Flaw (Make-up Update)

After correcting the conditioned reflex that had been forcibly ingrained over the past few days, Amuro Tooru felt his whole body relax whenever he saw someone Jiang Xia knew.

He calmly watched the Mouri group sweep through the lobby and enter their rooms.

After putting down their luggage, they came flooding back downstairs.

Finally, completely unreserved, they gathered around the neighboring table in a circle.

"Have you finished that 'confidential commission' of yours? Are you sightseeing now?" Mouri Ran looked at Jiang Xia, then at Amuro Tooru, puzzled as to why they had come to this filming location.

Amuro Tooru smiled politely. "Something like that."

"Then do you want to go up the mountain with us?" Mouri Ran invited them happily. "It's just the season for viewing maple leaves. If we go any later, it'll be dark by the time we come down."

She looked at Jiang Xia.

Jiang Xia, in turn, skillfully turned to Amuro Tooru and politely sought his opinion.

Across from them, "Suzuki Sonoko" narrowed her eyes slightly at this scene, snapping the cookie in her hand with a crack. Startled, she picked up another intact one and tossed it into her mouth.

This group had Jiang Xia, her Cool Guy and Angel, and Mouri Kogoro could count as Angel's dad, which was acceptable too. But such a perfect lineup had somehow been infiltrated by Bourbon... It felt like finding a drop of chili oil in a glass of sweet milk—just looking at it made her uncomfortable all over.

As Jiang Xia looked toward Amuro Tooru, everyone else's gazes subconsciously followed. "Suzuki Sonoko's" disdainful look was mixed in among them and did not stand out.

At the center of everyone's attention, Amuro Tooru nodded without refusing.

...He had originally planned to go up the mountain anyway. If