To be honest, the intelligence gathering went so smoothly this time that it was hard to believe. Strictly speaking, it was thanks to Minme Satori and Inaba Tsukiyo, but Duanmu Huai had no intention of thanking them. Given how insane Minme Satori was, if he thanked her, she might go even further.
Kana was fast too. Early the next morning, Duanmu Huai received her message on the app. The two of them arranged a meeting place, and Duanmu Huai went to meet her.
They had chosen the same station park as yesterday. By the time Duanmu Huai arrived, Kana was already waiting there. When she saw him, she waved excitedly.
"Hey, big brother, over here!"
"Yo."
Duanmu Huai walked over and greeted Kana. Unlike the disheveled state she had been in the previous night, Kana was dressed very neatly this time, looking exactly like a fashionable college student—though she was a college student to begin with.
"Let's go. Have you picked a place?"
"This one! I've wanted to go there for ages!"
Duanmu Huai had come to ask Kana for information, so naturally, he wasn't going to be stingy. The two of them had also discussed it on the app. Kana said the price would remain at ten thousand yen, the standard rate for simply having a meal together. That was the going rate, after all, and she didn't want to break the rules. As compensation, however, Duanmu Huai could take her to an upscale restaurant. Many dads wouldn't take Kana somewhere particularly luxurious and high-end to eat, but Duanmu Huai had no such concerns. If he could take her, then he would.
So Kana chose a kaiseki restaurant she had always wanted to visit but couldn't afford. A single meal there cost several tens of thousands of yen. According