"Dame desu!" (no/don't/bad!) Yes, it's that childish, always-polite and somewhat off voice. It's Aroe.
And thus, Tsukasa's resolve to fuck his body up further fades. Someone's playing with Aroe, and she appears to be enjoying it. Tsukasa, feeling rather silly, goes back to bed. The people appear to have been rather nice to him, so he decides to trust them (wise choice, really). ZakaTheory: he is at the Daichis' temple. Well, he's found Aroe, though his methods were a bit unconventional. Having no real reason to stay awake, he drifts into sleep. Fade to black.
A sound wakes Tsukasa - it's night, but there's a faint light illuminating the room. A woman in a black outfit (hmm, Daichis usually wear white) is sitting next to his bed - with nice posture, Tsuka thinks. The woman remains silent, watching Tsuka intently, her gaze strong enough to be felt even in his sleep-addled state. He should speak... but sleep beckons.
Our hero awakens in the morning, and concludes that his mind has cleared. He is also rid of fatigue. The coals that were heating the room have burned to ashes, so the place is quite cold. It would appear that Tsuka does not feel like rising speedily, for he waits in the futon. Eventually, footsteps aproach. The sliding screen opens - dundundun - and it's a young woman, providing breakfast. She's wearing white monk clothes - for once, my theory was right. The woman's name is Hoshino. She provides some details of our man's previous activities: they involve him talking in delirium and a change of clothes, including his underwear.
Tsukasa immediately sets to gathering information, talking to the woman while eating his meal. He is indeed with the Daichis now - he also mentions that he is from the school; this does not surprise Hoshino. As for Aroe, she's in their care, so that should be alright. They found Aroe close to where Tsuka acquired his injuries - perhaps she was heading to the church after all. ZakaTheory: she was actually stalking Tsukasa due to a lingering affection towards him (cf. hot springs scene). Aroe was rather scared when taken in, but has now gone back to her usual rather troublesome self.
Of course, it takes two to tango, so after Tsukasa has led the dance for awhile Hoshino starts asking questions instead. I do not think that was a very good metaphor or similar or whatever.
I thought for a moment that Hoshi would be rather unimportant, but it appears this is not quite true, as she is given a side-picture (appearing in the top right corner). She has quite short hair, going down a bit below her chin in the back and falling into her eyes at the front. She's quite pretty, but looks a bit too serious for true cute. Hmm, that might have been my first serious description of a character's looks. I might want to go back and actually add pictures to this later... Meh.
So, back to the tangoing: is Amako Tsukasa-san Tsukasa's real name? Why was he living in this town? What is his mother doing right now? Tsukasa answers her questions truthfully, rather confused as to why they are being asked. ZakaTheory: his mother is currently a Daichi.
Tsukasa was in town because the college was unusual somehow: it wasn't famous, but it was in a hot spring town. His mother is likely living with T-boy's grandparents as her home in Austria. Yeah, theory seems a bit fucked now. Welllll, Tsukasa was actually talking about his third mother, who raised him. His father is currently onto his fifth wife, who happens to be French. Our hero does not really care about such technicalities, however. Oh, and the fifth wife is actually significantly younger than Tsuka. Tsukasa has no idea how his birth mother is doing. After this mother of all maternity-interrogations, Hoshino falls silent, and Tsukasa resumes eating his soup. He remembers that he should be on his guard - and warns himself that he is rather careless, so he'd better keep that in mind at all times.
T-boy (forgive me for this, o god of lame nicknames) tries to find any way these questions were relevant to anything, or could have hafter finishing his meal, he asks Hoshino-san what he shall do. He is told that he will see Ryugeju-sama eventually; his caretaker leaves, taking the breakfast tray with her.
