The day has arrived for me to visit Kaichou’s house…this is nerve-wracking.

I managed to avoid student council works under the pretext of not feeling well, even though she doesn’t respond to me, I guess not holding me back also means she allowed it? I hope so

Here I am standing in front of the huge mansion that is also home to Kaichou and Koemi-chan.

What’s Koemi-chan going to say if I tell her I’m acquainted with her sister?

I pushed the button on the door intercom

“Hello? Anyone there?”

“Ah yes, what is your business here?”

“Uhm I’m Hitori, Kori-san’s…acquaintance”

“She hasn’t come back from school”

“No no, I don’t want to meet her, perhaps her parents are home? I would like to meet them for a bit”

“Yes they are here, let me ask them if they would allow, please wait for a minute”

“Okay”

Her parents are home right now.

Damn my palms are sweating a pool right now…

The nervousness is getting into my head, what if they are some strict parents where even breathing the air inside the house needs their approval?

After I stand there for a few minutes a girl dressed as a maid came approaching me and the gate opened up automatically.

“Are you the visitor? Then please come with me”

The maid asked me with a formal tone.

“Ah yes”

Then I followed her into the mansion, there was a beautiful garden full of vibrant flowers right in front of the house. There was even a fountain in the middle of it.

I never knew such a place existed in this area until just now.

I was stunned by the magnificent structure of the whole mansion as if the mansion was some kind of historical architecture.

Almost the kind that westerners would have. Perhaps they originated from the West?

The maid that was guiding me then brought me into the mansion.

Damn, the insides are as good as the outside, equally elegant as the ones residing in it.

Whilst being amazed, I heard a voice

“Onii-chan?!”

It’s Koemi-chan! Didn’t think I would get found out this early but whatever.

“Hey, Koemi-chan!”

“What are you doing here onii-chan?”

“Koemi-chan, please refrain from disturbing our guest, he has a meeting with Master and Miss shortly”

Master and Miss, is that how they address them?

“It’s fine don’t worry”

“Tell me tell me, why are you meeting otou-san and okaa-san?”

*otou-san refers to Dad while okaa-san refers to Mom

“There’s something I want to ask them about your sister”

“My sister? Do you mean onee-chan? Do you know onee-chan?”

“Yeah, she and I go to the same high school”

“Wahh, amazing!”

“What’s amazing?”

“She never brought home any friends before, at least after her-”

Her sentence was cut off by the maid that was guiding me.

“Koemi-chan, I think that’s enough, Master and Miss is waiting for him, we shall go now”

“Ah sorry, onii-chan you can go now under my command, umu”

Why am I under your command? What a cute kid.

“Then I shall go, see you later Koemi-chan”

“Be nice to them!!”

She shouted as I followed the maid. ‘Be nice to them’? Are they going to eat me if I don’t?!

This is making me more nervous…so cruel Koemi-chan…

The maid then asked me to wait in a room, I sat on the sofa in the middle of the room and waited.

The room has a professor room kind of vibes, perhaps her parents are scientists?

As I waited, my nervousness is making my body cold even though my palms have been sweating so much since I was at the front gate.

My heart was pounding as if a killer was beside the door waiting to come in and take my life.

Shit, I can't stop this anxiety!

“Is that the boy?”

Suddenly I heard someone whispering, then I turned my head towards the door and saw a couple peeking at me…

Could they possibly be her parents?

They had noticed me and were a bit in a panic before entering the room and sat on the sofa in front of me.

“Good afternoon, I’m Hitori Yume, an acquaintance of your daughter Yagami Kori and a friend to Yagami Koemi”

I introduced myself in a proper formal manner.

“Hitori-kun, so you want to marry my daughter is it?”

WHAT THE HELL?!

“Wha-what!?!?!”

Marry?! When did I even mention it in my life?

“Eh? So you don’t, what the hell Maria?!”

“Hehehe, it’s a joke!”

Peeking from the door, another maid said that and ran away…

“What the hell is wrong with you?!”

Her father also seemed to be chasing the maid in the hall…

Is this how Kaichou’s family is?…

Her mother then said

“Erm, sorry for the disturbance just now”

“My husband is always like that, don’t worry about them”

She said it like this is a normal occurrence in the house.

“Ahah, I didn’t expect it to be like this, I mean this house is already very fancy so I thought the ones living inside it are even classier, not that you’re not classy, it’s just a bit different”

“Rest assured I get what you’re trying to say, but our family is what it is, you don’t like it?”

“Why would I not like having cheerful people around me? Haha”

“What’s going to happen to you him?”

“Just let him be, he’ll eventually get tired and fall asleep somewhere in the house”

Why is she saying that casually…

“So what do you want to talk about? Oh, my bad, my name in Yagami Mayumi, and my husband is Yagami Shuji”

“I’m here to find out about your daughter, Kori-san’s past with her friends”

She suddenly had a different face than before.

“You want to know?”

She asked me with a serious tone.

“Yes please”

“...”

“Then let’s talk about it somewhere else, I’ll ask the maids to get something to drink, follow me”

She stood up and told me to follow her to another place.

Without any objection I followed her to a place near the flower garden, there was a small round table and two chairs there, where the view towards the flower garden captivated me for a while with its vibrant colors being amplified even more by the sunlight where the intensity is just the right amount.

If this was a try not to be amazed challenge, I would have lost before it even started.

As we sat down, a maid comes serving us tea and left shortly after that.

“This is the best spot to have a conversation in this house, such an amazing view,” she said as she watches the same scenery I was amazed by.

She put down her cup of tea on the round table and appear to be in a serious expression.

“So you want to know about Kori’s past friend?”

“Yes please”

“Assuming that you’re in the same school, you must have noticed that she doesn’t have any friends or at least ones that she acknowledges”

“Ye-yeah”

“I’m telling you this in hopes that you can help her, but you don’t need to push yourself”

She’s saying it as if they had tried everything but nothing seems to work, in other words, they’re at the end of the rope.

“I’ll do everything I can to help her, seeing her like this somehow hurts me…”

“Is that so, huhu”

“Around 6 years ago, she wasn’t like this, she used to be cheerful and happy all the time because she had many friends, but there was one friend that she held very dear to, her name was Sora, a very sweet and cute girl, they would do almost everything together, from eating to taking baths”

Baths?!!

“They were very close like siblings, she looked like the happiest person in the world every time they were together, if they were separated she would always be worried and feel lonely despite having me and her sister who was around four years old at that time”.

“One day, a very unfortunate event had taken place around this area, a kidnapping spree of children happened around this area”.

Kidnapping spree…hey…

“Does that mean…”

“Yes, her best friend, Sora was kidnapped…”

It can’t be…

“At first, when she heard about it, she thought it was a joke that we came up with so she kept telling herself that those were lies”

“After realizing that she hasn’t appeared for a long time, the truth unfolded itself slowly in front of her, she was slowly devastated”

“It came to a point where she would lock herself up in her room without eating or doing anything, I was worried to death at that time, she won’t talk to anyone, even her sister, I even thought that she might have killed herself in her room…that was the scariest experience I had gone through in my life…”

“Every day we would try to talk to her from the door, but there was no response, not even a sound of any movement inside the room…”

“Then one day, she came out of her room, acting weird. She would minimize conversation and just go through life as normal, like a robot programmed to do one thing and only that thing is what she would do”

“Her facial expression had also been the same all this time, the empty emotionless doll…”

“A doll, if I remember, she did show me a few other expressions…”

“She did?!!”

She suddenly stood up and got close to me being excited and shocked.

“Ye-yeah…”

“For 6 years, I had been looking at that doll face of hers…and you somehow made her express something other than that? Are you some kind of angel?!”

She seems genuinely surprised and somewhat in shock.

“Calm down Yagami-san…”

After I asked her to calm down, I suddenly saw water dropping on the table…I looked up and saw her crying with her hands on the table.

“Eh? Why are you crying?”

“All this time…I thought no one could change her…for 6 years we brought her to meet with so many people thinking we can change her somehow…”

“I guess fate does its job in the most mysterious way…”

Her face turned to relief as if all the stress she held up is finally able to be released.

“Thank you…I believe if anyone can help my daughter, it would be you…”

I was a bit confused but an urge had appeared in me to help Kaichou more than ever.

Thinking back, Kaichou really does make a good expression whenever she does one.

I don't think people who lack emotion express themselves as naturally as she did... albeit the chances are astronomically low.

Then was she faking her demeanor the whole time?

A while after that, her husband came and was told everything.

As soon as he heard about it, he immediately came and hugged me while tears flowing down to my shoulder.

Damn this full-grown man is crying like a damn waterfall...

“Thank you so much!!! Please help my daughter!!!”

“I will…but first, you need to calm down Yagami-san”

“Call me otou-san!”

Eh? Why would I?

“Eh…that’s kinda weird”

“Don’t worry! You have my consent!”

“But I rather not…”

“Hahaha you are a funny person Hitori-kun, I like you”

“Ahah”

Damn what’s with this awkward conversation…

Then Koemi-chan came running to me

“Onii-chan! Wanna play with me?”

“You know this person Koemi?”

Her mother asked her.

“The other day, I helped her find her way home when she got lost”

“Lost?!”

“What were you doing outside Koemi?”

Her mother asked her again.

“Well, I wanted to get some snacks…”

“Why didn’t you brought Maria with you?”

“She always bullies me and only buys her snacks all the time, I hate it!”

I thought the maids scolded her…

“Why didn’t you ask me then?”

“Okaa-san always go to the wrong store! The store you bring me is always a boring one!”

“Boring? But they got the fanciest snacks there…”

“I don’t like fancy ones!!”

“This makes okaa-san a bit sad…”

What’s with this kind of interaction…

“Err…Koemi-chan, I thought you told me-”

“Those were lies, umu”

Err…

Can I please have my generosity back…

“Okaa-san is very sorry that Koemi had troubled you before, how could we ever repay you?”

Why are they talking like this…this is putting me in a very weird spot.

“I helped her out of my own will, don’t worry”

“Such a saint!!”

Saint? Me? …surely not

“I think I must get going then”

“You’re leaving already?”

“Yeah”

I looked at my phone and the time is already late, Kaichou could be home any time, crap!

“We insist on you staying for dinner”

“Sorry, I can’t, I need to get going”

“Aw come on onii-chan, let’s eat plenty!”

Damn, they’re pulling me inside the house…how are they so strong…

I ended up sitting at the dinner table with them waiting for Kaichou…

Shit! If I got found out, I’ll be good as dead!

I opened up my phone and there is a spam message from Sasaki

“Kaicho heading home”

Shit! I need to get out of here somehow

What do anime protagonists do when they are trapped in a mansion by some villains?

Toilet!

“Excuse me, I need to use the toilet”

“Maria, would you be so kind to show him the toilet?”

“Okay~~come with me”

I followed the maid named Maria then.

“This is the toilet, you may use it”

She then left me why humming some song.

This is my chance I thought in my head, I ran to the huge stairs in front of the front door to escape but before I even arrived at the stairs

The creaking sound of the door opened gave me goosebumps, I immediately entered the nearest room to me and close it shut.

That was close, was that Kaichou?

As I turned around to look at the dark room, I can see stuffed animals all over the place and went to pick one up…

“Stuffed animals, how cute”

*click

A clicking sound indicating the lights had been turned on made me froze like a block of ice…

Kaichou had entered the room while I was holding a stuffed teddy bear frozen in action.

I tried turning around and saw that Kaichou was….mad….

I guess this is the end of my life

I was knocked out and brought to another room tied on a chair…a dark room with only one light source…

“You saw it…”

“Saw?”

My mind is a bit hazy because I purposely took her hit and got knocked out…

“You mean your sister’s room?”

“Koemi?”

She said in confusion.

“Huh? Do you mean…”

“That’s….my room”

Her room?! Never would I even thought that she likes these things…

On second thought she does like sweet things like the strawberry parfait… Maybe she does have a cute side…

“Why are you here?” she asked me with a serious, closer to an angry look, yikes...