-1"You're joking!" Hayate screamed. All of the knights hurried over to Himeno's house. They transformed and went after the demon larva, which was specifically attacking Himeno's room.

"Why is it only attacking her room?" Sasame thought out loud. "Why isn't it trying to destroy the house?"

"I have no idea, but someone other than Shin needs to find the core. Shin you need to make a containment field." He flew off, leaving the Shin all alone to make the containment field.

"I see it!" Hajime shouted. "Water Flail!" Hajime hit the demon larva square in the core. It disappeared right away.

Andrea was watching the entire time and had seen the whole thing. She figured Himeno had preted with the boy who said 'Water Flail', but when they all transformed into their normal selves, Himeno didn't show up anywhere.

"Where is she, that little brat? Didn't she pret? And how come that boy was able to destroy my demon larva?"

She decided not to worry about it. She had to go to bed since they had school the next day.

The next morning, Himeno was ill. She didn't go to school, and the knights stayed with her while her dad worked.

Andrea was furious that Himeno hadn't shown up. She wanted to have a little chat. Since they had all of their classes together, Andrea decided to get Himeno's homework for her so that she wouldn't get left behind.

Himeno was herself that, except for the fact that she was still so weak, she could hardly move her head to sip her orange juice. She had to give the knights credit though. No matter what they stuck by her, and they all had very worried expressions on their faces as they tried to brighten her day.

"Are you all right, Himeno?" Shin asked. As weak as she was, she had allowed the three youngest to climb up on her bed so that she could read them a story.

"Yes. I'm alright." she said She cuddled him in her lap. "And thank you all for taking such good care of me." She said this as if she wasn't weak, but the truth was, she was feeling weaker than yesterday, if that was possible.

"Himeno? Andrea is on her way up to the door. What do you want us to do?"

"Uh…Just let her in. I want to see why she came."

A few moments later, they were face to face. The knights were standing right outside her door just in case she needed them. Who knew what Andrea was capable of now?

"Why didn't you come to school today?" She demanded. Her eyes seemed to be burning into Himeno, like they were trying to force her to tell the truth.

"I'm ill, Andrea. I can barely move." she whispered. All of her energy seemed to be draining away as Andrea was standing there. As if Andrea was the one draining her energy.

"Yeah right! You think I'm going to believe that? You're just faking so that you don't have to fight me in battle." Her eyes gleamed with a triumphant glare. "I challenge you to a pretear showdown. Fight to the death with no mercy. This weekend at 4 o' clock." she turned to look at Himeno, but she was asleep. Andrea was furious, but as she went to slap Himeno awake Hayate stepped in.

He was glaring at Andrea with a death stare. Andrea almost couldn't stand it. How could the person she was crushing on look at her so coldly? "I think you'd better go home now, Andrea." He said gently, never shifting his stare.

She walked off leaving Himeno's school books and homework on the dining room table.

"I'll get her. I know she's faking. It all depends on who wins the showdown, and I know It'll be me."

When Himeno had fallen asleep, she was thinking about her mother. Hayate walked into the room, sat down on the bed and stroked her face. He hoped with all his heart that he and Himeno could get married after it was all over and as soon as she was of age of consent.

He left the room thinking of how wonderful it would be. Gently he shut her door and was thinking of all the wonderful things Himeno had done. He was so very thankful that she had turned out to be the pretear.