"Ah, finally got through to you. What are you busy with?"
A pleasant female voice with a smile came through the phone.
Her speech carried a certain rhythm, inevitably making one wonder whether the voice's owner had once worked in a field related to music.
"Uh... nothing much, I'm outside with classmates..."
"Uh-huh, mom knows."
"Huh?"
Sakuragi Hitomi blinked, surprised, and the woman's smiling voice continued from the other end,
"Mom has already arrived at Lin Gate, just left the airport and is on her way to you."
"Arrived at... Lin Gate... What?! You... You're here?"
Sakuragi Hitomi looked at the scenery outside the window, her voice trembling suddenly, seemingly in disbelief that her mother had indeed arrived at Lin Gate.
"Hey, am I not welcome?"
"It's... it's not that. It's just... coming over so suddenly, and you didn't give me a heads-up so that I could prepare to welcome you."
