Delayed, Chapter 15 finally arrives for your reading now! This chapter picks back up with Tsukiko as the focus this time. Mitsuru got a lot of time the last two chapters, so it is time to swing back to her and pick up some time with our stoic ninja Katashi. The cast has several mysterious characters, Katashi was the first one introduced and has been around for a while without any really attention. So this finally addresses that.

Katashi is a complicated person like most of the cast. But like with Izumi, he is a hard one to penetrate. He has a lot of defenses up to keep people out. The lack of emotions is more an effect of his past and training rather than a defense. But he is a contrary man that will be fun to explore for Tsukiko. She finds him frustrating, but once she actually starts to dig deeper into his past, she'll start to feel for him.

And I finally got to include the note about what's become of her male half's popularity, which became a talk of the class when he was first spotted. It did not take long for a fan club to crop up around Tsuneo's other half. She was never happy about the attention to being with and now it just is going to get multiplied. She will have more in the future that she'll have to deal with around the fan club. It'll be a good source of entertainment.

I finally ended that omake about the friends. I'm focusing finally on more one off scenes, probably about characters that aren't in the chapter. I had planned on making note that Chie and Daishou were gone from the house, not that anyone would notice Daishou's disappearance. But I moved it into the omake since I could have a little fun with it. So it is actually sort of tied into the story a little, even though it is just a joke scene making fun of his lack of presence again.

Enjoy!