Episode 08

**Mission: Daughter Dearest I** (MISSION《愛娘》I, *Mission "Manamusume" I*) is the 8th episode of Spy Classroom anime series.

## Synopsis

Coming back from a break, everyone is recharged and ready for the next mission. Lamplight's been promoted from a provisional team to an actual team.

## Summary

An assassin kills several spies, but feels bored as they were no challenge. However as his next target is Klaus, he feels he will be different than the rest.

Klaus returns to the mansion after his vacation. Lily welcomes him and explains that she prepared food right for his arrival. Klaus wonders about the other girls and Lily explains that they are still not back from their vacations. However as Klaus enters the dinning room, Lily states she lied and the girls ambush Klaus, but end up easily defeated like usual. Having been promoted to an official team, the girls are excited for their first mission, but Klaus tells them they have already done it. While he was on vacation in the Lylat Kingdom, he finished three missions as well as another two domestically, so their next mission would be their sixth.

Klaus reports to C, who is surprised that Klaus managed to complete that many missions on his own and wonders why he didn't take the girls. Klaus states that they still need training and the only reason he took them on that mission was to fool Guido. C then gives a new mission to Klaus, stating that he is the only one who can do it and Klaus accepts.

That evening, Grete brings Klaus some good tea. He wonders why she has such affection for him and recalls that he caught her naked in the bathroom. He stated she was beautiful, but won't fall for her seduction, however moments later he realized this wasn't a set up, but doubts that was the reason she got such affection towards him. As Klaus has been quite busy lately, Grete hopes he will be able to relax from tomorrow, however he explains that he got a new big mission. Grete then asks him if she can hold him in her bosom, explaining that he has been working a lot and wants him to take a break, however Klaus chases her away guessing that Thea has been putting ideas in her head.

Klaus mission is to stop the assassin Corpse, who has been killing anti-Imperial politicians and making it look like suicide. They have send people after him, but they all were killed and the mission was classified as an Impossible Mission. C had suggested Klaus to use the girls, but Klaus fears they may get killed. On top of this, C gives Klaus another mission.

Klaus defeats the girls again. As he is about to leave the room, he sense a trap, a poison needle on the doorknob and guesses its Lily's doing. He tells her its was an obvious trick and skilled spies won't fall for it. Klaus then asks her if she is always carrying her antidote and Lily boosts that she is almost never forgetting to carry it now and forgets it only 1 out of 10 times. That still isn't good, but he asks her to follow him. They go in his car and drive away. He asks her if they want to participate in missions and Lily confirms, while also explaining that while they don't work, they get less money. Klaus then explains that all the solo mission he completed, he has been splitting the bonuses with the team. Hearing that, Lily is then fine not participating as it would be a dream to not do anything and earn lots of money and name as a spy. However, if she can't do that, then she do wants to take on missions.

Klaus takes her in town and explains that they have started the mission. He job would be to walk around town for a hour and buy some drinks and then return to the car, after which they will go home, and in the mean time, he will deal with the target. Lily then complains that isn't a mission, but a shopping trip. Klaus then disguises and goes to capture a man, who ends up expecting Klaus. A bit after he captures the man and removes his disguise, Klaus hears a gunshot, he sees a car with a popped tire and then finds Lily with a wound on her arm. She explains that she is fine and states it was a man in beige coat. Klaus goes to chase him, but feels something is off and soon returns to Lily. She finishes bandaging her wound and looks surprised that Klaus let the man escape, since he looked quite confident that he will capture him. As he turns his back on her, Lily stabs him with the poison needle. Klaus wonders why and Lily states it was his plan, that once she puts her bandage, she needs to stab him with the needle to numb his pain. Klaus then wonders about what pain and Lily states his arm was bleeding a lot.

Klaus realizes that there were two of each of them, and explains that the Lily he saw first is different than this Lily, and the Klaus who instructed Lily to stab him is also different than current Klaus. Klaus states there is only one person who can do that. The second Lily then shows up and removes her disguise revealing that she is Grete. She explains that he is sensitive to traps as he picks malice and hostility, which is why she tricked Lily into stabbing him. Klaus looks for Lily's antidote, but Sybilla states she already took it. As all the girls show up, Lily is surprised that they didn't told her, but Grete states that if they did, the information would have reached Klaus. Grete states that Klaus has overworked himself as normally he should have seen through her disguise. She asks Klaus when was the last time he took a break and Klaus reveals it was over 400 days ago. Hearing that the girls state he needs to rest and rely on them more. Grete points a gun at his head and waits for him to surrender. Klaus do confirms that he is tired, but wonders for how long should he keep playing this game. In a moment, he then takes down Grete. He compliments them on the needle without malice, but Lily explains that she couldn't stab him properly and only scratched him. Klaus explains the goodwill attack would have worked, but he was already on high alert due to the suspicious situation from before that. They cleared the area too blatant, distracting the cops from a gunshot by covering it with a popped tire. That was too well-executed to be a coincidence, and was obviously a trap for someone who could recognize the difference, and as he figured he was being baited, he got on a high alert. Similarly, the spy he captured today was also on high alert because he realized both of his neighbors went on vacation, a sloppy job to clear the area. Klaus states they still need training and if he gave them the mission today, they would have been killed and right now can't rely on them.

Back at the mansion, Grete prepares tea for Klaus. She again suggest he can hug her, but Klaus then asks her if she loves him. Grete blushes and is surprised he notices. However as Klaus was about to decline her love, she stops him and tells him to not give his answer now as her heart isn't ready. Grete then gives him the report from today's mission. Klaus thanks her, but then wonders how long it took her to put all this mission as he ended up deciding on the moment to take Lily. Grete explains that once she saw the tracker she put on Lily moving, she predicted the destination and it took her 2 seconds to form the whole plan. Klaus is impressed and explains that his next mission is an assassin hunt and asks Grete to assist him, and she accepts. Klaus then states he will take on the assassin with Lamplights four strongest members and they need to choose the members.

## Characters

* Corpse
* Klaus
* Flower Garden
* Meadow
* Dreamspeaker
* Pandemonium
* Glint
* Forgetter
* Daughter Dearest
* Fool
* C