Ren shakes his head. No, no, no, this isn't how she'll take it all. Something isn't right. He opens his eyes again and watches her watch the rest of the movie, her popcorn eating evenly paced so she is at the bottom of the bowl. He walks up and sits on the back half of the beanbag, careful not to disturb her when she has gotten herself comfortable. "How's the movie, Mogami-san?"

"It's a good movie, like any movie with Father in it. He sure is a proficient actor. I haven't seen this one, but I knew it was going to be good if it had him in it." The end credits roll and it is indeed a Hizuri Kuu film. Was that on purpose or a coincidence? I wonder what movie the president chose... She keeps looking at the screen as if to remember it in her head. "Is your work with the president done?"

"Yes, it is."

"So we're going to see him then?"

"There's no need."

Her whole body turns around to look at him. "What do you mean? I thought you were going to take me to see him..."

"I didn't need to take you anywhere," he admits. Like pulling off a bandaid.

"So you lied to me?"

"Unintentionally, yes. I guess I have. But who am I to decide the right time to give the truth?"

Confusion clearly colors her face. "What's the truth then?"

"Remember earlier when I said I was going to make it easier?"

"Yes?"

"That's because I had thought I would catch you being Bo tonight." Her eyes go wide.

"What?"

"Bo, the chicken? I know you play him."

She fails to meet his eyes, a dead giveaway. "How could I play the chicken you had me meet?"

"I don't know how you did it, but I applaud you for that farce. Just keep in mind why you wanted that secret."

"But I don't-"

"Kyoko, please."

She freezes. "You called me Kyoko."

"I did." Dammit.

"You have never done that before."

"Without honorifics? Yes, I haven't. Wait, no, I did it earlier, but that isn't the point I guess. The point is, I can't make plans around you because you do things like earlier that trips people up."

"...so your plan was?"

"Catch you as Bo and use that situation to explain why I never told you about the Kuon we know."

"But it failed because I had Hikaru-san play dumb and memorize a script to go on?"

"Hikaru-san? That was the host we met when we got there?"

"Yes. He is closer to my height and was willing to help me. Without more of an explanation."

"That was a script?"

"Of course it was. I told him what to say as I was saying it and I steered it. I didn't tell him why though, or about what happened with tentekomai, or even what else we talked about! I just covered what would probably convince you, I swear." She lead the act...huh. Virtually unscripted with no time to prepare and no clue if it was going to work, and she led it. I'd be more impressed if I weren't the one she was playing. "But how does this work with Kuon?"

Wait. As intelligent and how well she can accurately draw conclusions when faced with evidence as she is, she still needs this drawn out? "Because Kuon in a 'Cain Heel' setting is only part of it."

"What's the other part of it?"

"Because the situation is set up kind of like Bo, believe it or not. He's closer than you think."

"Really?"

"Yes, really."

He watches her thoughts dance behind her eyes before they seem to click in some fashion. Her eyes get wide. "It can't be..." He sighs as she shakes her head in disbelief. "It isn't true! Please tell me it isn't."

"Sadly, Mogami-san, it's true."

"But I don't see how it is possible!"

"I didn't think it was true at first either."

"How many more are there?" Huh? How many more...?

"What?"

"'Cain Heel' situations." She throws her hands up before counting on her fingers. "There's you with the whole 'Tsuruga Ren' thing you have going on that you still haven't explained, and then you as the 'Cain Heel', and then now your telling me that the president is-"

"Woah! Who said anything about the president?" Just how the Hell does her mind work anyway?

"You said we didn't have to go anywhere else, right? So then he is here. This is the president's office, so naturally-"

"Just how old do you think he is? You met Kuon at least eleven years ago and he was young then. You yourself have met the president's granddaughter, Mogami-san."

"Age doesn't matter. Chiori-san said that fairies were called the Immortal Butterflies, so I don't thing age matters. The president is the master of disguise and makes things happen like magic, like the time he had the office turned into a safari. For all we know, he's really a shapeshifting fairy of the Earth trying to gain power and spread it's thought among the populace. He could have been masquerading as father's son to help in his scheme and the Guam thing was a check up on his personal plan with me."

"Personal plan?"

"Hence the LoveMe section!" She continues. "Why didn't it exist before me? Why did I have to lead it as LoveMe Member Number One? It's his special little group to spread his thoughts personally, I think, and since he worked with me as a kid, I guess he decided to start it now. People refer to the LoveMe Section as the president's favourite and he is so involved with us, isn't it logical?"

Holy hell... Ren pulls back Kuon's feelings that the girl is almost nuts and stands forward himself to give off the feeling of a semi-neutral stance in order to guide her to reason. "When did you become such a conspiracy theorist?"

Kyoko shrugs. "Moko-san curses the group a lot and we've played ideas off of one another since she started pointing out the oddity of it." She says offhandedly. "I'm going to have to tell her of this one, Tsuruga-san."

"I don't think you should tell Kotonami-san."

"Why can't I tell her?"

"Because it is far-fetched and not true?"

"Wait, it is a secret, huh..." She sighs at the thought of keeping something from her best friend.

"There's that too. Mogami-san, there is a very simple answer to all of this and that isn't it."

"About the president being a fairy?"

"No. He isn't a fairy. No one I know is a fairy," he clarifies.

"Oh. So what is he?"

"He's just a cosplaying president of an entertainment company. Not magical, but very eccentric."

"Okay then," she says, sounding a little let down.

Unbelievable. "We came to the president's office because he knows Kuon too."

"He does?"

"He is the head if LME. It would be weird if he didn't know, considering he gave him a new life."

"So he is like a part of the yakuza? Giving new lives to people to have them start again?"

"No, there is no huge operation like that. No conspiracies or wildly imaginative things. He just took Kuon and put him in a new place with a new life."

"He's a kidnapper?"

"Julie likes to think so anyway, but no, there was nothing sinister about it."

"Julie?"

"Sorry, it's Hizuri Julie, Kuon's, and in a way your, mom."

"Alright. And did the same thing happen to him happen to you?"

Ren's taken aback by her turn. "What?"

"Did the president take you away from your living family to give you a life somewhere else and leave your parents ultimately heartbroken like he did with Kuon and his family?"

He thinks about it and can see his mom telling it like that. "That is a harsh way to put it." It had mom's hands on it.

"Mom and dad still hurt over Kuon's absence, Tsuruga-san. I'm sure your parents feel the same if they are loving parents like they are. Unless," she gasps and her hands fly to her mouth in horror. "Are your parents not of Earth anymore?" Her eyes well up with tears and apologies.

"They are living, and are actually pretty loving."

She calms down with that assurance. "Do you talk to them still then?"

"I haven't in a long while, no-"

"Then you should talk to them! Kuon's parents are sad that they don't hear from him and have said that it will probably be a while more before they can, so if your parents do love you, you should really call them at least Tsuruga-san. They might not be my actual parents, but I write to the Fuwas in Kyoto every so often and they seem pleased because their son has chosen not to to talk to them at all. I wouldn't want your parents to go through what they do and only receive information from the news."

Now she's comparing me to that idiot Sho! He sighs, realizing exactly how tough it can be to talk to her about something like this. Ren may have been able to lead her on a few things and manipulate things to his favor occasionally, but really that would be the equivalent to an amateur magician against Houdini or David Copperfield. "How about I call them now? Would that make you happy?"

"I don't know if it would make me happy, but I can tell you it would probably make your parents' day." She smiles nicely and it somehow aggravates him.

"Fine!" He goes over to Lory's desk were the laptop was playing the movie for the projector. He disconnects the projector and brings the laptop over to Kyoko without the cord and sits right next to her after turning up the lights.

"What are you doing?" She asks as he pulls up the video chat.

"Calling them."

"Your parents?"

"Yes."

"And you want me to be here?" She asks hesitantly as it starts ringing.

"It would help me out a lot in the long run, yes."

The line connects.