Tsubaki:"Sorry, Takeda-kun, I messed up."

The principal had confiscated Tsubaki's and Ichika's phone.

Principal Takeda:"Well, well. I see now, my own son has been soiled by one of the demon children. And yes, I'll be confiscating everything surrounding the cameras."

Tsubaki:"Why you...!"

Ichika:"Why do you hate us so much?"

Principal Takeda:"Why would the dropout care so much? I don't hate you, it's simply the normal thing to do seeing your history with your sisters."

Ichika:"If you knew the details, then you'd know why we did that!"

Principal Takeda:"You think I'm going to believe you over my business friend? Sure, he took my chance to get closer to your father, but he was still a good partner."

Tsubaki:"You really are a bad person."

Principal Takeda:"Am I really? All I'm doing is looking over the students that do care. Honestly, it's better that you were a part of this, it makes the process to expel your sisters easier. I mean, look at this new evidence. Eavesdropping, illegal insertion of cameras in my office, you truly took a great risk and lost."

Tsubaki:"...I'm sorry, Ichika."

Principal Takeda:"You've got the right idea, camera girl. It's just a shame that you were on the wrong side. And my boy, I'll need to train you from scratch."

Takeda:"When did you become like this, father?"

…

*Bam!*

The four people in the room turned around to the door that was closed.

"Ow."

The door then opened.

Principal Takeda:"I thought it was locked?"

On the other side of the door, it was the substitute teacher Irigaku.

Irigaku:"My bad, I seem to have somehow come across the key to your office."

Principal Takeda:"It's you."

Irigaku:"Well, you 3 really got yourself caught up on something interesting."

The teacher then looked up at the camera.

Irigaku:"Now that's impressive, considering you didn't have much time. But the mics didn't work…"

Tsubaki:"How do you know that?"

Irigaku:"Oh, well. I heard you guys."

Tsubaki:"You...heard us? But you didn't report us?"

Irigaku:"Eh...Well, let's see. I should have something here."

The teacher then looked through his bag before pulling out a certain box.

Ichika:"That's my recorder!"

Irigaku:"You dropped this on the first day, miss."

Principal Takeda:"Tch, if that's why you're here, then you can leave."

Irigaku:"I must say, the range on this thing is impressive, it could even catch this."

As Irigaku pressed the play button, everything that had transpired from the moment Takeda and his father walked into the room began to play for all to hear. All the color immediately left the principal's face.

Principal Takeda:"Is this some kind of joke? I'll be confiscating that."

Irigaku:"Nuh uh. I wouldn't do that if I was you. Ah, found the other thing I was looking for."

He then pulled out a badge.

Irigaku:"Part time teacher, full time detective. Prosecutor Irigaku at your service."

Principal Takeda:"Eh!?"

Ichika:"W-Weren't you a lawyer!?"

Irigaku:"I am, but my introduction wouldn't sound as cool if I crammed it all in there. But back to you, good sir, we've been keeping track of you for a while."

Principal Takeda:"What could you possibly be interested in me for!?"

Irigaku:"Well, this certain case revolving these quintuplets wasn't part of the plan. The original reason I came here was due to a certain security breach a few months ago, before Summer break."

Tsubaki:"Security breach?"

Irigaku:"Correct. During the Nationals, reports came that the full answer sheet suddenly disappeared. No investigations by the principal here were made, which brought suspicion as to how a school as prestigious and serious about their image could just lose such important papers like that. Wouldn't you know it, it took us quite a while to find anything concrete. Some idiot ripped up the evidence and then flushed it down the toilet in the men's room. That really delayed things by a bit."

Takeda:"O-Oh, yeah, what idiot would do that…?"

Ichika/Tsubaki:"Takeda-kun…"

Principal Takeda:[So that's what he did with them? That idiot son!]

Irigaku:"You were trying to get your son to be at the very top of the country through cheating, huh? That's quite sad that the Takeda family was doing that. Tell me, were you trying to vicariously live through your son?"

Principal Takeda:"How dare you assume that!?"

Irigaku:"But to my second part! I got quite interested in the sudden burning of the stall, so I went through some lengths to see if there were any clues to the case."

Principal Takeda:"Guh!"

Irigaku:"Turns out that the initial cause of the fire was indeed caused by an external source and not the stoves, as the damage was not where that originally came from! Then there were the sightings of you, dear principal, very close to the stall at multiple times. That was taken by your camera lady here."

Tsubaki:"So that's why you asked me about our footage!"

Irigaku:"Correct! And that's not even going over how much you've done behind the scenes for those sweet sponsors. That little bit of info came from the Maeda family."

Takeda:"So he did come through!"

Principal Takeda:"That's…"

Irigaku:"Oh my, you're willing to pick on these kids but you're too scared for little ol' me? You'll be coming with me."

Tsubaki:"Awesome."

Takeda:"..."

…

Once Irigaku's partner came, she took the principal to questioning. This left the teacher with the three that tried to go against the principal.

Takeda:"..."

Tsubaki:"Will you be alright?"

Takeda:"Yeah, it's just that...I let father do such things for such a long time. It's like I didn't want to believe it. Or maybe I didn't want to see my only family leave me like mom."

Tsubaki:"Takeda-kun...Well, protecting your family is normal. In your case...I believe this will help your father in the long run."

Takeda:"I suppose so. But, I must thank you, Tsubaki-chan, you were truly more dazzling than I could ever be today."

Tsubaki smiled.

Tsubaki:"I couldn't have done it alone."

Ichika:"Heh, look at her go."

Irigaku:"Ichika-san. Sorry, but I'll need to keep the recorder for a while longer."

Ichika:"That's fine, I understand the reason."

Irigaku:"I must say, the songs on here are really well done."

Ichika:"H-Hey!"

Irigaku:"Your voice is very nice!"

Tsubaki then came to chime in.

Tsubaki:"Right!? I especially loved the song she made for her summer commercial!"

Ichika:"Honestly...By the way, will you still be my sisters' teacher?"

Irigaku:"Of course, your original teacher is still going through her situation. I'll be here until January. And of course, we'll always have a spot open for a fifth sister as well."

Ichika:"..."

Irigaku:"That facial expression, I've seen that a lot. I won't make choices for you, but you must go for what you truly believe in."

Ichika:"..."

{Fuutarou:"I found an answer."}

Ichika:"I guess you're right…Ah! The concert! I almost forgot! I need to go see that!"

Irigaku:"Haha, of course you can go."

Ichika:"Right, thank you!"

Tsubaki:"Oh yeah, some members of the club were asked by Nino-chan about something."

With that, Ichika said goodbye to Takeda and Tsubaki and ran towards the auditorium.

Ichika:"I wonder why Nino really wanted me to go…"

End of Chapter 85