Akihabara.
Miyauchi Hikage walked into the maid cafe he had visited last time with practiced ease. He found a seat near the window and waited for the arrival of Itou Kaiji and Sakakibara Kōichi.
It had to be said, if Miyauchi Hikage could own a street in the heart of Tokyo where every inch of land was worth its weight in gold, he probably would never have the thought of working hard again in this life.
Isn't it nice to be a landlord who just eats and waits for death?
Work?
Work my ass!
But it had to be said, there was indeed a gap in the thinking between people.
Just like the cute maid named Faris NyanNyan, who had come over to greet him as soon as he had walked into the cafe, and had even remembered when he had last visited.
Looking at her professional business ability, who could have thought that the whole of Akihabara was their Akiha family's property, and that even the now-prevalent otaku culture in Akihabara was introduced by her single-handedly?
Previously, Miyauchi Hikage had thought of coming here a few more times to become a familiar face to her, and at the same time, to find a chance to meet the protagonist group from Steins;Gate.
However, the reason he had chosen to meet here today was not just for this.
He turned his gaze to a large building not far from the window.
That was Akihabara's Radio Kaikan, a comprehensive commercial building.
And Kasumigaoka Utaha was currently holding the first book signing of her life in this very building. For a newly debuted rookie writer, this treatment was already quite absurd.
But thinking about it carefully, it wasn't that strange. After all, Kasumigaoka Utaha's looks were there. Even if she were to debut as an idol on the spot, there would be no problem.
And such a beautiful high school girl with outstanding looks had also written a love novel of considerable quality. This point alone was enough for the publisher she belonged to to launch a massive promotional campaign with Kasumigaoka Utaha herself as the focus.
Holding the book signing in a place like Akihabara, what they were really aiming for was the otaku market behind it.
And it was also here that Kasumigaoka Utaha and her number one fan, Aki Tomoya, met for the first time at the signing, and the gears of fate began to turn from here.
But that was already in the past.
After obtaining the diary, Kasumigaoka Utaha could be said to be the person among all the girls who understood her own future story the best.
Perhaps Aki Tomoya was indeed a capable person, but Kasumigaoka Utaha clearly would not develop other ideas about him just because he was her first fan.
To maintain a friendship between an author and a reader was Kasumigaoka Utaha's current thinking.
And so, when she saw that Aki Tomoya was, just as in the original work, the first reader to arrive at the scene and start queuing, although her mood was a little complicated, she still very seriously discussed the future plot development of her work with him.
However, in the process, she was more concerned about whether that mysterious person had come to her signing today.
To this, Hayasaka Ai, who had been specially sent by Shinomiya Kaguya to be in charge of this matter, was continuing to have the Shinomiya family's bodyguards investigate the situation inside and outside the bookstore. As long as they found anyone whose reaction was a bit strange, they would record their image and conduct a more detailed investigation later.
"So who on earth is Kaguya-sama looking for?"
At the same time, in the same coffee shop as Miyauchi Hikage, just sitting at a different table, Hayasaka Ai complained while biting the straw in her mouth, while also receiving information transmitted from those bodyguards on her phone.
She could guess that her own young mistress had recently had some kind of fortuitous encounter, to the point that her entire personality had become more... let's use the word "extroverted" to describe it for now.
But perhaps because of some restrictions, Shinomiya Kaguya had not explained it to her in particular detail.
She only knew now that there was a guy called the "Mysterious Person" who had connected many girls together through some means and had also given them some special powers.
But they didn't seem to know what that mysterious person really wanted to do, so Kaguya-sama wanted to find his whereabouts and figure out his purpose.
This was probably Hayasaka Ai's guess about the whole incident.
And the reason she was here was because her own young mistress had told her that there was about a ten percent chance that the mysterious person would appear nearby to attend that Kasumigaoka Utaha's book signing, and had asked her to investigate.
As for her own young mistress, at this moment, she should be heading towards Chiba with that mysterious godly mother and a few bodyguards.
"No matter how you put it, a ten percent possibility is a bit too low, right? And I don't even know what that mysterious person's characteristics are. Do I really have to write down all the suspicious people and then investigate them one by one? That much work will kill a person..."
Hayasaka Ai complained in a low voice.
She was completely unaware that the mysterious person she was talking about had actually turned his head to look at her position more than once after entering this coffee shop.
"So Shinomiya Kaguya sent Hayasaka Ai here, and went to find Jerry herself? She really doesn't plan to miss a single opportunity."
Miyauchi Hikage was even thinking of writing a diary entry at this time to complain about Shinomiya Kaguya exploiting her good sister like this.
However, before he could take out his diary, the figure of Itou Kaiji had already appeared at the entrance of the coffee shop.
Just seeing him hesitate as he walked into the coffee shop, and then the startled look on his face when he was welcomed by those enthusiastic maids, one could tell that it was clearly his first time in a maid cafe.
It was only after seeing Miyauchi Hikage's figure that he let out a slight sigh of relief, said a few words to the maids with a bit of a stutter, and then walked straight over.
"Take a look at the menu first and see if there's anything you want to eat. The taste of this coffee shop is quite good."
"As for your work, I've also made an appointment with a classmate of mine to meet here. If he's willing, he might become a partner who specializes in filming for you in the future. So it's better to explain these things to you both together after he arrives."
Originally, hearing that Miyauchi Hikage had made an appointment with someone else, Itou Kaiji was still worried if it would be a competitor of his. But after hearing that the two of them would become partners, he was a little relieved.
However, in order to improve Miyauchi Hikage's evaluation of him, Itou Kaiji still said to him with a resolute face that he was already mentally prepared. As long as Miyauchi Hikage needed it, he could completely disregard his own image in the videos and would do anything.
Perhaps because his voice was a little too loud, Hayasaka Ai, who was sitting not far away, immediately perked up her ears and cast a gossipy look in their direction.
Already mentally prepared?
Doesn't care about his image in the videos?
I'll do anything?
To be honest, this sounded much more explosive than the surveillance mission her young mistress had arranged for her.