They all pushed me!

In fact, it was not until later that Kitagawa Ryo realized that only a small number of spider populations exhibited this behavior.

This can also be considered a coincidence.

Most spiders either carry their babies with them in their egg sacs until they grow up and can move independently, or they let them all drift away with the wind when they are born and leave them alone.

Then, Kitagawa Ryo walked forward.

The sunlight pouring down from the horizon cast a shadow behind him, ferocious and weak.

He was suddenly glad that his sister was not here at the moment.

Beichuan Liang passed his mother, climbed over the fence, broke free from the thread, and disappeared at the end of the cliff like a kite with its string broken.

Kana Arima, who was off the field, watched all of Kitagawa Ryo's performances carefully. At a certain moment, she even suddenly had a feeling that the other party was not performing, but was conveying some strong desire to someone off the field.

Just like the character standing there, what the brother wants to say to his sister:

His life had been covered by a web of invisible threads, but hers was not.

You still have time.

But for Arimakana at this age, it seems that she can't do anything.

However, after hesitating for a long time, Arima Kana still secretly ran to Kitagawa Ryo:

"Kitagawa... Ryo, brother-senpai."

At first, she wanted to call him "Kitagawa-san" along with the other staff members, but then she felt that it was too unfamiliar and it was not appropriate to continue with her request, so she temporarily changed it to "Ryo". However, she immediately felt that it was not polite enough, so she subconsciously brought up the title from the movie, and finally added the word "senior" as a superfluous word.

"What's up Kana?"

Kitagawa Ryo seemed to have guessed that Arima Gana would come to find him. He squatted down, keeping their eyes level, and did not care about the address. Instead, he asked softly.

"I... don't like my current mother very much."

Influenced by the plot of the movie, Kana Arima, who originally had no doubts about her mother and just acted in accordance with her mother's wishes, finally spoke out what was in her heart.

"So--does Kana like performing?"

The first question that Beichuan Liang asked was a seemingly irrelevant question.

"I've read your profile. You debuted as a child star at your mother's request."

"……like."

Arimakana hesitated for a moment, but nodded in affirmation.

She loves performing.

Maybe he was coaxed and forced by his mother to become a child star in the beginning, or maybe he was happy because his mother was happy in the beginning.

But after being asked this question by Kitagawa Ryo, Arima Kana still answered that she liked him.

It's not to surpass the person in front of me, I just like him simply.

"Well."

Beichuan Liang stroked his chin and thought for a while.

At this stage, the first thing to do is to stop Kana Arima's mother from serving as her agent.

Following this line of thought, Beichuan Liang made a decision:

"Would you like to sign a contract with the agency I'm working for?"

"How about being my junior?"

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"She has a very cute and innocent appearance, and there seems to be a spiritual aura floating between her eyebrows."

"It was like [looking forward to seeing the other person gradually grow up], and I couldn't help but stare at him intently."

On the plane back to Tokyo, Hoshino Ai opened "The Tale of Genji" again. Her slender white fingers gently brushed across the page, the beginning of the Genji Plan and the first meeting of the two.

Then, the plane finally arrived at the airport.

Hoshino Ai put on a mask and a hat, placed the suitcase neatly in front of her chest within her field of vision, and followed the crowd out. Although her posture was a bit awkward, it was not easy to lose her belongings. This was a little trick she had learned from Kitagawa Ryo.

At the airport pick-up point, you can see many long-awaited reunions.

So does she.

After easily finding Beichuan Liang who came to pick him up at the airport, Hoshino Ai, like the people around her, went up to him and gave him a big hug:

"Ryo—you've finally grown taller than me."

Chapter 36: What She Learned

Hoshino Ai stretched out her hand and drew it parallel to the top of her head, between Beichuan Liang's eyebrows, and then drew a corresponding distance with her fingers:

“It’s already so far away.”

"But it would be better if you grow taller."

"I'm not even sixteen yet, so I still have several years to grow."

Kitagawa Ryo felt that Hoshino Ai's action was a bit childish, but the act of comparing heights reminded him of the image of his mother in the books he had read. He was a little at a loss for a moment, so he just looked away and replied softly.

"Okay, okay, let's go home first."

There were a lot of people at the airport. Even if both of them covered their faces with masks, there was a risk of being recognized if they stayed for too long. Hoshino Ai had no plans to tease Kitagawa Ryo anymore and smiled happily.

Kitagawa Ryo nodded, and then wanted to help drag Hoshino Ai's suitcase, but Hoshino Ai blinked cunningly, moved her right hand on the putter to the left, and motioned Kitagawa Ryo to drag the luggage with her.

It's probably just like some couples who go shopping and each carry a plastic bag. Although it doesn't save any effort and the posture is a bit awkward, Hoshino Ai has always been very concerned about this inexplicable sense of ritual.

Kitagawa Ryo didn't think too much about it. He stretched out his left hand to hold the other side of the putter. The two of them walked slowly out of the airport while chatting about the interesting things that happened when Hoshino Ai was touring abroad.

In order to hide it from the fans who wanted to pick her up at the airport, Hoshino Ai did not return to Tokyo with the other members of B Komachi. Instead, she changed her ticket alone and returned two days in advance.

Although the hustle and bustle of life was still ringing in her ears, Hoshino Ai seemed to have automatically filtered out all the noise from her brain. She just tilted her head, and her star-like eyes were firmly fixed on Liang Beichuan Liang.

She hadn't seen Beichuan Liang in person for about half a year. Although they usually contacted each other by phone or video, many changes could only be felt after meeting in person.

Hoshino Ai and Kitagawa Ryo have known each other for almost eight years and have witnessed each other grow from a child to the teenager they are today.

Eight years.

She chewed on the number silently in her mind.

From a time perspective, the time that Beichuan Ryo, who was almost sixteen years old, had spent with her exceeded the time when they had not known each other.

And this number will continue to increase until it encompasses the rest of your life.

Next to them was another mother and son who came to pick them up at the airport. They seemed to be waiting for their husband to return from a business trip. The middle-aged woman bent down and whispered to the child in the stroller:

"Dad will be back soon."

Then, as if she had found the person she was waiting for, the woman quickly went up to him with joy. The couple whispered sweetly in each other's ears while pushing the stroller out of the airport together.

After seeing this scene, Hoshino Ai looked at herself and Kitagawa Ryo, each pushing a piece of luggage, and she blushed and her heart beat fast unconsciously, as if the suitcase with wheels rolling in front of them had turned into something else in an instant, or maybe she was just looking forward to the day when it really turned into a baby carriage.

"Sorry to trouble you again, Mr. Izaki."

The person responsible for picking up the car today was still Kitagawa Ryo's current main agent. Hoshino Ai was also quite familiar with him. She stuck out her tongue while helping to stuff the suitcase into the trunk of the car.

"It's okay. In two years, when Liang is old enough to get a driver's license, you won't have to bother an old man like me with everything."

Mr. Izaki, who was quite familiar with both of them, also joked with a smile.

In Japan, one must be over 18 years old to apply for a motor vehicle driver's license. Although Hoshino Ai is of age, she has no interest in learning to drive. She is also busy with work and has never taken a driver's license test.

Just as Beichuan Ryo was about to sit in the passenger seat, Hoshino Ai, who had already opened the back door, waved at him:

"Ryo, sit in the back with me—"

"also."

Beichuan Liang didn't care much about it, and he actually didn't like sitting in the passenger seat because he had to wear a seat belt.

When Kitagawa Ryo got into the back seat of the car, Hoshino Ai also squeezed in. Under the pretext of showing Ryo the scenery photos she had taken elsewhere, she inadvertently stuck close to Kitagawa Ryo.

The twenty-year-old Hoshino Ai and the twelve-year-old Hoshino Ai performing such actions are completely two different concepts. As soon as the other person sat close to her, Kitagawa Ryo naturally felt the breath from the opposite sex.

Because the car's glass was prying-proof, Hoshino Ai took off the mask on her face without hesitation. She narrowed her eyes into a crescent shape, leaned her head on Kitagawa Ryo's shoulder, and while holding her cell phone, she looked through the photos for him and introduced them to him with a smile.

"Come to think of it, Ai returned to Tokyo this time for the concert at the Dome."

After Hoshino Ai finished talking about what she wanted to share with Kitagawa Ryo, Kitagawa Ryo took the initiative to ask.

"Yes, but President Saito has basically arranged everything. It should be approved in two days."

Talking about the Tokyo Dome concert, Hoshino Ai also showed her genuine anticipation:

“I really hope that day will come soon.”

"After all, it's the Tokyo Dome stage. For an idol group, being able to hold a concert there is already a kind of recognition from society."

"Ah."

As Hoshino Ai spoke, she secretly observed Kitagawa Ryo's expression. She did not tell him that she would be announcing her retirement at the Tokyo Dome concert and would be stepping away from the identity of an "idol".

She wanted to give Beichuan Liang a surprise.

After being an idol for eight years, while Hoshino Ai has become increasingly popular, she has also been somewhat trapped by her professional identity. Even though the idol character she has always played is rebellious, not being able to fall in love is still a red line for idols.

In fact, over the years, Hoshino Ai herself has learned that many famous idols in the circle are actually in love in private, but they all concealed it very well and tried their best to protect their secret.

To some extent, her Tokyo Dome concert was not only to fulfill the wish of Ichigo Pro's president Saito Ichito, allowing her to graduate from being an idol, but also out of her own vision.

For Hoshino Ai, this is like the last level in the game.

The prize for winning was sitting next to her at this moment.

Hoshino Ai naturally held Kitagawa Ryo's hand without having to worry about where each finger should be placed or what posture to adopt.

She enjoyed Beichuan Liang's breath to her heart's content, and she was longing for physical contact.

During these long years of waiting, the 20-year-old Hoshino Ai understood something that she didn't know whether it was right or wrong:

Lust is not necessarily a sign of love.

But if there is no lust, then that feeling must not be love but something else.

Chapter 37: Want to see?

"Jigugu..."

Hoshino Ai tilted her head and looked at Kitagawa Rumi, who was sitting on the other side of the table, and asked with some confusion:

"Is there something on my face, Ruby?"

"No."

Kitagawa Rumi looked away angrily and buried her little face in the rice bowl, as if she was going to concentrate on eating, but her pair of red eyes would still glance up from time to time, like a small animal whose private territory had been invaded, looking at Hoshino Ai, who had entered the Kitagawa family again after half a year, with a scrutinizing look.

She felt as if there was a big "danger" sign on her brother's head.

Twenty years old is the dividing line between adulthood and adulthood.

Just as when you see short sleeves, you think of white arms and then naked bodies, human imagination can always leap forward at this moment. Kitagawa Rumi also immediately thought of more after realizing that Hoshino Ai was about to enter adulthood from underage.

Words and sentences like passionate love, getting married with a baby, and "let Ruby help take care of the child from now on" floated in Kitagawa Rumi's mind like bubbles.

This future is so terrifying no matter how you think about it.

"Gululu..."

Eight-year-old Kitagawa Rumi looked at her own arms and legs and felt deeply the necessity of growing up.

"Ruby, you don't seem to have the habit of grinding your teeth when eating before, right? You'd better change it."

Beichuan Liang glanced at his sister who had been gritting her teeth for some reason and gave a gentle reminder.

"Oh."

Kitagawa Rumi nodded obediently, then asked Hoshino Ai:

"How long will Ai-sister stay in Tokyo this time? Are you leaving right after the concert at the Dome?"

"Well... I probably won't be leaving Tokyo in the short term. The tour is basically over, so I want to give myself a vacation."

Hoshino Ai answered carefully while biting her chopsticks.

"I can teach Ruby some singing and dancing skills. I'll be teaching her in person from a popular idol, and I'll be teaching her for free this time."

Kitagawa Rumi smiled perfunctorily. She just felt that she could hear the loud sound of Hoshino Ai's abacus across the table. "Are you here to teach me?"