The morning sun beamed through the window as Mai slowly woke up. She stretched in her bed. She looked down at Haruhiko's sleeping bag. She sighed.

"Looks like he's still asleep and probably angry." Mai said to herself as she pushed herself up to an upright sitting position as her feet were now on the floor. Mai yawned and stretched.

She then went to the floor, kneeled then crawled towards the mouth of Haruhiko's sleeping bag.

"Come on, sleepy head! Time to wake up! We're going to her late for school!" Mai said.

But as she reached for the mouth of the sleeping bag, she pulled it to reveal it was empty as well as his onesie!

"Haruhiko? Haruhiko!" Mai yelled in panic as she began to frantically search for Haruhiko.

"Where did he go? Did he run away cause we fought?" Mai said to herself worriedly.

She called Himeno-sensei and told her what had happened. She asked Mai to get to the Academy as soon as possible. Mai quickly took her bath, changed into her uniform while drying her hair and fixing it, made a simple sandwich, took her school bag and bolted off to school.


It didn't take long for Mai to reach the Academy as Himeno-sensei arrived soon enough. Mai explained what had happened. Himeno alerted the police of a missing child. The others from not only from Team E but from the club joined in on the search. It was late in the afternoon and they were fruitless.

"We couldn't find him anywhere, Himeno-sensei!" Said Kyosuke, over the phone. "We'll search elsewhere.

"I see.. keep your hopes up! We'll find him eventually." Himeno answered.

Himeno recieves calls from other teams of their fruitless efforts of finding Haruhiko.

Team was back and Mai seemed devastated as she slouched in one of the chairs in the classroom. Reina and Kurumi did their best to comfort her while Koito and Himeno talked.

"We searched his house, his mom's house and other places we know he would go to but nothing, Himeno-sensei." Koito reported.

"I see." Himeno said as she adjusted her glasses. She began to ponder about Haruhiko's abilities.

"Oh, Haruhiko! Where did you go?" Mai sobbed. Reina rubbed her back.

"It's okay, Mai-oneesama. Someone will find him! Maybe he'll find us!" Reina said, hoping to give assurance to Mai.

Mai looked up and smiled as she stroked Reina's head, the latter enjoyed it. Koito noticed Himeno-sensei going over her notes of Haruhiko.

"I've noticed that Ruru-chan is missing too." Kurumi noted.

The others noticed it too.

"I wonder where could she be?" Reina said as she went into a thinking gesture.

Meanwhile nothing turned up and they were sent home. Mai was worried sick for Haruhiko. Team E was still at the Academy.
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