Just as she put down the kitchen knife and turned to grab an onion from the ingredients basket, she bumped right into Hiroshi Mikami behind her.
"Ah!"
Kohara's head popped off her smooth neck with a "boing" sound. It drifted up, with just a short gasp, and stuck itself beside the ceiling light in the kitchen, blinking innocently and cluelessly.
"Uh?!"
"Hayami!"
"The head, the head!"
"Don't use the frying pan, you dummy!"
The kitchen, which was once orderly and cooperative, descended into chaos in an instant.
Kamiyagawa stood on the stairs, taking in the whole scene.
Kohara, the little sister...
Although she was certainly heroic and dashing when transforming into the Headless Knight and charging into battle, in the mundane bits of everyday life, she seemed... a bit absent-mindedly silly.
Kamiyagawa descended the stairs, and the noise from the kitchen hadn't stopped. Meanwhile, on the other side of the corridor—
