I remember we have even got some New Feathers even when the new cycle is about to start... At least now it's easier on things, before we got new people in constantly, basically every month. Now it's harder for that to happen, most of them come bimonthly.

[Except for a few strays as he mentioned.]

I'm glad, I'm really glad. Though in some sense there has been a chase indeed, it's just that I may have bulldozed my way through it. So either she gave in or punched me in the face, fortunately it wasn't the later.

[Sheepish laugh here.]

Have you got used to feel that way with Gracia-san?

[If he calls them both "Hughes-san" it would be confusing after all.]