Bosses who founded both regular or karaoke bars here, usually had some sort of background or great influence backing them up. It wasn’t uncommon for people to try creating messes in these places, which explained why the middle-aged man wasn’t too bothered about the trio.
While all this was happening, a girl sitting in a booth on the other side of the bar asked, “Eh, isn’t that the guy from before?”
Having heard the commotion that had just taken place, the girl had peeked to see what was going on, and she was shocked when she saw Gerald.
“Huh? You know one of those people, Tina?” asked another girl sharing the booth.
There were nine other young men and women sitting in the same booth, and the group had come to the bar to have some fun.
“I do!” replied Tina as she nodded.
One of the males in the group coughed before rather jealously saying, “Since Tina is now working in the police force, she’s definitely in touch with a much wider range of people. Tell us Tina, what exactly is that group’s leader’s background? He seems rather full of himself!”
His jealousy was warranted since everyone in the bar had gone there to have fun. In a place filled with handsome men and beautiful women like this, literally everyone wanted to be the center of attention and be able to act smugly in front of the others. Despite that being the case, not many people could actually pull that off properly.
Now however, a rare reckless individual had appeared, so all the attention was naturally on him. The male who had spoken before was socially obliged to ask about him.
“I’m not actually that close to him… I only came to know about him this morning while I was handling a case. He’s a high school classmate of one of my colleagues,” replied Tina.
The colleague in question was of course, Maia. Tina even remembered teasing Gerald that morning, asking whether he had a girlfriend. Naturally, she had been just fooling around then.
However, their meeting this morning seemed so distant now.
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