Sunday morning. The sun was bright, the weather was warm, and Hangaku Mae was near the main entrance of the Yoyogi Park. She woke up very early because she was so nervous about the date with Sakamo Ryu. She tried to call him after dinner the previous night, but he only sent a message saying that there were too many curious people around him that would nag him a lot if he answered the phone in front of them. Later, she sent him a message when she was already in bed asking if he could talk to her and got a response wishing her goodnight, but he was tied in a game against a very nasty woman, and he couldn’t talk, or she would take that opportunity to win.
Hangaku looked at the clock on her mobile phone. There were still fifteen minutes to nine. Time was going by slowly. She picked a piece of
