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Lilian?”
    “Oh,
no.”
Lilian
smiled at Kevin. “Nothing’s
wrong. I was just…
thinking.”
    “About?”
    “About
how strange it feels to be back at school.”
Kevin
raised an eyebrow, prompting Lilian to elaborate. “I
know I haven’t
been going to school for very long, but it still feels weird coming
back after not attending classes for a whole month.”
    Kevin
nodded several times. “That’s
understandable. Most students feel that way after summer vacation
ends.”
    “Summer
vacation?”
    “Mm.
School lasts exactly nine months out of the year. However, the school
closes down during the three months of summer, which we call summer
vacation.”
Kevin
paused and looked up, as if a thought had occurred to him. “Of
course, I don’t
think we’ll
get much of a summer vacation this year, since we just had a month
long break.”
    “Oh.
That’s
kind of disappointing.”
    Kevin
shrugged. “That’s
life. We’re
actually one of the luckier schools because we still have summer
vacation. Most schools have become year-round schools, which people
attend, well, year round. They don’t
get summer vacation at all.”
    “Owch.”
Lilian
winced. She enjoyed school, but to have it all year? “That
sucks.”
    Kevin’s
lips twitched in amusement. “Indeed.”
    ***
    Iris
impatiently tapped her foot as she stood by the door, waiting for her
mother to arrive. Really, how long did it take for that woman to get
ready?
    “M-My
Lady! Please be careful!”
    “Hawawawawawa!”
    Iris
sighed as her mother tumbled down the stairs for the second time that
day. This time, she also had a large suitcase with her, which burst
open, spilling the contents all over the floor. One of Camellia’s
panties flew through the air before fluttering to land on her head.
    “Geez,
Mom,”
she
said, exasperated. “Is
there ever a time when you aren’t
tripping over your own two feet?”
    “Hawa…”
Camellia
looked up at her daughter from where she sat on the floor, tears
gathering in her carmine eyes and a pair of white panties lying on
her head. “Sowwy.”
    Kneeling
behind the klutzy five-tails, Kirihime looked up at Iris as she
comforted the older woman with some gentle head petting.
    “P-please,
Lady Iris, do not be rude to your mother,”
the
demure maid pleaded. “You
know it is not My Lady’s
fault.”
    “Yeah,
yeah.”
Iris
waved off the woman’s
words with an air of indifference. “Whatever.
Look, can we just get a move on? The more time we spend standing
here, the longer it’ll
be before I can see my sister.”
    Kirihime
frowned at Iris, whose two tails writhed behind her in agitation. “I
know that you are excited to finally see Lady Lilian after so long,
but please be patient. Our flight doesn’t
leave for another two hours, and the airport is only thirty minutes
away.”
    Crossing
her arms under her bust, Iris huffed. Meanwhile, Kirihime helped
Camellia to her feet. Her three tails also extended to impressive
lengths and gathered up the luggage her mistress had dropped.
    “That
reminds me…
just
why are we taking an airplane again?”
    “Because
we’re
not allowed to set up Spirit Gates in the United States,”
Kirihime
answered as she dusted off Camellia’s
clothes. “The
United States has been claimed by the Four Saints and, as per the
agreement set down after the war of 1868, no yōkai clan is
allowed to claim any state within the United States as their
territory. That’s
why we had to travel here by boat when we first arrived. Wasn’t
Lady Iris taught this already?”
    “Maybe,”
Iris
admitted with an uncaring shrug, “but
it’s
not like I ever paid attention to what that shriveled prude, Daphne,
ever said.”
    “L-Lady
Iris, you shouldn’t
speak of your elder sister so disrespectfully.”
    Iris
waved a hand through the air. “Whatever.
Can we get going now?”
    Kirihime
sighed. There was just no pleasing this girl.
    “Of
course, Lady Iris. Shall we get going? I have hired a taxi that will
meet us at