Ms. Miyu is the only teacher left as I enter the teacher’s lounge. She seems happy when she sees me. “Please have a seat,” she says to me. “Is it going to be a long discussion? I already inform my sister that I’ll be late. But if it’s going to be a long one, then I have to tell her to go home without me,” I say to Ms. Miyu. I know that it seems rude for me to tell her to make it quick. But I need to hurry. We’re going to the shrine after this.
Ms. Miyu chuckles when I tell her to make it quick, though. “Well, it may take a bit of your time. But I promise you that it won’t be long. You don’t have to tell your stepsister to go home without you,” she says to me. I find it hard to believe that Ms. Miyu seems to know that Chiyu is my stepsister.
Ms. Miyu chuckles again when she sees my surpri
