Volume 5 Chapter 6 Part2 (1/2)

shi+mazu Yoshi+no was in her own room, in her own house, troubled

On her kotatsu was a paper handle-bag you would find at a cake store, one that could fit three or five little cakes into

It was a Valentine's present from Hasekura Rei, her sœur at school and her blood-related cousin at home

”… Strange”

Last year the box was large enough to fit a hat So she prepared herself for an even larger gift this year But…

”It's half the size of a sobx What's going on?”

As she'd said to Yurew every year, and while it was a burden, she was also pleased by it How long would the cake continue to grow? When would it reach its pinnacle, and hoould it look then?

”But I didn't think it'd be this year-”

Yoshi+no looked at the box again, and thought

Lots of things happened last autu to beespecially anxious this year

”… Gosh”

She thought back to when she received it She could have been able to ask, ”Wow it's quite s remark at the time But they were in the midst of a little spat, so she didn't pay the size any heed

Well, she called it a spat, but it was

Rei-chan wasn't (especially) in the wrong, but she was still angry, so there was no helping it Rei-chan hid the treasure in such a weird spot, so the half-day dating ticket went to soall to show up s!

She beca all that, but she had to think about what to do with the box, so Yoshi+no left her anger aside for the moment

Right, the problem was the content

”It's not chocolate cake”

She opened the box, then sighed What was this about?

Ignoring the size of its contents, they were quite different from what she'd expected

Was this soe? But Rei-chan wasn't the type to use such means

”I don't get it-”

Even the famed detective Yoshi+no could only throw her hands in the air Plus, her biorhyth skills were failing her today After all, she was the one as supposed to understand Rei-chan the ure out where Rei-chan hid her treasure