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"This trickery is irrelevant!" Kakizaki declared, his tone starting to get a little high as he realized that once more his attempts at manipulation had been outmaneuvered. With a furious glare, alternated between looking at myself and the Disciplinary Squad. "Wings or not, it is in the rules that scrapped numbers cannot participate! Regardless of…"

Whatever the secretary was about to say was interrupted as three simultaneous ring tones went off, each one coming from the pocket of one of the gathered Ashikabi. Both Natsuo and Kakizaki seemed surprised by the incoming transmission, and though I managed to suppress it the sudden vibrations from my pants almost caused me to start. With an awkward look shared between the three of us, all the Ashikabi present fished out our respective phones, the other two flipping open theirs immediately while I took a second to identify that it wasn't a call I was receiving, but one of those texts that Homura had introduced me to so long ago.

Even as I managed to open the electronic document, Natsuo apparently had already finished his. "'Hahaha!'" the head of the Disciplinary Squad read out loud dutifully, confirming that he at least had received the same message I was still making my way through. "'I'll allow it! Smiley face, smiley face, the Director.'"

It took me a second to realize that the smiley faces the clerk was reading was what the colon and capital 'd's that I was looking at were supposed to mean. Huh. That's pretty clever, actually.

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