Tokyo Seed Battle Officially Begins! Next Up, Uesugi Tetsu of Arakawa Ward! Chisa's Little Greed

Tokyo Seed Battle Officially Begins! Next Up, Uesugi Tetsu of Arakawa Ward! Chisa's Little Greed

After hearing an extremely familiar surname from the mouth of a child who had been a complete stranger when they first met, Ririko couldn't help but freeze for a moment.

As far as she knew, there wasn't a second agent surnamed Uesugi in the Special Affairs Division of Arakawa Ward.

So she asked, "The Uesugi you mentioned—is his name Uesugi Tetsu?"

Now it was Chisa's turn to stare blankly.

This kind big sister knows Uesugi too?

Unable to understand, she answered a question with another question. "Big Sister, you know Uesugi too?"

"He's my friend." Ririko entered the elevator behind her, paused, and deliberately added, "A good friend."

Chisa nodded repeatedly. "Uesugi is my friend too."

The girl blinked her big eyes at Ririko and revealed a soft smile.

"My name is Chisa! Since that's the case, doesn't that make you and me good friends too, Big Sister?"

A friend's friend is my friend?

I don't think that's necessarily true.

Ririko pondered for a moment but failed to understand.

Is this how children think?

But when did Uesugi-kun meet this girl?

When he went to Shizuoka Prefecture a few days ago?

But if they had met in Shizuoka Prefecture, how had she ended up at the Special Affairs Division in Arakawa Ward? And why was she even wearing an agent's uniform?

There was too much information she didn't know, and Ririko couldn't quite make sense of it.

Still, seeing that the girl looked no older than an elementary school student, Ririko merely nodded lightly and said,

"Okay, then we're friends too... My name is Tokugawa Ririko."

She had deliberately removed the word "good" from before "friends."

The Special Affairs Division's building wasn't even several dozen