Doma Residence, second floor.
"Doma, when you said you had something to do, you meant going on a crazy shopping spree?" After hearing the doorbell, Yukino Yukinoshita walked to the stairway and watched the movers continuously carry goods inside. She was silent for a long while before asking Sogo Doma, "May I ask what could possibly be important enough for you to set aside a friend's grades?"
"Just some necessary materials..." Sogo Doma did not have a pleasant expression for her now. After all, this girl's sister wanted to kill him! Though he had no proof, still...
"Necessary materials? Such as those snacks?" Yukino Yukinoshita sneered. She already gave people a cold impression, and when she sneered, well...
"Sorry, sorry, Yukinoshita-senpai. Those snacks are for Onii-chan to replenish his energy when he gets busy. We only bought them after Umaru suggested it..." Before Sogo Doma could say anything, Lady Umaru stepped in to smooth things over—no, she dumped the blame for needing snacks elsewhere.
"..." The reasoning was sound, and Yukino Yukinoshita could not refute it. But... "Let's say the snacks are for replenishing energy. What about all that cloth..." Before she could finish, she shut her mouth. Not only that, her eyes had locked firmly onto a certain panda plush as she murmured under her breath, "M-Mr. Pan... the out-of-production Tire-Swimming Mr. Pan...
"No, it's not just the out-of-production Tire-Swimming Mr. Pan. There's also Mr. Pan Super Bear, with fewer than a hundred ever released, and even a life-sized Mr. Pan plush... Is this the kingdom of M-Mr. Pan?"
Her voice was so quiet that if the Doma siblings had not possessed sharp ears and keen eyes, they might have thought she was spacing out or suppressing her anger. After all, she had stopped midway through her sentence...
"Yukinoshita-senpai,