Miss Kobayashi was especially happy that she had not misjudged him.
Miss Kobayashi asked with a smile:
"Then what did you say to them afterward? Did you refuse them outright?"
Hearing Miss Kobayashi's question, Uchiha Hikaru smiled, released her hand, and began pacing through the garden again with his hands behind his back.
Then he turned to look at her and continued:
"How could I have agreed to him so directly? I still needed to figure out how far their research had progressed, lest they develop too quickly and bring us other troubles later."
Hearing Uchiha Hikaru's words, Miss Kobayashi nodded. She raised her head to look at him, and he smiled as he continued:
"Besides, I also figured out the relationship between those two aliens. In fact, I realized that they weren't from the same faction at all."
"Although they both lived on the same planet, their alien world also had factional disputes. This time, their home planet sent the two of them here to keep watch on each other, so that neither would turn traitor."
Listening to Uchiha Hikaru, Miss Kobayashi immediately understood:
"So... you took advantage of the rift between those two people to turn them against each other."
Hearing Miss Kobayashi's words, Uchiha Hikaru merely smiled and said to her:
"You think too highly of me. I don't have that kind of ability. Although I did intend to do that at first, those two fools never gave me the chance to put my plan into action.
"After I rejected them, they disregarded their own plan and attacked me directly."
Hearing him say that, Miss Kobayashi was startled. Though it was no secret that Uchiha Hikaru possessed powerful Chakra,
he was still the man she liked. If he had been attacked, there was no way she would