"Um- Ayano-nee?" Kido asked.
"M-hm?"
"Are you sure we should have moved without letting dad know?"
"Uh- don't worry about it, I left dad a note..." Ayano lied.
"Oh, are we going to visit him again?"
"... We shouldn't..." Ayano murmured.
"Why?"
"It's... sorta hard to answer right now, just trust me, okay?" Ayano forced a smile.
"Okay... if you say so..." Kido said.
"We're back!" Seto said while he and Kano entered the room with bags of groceries.
"Thanks you guys!" Ayano helped them by carrying a few of the bags and into the kitchen.
Is Ayano-nee going through a phase...? Kido worried.
Kano felt his phone vibrating in his pocket while helping his siblings put the groceries in the refrigerator and cabinets. He took it out and saw that Hibiya had text him.
"I'm gonna go unpack my things in my room," Kano had lied again.
"Oh okay, I can help Ayano-nee with the rest of the grocerie-"
"How about you help me with my bed!" Kano grabbed Seto's wrist, "But didn't you already-?!"
He dragged him out of the kitchen and into his room and locked the door.
Ayano blinked a couple of times once her brothers left suddenly.
"What was that about?" Seto asked.
"Hibiya texted me."
"You exchanged numbers?"
"Before we left Kisaragi's house we did so so we can talk about the letter, you know?" Kano read Hibiya's message while Seto leaned in so he could see too.
Kano: 'Sup! So did you find anything in his room that might help?
Hibiya: No. I didn't find any 'paper cranes' that had messages and the computer didn't help either.
"Wait, don't you need a password for it?" Seto asked.
Kano sent a text to Hibiya about what Seto said and got a text from Hibiya after a few seconds.
Kano: Seto asked about the password to the computer.
Hibiya: I thought the numbers on the paper might be the password but it wasn't, turns out it was soda.
"'Soda'?" Seto sweated while Kano sent another text and got another reply from Hibiya.
Kano: Did you find anything on the computer?
Hibiya: No, he doesn't have any documents or anything in the recycle bin.
"So nothing huh?" Kano sighed.
"Does that mean it was never a code in the first place?" Seto asked.
"Who knows, we're talking about a genius here," Kano plopped down onto his bed.
"Yeah, all of what happened yesterday could have mean something or we're just thinking too hard," Seto said.
"'Thinking too hard'? Dude, Ayano-nee and Shintaro were discussing about the 'unbeatable heat' and there has to be a meaning, and why else would he put our names in that specific order?" Kano turns off his phone while saying that.
"Do you think we should confront Ayano-nee?" Seto asked.
"Who knows anymore..." Kano said while rolling onto his side.
"Thank you so much for coming," Mrs. Enomoto said while Haruka took his shoes off to enter the house.
"It's no problem, so what happened to Takane?" Haruka asked with his usual smile.
"She hasn't come out of her room since yesterday, I can't figure out why..." Mrs. Enomoto said worriedly.
"Yesterday...?" Haruka slowly frowned.
"So something did happen?" Mrs. Enomoto noticed that the usual happy boy was now frowning slightly.
"Our friend... he committed suicide yesterday by stabbing a long pair of red scissors into his throat..." Haruka said while lightly holding his throat.
"Our other friends, Takane, and I came over to his house to see him rotting on his bed like that..." Haruka almost whispered.
"Oh my!" Mrs. Enomoto gasped, "I'm dearly sorry about your friend..."
"I'll go and try to get Takane out of her room," Haruka forced a smile.
"Oh- well, her room is upstairs and the room farthest from the stairs on the right."
Haruka walked upstairs and walked through the hall just as Mrs. Enomoto directed.
He reached a room that had the door locked so he knocked on it.
"Takane?" Haruka asked.
"... Haruka...?" he heard fairly faintly.
The door slowly creaked open just enough so he could only see the left side of her face.
"Why don't you come out?" Haruka asked.
"I don't want to..."
"Is it because...?"
"Yeah... I just... don't understand... Why..."
"I'm pretty sure everyone else doesn't understand either and that they're confused, but, we're still moving on, that's all we can do, move forward, okay?" Haruka smiled softly.
Takane groaned a bit while opening the door just enough for her to slide out.
"Come on, how about we go get something to eat?" Haruka asked.
"I guess..." Takane murmured.
"But you better not order everything off the menu again!"
"Eh?!"
"Hey, how long are we staying here again?" Hiyori asked while laying on the couch and throwing a ball up and catching it and doing it repetitively.
"At least 2 years," Hibiya said.
"Your parents actually let you stay here for 2 years knowing that's it's only 'for summer school'?" Hiyori asked.
"Didn't you do the same?"
"Yeah, no school for 2 years huh? This will be nice!" Hiyori said.
"Yeah, but what are we supposed to do here for 2 years?" Hibiya asked.
"Hang out with the others?"
"But they have school too."
"Ah, if only I had a cool cousin that looks like a game character that was here instead of an idiot!"
"Hey! What is that supposed to mean?!"
"Alright!" Kenjirou held a packet full of paperwork and putted it on the table, "Time for home-school!"
"EH?!" Hibiya and Hiyori complained.
"B-But uncle-!" Hiyori sat up letting the ball fall onto her head.
"Your parents said that they wanted you guys to be home-schooled while you're here!"
"Papa and mama are no fun!" Hiyori pouted.
"Hey little guy where on earth are you from?" Mary asked while reaching out of her window to pet a small blue jay that was singing on a branch.
The blue jay lets Mary pet it for a moment then flew off to meet up with it's flock.
"The day is so nice, but..." after all that happened yesterday she just couldn't focus on her book, the only thing that caught her attention was the blue jay that was singing a lovely tune.
"I wonder... what will happen in the future?"