The reason why Hotaru can find out that this man is wrong is very simple - before Xiao Ai and they came out of the store, there was already a bus with the same route passing by, and Hotaru couldn't get on the bus because she had to wait for Xiao Ai and them, so she had to continue to wait.

But the man didn't get into the car either.

Hotaru, who got on the second bus with Gray Plains, was waiting for Gray Plains, who was the man who finally got on the second bus with them waiting for?

This is a score question with only one answer, but the only alternative answer could be a fate.

Just as Hotaru turned around and pretended not to notice the man, Ash took out her phone and quietly showed the text on the screen to Motota and Ayumi.

[Don't be surprised where Sister Hotaru takes us later, don't make a noise, just follow along.] 】

The group continued to walk, and when they came to the second chome, where the Tachibana House was located, they did not turn to the right of the Tachibana House, but turned to the left and disappeared into the corner.

Then they stood on the corner, waiting for the stalker, unaware of the clues, to foolishly follow and expose themselves to them.

This is the easiest and most practical trick.

About a minute later, the man still hadn't appeared.

“？” Hotaru frowned a little confusedly, then decided to see what was really going on.

Taking out a small mirror from her makeup bag, Hotaru leaned against the corner of the street, stretching the small mirror out of the corner slightly, and had a panoramic view of the road in the future tense.

However, the full view does not include the man dressed in black - he is gone.

How can it be? Hotaru's eyes widened as she looked at the scene in the mirror. But the man did disappear completely, without a trace.

Walking out of the corner, Hotaru looked at the empty street in front of her in confusion.

What the hell is this...... What's going on?

……………………

Not far from the corner of Nichome Street, an equally small mirror protrudes out of a small alley, reflecting into the alley a picture of Hotaru's figures.

The man who disappeared before looked at Hotaru vigilantly in the mirror with a wry smile.

"Too much, right? Even those professional guys shouldn't have such strong anti-reconnaissance capabilities, right! ”

When Hotaru turned around just now, his gaze seemed to just glance at him casually, and he was already wondering if he had been exposed.

Especially later, the little brown girl actually took out a mobile phone, and after typing for a while, she also showed the screen to the other two children.

Just before, this little girl posed in the car and didn't know how to use a mobile phone.

Bewildered by these somewhat subtle sense of crisis, the man immediately dodged and hid in an alley on the side of the road, and then ran.

There's a street corner in front of you, and this kind of place is the least favorite environment when you're covertly tracking, because the stalker doesn't know anything about the scene on that corner - if the stalker is there waiting for the stalker to hit him head-on, the stalker will either pretend not to care about them and move on, or else be embarrassed to continue the stalking that has clearly become a clown show in the smiling eyes of the stalker.

Well, don't get into this dilemma.

The men in the neighborhood were familiar with the road, so he knew that this alley could be plugged directly into the streets of the 2-chome - as long as he ran, he would reach the exit of the 2-chome before Hotaru and them anyway, which meant that he would be able to safely continue to monitor Hotaru and their whereabouts after running there.

Now, it turns out that the instincts he had cultivated for a long time did not deceive him, and the accumulated experience did not fail him. Even if he had a little bit of luck before, he might have been discovered by now.

Fortunately, this crisis can be barely avoided -

At this moment, the man noticed that Hotaru suddenly glanced at his phone, and then walked in the direction he was without hesitation.

"What's going on?" The man was horrified, and then insisted on whether there was a house on the 2-chome where he could see the alley he was in—but it didn't.

What's going on?

At this moment, a faint male voice came from deeper down the alley.

"Yo, after following for so long, don't you plan to report yourself?"

Fujiwara appeared behind the man like a ghost, looked at the dumbfounded man, and said calmly.

…………

"Scout" Hotaru put her fingertips on the corners of her mouth and looked at the man with a smile. "Looking for us?"

"Pretty much, but I'm doing paparazzi work — I'm here to find Miss Aihara over there. After her sudden retirement a month ago, all the paparazzi around the world who had followed her before were looking for her. The man said calmly.

"Miss Aihara?" Hotaru raised an eyebrow, but after a brief moment of confusion, she noticed that Fujiwara seemed to have looked at the children beside her.

"Are you sure she's Gress Aihara?" Fujiwara asked.

"You don't think so?" The man asked rhetorically.

"Of course it's not me," Gray Plains said lightly, already aware of what might have happened. "That guy should be smaller than me...... It's only two years older. ”

"You can see for yourself that this little girl is not the same as Gress Aihara, right?" Fujiwara snorted coldly. "If nothing else, Gress Aihara's development in the photos in the magazine during this period of time is not comparable to this girl who is still a pee, right?"

"......" Gray Yuan glared at Fujiwara with a little dissatisfaction, and then pulled the neckline of the dress so that the not loose clothes did not emphasize the fact that she was still a child.

"~" Hotaru obviously noticed Gray Yuan's behavior, and the corners of her mouth were slightly hooked.

"Uh......" The man then observed Gray Yuanai's figure in detail. Speaking of which, it seems that she is indeed much smaller than Aihara. ”

"So, would you like to be a star?" The affection that had been a little confused before suddenly became extremely serious, and the man asked Gray Yuanwai.

"Huh?" Ashbara was stunned.

"And two young ladies," the man glanced at Ayumi and then at Hotaru. "I'd like to ask you both that question as well."

"Huh?" Ayumi was surprised. "Me? Star? ”

"yes," the man smiled. "You may not know that compared to other girls, the three of you are absolutely outstanding in appearance, as long as you are given a chance to show yourself, you can become a big star that everyone envies!"

"I'll forget it," Ash Hara Wai apparently made the decision at the first moment, not speaking before just because the man was talking to Ayumi. "I want to live a quiet life."

"Huh?" Ayumi was visibly surprised. "Don't you want to be Gray Yuan-san? Then I'm—"

"You don't need to change because of me, do you?" Gray Plains shook his head. "That's a pretty good way to live."

"My words," Hotaru said after a moment's thought. "I don't really mind trying it out, but I still want to think about it, at least I'm going to finish high school and become a model or something."

"Here are my business cards," he said, as the man handed the three business cards to the three of them (although Gray Yuan Ai did not accept them). "You can talk to your parents about it, and if you want to try it, please contact me."