[i][color=violet]"Shirohane-senpai, could you kindly inform Harvester-senpai that... I'll be unable to attend club meetings for an indefinite amount of time...?"[/color][/i]

[b]Shizuka Otonashi || Warakuma High: Classroom 1-1 || July 4 SAT: After School[/b]

Just as the previous kidnapees in their class had been treated, once Shizuka had returned to attending classes since Wednesday, she was bombarded with curious or concerned questions here and there. Once it got out of control from time to time, her friends Nozomi and Rinko were there to break up the crowd, giving the maiden back her own personal space. After the whole ordeal in her dungeon, the secretive girl slowly opened up, which obviously meant telling her two best friends about her 'frowned-upon-by-general-society' hobbies. To her surprise, or not so surprise, the two actually accepted the fact but with shocked expression on their faces. It was indeed unexpected for a girl like Shizuka to be into those sort of things but it didn't mean they would think different of her. Shizuka was still Shizuka, as Rinko would say.

As the week slowly ended, the questions thrown towards her slowly died down. With her not attending the agriculture club meetings, Shizuka busied herself with other activities she had not been doing recently such as swimming, tennis, and practicing on the violin. As previously mentioned, the young mistress may have indulged into different sorts of activities in different fields, but she was pretty average in terms of expertise for most, if not all of them. With how busy she was with these activities, she informed Kenji, the manager of the cosplay cafe who thankfully just came out of the kidnapping incident with injuries, that she hoped to lessen her shifts to just weekends. He understood, after giving another comment about enjoying her spring of youth to the fullest, as he usually did.

Seeing as she had no plans for the day, Shizuka was just about to head home when she realized that she had yet to drop a visit at the manga room and hopefully, if they were still accepting club members, would let her join in. It was probably not a club meeting day but if she were lucky, she might catch one of the members in the club room if they were as devoted to the club as... An image of Matt flashed across her mind as she immediately shook her head to get rid of the image. This was not the time to feel depressed, get a smile ready and make a good first impression on whoever was around, .... if there were any around.

Before sliding the door to the manga club room open, Shizuka politely intruded, [color=violet]"E-Excuse me, is anyone here...?"[/color]