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"I just finished work, so I took a walk outside, but what are you doing outside?"
"Visiting one of my dad's friends. He's very nice, I was about to ask him a favor, but if I don't go now, he might go to sleep, so I shall go, see you next week!"
"Hold on. Next week? We have school tomorrow!"
"I got a call from the library earlier today. My books finally arrived, so I have to take them all, the teachers know that."
"It was true that they ran out. No luck in the used ones?"
"Outside of the history's book like you saw today, no luck. I should hurry now, see you later!"
And with that, Mitsuko left Ichigo abruptly.
Mitsuko was actually not lying about visiting a family friend, and she was not lying about said family friend going to bed early. This was exactly why she needed to be fast. She probably felt like she was lying to Momomiya, and she already felt bad for leaving her new friend while it was dark, but she repeated to herself, the mister wouldn’t wait for her. She immediately had a bad feeling for leaving her behind.
With such a last minute speedrun, she went home and greeted her older sister who was in the dining room for once.
“Welcome back,” Yui greeted her with a big smile. This was one of her usual faces, but this one screamed “suspicious” to her little sister. Yui was being served tea by the head butler. “Sorry I had to give you a last-minute commission for Watanabe, but it was urgent.”
“That’s strange, because the mister was not waiting for anything. Seemed happy to see me though.” She glared at her older sister. “If you have something to share with the class, please do so, Yui-nee.”
“Well, if I succeeded at making you have an unexpected encounter…”
“I knew it,” Mitsuko sighed. “You were quite obvious.”
“Well it isn’t so bad to have new friends, and you know you wouldn’t be able to see them tomorrow,” she made an excuse for her behavior with a smirk. She noted that… something popped out of her head again. Good grief. Still very cute. “You really do seem to like the girl.”
“This has been 2 days! No one gets friendly with someone that quickly.”
If this was a game and an option to doubt was possible by pressing the X button, Yui would have pressed it so fast. “If you say so, stop being embarrassed.”
“I’ll be heading to my room since you’re insisting on being a pain tonight,” she groaned before effectively leaving the dining room.
“See you,” Yui waved goodbye before taking a sip of her tea.
“…Milady,” the head butler addressed one of his masters politely, a minute later. “Should I prepare to monitor your younger sister?”
“No need to,” she slowly responded, considering the options. Her neck felt heavy. “I’m pretty sure he will do the job for us without being asked for, as usual.”
After changing herself for the night, Mitsuko let herself fall on her bed, the heavy feeling being dooming her. She was not feeling like reading nor sleeping right now. It was bothering her. She turned her head to the balcony. There was the urge to just go outside, right now. What kind of cat-like feeling is this? She should probably ignore it, but….
She found herself letting go of the balcony’s bars barely 10 minutes after the thought flew to her head. For some reason, she didn’t really have a scratch on her body, and landed on her feet. Her nightgown, though…
“Well fudge me I guess. Mother would be mad.” She will have to clean it behind the back of the cleaning main lady.
So it was how her random errand started, her legs just leading wherever it wanted. She thought she would feel better, being outside on her own, but the feeling was still here. “It would be fun to actually know where to go once outside, but it would suck if I sneaked out only to go home right after lea-“
Her ears picked out on a very loud noise from up a building. She thought that a dumbass would be dumb enough to make a whole movie party on their balcony that late, but she looked up.
This was not someone’s dumb movie party on a balcony.
“What the.”
She grew up like a lady, but it did not stop her to swear like a sailor right then and there.
“Is that a fucking pigeon?”
She quickly hid. There was no way she could fight that even if she could. She did not expect to see a chimera anima from so close, and honestly, it frightened her. She should leave, but something inside her told her to stay .
And that’s when she saw them.
“I never thought I would actually see them in action so close,” she muttered to herself.
The Mew Mew.
To be fair, she already saw them once on TV. She also technically knows their actual selves ever since yesterday, but seeing them actually fighting was a whole new experience. She was dazzled. Also distracted, but none of that mattered.
Her distraction stopped once she realized the attacks the Mews were giving were almost to naught. And one of the pigeon’s attacks was about to land on the pink one because she couldn’t see it.
If only there was something she could…
Ah, fudge it.
Her legs started to run on her own. Everything was happening too fast. Mitsuko’s brain did not register that her slippers suddenly didn’t feel like slippers. The blue nightgown that has long sleeves? No longer blue, and now sleeveless. Her running speed? Unusually faster.
And the mark she only realized its existence hours ago but already suspected what it meant? It almost looked like glowing in her eyes as she ran in the direction of the pink Mew.
“Look out!”
Mitsuko forcefully pushed Mew Ichigo away, a water barrier now protecting them. She could feel Ichigo’s gaze on her back.
The newcomer turned to her, her purple eyes filled with worries. From the looks of it, she didn’t seem to recognize her. Good….
Wait. That is not good. Did. Did she?
"Hey, are… are you okay?” She asked Mew Ichigo, distracting herself from her own confusion.
"Uhm, yes, yes I am, thanks."
The brunette smiled. "Sorry for pushing you too hard, but you seem to be exhausted. Let me take over."
Please say no, I don’t even know what I am even doing here nor how to fight.
Ichigo noticed her being a bit shaken up. It has to be her first battle. "Wait, you can't fight it alone!"
Her purple eyes glanced for a few seconds at the chimera anima. Then fully turned her attention to the monster, once she realized the pigeon was weakened enough. "Don't worry a bit about it. Everything's A-OK!"
That was all her adrenaline speaking and taking over rationality.
And it sure completely drained once she ended everything, to start with the feeling she’s being observed by the whole crew.
“U-uhm, thank you! Can you please tell us who you are?”
She froze. Adrenaline missing.
She realized whatever the fudge just happened.
She didn’t even look back before jumping away, feeling like dying inside and one single line repeating in her head from there until she was home.
What the hell was that just now?
Ryou silently watches the footage of that fight. He smirked.
“Well she still is reckless as ever. This might be a problem.”
“I just have the feeling she would be slapping you with a book soon enough if you say that to her face,” Keiichiro commented with a smile. “Do not say that to her face, I think she is still confused.”
“You sure do read everyone like a damn book yourself.”
The new project has been successfully launched.