"Wai...wait! Yumeko, stay calm, I can explain, I was helping this girl..." Tatsurou said this to Yumeko, flailing his arms around, in hopes she would stop to listen, but it was useless.

"You think, I will listen to your sorry excuses for cutting classes, especially when it's my class that you are cutting, that also happens to be the one you are failing, huuuuuh?" Yumeko screamed this onto Tatsurou's face, while she pinched both of his cheeks.

"Ow, what is it with you and Hime, always pinching my cheeks, when I didn't do anything wrong!" Tatsurou said this to Yumeko in a painful tone, this, in turn, made Yumeko even angrier.

"Are you deaf or somethin', your cutting classes and your "not doing anything wrong" don't give me that kind of crap!" Yumeko said as she pinched Tatsurou's cheeks even harder, and as he started to contort himself in pain all of the sudden, Yumeko was given a small push that made her move to the side and get away from Tatsurou, that push was given by none other than Shirayuki, that put herself in front of Tatsurou, facing Yumeko with her arms wide open, it looked as if she was shielding Tatsurou, she looked honestly more cute doing this than intimidating

"Please stop hurting Tatsurou-san, and listen to him, he is telling the truth, he was protecting me from this moving armor just now, if it wasn't for him, I don't know what would have happened!" Shirayuki said all of this to Yumeko, in a polite and firm tone, and yet she was trembling, Tatsurou was behind Shirayuki still rubbing his cheeks to ease the pain.

"If that was the case, you should have said so sooner..." Yumeko said this as let out a small sigh and crossed her arms, Tatsurou then suddenly stepped out behind Shirayuki and got real close to Yumeko.

"Don't give that "why didn't you say so sooner" after punishing me before asking what was wrong, it's because of things like these, that you're always getting earfuls from your superiors, you owe me an apology!" Tatsurou said this to Yumeko in an angry tone, as he pointed at her.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry...it won't happen again, I swear!" Yumeko said this as she started to look away from Tatsurou, while pointing both of her index fingers at one other and looked nothing like the intimidating woman, that took an armored knight all by herself.

"Finally an apology coming from you, that's what I always wanted to hear!" Tatsurou said this with a rather smug tone as he shrugged.

"JUST BECAUSE YOU WERE RIGHT ONCE, IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT I AM ALWAYS WRONG!" Yumeko screamed this at Tatsurou, which made him hide behind Shirayuki again, in all honesty after all that was happening it was hard to believe that their relationship was the one of a student and teacher, then again there was more to it than that, Yumeko then placed her hands on her waist as she let out a sigh again and turned her attention to the knight's motionless body.

"So this the hunk of metal, that everyone is looking for, huh?" Yumeko said this while she squatted to analyze the knight better, that's when Tatsurou got out behind Shirayuki and walked towards Yumeko, so that he too could have a look at it, and honestly the knight looked unrecognizable, thanks to Yumeko's punching onslaught, bumps covered his body he looked more like a piece of junk than a knight now.

"So, Yumeko, what do you mean, with everyone is looking for this armor?" Tatsurou asked with a curious tone as he got close to Yumeko.

"Well, it's just that everyone in the anti-magic defense force is looking for him, and that we had to retrieve it, I don't know the details, they send the code black alarm and I had to drop everything to come looking for him, and it's Kuroiwa-sensei when I'm at work, not Yumeko, right?" Yumeko said as she got up and pulled on Tatsurou's ear.

"Ouch, I know I know, I'm sorry Kuroiwa-sensei!" Tatsurou said this while grabbing Yumeko's arm so that she didn't pull so hard, that's when it hit Tatsurou.

"Wait, a sec Kuroiwa-sensei you were supposed to retrieve the knight, right?" Tatsurou asked with a stoic but curious tone.

"Huh? Yes, that's right, why are you asking?" Yumeko answered with a puzzled toen and expression.

"I mean, if you were supposed to retrieve it, how are you gonna explain the fact that he looks like scrap metal?" As Tatsurou finished saying this Yumeko let go of him and started to think about what he just said, she first had a confused expression, then it turned into sudden realization, and finally, it turned into panic and fear.

"Your right, I was supposed to retrieve him, not beat him beyond recognition!" Yumeko said with a panicked tone.

"What should I do now?" Yumeko asked still with her panicked tone as she turned to Tatsurou.

"Well, don't ask me, I have no idea!" Tatsurou said with a stoic yet honest tone to Yumeko, that fell on all fours to the ground as she realized that she screwed up quite bad.

"This is bad, I can't believe I was able to mess up an order, the only way a newbie could, what is going to happen to me? I could lose my promotion, I could end up paying for a new armor, or even worse I could get fired!" Yumeko went on and on about how bad things turned for her, that was when she suddenly looked at both Tatsurou and Shirayuki, and suddenly her gloomy face turned to a mischievous smile that went from ear to ear which made them both Tatsurou and Shirayuki look at her confused.

"That's right I can use you two, to get out of this one!" Yumeko said as she kept smiling and looking at Tatsurou.

"Don't tell me you're going to pin this one on us to get away with this! Do you even call yourself an adult?" Tatsurou said with a worried tone as he pointed to Yumeko, meanwhile Shirayuki just hid behind Tatsurou poking her head out, as she was scared of what Yumeko would do to get rid of the problem.

"Shut it, Tatsurou, just give me a second to call the cleanup team, and after that, you two are coming with me, RIGHT?" Yumeko said to them as she took out her phone and started calling the cleanup crew with a killer intent look on her face, and both Tatsurou and Shirayuki.

"Yes, mam!" Tatsurou and Shirayuki answered at the same time and shaking in fear...

A bit later, in a family restaurant a bit far from the park...

"So, what will you be ordering?" A girl in a family restaurant uniform, asked politely to the table Tatsurou, Shirayuki, and Yumeko were sitting.

"Well, to start you can bring us some drinks, I will have a beer and these two will have some juice, as for the food, I don't want anything to fancy, so bring me something light and for these two bring them the best hamburger you have!" Yumeko said to the waitress, with a smile and finishing with a wink.

"Ok then, I will bring your order right away!" The waitress said as she turned away from them and went to the counter to make their order, in the meantime Tatsurou was looking at Yumeko, his arms crossed and a disproving look stamped on his face.

"What's the matter Tatsurou-chan!" Yumeko said with the cutest voice imaginable as she looked at Tatsurou.

"I'm impressed at how low you can step..." Tatsurou said after leting out a sigh.

"What do you mean?" Yuemko asked Tatsurou as if she had no clue of what was going on.

"Honestly you think that you can bribe us with this, to take the blame for something you did?" Tatsurou said to Yumeko, with a tone that was the same as the one a parent has when it is disappointed in their child, it was at this moment that Yumeko gave tatsurou a head flick.

"Don't go making wild assumptions like that, I'm not a villain that would blame others for the things, I was responsible for!" Yumeko said as she drew a magic circle on the table with her index finger.

"I'm just kidding, I know you wouldn't do that, but there's always a first time..." Tatsurou said this and finished with a rather mischievous smile

"Just zip it!" Yumeko said to Tatsurou as she finished drawing the magic circle, and suddenly the circle started glowing in red, and Yumeko put her hand in it as if she was digging around in a bag, after a few seconds, she took out of the circle a laptop.

"Well, you see Tatsurou there is a way for me to get free of any trouble for having trashed that knight, and that's why I need you and...sorry I didn't catch your name yet..." Yumeko said as she turned to Shirayuki.

"That's right, my name is Izanami Shirayuki, it's a pleasure to make you acquaintance, and thank you for helping us back at the park, Kuroiwa Yumeko-san!" Shirayuki said to Yumeko as she did a small bow

"I see, I see, so your Shirayuki-chan, good, it's a pleasure to meet you too..." Yumeko said as she was already with her face turned to her computer, paying no mind to Shirayuki's presentation.

"Oi! At least look at her when she's presenting herself!" Tatsurou said to Yumeko with a faint angry tone, that was when Shirayuki pulled on Tatsurou's sleeve.

"Don't be angry at her Tatsurou-san, it's okay, she's busy trying to do that report and she got my name, so it's alright..." Shirayuki said as she smiled to Tatsurou.

"Ok, if you say so..." Tatsurou said as he looked a bit away from Shirayuki.

"Sorry for the wait, here is your order!" The waitress suddenly appeared out of nowhere, with their order and started to put everything on the table, her sudden appearance even made Tatsurou jolt a bit.

"Thanks!" Yumeko said to her without even taking her eyes out of her laptop, and the order was exactly like Yumeko asked, for her, they brought a salad and a beer, and for Tatsurou and Shirayuki, it was juice and two hamburgers, and we had to take our hat to the restaurants cook, it was a simple order and yet everything looked incredibly good.

"Well then, dig in, you two!" Yumeko said as she stopped writhing on her laptop for a bit, but Tatsurou wasn't that hungry, to begin with, but Shirayuki on the other hand was looking at her food with shining eyes, that's when she pulled on Tatsurou's sleeve again.

"Tatsurou-san can I really, eat this?" Shirayuki asked Tatsurou with a shy tone.

"Of course you can, Yumeko ordered this for us, so don't be shy dig in!" Tatsurou said as he smiled at Shirayuki that put her hands together and gave a small bow before starting to eat, Yumeko, on the other hand, gave Tatsurou an angry look.

"Don't be like that Yumeko where not at school, so it's okay to drop the formalities..." As Tatsurou said this, Yumeko grabbed her beer mug and took a sip from it.

"Your kind of right, so I will let you off the hook for now, well then why don't we start with the report, I think that what I got until now is good enough, but a few more details wouldn't hurt..." Yumeko said as she turned her laptop to Tatsurou and he gave it a quick read.

"I see, so you're gonna go with the classical "the suspect attacked two innocent passerby's and refused to cooperate so you had to use destructive force" type of report..." Tatsurou said as he looked at Yumeko with a worried expression for not having chosen a better excuse.

"Don't look at me like that, this one always works!" Yumeko said with a firm tone certain that this would work.

"So now tell me, what happened before I got there?" Yumeko askedwith a curious tone to Tatsurou that gave her a quick retelling of what happened.

"I see, so he appeared out of nowhere and started attacking you two, do you have any idea why?" Yumeko asked Tatsurou still with her curious tone.

"I have no idea why he attacked us, he didn't talk during the whole fight..." Tatsurou replied with this to Yumeko's question.

"I see so that explains the reason the armor was empty" As Yumeko said this, Tatsurou looked at her a bit confused.

"The armor was empty?" Tatsurou asked with a surprised tone and expression.

"Yes, it was empty from my quick analysis, I could tell it was a magic armor that moved thanks to argavite or by soul link, it was hard to tell, to be honest..." Yumeko said as she placed her hands together and put them in front of her face in a way you could only see her face from the nose up.

"So you mean it's one of those new armors that can be used without a pilot?" Tatsurou asked, a bit curious.

"Yes it is, perfect for war, fewer casualties but more destruction, all in all, it's just another problem they brought to the world..." Yumeko said this with an unimpressed tone, it was then Tatsurou decided to ask something that was bugging him since the fight he had with the knight.

"Yumeko can I ask you something?" As Tatsurou said this, Yumeko looked at him with a surprised expression.

"Sure, go ahead!" Yumeko said as she tilted her head a bit.

"You see, before you trashed the knight, he had a symbol in his chest that was from the British magic Organization..." Tatsurou said this to Yumeko that in turn made her look at Tatsurou a bit surprised.

"He had?" Yumeko asked with a curious tone.

"He had, yes and that symbol was a lion with a crown..." Tatsurou said, sure of what he saw.

"You mean that the armor, was from the Lion Emperor organization?" Yumeko asked with a curious tone.

"That is what I think, at least..." As Tatsurou finished saying this, Yumeko took out her phone and started to look for something on it.

"I knew that armor design looked familiar, and the other day we got wind in the anti-magic force, that armor from the Lion Emperor was stolen a few days ago, was this the symbol?" Yumeko said after a while when she finally found what she was looking for, and showed Tatsurou her phone, that had a picture with the symbol of the Lion Emperor Organization.

"Yes, that's the symbol, so that armor was stolen you say?" Tatsurou asked.

"Yes, it was, but we still haven't found the culprit..." As Yumeko said this Tatsurou wasn't really listening, as he was already in the process of thinking who could be the one behind the knight's attack.

"So, if the armor was stolen, then it isn't the Lion Emperor, that's after Shirayuki, then it means who stole it, was the one that ordered the attack, in other words, the culprit could be the woman that was after Shirayuki..." Tatsurou thought as he rubbed his chin a bit and to him this was the only plausible logic possible, but he suddenly got off the thinking tracks, when Yumeko began Tapping the table with her fingers as she gave Tatsurou the death stare.

"Tell me, Tatsurou, Hime never taught you not to ignore people when they are talking to you, huh?" Yumeko asked as an aura of doom hovered over her.

"Wait, wait, Yumeko, I wasn't ignoring you, I was just lost in thought!" Tatsurou said with his arms in front of him, as if he was surrendering.

"Isn't that the same as ignoring someone?" Yumeko asked with an angry tone and Tatsurou after thinking about what he said got to the conclusion that Yumeko was kind of right, and just as she was about to hit Tatsurou in the head.

"Thanks for the food!" Shirayuki suddenly said this as she finished eating , somehting that made both Yumeko and Tatsurou look at her, a bit surprised, Shirayuki then proceeded to look at them a bit confused.

"Is something wrong?" Shirayuki asked with a curious yet worried tone as she looked at Tatsurou and Yumeko.

"Nothings wrong...well, we haven't even touched our food yet, we shouldn't let it go to waste..." Yumeko said as she prepared to eat her food, with Tatsurou doing the same.

After a while, they finished eating, Yumeko got up first to pay up and Tatsurou and Shirayuki went outside and waited for her and after a brief moment Yumeko got out...

"Well, then I already paid up, now it's time for me to get back to the office and take care of the paperwork, oh, and thanks for taking time to help me with the report!" Yumeko said as she stretched a bit.

"You're welcome, and thanks for the food!" Tatsurou said after a small bow.

"T-Thanks for the food!" Shirayuki said while repeating Tatsurou's gesture.

"Your welcome! See you..." As Yumeko said this and was about to take her leave Tatsurou interrupted her.

"Wait a sec..." Tatsurou said to Yumeko as he got close to her.

"Listen Yumeko I didn't say anything back there, but I think that the person that stole the armor, is a woman in her 30, red hair and she is wearing priest's robes..." Tatsurou said this to Yumeko as if he was telling a secret.

"You sure about that?" Yumeko asked with a suspicious tone and expression.

"I'm not 100% right, but it's pretty close!" Tatsurou said with a serious expression, that impressed Yumeko a bit.

"Ok then, I will look into it, so stay out of trouble, alright?" Yumeko said to Tatsurou as she gave him thumbs up.

"Don't worry I will..." Tatsurou responded to Yumeko so she could go without having to worry about anything, after a while when all the goodbyes were said and done, it was just Tatsurou and Shirayuki, again a silence reign over them, it was then that Shirayuki pulled on Tatsurou's jacket, surprising him in the process.

"T-Tatsurou-san can I ask you a favor?" Shirayuki asked as she looked down and blushed from ear to ear, something that made Tatsurou curious.

"Sure you can, what is it?" Tatsurou asked as looked at Shirayuki and waited for her request, after a while of looking down and to all sides she finally mustered the courage to ask Tatsurou that favor.

"W-Well then, Tatsurou-san, would you let me stay with you?" Shirayuki asked this with all of her courage and Tatsurou, just stood there without reaction or words to say, other than the biggest "huh", ever heard...