「...That is my house」
Megu points at a house.
The sun has already gone down...
The cloudy night sky comes.
On the corner of the low-lying residential area...entering a compact shopping district, right at the back of the alley.
An old small house was built there.
「Waa...Small」
Maika says.
Perhaps, there's only one or two rooms on both floors.
The first floor is the parent's living room and the second floor is Megumi's room and the storage?
The glass door has a crack and is patched by a brown packing tape.
The lamp in the front door is burning darkly.
The paint on the wooden wall has faded away considerably.
It's a rag house with poor light inside.
By standards...You can't think that they're relatives of the famous family Shirasaka.
「Right...It's smaller than Maika-san's house」
Yuzuki-sensei told Maika.
「Ah...Sorry. I didn't mean it like that」
Megu smiles at the apologizing Maika.
「It's fine. Yamamine house is being aided by Shirasaka house on the livelihood...」
Megu said.
「The head of Shirasaka house...the second wife of the founder of the newspaper company was coming from Yamamine house」
「Yes, she's originally a daughter of an employee of the company. The founder fell in love with her then...as far as it goes, they put her in the family register and made her a concubine」
Megu answers Sensei question
「Yamamine house has become Shirasaka house's relative like that but...because other marriage proposals other than Yamamine house has been on the distinguished families...they've become a complete luggage of the clan」
Yamamine house who came from commoners has been looked down by the people of Shirasaka house all this time.
「My foster father, and all of his brothers are all employed in a company affliated to Shirasaka house」
「Did any of them enter the newspaper company?」
Megu shook her head?
「...People from Yamamine house will never be hired in the newspaper and big companies. They're appointed at the place that is the subsidiary of the subsidiary of the company group. Even if they work for that company for years, they cannot get anything higher than section chief. They're driven to the standpoint where they can't go against the people of Shirasaka house」
They're such a clan who do such things without concern...
「They're like idiots...Even Shirasaka house was just a commoner until the founder made the newspaper company succeed. Mistaking that they have risen to such nobles, they justify such foolish things, but...!」
Sensei speaks out.
「Maika-san...Misuzu-san will have her symposium the day after tomorrow. Go with Yoshida-kun and Megumi. That's where the genuine nobles of the country gather」
Sensei tells Maika.
「Take a look at the genuine first class people. You will understand that Shirasaka who's an upstart isn't the real one」
Misuzu's learning the Konpeki style traditional dance from the headmaster
The headmaster's class would be performing the day after tomorrow.
It's just a presentation of a traditional dance class and yet, they're using the 『National Theatre』
The girls dancing with Misuzu are all students of the headmaster...They must all be daughters of prestigious families.
Naturally...Their family would come to see the presentation.
Japan's...wealthy socialites.
