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After Gumi attended Miko at the infirmary, she immediately went to the rooftop of the building. Rin, on the other hand went to her afternoon taping with Len at their show.

Standing near the edge, up above the proud skyscraper, she challenged her faith; questioned her worth to Miku. The eyes of loneliness were staring blank at the birds freely flying into the horizon of cloudless sky like she had no other option left but to do the last thing she thought she would never do.

Silence enshrouded her entire atmosphere while thinking what had just happened recently and realizing the thin line of her self-tolerance had just been passed too far.

She raised her left hand slowly and look at it. A mild breeze of wind had passed and suddenly, a small white-feathered bird landed down on her palm and twitted while looking up to her.

'God, I-Is this your answer to my questions?' Gumi thought, 'Have you heard my voice?'

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Returning to the lounge after her recording, Gumi sat down and picked up her phone then opened her web browser while waiting for Rin and Len to arrive from the taping of their afternoon show.

"Gumi," a male voice coming from the kitchen, with some noises of rambling spoons at the background.

"What?"

Kaito emerges from the kitchen with a one-liter four-flavored ice cream on his hand, a pair of spoons and bowl at the other. He approached Gumi and sat beside her.

He looked at Gumi where in that moment was browsing at her phone, offering her a bowl of  ice cream Jalapeño. "Gumi, would you like to have some ice cream with me?"

Gumi looked and she first noticed the label of the ice cream: "3 in 1 +1 Kaito's Bombastic Ice Cream".

She became more confused when she saw Kaito on the label, modeling the product.

"Uh, Kaito..." Gumi trailed, weirded.

"Why Gumi?" He asked, "You don't want some?"

"I-Is this the pictorial you said to us that gonna be 'bombastic'?"

He took a scoop of ice cream, then nodded. "Yup. That's it."

"I never thought Kaito, never ever entered my mind that they will dress you as a cute blue neko maid riding the canon near the muzzle and seductively posing beside four spicy flavored ice cream with a 'purr' caption in it. Just how — and why — Kaito...."

"I-Its just for the taping— nothing else!" Kaito said, Gumi made a suspicious look to him, bringing her face close to his.

"Kaito..." Gumi said like she demanding the truth from him, Kaito's face became terrified.

Kaito's body was mildly shaking in terror, his mind was like bombarded with the sounds of clocks ticking every second. "I— I—."

Suddenly, the door opened; Lily and Meiko saw the two at the couch. Meiko's face became infuriated when she saw Kaito sitting next to Gumi while Lily just astounded, left speechless on what she had seen.

Kaito then quickly backs away from Gumi face, looking at Meiko like he saw a terrifying creature; Gumi resumed in web browsing on her phone.

Meiko slowly lowered the grocery bag and asked Kaito. "What are you doing with Gumi!"

"N-Nothing! Really nothing!"

Lily said, "Gumi, is that pervert was trying to do—"

"Don't worry 'bout him, were fine. He just wanted me to taste his ice cream."