"Eh? Where am I? This is, this is..." Faced with her little sister's question, Yukinoshita Haruno seemed to be dodging the issue. "Oh, right, Yukino, why are you asking that?"
"Mother told me..." That reaction only made Yukino Yukinoshita's expression darken. "You asked me to meet you at Totsuki. Where are you?"
"Uh, um..." Yukinoshita Haruno actually began to stammer. "Yukino, do you think there's a possibility that your big sister got lost?"
"Do you think I'd believe that?"
"Probably not..." Yukinoshita Haruno grew even more awkward.
"So..." Yukino Yukinoshita's tone sank lower. "You and Mother lied to me..."
"I didn't..."
"Then Mother lied to me?"
"..." At that, Yukinoshita Haruno fell silent. After a long while, she finally said, "Yukino, what if I told you I'm at Totsuki too, just still some distance away from you..."
"Hm?"
"You can't blame me for this..." Probably hearing the dissatisfaction in her little sister's voice, Yukinoshita Haruno explained, "Totsuki is just so huge..."
It had to be said, she was good at making excuses!
"Is that so?" Yukino Yukinoshita couldn't deny it either. After all, Totsuki really was enormous. If an ordinary person traveled on foot, they probably couldn't even finish touring it in a day, and Eishi Tsukasa's restaurant was halfway up the mountain—
Incidentally, since the second young lady herself had no sense of direction, a driver had brought her here. If her sister hadn't driven here, then she really couldn't refute that excuse.
"O-of course..." Perhaps because she had found an excuse, Yukinoshita Haruno no longer panicked. "Don't be fooled by the fact that I'm not there yet. My heart has already arrived..."
"Your heart?" Before the other woman could finish, Yukino Yukinoshita's eye twitched. "What use is that?"
"It really isn't useful..."
"..."
"If your sister had been