"Tachibana-kun?" The general manager shook his head, "No, I didn't see it."

"Is that so... Mr. Tachibana has already gone out..."

Harada looked down at the pocket watch in his hand with regret.

"I was still thinking of giving him a pocket watch..."

"Pocket watch?" Souji looked around and realized that the pocket watch in Harada's hand was the pocket watch that Aomori always carried with him whenever he went out.

"Mr. Tachibana, he just went to look for his pocket watch among the diners."

Harada explained.

"He seemed to be in a hurry to go out, so he gave up after only searching for a while."

"Then just now, I suddenly had an idea and suddenly remembered that I seemed to have seen Mr. Tachibana's pocket watch in the lobby on the first floor this morning. I ran over and took a look - hey, I really found it.

"

After saying that, Harada raised Aoto's pocket watch.

"It's a pity that I'm too late, Mr. Orange has already gone out... I can only wait slowly for him to come back."

"So that's it..."

The Souji nodded slightly and blinked his beautiful eyes thoughtfully.

After a moment, she reached out to Harada.

"Then give me Mr. Tachibana's pocket watch. I happen to be going out right now. Since Mr. Tachibana just went out not long ago, I'll chase him now, maybe I can catch up."

Harada is not ambiguous either.

Seeing that the general manager wanted to take the initiative to deliver the watch to Qingteng, he almost said without thinking, "Oh! That's up to you!".

"Ah, speaking of-"

After handing Aoto's pocket watch to Souji, Harada smiled as if he had remembered something interesting.

"Mr. Tachibana just put on a very serious outfit before going out. Are you going to meet a beautiful woman?"

The Souji was stunned for a moment, then smiled helplessly.

"Tachibana-kun, when has he ever gone out without dressing appropriately?"

Having said that, he was worried that he would not be able to catch up with Qingdeng if he left a little later, so he rushed out of the door in a hurry.

The imperial examination hall is located on a high slope, so it has a good view.

The general manager stood on the top of the slope and looked up into the distance, and soon found a familiar figure from behind - Qingteng's height was far above the average for this era, so when Qingteng stood in the crowd, he looked like he stood out from the crowd, especially

Conspicuous.

"Hey! Tachibana-kun!"

The Souji yelled Qingto's name and ran after him.

When he quickly arrived at the corner of a certain street where he had just found Qingdeng, Qingdeng had already gone to an unknown place.

Souji looked up anxiously... Maybe it was Souji's good luck that she spotted the tall figure hurriedly heading to an unknown place at the far corner of the street.

He set out to pursue it again.

When they arrived at the intersection, Aomori's figure was nowhere to be seen again...but Souji's good luck did not run out.

And let her discover Qingdeng in time who was about to disappear into the crowd of people in the distance...

The general manager gritted his teeth, tightened the pocket watch in his hand, and started chasing for the third time.

It's like God is deliberately playing tricks on the general manager.

Every time, Souji just happened to discover Aoto, but the road to Aoto's side was either too complex or too crowded, so when Souji hurriedly chased after him, Aoto ended up somewhere unknown again.

...and so on.

We chased each other like this for nearly 20 minutes, and after walking all the way from the Imperial Guard Hall to a certain town that was unfamiliar to Souji, it seemed that Souji's luck had run out.

"Strange...where did Tachibana-kun go...?"

No matter how the Souji stood on tiptoes or strained his neck to look into the distance, Qingden's figure never caught her eye again.

Forget it, go back, wait until Mr. Tachibana returns to the Imperial Guard Hall, and then give him the pocket watch... Just when Souji, who thought he had lost Aomori, had this idea——

"Eh?"

Suddenly, a beautiful red shadow appeared in the corner of Souji's left eye.

As if he had received an electric shock, the Souji quickly turned his head and stared straight at the direction where the red silhouette appeared.

"Miss Kinoshita?"

At the intersection to the left of Souji, Mai Kinoshita, wearing bright red clothes and fresh light makeup as always, was walking in a hurry.

Kinoshita Mai, who was busy walking eastward along the street below, did not find Souji.

I wonder if it was Souji's illusion... She always felt that there seemed to be a hint of expectation and a joyful smile on Mai Kinoshita's pretty face...

This place is quite far from Chishiya... What is Miss Kinoshita doing here?

At this moment, the words Harada had just said to her appeared in Souji's mind——

(Mr. Tachibana specially wore a set of very serious clothes before going out. Was he going to meet a beautiful woman?)

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