Spy Classroom - Volume SS2 - Chapter 6

Bonus Episode

As the eight girls were having dinner in the dining room, Klaus came in. “Does anyone have any preferences for when they’d like their birthday to be? They can be whenever you’d like.”

“I’m not sure that’s exactly how birthdays work,” Thea joked.

Klaus went on to explain that in order to get into the United States of Mouzaia, they were going to need some fake passports. Klaus had gone and set their birthdays arbitrarily back when they infiltrated Galgad, but this time, he figured he’d take some requests. Once he’d collected everyone’s thoughts, he was going to pass them along to the Foreign Intelligence Office procurement team.

Thea frowned. “I realize that we don’t have much of a choice, but choosing birthdays arbitrarily like that doesn’t sit well with me. I hear that even though I’m gone, my parents still hold a secret little party for me each year, and it’s the day that my parents blessed me with the gift of life. I suppose I’d like a day that’s not too far off from my real birthday…”

Thea’s parents ran a major newspaper company over in the capital. Thea had decided to become a spy of her own free will, and her relationship with her family was a happy one.

She turned her gaze over to the others. “I mean, don’t you all agree?”

A dark pall fell over the rest of the team’s expressions. “My birth certificate got lost in the war,” Lily replied. “I never even had one,” Sybilla said. “I don’t have any records or any memories, yo,” chirped Annette. “I don’t have any records from when I was born, either,” echoed Klaus. “…My relationship with my parents isn’t exactly positive,” Grete muttered. “Ditto,” agreed Monika. “M-my family is gone…” Erna sniffled.

The first five didn’t know their real birthdays, and the final three had fraught relationships with their families. Thea had gone and needlessly opened up old wounds. “…I’m sorry. That one’s on me,” she said, offering them an apologetic bow. Sara let out an awkward laugh.

In the end, the birthdays they settled on were as follows:

Sara: January 12    Annette: March 15    Monika: May 18

Erna: June 4    Klaus: July 11    Lily: August 1

Grete: September 7    Thea: November 16    Sybilla: December 9