"Alright, we'll have a blueberry pie, an extra large strawberry milkshake, two regular strawberry milkshakes, a pot of coffee, ten of those toffee cookies, a dozen of the chocolate chip ones, two banoffee pies, and three Knickerbocker glories!" After placing her order Amanda left the shocked cashier and went back to her table, where Constanze and Jasminka were waiting for her. "Okay everyone, I've placed our order, now let's talk about what we're going to do later"

"Why don't we start at the market and take it from there?" Jasminka suggested

"That does sound good" seconded Constanze

"Alright then, let's go to the market and make it up as we go along!"

"It says here that the action for the limited edition Shiny Chariot manga will begin at half three, meaning I have two and a half hours to hang out with you guys!"

"Limited edition Shiny Chariot manga? They really milked the Shiny Chariot name for every penny they could"

"It was limited edition so only her most loyal fans would know about her rise to stardom, there were only thirteen copies of each volume printed and each one was signed by Chariot herself, owning one is the ultimate status symbol among Chariot fans!"

"Well, you'll probably be able to get them for cheap since the ratio of books to fans is thirteen to one"

"That means...Hey! There are more Shiny Chariot fans than me Sucy!"

"Now now, both of you, why don't we go get something to eat? It looks like the new cafe is open"

The trio entered the cafe and got some nice seats in the corner, next to the windows and ordered drinks. Lotte got a pot of coffee with lots of cream and sugar, Akko ordered green tea and Sucy asked for freshly squeezed mushroom juice, earning her a weird look from the cashier.

"This is wonderful!" Lotte declared after drinking her first mug of coffee in one go, before quickly refilling the mug. "Want to try some Sucy?"

"Nah coffee's not really...Actually, may I?" Lotte passed her the cup and Sucy angled it towards the light and rotating it. Eventually she pressed her lips against it and passed it back to Lotte.

"What were you doing Sucy, you didn't drink any of it?"

Sucy grinned and said "It was an indirect kiss" Lotte blushed as Sucy put an arm around her and pulled her closer.

Akko watched them, perplexed. Was being in love really that good?

"It appears the books will be auctioned off at quarter past three, so I can spend about two hours with you. What do you wish to do first?"

"We have to go to the petting zoo!"

"Oh my god, yes!"

Hanna and Barbara took one of Diana's hands each and eagerly led her to the zoo. Diana entered cautiously, unsure of what to expect. Inside the zoo Diana was pleasantly surprised to see a range of animals, from guinea pigs to baby goats, but what caught her attention were the rabbits. One stood out from the rest, a rabbit with fluffy brown fur that Diana found herself drawn to. Seeing that Hanna and Barbara were already playing with the animals of their choice Diana walked over to the rabbits and crouched down, offering her hand to them. The brown rabbit hopped over to it and sniffed Diana's fingers for a couple of seconds. Comfortable that Diana was safe to be around the rabbit nuzzled it's head against her hand and allowed itself to be picked up. Diana wasn't sure what to do with it at first, but settled for gently stroking the rabbit between it's ears.

The blue team spent almost forty minutes at the petting zoo, and when they left Diana had to perform a spell to clean their uniforms of the animal hair that had gotten stuck to them/

"Sucy, don't you think this looks kinda shady?" Akko asked, looking at the large, black carriage that was parked deep within an alleyway.

"Not at all, this is exactly how it's meant to look"

"How can you even tell? This could be any old, black carriage"

"Can you not see the obnoxiously large red mushroom painted on it?"

"...Oh"

Sucy entered the carriage and stayed in there for about five minutes, before emerging with a medium sized cardboard box that she was looking at gleefully.

"What did you get Sucy?" Lotte asked.

Sucy chuckled "You would not believe how lucky I was, it's very sensitive to light so I'll show you when we get back" Sucy burst into full blown laughter as she clutched her package and Lotte and Akko backed away nervously.

"Whoa...Guys you have to look at these!" Amanda shouted to Constanze and Jasminka, pulling out her purse as she did so. Constanze and Jasminka joined Amanda and looked at the glass case that had caught their teammate's attention; inside it were various rings, but among them were three gold rings with a beautiful piece of jade embedded in them.

"They're amazing" Constanze murmured, awestruck.

"I know right, if we all got one we would match and show that the green team has stronger bonds than any other team. How about it?"

Five minutes of haggling later and Amanda had bought the rings for a greatly reduced price. She gently took Jasminka's hand in her's and slid the beautiful piece of jewelry down her ring finger before doing the same to Constanze and herself.

"They're beautiful Amanda...Thank you so much!" Jasminka threw her arms around Amanda and Constanze did the same, trapping Amanda in a three way hug she was more than happy to return.

"Yup, they're beautiful, just like you guys!"

"Huh, is that...Oh god, sorry guys, I gotta go!" Akko shouted as she sped off towards the auction hall.

Lotte and Sucy squinted at the clock tower in the distance.

"Hey Lotte, doesn't the clock say that it's currently five past three?"

"Yeah, I think so"

"Akko must have misread it then, ah well, it won't hurt her to turn up a few minutes early"

Diana Cavendish strode into the auction hall; she had arrived five minutes early to make sure she could find a good place to sit, but her plan appeared to have failed as there were only a handful of empty chairs scattered around the room, and none of them were in particularly good places. Eventually Diana chose the seat next to the aisle as she would be sitting next to a Luna Nova student and it was probably the most noticeable place available.

Diana realized how much of a mistake she had made when she saw that the person she had chosen to sit next to was Akko.

"H-hey Diana, fancy seeing you here"

"Hello Akko, has the bidding for Mystogan's four rare magical ritual books began?"

"No, not yet...Um, when you said you liked me, did you-"

"Hush, the bidding has started"

Akko didn't attempt to press her question any further and watched as Diana entered the bidding at 100000 yen. A few minutes and 2.5 million yen later and Diana was happily watching as her books were neatly tied up in brown paper and then passed to her. Diana took her seat again and placed the books by her feet; satisfied that she had acquired Mystogan's most prized works. She quickly scanned the schedule for anything else that looked like it could be interesting and one thing caught her eye; one of the limited edition Shiny Chariot manga sets was going to be auctioned off after the singing rattlesnake. It was too good an opportunity to pass up, very few people would be interested in them as well, meaning there would be only a couple of other bidders.

Diana's train of thought crashed and burned when she saw Akko raise her hand.

Of course! How could she be so stupid? Of course Akko would be in the auction hall for the Shiny Chariot manga, she was probably ecstatic to have the chance to own her idol's own manga, it would be horrible for Diana to take that away from her. But at the same time, if someone else outbid Akko then it wouldn't be wrong for her to start bidding, right?

Lotte and Sucy sat on a bench near the auction hall, waiting for Akko. It had been Lotte's idea, and Sucy had no objections to it, she was slightly interested in whether or not the manga was as good as Akko made it out to be. Lotte tugged on Sucy's sleeve and pointed at something. When Sucy saw it Lotte was treated to thTe sight of Sucy being visibly surprised for the first time; Akko and Diana were walking hand in hand out of the hall, smiling and chatting together.

"Hey, Lotte...Is that real?"

"I...I think so"

The two could only watch as Akko and Diana walked past them.

On the other side of the road Hanna and Barbara were having a similar reaction as they tried to comprehend why their roommate, the queen of the school, the noble Diana Cavendish was so happy to be holding hands with her. Why was Diana showering the worst student in the year with more affection than she had shown her most loyal supporters?

It had been almost ten minutes since they had left the auction hall and Diana still hadn't let go of Akko's hand. Akko certainly didn't mind holding hands with Diana, she even kind of liked it, but why hadn't Diana let go already?

"Akko...Akko!" God Diana's voice was nice "Akko, are you alright?"

"Huh? Oh yeah, I'm fine"

"That's good to hear" Diana smiled again, making her look even more beautiful.

"Hey Diana, why did you buy me the Shiny Chariot manga?"

Akko's question threw Diana a bit, but she didn't let it show. "I wanted to properly apologize to you Akko, for everything I've done. The fake note, the potion, all of it"

"But they were really expensive-"

"Money is no issue for the Cavendish family, and besides, I know how much you love Chariot, I couldn't just sit by and let something that means so much to you be snatched from under your nose"

"Diana!" Akko threw her arms around Diana's neck and pulled her into a hug which Diana happily returned.

Diana felt wonderful; Akko was warm, her hair smelled wonderful, and it felt unbelievably good to be shown so much affection.

"Akko, I love you"