But after opening his mouth, Qingdeng found that he couldn't say a word.

To be honest...he still has a sense of emptiness and unreality that he is still floating in the sky, stepping on soft clouds.

The famous kaiju cat monk... turned out to be his very familiar friend Mai Kinoshita...

Qingdeng didn't even know what words or sentences to use to describe his current mood.

This kind of thing... If he hadn't seen with his own eyes just now that it was indeed Kinoshita Mai's face under the black scarf, otherwise he wouldn't have believed it to be true.

At this moment, Kinoshita Mai noticed the strange look on Qingdeng's face.

As if she had expected Qingdeng's reaction, she put her hands on her hips and laughed "haha" several times.

"Tachibana-kun, you look surprised."

"But you will be shocked, which is normal."

After saying this in a proud tone, Kinoshita Mai suddenly straightened her back, and then performed a strange little theater as if a famous detective was about to explain his superb reasoning to the crowd.

"That's right!"

"Just like what you just saw!"

"On the surface, it's Mai Teyo Kinoshita, an inconspicuous employment agency."

"But his true identity is actually the great monster thief who makes countless evil people fear him, and he is the Cat Monk!"

While shouting the last words, Kinoshita Wu bent her right leg upwards, standing in a golden rooster independent posture, then flattened her hands into a palm shape, with both palms facing up, and her arms raised high.

quiet……

After Kinoshita Mai's words fell, this remote alley suddenly became extremely quiet.

"..." Qingden opened his mouth slightly, looking directly at Mai Kinoshita, who had been maintaining this weird posture, as if he didn't know what expression to put on now or what to say.

After a while, Kinoshita Mai, who had not received a response from Qingto for a long time, smiled awkwardly and silently lowered her arms and right leg.

"Ji Jun, your reaction is so bland... I thought I could see some interesting reactions from you..."

"Ah, I'm sorry... I'm actually feeling very shocked right now, but I just don't know what to say at the moment..."

What Kinoshita Mai did just now caused the number of questions in Qingto's mind to increase a lot...

Qingden took several deep breaths to steady his mind.

"Ms. Kinoshita, don't you feel uncomfortable talking when you wear such a thick face scarf? Anyway, there are only you and me here, so why not take off the face scarf."

After saying that, Qingden wanted to take off Kinoshita Wu's face.

Seeing Qingteng's stretched out hand, Kinoshita Wu's face under the scarf suddenly changed its expression.

"Don't take off my face scarf!" Kinoshita Mai hurriedly raised her hands to cover the face scarf on her face, and then quickly took two steps back. "Without the face scarf, I wouldn't dare to speak as loudly as I did just now."

——So you are the type who lets yourself go as long as you cover your face!

Qingto carefully recalled the scene after he reunited with Kinoshita Mai in this alley - indeed, Kinoshita Mai who was standing in front of him at this time was more cheerful than the Kinoshita Mai in his impression.

many.

No matter the tone of speaking, demeanor, or movements, he has become more lively. Compared with his usual introverted and shy image, he is completely different.

Since Kinoshita Mai doesn't want to take off her hijab, it's not easy for Qingto to force her.

Qingdeng let out a silent sigh, then lowered his head, raised his right hand, and pressed the center of his eyebrows vigorously with the second joint of his right index finger.

Qingden originally wanted to sort out his still confused thoughts and sort out the current information.

However... because Qingden lowered his head, his gaze also lowered.

And his lowered gaze... happened to glance at the chest of Kinoshita Mai, who was a head and a half shorter than him...

Because she was wearing looser clothes, Kinoshita Mai's breasts, which were very outstanding among her peers, did not show the presence they should have.

After his eyes glanced at Kinoshita Mai's unremarkable breasts, which were accentuated by loose clothes, Qing touched the skin of her right arm, and instantly "recalled" the touch on her forearm when she tried to subdue Kinoshita Mai in the training hall.

That... wonderful feeling.

At that time, Qingdeng didn't know what the heavy, soft, elastic water bag-like object that his right arm touched was.

But now, this memory came to Qingteng's mind, and Qingteng finally understood where he had touched Kinoshita Mai at that time...

Qingdeng's expression became weird at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Whether in his previous life where he had not had a girlfriend or in this life, Qingdeng had never touched these private parts of a girl.

Shame, embarrassment...all kinds of emotions began to surge in Qingdeng's heart.

And at this moment, Qingdeng suddenly recalled something...

——Miss Kinoshita is the cat monk...

——That means... I was... copying the "milk" talent from Miss Kinoshita...

At this thought, Qingto couldn't help but look at Kinoshita Mai's part a few more times.

The talent introduction of "Milk" played back and forth in Qingdeng's mind uncontrollably, and he couldn't stop even if he wanted to.

The constantly playing talent introduction made Qingdeng's expression become more and more weird.

At this moment, Kinoshita Mai noticed Qingteng's eyes staring directly at her breasts, as well as the strange look on Qingteng's face.

Like Qingdeng, she recalled the scene that had just happened in the trial defense hall.

Because it was covered by a towel, Qingto didn't see it - Kinoshita Mai's face was turning red and hot at an extremely fast speed.

She unconsciously pulled her shoulders inwards slightly, hunched over her chest, and turned her body slightly sideways, with her right shoulder facing Qingdeng.

Qingto noticed that his actions of staring at Mai Kinoshita's breasts were really rude. He quickly averted his eyes and coughed a few times to cover up his embarrassment.

"Ms. Kinoshita, that... was in the training hall just now... I'm really sorry."

"It's okay..." Kinoshita Mai murmured, "I can understand..."

The atmosphere that permeated the two of them at this moment was... indescribably awkward.

For the sake of the suffocating embarrassing atmosphere around him, and in order to get the answers to the pile of questions in his mind as soon as possible, Qingto was silent for a while before coughing a few more times, and then looked at Kinoshita Mai again, his face serious.

"Miss Kinoshita, I have as many questions as a mountain and want to ask you one by one."

"First of all - can you tell me first, why did you become a Phantom Thief and stir up trouble in Edo?"

Hearing Qingden's question, Kinoshita Mai was stunned for a moment, then laughed a few times:

"Haha...you asked me such a serious question right from the start..."

"Why do you want to be a Kaitou..."

After Kinoshita Mai softly repeated the question Qingto just asked, she pursed her lips and remained silent for a moment.

"Actually, the reason is not complicated."

"I just want to punish evil and promote good, and lend a helping hand to the poor people who have no power."

"Since I was a child, I have always heard all kinds of heroic stories from my grandma, Uncle Machi, and Aunt Machi."

There was a flash of memory between Kinoshita Mai's brows.

"For example, the 'First Soldier of the Warring States Period' Sanada Yukimura, in order to save the Toyotomi clan whose building was about to collapse, personally led a cavalry team at the Summer Battle of Osaka and charged directly into the Tokugawa Army's main formation, almost taking down Tokugawa Ieyasu's leader.

class."

"Another example is 'Shura' Ogata, who defeated seven formations, killed nine generals, and defeated the 10,000-strong army of the shogunate with just a few dozen cavalry in the 'Red Moon Battle', creating an 'unparalleled eternal swordsman in the past and present'"

'The prestige."

"I grew up listening to these heroic stories, so under the influence of my ears and eyes, I gradually began to admire these heroes."

"Tachibana-kun, do you still remember what Mr. Kiryu told you about my past? A year ago, I left Osaka at the request of my grandma on the grounds of 'training from the bottom'.

I’m here in Edo to serve as Mr. Kiryu’s successor.”

Aomori nodded. He still remembered the past events about Kinoshita Mai that Mr. Kiryu had mentioned to him before.

"I'm from Osaka."

Kinoshita Mai continued.

"Before coming to Edo, I had been living in Osaka and learning various things from my grandma and some of her friends and subordinates."

"Chinese studies, history, arithmetic, martial arts..."

"At that time... under the protection of my grandma, the 'world' I could see was always very small."

"I am well protected by Mr. Makimura and Mr. Asai every day. I can only move around at home and in very few areas."

"It wasn't until I left my grandma and came to Edo that the 'world' in my eyes finally became broader."

"Then...as the 'world' I saw became broader, I also saw many sights that I had never seen in Osaka before."

Having said this, Kinoshita Mai paused for a moment, and then let out a low, self-deprecating laugh.

"Before I came to Edo, I didn't know that there were so many people in this world who were so poor that they couldn't even afford one meal a day..."

"Tachibana-kun, you probably don't know that in an employment agency like ours, almost every day we see many... customers who make us feel so sad."
To be continued...