Chapter 539 Dinner at Ayia and Shizuka's
"Guys, this is my friend Rio." Ryoko announced as she pulled Rio into the house.
"Hi, my name is Rio, it's a pleasure to meet you guys." Rio said with a soft voice.
She had to gather all of her courage to say those words. Although she was a confident person at work, Rio became timid around new people in normal situations. Especially when the people in front of her looked extremely cool and pretty.
Their group could indeed be intimidating for strangers, but as soon as they heard Rio, they greeted her with warm smiles.
"Rio!"
"Welcome!"
"You look so pretty!"
"It's our pleasure to meet you."
"My name is..."
"..."
In such a way, each one of them introduced themselves to Rio and welcomed her with warm smiles.
Rio felt her heart warming up with their friendliness. Which made her less shy to face them.
When it was Theo's turn, he smiled at her, "Rio, it's nice to meet you in person finally." He laughed.
"Boss!" Rio exclaimed.
"I already said you can call me Theo." Theo shook his head and chuckled.
"It's nice to meet you in person as well, T-Theo!" Rio exclaimed.
"Great!" Theo smiled.
"Rio, have you had your dinner already?" Ayia asked.
"No, I didn't have time for it." Rio shook her head.
"That's perfect! You can have dinner with us." Ryoko commented.
"Let's go, guys!" Ayia exclaimed.
The others nodded and followed Ayia toward the dining room.
A few moments later, they took their seats at the dining table where the dishes were already waiting for them to eat.
They didn't waste any time before starting to eat the delicious food that was prepared for them.
After their afternoon at the park, they were tired and famished.
So, they needed to recharge their batteries for their next activity.
"We had so much fun at the Elven World that I didn't even ask you guys what you did during the morning." Ryoko asked as she put some salad on her plate.
"Oh, you missed the fun, Ryoko!" Aurora exclaimed with a giggle.
"Yeah, you should have come with us, Ryoko." Sam nodded.
"What did you guys do?" Ryoko asked curiously.
"First, we went to the Ancestral Town. There we made our New Year's prays at the shrine." June started.
"Yeah, we even bought some fortune papers." Aurora laughed.
"Some of us didn't have much luck with them." Theo commented.
Everyone laughed out loud when they remembered the faces of the ones who received bad fortune.
"Max, Carolla, and Kumiko received bad fortune." Lauren commented when she saw Ryoko's confused face.
"We had to buy a lot of Omamuri (Amulets) and Ema (Wishes) to war off the evil on them." Kaori giggled.
Ryoko couldn't help but laugh as well when she heard that.
"I did my prayers in Elffire City, and I was fortunate to receive a good fortune." Ryoko let out a smile, "And then? What did you guys do afterward?"
"We visited the antique market near the shrine." Ayia smiled, "We bought a lot of good things there." She said as she remembered the ancestral registry.
"That market was so awesome!" Umaru exclaimed.
"We took a bunch of pictures there." Sam nodded as she took a bite of her salad.
"Indeed, that place looked too good in the pictures we took." Theo agreed.
"We wanted to explore the rest of the Ancestral Town, but we had a tight schedule, so we had to leave the place." Sayuri commented as she shook her head.
"Our next stop was... the Sakura Skytree Tower!" Aurora exclaimed.
"Really? You guys visited the tower?" Ryoko asked in surprise.
As someone who grew up in Sakura City, she had visited the tower sometimes, but she was never able to explore the place fully. Plus, it had been a long time since she went there.
"Yeah, most of us never had visited the place, so we couldn't miss this chance." Theo chuckled.
"And we weren't disappointed by the place." Gwen suddenly said with a soft voice.
"Gwen's right. The place was even more amazing than I imagined." Sam nodded.
"For some moment I really felt like I was inside a tree." Aurora giggled.
"The view from the top of the flower was so frightening!" Carolla exclaimed.
"I felt like we could leave the orbit of the planet if we climbed just a few more meters." Shoko commented.
"When we got to the top, everywhere we looked, we could only see a sea of clouds." Umaru added.
"Indeed, the city had a cloudy day." Ryoko nodded.
"But as descended through the elevators, we still were able to see the city from up there. I know it is super safe, but my legs were shaking as I saw how tall we were." June giggled.
"After we visited the top floor, we got hungry. So, we went to a restaurant that Ayia recommended." Kumiko continued their tale.
"It was a Pangese Cuisine restaurant, and we were able to eat all kinds of delicious food that we usually don't eat." Vivian commented as she picked up an omelet roll with her chopsticks and ate it.
"Theo even wanted to poison us." Lauren suddenly said.
"Hey, I didn't do that!" Theo protested.
"Then how do you explain your suggestion for us to eat a bomb of spiciness?" Kumiko asked as she looked at him suspiciously.
The others looked at him with similar suspicion.
"Well, it was to build your endurance to spiceness." Theo argued with a righteous expression.
Everyone was dumbfounded at his shamelessness.
"Theo!"
"You wanted to kill us, admit it!"
"Shameless!"
"I knew you were shameless, but not this much."
"..."
Just like that, everyone started to scold him when they saw him being so shameless.
Rio observed their bickering with a smile, she could see how much they cared for each other. Plus, it seemed like they really liked each other's company.
Time passed, and they continued their dinner while talking about the day they had.
But as they had limited time, they didn't take long to finish eating.
As soon as they finished eating their dinner, they head upstairs to the rooms assigned to them.
They wanted to take a shower to wash off the sweat accumulated during the day.
Rio and Ryoko shared a room where they could get ready together.
They had just entered the room when they heard Ayia's voice coming from the outside.
"Girls! I have makeup and other items in my room. After you girls finish taking a shower, you can come to my room to get ready."
Rio and Ryoko looked at each other and smiled when they heard that.
"It seems we don't have to worry about makeup." Ryoko laughed.
The other girls were equally happy when they heard Ayia's words.
They couldn't wait to get ready for the concert.
They wanted to look pretty to watch Cara's performance.
Would be as fun as they imagined it?
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