Once I was sure that everyone was in the living room, I grabbed Ikaros by the arm and brought her to an unused room so that we wouldn't be interrupted. Ikaros, being
confused and clueless, asked me, "What is it master?" At first I struggled to get the words out of my mouth, but finally managed to talk. "Back when you were flying me to the
Synapse, you said that you love me. I'm sure that it must have been hard to tell me, not knowing whether or not I love you back. I want to let you know that I do, and I always
will." As I talked, her face was getting pink, and tears were rolling down her cheeks. Realizing that this must be a lot for her to take in, I wrapped my arms around her and
started running my hand through her soft hair. There was a long silence between us. Suddenly I realized, "I'm gonna be late for school! Oh man, Sohara's gonna kill me!" I got
on my school clothes as fast as I could and ran to school. When I arrived in class, the teacher was already lecturing, so I quietly walked to my seat, only to be yelled at by
Sohara for my tardiness. Instead of falling asleep in class like I always did, I attentively listened to the teacher's lesson. Sohara looked at me with great surprise. I could hardly
believe it myself. On the way home from school, Ikaros asked me, "Master, why did you wait to talk to me about our feelings until we were alone? Are you embarrassed about
what is going on between us?" "It's not that, it's just that I can't let Mikako find out, because I know that she would use that knowledge to ruin as much of my life as possible.
Even if doesn't find out directly, she has plenty of ways to find out." The next day, I once again found myself looking at uninvited guests. "Are you kidding me?! What do you
think this is, some kind of public property where you can just enter whenever you want?! From now on I'm locking the door, and none of you are invited in the morning!" Mikako
looked at me with an all knowing stare and motioned me over to her. "What do you want?" I asked suspiciously. "Not much. I just wanna know how it's going between you and
Ikaros. Anything new?" I started panicking. "Nope, nope, just the same as always." Mikaku continued speaking to me with utmost confidence. "Are you sure that you and Ikaros
didn't have an intimate talk yesterday?" My mind started to fill with fright, not knowing what that evil witch would do with this information. I tried playing it off like I didn't know
what what she was talking about, but to no avail. "There's no way you can convince me otherwise" she said with a grin on her face. "In fact I have video footage that I will
show to everyone at school tomorrow. That is, unless you agree to what I want you to do at the festival tomorrow night. "No no no! This can't be happening! How did she get
footage, I made sure that noone was in that room, unless she planted cameras secretly a long time ago to capture embarrassing moments. This would explain how she
always has something to blackmail me with!" "Fine," I said in a bregrudging tone, "I'll do what you want, as long as this doesn't get out." "Perfect!" she responded with joy.
What she wasn't aware of, was that I was gonna get revenge for all of the times that Mikako used me and the others for a source of entertainment.