Before School

First Day

"This is Nikaido Yuri, she will be living with us starting today. I would like for you to take care of her. Any questions?"

A butler spoke out hesitantly.

"Um, sir. Why is she staying here? And why are we the only ones here?"

"Ah, I forgot to explain. My age must be getting to me. You do remember about the devils that I told you before?"

The servants all answered. "Yes sir."

"I did tell you of a unique boy who helped me, right?"

"Yes sir."

"This girl helped the boy back then. I would like you to help her in return."

"Excuse me my rudeness, sir. But how did this girl help against the devils?"

Yuri looked at Shoutaro, who nodded. She did what she can do that other humans cannot, convincing them. Shoutaro looked at each of them.

"Kirara."

"Yes, sir?" asked a young maid with brown hair.

"Please teach her how to...well, how humans live here."

"Yes, sir." said the maid as she bowed her head.

Chopstricks

Kirara put down the dishes on the table. "I did the cooking for today. Tomorrow, you will start learning how to cook...You don't know how to use chopsticks?"

Dokuro or Yuri now, nodded, holding the two separate sticks in two separate hands like they were drumsticks. The maid stared in surprise and helped Yuri how to hold.

"Well, first place one chopstick on your thumb and middle finger. Yes like that. Hold the other chopstick with your thumb and index finger. No, no, no, yes. Like that. You don't know which finger is which?"

Yuri shook her head. Kirara felt like sighing.

Sister

"Urara-sama! You mustn't go there!"

"But this is my house!"

"It's your grandfather's order."

The butler left as Urara pouted. "Well, Grandpa said I can grow up slowly and I can be a kid so..."

The little girl pushed open the sliding doors to see Yuri with an open book. "Who are you?"

"Huh?"

Yuri look up from her book to see the same girl that Keima had once targeted. She smiled. "Hello, I'm Nikaido Yuri. What is your name?"

"Urara! I'm Shiratori Urara!" Forgeting the fact that the stranger is in her house, she pointed to the book.

"This? It's book of folktales." Urara climbed onto the bed and put herself next to Yuri.

"What does it say?"

"It's about a..." As Yuri continued, Urara struggled closer to her and she draped her arm over the child after a bit of hesitation, like she had heard from the other Dokuro. After a few minutes, Yuri looked over to the child.

"Urara?" The girl had fallen asleep on her lap.

"Mom..."

"Mom? Oh, right..."

Yuri remembered Urara was a host before and why. She was about continue reading on her own when the door opened again.

"Urara-sama?!" called out a woman with short in a suit.

Clothing

"Yuri, help me clean up Shoutaro-san's room. Yuri?"

"Kirara. What is this?"

Kirara looked back to see the innocent girl staring at a magazine.

"Oh, you found his secret slash. You do not want to..." Kirara stopped as she grinned.

"Of course!

After Kirara told Yuri to put away the magazine and finished cleaning, she took her away to Yuri's bedroom while grabbing some clothes from her room.

"Try this out!"

"Wait. Kirara, what are we doing?"

"We are dressing you up and then we will you show to Shoutaro-san."

Yuri keep changing clothes until Kirara felt it was right. They headed to his room. Kirara knocked on the door.

"Come in. Kirara? I-"

The head brushed deeply with a dripping nose as he saw what Yuri was wearing. He glared at his niece as Kirara grinned.

"Kirara..." he warned.

"But uncle! You love this kind of stuff!"

He sighed. "Yuri."

"Yes?"

"You must never, ever dress like this again. In fact, you must always dress more then that."

"Okay?"

Goodbye

"You sure you want to go?" asked Shoutaro.

"Yes," answered Yuri, her bang over her face.

"No! Yuri-nee! Don't go!" wailed his granddaughter, clinging onto her clothes.

"Urara-sama! You do not cling to people! That is not what a proper woman do!"

The ten year old sniffed and took a step back.

"You do remember which school you are going to?"

"Yes, Maijima Private High."

The head nodded. "You do remember my phone number? For that day?"

"Of course, anything for Nii-san."

"Take care in your new apartment," said Kirara.

"You too. Thank for everything, Shoutaro-san," said Yuri as she bowed.

"Be well, Nikaido Yuri. Until that day."

She nodded. "Until that day."