Chapter 4: A friend from high school

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"You're really here?" he asked with a smile on his face.

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"You're moving?" her mom asked. They were having dinner when Fuyumi brought up moving near to the SWORD district.

"Yes, it's because of my job. Besides, Fujio's transferring, anyway. He can live with me," Fuyumi suggested to their mother. Fujio nodded then the siblings looked at their mother.

The older woman looked at her children before sighing in defeat.

"Alright, fine," their mom replied. The siblings fist-bumped and grinned at each other. "But where will you work, anyway?"

"SWORD Magazine Company. They are not hiring me yet, actually. They want me to "prove my skills" first," Fuyumi said and rolled her eyes when she quoted that phrase from the company's owner.

"Seriously? Isn't it enough that you have a job at a well-known company overseas?" her mom questioned.

"I don't know, but what they want me to do is a bit different than what I do back then," she shrugged and shoved a mouthful of cooked rice into her mouth.

"Why? What do they want you to do to prove your skills?" Fujio asked as he was a bit curious about his sister's job.

Fuyumi swallowed and put down the chopsticks on the table. She sighed and looked at her brother and then at her mother.

"That's the part where it gets complicated," she clicked her tongue and winced.

"What do you mean?" her brother questioned as he frowned in confusion.

"They want me to take a picture of students at Oya High." Fujio raised a brow questioningly. "While they are fighting."

"What? That's ridiculous!" Fujio exclaimed.

"It's much ridiculous that I accepted it," Fuyumi shrugged and sighed.

"You're going to do it?" her mom asked.

"Well, yeah. I mean, it's a good deal for me," she told them.

The Hanaoka siblings left home early in the morning to look for an available apartment around the SWORD district. Preferably, around the Oya High School since Fujio will go there and the older Hanaoka will be doing her job there.

"Aneki, there's one near Hope Hill," Fujio told her as he flipped through the flyers that they gathered.

"Oh, the rent's not bad. Do you want to check it?" Fuyumi asked her brother. The latter nodded and they went to check out the apartment.

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