Then, I’ll be off for a while
Yeah, have fun Katsuko-nee
I’m borrowing Katsuko-san, Nobu
Katsuko-nee and Kana-senpai left the bakery.
I.
Edie, Tsukiko, and Kurose-san are in the break room, using the school’s monitoring system, checking if there’s anyone weird wandering around
Roger
Mitama, you’re guarding Misato and the girls. Don’t let any weird men involve themselves with them
Certainly
Mitama’s formerly a bodyguard of Misato, so this kind of assignment is good for her.
The prostitute cadets, or the Nadeshiko department, are separated from the ordinary students.
The four of them are beauties so some boy could get carried away and try talking to them.
That’s why Mitama will take them out.
Yoshida-kun.this pad is baked
Yeah, go tit
Ai, Megu, and I remained in the bakery, preparing even more pastries.
I put the dough in the oven.
Yoshi-kun seems like my senses have gone weird
Megu speaks up.
Huh, what do you mean?
I mean, when I told the girls about the TV coverage, that we’re going to be featured in national news, they were all very excited about it
That’s.
Honestly, I wasn’t excited when I heard about the TV coverage. Of course, I know that I have to work harder, but I wasn’t as excited as the girls in the club
Me too. Well, I thought that being featured on TV would help us when we open the bakery in the future, but, I just want to do my best to make sure we get the coverage we deserve. How do I say it, it feels like a duty more than anything That’s why I didn’t understand why Kana-senpai was so excited when she came to the bakery.
I think our senses are just weird now
Really?
Yes, You know, Yukino’s living with us and we watch her on TV all the time. Reika-oneesan’s also a celebrity now, even Eri, Rie, Mitama, and Kinuka appear on TV nowadays.
We have a lot of girls in the family that show up on Yukino’s TV show.
Arisu already made an appearance, and Motoko and Kurumi had a martial arts demonstration.
Ruriko-chan also appeared in the program about the historical building of the Kouzuki house, right?
Oh, that happened too.
Ruriko’s preparing for the second program, where she introduces the national treasures of the nobility.
Yeah, we got accustomed to our family showing up on TV that we lost the sense of what’s special about being on TV
Oh.
So that’s why.
Kana-senpai and the girls aren’t weird for getting excited.
It was us who were weird for having low tension even though the TV coverage is coming.
That’s okay too
Ai mutters.
Katsuko-oneesan.can do the makeup.and the hair of the tennis girls. Katsuko-oneesan would feel at ease.when she’s dragged by the mood of ordinary high school girls
That’s true.
We’re not opening the bakery until we graduate from high school so we still have at least two and a half years.
It’s not a big deal if our pastry is featured on TV today.
Yet, both Katsuko-nee and I were full of emotions for our bread.
Normal high-school girls would make a big deal because they’re going to be on TV
Being exposed to the girls lets Katsuko-nee’s heart become close to the high-school girls
Katsuko-nee got kidnapped in her first year in high school and she never had high-school experience.
Minaho-neesan wants Katsuko-nee to regain her adolescent time
That’s what I think.
Yoshida-kun too
Ai?
Yoshida-kun, Ai, and megumi-san too. We need to return to our senses as ordinary people. Especially Yoshida-kun
Ai stopped her hands and looked at me.
Yoshida-kun’s been in a lot of trouble lately
Right.
Like, dealing with the rebels from Kouzuki SS.
Raping Ishigami Mizuki.
Or the thirteen assassins.
It’s been tough.
Don’t forget the feeling of excitement
Yeah, I’ll be careful
I told Ai.
1383. School Festival Day 2 Shareholder’s benefit
No problem
Edie came out of the break room.
Thanks, how was it?
I ask as I remove the first batch of baked bread from the oven.
Megu and Ai are also doing their job in the bakery.
Nobody suspicious around school as far as I’m concerned
It’s the school festival today so the students are much more buoyant than usual, and many of them aren’t wearing uniforms because they’re going to sell, or do some band performance.
Even so, Edie judged that nobody was suspicious based on their behavior in the surveillance footage she saw.
Anju will continue watching the surveillance system, she’s a good one so she’s already mastered the system perfectly
Ishigami Mizuki’s former bodyguard, Kurose Anju.
Tsukiko read Katsuko-nee’s memories and Edie taught her how to use the monitors, so she could use them already.
She’s a girl who’s thorough with her work so it should be fine to leave it to her. Tsukiko’s staying in the break room, watching Kurose Anju.
There were some weirdos around the mansion, right? But we don’t have them in school? Then that means.
After checking the pastry, I fill the pad with only pastry that has no problems.
They’re enemies, but they don’t know who we are
The fact that they came to the mansion means that the enemy knows about the Kuromori family.
However, they don’t know how many people are there, and that some are attending this school.
How much does this enemy know about us?
That’s what I’m worried about.
If they’re using old information, then it would be that the Kuromori mansion is a high-class brothel for the political and financial VIPs
However, if they know details about us, then.
If they know the connection to the Kouzuki house, or Misuzu, Ruriko, and other daughters of nobility.
We need to consider how to deal with them
I want to avoid making poor moves that’ll give unnecessary information to the enemies.
Don’t worry, I don’t think they know much about our family
Edie said.
If they did, they won’t be that nonchalant
Oh right. The enemy didn’t know about the police and Kouzuki SS waiting on the road in front of the mansion.
But, maybe they just sent minions who didn’t know anything on purpose just to see our approach
I’m considering that possibility.
If that’s the case, there’s going to be a watchdog behind the people we captured. But there was nobody like that
Edie and Michi are similar, they can sense Qi in their surroundings.
If Edie says that, then I don’t need to consider that likelihood anymore.
We also frisked the guy before giving him to the police. He had a smartphone and an audio recorder. so Mitama and I took it. But since they don’t have any recording device that broadcasts live, there’s no information leak. They didn’t have any transmitter Where are those stuff you confiscated now? What did they get to record?
We put them inside the mansion and handed them to Rei-chan. Don’t worry, we already cut off the power. We arrived late at school because we were doing that
Kinoshita-san and Rei-chan are at the mansion, and Kyouko-san and Anya are there, so they must be analyzing it now.
Rei-chan’s coming here with Nei and the girls, and we can always communicate inside the mansion and in the bakery anytime.
Okay, thanks. As expected of Edie. You didn’t miss a thing
I praised Edie as I continue working.
Obviously, it’s your Edie after all
Edie happily said.
Then, Edie operates on an external monitor at the top of the wall.
The screen shows the inside of the cafeteria switched to outside the bakery, around the back entrance.
They should come now. Darling, they’re here
Oh, Katsuko-nee’s van is parking.
Rei-chan’s driving.
She’s the driver today so she’s disguised by wearing a hat and sunglasses.
I also see the one on the passenger seat.
Is Nei in the trunk?
Right, she brought some cosmetics for the tennis club girls. She should have a lot of luggage.