Ke Xue: An outlaw, a maniac who sets out to usurp the throne! Chapter 055

“Lawyers are so busy, huh? You have to handle work even when you’re out having fun?” Sonoko Suzuki curiously peeked at Jiang Heng.

“Assistants aren’t easy either,” Ran Mouri added.

“I’m just handling some client emails…” Akemi Miyano smiled and shook her head.

“Usually, there are quite a lot of people who want to hire Jiang Heng.”

“I feel like you two are implying I exploit my employees,” Jiang Heng joked, a rare occurrence for him.

“I didn’t mean that,” Ran Mouri waved her hand, a little embarrassed.

“But, Eiko Toya… I remember she’s a rather famous designer, isn’t she?”

“She’s won quite a few good awards before.”

“If you’re interested, Ran, would you like to come along then?” Jiang Heng turned to look at Ran Mouri.

“Huh? Won’t I be disturbing your work?” Ran Mouri was a little tempted.

“No, it’s just an initial meeting,” Jiang Heng shook his head.

“Whether or not we decide to work together… depends on her demands.”

At this, Jiang Heng paused, suddenly recalling the commission from a haunted house a few days ago.

The thoughts of clients can sometimes be quite hard to fathom.

For instance, that commission letter from the haunted house—

It had been three or five days, and Jiang Heng still hadn’t received any new feedback…

Tsk!

“Then I’m very interested,” Ran Mouri said, a little bashfully.

Ran Mouri followed a bit of all kinds of celebrities.

Now that she had this opportunity, Ran Mouri really wanted to go and get an autograph from Eiko Toya.

If she was lucky, she might even get to visit Eiko Toya’s design company?

…

The party was held in a villa complex in the Tokyo suburbs.

After passing through a patch of woods, Jiang Heng and the others saw a suspension bridge.

“This… are there other roads around here?” Ran Mouri instinctively glanced around.

The suspension bridge in front of them clearly couldn’t accommodate cars.

“Even if there were, it would be a very long detour,” Sonoko Suzuki shook her head.

“But the villa is right across the suspension bridge, so let’s just walk over?”

“Okay.” Jiang Heng and the others got out of the car.

The moment they stepped onto the suspension bridge, a gust of wind blew past, accompanied by a somewhat pungent smell.

“Hmm?” Shiho Miyano couldn’t help but frown.

“What’s wrong?” Akemi Miyano looked down at Shiho Miyano.

“I feel… like there’s a strange smell,” Shiho Miyano pursed her lips.

“It smells a bit like gasoline,” Jiang Heng said meaningfully, glancing towards the other end of the suspension bridge.

“Huh? How could that be…” Ran Mouri instinctively sniffed.

“Maybe someone painted the bridge recently,” Sonoko Suzuki said nonchalantly.

The group didn’t pay much attention to this and quickly crossed the suspension bridge, arriving at the entrance of a villa.

Sonoko Suzuki eagerly stepped forward and knocked on the door: “Knock, knock—”

Soon, a tall, burly man came to open the door.

Upon seeing Sonoko Suzuki and the others, he paused: “So many people?”

“Hi!” Sonoko Suzuki waved cheerfully at Yoshinori Ara.

“We’re here for the magician enthusiasts’ gathering, we didn’t get the wrong place, did we?”

“Of course not.” Yoshinori Ara smiled and shook his head.

He looked thoughtfully at Sonoko Suzuki and said, “You’re the magician’s apprentice, aren’t you?”

“Huh?” Sonoko Suzuki couldn’t help but be surprised.

“I… when I was in the chatroom, I clearly presented myself as a man.”

“But your comments and everything… they really sounded like a girl trying to pretend to be a boy.”

A tall, slender woman appeared from behind Yoshinori Ara and smiled as she looked at Sonoko Suzuki.

“Hello everyone, I’m Trickster Child, Kikue Tanaka.”

“I’m the Taciturn Ventriloquist, Yoshinori Ara.” Yoshinori Ara also nodded.

He then turned to look at Kikue Tanaka: “That’s what I’m saying—”

“The magician’s apprentice isn’t like you, pretending to be a man so realistically.”

“When I first met Trickster Child and saw she was actually a girl, I was shocked for a long time.”

“Really…” Sonoko Suzuki nodded, a little stunned.

Indeed, Sonoko Suzuki hadn’t expected that Trickster Child would actually be a girl!

“By the way, I’m Sonoko Suzuki, and these are my friends.”

“Speaking of disguises… I also didn’t expect that the Vanishing Bunny Girl would actually be a boy.”

A girl with long black hair also walked over, looking at another boy with a resentful expression.

“Hello everyone, I’m Naoko Kuroda, my online name is Illusion.”

As for the boy being complained about by Naoko Kuroda, he was Toshiya Hamano, whose online name was Vanishing Bunny Girl!

Unlike Sonoko Suzuki, who was clearly a girl but disguised herself as a boy—

Toshiya Hamano was clearly a boy, but he disguised himself as a girl…

The crucial thing was that his disguise was very convincing, so convincing that Naoko Kuroda would occasionally discuss private matters with him that were typically for girls.

Thinking about it now, it really was a bit embarrassing!

“I really didn’t expect it…” Sonoko Suzuki clapped her chest, feeling relieved.

Good thing, good thing she usually only discussed magic-related things in the chatroom.

As for personal matters, she always skipped them.

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