"This guy... he's way too arrogant!" Evangeline's eye twitched violently. "Chachamaru!!"
"Yes, Mistress."
"Go grab him and bring him to me!!" After saying that, Evangeline felt she might be going a little too far and simply changed her wording. "Forget it. Just consider him borrowed."
"Yes."
Chachamaru nodded and walked straight toward Jiu Ming. But just as she reached him, a new disturbance made her stop. Setsuna, whom Konoka had been clinging to without letting go, suddenly slapped the table behind her. Under Konoka's astonished gaze, Setsuna pointed at Little Nine, who lay on the table without the slightest sign of life.
"You moved just now, didn't you? You definitely moved!!" As she spoke, Setsuna reached for the sword at her side. "So you really are something suspicious. For Milady's safety, destroying you is the right thing to do!"
Setsuna's voice was loud enough to draw the attention of quite a few people in the class. Especially after seeing her seriously quarrel with a lifelike little doll, the expressions of these over-energetic girls became even more colorful.
A dark-skinned girl who looked quite mature walked over. She looked curiously at Setsuna's grave expression. She had noticed the situation here earlier and knew a little about Sakurazaki Setsuna. Since she was happy to watch the distance between Setsuna and Konoka grow closer, she had not intended to interfere.
But now, it seemed something had gone wrong?
"What's wrong?"
"Yes, there's something strange about this little doll." Setsuna nodded solemnly. The mature-looking dark-skinned girl beside her was Mana Tatsumiya. Her family lived at Mahora's Dragon Palace Shrine, and she served as the shrine maiden there, so naturally she was no ordinary person. "It's one millimeter away from where Milady placed it just now! There's definitely something wrong!!"
"Uh..." Mana Tatsumiya stared at