Fate, a Reunion Many Years Later

"You two are twins, brother and sister, right? Your eyes are so beautiful.

"And this student Aqua gives me a familiar feeling too. I wonder if we've met somewhere before?"

Faced with Seiya's question, Hoshino Aqua immediately lowered his head, not daring to meet Seiya's eyes.

When he had steadied himself and looked up again, his face was already expressionless as he said, "I think it's probably just your imagination. After all, this is my first time meeting Seiya in person."

"You probably saw a movie Aqua acted in when you were with me before.

"This guy has practically vanished without a trace these past few years. How could you possibly have met him?"

Hearing Seiya and Aqua's conversation, Arima Kana interjected from the side.

Back then, in order to figure out how to defeat Aqua, Kana had repeatedly studied his acting. And since Seiya and Kana were Childhood Friends, they often spent time together.

So Kana believed Seiya might have found Aqua familiar for that reason.

Seiya said, "So that's how it is? Then I must have been overthinking it."

After glancing at Aqua, whose expression remained perfectly normal, Seiya smiled and accepted Kana's explanation.

In truth, however, Seiya had already recognized who Aqua was. He was one of the Survivors of that attack more than a decade ago.

Seiya's adopted older brother in this world had died trying to save him.

And judging from Aqua's reaction just now, Seiya could be certain that Aqua had recognized him as well.

As for why Aqua had chosen to hide it, Seiya had no idea.

That was right. The fan assassination incident more than ten years ago was absolutely something Aqua would never forget for the rest of his life.

He had watched Hoshino Ai—the idol from his previous life and his mother in this one—die right before his eyes.

Aqua hated his own helplessness back then, but he also deeply admired another child his age who had been at the scene.

Although Hoshino Aqua looked like a seventeen-year-old boy now, as a reincarnator, the soul inside his body had belonged to a doctor nearing thirty when he was born.

As absurd as it sounded, the idol named Hoshino Ai had once been the idol he supported as Amamiya Gorou. He had even been the one to deliver her babies.

Yet through a bizarre twist of fate, he had reincarnated as one of his favorite idol's twin children.

And his younger sister, Hoshino Ruby, was also a reincarnator just like him.

Though he did not know exactly who she had been, after years of contact, he believed she had not been very old in her previous life.

Being reincarnated as the child of his favorite idol should have been a happy thing for Aqua.

But more than ten years ago, disaster suddenly struck!

A deranged fan of Hoshino Ai learned that his idol had gotten married and had children. He found their home and brutally murdered their mother.

Leaving aside the fan's madness, very few people should have known where Hoshino Ai lived back then. How had he found their home, and how had he known that Ai had children?

To uncover the truth, Aqua had investigated from every angle over the years. Eventually, after several years, he cracked one of Hoshino Ai's private phones and obtained a list from it.

Aqua suspected that what had happened back then was far less simple than it seemed. Hoshino Ai's attack had definitely not been a random incident!

That deranged fan might have merely been a pawn, while the true culprit could still be roaming free.

Aqua had secretly investigated everyone who had appeared that day, including Wenren Ako, Seiya, and even Seiya's deceased older brother.

After connecting the various relationships, Seiya and the others had also been the first people Aqua crossed off his list of suspects.

Aqua could only say that Wenren Seiya had left a deep impression on him.

After all, although he had also been five years old back then, the soul in his body had been that of an adult. Even so, the terror and shock of death had left him unable to move.

Yet Seiya, who had been the same age as him, had used his tiny body to save one of the female victims.

If he had possessed Seiya's courage back then, perhaps Ai would not have died...

The reason Aqua had reacted so strongly upon seeing Seiya was that Seiya reminded him of how weak and powerless he had been back then.

Aqua had actually considered seeking Seiya out to cooperate before. After all, Seiya's older brother had also been a victim of that attack.

If there truly was a mastermind behind it, then that person could also be considered Seiya's enemy.

But when he thought of how Seiya's older brother had died because of him, and how he would be dragging the man's younger brother into this as well, Aqua felt that would be utterly despicable. So in the end, he decided to work alone.

Still, he had learned a little about Seiya over the years.

Or rather... it would have been difficult not to know Seiya. Just as his sister Hoshino Ruby had said, Seiya was now an incredibly popular actor among the younger generation.

Yoto High School was divided into the General Department and the Performing Arts Department. The General Department was not much different from an ordinary high school.

As for the Performing Arts Department, its academic requirements were actually not particularly high.

That was because many of its students were already working in the entertainment industry. Though they were still students, some of them already earned far more than most adults.

The General Department and Performing Arts Department were not even located in the same part of the campus. Though the school publicly claimed not to rank students by status, the Performing Arts Department's campus and facilities were indeed far better than those of the General Department.

Even the General Department students accepted this unequal treatment by default.

The reason was simple: students in the Performing Arts Department not only had to pay extremely high tuition fees, but they also had to be signed to an agency or have worked in the entertainment industry.

Otherwise, nearly everyone in the Performing Arts Department was a handsome man or beautiful woman. If people who only wanted to chase celebrities could slip in, then the Performing Arts Department would lose its reason for existing.

Arima Kana assumed all three of them were in the Performing Arts Department, so she led them toward that side of the campus.

However, halfway there, Aqua mentioned that he had enrolled in the General Department. So he parted ways with Seiya and the others.

"Looks like we really are fated. I didn't expect us to be in the same class."

After Kana left, Seiya and Ruby, who were looking for their classroom, ran into each other again at the entrance to Class 1-F.

When the two walked into the classroom side by side, quite a few people froze the moment they saw Seiya.

"No way... Is that Seiya? Wenren Seiya? That top-tier actor is in our class too!"

"Oh my god, he's so much more handsome in person than on TV!"

"I want to brag about this on LINE right away! A senior at our agency is Seiya's biggest fan!"