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Kiriko yawned in boredom. Attending classes is really not her style. She is fighting her very own eyes from closing it, or else she'll fall asleep.

"Open your books on page 46 and answer the activity indicated." To prevent her from falling asleep. She was forced to obey her teacher's commands. The questions are pretty easy that she answered them without breaking a sweat. Putting down her pen, she stretches her arms and yawns again.

Her mind wandered in the mission that was handed (basically been pushed to her) by her brother. Find the spy from Yllona Family. Though she could sense the inner thoughts of her brother, she agrees in taking care of this matter.

The class is over and it is currently their free time.

Kiriko, as lazy as she is, waiting for her company—

"BUWAHAHAHAHA! WHERE ARE YA KIRI-CHAN!" there she is.

Milim barged right away inside of the classroom. She does not really care about the Class President who tried to stop her and failed miserably. She head towards Kiriko's desk who is not giving her a glance, since she could clearly feel her presence.

"Hey, hey, hey! Kiri-chan, it's break time!" she sat down on the seat in front of Kiriko, "Let's go outside!"

"Nah, too lazy." Milim pouted, "Hey, you need to act like a student, Kiri-chan."

"I did. I answered the activity our teacher told us to do."

"This and that are two different things! Let's wander around the school, Kiri-chan!" Milim, as usual, is doing her best to persuade the stonecold Kiriko who still shows no interest in going outside of the classroom.

"Excuse me, Mrs. Hamasawa is asking for your Class Representative in the committee room— AH! MILIM-CHAN!" the voice coming from the door made the two girls turn their heads over there, and saw a familiar blonde and honey-eyed girl that they happen to meet just yesterday. She forgot about her purpose for coming into the classroom and barged right in.

"Kyah! Kiriko-chan is here as well! You didn't tell me that you are in the same school as me!" The blonde girl who Kiriko finally remembers the name, Sano Emma, is the younger sister of Toman's leader, Mikey. She is jumping up and down due to the excitement, "I am so happy that I can hardly contain it!"

"Yeah, much like it," Kiriko replied and Emma simply did not notice the bored tone of the dark-haired girl.

"Wanna hang out after school?" her eyes are twinkling, like saying she won't be taking a no as an answer.

"Cool! Let's do it, Kiri-chan!" and Milim is not really helping.

Kiriko has no choice but to nod her head with a sigh, while these two girls clap their hands in delight. After that Emma was called by one of her classmates, she told the two to meet up with her at the front gate. Emma will be leading the hang-out. Milim as carefree gave Emma an okay and Kiriko simply followed Milim's approval. But she really doesn't have any disagreement with Emma leading the 'hang out. She was planning to start her job a few days after she received it. But it seems like it'll start a day after she received it.

The class is officially ended. Milim and Kiriko are waiting in front of the gate, waiting for Emma who has been dragged by her classmates.

"Mwo! Why are they holding her back?!" Milim spouted in annoyance. Glaring at the girls who seem like trying to stop Emma from going. Kiriko did not speak but his eyes is starting to narrow in irritation.

First of all, the three of them are supposed to go a few minutes earlier. But then these bitches drag her away from them and talk things about how is your day or do you have some other plans after school.

These bitches ignored Milim and Kiriko.

And the two don't like it— though they are at fault as well for covering their faces.

The two are wearing a hoodie with a black mask for Kiriko and a white mask on Milim. The reason behind this is that they are about to get pursued by their class representatives, persuading them to join a club. Which they do not really give a care about.

"My patience is running thin," Milim stated with a very serious tone. Milim is a type of person who does not want to stay in one place for a long period of time. She is active and that is the opposite of her best friend, Kiriko, who prefers to be a sloth all day. They have plans, and it is being delayed.

Finally, just in a nick of time. Emma left the girls who looks defeated, failed to get Emma on their side.

"S-Sorry! They really got me in there." Emma apologized to the two.

"Well, your not at fault. What did you girls talk about?" Milim asked obviously affected.

Emma sighed and scratches her head, "Same old. Same old. They want me to introduce them to Toman."

"Huh?" Kiriko slightly reacted.

"Then why don't they do it themselves?" Milim asked an obvious question.

Emma gives her an obvious look in exchange for her obvious question, "That's because Mikey is not interested in girls, much more in romance." then she glances over the dark-haired girl who is fixing her long hair inside of her hoodie, "Well, not anymore. I guess?"

"Not anymore? What does that mean?"

Emma smiled at Milim, "Nothing! Let's go!" she grabs their wrist and pull the two to the unknown destination. With tiredness, well more likely because she has been exposed to the sun for too long, Kiriko let her be dragged.

"So, where are you planning to bring us?" Milim asked Emma who giggled, "Let's meet up with Hina first! The Toman is having another meeting in the shrine. So, we are free!" 

"We are technically free, Emma. We are not that of concern to Toman," Kiriko honestly told her which made her pout. 

"Come on, Kiriko-chan! You are the girl that Mikey has shown interest in. With that, you are technically a concern to Toman." Emma then said wiggling her eyebrows emphasizing the word 'technically' to her. 

"Cut some slack, Kiri-chan! Let's go and fetch Hi-chan!" Milim grabs her left wrist while Emma is holding her right wrist. Making the poor dark-haired girl being dragged by two energetic girls to nowhere. What did she do to deserve this? 

But she thought that this is a good time as well. 

Getting close to Toman, which happens to be her target now, without being involved in their inner circle is a good chance to spy on them on the sidelines. She only needs to infiltrate their circle, she doesn't have to be involved with the division captains. She only has to be able to gather the information that may lead to the Yllona's. 

"Hina!" 

"Ah--- Hi-chan!" 

Hina is walking with a boy, a bleached yellow guy with a 'faux hawk' hairstyle. Hina slowly turn around to see who called her name and smiled when she spotted three girls-- with two of them dragging the other. 

"Emma-chan, Nava-san, and Hibari-san," she greeted the three. 

"BUWAHAHAHAHA just call me Milim. Calling me Nava makes me think I'm lava! BUWAHAHAHHAHA!" 

"You still think like one. You may call me Kiriko as well, Hina." Kiriko told her when they reached her. When being called Hibari-san, she remembers her brother who technically is called Hibari by most people. The only one who calls him differently is Kusakabe-san and her. That is why being called like that is quite awkward, though it is her surname as well. 

This is all her brother's fault. 

"Thank you,  Milim-chan, Kiriko." Hina repeated her greeting. 

The boy standing beside Hinata wanders his gaze to the two girls that Emma brought with her. He then recognizes them as the girls who beat up the nineteen punks and were being harassed with Emma and Hina. 

"T-Thank you for saving Hina and Emma last time. I really appreciate it!" Takemitchi bows his head. Grateful for the two who saved his girlfriend. 

"Your friends really like to bow like that?" Milim asked Emma pertaining about the number of heads bowing to her with the very same content. 

"That is a Japanese way of showing gratefulness, Milim," Kiriko said to her which enlighten her. 

"Sorry 'bout that. Milim is not Japanese you see. And you don't have to worry about it, we only did what most people would do in that situation." Takemitchi lifted his head, dumbfounded on what the girl just said Not most of the people beat up nineteen guys that are much more well-built than yours! Takemitchi thought.  

"She is not Japanese?" Emma asked curiously and took a glance over Milim who is showing a peace sign, "Yep!" she answered with a very wide smile. 

"She's an Italian," Kiriko said. 

"Well, I've been in Japan for about two years only! I followed Kiri-chan when she and her brother left Italy for business!" added by Milim. 

Emma, Hina, and Takemitchi on the other hand are quite shocked by this newfound information from the two. They noticed the difference between them and the two, especially in their appearance. 

"How about you, Kiriko-chan?" Emma asked the dark-haired girl with very unusual purple eyes. 

She blinks a few times before answering, "Ah, you mean my nationality? I'm a half. " she answered plainly. 

"She's half Japanese and half Chinese!" Milim added to her plain answer. Which caused the three to drop their jaws, not literally. 

"You guys are... foreign?" Hina said still couldn't believe that these two are really foreign blood. 

"Technically, I'm not since I am still asian." said Kiriko.

"Woah, that is still unexpected," Emma muttered. 

"How about you, Em-chan?" Milim asked the sandy blonde girl. Emma scratches the back of her head before answering, "Well, I actually don't know." she answered with pure honesty. They continue their walk while talking, "Grandpa said that my mother left me in the Sano, which happens to be Mikey's mother as well. He didn't tell me anything about me being a half foreign blood." 

"A natural sandy blonde hair and honey eyes is a sign that you are foreign." 

"How could you say, Milim-san?" Takemitchi asked with curiosity. 

"Because sandy blonde hair and natural honey blend eyes could only be attained if you have an original European or Western blood. In Kiri-chan's case, it is because of her mixed-race that she somehow had a pigmentation deficit condition that caused light waves on her irises to turn into purple." 

"Come again?" Hina couldn't catch the terms. 

"I may be a Half-Chinese and Half-Japanese. But my family has been in a ton of mixed-breed races for some personal family reasons that led to this pigmented deficit condition that causes my eyes to become purple." Kiriko answered. 

The two girls are in awe of the new information that they got from the two. While Takemitchi couldn't handle the terms the two are saying. 

"Then what causes my honey eyes?" Emma asked with twinkling eyes. 

"Eye color is determined by variations in a person's genes. Like mine, it might be possible that your Mother is a foreign person--- an American is a possible one." Kiriko answered. 

Their conversation about eyes and hair color continues with Takemitchi feeling drained with all the information he received, well, unknowingly received. He parted ways with the girls when they reached the Musashi Shrine, the girls said that they will be in the nearby park to talk more. 

Takemitchi reached the top of the shrine. He was spotted by Mitsuya and Draken, looking drained. 

"Hey, what is with that drained look, Takemitchy?" Takemitchi looked at Draken. 

"Ah, Draken-kun. This is nothing. I just couldn't handle some words on my head." he said that made the two guys confuse even more. 

Just why do eyes have to be complicated? 

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