Kyoto, night.
On the phone.
Chika: "Miko, what are you doing?"
Miko: "Copying the Heart Sutra, Chika. Are you enjoying the school trip?"
Chika: "Of course! It's just that tonight, the president and Kaguya sneaked off to have fun again without telling me..."
A long silence.
Chika: "Miko... you don't really like the president, do you?"
Miko: "I hate him! That guy isn't gentle at all, and he keeps all sorts of things secret. He's deceitful and cunning, and even though we agreed to protect justice together, he often breaks our promises on his own. But even so, whenever I think about how the president and Miss Kaguya are in love with each other, my nose stings and I feel so miserable."
Meanwhile, in Tokyo's Minato Ward.
A blond, muscular man wearing lipstick slowly lowered the phone in his hand.
Purple vines invisible to ordinary people also withdrew from the phone.
He tapped his chin thoughtfully with a sharp fingertip.
Miko, Kaguya, Ai Hayasaka, Osaragi, Ishigami, Kei... and Father.
"I see. So this is the happiness you seek, my son, Miyuki Shirogane?"
"Wonderful. I'm beginning to understand everything."
