"Shiho!"

couldn't help shouting in her mouth, Naomi was stunned, and then she couldn't stop chasing after the "Miyano Shiho" that seemed to be in her memory-

In this way, Miyano Shiho, who had obviously done a disguise, subconsciously just reached out and stroked his sideburns, and when he was about to put it down, he suddenly heard someone shouting his name on this university campus, Miyano Shiho couldn't help but move, and was slightly stunned on the spot, thinking about where the flaws were exposed, could it be that someone just happened to have the same name as himself, but someone was calling someone else instead of himself, after all, the English pronunciation of his name is the same......

Such thoughts flashed through Miyano's mind in an instant, but after all, he couldn't help but look towards the source of the voice, wanting to see what was going on, otherwise he wouldn't be at ease.

So, following where the voice came from, Shiho Miyano turned his head to look, and saw the brown-haired woman running over with a nervous and excited expression-

"Naomi Aljante?"

At this moment, seeing the figure of the person who came, her face that he had seen several times, Miyano Shiho was sure that he would not admit his mistake.

From this, Miyano Shiho was very curious in his heart-

Originally, I came to find this developer named "Naomi", but when I came, I found that the other party had withdrawn the application for the lab and left the school.

In this way, I thought I couldn't see each other, and I didn't even know the whereabouts of the other party, but now I actually saw that the person I was looking for was calling my name instead, and coming at myself who had already made a disguise!

What is this?

Puzzled, Shiho Miyano looked at Naomi's expression, that nervous, surprised, as if he had seen someone he missed very much, which made Shiho Miyano hesitate for a moment.

Then, I still chose to run-

Anyway, run first!

In this way, Naomi, who originally saw the suspected back of Shiho Miyano, shouted the name of "Shiho" and chased forward, but saw the woman start to run away.

From this, I felt that it was possible that I guessed correctly, and the other party was Shiho Miyano, who I had been growing up and wanted to meet, otherwise there was no reason why the other party would run away when he heard this name, so immediately after, Naomi continued to chase after him without hesitation-

In this way, after chasing and bypassing a few roads in the academy, and seeing the "Shiho" she was chasing finally disappear around a corner, Naomi followed without hesitation, even if it was already inaccessible......

"Don't move!"

However, just as Naomi chased into this corner, suddenly a figure appeared directly behind her, grabbed her neck, and put the other hand and something against his neck, saying in a deep voice.

This time, even Naomi realized that she was being held hostage, and the other party's thing against her neck must be a sharp weapon, and once she moves around, the other party will take her own life.

From this, I realized that I should have been calculated, and I was so accidentally led here to be held hostage, and I wanted to ......

The other party's purpose should be the system he developed, and I'm afraid this person is the accomplice named "Binga......

For a while, thinking of this situation, Naomi closed her eyes with hatred, and felt guilty for such a reckless action-

"Yes, obviously according to the surveillance data on the Japanese side, it can be determined that Shiho is now in Japan, so how can he be here in the United States...... What about meeting Shiho?

"I'm so stupid."

In this way, Naomi thought so regretfully in her heart, and tears silently flowed from the corners of her eyes......

- "I ask, you answer, don't say much!" Nod if you understand! ”

Immediately afterwards, at this time, Naomi heard the person who held her hostage say this, as if she was threatening, but Naomi could hear that the other party should be a woman.

In this regard, although I don't know what the other party will ask, but in the face of the threat, the instinctive fear made Naomi still nod-

"Say! What are you looking for 'Shiho'? ”

Then, the person who held himself hostage said the question and asked Naomi to answer.

As a result, this question made Naomi stunned-

I thought that the other party was coming for the "cross-age recognition system" developed by himself, but he turned out to be ......

I asked about "Shibo"......

In this way, this can't help but remind Naomi of the summer camp activities she participated in when she was a child, when she first came to the United States and Boston-

It was, a memory that I couldn't look back on......

At that time, because he was of mixed race, he had an East Asian face.

This child with oriental facial features is rare in the local area, so he is often bullied by his local classmates, and even when he takes the bus, he can't sit in the seat smoothly, and he is excluded by everyone and can't integrate into his classmates.

At that time, I only felt that my living environment was dim, and I didn't know why my parents sent me to live and study in this country, but because I was different from everyone else, I had no friends here at all, and every child of the same age looked at me with strange eyes, laughing and laughing......

Until, that person appeared.

It's Shiho Miyano.

At that time, the person who stretched out his hand to himself and gave up his seat on the bus was Shiho Miyano, a mixed-race child who also had Japanese ancestry and had Oriental facial features!

She invited herself to sit in her original position, and in the face of the other children's behavior of inflicting the same attitude on her and using this as an opportunity to shift the target of bullying from herself to Shiho, she just casually stroked her sideburns, and then read the book alone......

However, at that time, I was too scared and afraid that I would be bullied again, so after seeing everyone shift the target of the bullying to Shiho, who also has the facial features of an Oriental, I didn't have the courage to stand up to her and help her.

Therefore, even after many years of this matter, I have always been haunted by it, so I want to ......

"Want to find her...... Find her...... In person, apologize to her......"

Slowly, with a resentful expression, Naomi simply told the stranger who had held herself hostage but wanted to know about it-

This is the deepest secret in my heart, and I have never revealed it to anyone, but this time, I told this heart by mistake and inexplicably.

can't help but feel that after saying this, there is a second person who knows about it, and Naomi feels that her heart is a little loose......

And in this regard, as a "hijacker" who listened to Naomi's words, the story she told gradually awakened and coincided with her childhood memories, and at this moment, the "hijacker" finally recognized who the developer of the "cross-age recognition system" she was looking for was -

"It turns out that it's you......"

At this point, Shiho, who was holding Naomi hostage, showed a warm smile on the corner of his mouth, let go of his hand, and then ......

Tear off the disguise on your face. (End of chapter)