Chapter 8: The Repentant Yuko Ikezawa

After school, Lai Qixiao slipped out of the school briskly. Throughout the day, he could feel a suspicious gaze rolling across his face, which was simply creepy. He secretly made up his mind that it would be better not to take off his glasses in front of other people in the future.

After leaving the school gate, Lai Qixiao went straight to the newsstand opposite. But this time, what he wanted to buy was not a gossip magazine, but a recruitment magazine printed with part-time job information. He almost showed his stuff in front of Conan before, and had to move out of the excuse of "looking for a part-time job". With Conan's acumen and suspicion, if he doesn't find a suitable part-time job recently, I'm afraid he will be suspected again.

Moreover, Lai Qixiao is indeed quite short of money now. After committing the crime, the original body was swept away by his disappointed parents and no longer gave him a penny; Dr. Asa prepared pocket money for Lai Qixiao, but Lai Qixiao didn't dare to use this money indiscriminately. In order to consume on both the real and cognitive sides, he had to find a part-time job.

"Perhaps, I can learn from the monster thieves in the original work, and rob houses in the cognitive world? But I'm not good at it right now......"

Lai Qixiao stuffed the recruitment magazine into his school bag, planning to study it slowly after he returned. He held his breath, awakening the third eye, searching for a crack in a nearby corner. Next, he plans to borrow a way from the cognitive world to Yoko Okino's house, so that he can not only hide people's eyes, but also avoid some unnecessary trouble.

After all, normally speaking, in a community like the one where a big star lives, he can't get in with a single high school student.

After confirming that there were no others around, Lai Qixiao opened the crack in front of him and entered the cognitive world again. Putting on the monster thief costume again, he put his hands in his pockets, his hair dancing in the wind, and the corners of his mouth rehooked a rebellious smile.

He stood on the side of the street, snapped his fingers at the traffic and a taxi pulled to a steady stop and opened the door for him.

"Where are you going?" The driver in the front seat turned to Qi Xiao, and his mask-covered face showed only a pair of hollow eye sockets. Lai Qixiao pondered for a while, and secretly opened his third eye, wanting to see what kind of goods this driver was.

If this is just an ordinary shadow, I'm going to take a ride on the Overlord today! Lai Qixiao originally thought so, but the blood-like light that represented "extreme danger" in his eyes was too "beautiful", and he couldn't bear to do it, so he had to obediently take out his wallet.

"Knowing the world, there should be a tram, right?" After confirming his remaining property, Lai Qixiao consciously left the car and said goodbye to the kind driver.

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Yoko Okino has not been comfortable lately. As an actress in the rising stages of her career, she is used to being stalked and harassed by paparazzi and fans, but the strange things that have happened recently are obviously unusual.

The sight of nowhere, the sound of footsteps coming from behind in the middle of the night, the silent harassing phone calls, the candid photos sent anonymously, and the furniture in the apartment that had been moved, all of these constantly tormented Yoko Okino's spirit, almost forcing her to collapse.

But for Yoko Okino, all of the above things are not as terrifying as the one that happened yesterday.

"Yoko, you mean, there's a huge bat squatting on your doorstep and trying to murder you?" The agent was by Yoko Okino's side, and he was skeptical of what she said, "Are you under too much mental pressure and hallucinating?" ”

“…… I don't know, maybe it's a hallucination. Perhaps because what she saw was too bizarre, Yoko Okino herself was not sure, "I had just come out of the elevator room that day when I saw a monster with bat wings rushing towards me!" I was so scared that I almost thought I was going to die......"

"After that, I don't know what happened, the monster suddenly stopped, and I took the opportunity to escape in the elevator. Later, I asked the security guard to go back with me, but I didn't find anything. ”

"Sure enough, that's an illusion...... the agent patted Yoko Okino on the shoulder worriedly, "Yoko, I think you should take a break for a while now and go to see a doctor." ”

Yoko Okino followed the agent into the elevator. Because of yesterday's terrible experience, she really doesn't dare to take the elevator alone now.

"Of course, the most important thing is to find out that hateful stalker as soon as possible! I've heard that there's a detective in Rice Flower Town who is very good at this, so I'll take you with me to find him another day! ”

"Hmm......" Yoko Okino nodded absentmindedly, the elevator stopped on the 25th floor, she subconsciously retreated to the corner of the elevator, and only dared to leave after the agent went out.

As soon as the tormented idol stepped out of the elevator hall, an unexpected visitor walked into her sight without foreshadowing.

"Are you...... Miss Yuko Ikezawa? Looking at Yuko Ikezawa, who suddenly came in front of her, Yoko Okino suddenly felt a creep all over her body, and somehow, she actually associated Yuko Ikezawa with the bat monster in her impression.

At this time, the economic man also remembered the contradiction between Yuko Ikezawa and Yoko Okino before, and he hurriedly protected Yoko in front of him and said in a loud voice:

"Miss Ikezawa, why did you know that Yoko lives here? Is there something going on here today? ”

Yuko Ikezawa didn't answer the agent's question, and she walked towards Yoko without saying a word, her high heels clattering down the hallway.

Facing Yuko Ikezawa who came in one after another, Yoko Okino was nervous, looking at the elevator behind her from time to time, wanting to escape like yesterday. But who knows, before she could make up her mind to escape, Yuko Ikezawa suddenly had tears in her eyes and bowed deeply to her!

"I'm so sorry, Yoko! All the harassing phone calls, photos, and threatening letters you've received lately have been done by me in secret! Because I've always been jealous of you, envious of your career developing so smoothly! Now it seems that I am really so obsessed with doing such a disgusting thing! I'm really sorry for you! ”

Speaking of this, she also took out a bunch of keys from her pocket and handed them to the agent in front of her.

"Mr. Yamagishi, this is the spare key I secretly stole from your pocket. It's this key that I've been using to illegally invade Yoko's house these days! Now I'll give it back to you, and then I'll go to the police station and turn myself in! ”

"I'm really sorry!"

The agent and Yoko Okino were so shocked by Yuko Ikezawa's sudden apology that they were speechless, and for a moment they even wondered if it was a hallucination. But this suspicion was completely dispelled after seeing the key in Ikezawa Yuko's hand, and it turned out that a series of strange things in these days were all done by the woman in front of her.

After the agent took the key, he took the opportunity to ask, "Then Miss Ikezawa, the stalker who has been spying on Yoko recently, sure enough, you are right!" Why do such a thing! ”

"Stalker? No, it's not my doing......"

For a moment, Yoko Okino suddenly felt that the air around her was a little colder.