"Eous, can you stand up and walk a couple of steps? Let's see!!!" Sunna excitedly suggested as she looked at the transformed Eous.
"Mm-hm, mm-hm, mm-hm!! (I don't want to! I don't want to!)
"Don't be shy, Eous. You're Fairy Cloth now, so you have to look like a fairy~"
As Aria spoke, she reached out to hug it. Just as the third floor grew noisy, the video store first rang with a crisp doorbell, followed by the ticking footsteps coming from the stairwell.
"Someone came in? Sounds like they came straight upstairs!" The four people in the studio listened to the commotion. Nangong frowned. "At this hour... who could it be? From the footsteps, it sounds like a regular customer of the video store?"
Aria: "But Manager Belle is still asleep, and Manager Wise isn't here. Griseo, do you know who it is?"
Griseo shook her head. "No idea. If it were Trigger, she'd usually come in through the ceiling or the window."
"Wait! I know who it is!"
Sunna suddenly raised her right hand, drawing the other three's attention. "These familiar footsteps, this familiar sound of high heels... That's right! It's Astra!"
"Uh!!!" X3
The moment Sunna finished speaking, the ticking footsteps abruptly stopped. They paused on the second floor for a while, then continued toward the studio on the third floor.
Nangong, Aria, and Sunna ran to the studio and took a look... Someone in elaborate disguise stood outside the door: sunglasses, a mask, a wide-brimmed hat, and a coat. But beneath her star aura, those disguises were barely effective.
"It really is... Astra Yao?!"
Nangong froze for half a second before turning to Sunna. Suddenly, she sucked in a cold breath—Sunna could already identify people by the sound of their footsteps?
*This woman is every bit