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As soon as I left Marmoro san’s home, I contacted Kurogane.
The reason was to find out the personal information of the girl who had deceived Marmoro san.
—A few hours later.
We found out the high school she went to, her approximate address, and even where she worked part-time.
I guess she probably synced the contact information she had given Marmoro san with her social media and looked up the information from her..
As usual, this kind of work is fast.
And then—.
“Hello, hello…is this Ado Natsume, a third year student at Kotobuki West High School?”
Kurogane and I were waiting for her to finish her part-time job.
The girl named Ado who came out of the store was, if I may be honest, an ordinary girl. She doesn’t look like an idol or a model, she looks like an ordinary high school student you could find anywhere.
“Eh, yes…..why me?”
When Kurogane calls out to her, she retreats as if she’s scared.
“Ah, wait, wait. Today I wanted to talk to you about a streamer named Marmoro. I’ve been waiting here all day.”
“…….”
I could see her expression instantly turn pale.
I also saw her feet stop as she stepped backwards to ask the shopkeeper for help.
“Well, we’re both in trouble here, so let’s talk some more somewhere else. This guy will treat you to a delicious dessert.”
Kurogane is a man who only looks the part, you know.
She nodded her head and headed for a nearby café, where there were other people around.
“Go ahead.”
“……Yes.”
Kurogane keeps his eyes on her to keep her from taking out her phone.
I sat next to her and watched her to make sure she didn’t run away or call out for help, and then I asked her,
“Can you tell me about Marmoro san?”
“……I don’t know anyone like that.”
Did she choose to remain silent in the five minutes it took for her to come to this shop from her part-time job?
“Really? But you did tweet these things on social media, didn’t you?”
“—!?”
What I showed her was not her real account, but her alter one.
In the alter account, she wrote about the restaurant she and Marmoro san had gone to, the movie they had seen, and her true feelings when she deceived him.
“[When I talked to that famous streamer, I realized that he was the worst kind of scumbag.]—So, this is your dirty work, right?”
“I-it’s not…….”
“Well, let’s read some of your other tweets, shall we? Erm, let’s see—“
“—That’s enough.”
She stops me a little louder.
“You two are here for ‘that thing,’ right…..?”
“What do you mean, ‘that thing’……?”
“Like I said…….”
I tilted my head, unable to grasp the subject.
Then I see her at the entrance of the restaurant, the one I had been calling for.
She notices me, too, and I beckon to her.
“We just wanna help her.”
“Her……what !?”
Ado san turned around.
She didn’t notice it at first, but the moment she took off her mask, she reacted with a big jump.
“E-eh !? W-w-w-why is Nako Mei san here !?”
She was surprised by Mei’s appearance.
I had also learned that Ado san was a big fan of former idol Nako Mei.
“The truth is, she is being threatened by Jinguuji Tooru, whom you helped….”
“Eh, what do you….eh?”
“Actually, we are like this.”
I handed Ado san my business card that I had made in advance.
“Mr. Lawyer…..?”
“Yes. Actually, a few days ago, I received a message like this one addressed to her.”
Mei showed her the message from Jinguuji.
It was a message that said, “I know about your past, and that if you don’t want to be exposed, you should become my woman, and if you don’t comply, you would be exposed.”
“Mei san……uh, what past? Could it have something to do with what led to your retirement?”
“Yes, it does. When Mei was in high school, she was tricked by that man, and he threatened her in the same way at that time…..so she got scared and decided to retire.”
“So that’s what happened.”
It’s not quite the same as the details of her retirement, but, well, it’s a good way to get her mind off of it.
“I was followed around after I retired, but these two guys helped me out….. But then he started threatening me like this again.”
“So she came to our office again for advice, after we discussed it with her, we decided that if she continued to run away, she would continue to be hounded and threatened with lies that never happened. And in order to deal with this, I heard about Marmoro san’s case and wanted to talk to you about it.”
“To me…..?”
“We heard the true story from Marmoro san. We don’t blame you for it, and we don’t judge you by law. Instead, can you tell us in detail how you got to know Jinguuji and how you came in contact with Marmoro san?”
“……”
“Please, Natsume chan.”
Mei holds her hand and appeals.
“I understand. I also realized later that what I did,…..was disgusting. I will tell you everything I know.”
“Thank you. May I start with how you met?”
“……A few days before I met Marmoro san, I was dumped by a guy I was dating. I was feeling down, and one of my “senior part-timers” introduced me to him.”
“And that was Marmoro san?”
“Yes. At first, I couldn’t forget my ex-boyfriend and had no intention of going out with him. However, I felt bad if I turned him down, so I decided to meet with him. At that time, my senior part-timer told me that I should tell him that I was 21 years old because the other person was a streamer. At first I didn’t understand why I had to hide my age. But I also didn’t think too much about it, thinking that if I met him only a few times, I wouldn’t have to ruin my senior’s reputation……”
I don’t know if she is lying, but there are a few things that concern me. But for now I should not stop thinking and listen to her.
“So, as I was told, we decided to meet a few times. …Actually, I was planning to meet a few times and be done with it. But…”
“…You began to be aware of Marmoro san?”
“……Yes. I had just broken up with my boyfriend, so I guess I was missing a human touch. He had a kind personality, interesting stories, and was fun to be with,……. So at first I thought I would meet him a few times and try to put a good face on my senior, but the relationship continued on the sly. As those days went by, Marmoro san told me he liked me.”
Ado san grabbed my left hand tightly.
“I found myself saying yes. But at the same time, I remembered that I had lied to Marmoro san, and that I was a minor. I knew that if I told him that, he would hate me and it would never have happened.
“So you went to the hotel…..?”
“It’s okay as long as he doesn’t tell anyone…..I invited him with that in mind.I really wanted to go out with him. But then, a few days later, I got this email.”
Ado san operated her phone and showed me the screen of the email he had received, not a social media message or anything like that.
“……It is said that they were taking voyeuristic pictures of what you and Marmoro san were doing at a hotel.”
The text of the email was from a certain AV production company.
It said that they were recording their sexual acts at the hotel and keeping it as a video.
“This is…….”
“No one knows about my relationship with Marmoro san, no one knows about the hotel, and I haven’t told anyone about it…… So I thought at the time. I was deceived by Marmoro san. He was gonna blackmail me with hidden videos from the beginning. Knowing that, I got scared.”
“Can I see those emails in detail?”
Kurogane, who had been silent the whole time, nodded and handed over his phone.
“If it was sold as an AV, it would be over for me. If the world knew about it, I would be expelled from high school, and my parents and neighbors would know about it,…….when I was thinking about that—I suddenly received a call from Jinguuji san of Hell Agency News.”
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