Dear Yume,

Today is the second day of the break that we have at the end of every week. We have school for four days and then get a break for two. Except for at the the beginning of the year, where we have school for threee days and then get a two day break. Tomorrow it will be back to the regular schedule at least until the first holiday of the school year.

Yesterday I went out to the campus shopping center with Shiroyuki for the day. He came in the morning and knocked on my door, and I wasn't even awake yet! I had stayed up late the night before and was really tired, so I was asleep until very late in the morning. Oshuro woke me up so I could answer the door. I was a bit suprised he was there, since usually at least one of the other girls in my boarding house would have tried to flirt with him and slowed him down.

I got dressed quickly and then we went out. I ended up buying this cute little notebook that was on a ribbon for putting around my neck. It was pale green and very cute! It wasn't very expensive either, which is good since I had given away basically all my money to three homeless children I had seen on the train platform the other day, and I have yet to receive any from my parents. They'll probably send me some at the end of the week.

We also got ice cream, which Shiroyuki paid for. Then we went and just walked throughout the whole campus and ended up sitting down by one of the ponds and admiring the fact that everything is so alive and green despite the season we're in now. We were out all day, and I got back a little late. Oshuro was a bit worried about me, and he said that he had been wondering if I was ever going to get back that night.

He also told me about the fact that I should've captured the card that is active instead of going out for the whole day. He had told me the night before that The Blossom, another Neo Card, was responsible for everything being in bloom. But since it's a gentle card and all it was doing was making everything look nice I decided to leave it alone for just a little longer. I didn't notice it's presence at all because so many of the people on campus have at least a little bit of magical power, hence the reason there is an enchantment class. All the other magical presences made it hard to distinguish one from another.

We then ended up talking a while, and I explained why I wanted to spend so much time with Shiroyuki to him. He then told me more about Neonia Meinei, the creator of the Neo Cards. The reason they are not called the Neonia Cards is because she changed her name after creating them. She was born during a time of interplanetary war in the Lunar System, and all through her growing up she wanted to stop it. She turned out to have magical abilities, too, which she worked very hard at improving since her parents couldn't afford to send her to a school for magic.

When she was only 22 she created The Neo in order to put a halt to the wars. But she rid the rest of the planets of the Lunar System of their peoples, leaving only Tokei inhabited. The people of these other planets still exist, but they lie deep beneath the surface of their planets in a deep sleep that is without dreams. And they will never be re-awakened, because only Neonia can wake them up from their slumber.

At the time Tokei's name was acutally Kurai, but she changed the name afterwards because she wiped out everyones' memories of the wars and what had really happened. She made it so that people thought that there had been a war, but only on Tokei as a struggle for power. And the current royal family won the war and made everything nice and wonderful once again. And no one remembers what truly happened.

She also created Oshuro at the time, and he only knows all of this because she had to allow her memory to be duplicated into him in order for him to be created. Oshuro really doesn't agree with the way Neonia solved the problem, in the sense that he thinks she shouldn't have put everyone else besides the Kuraians/Tokeians to sleep eternally. And there's more that he cannot tell me, because it will throw the balance of everything out of order.

Isn't it so terribly complicated?

Then, this morning I woke up very early. Oshuro wasn't even awake yet. I got dressed in an outfit Oshuro had gotten out for me the day before for me to wear while capturing The Blossom. It was green pants and a green button-up shirt, with white socks and black shoes. Rather plain, if you ask me, but I didn't mind very much. I then went outside to try to pinpoint the location of The Blossom, which was a little hard. I spent about an hour just wandering about all over the campus just trying to find it.

I finally sat down and focused very hard on it, and I managed to somehow pick up it's location despite the amount of magical energies all over the campus. It was the only one active at the time, actually, sicne most everyone else was still asleep. It was one of the flowering trees which was sheltering it, and I demanded it show itself.

It did, and it looked sort of like a lady. I didn't even have to seal it off, either. It just returned to card form when I said I had to seal it off. As soon as it was in card form all the blossoms on the flowering trees fell off and blanketed the ground, and all the other flowers died. It was a bit sad, but it had to be done.

I returned to my room and Oshuro was happy to see I had sealed off the card. I ate breakfast in my room so he could eat it too, and he ate about half of it! He may not be very large, but he has a huge appetite! And he must have a high metabolism, also, since he never seems to gain any weight no matter how much he eats.

Well, I have to finish up my homework today, or else I'll be in deep trouble tomorrow. I hate having to do my homework!

- Iyoneru