Akira ducks her head and nods. Yeah, she gets it. 

She takes her seat and joins the lesson.

And so does Ann, a little uneasily.

The class goes smoothly enough.

In the gap before the next period starts, she waves the two of them up to her desk.

"Okay, you two. What caused you to miss more than half the period?"

"I'm very sorry, Kawakami-sensei. Ann here took me and a couple of friends out for lunch and we completely lost track of time. I — haven't really had friends before, so I guess I got carried away. It won't happen again."

She can keep that promise, right? Since Kamoshida's dealt with.

Ann nods. "It's as Akira says, Kawakami-Sensei."

"Oh fine. I suppose I know how it is, and you've both been on such good behavior all week. Don't let it happen again, though. I have too much going on to deal with this on top."

She shakes her head.

"Back to your seats. Chouno-san will be in for your English lesson momentarily."

"Thank you, Kawakami-sensei." Akira bows deeply and returns to her seat. 

Ann bows as well. "Thank you."

She returns to her seat as well.

Class proceeds normally enough, and then they're released for the day.

Akira gets out her phone.

Home we go. 

We've just got to hope Kamoshida's too out of it to request us.

It's got to have worked, right? After all that?

As they text, students around them are packing up their bags and getting ready to leave, gossiping to each other as they go.

"What was that you were saying about Kamoshida?"

    "I heard from Fujimori-chan that he suddenly got pale and ended class early."

"Yeah, and I heard no one's seen him since, all day."

... Interesting rumor.

Guess it worked. Hope we didn't just fry his brain completely. 

He'd deserve it.

But yes. Better he confesses.

Akira packs up her books and gets ready to go home. 

Explaining all this to Boss is going to be a tall order... 

Well. Something to worry about when I get home. 

Ryuji, Shiho, let's lie low for today. I've got explanations to make. We can celebrate when Kamoshida actually confesses.

you got it chief

Agreed.

Got it.

See you all in class tomorrow, I guess?

Yeah, I guess so.

And Akira goes home, back to Cafe Leblanc.

The usual crowd on the trains, and then she's walking into the café.

There's an elderly couple seated, enjoying their coffee and watching the news, which seems to be speculation about the mental shutdowns that have been going on.

Sojiro nods at her as she comes in.

She nods back, heads upstairs, and gets out her phone and texts him.

Hey. Some stuff happened at school today you'll want to hear about when the cafe's not occupied. It's probably good news though.

I'll text you when these two clear out then.