Chapter 195 - Drowning Herself with Work (1/2)

It has been a few days since Kisuke and Yoruichi went to their merry vacation and Sona has busied herself with schoolwork every day without even being aware that they left the country.

”... And that will be everything for today.” Tsubaki finished reporting to Sona who is still typing down some doc.u.ments.

”...Thank you... You may go.” Sona briefly replied.

Ever since Sona and her sister, Serafall, came back from Kisuke's place, she has been like this. Although Sona tends to work hard, this particular case is much worse to the point that Tsubaki and the members of the student council can easily tell that Sona is very tired which doesn't happen.

Tsubaki especially knew that she pushing herself too hard because she noticed the rings around Sona's eyes that she tried to hide with makeup. This suggests that she hasn't been getting any sleep these past few days.

Tsubaki even sneaks in her house to see what she has been up to, but to her surprise, it's more work and she'll do it until morning. She will only stop if she about to go to school.

Tsubaki knew that there couldn't be that much work and checked what Sona is working on and saw that she's already planning everything for the school she wanted to establish in the Underworld instead of letting the experts do it for her. She hasn't even got the permission of the elder to build it so one can say that she's working on something that can prove useless in the future.

Tsubaki wanted to ask what happened back then, but she couldn't find the right timing or the courage to directly confront her about it. She's trying very hard to hide it after all. Asking Serafall didn't come to her mind due to her position.

But today is different since she receives information from the House of Sitri that monitors the general trend of Underworld. Since Kisuke is one of the people of interest and the one who defeated Sona in chess along with her apparent acceptance of her loss by declaring that he may become her fiance in the future, he's also under the surveillance of the House of Sitri, ”Kaichou, a news came from the House of Sitri that you might be interested in.” Tsubaki hopes that she could get some reaction from Sona with this information and try to guess what really happened.

Sona looked up to Tsubaki with a deadpan face and replied, ”What is it?”

”Urahara Kisuke was seen in Greece a few days ago.” Tsubaki stared intently at Sona and answered.

Sona was shaken at her words and hurriedly looked back down on her work. This is the first time since a few days ago that Sona reacted strongly. Tsubaki can even see that her hands are trembling a bit, ”I-is that so?” Sona resumed typing but she kept making mistakes with what she's doing and kept hitting the backspace button.

”Yes...” Tsubaki waited for a while but Sona didn't ask a follow-up question which confused her greatly. All this time, she would always be interested in Kisuke's actions for reasons like wanting to invite him in their peerage.

After a few seconds, Sona spoke up because the silence is getting awkward, ”By the way, how are the preparations for the Athletic Meet?”

'She changed the topic!? And in such a bad way!' Despite being shocked inwardly, Tsubaki answered straight, ”Although there are some delays, everything is fine and we'll be done before the meet.” Tsubaki already reported this earlier but she didn't point it out, 'Kisuke-san... Just what happened?'

”Good... I'll take my leave now. I want to rest.” Sona stood up and went straight for the door.

Before she could exit, Tsubaki called out from behind, ”Kaichou...”

Sona turned around, ”What is it?”