Kinoshita Yoko briefly introduced the two sides.
"I'm so sorry. You came to help, and I hit you with a racket." Kusano Kaoru awkwardly rubbed the back of her head and looked at Vodka. "I thought that stalker had come to harass me again..."
Vodka waved a hand dismissively, his face the picture of magnanimous calm. Inside, however, he blissfully replayed the scene from earlier, his heart seeming to soak in pink bubbles.
At the same time, he could not help letting out a cold laugh inwardly.
Uzo must have wanted to anger him through this "innocently getting hit" incident and make him lose his cool... Heh, people who had never chased idols were so naive. So what if an idol accidentally hit him? Miss Kaoru was not even very strong. If there was anything he was dissatisfied with, it was that Miss Kaoru had used a racket. If only she could have run over and punched his chest a few times with her hands...
Vodka was not angry at all now. He even wanted to gentlemanly say, "It is my honor to be hit by you," and have that scene happen a few more times... But he did not want to expose his emotions and thoughts to Uzo.
So, in the face of Kusano Kaoru's repeated apologies, Vodka remained utterly aloof.
Seeing his indifferent demeanor, Kusano Kaoru truly began to feel uneasy.
—An idol bullying an ordinary person was a stain enough to ruin one's reputation. Their Detective Agency had not been without similar precedents. There had even been seniors who got drawn into Murder Cases because of it and unfortunately became victims in those cases.
And what had just happened... Though she had not done it on purpose, it had happened nonetheless.
Seeing that acting cute toward Vodka