This was a dilemma.

  I looked at Zenki and said, "I'm the leader of our group, right? Well, Azura is?"

  Sena chimed in. "Obviously!" She looked at Celes, smiling. "Azura and Sylvia are a great duo. So you just need one more!" She paused, giggling. "Though I guess that person would be a third wheel..."

  I hummed. "I guess Cici could work, but considering how she is-"

  [Help: Absolutely not Senpai.]

  Celes shook her head. "No. Anyone but her."

  Zenki crossed his arms. "Denied."

  Sena's eyes widened and she said, "Do you WANT to get a heart attack...?"

  I held up my hands. "Fine, sheesh! I was just throwing out ideas..."

  Was it that bad to just think out loud? Sheesh...

  I shook my head and hummed. "Well... Sensei isn't really an idol and I don't want her getting wrapped up in that sort of thing. Even if she can py the part right now, things might get out of hand..."

  Zenki nodded. "I agree. It's better to keep her as an auxiliary talent associated with VIMS instead of the core group."

  I rubbed my chin and said, "Then I guess we could ask Yui? And there's Hanako too."

  Celes nodded. "I would not mind Yui joining us."

  I paused and then said, "...As an idol, right?"

  Celes blushed and quickly nodded. "Y-Yes! As an idol. Not like..."

  I chuckle and poke her cheek. "Just teasing, Celes."

  Celes puffed her cheeks. "You are terrible, Sen..."

  I smiled. Then I said, "But anyway... So it's just Yui or Hanako, right? But man..." I frowned and muttered, "Still can't believe the system pulled a lost spirit back to life just to add another talent..."

  [Help: We try to help as many people as we can! That's the goal of Project MirAIs!]

  Project MirAIs?

  [ADMIN: Please ignore that.]

  [Help: Ow! Why did I get bonked? T_T]

  ...

  I decided to ignore the system messages and focused on Zenki. "So, assuming we pull Yui into all of this, what's next?"

  Zenki nodded. "Alright. Then for now, let's talk logistics..."

  ===

  The headmaster's office at Zenkai Academy. A super fancy room, adorned with gold leaf, expensive bonsai, a running koi pond in the back corner, and other over the top decorations.

  Hajime ignored all of it, just kicking his feet up at his dark walnut desk while scrolling through messages on his phone. "Looks like we can confirm that Cici is the kid's sister. Guess I don't need to keep looking for my wayward daughter then... she's a bit weird, but their mom has always been like that."

  The paternity and DNA tests for Cici came up as expected.

  Hajime felt a little dumb considering that he had assumed someone kidnapped her, but his reckless daughter had just got swept up in some interdimensional shenanigans due to being part goddess and all that jazz. Still... "Kid's got good instincts."

  'Cici' was a good nickname for Cecilia, which should be her real name.

  It looked like Hajime's daughter had a case of minor amnesia though... that or severe fujoshi brain rot. Either way... "Should be fine now."

  Their mom was still missing, but she'd be fine. She was always running off for 'milk' even more than he was.

  Though, considering that Hajime finally had his two kids back together, he should probably grab his wife to say hi... wherever she was.

  A soft knock echoed at the office door. After that, Akane walked in. She took a look around and sighed. "You're as extravagant as ever, Uncle Hajime. Wasn't this pce just an ordinary office yesterday?"

  Hajime waved a caramel frappe in his hand and said, "Hey, if you've got it, funt it. That applies to money, muscles, and boobs."

  Akane rolled her eyes. "I still can't believe that a guy like you managed to win a woman over... let alone have kids with her."

  "Hey, I can be responsible and chill when I need to be." Hajime pulled his feet off the table and said, "Now what's up, Kiddo? Not often you show up here."

  Akane leaned against the wall and said, "I had Ren clean up the riffraff hanging around the area. I also walked out and id down the w again... but Uncle Hajime." She sighed. "You need to do it personally. This might be your territory, and you might have made it off limits to people from 'that' side, but the idiots on the normal side of things keep seeing it as free rein."

  Hajime chuckled, his eyes fshing dangerously. "Oh, don't worry, Kiddo. I'll handle it before I leave again. Those idiots messed with my kid... both of them. So I'll have to teach them a lesson to st ten generations..." He paused. "By the way. How's Professor Euclid after those guys tried killing his lovely niece?"

  Akane smiled. "Seems that cold guy is a softy after all. After he heard Miss Lovece almost died, I had to talk him down from sending out a swarm of nanobots to hunt down the assassins."

  Hajime chuckled. "That'd be fun... but we can't have a Big Hero 6 vilin moment, so it's good that you stopped him."

  "Big Hero... what?"

  "Nothing, Kiddo." Hajime stood up and stretched his arms. After that, he said, "How's the search going for your fancy martial arts scrolls?"

  Akane waved her hand and said, "I tracked down to origins of Karate to China and found the Crane Style that makes up half of it. But I can't find the other half." She frowned and said, "I thought it was in Shaolin, but they use completely different moves."

  Hajime chuckled. "That's because you're looking in the wrong pce." He hummed. "It might be different in this world, but you probably want to look in the incense shops around China instead of the dinky Shaolin temples."

  Akane blinked. "What? Why?"

  Hajime remembered the documentary he watched back on Earth about the birthpce of karate and hummed. "Just a hunch. Try asking around for Incense Shop Boxing."

  "...Uncle Hajime." Akane sighed. "If this is another wild goose hunt..."

  "Hey." Hajime held up his hands. "Not my fault you thought 'Garden of Eden' meant the literal pce and not the nice restaurant on the outskirts of Italy."

  Akane blushed and then huffed. "Fine. But I swear..."

  Hajime chuckled. "Oh yeah." He snapped his fingers. "Your mom's coming to visit soon, right?"

  Akane froze. Sweat started glistening on her forehead and she said, "...Yes. She is. Why are you asking, Uncle Hajime...?"

  Hajime rubbed his chin, chuckling. "Well. The kid's gotten even prettier recently, so she might get a kick out of dressing him up. And it'd help the kid get in touch with his more feminine side too."

  Akane gave Hajime a bnk stare. Then she said, "You're cruel, Uncle Hajime."

  Hajime chuckled and twisted his hips, stretching them. After that, he said, "It's all jokes. Sen will appreciate it ter on when he grows up."

  Akane stared at Hajime for a moment and then quietly said, "Did you finally decide to go through with 'that' after all, Uncle Hajime?"

  Hajime paused and then stuck one hand in his pocket. After that, he nodded and said, "Yeah. The kid can stay here with his sister. Since he somehow got his hands on that Idiot Savant's MIRAIZ app and the MIRAIZ system, he'll be fine. But it's too dangerous for him to head to that pce with me."