"Ren, please don't tell Yoh-kun and my brother about Anna." Pilica pleaded.
"B…But… He's got to know! He's Anna's fiancé!" Ren replied back, trying to get some more information.
"Not anymore! Not after what he has done to Anna!" Pilica cried, hitting the wall with her hands.
Ren grabbed her hands to stop her action. He gave Pilica sharp look, and Pilica stopped.
She stopped for awhile before broke apart and began crying.
"He cheated on her! He even transferred his furyoku to whomever girl he's going out with! How could he! Tell me, Ren, how could he!" She screamed.
Ren tried to calm her down. He grabbed her by force, and pulled her into his arms. There, he said to himself. It felt better that way for him, and for her.
"Tell me… Ren… how could… he…? To… Anna…? How?" She sobbed in his arms.
Ren could not say anything that time. It seemed like Pilica needed time to be heard, and Ren understood. And then, she asked him a favor.
He dropped Pilica to Funbari Inn and left without saying any words. He knew that if he did, he would not stop talking about how mad he was at himself for taking less care of Pilica.
Pilica opened the door of theinnand suddenly heard footsteps coming toward her. She calmed herself down quickly, not wanting anyone to know that she had cried before.
"Pilica! You're finally here!" Horo Horo said, saying it quickly for he was out of breath.
"Yupe! Is there anything I can do for you, oni-chan?" She asked him.
"Okay, first of all… Do you know where Anna and Tamao are?" Horo Horo said in his I-worry-about-them tone.
Pilica stopped and took a deep breath before turned to face her brother.
"Nope! Why you ask?" Pilica asked back in return sweetly.
Horo Horo shrugged and then replied,
"We've got problems with them. Well, you know our problems… It's just; we haven't seen them since we got here." He said in you-know-what-I-mean tone.
"Why should I know? They are Yoh's and your girlfriends. You should know better than I do, Oni-chan…" Pilica said, shaking her head in pitiful look.
She tried to walk away from her brother, but he caught her arm and held her tight. She just smiled sweetly to her brother.
Horo Horo didn't really understand his little sister's behavior that time, and he felt that something wrong was going on.
"They are your best friends, aren't they? You maybe know places that they usually go to…" Horo Horo muttered with hope rising in his eyes.
Pilica stroke her hairquickly to drop Horo Horo'sgripbefore answered his question.
"They are not anywhere around those places. I've checked. Maybe… they run away… I might say?" She said mysteriously, walking away from his brother's openmouthed figure.
After watching her dissapeared to the stairs, or so he thought, Horo Horo went outside swiftly, looking for Tamao and Anna.
He told Yoh first before he left and grabbed some food afterwards for he needed food for energy, or whatsoever pretext he said.
"You're gonna pay, Oni-chan..."
And the blue hairedgirlslipped away from sight.