"Second day is always the worst"

"Inoue-san, you could've told me you would visit here at Kagurazaka." Sakura said with with smile.

"Hai! Gomenasai, Himura-san!" Akane bowed to ask for Sakura's forgiveness.

"One-san called earlier to inform me that Ray-senpai is back in town." Akane explained.

"I couldn't let a day pass without seeing my childhood crush." Akane then giggled like a child.

Arashi disrespectfully snorted.

"Oh I didn't know that assholes could have admirers?"

Reina admires Ray deep inside her heart but she couldn't help but to chuckle.

"Oh." Sakura exclaimed while still trying to keep a smile and her composure.

Cause deep inside, her heart is flaming in anger as she hates the fact that there are always women that could not keep their distance away from her one and beloved, Ray Shigeyoshi.

If this continued to anger her, Sakura might hurt little Akane even though she and Akane has a casual but close bond.

No one would take away Ray from her, and she had waited him to come back to her for the past five years.

Her still flaming heart calmed once Ray initiated a conversation with her.

"What do you want?" I asked her calmly.

Sakura steadied her composure and her smile became wider and brighter, radiantly shining like the gates of heaven.

She approached me and held my hand with her two, smooth, pale and attractive hands.

I furrowed my eyebrows

"I just want to say I'm sorry about what happened last night." Sakura apologetically said with an angelic voice.

"It's because your father had to ruin it." She added in annoyance.

My father, Shinjo, couldn't help but to feel defeated again.

I aggressively removed my hand from her two hands, suprising Sakura.

"My father had no intention to ruin the dinner, you and your mute daughter had." I calmly refuted.

"Yes, I know Ray-kun." Sakura said while still smiling like an angel.

"That's why I'm sorry because I know I shouldn't have stormed out like that."

I scoffed.

"Hey asshole, show some respect to my Okasan!" Arashi suddenly roared, making e everyone here expect me taken aback.

This bitch really has her own way of pushing me to the edge....

"You shut the fuck up!" I angrily roared back at her and instinctively slammed the table with my fist.

No one dared to respond to my outburst especially Arashi.

"Why should I respect your fucking mother when she doesn't respect his own husband? My own fucking father!" I angrily added.

And close enough, I thought I would break this old table of ours easily, but thankfully I didn't. I have to control my temper sometimes.

Arashi was taken aback by my sudden outburst and had a shocked look on her face.

Sakura smiles at Arashi and held her cheeks in a sweet manner.

"It's okay, honey, don't fret about it." Sakura reassured Arashi.

"Ray-kun is right, you know." Sakura added.

"Anyway, I would like to invite you and Inoue-san for a nice and relaxing dinner tonight." Sakura said to me.

"Oh my god! I'm in, Himura-san!" Akane excitedly said.

I didn't respond to Sakura cause I don't like eating in restaurants.

"Ray-kun?" Sakura looked at me with bright and angelic face, waiting for my response.

"...."

"Come on, bro, it'll be fun." Reina happily said

"Yeah, Ray-senpai." Akane excitedly agreed.

"....."

"Hmmm.."

"No." I calmly rejected.

All of them seemed so disheartened except for Arashi.

Sakura, feeling a bit heartbroken, still managed to form a smile.

"I understand, Ray-kun."

Then...

My father, Shinjo, approached me.

"Come on, Ray, give your stepmom a chance." He asked of me instead of taking my side and respecting my decision.

I didn't respond and looked at my father with such disappointment.

"Come on, just do this for me, son." He persisted with a sad smile on his face.

I deeply sighed.

"Fine."

I hesitantly agreed for the sake of my father.

Sakura's eyes sparkled and her face shined like a diamond as soon as she heard me I agreed.

Meanwhile, back at the ramen shop in Shibuya district.

The Lady in Pink was impatiently waiting for Kenji and the other guy with a severely broken leg to wake up.

Because she knew they saw the perpetrator that did this to them.

"Couldn't they wake up sooner?" Lady in Pink impatiently asked her Yakuza men.

"No, Gomenasai, your Lady in Pink!." They apologetically said.

"Ugh!" Lady in Pink expressed her dismay silently behind her mask.

"Actually, we can wake them up anytime soon, your Lady in Pink." Someone interjected behind them out of nowhere.

Lady in Pink turned her head and saw the police lieutenant with a defibrillator in his hand.

The Yakuzas had questioning looks on their faces

"Where did you get that, badge man?" They asked.

"Of course, from our medical team." The police lieutenant confidently said.

"Okay."

"Wake these idiots up, please." Lady in Pink calmly ordered him.

The lieutenant responded by bowing his head then made his way to the two unconscious idiots lying on the floor.

"Time to wake up and tell us something." The lieutenant muttered.

He then fired the defibrillator's charges...

"1."

"2."

"3."

Then.....

They both suddenly woke up with comical and extra shocked expressions on their faces, thanks to the defibrillator brought by the police lieutenant.

Lady in Pink may not have shown it but she's smiling like a devil behind her mask.

"Lady in Pink!" They both restlessly exclaimed as soon as they woke up.

"Lady in Pink! Avenge us, he fucked us good!"

"He's like a fucking demon!"

"No, you idiot that motherfucker has that face of a devil!"

"He killed our three boys, Lady in Pink!"

They kept on rambling, and on rambling, not knowing the fact that the Lady in Pink was getting annoyed under the mask.

"Shut your filthy mouths!" Lady in Pink growled, instantly silencing them off.

They quickly bowed their heads to the ground.

"O yurushi kudasai!" They shrilled.

"Now...."

"Who attacked you?" The Lady in Pink calmly asked them.