Come to Uncle's House to See Some Inventions

Based on Jiang Xia's earlier investigation, the flashy sports car in the surveillance footage belonged to Stalker No. 1.

Stalker No. 1 was on her way to Kinoshita Yoko's home.

So, after packing his tools, Jiang Xia climbed onto his Motorcycle and prepared to head for Kinoshita Yoko's Apartment.

Just as he twisted the throttle and shot out of the yard,

Jiang Xia saw Professor Agasa walking toward his house, carrying a strange-looking device.

Hearing the Motorcycle's roar, Professor Agasa looked up and spotted Jiang Xia. Delighted, he waved at him, wanting to invite Jiang Xia over to try out his New Invention.

Jiang Xia mentally calculated the time. He hesitated for 0.1 seconds between "stop and hear what the old man has to say" and "ignore him and keep going," then decisively chose the latter.

The professor's inventions were all bizarre. Out of a hundred, eighty-eight were bound to explode or leak electricity...

Most of the time, Jiang Xia would put on protective gear before going to see Professor Agasa's inventions, since he could occasionally pick up something useful... but today, he was in a hurry.

Very busy.

Did not want to get blown up.

Jiang Xia twisted the throttle, and the Motorcycle rumbled mercilessly past Professor Agasa.

The professor was engulfed in exhaust fumes. Waving his hand, he coughed twice and watched Jiang Xia's rapidly vanishing back with a regretful sigh. It felt like Boya clutching his qin as he rushed to Zhong Ziqi's house, only to see Zhong Ziqi galloping away through the night halfway there.

Professor Agasa: "..." No, that wasn't the kind of person Jiang Xia was.

He probably just hadn't seen him.

After all, Jiang Xia was wearing a Helmet, which affected his field of vision...

Professor Agasa consoled himself, and felt much better.

He patted the New Invention in his hands and decided to forget it for today. He would take it to Jiang Xia tomorrow instead.

Hopefully it would not be broken by then.

Professor Agasa carried the machine back the way he had come.

Just as he reached his front door, he suddenly noticed that his neighbor on the other side—Kudo Shinichi—had also come home, with a Face Full Of delight.

Professor Agasa's eyes lit up as well, and he called out to him, "What good news did you run into? Come to my house and take a look at my New Invention. We can chat while you look?"

Kudo Shinichi scratched the back of his head awkwardly and answered the first half of the question. "What good news... I just lost a bet with Ran, so I have to take her to Tropical Land this weekend."

Then his expression changed, and he coolly, decisively rejected the professor's second invitation. "No."

He clearly knew that quite a few of the professor's inventions had safety hazards.

"..." Professor Agasa let out a long sigh. Sigh, brat.

Jiang Xia was still more considerate toward the elderly. Aside from his poor eyesight, he had no other flaws.

Unable to find any sense of affirmation, the professor hugged his New Invention and returned home in utter loneliness.

Jiang Xia's home was not far from Kinoshita Yoko's.

He soon arrived beneath the Apartment Building where Kinoshita Yoko lived, parked his Motorcycle, and looked up to observe the building.

Meanwhile, Stalker No. 1's car was still on the road.

Jiang Xia had seen Kinoshita Yoko's schedule and knew that she had a Live Broadcast this afternoon, so she would not be coming home early.

The Apartment Building where Kinoshita Yoko lived had more than thirty floors, and the entrance door was locked.

Jiang Xia knew Lock Picking, but he had yet to find an energy source sufficient to repair his wrist. His hand was not steady enough to flick it casually and make the lock click onto the ground... Picking the lock was inefficient and made it easy to get caught halfway through.

Still, even without picking the lock, this was easy to solve.

Jiang Xia lingered nearby for a short while.

When another resident returned to the Apartment Building, Jiang Xia followed behind her and entered with her—if asked, he planned to claim that he had forgotten to bring his entrance key.

As the entrance door closed, the innocent aunt Jiang Xia had followed noticed something was off and warily turned her head.

Once she saw who was behind her, her expression eased.

When they entered the elevator, she even pressed the door-open button for Jiang Xia and smiled, giving him a nod.

Kinoshita Yoko's home was on the 25th Floor.

To be safe, Jiang Xia got off on the 27th Floor and took the fire stairs down to the 25th Floor.

After confirming that no one was in the Corridor on the 25th Floor, Jiang Xia took out his Video Camera in the dark stairwell, adjusted it, and hid behind the door.

A few minutes passed.

The elevator chimed—someone had arrived on this floor.

A string of high heels clicked out of the elevator, passed the stairwell entrance, and headed straight for Kinoshita Yoko's home.

Jiang Xia peeked out from behind the stairwell door.

The visitor was a slender woman whose back looked very much like Kinoshita Yoko's.

This was the person Jiang Xia had labeled Stalker No. 1. Kinoshita Yoko's rival—Chizawa Yuko.

Jiang Xia silently aimed the lens at her.

So far, the actual circumstances of this world really did line up with the anime he had watched.

There were only some minor differences. For example, "Miss Yoko" had a different surname, and she had suffered a miscarriage...

No matter what, with spoilers, everything became much easier.

Jiang Xia activated his fake "precognition" ability.

—If he remembered correctly, there were actually two people who had made "Miss Yoko" suffer as stalkers.

One was the young lady before him, Chizawa Yuko, wearing sky-high heels as she came out to do bad things.

The other was Kinoshita Yoko's ex-boyfriend.

The ex-boyfriend wanted to get back together.

As for Chizawa Yuko, she was simply jealous that Kinoshita Yoko was more popular than she was and wanted to mess with this pretty, hardworking colleague.

Some time ago, Chizawa Yuko had stolen Kinoshita Yoko's spare key from her manager and begun her series of harassment.

Jiang Xia rapidly sorted out the situation and felt that this would be easy to resolve.

After all, Stalker No. 1 and No. 2 were just two weaklings. If all else failed, he could put sacks over their heads and beat them up.

More important than dealing with the two of them was making the little Ghost Fetus face reality during this process, give up its obsession with reuniting its parents, and obediently leave with a reliable Spirit Medium...

Chizawa Yuko had only nervously looked around when she first stepped out of the elevator, guilty as a thief.

After that, she skillfully used the stolen key to open Kinoshita Yoko's door.

People tended to get nervous in unfamiliar environments.

But Chizawa Yuko had already come here several times.

Now, when she came to Kinoshita Yoko's home, she felt as relaxed as if she were returning to her own home—perhaps even happier than when she returned to her own place.

As a result, she was not very alert.

Nor did she notice at all that a Camera in the darkness was quietly aimed at her.