Just like yesterday the cafeteria of the Ashiyama High School was full to the brim, doing the line waiting for their lunches stood five girl's with the same face.

"So Itsuki, are you going to talk about your boy toy?" Nino was really having fun with the subject of Itsuki's private tutor.

"Nino don't tease her too much" Ichika put her hands on the shoulder of her younger sister "I'm sure Itsuki is going to talk when she feels ready, I mean we go to the same school after all we are bound to meet"

"Nino you're acting gross, stop" the third sister while intrigued about this takamine-kun she was also grossed about how nino portrayed the theme

"Huh?" Nino took offense to that and glared at Miku.

"Haha, let's calm each other, we are not going to progress if we fight with each other" Yotsuba entered to mediate between Nino and Miku knowing full well how sometimes these two would discuss over the smallest things "also Itsuki you really don't want to tell us anything about Takamine-san was it?".

"I already told you what there was to tell. I met him in the cafeteria and after chatting we set up a study session nothing more" Itsuki couldn't be more tired of this theme. Since yesterday she had been teased by her sister's with no end in sight.

"A study date you mean"

"Nino!"

"I'm sorry i'm sorry is just to fun you never show any interest in anything that is not food or your studies"

"But If Itsuki met him here. that means he also eats in the cafeteria" Miku gives her part in the conversation showing that while not being as interested as the other's she was paying attention.

"That's a nice point, miku-chan!" Ichika was also getting hyped at the chance of meeting this mysterious guy.

"Is he here Itsuki? don't worry we won't talk to him just point him out. to at least know his looks" Nino was really interested in knowing her sister type, she expected to be the stereotypical class president type.

"You're way to superficial Nino"

"At least is better than being the gloomy type"

Both sisters scoffed at each other.

"Yotsuba help. I'm at my limit here" Itsuki saw no other choice than plead at Yotsuba for a helping hand but said sister seems to be spacing out "Yotsuba?"

"Oh? sorry Itsuki I was just spacing out a little what was it"

"Like I said help with these two Yotsuba-"

"Hey, Itsuki" the younger quint got interrupted by a familiar voice.

All the girls turn to see the voice of the one calling their younger sibling it was a young man probably in the same age as them fairly tall with a decent built, brown eyes with dark brown hair he could easily be considered good looking if not for eye bags combined with tired eyes proof that he pull an allnighter the night before.

"Takamine-kun, hello umm.." Itsuki greeted her new friend but quickly got concerned over his clearly tired exterior

"Haha don't worry i'll sleep in infirmary a little later but can I borrow you a while"

"Umm. sure just let me grab my lunch and i'll go" for a moment she turned to see her sister's but seeing Ichika and Nino faces was enough for her to know that she shouldn't deal with them right now.

Just as she said that the cafeteria lady finished preparing Itsuki tray, with that booth went to a table in the corner. Itsuki the whole time tried her damndest to not look back. She knew her sister's were having either a surprised face or a teasing smile, she would not give them the pleasure of getting even more embarrassed for them. She just let out a sigh. When she finally sat down while looking at the wall and with kiyomaro in front of her.

"Sorry for calling you up out of nowhere, is not going to take that long if you want you can go back to your friend's"

"No no is fine, actually you save from a pinch there"

Kiyomaro could just raise an eyebrow confused with Itsuki's comment but that wasn't the point now.

"Right! I did the questions you gave yesterday, like you said I didn't have much trouble answering most of them but in some I have to go back to my notes to answer" sulking a little at the end that even with all the time he spent teaching her still couldn't answer everything on her own.

"Good. That's what notes are for, don't worry about it with time you memorize the equation's eventually" Kiyomaro tried to reassure his lunch buddy "anyway why I called you, is your father Nakano Maruo?".

Itsuki was surprised about the mention of her dad she didn't talked to him about anything related to her family yesterday "yes but how did you-"

"And you're supposed to be getting a tutor today right?" the confusion in Itsuki's face just grew but she still nodded her head "yeah it that's me, the call I told you yesterday about the one hiring me, remember?"

Itsuki just nodded her head, still confused over the whole thing, but slowly putting it together.

"When I answered the phone your dad, presented himself Nakano Maruo and told me today I would start my job, but apart from the direction he didn't say much more" Kiyomaro let out a sight follow up with a small smile "funny coincidence don't you think, but at least now I can focus on teaching you without intervention"

After letting everything sink in, Itsuki 's eyes were shining with happiness "that's awesome, Takamine-kun you really helped me yesterday. If you're my tutor then I can advance even more!"

"Haha is good that your happy, so i'm going to go to your house after school today, same as yesterday any big problems you had just write them down, well solve them together"

"Can I ask you now? there really was this problem in math class I couldn't solve"

"wasn't it rude to study while eating?"

"yes but-but" she really didn't think her own words would come back to her right now.

"Haha, yes. I'll answer the most I can but you're also right the brain needs to rest too you know" Kiyomaro started eating his lunch "also eating while working will dull the taste of the food"

Something struck Itsuki like a revelation "that can't happen!" But it made sense eating while studying would make the brain focus on what she was learning. Her ability to taste the flavor of the food will be reduced, or something like that was going inside Itsuki's head.

"Right? just eat at your own pace, I'm strick so better rest for now"

"Mm" she just nodded her head while putting food on her mouth, while yesterday had been a pleasant day this news actually confirmed this was the year for the Nakano sister's!

But for some reason she felt like she was forgetting something like she had to tell Kiyomaro something her father forgot to mention, Itsuki took another bite of her food, enjoying the taste and forgetting whatever concern she had.

"Mmm so that's the type Itsuki-chan likes"

"Of course she would like the nerdy type, at least he's good looking i'll give her that but still not my type"

"Nino you're being superficial again"

"C'mon don't give me that they spent the whole afternoon yesterday in the library, he must be a bookworm"

"Or he's really be into Itsuki"

"Woah to be that clingy after one day kinda creepy" Nino shudders after Miku's comment. imagining having someone after her with just exchanging a few words.

"What do you think? Yotsuba-chan" Ichika noted that her ribbon wearing sister was unusually quiet.

"Me?" Yotsuba was finally brought to the present, she had been lost in thought for a while.

"You have been really quiet" Miku was also surprised over how calm Yotsuba was. She had imagined her jumping around throwing questions around without stopping.

"Mmmm? I think we should trust Itsuki. She does have a good sense for this kind of thing, if Takamine-san was a bad person she wouldn't have gotten close to her." putting a finger on her chin Yotsuba gave her conclusion.

"Well will just have to ask Itsuki-chan when we get home"

"And will get every bit of information as possible"

"You two are having way too much fun" Miku was shuddering over how in sync Ichika and Nino were with this topic.

"Why don't we ask around about who this Takamine guy is"

"Great idea Nino-chan"

"Haha I'm sure Itsuki is not going to be very happy about this" but Yotsuba was going to accompany them regardless.

"Well is her fault for not talking to us about this guy"

Miku just kept eating while her sister's kept talking about how to gather information about this mysterious new friend of Itsuki, she turned to look toward the table where Itsuki was sitting with her new study friend "she seems happy" was the conclusion Miku came upon seeing the pair.

"Ok, while we decided to search for information about him we didn't expect this much" Ichika could only let out a dry laugh, they had asked about the friend Itsuki made but they didn't expect that amount of information about him.

"Was up with him! we expected to find an embarrassing story about him at most but we only found out-" Nino was irritated. She wanted to find out if this guy was a creep or a skirt chaser but the only thing every student or teacher said about him was.

"That he is a genius or at least that's the word every person we asked give us, every exam since the entrance one, has been a perfect score, we even found some info that it was the same in middle school perfect score in every subject" even Miku event with her usual aloof attitude got interested in the theme, why was this genius highschooler spending time with Itsuki? Miku was painfully willing to admit that Itsuki wasn't the best in class or tests, what was there to gain for him?

"Hahaha it seems we are one that got surprised" Yotusba tried to maintain her upbeat attitude, despite the shock she also got.

Suddenly the door of the apartment was open, none other than the missing sister and the reason they went through all the ordeal of gathering info.

"I'm home, sorry it took me so long I was asking the math teacher something about the class" Itsuki walked in the room, practically ignoring the mood of the room "ah right about our tutor you won't believe me"

"Forget about the tutor, Itsuki, how much do you know about that Takamine guy!?" Nino interrupted Itsuki mid sentence.

"Again with this? Nino I told you he's just a friend I met yesterday."

"Look Itsuki-chan we asked around about him after lunch."

"What!? you looked into the information of someone just because he helped me study"

"Itsuki if you haven't been so secretive about it we wouldn't have looked for ourself"

"He just helped me study miku!"

"But that's the problem, why?" Ichika give her piece now.

"What do you mean why? he's just being kind"

"But itsuki-chan is hard to believe someone like him would waste his time in someone like us"

"What does it mean someone like him, you're being rude to takamine-kun" Itsuki was getting mad not only they investigated her friend, but now they were judging him.

"A genius Itsuki, we asked around and everybody said that he is the top of the school in every exam he had a perfect score"

"Ah?"

"Yeah while the opinions were mixed everyone said the same he is a genius and if he was a bookworm it would have been fine but what's up with him being also good at sports" nino had clear resentment in her tongue "is he going after you? Hey Itsuki, he didn't do anything weird during lunch, right?"

"Nino you're taking it too far I'm pretty sure Kiyomaro-san just wanted to help Itsuki" now Yotsuba inserted herself in the chat, at least wanting to give Kiyomaro a chance.

"We don't know that!" Nino was clearly worried about Itsuki but she was having problem communicating her feelings.

"Ok, let's calm down a little, Nino you're getting too hot headed right now" Ichika has finally decided to step up and mediate.

"Mhn"

"Ok, so he's a genius. What's the problem that he was willing to help me?" It was so weird that someone just wanted to be kind. Itsuki knew there were bad people around but at least she hoped her sisters would trust her more.

"C'mon Itsuki you know who it is, people will always look for ways to feel superior to other athletics, study, looks." Ichika took a deep breath. "Remember the previous school how some of us classmates used to look at us or how some tutors that were university students would look at us as if we were dumb."

"Mhn some of them even try to make a move on us thinking we were easy since we are dumb" Nino was clenching her fists by just remembering those times. At least they always took their side and kicked those bad tutors instantly.

"I'm pretty sure we shouldn't talk about ourselves like that" Yotsuba didn't like how Nino just degraded herself.

"Yes but Takamine-kun hasn't do any of those things"

"Yet"

Ichika let out a heavy sigh "let's put Itsuki friend on the side, our new tutor should arrive soon, what are we going to do?"

"AH! right what I was trying to say, Kiyomaro-kun"

"Itsuki-chan is not the time to talk about your boyfriend"

"He is not! just listen to me!"

Suddenly the intercom of the apartment sounded.

"That should be the tutor" Miku was hugging her knees, her motivation was practically non-existent.

"Will finish this later Itsuki" Nino wasn't satisfied with the abruptness the theme got interrupted.

"I'll go see who it is!" Yotsuba raised herself with a jump toward the intercom

Ichika let out a large yawn "and I'll go to bed."

"Wait everyone you haven't let me talk"

"EEEEHHHH!? Takamine-san?" the surprised scream of Yotsuba could be heard from the main room, which made every sister turn her head toward the door.

"I knew it he's a stalker, I'm calling the cops"

"Wait, nino!"

"Scary" Miku hugged herself clearly scared of the talker.

"This got serious now, I thought Nino was exaggerating"

"No no it's not like that! just heard me!"

Kiyomaro felt a little more better after sleeping in school infirmary, it was his fault for spending the whole night reviewing the material had send him, trying to look for a connection between the places or the artifacts stolen but he couldn't think of anything every attack of this suppose Mamodo was way to far from the previous place like country or continent far.

"I hope I don't yawn too much during the class it would be disrespectful to Itsuki, with how much she wants to better her grades I'll have to respond to that motivation" after walking for some while Kiyomaro reached the direction the employer had give him "it was floor 30" after ringing the intercom someone finally answer it "hello I'm takamine Kiyomaro I come for tutoring job"

"EEEEHHHH!? Takamine-san"

KIyomaro heard a loud scream then before he could answer, it got even more noisy on the other side of the intercom.

"Takamine-kun the door is open please come up quick!"

"Huh?" Now he recognized the voice on the other side, that was Itsuki but for some reason it was like she was doing some heavy effort.

The young tutor just entered the building, marked the floor 30 in the elevator and waited to reach the designated floor. Now on it. He quickly found the Nakano plate on the wall and knocked on the door.

Which was forcefully opened by a girl with long hair and two ribbons on the side with an angry expression. Kiyomaro was more surprised over the face of the girl angry at him than the sudden hostility, she had the same face as Itsuki.

"You stalker! How did you find his apartment? what are you planning to do with Itsuki!?"

"Huh?" Kiyomaro looked past the angry girl to see Itsuki holding a phone close to her and with her clothes and hair disheveled. Kiyomaro turned to look at the angry girl again "Itsuki, you have a twin sister?"

"Don't change the theme stalker, how did you find our home!?"

"Huh? stalker?" seeing that her anger was only directed toward him and no one else "me?"

"Nino, why don't we calm down. It seems he is also confused." from behind nino another girl came just as before he had the same face but with a shorter haircut, trying to calm that Nino girl but still being very wary of Kiyomaro.

"He is faking it now that we caught him, he has no other choice than to play fool"

"triplets?"

"Hello Takamine-san, can I ask a question" another girl came with shoulder length hair cut and ribbon on her head, it kinda looked like bunny ears, she stood closer to him and looked directly at his eyes.

"Huh? sure" still confused he nodded his head at least contrary to the other two she was actually being friendly 'the fourth one appeared'.

"Did you come here stalking Itsuki?" her question didn't have any malice almost like if she was giving him a chance to explain himself.

"What? no. I got the direction your father Nakano Maruo" when he said the name of their dad the sisters looked directly at him "I came here for a tutoring job"

"That's what's I been trying to say Takamine-kun is our new tutor"

"Can I ask something now?" Kiyomaro looked at the four girls that had the same face. He really was sensing a pattern here "is there a fifth one around?"

"Technically i'm the third one Itsuki is the fifth" and it came the last one or so he hoped, this one had headphones on her neck and had medium length hair which also covered part of the right side of her face.

"And I'm the tutor of the fives of you? or just some"

"what you wanted to be only Itsuki and you alone" Nino still didn't have Kiyomaro in the clear.

"No" he was getting tired of the whole being a creep thing, kiyomaro touched the bridge of his nose and let tired sigh "is just that I practically didn't get anymore more info apart that here lives the student I'm suppose to teach"

"Haha our father is not one for details but yes Kiyomaro-kun you're the tutor of all of us" the shorter hair girl said, happy that the situation was cleared.

"I realize that now"

"anyway pass, I'll go grab my things" mentions Itsuki while quickly going up.

"I'll go to sleep" said the one with shorter hair, letting out a small yawn and going back to her room.

"Mhn"

"..."

The other two just passed by him and went up to their room, he guessed they had little to no intention of coming down to study.

At least until Itsuki came back he only had the sister with the ribbon in her head.

"And you, nakano-san? Are you going to go look for something upstairs?" While happy he wasn't left alone in an unknown department, Kiyomaro also wondered why this girl didn't go looking for the studying materials.

"Ah yes, I almost forgot!" She walked towards the stairs but at the first step she froze for a little while then she turned towards kiyomaro "c'mon don't give up! I'll help so we can convince the others!"

"Nakano-san" kiyomaro was clearly touched over the energetic girl friendliness "you're right this is nothing I have been through worse."

"Hahaha I'm not sure to what you're comparing us to, anyway let's go" with that both of them went to the second "the order of the rooms are Itsuki, me, Miku, Nino and Ichika. Itsuki said she was coming, so let's go with Miku"

As they walked through the hallway Kiyomaro looked at the door that was Itsuki's, a little head's up would have nice, maybe that she had four sisters, when he wondered why she didn't tell him at lunch [she wanted, but over excited over the news and forgot] well he can't really blame now can he.

"Miku is the smartest among us, I'm sure you'll get along" at that the ribbon girl touched the door of the third sister.

"No go away" she opened the door for kiyomaro and her sister to let them see her disappointed expression "anyway why should we be taught by a guy in our year, no matter how smart everyone says he is."

And with that Miku closed the door Kiyomaro was surprised, didn't they just transfer recently, why did they know about him?

"Hahaha" his companion let out a dry smile "let's try Nino, she is really social and has tons of friends!, I'm sure you'll get along just fine."

"Didn't you just said that about you other sister"

With that she knocked the door of the Nino girl….. nothing, when she opened the door there was no one there.

Kiyomaro couldn't help but to put his hands in face, maybe it was the irritation of the situation or energy he got from that little nap was already running out.

"Let's go get Ichika, she is awesome you know! I'm sure she'll come down to study if we ask" she tried to uplift the humor of kiyomaro "just don't be surprised, ok."

When he started to wonder what did she meant by that? Then she opened the door.

It was a mess. It was the only way to describe the room before him a mess, not even when Gash came bursting through the window and the later ZAKERU got his room this messy.

"Didn't I clean your room the other day?" Said the ribbon girl While cleaning what she could.

"How can someone live in a place like this?" Kiyomaro was stunned, he tried not to look around too much, it was a girl's room after all.

The he heard a yawn and a blanket raised under it appeared the girl they were looking for "please don't treat my room as if it was an uncharted place" she really went to sleep, kiyomaro was actually impressed over how quickly she manage to get what it seemed a deep sleep "and you're our tutor? Is that how you got along so quickly with itsuki-chan?"

"Anyway, come back to the living room, so I can get teaching." Kiyomaro thought about going in and grabbing her arm to at least take her off the bed but then he remembered who would sleep with their uniform? It was better not to tempt fate after all this wasn't his day.

"Seriously Ichika how can you dirty the room so fast ep!" While cleaning what she could. His happy companion seems to have stepped on a round object which makes her fall back.

"Yotsuba!"

"Wait you idiot" kiyomaro tried his best reach her to at least serve as cushion, he pushed through the mess that was on the floor and manage to grab her shoulders from behind "see, this why you should clean your ro-" while he tried scowl at the owner of the dirty room. She was half raised of the her bed, she also had tried to reach her sister and in the movement she had thrown her blanket to the side, yes, kiyomaro had been right she wasn't sleeping with her uniform or any clothes for that matter, he turned his head as quick as possible, he really didn't wanted to give more arsenal to Nino.

"Eek!" like if shame finally caught up to her, she warped herself with her blanket again but even then that wasn't enough to cover all her curves. "Did you see?"

"..." He really hoped this day would end soon, then a pair of hands came to cover his eyes making sure he wouldn't sneak peek, it was Yotsuba who he just heard what her name was and who kiyomaro still have grabbed by the shoulders now working as some sort of shield just in case "...her ribbon blocked a lot of my vision" it was the best excuse he could come up with.

"..."

"..."

"Ahahaha for some reason I'm sorry is my fault for slipping" Yotsuba tried to ease the tension, Ichika went back to bed and covered herself fully with the blanket, kiyomaro didn't try to shake off Yotsuba hands or turn his head to have a better look.

"If anything the fault is in the owner of the room"

"You're too strict kiyomaro-kun" Ichika pulled her tongue at the serious Tutor.

"Just come downstairs, when you're ready"

"When I'm ready? So you did saw" her voice now had a teasing tone, looks like the shock finally passed and returned to how she was before.

With that he turned toward the door, his face was burning and any sleep he had was gone, Yotsuba was close behind him this time steeping more carefully.

When he opened the door to get out of Ichika he found Miku with an accusatory glare.

"Kiyomaro, I have something to ask you" Miku got closer looking directly into his "I lost my PE jersey, just around the time you came here"

He was really starting to get annoyed "I didn't even enter your room, did you check well?"

"I did, in every place it could be" she was really looking at him like a perv.

'You know what screw it, where is Miku PE jersey?' [Nino has it] answer-talker did the job, Kiyomaro was very conflicted right now. It was an ability that he got by coming back from the dead and now he had used to solve a missing jersey mystery "had you tried asking your sister like Nino or Itsuki?"

"...no" Miku looked at him. If he was dumb, why would Nino or Itsuki grab her jersey?

"Hey I baked too many cookies, want some?" It was the voice of Nino coming from down stairs wearing a PE jersey.

"Oh my jersey" Miku stated the obvious.