I was plotting against Hoshino Ai but was pushed back

The president continued, "Therefore, idols must not have any weaknesses. We need to create perfect idols, otherwise if they are caught, they will be ruined immediately..."

Seeing that the president had started another long speech, Saitohiko took out a dozen boxes of Taiyaki, walked up to the president, and shouted, "Catch it!"

The president reflexively stretched out his hands and tried to catch the package that Saito Hiko brought out.

The packaging boxes kept falling from above, and I could only catch five or six packages with my hands, and the rest fell to the ground.

He suddenly realized that he had been tricked by Saito Hiko again.

"Qi! Teng! Yan!"

The president shouted word by word.

After being teased like this, he felt his dignity was lost and wanted to catch Saito Hiko and teach him a lesson.

Let him learn to respect the elderly and love the young!

Chapter 19 Commission

However, Saito Hiko had already prepared to retreat before dropping the items, so when the president got angry, he immediately ran out of the dance practice room.

Now the president is in a betting training agreement with him.

And if he were around Hoshino Ai, her learning ability would improve.

So he made plans from the beginning.

The purpose of provoking the president was to make his departure seem less deliberate.

After leaving the dance practice room, Saito Hiko went to the president's office, turned on his computer and searched for information to study.

This is to test whether the current distance can still trigger the aura bonus.

After studying for more than ten minutes, Saito Hiko wrote down the information he saw, as if he understood it.

It can still be triggered at this distance.

Saito Hiko was helpless.

It seemed that he couldn't come here for a while, so he wrote down all the contact information in the president's computer.

That's it for today.

Saitohiko realized that he shouldn't stay in the company anymore, so he immediately took action and returned to the dance practice studio.

"Boss, Ai, I'm going back first."

Saito Hiko informed the two that he was returning home early.

"You better leave now!" the president drove him away mercilessly.

Hoshino Ai nodded to show that she knew.

Then Saito Hiko returned home alone. After returning home, he turned on his computer and began searching for the newly acquired personnel.

Taro Yamashita, Ichiro Koyama, Sora Fujimoto, Hide Matsui...

Saito Hiko used the computer to search again and again, but the entries that came out were severely incomplete, or even did not contain much information.

The characters that could be directly searched were all far different from the target characters he speculated.

After searching through all the newly acquired contact information several times, no suspect who looked like the mastermind was found.

This list seems to be the clients of Berry Pro, most of them are over 30 or 40 years old.

I still have to find a channel to get information. It's too slow for me to search by myself now.

Saito Hiko first thought of a private detective, but then he realized that he didn't even have the characteristics of the target person, didn't even know his age, and had no way of describing what the person he was looking for looked like.

No! I can ask them to compile a list of all the people in the entertainment industry right now, and add photos. When I see them, I might be able to narrow down the list based on their appearance and then conduct an investigation.

Although he could slowly investigate and look up everyone in the entertainment industry, it would take too much time.

It’s better to entrust it to come faster.

Suddenly I remembered that I didn't have the private detective's contact information, so I called the president to ask him.

"What? You want to find a private detective? What exactly do you want to do?" The president was curious about why Saito Hiko asked him for a reliable private detective. Why would a twelve-year-old child want to find a private detective?

"You don't have to worry about it. Just give me the other party's contact information." Saito Yan asked directly without any concealment, and added, "If you don't give it to me, I will find it myself."

"I'm really scared of you. You're so smart, I don't know who you learned this from." The president's helpless voice came from the other end of the phone, and then he said, "I do know a friend who is a detective. He's about the same age as me. His name is Hasegawa. His phone number is..."

After Saitohiko got the phone number, he immediately called, "Excuse me, is this Mr. Hasegawa?"

"I'm Hasegawa." A weathered male voice came from the phone, "What can I do for you?"

"I would like to ask you to collect some information. Are you free?" Saito Hiko replied.

"Do you want me to dig up dirt on someone, or capture someone cheating?" After hearing this, the person on the other end of the phone skillfully gave the options.

"No, I just want your help in collecting some information. I don't need you to follow anyone or investigate anyone." Saito Hiko told the other party directly what he wanted to do.

"If it comes to collecting information, can anyone do that?"

"Correct."

"It's not cheap to ask me for help. If you just want to collect information, I suggest you ask someone else for help." The detective named Hasegawa seemed to have no interest in anything other than investigation.

When Saito Hiko heard him say this, he thought that since anyone could do it, why not let the company's employees do the job, wouldn't that save money?

"You're right. I should ask someone else to collect the data." Saito Yan said with gratitude in his tone, "I'll ask someone else to do the job."

"No, no, no! Don't hang up, big brother!" The person on the other end of the phone suddenly lost his composure and begged the customer not to hang up.

Saito Yan heard the other party asking him not to hang up, and was curious about what he was going to say, "What do you want to say?"

"I think that since you're thinking of finding a detective to collect information, it means that your subconscious mind feels that you are unable to collect the information you want, or it is too troublesome and you can't spare the time to do it." Seeing that the call was not hung up, Hasegawa immediately seized the opportunity to analyze the customer's needs. He didn't want to let the rare opportunity to open a business slip away.

"Well, you are right, but I think it is completely possible for ordinary people to just collect some information. It just takes some time." Saito Hiko nodded and replied.

But the reality is not as easy as he said, because Japan does not allow taking photos without the consent of others, and if reported by the people at the time, the perpetrators will be fined a heavy amount of money.

Therefore, if this matter is handed over to people in the company, the information collected will not be complete.

The current rhetoric is just to get the other party to lower the price.

"If you ask me to investigate and collect information, I will definitely organize it clearly. I can even dig out some obscure records for you." Hasegawa tried to use the quality gap to convince Saito Hiko to entrust him.

"I want you to compile a profile of the current members of the entertainment industry, with each person's profile accompanied by their photo."

Saitohiko asked, "So what's your price? If you want too much, I'll find someone else to do it."

"What do you mean by members of the current entertainment industry?" Hasegawa asked Saitohiko for confirmation. "You don't mean that everyone in the current Japanese entertainment industry, or who has been in the industry, will be investigated, right?"

"It includes all artists, directors, and people who have invested in the entertainment industry who are under the age of 40 in Japan. How much do you want for such a list?" Saito Hiko replied.

The person on the other end of the phone was silent for a while after hearing about the large scope of data collection, and then he said, "10 million yen! I promise to satisfy you."

"I don't need you to investigate their lives. I just need you to find out the list and attach the photo of that person to the list." Saito Yan lowered the price and said, "Anyone can do this, right?"

Chapter 20 Negotiation

"Since it's something that anyone can do, is your price of 10 million appropriate?"

The person on the other end of the phone was silent for a while before saying, "Boss, you are investigating people related to the entertainment industry. There are not just one or two people, but at least tens of thousands of people. So the price is actually not expensive. I am just earning hard-earned money."

"If you still insist on this price, then we have nothing to discuss." Saito Hiko replied calmly.

"Nine million yen. This amount of work is not something I can do quickly by myself. The investigation also costs money, and you need to post their photos. I have to find a way to get them." Hasegawa argued to protect his profits. "On average, each person will get less than 500 yen."

"That's your business. I think your price is still a lot of water." Saito Yan didn't give in, but brought up other topics: "The salary of an ordinary employee is about 300,000 yen a month. I can hire 30 people to form a team to help me investigate."

Saitohiko continued, "I don't expect them to be able to do it quickly, but they have to research the names of 100 people and match their photos every day. That shouldn't be hard, right? And they'll become more skilled as time goes on, so the number can even increase."

"Boss, this is not just a math problem. You need a venue, you need to coordinate them, and you can't just pay them a salary for a month, you also need to provide them with adequate benefits, otherwise who would work for you?" Hasegawa responded quickly, "Besides the labor, you also need to rent a venue and equip them with computers..."

Saitohiko scoffed at what he said, "Why not just recruit students who have computers at home? And I don't plan to give them a fixed salary directly. I will settle their wages according to the results of the survey and matching. For each person who completes the task, I will settle it with them at 100 yen."

"How can students understand what investigation is?" Hasegawa said meaningfully, "And if you really only let students investigate, there will definitely be trouble in the end."

"Do you mean the investigators are repeating the same thing? I thought of a solution from the beginning. We just need to let each of them investigate a block independently." Saito Hiko had already thought of the problem that too many investigators might lead to the investigation target being submitted repeatedly.

"Since you have such an idea, why don't you hang up the phone?" Hasegawa saw Saitohiko saying this but didn't hang up the phone. He said directly, "So what conditions can you give me, boss?"

"Five hundred yen per person, priority is given to all members currently active in the entertainment industry." Saito Hiko continued, "And detailed information such as the target's age, height, weight, and background is required."

The reason why Saito Hiko gave this price was something he had thought about from the beginning.

What I said just now was just to lower the price.

No matter what, the maximum price he can pay this time is 5 million yen, and he needs to keep half of the money to pay for the stage venue fee for Hoshino Ai after two days.

Before that, I didn’t know when I would have income, so I could only use this amount at most.

And after Hoshino Ai performs, the system will definitely receive rewards for the task of cultivating idols.

Although we don’t know what the reward is yet, it definitely costs money to train an idol. After all, allowing Hoshino Ai to perform on stage continuously is part of the training, so it is estimated that he will be rewarded with some money later.

After all, making a profit on your first appearance and earning back your previous investment is harder than winning the lottery.

The reason for the price increase is that he feels that with only a photo and a name in the information, there may be a problem that the age does not match the time of the photo.

Maybe they are the same person, but the information has not been updated for a long time.

And when this information may be used in the future, it can be directly turned into a resource.

"Is this the condition you decided at the beginning?"

Hasegawa was silent for a while before continuing, "Why do you want to investigate the intelligence of so many people?"

"So what's your answer?" Saito Yan asked directly, ignoring his doubts, "Do you accept this price or not?"

"I'll take it!" Hasegawa gritted his teeth and accepted the job.

"Okay, then when do you plan to start work?" Saito Hiko asked.

"We have to meet first and then sign a contract. You pay me a deposit before I can start." Hasegawa introduced the process skillfully.

"If you are free now, just come to my office."

"Okay, what's your address?"

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