After noticing Toyokawa Shoko beside Wakaba Mutsuki, Mori Minami's smile became a little more genuine. "Oh my~, so Tsukushi went out to have fun with little Shoko. Well? Did you have a good time?"
"I'm sorry, Minami." Wakaba Mutsuki lowered her head, not daring to look at her mother's expression.
"It's fine. Young people need some space of their own, and it's perfectly normal to lose track of time when you're out having fun with a friend like Shoko." Mori Minami took the initiative to make excuses for Mutsuki, then warmly invited Shoko. "It's so late tonight, and there's no car coming to pick you up. Why don't you stay at my house for the night?"
"Eh~? Little Shoko actually has something to tell me? Could it be some secret between girls? Or maybe..." Mori Minami's expression suddenly turned excited, like a gossip-loving girl in a teenage school drama. "You're dating? Wow! That's huge news! Come on, tell your big sister all about it."
"No, what I want to talk about is Mutsuki." Toyokawa Shoko took a deep breath and gathered her courage, preparing to reveal Wakaba Mutsuki's dissociative identity disorder.
Yet the next moment, Mori Minami sighed. The green-haired beauty dropped her pretense and slumped back on the sofa. "So, little Shoko, you finally noticed too?"
"Too? What do you mean?" Toyokawa Shoko frowned, then a terrifying thought surfaced in her mind. "You... You knew all along about Mutsuki's dissociative identity disorder?!"
"Shoko, don't." Mutsuki tried to stop her.
"It was probably at her third birthday party," Mori Minami said. "Back then, Tsukushi and I were both among the many characters in the play. I'd never taught her, yet she effortlessly used the acting and lines I had performed in it."
Since Toyokawa Shoko had already noticed, there was