"...Anyway, that's what happened."
Explaining the whole story wasn't complicated, and Duanmu Huai didn't feel he had done anything wrong. Thus, after leaving the aquarium, the four of them found a coffee shop, where Duanmu Huai explained everything.
"I see..."
Arima Kana nodded in understanding.
"So Miss Ya Naijian isn't planning to find a boyfriend, so she had Xiao Ai disguise herself as one? Hmm, that's an interesting idea. Speaking of which, I had no idea you could do something like this, Xiao Ai. From what I know about you, don't you hate troublesome things like this the most?"
"Helping people is its own reward. Just consider it doing a good deed every day."
Taking your pet out for a walk now and then was also a master's responsibility.
"Ahahahaha..."
Ya Naijian seemed somewhat nervous at that moment. Although she and Duanmu Huai were already fairly familiar with each other, she wasn't nearly as familiar with the others. Now that she had been caught, it was only natural for her to feel uneasy. She was taking tiny sips of her drink, occasionally sneaking a glance at Kurokawa Akane, who sat beside her without saying a word.
She's unusually well-behaved today.
Still, it didn't look like she was being well-behaved so much as a cat staying alert around its natural enemy.
But Ya Naijian and Kurokawa Akane weren't familiar with each other—oh...
Duanmu Huai silently sized up Kurokawa Akane.
Long hair, beautiful, and a great figure.
All right, he knew where the problem lay.
From a certain perspective, she really did count as Ya Naijian's natural enemy.
"Was your movie filmed during summer vacation, Xiao Ai?"
However, Kurokawa Akane seemed not to care about Duanmu Huai's disguise at all and instead asked another question.
"Yeah. Hakone, escaping the heat, and soaking