Hee! I adore Tachibana's mom as well: I can't find my copy of v4 at the moment, but the scene where she nails him on his fib about Chikage's usefulness, it cracks me up every time. The more I pet the plotbunny, the more I'm convinced Aunt Ine is related to the Shirai sisters in some way. ;-)

(Doggone it, that nephew probably is going to turn up in the series one of these days...)

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*smirk*