Five minutes later.
Inside the office that had been cleared out on the third floor.
The empty lunch boxes were still on the table, but this time, the people here were no longer as relaxed as they had been during the meal.
"Sorry, the table's a little messy. I'll tidy it up."
Kisara entered the room with a smile and briskly cleared the table, looking every bit the lady of the house.
"Man-stealing cat."
The words came from "someone's" mouth, quiet but loud enough for everyone to hear.
"?!!" Kisara turned her smiling face toward Utaha Kasumigaoka. When she saw that look full of "anger," her smile grew even brighter.
Walking in behind them, Eriri whispered, both frightened and excited:
"Wow, it's a real-life Shuraba."
There was a sharp flick.
Eriri hissed in pain and took a step back.
Just then, Luo Shu entered the office, his right hand still poised from the flick. He gave Eriri a casual glance and said:
"People who gloat get flicked on the forehead."
Feeling a little guilty, Eriri rubbed her forehead, then stuck her tongue out at Luo Shu.
Luo Shu walked past Eriri and glanced at the displeased Utaha Kasumigaoka, then at Kisara, who was smiling as she cleaned up the dinner trash. With a somewhat helpless sigh, he headed toward the desk.
"Kisara is the demon I brought back from Chiba Prefecture over the weekend."
Utaha Kasumigaoka's expression visibly softened at that, but she still refused to give ground.
"What does that have to do with me?"
As she walked into the office, she glanced at Kisara.
"Or are you saying the man-stealing cat you picked up is a little too clingy?"
Hearing that, Kisara, who was using chopsticks to sweep the scraps from the lunch boxes into a plastic bag,