Yoshino raised her head and looked at the large screen.
On the television, two women who appeared to be twins were arguing over a man.
It was the family drama that aired at this time every day. In short, a soap opera.
For Yoshino, who rarely went out and did not attend school, it was one of her few sources of joy.
At least she still had television to watch.
With that thought, Yoshino's disappointment vanished.
The plot was simple enough: a pair of twins had fallen in love with the same man.
Now they were scheming against each other to become his wife.
Yoshino, who was watching with her, spoke up.
"What a mess."
"Mm..."
Yoshino nodded in agreement.
But just as the male lead was about to announce his final choice—
"We interrupt this program with breaking news. Satellite observations have detected an unprecedented twin hurricane above Orumi Island, near Izu.
"Experts estimate that the storm is advancing at an astonishing speed of three hundred kilometers per hour..."
The picture abruptly switched to a weather bureau presenter delivering the report with a grave expression.
On the large screen behind her was an enormous storm pattern that looked almost perfectly symmetrical.
But Yoshino did not care about any of that. All she wanted to know was whom the male lead had chosen.
She looked close to tears as she muttered plaintively,
"Um... my... show..."
Meanwhile...
While Yoshino watched the latest weather report, Lingmeng sat on the plane, bored and nearly asleep.
Her eyes were hazy. Her head dipped, then jerked back up.
"Mm... can't sleep..."
Lingmeng mumbled, her face heavy with drowsiness.
Tohka and Origami were not leaning on her and making her shoulders ache as they had before.
But they had been on the plane for so long