On the morning break, between classes, Aika was surprised to find Joy stepping into her room - her class wasn't until the afternoon - but she allowed herself to believe that despite being absent yesterday, she was back and ready to help.<tt class="bbc_tt">"Of course, Miss Armstrong,"</tt>Aika replied to her,<tt class="bbc_tt">"allow me to see your composition notebook and I will provide what critiques I can."</tt>Sitting down at the desk, she took Joy's notebook and started to read it over while Joy stood in front of the desk, talking about her essay - and was surprised that she had managed to find the Shattering Protector, who was a spirit, as they had theorized.  And she'd gotten some more information about the pocket dimension they were being held in!<tt class="bbc_tt">"You've used these phrases in appropriate - if creative - ways,"</tt>she continued.<br/><br/><tt class="bbc_tt">"However, I am going to make some notes in your margins,"</tt>and then Aika picked up a pencil and began to write.<br/><br/><em>First, I don't think I'll be any good to you this evening.  God, I'm SO horny right now that if I bump into Souji-sensei again, all he has to do is ask and I'll open up for him.  That aside; the center of this particular fantasy seems to be the school, even if it shows pieces of the city outside of it.  So wherever the spirit is hiding, they have to be on school grounds somewhere.  As for the human end of the contract, I've been doing some digging into the missing people, students mostly.  I think they're the key - or one of them is.  Every student here has some piece of personal information.  Akiba-kun is on the Student Council, for example.  A couple of students have hidden information, but I'm nearly to the end of the roster of missing persons and one person has failed to turn up any more information - Kataoka Noriko.  I'm doing my best to investigate her at the moment, and I should have some more information by the afternoon, but the fact she seems to be a blank spot makes me suspicious.</em><br/><tt class="bbc_tt"><br/>"Yes, Miss Armstrong, I'm quite familiar with your liberalization of love attitudes.  But I would suggest another concept from your country, that is - age of consent?  It may be one thing to see each other after graduation, but the idea of a teacher seeing an active student?  Quite scandalous."</tt><br/><br/>Aika put down some more comments on the opposite margin of the current pair of pages she was reading over for Joy's essay.<br/><em><br/>No matter what happens, we meet tomorrow to discuss what we found.  Either about Noriko or wherever on the school grounds the spirit is hiding so they can meet with their human counterpart.  If the afternoon turns out like I think it will, tomorrow morning or afternoon will be the optimal time for that.</em><br/><br/>She handed the composition notebook back to Joy.<tt class="bbc_tt">"There we are, Miss Armstrong.  A few notes for you to consider.  Do you have any further questions?"</tt>