By the time night had fallen, little Annie—who had been bouncing around happily all day and still hadn't run out of energy—and a short-haired upperclassman who looked rather down and possibly had something on her mind had dragged their exhausted bodies back to Tokiwadai's dormitory outside the School Garden. When they reached the door to Room 208, they were naturally stopped by a twin-tailed young lady with a dark expression, who had been waiting there for quite some time and was now huffing angrily.
The twin-tailed young lady's expression suited her name perfectly. Little Annie had just been about to continue down the hallway and turn the corner toward her dorm room, but the other girl's "fierce" glare startled her. She timidly hid behind the listless upperclassman, and the two of them came to a stop.
"Hmph!"
"So you finally decided to come back, did you?!"
After a derisive snort, a voice brimming with sarcasm burst from the mouth of the twin-tailed young lady, who had apparently been waiting for quite some time.
"But what I don't understand, Big Sister, is this: when I left this morning, didn't I tell you to make absolutely sure that little Annie got to class on time? And to make sure she didn't show up late again?"
"And yet you let her corrupt you... And not only were you late, you skipped class together! You skipped the whole day, vanished without a trace, and even got to the point where you wouldn't answer my calls?!"
Shirai Kuroko had spent the whole day worrying and was still furious. After taking a deep breath, she pointed at the little girl and sternly reprimanded her Big Sister, Misaka Mikoto, who looked so listless that she seemed to have been drained dry.
Actually, Kuroko felt a little guilty