"Vector! I'm taking Michio to school!" Second called from the front door. Vector walked out of their shared room, still in his night clothes.

"I told you that you just need to wake me up if you don't want to walk with him." He yawned. "And are you sure you want to? Aren't you going to get tired?"

She crossed her arms. "I was doing this much walking when I was pregnant with Michio, I'm just fine. Besides, I'm stopping by the doctor too." She put a hand on her stomach. "I'm going to see if they know if it's a boy or girl yet." She smiled.

"I want to know too."

"Well of course I'll tell you when I get back, but it's going to be a surprise." She left soon afterwards, leaving Vector standing there to guess if he was going to have another son or daughter.

"What about you, Michie?" Second asked as they walked to school. "Do you want a brother or a sister?"

The boy thought for a moment. "A sister."

"Oh really? Any reason why?"

He shook his head. "I just do."

She ruffled his hair affectionately. "Well maybe you'll get just that."


"Having one kid, I can overlook, but two? Really, Second?" Third said. Second ran her hand through her hair nervously.

"Well, this one was a surprise for all of us." She laughed a little. "We'll be more careful from now on, I promise."

"You're lucky you're needed. Honestly, I don't think Fourth and I can talk you out of this one."

"I know I know, just—can we please not talk about it right now?"

"Fine."

"Thanks." She smiled. "And just look at her." She looked down at the small baby cradled in her arms. "She's worth more than anything Eliphas could do to me."

"I guess so." He sighed. "What did you name her?"

"Mieru. Vector came up with it." she said, rocking the baby back and forth.

"Oh really? How shocking. But I guess she is cute."

"Mhm." She continued rocking her with a gentle smile on her face. "I'm trying to get Vector to find us a new house. Now that we have Mieru, it's just… For now it's okay, but when the kids get older we'll need something bigger."

"I see," Third said.

"Yeah, I'm sure he can manage something. I just hope he doesn't cause any trouble."

He sighed. "I never expected you to get so attached to him."

"I didn't either, but what did you expect, having me live with him for so long? I can't help but get attached in some way."

"I...guess you have a point. That kind of happened with Dark and I, but...you know—not like how you two became attached."

"Well Dark's a brother to us, so it's different."

"I guess." He got up. "Well, if this is what you want, I'll accept it. And having a niece isn't so bad."

"Glad you agree," she said with a small laugh.


"I wanna see the baby!" Michio exclaimed the moment Second walked in the room. First followed behind him and put a hand on his shoulder.

"Not too loud Michio, you might wake up Mieru," he said, trying to quiet him.

Second just smiled and looked down at her son. "You excited to see her, dear?" she asked while kneeling down.

He nodded eagerly.

"Well first you have to promise me that you'll be very quiet, and you have to be careful too. Okay?"

He nodded again.

She moved the blanket wrapped around Mieru a little so he could see her face. Her orange locks clung to her face and just then she opened her big, green eyes to look at her brother.

"Ah! Hi baby, I'm your big brother." Michio held her small hand gently.

"Her name's Mieru, dear."

"Oh, Mieru, well I'm Michio."

Mieru gurgled a bit and then yawned. Her eyes began to close once more and she fell back to sleep in her mother's arms.

"Aww," Michio whined.

"There, there, dear—you can play with her later." She got up and looked at First. "Thanks for watching him, I hope he wasn't too much for you."

"Oh no, it was fine, we had lots of fun." He grinned. "I didn't know he knew how to duel either, so that was fun, even though it was hard to explain some things to him."

"Yeah, well Vector taught him, and he still can't read everything. But still, how nice of you to do that with him."

He nodded and smiled. "It was nothing, I'm always willing to help you out."

"That's good, because I might have you watch him again, now that we have Mieru to care for."

"Well just tell me and I will." He patted Michio's head. "How does that sound Michie? You want to play with me more?"

He nodded his head eagerly.

Second chuckled. "Well I'll let you two keep playing while I take care of Mieru."

"Yay!" Michio cheered happily.