Hoshino Aqua did not reply, quickly controlling his face so that no more emotions leaked out.
He only maintained his silence, gazing at the child actor named Yuji before him.
The other person was like a summer storm.
Bursting into his life abruptly and unreasonably.
And…
he inexplicably had a premonition.
If he were to converse with the other person like this,
All the thoughts, all the considerations, all the plans he originally held might be changed by this child actor in front of him.
This might be a sort of sixth sense; Hoshino Aqua could not quite explain it.
Therefore, logically speaking, he should turn around and leave now.
After all, just being able to unlock the phone left behind by Hoshino Ai meant he had already come out ahead.
Yet humans are emotional creatures after all.
No matter how much Hoshino Aqua closed off his true heart, he was still human after all.
He wanted to know.
What on earth the child actor in front of him was all about, and why he knew Hoshino Ai’s phone password.
Furthermore, since this child actor named Yuji already knew Hoshino Ai’s phone password, it naturally followed that the other party definitely knew about the mother-son relationship between Hoshino Ai and him.
This point was the most important!
Hoshino Aqua knew clearly that Saitou Miyako was definitely not the kind of bigmouth who would casually blab about his mother’s affairs.
After all, an idol getting pregnant before marriage and even leaving behind children—just this single point alone was enough to completely ruin Hoshino Ai’s persona as a perfect idol.
Therefore, he had to figure this out!
He let out a shallow breath.
Without continuing to hesitate, Hoshino Aqua chose to obey Yuji’s command and sat down on the chair in front of him.
Just as Hoshino Aqua was gazing at the other party, pondering how he should pry open Yuji’s mouth.
Then——
He heard the other party’s voice.
“Ah…
There are a bit too many topics…
Let me think about where to start first…
Oh…
Right, first and foremost…”
Hoshino Aqua slowly raised his head.
Then, his ocean-blue eyes widened involuntarily.
He saw Yuji raise a finger and gently tap the armrest of the chair.
“Just like you, I am a reincarnator.”
Amidst Hoshino Aqua’s astonished gaze, he said so.
Yes.
Without any beating around the bush.
Nor were there any cliché plots like ‘Aqua, I am your mother’.
Yuji never intended to hide the fact that he was a reincarnator from the very beginning.
After all, he was no fool, nor would he be self-righteous enough to think that his identity as a reincarnator could easily deceive Aqua, who was also a reincarnator.
After all, Hoshino Aqua and his younger sister Hoshino Ruby were genuine reincarnators.
They understood the abnormalities of reincarnators better than anyone else.
And what good was there in hiding his own peculiarities?
None!
If he wanted to survive in the industry!
He had to display an ‘abnormality’ that surpassed all child actors!
Since that was the case, rather than waiting for them to guess it out, he might as well get straight to the point and lay all his cards on the table.
Of course, as for the matter of transmigrating across worlds, he still kept that hidden.
After all, a fifty-fifty mix of lies and truth could make what he said next more credible…
On the other side, Hoshino Aqua was tightly pressing his lips together at this moment.
Unlike the indifferent expression he still maintained on the surface.
Stormy waves were already churning in his heart right now.
A reincarnator…?
Just like me and Ruby…?
No…
No no…
At a time like this, he couldn’t follow the other party’s pace.
Should he say as expected of the original work’s male protagonist?
Hoshino Aqua was indeed quite skilled when it came to mental adjustment.
He took a deep breath, then exhaled it, and when he raised his head again, his gaze regained its calmness.
“Even if you are a reincarnator…
that still doesn’t explain how you know Ai’s phone password.”
That’s right.
Even if the other party was a reincarnator, it proved nothing.
For instance, how did Yuji find out Hoshino Ai’s phone password?
And for another instance, how did he know about the mother-son relationship between himself and Hoshino Ai…?
These two points were ultimately towering walls that the thin explanation of being a ‘reincarnator’ could not cross.
He raised his question and stared fixedly at Yuji.
However, to his surprise, the reliable adult first sighed, and then instead stared back at him with an utterly speechless look.
Then…
Hoshino Aqua heard Yuji’s voice.
“What makes you think I couldn’t guess your relationship with Hoshino Ai?
Just because you still carry the surname ‘Hoshino’ to this day?
Do you really think you two hid yourselves well?”
Indeed.
Hoshino Aqua’s reaction instead made Yuji hiss softly, leaving him somewhat speechless.
Because this reliable adult genuinely couldn’t figure out where Hoshino Aqua got his confidence from.
What made him so certain that others couldn’t guess the relationship between him and Hoshino Ai?
Twins, both still carrying the almost blatantly obvious surname ‘Hoshino’ to this day.
And Hoshino Ai even had a record of retiring for a year during B-Komachi’s rising development—these were all clues known to the world and could be investigated on the internet.
Just the clues on the surface alone were already this numerous.
Let alone the fact that Hoshino Ai herself belonged to the strongest legendary idol in history.
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that every move she made was monitored by paparazzi.
Seriously.
It was just that some author with the surname Akasaka from oshi no ko exerted his master strength and stubbornly had to pull off a detective Kurokawa Akane scenario in the original work.
Otherwise, relying solely on so many flaws-ridden clues, let alone the relationship with Hoshino Ai, even what underwear Hoshino Aqua and Hoshino Ruby wore this morning would probably have been investigated to the bottom by those weekly tabloid reporters.
When all is said and done…
“Aren’t you underestimating the investigative abilities of the industry’s paparazzi too much?”
“…” Hoshino Aqua.
Even Hoshino Aqua, who was always expressionless and kept his emotions hidden, couldn’t help opening his mouth at this moment.
Listening to Yuji’s truly speechless voice.
For some reason, a delusion of wronging Yuji suddenly welled up in his heart.
He wanted to retort, but for a moment he actually didn’t know how to refute the other party.
After remaining silent for a while, he could only speak up again.
“Then what about Ai’s phone password?
How do you explain that?”
“That’s even simpler.”
The black-haired child actor in front of him yawned listlessly.
“The very moment I entered [Berry Pro], I heard about you and Hoshino Ruby, and at that exact instant, I thought of Hoshino Ai…
As for her password…
it’s actually much simpler than you think.”
Under his gaze, the black-haired child actor raised a finger.
“A five-digit password, 45510, which happens to correspond to the blog password from the very beginning of B-Komachi’s establishment.
A password like this naturally exists in the hands of Kyoko as the agency’s manager, when all is said and done——”
The black-haired child actor narrowed his eyes and raised a finger: “Isn’t the answer…
right there in your hands all along?”
“All along…
the answer…”
Following the direction of the other party’s finger, Hoshino Aqua looked for the very first time at the pink phone of Hoshino Ai held in his hand.
And right upon that phone.
Was a small pendant hanging from it featuring Hoshino Ai’s cute chibi likeness.
That was precisely the fan merchandise first put on sale when the first-generation B-Komachi was established…
If he didn’t care.
Why carry it close to his body?
If it wasn’t out of nostalgia.
Why hang it on the most important of the three phones?
This was actually a very simple and easily understandable answer.
But why…
had he completely failed to notice it all this time.
At this moment, Hoshino Aqua was even somewhat dazed.
And it was right at this time.
The crisp voice of the black-haired child rang out once more.
“Hoshino Aqua.”
“Has your vision already been completely blocked?”
“To the point that you no longer have the spare capacity to notice even the most precious thing placed right beside you?”
Hoshino Aqua’s body trembled at this instant.
Everything Yuji said could be ignored by him, who had completely closed off his inner heart and presented an indifferent exterior to others.
But only this sentence…
Only this sentence…
he could not ignore.
Because this sentence was just like a knife radiating a chilling gleam.
Pointing straight at his true heart!