Suginei: ...I'm alive.

Matsurei: I can see that.

Suginei: ... Never mind. Those were the lines for My Lady. (rummages through her papers)

Matsurei: Now this is going to take forever... (snaps her fingers together)


"Hey, guess what? You were right! Turns out there is conflict between Amagi-senpai and Mahoro-san! But-" Rukia began.

"But they fixed it." Yuka finished for her. "Yeah, I know."

"Were you watching?" Rukia asked with a pause. Gensou had chosen some people from her team to fight alongside Gen'ei Academy during the match with Raimon. Strange enough, Rukia had noticed that the people chosen weren't the strongest players... in fact, they weren't even close to being the strongest.

Before Yuka could answer, Miyu came along and put an arm around her, "Well, you know what the great Wind team players all say!"

"Miyu..." Yuka twitched uneasily, leaning to the right.

Then Airi came running up and putting an arm around Yuka from the right, trapping her between herself and Miyu, "'Where ever there's wind, there will be no secrets!" Then the two girls doubled over laughing and highfiving each other playfully. Ignoring that fact that a dark aura was gathering around Yuka.

Lyn sighed, wondering to herself yet again what she was doing with these idiots. "Sure is lively..." Lyn looked up to see a sad expression on Rukia's face. She blinked. This was really not the Rukia she knows. You'd think everyone was so busy celebrating the fact that Raimon accepted a truce that no one even had the time to be sad. Lyn thought.

"Hey, Hyuuga... just so you know." Lyn stuffed her hands into her jersey pockets, "I think... Miyabino was looking for you by the river this morning."

Rukia's eyes widened and she turned on Lyn, "How did y- how long have y-" Her voice was nearly a hiss. "Not even Yuka-chan knows about this!"

Lyn blinked slowly and calmly at her fellow EXP member, "Well... you heard what those two ADHD sufferers said. Where ever there's wind, there will be no secrets. That's the motto of the Wind team, remember? Besides... it is hard to keep secrets here. Considering the fact that..." Lyn let her voice trail off a little before continuing at a slightly quicker pace, "Anyways, you didn't meet him."

"I couldn't... if I go any closer to him, I'll lose him."

"Sounding mature now, are we?" Lyn sighed and pushed herself away from the wall she was leaning against. "I can't believe I'm saying this... but Hyuuga... when you have the choice to not grow up quickly.. don't grow up." The illusion mistress didn't say anything back to the ice princess. Why do you always talk in riddles? Was what she wanted to say, but it got stuck in her throat so she just swallowed the words back into her stomach painfully. "Heh, I guess you think I talk big..." Lyn chuckled, "But to tell the truth... we might not be... that different after all."

"...Lyn!" Rukia suddenly called out as the ice princess took her leave.

"Yes?" Lyn half-turned her head around, just enough to see the other girls from the corner of her eye.

Rukia took a deep breath... "Rukia. It's okay to just call me Rukia."

Lyn half-smiled, "Yeah... I suppose there's no need to say that you can just call me Lyn, huh, Rukia?"

As soon as Lyn left, Yuka nudged Rukia, "Ha... nice. If only you were that good with boys."

"What the- Yuka-chan!"

Airi and Miyu started scattering flower petals around, "Hurray for Rukia who opened up the Ice Princess' heart!"

"You guys are seriously exaggerating..." Still, Rukia couldn't help but laugh. After watching the conflict between Amagi and Tadashi being cleared, she decided that she really had to... talk it out with her own friends. This is my reality...

"Hey, Ru-chan, hurry up! Or the meeting will start without us!" Yuka said, grabbing her friend's hand and running to the auditorium with high speed. Rukia laughed softly, I don't need someone to tell me if I live in a dream or not... Yuka looked back at Rukia and grinned... a grin that only someone from the Matsukaze family can make maybe... Because... she looked around as Miyu and Airi ran alongisde them, They're all right here, right?


"Now that's a problem..." Masako muttered, staring at the training plans Haruka had come up with.

"What's a problem?" Haruka asked patiently.

"A newbie goalkeeper who was a defender?"

"Are you saying that it's impossible for Shinsuke-kun to be a goalkeeper?" Haruka demanded.

"No, of course not... but..." Masako stapled some documents together, "Arashi, what do you think?"

"Nishizono is fairly capable of predicting the ball's direction. I think he'd make a great goalkeeper." Arashi said. "Even though it would take some training to get him completely used to the fact that he can use his hands." Arashi said with a joking tone.

"Ha... indeed. This reminds me the time when Endou took a rest from his position as goalkeeper! It took a pretty long time to make him not use his hands to catch the ball!" Mirai put in, "Although it is the complete opposite now! That's kind of interesting, don't you think?"

Masako and Arashi raised an eyebrow at her... just leave it to Mirai to put two almost completely different situation together. Haruka just sighed.


Fumiko sat with Yukie together during lunch time, "So you're saying that Takuto keeps bugging you? That doesn't sound like him."

"Well... you see... I told you about my brother... Yukio, right?"

"Yeah." Fumiko said while biting into her sandwich almost savagely. She felt unbelievably hungry after that match with the grape-head Kageyama Hikaru running around on the field in front of her. And she suddenly felt glad that she wasn't old enough to be in Raimon during Mamoru's middle school days, ro she'd die from hunger just from watching the ice-cream head and the tulip-head... not to mention the cat ears. Wait, how do the other two heads make me feel hungry? Fumiko sweat dropped at herself.

"I don't know... maybe Hito-sama said something... that's the most possible answer..."

"May I join you?" Miyuki said down even before either of them replied. Yukie still didn't like the fact that Miyuki kept getting in between these private conversations between her and Fumiko. But it seems that Miyuki knows something about the captain's twin sister that apparently none of the others know about. Besides maybe Takuto himself, but if he did, he wasn't showing any signs.

"Are you sure it's a good idea?" Yukie's ears perked as she heard the voice of Ayahi, and remembered that Ayahi was Fumiko's best friend in elementary school.

"We don't want the same thing that happened to Amagi-san to happen to someone who had just begun to know Raimon's soccer, right?" Hikari said seriously.

"Well... yeah, I guess..." Ayahi and Ami exchanged uncertain glances with each other. "But-"

"Now that's settled... Hiwatori-kun!" Hikari put on her best smile. "Want to eat lunch with us?"

"Ah, well... actually..." Seito made a shy smile at the three girls.

"He's booked with us already." Kyousuke said, walking over and setting his bento down on the desk beside Seito's. Shortly afterwards, Tenma, Shinsuke and practically every first-year in the soccer club started crowding around the new boy.

"Humph, so we did that for nothing!" Hikari muttered grudgingly, eating her riceball in big bites.

"Ha...ha..." Ami sweat dropped. We? It was one-sided all along...

"Yeah, he actually made you pull up the sweet smile that you were saving for Kirino-senpai!" Ayahi added, eating her sushi.

"You've got that ri- huh?"

"Oh geez..." Ami sighed as the two girls ran around the combined three desks, chasing each other.

"Ah~ It seems I did it again! Couldn't help it!" Ayahi laughed and ran out of the classroom, unfortunately, not forgetting to grab Ami with her. Why... why do I always get caught up into these messes? Ami thought to herself pitifully.

"Huh...?" Yuu, Shime and Yuria sat on the concrete walls, their eyes following the colorful flash that Ayahi and Ami created as they zoomed past underneath them.

"Here comes another one." Shime said, taking a bite from her melon bread. And sure enough, Hikari also zoomed past them as a colorful flash.

Yuria chewed for a few seconds before gulping down the mouthful and saying, "I didn't know fireworks looked like that." She pointed at the golden stars swirling up into the air as Hikari beat up Ayahi with Ami keeping will away from them.

Yuu dangled her legs in midair, "There they go again, another lunch time wasted." She jumped down and walked off with Shime and Yuria beside her.

Ran was playing her violin with her headphones on, trying to match her own sound with the music from her headphones. "The semi-finals are up next... and we still haven't gotten Taiyou out of the hospital." Haalee said, drinking her canned juice that she had bought from the vending machine.

"There's no need to rush, rushing is what makes any plan fail." Alexander said calmly, already finishing up his lunch that his mother, Shizuka, had prepared for him.

"Yes, but the problem right now is... we don't have a plan, surprise!" Haalee shouted, waving her hands around.

"Stop that, you look ridiculous." Ran said, putting down her violin and grabbing Haalee's hands.

Haalee sighed and put her hands back onto the desk, folding them neatly once more. "What do you reckon we should do then?"

Alexander's lips twisted upwards... The thing that you people outside EXP don't know is that... an EXP member is never caught without a plan ready... and activating.