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"Sato Amaya . "

"Yes, that"s my name . What do you want?"

She really wanted to know that . On a list of all disgusting orders she had ever received during her years in the police corps, paying a visit to Red Rose Academy made very high scores .

Now she sat seated in the princ.i.p.al"s office, but there was no princ.i.p.al there . Instead of him she faced two members of the board of directors .
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"For the time being we seem to share an interest," one of them said .

"Things are escalating out of control here, and we doubt that we can stop this school from taking action against all of you . "

All of them . That would include the Wakayama parents who also sat in the office . Amaya really had no wish to visit the school that had cost her Urufu so much, but Princ.i.p.al Nakagawa was adamant .

"Sato-san, how much do you know of Hamarugen Urufu"s background . "

Amaya thought about the question . The way it was phrased those two already knew about the impossibility . "I know enough," she said .

"You don"t," one of the two answered .

"And that is why we"ll have you transferred from the police to the defence forces . "

"What?"

"Starting immediately you"re a.s.signed the t.i.tle of lieutenant colonel, and from October onwards you"ll act as the handle for both Hamarugen Urufu and Ageruman Kuritina . I a.s.sume you"re familiar with the latter?"

She was . Her Urufu was head over heels in love with the girl, and from what Amaya had just heard that girl was no girl at all .

"Now, Wakayamsan," Amaya noted how the greeting pointedly wasn"t directed to any one of the two present parents in particular, "we"ll agree to give you all the information you"ve requested . We"ll also respect that you want your children to believe they successfully managed to keep secret from you what happened here last year . "

"And in return?" Mrs Wakayama asked .

"You"ll make certain both arrivals spend most of their summer break as far away from Tokyo as possible . While I have no reason to like Nakagawsan I respect his judgement . We"ll keep him supplied with information on whenever things get out of hand here . "

So the Wakayama parents were in the know as well for some reason . Amaya turned to her hosts . "Why did we have to meet here?"

"Because there are things you need to be here to understand . We"ll tell you everything, and the Wakayamas will fill you in on anything I forget, or point out any lies of mine . We can"t afford distrust at this time . I"m afraid it"ll be a long evening . "

It was, and when it was done Amaya was both more disgusted and scared than she had ever been before in her life .