Itsuki bit his lip as he raised a pair of binoculars he had bought from the base of the tower to his eyes.
'I can't believe it.' He thought. The instant he stopped watching her she had hitched along with Amagi Koya. 'Is he forcing her to come along with him?'
He zoomed in on their location and saw something he had never dreamed of seeing in his life. Miyuki was smiling.
She was talking with Koya and actually smiling… it was not the polite pressured expression she wore at clan functions or the small distant one she offered when she was trying not to draw attention to herself.
A real one, it was the kind that reached her eyes and stayed there. He had not seen that expression on her face in years and he was watching it happen because of a commoner from Class 5.
'When last did I see her smile?' He thought from his position in the tree with one hand braced against the branch and the other holding the binoculars steady.
