Oops, was that supposed to be a secret?

Chapter 1

They just survived through a gruelling loss at the hands of Squad 8, and now they had just finished for the day when Suwa gets a notification.

"Listen up guys, I got a new assignment." Suwa opened the assignment and frowned, "Weird, there are specific instructions."

"Well isn't that concerning," Katori rolled her eyes and leaned back in her chair, "Getting a special assignment on the last day."

"This isn't anything unusual," Mikumo stated, adjusting his glasses, "Its the last day, they would want to test us with something."

"Grrr," Katori grumbled but did nothing.

"My, my, getting more patient are we?" Oki smiled, "Its a good look on you."

"Shut up."

"I just sent to you all," Suwa said with a contemplating look on his face as he reads his instructions.

"This is-" Madoka glanced at Mikumo, and stops talking.

Mikumo raised his eyebrows in suspicion and proceeded to read his instructions, and narrowed his eyes, this wasn't right at all.

***

Utagawa frowned at the special assignment he had just received. He couldn't believe it, why would the higher ups do this? And why would Jin allow this? After all, his kouhai's were in danger. He glanced towards Yuma, who had his duck face on as he finished off his assignments with Tomoe helping him.

"Yuma come here for a moment," He waited until Yuma came over on his left side and whispered, "Your secret is in danger."

Yuma widened his eyes, "What do you mean?"

Wordlessly, Utagawa turned his laptop to face Yuma, and let him read it. He watched as Yuma slowly made sense of the hiragana and the simple kanji written on the screen.

"They're making us play guess the neighbour?" Yuma concealed his outward reaction, but Utagawa could tell there was a tide pool of emotions ripping through him, "And the ones who already know have to proceed to the operator's room?"

Utagawa nodded.

"Great," Yuma sighed and got back to his seat, earning a look from Urushima and Tomoe.

Utagawa addressed the squad, "I just received a special assignment but Yuma and I cannot join you for this."

"Why not?" Urushima demanded, not even bothering to read the assignment from his laptop while everyone else was.

"Because Kuga-senpai is in Tamakoma and Utagawa-senpai is A-Rank," Tomoe stated, his tone neutral.

"What's that got to do with this?" Urushima asked, confused.

"Have you even read the assignment Urushima-senpai?"

"Okay, okay I will, geez." Urushima sat down and got to reading.

"Sayoko is in charge while we're gone, okay?" Utagawa shouted out as he and Yuma made their way towards the operators room, leaving behind a distressed Sayoko, a confused Urushima, and an apprehensive Tomoe.

***

Ninomiya looked towards Azuma and Chika after he had sent the special assignment through to gauge their reactions. Azuma was acting normal, keeping his composure and staying calm about the new assignment. Chika on the other hand, was sweating bullets, literally. Ninomiya inferred that because she was from Tamakoma, she must know more neighbours in Border, if not all of them, than both himself and Azuma.

"Well it's time we excuse ourselves," Azuma stated, glancing at Chika and Ninomiya and getting up.

"Wha-, no-, actually??" Ema stuttered out, "It's true?? There are actual neighbours in Border?"