BRO HOW CAN YOU BE THIS DENSE!
He literally just had to say one sentence to fix this, but he refuses to do it. He yoinked her right before another dude snatched hed up but he couldn't even tell her what happened with Hikari??
'She left, that's what she wanted to say'
Or even 'The band is over. Akane and Hikari quit.'
The bitch is out of the picture, tell her the good news by God