Tachibana Palace

No school

Yuno wakes up and Tachibana is already awake. She looks into his eyes and it's pretty obvious he barely slept that's if he slept at all. "Tachibana, did you even sleep?"

"I would've, but a late-night call kept me on edge."

"It's not healthy depraving yourself of quality sleep like that, I'll run you a bath before I leave."

She baths slowly using her ability to refresh her mind, and body. When Yuno is about to leave she bumps into something that feels like a metal door. She looks up at Tachibana blocking the exit.

"I know I was the one nagging you about school, but I'm perfectly happy letting you complete the course through online learning."

"Tachibana move or I'll move you. I'll be careful."

"Fine."

He steps out of the way allowing her to leave before he changes his mind. He lifts Tori off to enjoy a refreshing bath. They are about to leave and see the new Tachibana Palace.

Upon entry Tori looks around the second Palace in Sensen's arms. Walking side by side with Tachibana, "Did you take care of her?"

"Yes, what will you tell Yuno?"

"I'll worry about that when I get there for now I have bigger fish to fry, have any idea who the vigilantes are?"

"We're barely scratching the surface when it comes to that. I'm beyond clueless. They know how to cover their tracks well."

Tachibana was about to call Ackerman who he sent out on a wild goose chase to find whoever has been prolonging Kaminari's life but he changes his mind. They want to find out who or what is keeping Kaminari alive while he waits for a permanent fix for whatever ails him.

Eliminating that individual might give Tachibana the field advantage because he knows Kaminari has many tricks up his sleeve. Whatever war is going on between Tachibana and Kaminari, Tachibana has been on a loosing streak and it's been that way since day one.

After Tachibana reviews the buildings design and has seen every room in the entire building he hits the road rushing back to the house. Tachibana gives Yuno a hug when he walks into the living room and finds Yuno in a rotten mood. 

"What happened?" Tachibana embraces her a tad tighter while keeping his eyes on Tori walking to his favourite stuffed animal that he dropped this morning, but Tachibana wouldn't go back and pick it up.

Tachibana's attention returns to Yuno slowly rubbing her back patiently waiting to hear what ruined her day today.

"It's about Ryu, I received a call early afternoon from the police station asked to come and ID her body."

Yuno shivers thinking about the awful things Ryu's murderer could have done to her, the corpse looks like it was shredded by a rabid animal in a fit of rage. She tears up wiping the tears away even though more are flooding down

"What scared me is that when I was thinking about the person who may have been the cause of death I couldn't pick one specific person instead the list kept getting longer and longer, and I realised I can't trust anyone."

"That's not true, you can trust me." He pecks Yuno's forehead comforting her as she cries in his arms, "I know she was messed up, crazy, but she was still your sister and it still hurts. Remember that I won't allow you to lose anyone else, not Kai and definitely not Hitori."

Tori accidentally freezes all the toys around him crying when his stuffed bunny now looks like a rabbit in a crystal. Tachibana lifts Yuno up tucking her in so she sleeps away her worries.