The next day we had just finished explaining to Hornet about our conclusion when Cleveland barged into our office and slammed the door so hard it came off its hinges "WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?" she yelled.

"Well, that was our door" Hornet answered, "And this is our office and that is my desk." She explained as Cleveland walked up and slammed the package that was under her arm on top of said desk. Me and Myoukou both looked down at the contents of the package. It was…certainly a lot different from the last dress we saw, it looked far more mature, something that looked like a battleship, or an aircraft carrier would wear, only light cruiser size. It was, for the most part, two separate strips of smooth, deep red silk, to cover the breasts, only joined together below where the belly button would be, leaving the wearer with an exposed strip down the middle of her chest and waist.

"WHAT SORT OF SICK JOKE IS THIS? YOU SAID THAT YOU'D SOLVE THIS CASE BY TODAY, SO WHY IS SOME CREEP STILL SENDING ME DRESSES?"

"If you can just stay calm for a minute." Hornet said, we all waited for Cleveland to finish her little rant, before Cleveland stopped her ranting and leaned over the desk catching her breath "Thank you, you stated that you had already purchased a dress when you were on leave when the first dress arrived, if you could, could you tell us which store you purchased the dress from?"

"WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE? THERE'S ONLY A COUPLE OF HOURS REMAINING BEFORE THE PARTY GETS STARTED, AND THAT CREEP IS PROBABLY ALREADY PLANNING TO MAKE THEIR NEXT MOVE!"

"Cleveland," I sighed "Just answer the question" Cleveland seemed to calm down a bit before looking to the floor and mumbling

"Thornebrookes." She quickly snapped her head back up, her face flush as she sputtered "Ah! Don't tell my sisters that okay, they'll make fun of me for having girly tastes…"

"Thornebrookes?" Myoukou said looking over the other side of the desk towards me, I stared back at her and gave a barely noticeable nod, to quote those immortal lines 'we got them'. Hornet also seemed satisfied with the answer that Cleveland gave and kicked her legs off her desk and stood up from her chair.

"Well, I think that that pretty much solves that case then." She quipped "You alright with wrapping this up rookies?"

"You're not coming with us Hornet senpai?" Hornet picked the dress up off the desk and tucked it under her arm.

"I'm going to send this to Akashi…"

"To make an identical one in your size…" I finished. Myoukou and Cleveland looked kind of bewildered, but when they saw Hornet rubbing her cheek and averting her gaze it turned to exasperation.

"Well anyway…I'll leave it in your capable hands rookies!" she reiterated, before walking out of the office to her dressing. I gave a sigh and beckoned Myoukou and Cleveland over to the door.

"Come on then, let's head back to your room, shall we?" I said talking to Cleveland.

"Huh? Why do we need to go to my room?"

"Don't worry Cleveland-San, we'll explain everything when we get there!" Myoukou reassured the client.

The three of us were now in Cleveland's room, a fairly large space with baseball and basketball poster hanging on the wall, with a total of four beds, to accommodate her sisters, I was busy on my knees reaching under one of the beds, Cleveland sitting on top of another bed looking rather worried, while Myoukou was trying to calm the poor cruiser down. "So…you think that some creepy pervert has been hiding under one of our beds…?" Cleveland asked worriedly, Myoukou replied in a calm soothing voice.

"Well, not exactly, they didn't have to hide under the bed"

"Found it!" I cried getting up off my knees and facing Myoukou and Cleveland. At that moment the door of the bedroom opened and in walked three of Cleveland's sisters.

"…And she was like 'Little Beavers, show no mercy!' and I was thinking-" Denver stopped talking and stopped in her tracks causing Colombia and Montpelier to almost run into her. "Oh! Hey there! I didn't know you had company sis!"

"Hey, you're those two detectives that work for Hornet!" Colombia cried

"What do you want?" Montpelier asked, displeased.

"Ah! I see that you're all here, come, take a seat, there's something that we need to discuss" I said.

"Don't tell them about it!" Cleveland yelled.

"Don't worry Cleveland San, there's nothing to worry about" my partner reassured her. I waited until everyone was seated before I stared saying my piece.

The reason why we are here is because Cleveland asked us to investigate a matter of extreme delicacy. Over the last couple of days your sister has been followed by a stalker…" Cleveland's three sisters sprung up to their feet.

"What?" cried Colombia

"You have a stalker?" asked Denver

"I'll make them pay for making you upset!" growled Montpelier

"Okay, just calm down a second and let me finish…" I said trying to calm everyone down "This stalker had sent your sister countless number of gifts every day, with apparently no indication to their intentions, good or bad."

"How can any of this be good intentions?" Cleveland yelled

"Just give me a second, I'm coming to it. So out of desperation, Cleveland came to see us, in a bid to find the identity of this supposed stalker before the party today."

"So why are you telling all this now?" asked Colombia

"What do you want us to do? Apprehend the culprit?" Montpelier asked

"I'm afraid that won't be necessary. We already know the identity of the culprit" I said

"Huh? Who?" Cleveland asked confused

"Can't you guess?" I said. There followed a long period of silence, before I turned towards Myoukou to say what they were not seeing.

"The culprit…is one of your sisters…"

""""WHAT?"""" the Cleveland sisters all yelled in unison.

"That's absurd!" Colombia yelled

"Outrageous!" Denver agreed

"I'd never harm my sister like that!" Montpelier yelled.

"Really, well we have proof that points the finger squarely at one of you." I explained pointing at the assembled trio. We already knew which of the sisters it was, but we wanted for them to figure it out themselves. "You see, in order to pay for all these expensive gifts, someone would have had to have a lot of coins saved up from the many commissions that they have been on recently. And you three, as well as your sister have been on a lot of commissions lately, that, and combined with the fact that these 'gifts' all originated from a single city, means that whoever was on leave in New York recently is the culprit!"

"Hey! Don't look at me! I haven't been to New York for years!" Denver yelled

"And I've never been at all!" Colombia exclaimed. There was a few long seconds of silence, before the three sisters all turned towards the last remaining figure in the room, Montpelier, who was looking down at the floor, with a visibly upset face.

"Monty?" Cleveland gasped

"I'm sorry sis, you always looked unhappy at wearing a suit for the last few parties, so I thought that if I got you a pretty dress, you'd be happy, but when I saw that you hadn't put the dress in your wardrobe, I thought you didn't like the style, so I thought I'd get you a different one…" Montpelier confessed, teary eyed.

"Oh, Monty~" Cleveland sighed, standing up and walking towards her sister before giving her a big hug "You should have said something, I'd already bought a dress…"

"I wanted it to be a surprise…" Montpelier cried. Seeing that our work was done, I looked towards Myoukou and quietly nodded towards the door, she gave a nod and we went to leave as quietly as possible while the sisters discussed things among themselves, making sure to place the receipts with Montpelier's name on them that I found under her bed were laid down on one of the dressers, making sure to gently open the door of the bedroom to make our leave.

"That was very sweet of you Monty…I'll tell you what, how about you can escort me tonight?"

"I…can't do that…"

"Why not…" Cleveland asked, before her face slowly started to drop "Monty…you didn't spend all your coins on dresses for me did you…?" Montpelier lowered her head even further to the floor, in an almost admission of guilt. "Monty! What are we going to do? The party starts in 20 minutes, we'll never get you fitted in a dress by that time!" As I shut the door to the bedroom, I could see Colombia and Denver wrapping their arms around Montpelier's with some rather concerning smiles on their faces.

"Don't worry about it!" Denver said

"We've got this under control!" Colombia finished.

Needless to say all charges were dropped against Cleveland's supposed 'stalker', and to top it all off Cleveland also managed to steal the show with wearing a pretty red, white and blue dress, that made her look so cute that even I was astounded, and I'm quite difficult to astound. Montpelier too also stole the show, looking quite handsome in a neat, dark blue suit. Needless to say that not long after the party, various ecchi manga ended up circulating around the base, featuring the two sisters.