As Miki made her way back out to the main room, a blonde-haired male waved her over.  "Something wrong, Miki?  You know if anything goes wrong here that needs a more... firm touch, I'm here to help."<br/><br/>She smiled softly.  "No, James, I'll not have a person who is so much the pinnacle of his kind dirty his hands by stooping down to help little old me."<br/><br/>The man laughed, and nodded.  "Well, so long as everything's okay," he said, and turned back to his drink.<br/><br/>She smiled.  "Everything's just fine," she said, and then found Bella.<br/><br/>"Listen.  Take Akihiro's dinner to her room tonight.  I'm giving her tonight to get used to being here, and then she starts her normal schedule tomorrow."<br/><br/>Once that was taken care of, she retired to her own room, making sure to open the door quickly enough to make some noise, and leaving it slightly ajar as she settled down at her table, going back to what she had been working on, intentionally laying out the first real test for Mana.<br/><br/>She would eventually have to release the girl and find another way to keep her here.  With the collar, and what she had done to her so far, the girl would probably attribute the pleasure to Akihiro, not to herself.  And that would mean once the collar was off, Mana would be back in charge and wanting to bolt.  But there were ways around such things... ways that Mikiro Asaniya knew in INTIMATE detail, as a Chosen of Serenity, Daughter of Venus.