章 93: Once can be a coincidence, but twice makes a rule

"When I said you need to get every new item through me first, I really didn't expect you to call so soon," Chihiro said with a small yet weirdly enthusiastic smile as he walked past the long courtyard of the mansion only to grab Claire into a tight, welcoming hug. 

Yet, the very moment Claire's dad pulled back and actually paid attention to our faces… 

"Okay, I can see something happen. How bad is it?" 

I raised my eyes to the man, only to sigh and then shake my head. 

"Nothing bad happened yet. But what we made last night…" I shook my head again. "Let's just say it's way too big for us to manage. And that's the limit of what I'm at liberty to say…" I paused for a second to quite openly look around the open space of the courtyard, "out in the open."

"Oh?" Chihiro turned his eyes to me, then took a step back and looked at his daughter's face.