Chapter 2: Cafe

Two week passed after the incident with the shop, Naegi, Leon and Yamada made sure not to walk by that street ever again. Today, Naegi and Kirigiri were on a date. They stopped by a coffee shop for some rest. They ordered and waited. After a pretty long while, they grew impatient. The detective stood up and went to the bar to retrieve their order.

Naegi looked around, waiting for his girlfriend. Then suddenly someone sat at their table, front of him. He looked at the newcomer, it was a woman, probably in her twenties. She had long blonde hair and was wearing blue clothes. But most importantly, she was staring at him with her brown eyes.

She was staring at him the way you look at something that you can't believe it's real. Naegi knew that look from somewhere…He didn't really like it.

"Oh my god it's you." she whispered.

-Oh no, not again.-

he thought as he started to sweat. The woman was still staring at him but this time with excitement, waiting for his response.

-What do I say? Last time I got in trouble. But it sure was a great story to tell… And I actually did have some fun… until he gave the presents… She doesn't look like she will give me anything… And Kirigiri-san is with me! She can stop it if it gets too dangerous. Alright. I'll play along, just so I have a story to tell tonight to the others! I can do it!-

Naegi brought his index finger to his mouth and whispered a: 'shhh.' which made the woman go crazy.

"Oh my God I can't believe it! I'm a big fan!" she said a bit loudly, thank God no one turned to see them.

"Please stay quiet, I shouldn't be recognized, you know?"

"Oh right! I'm sorry. I'll calm now." she apologized as she bowed her head.

Naegi kept waiting for Kirigiri while the woman kept staring at him with stars in her eyes, making the Luckster a bit uncomfortable. When the detective arrived with the two coffees, he relaxed a bit. She saw the woman staring at him.

"Do you know her?" she asked.

Before he could answer, the woman did:

"Oh nonononono! He certainly doesn't know me! But I sure do know him!" she beamed, excited.

Her statement made the stoic student raise an eyebrow in confusion, she looked down at Naegi and she saw in his eyes that he was been mistaken by somebody else again. The woman didn't look like a threat and certainly didn't looked like she was about to give him anything. She decided to play along.

"Here." she said as she gave Naegi his cup.

"Thank you." he smiled.

"Oh? Is she… your girlfriend?" the woman asked.

Kirigiri just nodded which made the fan screech silently. The couple started calmly drink their coffee, at least one of them was. Kirigiri was just looking at the scene as Naegi was doing his best not to show any hint that could blow up his cover. The woman was still staring at him.

Suddenly the woman looked a bit uneasy and asked.

"I'm sorry if it's rude but… Did you actually fake your death?"

Both teenagers choked on their coffee, one from laughter the other from confusion. The lavender haired detective looked away, a hand over her mouth to muffle the chuckles, the ahoge boy started to stammer, red. He wanted to say something but has no words.

The woman was staring at him anxiously, his girlfriend looking at him, waiting for his answer. He gulped and slowly raised a finger to his lips.

"Shh." he whispered with a wink.

"Ohmygosh!" the woman squeaked as the detective looked away again, trying to stop her laughter.

Naegi put down the cup, he was starting to feel a bit uncomfortable.

"Does that mean that you faked your death to break up with your wife?! So you can go out with her?" she asked again, pointing at Kirigiri.

To that the couple looked at her with wide eye, this was getting too awkward. Curiosity at its maximum, the lavender haired girl asked the woman who did she think Naegi was.

The woman looked surprised and confused but grabbed her phone anyway, searched a profile and handed her phone to the detective. Her eyes widened like dinner plate as she saw the picture, she showed it to her boyfriend who had the same reaction but only for a split second, trying to stay in character.

The man in the picture looked exactly like the luckster but only with a little beard and blue eyes, he had a predatory smile. His hair was a bit longer and he was wearing a biker jacket. It seems that the man was a young rockstar married at a young age with another celebrity. He died in a car accident after a night of drinking, he was the driver.

A dumb way to die.

Kirigiri glanced at Naegi and started imagining him in that outfit. Maybe… She should ask him not to shave for a while and then they could- she slapped herself mentally for thinking such lewd things at that moment.

She looked at Naegi who didn't know what to say, she could see in his eyes that he was asking for help but the woman was just happy to see her idol alive.

Kirigiri stood up.

"Alright, I think we need to leave, I've paid already," she said as she handed back the phone to the girl, her boyfriend looked up at her with a grateful smile.

"Oh ok. But can I take a pic-"

"I'm sorry, miss. But I didn't fake my death for everyone to know that I'm still alive." Naegi said with a confident smile.

"Oh alright… Well, it was nice to meet you, Sir! Have a great life with your girlfriend and make a lot of little rockstars!" she exclaimed as she bowed.

Naegi blushed but Kirigiri just took his arm and walked out of the cafe. Once away from the Cafe's street, the brunette let out a long sigh of relief.

"Well," started the Detective with a playful smirk on her face, "Shouldn't we go see if your wife is alright? She must miss you. And who knows? Maybe you're already a father of little rockstars."

"Please stop it." he said.

That evening, Naegi told everyone that he had another experience where he was mistaken by somebody else again. Everyone gathered in the cafeteria to hear the story.

The Luckster and the Detective told the story making everybody laugh and smile. The best of all was their reaction at seeing the picture of the rockstar he was mistaken with.

"Holy SHIT!" Exclaimed Mondo, Ethos and Souda in sync.

"Damn that… that… wow!" Said Fuyuhiko, not having better words.

"That was unexpected…" said an impressed gambler.

"Maybe you should let your beard grow and shave it just like him." Suggested Leon.

"Oh no! I don't really like that. Also, people might confound me with him again in the streets and it will become ugly!" Contested the ahoge boy.

Everyone sighed in defeat, even Kirigiri which made Naegi turn to face her, an eyebrow raised in confusion.

On the back, Junko did not miss her opportunity to search any kind of new tweets about seeing a dead rockstar. She will destroy that woman's hope and she will love it.

And here's the second real life story that happened to a member of my family.

I started to make up at the wife moment.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed!

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