Ten minutes later, Kita Ikuyo looked somewhat timidly at the dozen or so girls staring at her.
Although she had performed on stage with the band a few times, the aura of the audience offstage at that time wasn't as strong as these girls in front of her.
Especially since she had just encountered a "fake Bocchi," her emotions were still somewhat unstable right now.
After calming her emotions a bit, she explained her experience to everyone.
Their band practiced in a nearby practice room for over two hours this afternoon before disbanding. It was just that after disbanding, she practiced a little longer by herself.
Then, after practicing a bit more in the practice room and preparing to return to her room with her guitar, she suddenly ran into Bocchi on the side of the road, who had just bought a lot of things from a store.
"Speaking of which, indeed at that time I felt Bocchi your situation seemed a bit strange, because many of the clothes you bought seemed quite... fashionable."
Gotoh Hitori's usual attire was that classic pink tracksuit. Even for this trip, she brought a set in her luggage.
Although she would change into some other clothes or their band's exclusive outfits at home and on days off, Gotoh Hitori's socially anxious personality was right there, and the clothes she usually wore out were basically of a simpler style.
Of course, actually, there were quite a few very rock-style outfits placed in Gotoh Hitori's closet. This could also be considered her buying them when she couldn't control her hands during her inner fantasies, and she had never worn them out at all. Since buying them, they had been gathering dust in the closet.
Kita Ikuyo briefly described the clothes she saw Gotoh Hitori buy: a few pieces of exaggerated-looking leather pants and trench coats, and some cool sunglasses, earrings, rings, and other accessories that completely didn't fit Gotoh Hitori's style.
But considering Gotoh Hitori's normally quite airheaded personality besides her social anxiety, Kita Ikuyo at that time really didn't dare to ask anything, and just greeted her.
When it came to this, the girls were still a bit curious.
After all, that fake Bocchi was highly likely disguised by the Stand, so where did she get the money?
Gotoh Hitori, however, seemed to think of something, and tremblingly took out a small wallet from her person.
For this trip, her parents had stuffed quite a bit of pocket money into her hands, but that wasn't the bulk of it.
Besides her parents' pocket money and the salary from working at Starry Live House, her biggest source of income now was still that Metaverse navigation app she got from Sudou Ayami previously.
She didn't have the time nor the courage to go to the Metaverse, so she simply shared her phone to the group, letting Shinomiya Kaguya plan the users according to the list of people who wanted to go to the Metaverse.
And as remuneration, every time someone used her phone to enter the Metaverse, they had to give her a share of their harvest in the Metaverse, while also calculating rent based on the number of times.
Although it hadn't been very long, counting these extra incomes, the current Gotoh Hitori had a full hundred thousand plus yen of pocket money on her.
It was just that Gotoh Hitori herself didn't have much desire to consume. Even coming to Morioh Town, because of the reimbursement from the young lady Shinomiya Kaguya, she hadn't spent much money these past few days.
But following Kita Ikuyo's reminder, she flipped through her wallet, only to find that the dozen or so ten-thousand yen bills originally placed in her wallet had actually vanished into thin air by half.
That Stand of hers, after awakening, actually directly took half of her pocket money without even notifying her!
Even for a socially anxious person, at this moment, Gotoh Hitori felt her fists harden slightly.
Kita Ikuyo on that side was still continuing to talk about the matter between her and the fake Bocchi.
After the two met, although Kita Ikuyo indeed felt this Bocchi seemed a bit off during the process, and even actively offered to continue helping her practice after knowing she had just practiced a bit more, considering that her guitar was indeed still a long way from passing, Kita Ikuyo still agreed.
It was just that what she didn't expect was that the other party actually directly took her guitar and started showing off her skills on the street, and even stated that she wanted to use this method to overcome her social anxiety.
In the end, seeing more and more onlookers gathering, and the fake Bocchi still playing and teaching her on the street, even the extroverted Kita Ikuyo felt it was too shameful, and only then pulled the other party back to her room.
Then the two of them continued to practice in the room for almost over an hour. Until about ten minutes ago, Kita Ikuyo really couldn't play anymore and stated she needed to rest a bit. Then that fake Bocchi also seemed to realize something, and directly said goodbye and left her room.
Accompanied by Kita Ikuyo's explanation, Hayasaka Ai on that side also brought out the proof at the right time—short videos taken by passersby on the street of Gotoh Hitori showing off her guitar skills with Kita Ikuyo on the street.
Although the video and audio quality were not great, it was indeed one hundred percent the strength of Guitarhero. Even because it might be a Stand, the handling in some places might be even smoother than the real Gotoh Hitori.
And after listening to Kita Ikuyo's explanation and seeing this video proving Kita Ikuyo's words, Shinomiya Kaguya also made a brief summary of the current situation.
Gotoh Hitori awakened a Stand in these two days.
Her Stand should use her shadow as a medium. Now that Gotoh Hitori has lost her shadow, it means the other party's Stand is not by her side right now.
Furthermore, this Stand has intelligence and communication skills no weaker than the main body, and seems to have great independence, able to take the money from the main body to shop according to its own preferences while Gotoh Hitori herself wasn't paying attention.
It's just that in terms of personality, it seems to be much more cheerful than Gotoh Hitori, even arguably directly changing from the current socially anxious person into another kind of socially anxious person.
Except the former is social anxiety disorder, and the latter is a social terrorist.
But considering this is Gotoh Hitori's Stand, it doesn't seem strange either.
"According to the surveillance, Bocchi's Stand should also have a concealment ability, which is why it could disappear not long after leaving the room."
"Since the other party has no intention of coming back now, where do you guys think she has run off to now?"
Although currently Gotoh Hitori superficially seems not to be affected much, and Miyauchi Hikage on that side didn't say either, but after all, Miyauchi Hikage hasn't awakened a Stand yet either, and it's uncertain whether losing her shadow for too long will cause any bad effects on Gotoh Hitori's main body.
So it's better to quickly find the other party's Stand back. At least Gotoh Hitori must be able to independently control her own Stand.
After Shinomiya Kaguya asked the question, the girls present also started to ponder.
"According to the style of a Stand acting entirely according to its true heart, she should want to go to a lively place to attract others' attention right now."
"She bought those clothes in the mall before, she should be wanting to go out wearing those clothes."
Yukinoshita Yukino mentioned this possibility.
And hearing this, Gotoh Hitori was about to petrify entirely.
So, her Stand is going to wear her appearance, wear those trench coats and leather pants, and go out to perform wearing earrings and rings all over?
If her parents and younger sister, and those classmates at school who know her, see these videos...
Just thinking of this possibility, Gotoh Hitori felt her future life was a bleak darkness.
"Anyway, let's go look around a few relatively lively places first. Morioh Town wasn't a big city to begin with. Just walking around the station in the city center and near the shopping mall, we might be able to find traces of her."
There were indeed not many places with a lot of people in Morioh Town, especially under the circumstance that an earthquake had just occurred. Even tourists wouldn't choose this point in time to make a special trip here.
Briefly dividing into a few groups, ensuring each group had at least one supernatural being, the activity of searching for the fake Bocchi vigorously unfolded just like that.
The commotion they caused was not small. Not only Tonio and Yaga Masamichi, but even those girls who didn't get the diaries quickly heard about this matter.
"Someone really awakened the power of a Stand. I thought that Kasumigaoka was joking with me," Eriri muttered with Kato Megumi and Miyauchi Hikari, who she had been in contact with quite a bit recently.
Unlike Kato Megumi and Miyauchi Hikari, Eriri actually rarely interacted with Miyauchi Hikage normally, and wasn't very clear about Miyauchi Hikage's current strength either.
She only had more contact with Shiina Mashiro. The reason she could be in the same room with Miyauchi Hikari and Kato Megumi today was also because previously they were in Shiina Mashiro's room helping her organize original drawings.
Shiina Mashiro went to the presidential suite because of Shinomiya Kaguya's notification, and the three girls just chatted in Shiina Mashiro's room.
Shiina Mashiro originally had a relatively silent personality. Towards people and things she wasn't interested in, she always appeared very indifferent and wouldn't actively chat with people about these things.
And Eriri herself only wanted to learn some drawing skills from Shiina Mashiro, and complete her debut as Shiina Mashiro's assistant in the future, so she naturally had no mood to seek out Shiina Mashiro to ask about these things.
As for Kato Megumi and Miyauchi Hikari, after Shiina Mashiro appeared, they realized that many changes had happened to Miyauchi Hikage recently.
Later, although they weren't particularly clear about Miyauchi Hikage's encounters, they generally understood that this world was not as simple as it appeared on the surface.
And they also knew that Miyauchi Hikage had already become a powerhouse in the Inner World relying on an awakened ability related to fate.
It was just that as Miyauchi Hikage's twin sister, Miyauchi Hikari seemed not to have much talent in these areas, perhaps even inferior to Kato Megumi whose inherent presence was weak.
Of course, they themselves didn't particularly care about these things either.
After all, with Miyauchi Hikage covering them, no one dared to lay a hand on them either.
So when they chatted, they also rarely talked about supernatural powers.
And Eriri belonged to the category of being half-believing and half-doubting about these things.
Even though Kasumigaoka Utaha had already shown some supernatural methods in front of her to make her let go of her feelings for Aki Tomoya as early as possible, she ultimately hadn't completely believed these things.
Now seeing the message Kasumigaoka Utaha sent her, she was still somewhat uncertain.
She even specially asked Kato Megumi and Miyauchi Hikari, wanting to know their thoughts.
To this, Miyauchi Hikari was as confident as ever.
"I knew about the Stand from Hikage a long time ago. It should be true, and I will definitely awaken this Stand sooner or later!"
Seeing Miyauchi Hikari so confident, the look Eriri gave Miyauchi Hikari couldn't help but undergo some changes.
Only Kato Megumi had long known what kind of personality this friend of hers had during these two months of interaction, so her face showed completely no surprised emotions.
"Hikage told me when we came before that the awakening of a Stand is also somewhat related to bloodline. If a person awakens a Stand, people related to him by blood are also more likely to obtain a Stand than ordinary people."
Miyauchi Hikari patted her chest without a doubt: "Everyone says that guy Hikage is a one in ten thousand, no, should be unparalleled genius in the world. With his situation, he will definitely awaken a Stand. It should be said that if only one person among all of us present has the ability to awaken a Stand, then it can only be Hikage alone."
"If even he couldn't awaken a Stand, I really don't know who else among us could. I think he might have already secretly obtained a Stand, just because the Stand ability is too strong, he plans to keep it as a trump card and temporarily doesn't intend to make it public."
Saying this, Miyauchi Hikari pointed at herself again: "No matter what, I am his twin sister, the person most closely related to him by blood in this world. When that time comes, no matter what, I can piggyback on that guy Hikage and incidentally awaken a Stand too, right!"
Towards her twin brother, Miyauchi Hikari placed extremely high trust, completely not worried that Miyauchi Hikage would fail her expectations. She just needed to wait patiently for herself to awaken a Stand through the Miyauchi family bloodline.
However, listening to Miyauchi Hikari's unambitious words, the corners of Eriri's mouth on the side couldn't help but twitch.
But similarly, she actually also had some curiosity towards Miyauchi Hikage.
After all, during her interaction with Shiina Mashiro, although Shiina Mashiro never mentioned Inner World matters to her, she had heard Miyauchi Hikage's name quite a lot.
One must know that the character designs and storyboard designs for the manga "Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend Alter" currently being serialized by Shiina Mashiro were single-handedly completed by Miyauchi Hikage, helping Shiina Mashiro, a layman in manga, to adapt it from the original novel.
It could be said that Shiina Mashiro only contributed her drawing skills, and the remaining work was almost entirely completed relying on Miyauchi Hikage's abilities.
Therefore, she was indeed somewhat curious about this young man who almost single-handedly boosted Shiina Mashiro.
Now hearing that this guy Miyauchi Hikage seemed to also be very strong, she cared even more about Miyauchi Hikage's situation.