Chapter 88

## Mission 88: Blooming and Rumors

**Mission 88: Blooming and Rumors**  (作戦 88. 開花と噂, Kaika to Uwasa ) is the eighty-eighth chapter of Hitsuji Gondaira's Mission: Yozakura Family.

Taiyo and Mutsumi return to school, but Taiyo can't control his blooming. Even worse, there are rumors about their relationship all over school!

## Summary

Mutsumi and Taiyo head to school after a long while, and Taiyo is still sluggish from the Yozakura Frontlines mission. Taiyo mentions that he hasn't told anyone about the memories he saw of Kawashita's as he doesn't know how to tackle the subject. Mutsumi then notices that Taiyo's eyes are Blooming with Taiyo unaware. He struggles to deactivate it and accidentally hits a power pole, making a hole in it due to his body now becoming hard. Mutsumi calls Shion to make arrangements to fix the pole and they hide Taiyo's eyes with colored contacts.

In school, Taiyo has to avoid touching anything to avoid damaging it, which exhausts him. His classmates approach him and ask him if he was on a honeymoon with Mutsumi, this causes him to drop his hands on his desk - cracking it, He covers his desk with his body and hand signs with Mutsumi asking about the rumours, Mutsumi is also being asked about her and Taiyo. She signals to him that there's an article in the school newspaper that has been gossiping about them. The article involves, them travelling to Skeleton Island, Ayaka being Taiyo's affair and Ai being their illegitimate child. All the information has been written by a person named "Mr. Leaf". A speeding baseball comes flying through the window and hits Taiyo, but bounces off him back outside, Due to his blooming being active, it didn't hurt at all and the class is shocked. Mutsumi signals Taiyo about what happened and he tries to act like he is hurt, but people notice his delayed reaction and him not holding the right spot.

Taiyo continued his day as he kept accidentally breaking things, he runs into his class as he was late but he was unaware that he had just run through the door instead of opening it. Mutsumi feels bad for him and he gets nervous and runs out of the classroom and outside the school building. He sees on his phone that there are more articles about him and Mutsumi about things that had just happened. He realised who is the culprit and turns around to grab the invisible Sosuke Michibata. He says he figured out that the "So" in Sosuke means "grass" which caused him to make the codename "Mr. Leaf", and the fact that he couldn't notice the person taking pictures of them. He questions Sosuke as to why he's doing it and Sosuke says that the ladies enjoy hearing what he has to say about them, Taiyo says it's a pretty sad reason. He says that he'll forgive him with just a flick on the head, Sosuke thanks him. However, due to his blooming being active the flick leads to Sosuke being sent flying into the school building - cracking the wall and shaking the school.

They return home and Nanao examines Taiyo and doesn't seem to know why he's constantly blooming or how to stop it, Taiyo is sent to his room to rest and he starts to struggle to breathe, he then notices a flower blooming from his hand and a voice telling him to calm down. The voice tells him that the Chizakura in his blood tries to take over his body when they're weak and his inability to control his blooming is a warning of that, more flowers begin growing on him. The voice tells him to think about someone precious, a reason to live to calm down. Taiyo thinks about Mutsumi and the flowers sprouting from his body disappear. He finds the voice familiar and he falls asleep, a hand touches him and moves his arm. He finds himself laying on Tsubomi Yozakura's lap and she told him that the Chizakura won't emerge for a little while and congratulates him on fending it off.

## Characters in Order of Appearance

* Mutsumi Yozakura
* Taiyo Asano
* Ai (Image Only)
* Ayaka Kirisaki (Image Only)
* Sosuke Michibata
* Futaba Yozakura
* Nanao Yozakura
* Tsubomi Yozakura

## Quotes

"Taiyo, you ham...!!!" - Mutsumi Yozakura

## Events

* Mutsumi and Taiyo return to school.
* Taiyo wakes up to see Tsubomi Yozakura.