little trouble, I'm really sorry for the trouble......! Who among you here would not encounter something that would make you feel uncomfortable! In this case, allow me to play a song here as an apology for my friend!"
Hearing the sudden change on the stage, everyone present in the entire bar was surprised by Urashima's actions, and Chiyo, who heard this, quickly got up from the table and looked at Urashima, and then wiped her tears with some embarrassment, and nodded and saluted around.
When the audience gradually fell silent, Chiyo noticed that Urashima on the stage slowly raised one hand, and then played nimbly on the keyboard, and then the other hand followed. With the sound of the beautiful piano, the eyes of the audience gradually focused on Urashima.
When Urashima-kun played a short melody, some of the guests present had already taken out their mobile phones and began to film Urashima's performance. A staff member at the store asked about the performers who were hired to play the piano here on a regular basis. :
"What kind of tune does that gentleman play, it sounds so good!"
"It is the last of Liszt's twelve "Etudes for Supertechnique", called "Chasing the Snow", and it is a very difficult piece, which is usually played by two pianos......"
"Isn't this guest very powerful?"
"It's amazing, as far as I know, there is only one Russian female pianist who has ever played this piece on a single piano......"
Hearing the professional's introduction, the staff couldn't help but look at Urashima on the stage with a look of admiration. At the same time, Chiyo, who was still the focus of the audience just now, couldn't help but feel a trace of inexplicable emotion in his heart.
……
When the song ended, the whole bar burst into applause. And Urashima slowly walked from the stage to the front of the previous generation and said:
"Let's go, I'll send you back!"
"Huh?"
Chiyo glanced at Urashima in surprise, but Urashima didn't wait for Chiyo to answer and walked straight towards the gate.
After Urashima put the two people's drink money under the glass he just now, he left the bar with a coat and briefcase in one hand and Chiyo in the other. When the two of them came out of the bar, Urashima quickly stopped a taxi and got into it with Chiyo.
"Wait a minute...... You...... What are you?"
Chiyo was suddenly taken to the car by Urashima, and her mind was still a little unconscious, and she asked Urashima with some vigilance at this time:
"Ah...... That one...... I just saw that you were left there by that man, so I thought it would be better to take you out of that place as soon as possible......"
"Wait a minute...... Did you misunderstand something?"
"What do I have to misunderstand, isn't the period obvious?"
"And then, you suddenly started playing the piano and wanted to help me?"
"Hey!"
"Ah...... It's really heartwarming, isn't it?"
"This ...... I'm just doing my part, and I don't want you to make a fool of yourself in public!"
……
While Urashima and Chiyo were still discussing in the car, Mr. Driver, who was sitting in the front seat, turned around a little impatiently, and then asked the two:
"Excuse me...... Where the hell are you going?"
"Please drop us off near Shimokitazawa, Setagaya-ku......"
"Okay, please fasten your seatbelts!"
With a reminder from the driver, the car moved slowly. And Urashima, who was sitting in the car and gradually calmed down, couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed at this time.
"That...... That gentleman just now ...... with you."
"Didn't you say it was obvious? I thought you already knew!"
Chiyo looked at Urashima with a smile on the corner of her mouth, and she couldn't see at all that she had just experienced the misfortune of being split by her boyfriend.
"But...... I obviously saw that you were very sad just now, you ......"
"Did you misunderstand something?"
"Huh?"
"That guy and I weren't lovers just now......"
"But...... You guys...... Obviously ......"
"That guy was my classmate in college, and he came to me just now mainly to ask me to help him contact my college professor...... His girlfriend, as if she had been diagnosed with some very rare disease, alas...... Speaking of which, that guy is really not easy, at this time he can still keep his girlfriend away, why didn't I have a chance to meet such a good man?"
"Huh......?"
Urashima, who suddenly found out that he had made a mistake, couldn't help but feel very embarrassed, and he couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground right now.
"Hey...... You were the one who offered to send me home just now!"
"I ...... I...... I'm really sorry?"
"By the way, Urashima-kun, I don't think I heard you say you have a girlfriend!"
"That...... We used to date when I was studying abroad, but after returning to China, we slowly separated......"
……
As the car gradually stopped in front of a three-story garden apartment in the Shimo-Kitazawa area, Chiyo immediately stepped out of the car. Urashima, on the other hand, sat in the car stiffly, not knowing what to do.
"Do you want to come up and sit down? I happen to have a good bottle of wine at home, so I think it's ...... Thank you for sending me back!"
"That...... I ......"
I'll help you get your stuff up first!
Without waiting for Urashima to answer, Chiyo picked up Urashima's briefcase from her seat and walked straight to the door in front of the apartment. Seeing this, Urashima couldn't say anything to refuse, so he got out of the car with a hot head.
When both of them left the car, Urashima quickly paid the driver's fee and watched the car leave. Immediately after, Chiyo suddenly hugged Urashima, and then couldn't help but kiss him.
In the hallway, the two of them staggered into the elevator, and when the elevator opened again on the third floor, the tie around Urashima's neck and the gauze around Chiyo's neck had all been torn off.
When the door of the apartment was opened by Chiyo in a hurry, she was suddenly picked up by Urashima. There were two drops of high heels from inside the door, and the door was slammed shut.
A neighbor who happened to be about to go out happened to see the ridiculous behavior of the two, and couldn't help but feel stunned and hid in his apartment, until the sound of the door closing, he felt a little embarrassed to look at the puppy under his feet, and then let out a long sigh.
"Hey......"