While Sakura and Coquelicot pried Erica off of Ogami, the French nun accidentally let go of the balloon that she had worked so hard to catch from the tree. "Oh no!"
"I got it!" shouted Kohran and she managed to get her hands around the string. "Hm? A letter?" She pulled the paper off from the string and opened it up.
"Wow, that was a close call," commented Ogami as he got up.
"You okay, Ichiro?" asked Coquelicot while shooting imaginary daggers at Erica.
"Ah, just a little scrape." He paused when he saw Kohran looking at something. "What do you have there, Kohran-kun?"
"It's a letter written in Chinese, Ogami-han. It says 'Greetings...... I send you the seeds of a flower that grows in my village. It is a lovely flower. I hope that the world may be filled with flowers.'" She smiled a little. "Hope entrusted to a balloon...... what a nice kid that must be. Especially if they want flowers to bloom all over the world."
"Maybe we can plant some flowers in the garden! Can we, onii-chan?"
He gave it some thought before responding to Iris. "How about we give half of these to Paris so that the same beautiful flowers will bloom in both places? That way, the person who sent this will have their wishes reach Paris too." It looked like things had settled down some which was a good thing albeit a bit weird since only a minute ago, Erica had really raised the ire of the other girls in the immediate vicinity.
"I guess we can plant half of them here and leave the other half to you, Coquelicot-san?" Sakura deliberately avoided addressing Erica as she was still a bit ticked from earlier.
"No problem, Sakura! I'll take responsibility for them and plant them all around Chattes Noires!"
"Hey, can I help too?" asked the nun in a hopeful tone.
"Hmmm... I was thinking you could help water them but knowing you, you'll probably get someone else drenched when you eventually trip and fall," replied Coquelicot.
"B-but...!"
The ringing of Ogami's portable kinematron cut Erica's protest. "I'm going to go answer this. I trust that you'll be able to settle things amongst yourselves?"
"Don't worry about it, Ogami-san!" replied Sakura with a cheerful smile. This would be a good opportunity to talk about Erica's sudden forwardness earlier.
As soon as he was in his quarters to take the call privately, he heard a familiar voice. "Ogami, you there?"
"Kayama? Good timing! I got a request to ask of you." Ogami took the time to explain things to Kayama as well about the cosmic game show and the mystery host. After he finished his explanation, he heard a tired sigh from the other end.
"Geez... that's a hell of a case for me to look into."
"Sorry to put this on you all of a sudden."
"Ah, don't worry about it. I'll try and dig up something for you. After all, I'm not commander of the Tsukigumi for nothing!"
Ogami let go a sigh of relief. With his reliable friend Kayama on things, maybe he can finally get some answers. "Thanks. By the way, what's the reason for your call?"
"Just letting you know that demoness is in town and heading your way as we speak." There was a hint of fear in Kayama's voice as he reported that bit of news.
"...... MY SISTER'S IN TOWN?!?" And that was when he heard the commotion in the lobby downstairs.
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