Spy Classroom - Volume SS2 - Chapter 4.5

Interlude

Intermission ②

Right as nine AM was rolling around for Heat Haze Palace, Sybilla let out a big yawn as she headed down to the kitchen. She’d left her gnarly case of bed hair untreated.

When she got there, she found Sara looking similarly drowsy. “Mornin’, Sara. You just get up, too?”

“Yeah, I did. I completely overslept.”

Sara cut off some slices of bread and popped them in the toaster. There were also two portions of salad set to the side. Grete had been on breakfast duty that day, so she was probably the one who’d made them. By that point, theirs were the only two plates left.

“Looks like everyone else is already up, huh?”

“Ha-ha, we’re a little bit late to the party.”

The two of them enjoyed a laugh as they got to work setting up to eat breakfast. They grabbed forks and knives, then got the butter and jam out of the refrigerator.

That was when Sybilla spotted the unfamiliar scrap of paper lying on the counter.

“What’s up with this?”

“Huh,” Sara said, similarly confused. She cocked her head in puzzlement. “Did someone leave us a note, maybe?”

“They did set some salad aside for us, so that’d make sense. Let’s see what it says. Maybe they left us some dessert in the fridge or somethin’.”

Their expectations were high as they turned over the paper.

“Klaus loves you.”

That was all the note said.

““………………………………………………………………””

The two of them were at a complete loss for words, and their heads were full of all sorts of questions. Who did “you” refer to? Sybilla and Sara were the ones who hadn’t had their breakfast yet, so logically speaking, it had to be addressed to one of them. As they reached their conclusion in unison, they let out a simultaneous red-faced ““HUHHHHHHHHH?!””

That marked the misunderstanding’s fifth and sixth victims.

The chaos brought about by the misunderstanding that that misunderstanding caused was about to begin.