"You've officially spent too much time with the babies and not enough with fellow adults," Yukimura proclaimed teasingly. "You're picking up their bad habits. Next you're going to want me to scare the monsters out of your closet."

But he had a dreamy look slowly glazing over his face. He wondered if Himawari would be the type to scare herself with her imagination? He didn't remember ever believing in things like that, though he did think Sanada had taken some of his games too seriously back then... but Sanada took everything too seriously.

"I want to know already if she'll like art, and tennis, and gardening," he murmured.