After finishing the dishes Kai had hidden in his study room behind a pile of books, boxes and papers. Saya wanted to ask him where she could sleep, because the long day had made her feel tired. When she entered the room her brother didn't notice her. Only when she called his name he looked up. "What are you doing here?" she asked pointing on the piles.

"I am looking at old photos."

Saya went around the table to see the pictures from Kai's point of view. They showed his family and friends. On most of them she could see Hibiki and Kanode. Then she spotted the face of the young man, who had visited them in the morning. "Is that Hikaru?" Kai nodded: "I want to find out when he stopped to grow older. Since this morning he is stuck in my mind." He pulled two pictures out of a drawer: one showed Hikaru as Saya had already seen him and on the other he seemed a bit younger with a smaller body and softer facial features.

Kai pointed at the photo with the older version of Hikaru and explained: "This is the least photo of him, which I have. The other one was taken not quite a year earlier. That means that he has become a chevalier within that year."

While Kai returned to searching through the pictures, Saya took a closer look on those he had shown her. When she compared them carefully she found another difference in the young man's appearance. "Since when does he have that scar?"

Kai pried the photograph out of her hand and held it close to his eyes. "Why didn't I see that?" he murmured, "It only happened a month before he quarrelled with the twins, when he fell with his bike. That his wound left a scar means that he hadn't been a Chevalier at that time."

He seemed to be very exhausted when he laid his head on the table and whispered: "Why didn't they tell me? I don't know whose Chevalier he is, nor do I know when it happened." He hit with his fist onto the table and added: "The worst thing is that I don't know what he is planning and why he came here exactly the day you woke up."

"So you don't think that happened by chance?"

"Saya, I told you, I hadn't seen this guy for fifteen years. I am afraid that he will bring trouble to you and the girls. Why else should he appear, if not because of you?"

She shrugged. "Probably you are right", she admitted, "but who says that he is a Chevalier of Hibiki or Kanode?"

"I haven't heard of any other Chiropteran queens. But you are one of them. Tell me if that could be possible."

"I don't know. I don't really think that. I just wanted to point out the possibility…"

"One day we will find out," Kai said, "I am sure this wasn't the last time for him to show up."