I watched Ichihara-san as she disappeared back to the changing room. As for me, I remained on the spot for a good while to rearrange the information I got from her.
Just the fact that Ichihara Jun got engaged to Kujou Marika tells me that the Ichihara is an influential family. Possibly not in this city or there’s a part of their influence here, given that Ichihara-san and Ichihara Jun were here. In any case, I never heard of them. Or it was just another case of me not paying attention to things irrelevant to my girls or my targets.
Anyway, that’s that. I asked Chii to keep an eye out for me but she hadn’t started yet. And with what happened earlier, Fukuda might do something else. Well, if he openly confessed, he’d just put himself in an awkward situation. Chii would turn him down in an
