I was plotting against Hoshino Ai but was pushed back

"So shall we go now?"

When Hoshino Ai heard what Saito Hiko said, she couldn't help but become worried.

"There's no need to rush today. It's still a long time before you go on stage to perform. You just need to communicate tomorrow."

Saito Hiko arranged this matter for tomorrow, "You won't be able to appear in the short term."

"Is that so... But when I heard you say that you can't perform, I felt a little weird." Hoshino Ai heard Saito Hiko denying their words. Although she knew that what Saito Hiko said was true, she still felt depressed.

Feeling delicate? Does it mean feeling bad?

Saito Hiko was thinking about the message contained in Hoshino Ai's words.

If I were told this after practicing for a month, I would be more or less unhappy.

How to reply?

"For a performance, we need at least two or three songs." Saito Hiko thought for a moment. He didn't know what to say to cheer up Hoshino Ai, so he tried to say, "The reason you can't perform is because you don't know many songs, so don't think too much. You're already good... You've done very well."

Saito Hiko instinctively wanted to say "not bad", but suddenly remembered that his previous reticence might make Hoshino Ai unhappy, so he changed his words.

"Oh, you've learned your lesson. Good, good." Hoshino Ai clearly heard what Saito Hiko said before he changed his words. Her mood instantly improved and a smile appeared on her face.

When Saito Hiko saw Hoshino Ai's smiling face, he felt strange.

As expected, I heard good things from others. I’m not very happy, but it’s okay as my purpose has been achieved.

Saitohiko smiled and said, "I will definitely remember what you said."

"Is that so?" Hoshino Ai quickened her pace and walked in front of Saito Hiko, then turned to face him, placed her hands behind her back with her wrists crossed, and said in a cheerful voice, "Hiko-kun is really good at pleasing girls~"

"I don't know how to please girls, and I don't know how to make other girls happy." Seeing Hoshino Ai's actions become excited, Saito Hiko guessed that her mood became very good.

"What you said is true." Hoshino Ai recalled and confirmed Saito Hiko's words. After a month of getting along, she did not see him tell anyone else, and even made a girl in the same class cry. So she decided to tell Saito Hiko about her current mood, "What you said just now made me happy."

It seems that my guess was correct.

Should we try holding hands now? But she is so far away that it is difficult to deal with.

Saito Hiko was a little confused.

No, now is a good opportunity.

Saito Hiko thought of another very important thing.

He took out the button camera given by the system and put it in his pocket. Then he touched his pocket, pinned the button on his clothes in front of him, aimed it at Hoshino Ai and started filming.

Hoshino Ai occasionally looked back at the road behind her, then continued to move backwards and look at Saito Hiko.

After waiting for a while and not seeing him speak, I thought he was too shy to speak, so I asked him with a smile: "Yanjun, are you shy?"

"Does love want me to be shy now?" Saito Hiko asked the girl instead of answering.

"What did you do with the button you took from your pocket and hung it on your clothes?"

All Hoshino Ai got was a counter-question. Since she felt that he didn't seem shy, she didn't dwell on the issue.

Since she had been looking at Saito Hiko, she naturally noticed his action of hanging the buttons on his clothes.

Hoshino Ai was very curious about why Saito Yan did this, so she asked, "Why do you hang the extra buttons on your clothes?"

Saito Yan felt a little guilty when he heard the question, but when he thought that the button was no different from an ordinary button, he felt relieved and said, "It's nothing, I just had a sudden thought."

"I heard that geniuses all have quirks." After getting the answer, Hoshino Ai thought about it for a while. She hadn't seen Saito Yan do anything unusual in the past month, so she suddenly had an idea and asked, "Is this your quirk?"

Quirk? What on earth was she thinking?

Saito Yan found it difficult to understand her way of thinking, so he decided to muddle through in this direction, "You still found out..."

"There's no need to hide this kind of quirk." Hoshino Ai nodded in approval and asked, "How long has this symptom lasted?"

It turned out to be a strange development...

"It's been a long time. Don't ask me anymore. I know it's not good, but I just can't control it. I can usually hide it, but today I stayed in the company all day."

Saito Hiko said in a sad tone: "In the end, it was exposed... Alas..."

"Don't worry, it's just this level. I won't dislike you." Hoshino Ai said to Saito Hiko in a comforting tone.

"Should I be happy? Or disappointed? It's just a matter of degree..." Saito Hiko said this in a sad tone.

But he thought of something he had read in some book.

If two people have a common secret, the relationship will become closer.

"Although you said you wouldn't mind, I don't want more people to know." So Saito Yan took the opportunity to say, "Then can you keep this secret for me?"

"Eh? Does something like this need to be kept secret?" Hoshino Ai felt that such a thing did not need to be hidden at all, but considering that the person involved asked for it, she agreed, "Of course I can... But you have to treat me~"

"No problem!" Saito Hiko agreed without hesitation. He was worried that he couldn't invite Hoshino Ai recently.

"You didn't hesitate at all. Are you really afraid that this quirk will be exposed?" Hoshino Ai clenched her right fist and put her index finger in front of her lips to make a gesture of silence and secrecy. "Don't worry, I will never tell anyone else."

I didn't expect to find evidence against him today.

Hoshino Ai had been bullied before and wanted to find something to use against Saito Hiko to take revenge, but she couldn't find any flaws in him.

It's just a treat, it doesn't seem like revenge at all.

Hoshino Ai thought that Saito Hiko was a man of great talent and potential, so this method was like a reward to him?

Well, let him go this time.

I still feel very happy today.

Hoshino Ai thought about it for a while, then gave up thinking.

"I am very grateful for your mercy and for letting me go. I have no way to repay you but to..." Saito Hiko said in a deliberately pretentious tone.

"Don't use such a poor performance, can you be more sincere?" Hoshino Ai complained.

"I'm not an actor, how can I act?" Saito Hiko saw someone walking in the opposite direction around the corner ahead, but Hoshino Ai's eyes were focused on him and she didn't notice the other person.

Saito Hiko wanted to tell Hoshino Ai about this, but hesitated and didn't tell her, "Speaking of which, we are going to choose a venue today. How many people do you think the venue is suitable for?"

"The size of the venue..." Hoshino Ai fell into deep thought and turned back.

At this moment, Saito Hiko took a step forward and grabbed Hoshino Ai's shoulders with both hands, preventing her from turning around.

It just so happened that at this moment, the person walking in the opposite direction was right next to Hoshino Ai. If she had turned around just now, she would have bumped into that person.

Fortunately, he was held down, otherwise we would have collided head-on.

Hoshino Ai saw the man passing by and felt relieved, "Thank you."

"You're welcome, as long as you don't tell my secret to anyone." Saito Hiko let go of Hoshino Ai's shoulders and emphasized the importance of "secret" again.

"Even if you don't tell me, I won't tell you."

Hoshino Ai turned her head and looked back, making sure that there was no one around to get in the way before turning back.

"You are so careless. I'm really afraid something might happen to you one day." Saito Hiko began to take advantage of the situation.

"Hmph~ Nothing will happen to me!" Hoshino Ai said proudly with her arms crossed in front of her body.

Saito Hiko originally wanted to take advantage of the topic to make her realize the importance of safety, but when he thought about the amulet she had on her and that saying so might ruin the current good atmosphere, he decided not to say it.

"No, this is for you."

Saito Hiko took out a amulet from his pocket and gave it to Hoshino Ai.

"Another amulet! How worried are you about me?" Hoshino Ai complained when she saw Saito Hiko holding the same yellow talisman paper in her clothes.

"You recognized it as a talisman at first glance. That's great." Saito Hiko said encouragingly.

"I have two more here, do you want them?" Saito Hiko took out two more amulets from his pocket with his other hand.

Hoshino Ai was speechless about the fact that Saito Hiko brought so many amulets, "How scared are you?"

"If these were ordinary useless talismans, I wouldn't bring them with me." Saito Hiko secretly revealed the important information to Hoshino Ai.

"Everyone who sells these things will say that." Hoshino Ai replied nonchalantly, "Besides, isn't one enough?"

Seeing that Hoshino Ai didn't understand what he meant, Saito Hiko didn't force her, but just said, "Even if the amulet doesn't work, it can still give me peace of mind, so just take it and think of it as giving me peace of mind."

"I really can't do anything about you, so I'll accept it." Hoshino Ai readily agreed when she heard Saito Hiko's request.

She took the amulet from Saitohiko's hand and put it into the other pocket without the amulet. "Now you can feel at ease, right?"

"Well, that's fine."

Saito Hiko nodded and put the amulet in his hand back into his pocket.

"You said you wanted to find a suitable venue. Do you have an idea in mind? Where is it?" Hoshino Ai felt like she had been walking for a long time, but she didn't hear Saito Hiko say where they were going.

"Forget about the venue that accommodates tens of thousands of people. I want to find a venue that can accommodate a few thousand people." Saito Hiko replied.

"It's a HALL-level venue." Hoshino Ai deliberately used a new word she had recently learned, "I think it can be a little smaller."

"If it's smaller, it's the Live House store. I think this is small."

During his research, Saito Hiko learned that there are approximately 100 live houses in Tokyo, but they can only accommodate 500 to people, which is not a lot.

Although these stores are the normal stage for underground idol activities.

"It's your first performance, so don't make it so grand." When Hoshino Ai heard that Saito Hiko was going to put her on stage in a concert hall that might have thousands of people, she felt a little panicked and shook her head to refuse.

"The HALL-level venue isn't very big."

Saito Hiko felt that Hoshino Ai had a misunderstanding of the price of the venue, so he explained:

"HALL is an indoor venue, such as an auditorium or cultural center,"

It is usually part of a large venue, which has other facilities besides the hall. Its functions are more flexible. In addition to holding concerts, it can also organize various other conferences and activities. The layout is generally similar to that of a movie theater, with rows of seats facing the stage. This kind of venue can seat hundreds of people in small places and thousands of people in large places.

"It's not what you think. There must be thousands of people." Saito Hiko comforted.

However, when Hoshino Ai heard Saito Hiko say this, she became even more worried.

For such a big place, the venue fee must be very expensive, right?

"We are not famous yet. If we perform directly in such a big venue, we will definitely lose everything." Hoshino Ai didn't want to make Saito Hiko lose a lot of money because of the performance. She didn't have the confidence that people at the venue would pay for her performance just once.

"Are you worried that I'll lose money?" Saito Hiko heard what Hoshino Ai said and comforted her again, "Don't worry about me losing money, my wallet is thick."

"But I don't want to owe you a favor." Hoshino Ai still firmly refused.

"If the old doesn't go, the new won't come. Money has to be spent, and I'm happy to spend it on you." Saito Hiko felt Hoshino Ai's firm determination from her repeated rejections. "If you're really worried about my wallet, then why don't we just find a venue with a few hundred people? I don't want your first live show to be in the Live Hose store."