Just Another Ghostly Story

Bloodstained Memento (2)

"So... what's his name?"
Fuuka teases.

"Wha- who?"
Mizuki a bit cautious to answer, already suspicious of her mom's expression.

"Your boyfriend of course"

"Didn't he already told you his name? And it's not like that okay!!"

"I know~!! I just want to hear Mii chan say it~!"
A mischievous gaze shots out of the young mother's eye. Teasing her daughter's first experience.

"He's just a classmate who walks home the same way, okay! We just got out at the same time..."

"That's no good Mii chan, love is a girl's battlefield. If you leave him hanging for too long, he might start looking at another girl"

"That's..."
Paused on her response, she recalls Daisuke's interaction with Kirei before. Feeling a bit threatened but refusing to acknowledge it.
"That's none of my business! That guy can do what he like I suppose!"

She starts furiously munching on her dinner, biting aggressively like a lioness shredding it's hunt. She tries to sound indifferent but her eyebrows form valleys and hills, seriously worrying about it.

"Hmmmmmm? Ok-kay... a good answer, I can accept that. Still, at the same time?"

"Like I told you it's not like that!! Stop reading too much into it!"
Flailing her arm in the air trying to swipe away her mom's suspicion. Mizuki is desperate to stop the conversation.

"Hahaha... okay okay, I won't ask any further. By the way, what did Dad sent you?"
Finally having enough fun teasing her daughter, Fuuka changes the topic.

"Oh that! wait I brought it down with me just now-"
She reaches to the empty seat next to her. What would normally be her father's spot now helps to seat the parcel she fetched earlier from the station. She hurriedly disrobe the package and takes out what seems like a jurassic fossil, a sharp protruding bone almost like a giant teeth. Despite how mysterious the object looks, the young girl on the other hand is nothing short of enthusiastic, brimming as she raise the fossil to show it to her mother.
"Look at this! What do you think it is, Mom?"

An almost rhetorical question because she's waiting for a chance to explain it herself.

"Let me see... looks like an animal teeth. Oh no, this must be a dino-shark teeth!"
A wild guess, just to have fun with Mizuki's trivia session.

"Boop boop! 0 points! This right here, is actually a claw."

"Ooh, my second guess would be a bird's claw. But then it must be a very big dino bird"
Fuuka defends her answer.

"Hehe you're close. It does resembles more like a talon. But this is actually mammalian, more specifically a flying mammalian. More accurately a bat! Raahh!"
She mimics a dracula with her finger. Getting a good chuckle out of her mom.

Then she continues to explain the exquisite detail and minute differences between a talon and a bats claw and what she theorizes on the unusual size. Easily gets absorbed in her own theory and imagination that she most likely forget she's talking to her mom. Instead, it's almost like she's presenting her newest finding to a large audience.

Fuuka just stood there in silence, entertained by her daughter's passion. Even if half the things that come out of Mizuki's mouth is completely alien to her, it's always enjoyable for her to observe Mizuki being excited about something and talking way too much about it.

Before Mizuki departs for school the next day, Fuuka stands by the door to send her off.
"I'll come straight home after club activities so don't start without me okay?"