Dojima Residence, Sunday, June 19th, evening, 12 days until New Moon.

"That concludes Rise Kujikawa's regarding her temporary leave of absence from the entertainment industry. We're short on time, so if anyone has any remaining questions, we ask that you please keep them brief." a spokesman said while being aired on TV.

After a few seconds that were marked by people harassing Rise with questions, the spokesman said, "No more questions! This press conference is over! Clear the way, please!"

Nanako asked, "Is Rise-chan quitting her job on TV?"

Detective Ryotaro replied, "Who knows. . . but if this is her hometown, we'll have to deal with everyone who's trying to get a glimpse. . ."

Enforcer, who was watching the situation along with Yu, Nanako, and Ryotaro Dojima, said, "No doubt that things are going to get hectic, however, because of how Rise is, at present, a former Idol, the media are going to be all over the tofu shop in town. Not to mention that a Ghost Force Black Operations squad is currently guarding her 24-7."

"I guess that because Kanji was relatively tough, HQ thought that my friends and I were enough to keep an eye out on him." Yu spoke up.

"Yeah, but with Rise, we can't afford to take any chances regarding her protection. Currently she's being targeted for kill/capture by no less than three other PMCs operating in Asia, all of which are hostile to us. That's not even scratching the fact that the North Koreans want to kidnap Rise for who knows why."

Enforcer took off quickly and Yu went to sleep, fully aware that he had missed out on the camping trip due to a cold and weirdly enough, Yukiko had taken a picture of herself in her swimsuit and forwarded a copy to his cellphone. The next day, Ghost Force personnel were everywhere in town and had beefed up patrols around the Central Shopping District. At Yasogami High School, talk was made about Rise by pretty much everyone and even the Reaper based the day's lesson on popular culture. Once school was over for the day, Minako took off quickly and Minato knew why: he found out from Minako herself that she was Rise's older sister. Yu, in the meantime, decided to hang out with Ai Ebihara. Noting that Saki was eyeing him, Minato reluctantly decided to spend time with her along with Yosuke. They did try to have a simple afternoon at the floodplain, but something startled Saki and caused her to go through a traumatic flashback of when Adachi tried to rape her. With Minato's help, Yosuke was able to get Saki to calm down for a few moments only for her to break down and start crying into Hanamura's chest. Yosuke said to her calmly, "You're not all alone in this, Saki-sempai. You have me to rely on." Once he did, Saki slowly stopped crying and thanked him for comforting her through the flashback. The next day Yu was with someone else and Minato was quick to get on with practice, leaving Yosuke with Saki once again. This time there was no random startle or anything that caused a flashback for Saki Konishi and they went shopping in Okina City for the afternoon.

On Wednesday, which was about 9 days until the New Moon, there was a ton of chatter amongst the students of Yasogami High.

"Hey, did you hear? It looks like Rise Kujikawa really is here! You know the tofu shop Marukyu? The owners of that place have the same last name: Kujikawa!" a female student said.

"Seriously!? Hey, I practically live next door!" a male student exclaimed.

"And from what I currently know, Minako-sempai is Rise's older sister! She must be proud to have an Idol for a younger sibling!" the female student said before leaving with the male student.

After chatting with Yosuke, Yu went with him, Kanji, Saki, Minato, and Kou went to the tofu shop. Once there, they saw Wellington directing traffic, explaining that people were trying to park in the middle of the shopping district. After talking with him for quite a bit, the team went in and Yosuke said, "Let's see here. . ." before looking around.

Minato's eye gleamed for a moment when he saw copper hair and asked, "Hold on, could you possibly be Rise Kujikawa, by any chance?"

The head of copper hair turned towards him and the person turned out to be a girl. She said, "Yeah, I'm Rise Kujikawa. What's going on?"

"You do know that you're going to be placed under 24-hour guard, right?" Minato replied.

"Yeah. It's kinda necessary, even if a bit overkill. Who are you, anyway?"

"Minato Arisato."

"Oh, you're the one who awoke about two months ago. Your name was found in a side story on a newspaper that I was reading."

It was at that moment that Minako came in and said, "Sheesh, that was annoying to get through! Oh, hello there, Rise-chan."

"Oh, it's you, Sis! How have things been going, Minako-chan?" Rise said to Minako.

Yosuke heard what was going and said, "What the. . . !? Minako-sempai is Rise's older sister!?"

"You JUST figured that out?" Minato said to Hanamura, clearly annoyed.

After chatting for a bit with both Rise and the tofu shop owner, the team left and went home after Enforcer gave everyone Rise's bios.