On the fourth day, Sakiko dared not skip school any longer.
After all, today was the mathematics exam. To save her own skin and keep the headmistress from blowing a gasket, Miki Kashiwagi had woken up two hours early and rushed over to Rising. Amidst the startled looks of the cleaning staff and Li Xiao, who was up early baking bread dough, Miki hammered on Sakiko's door with a flurry of heavy thuds.
The sky was still barely bright at this hour. A thin layer of frost and droplets of morning dew hung on the branches of the broad-leaf trees by the doorway—precisely the sort of time suited for shadowy, improper deeds.
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