Hearing Uchiha Hiko say that, Bulma temporarily stopped looking at the necklace. Instead, she raised her head to look at him, wondering what exactly had happened when he bought it. Patiently, she listened as he continued, "Miss Kobayashi happened to be there when I bought this necklace. The truth is, we both fell in love with it at the same time. I originally intended to give it to her out of gentlemanly courtesy, because I thought that she had always worked at the Weaving Guild, earning every bit of her money through hard work, stitch by stitch. So I decided to give it up for her."
Hearing Uchiha Hiko say this, Bulma nodded. She knew that the man she liked was broad-minded like this. He would never steal something from someone else just because he liked it. If anything, he had the virtue of helping others achieve what they wanted.
But she had not expected the necklace to end up in his hands. Perhaps there had been some other complication, so Bulma asked, "Since you had already decided to give the necklace to her, why did it end up with you in the end?"
Hearing Bulma's question, Uchiha Hiko looked up and smiled helplessly. "You know how hard the work at our Weaving Guild is, and the wages aren't very high either. Miss Kobayashi had liked this necklace for a long time, but she did not have much money on hand. She had saved for a long time before she finally had enough to buy it."
Even after learning that Miss Kobayashi had indeed saved up for a long time before coming to buy the necklace, Bulma still could not figure out why it had ended up in Uchiha Hiko's hands. This time, however, she did not interrupt and simply