Chapter 93

## Mission 93: Second Exam Stage Examiner Futaba Yozakura

**Mission 93: Second Exam Stage Examiner Futaba Yozakura**  (作線 93. 二次試験官 夜桜二刃, Niiji Shiken-kan Yozakura Futaba) is the ninety-third chapter of Hitsuji Gondaira's Mission: Yozakura Family.

The second stage of the exam begins! Taiyo must figure out how to solve Futaba's trick.

## Summary

Futaba asks everyone to sit down and have some tea to rest. Usa mentions who it's the Yozakura Senke Tea Ceremony, the technique to make the tea was created to check tea for poison and expose spies overhead with the reflection. Futaba says how the ceremony is the art of hospitality and the techniques used to make it can also apply to the world of spies. She asks everyone to drink up but no one trusts her, expecting something to be in it.

Shion, Kengo and Nanao watch on saying how it's an obvious trick. One of the examinees decide that it may not be a trap, and drinks the tea, The moment he takes a sip, he is sent flying by a burst of wind from inside, sending him off the building. Futaba says how she infused Aiki energy (the art of redirection) into the tea. Similarly to how supercooled water freezes at the slightest stimulus, a slight tremor to the tea will unleash the Aiki energy inside. She mentions that the 3 exams will have 3 different trials: body, technique and mind. Futaba's exam is about seeing through and understanding her technique, and in order to pass then they need to drink the tea. The exam has a 1-hour time limit and if they fall off the building they fail, even if their cup breaks they are free to try again. She asks them to uses their lock and system breaking techniques to pass the exam. The second stage of the exam officially starts.

30 minutes later, and many examinees are being sent flying by the tea whilst Taiyo is still watching the tea and thinking. He gathers that half the people have been eliminated already. A sudden gust of gentle wind sweeps the area, as we see Usa who finished drinking the tea. People as Usa how they passed, but they just said they got lucking thanks to their job. Futaba treats Usa to a Manju Bun for passing.

Shion asks Kengo if he knows how it works, which he replies that his speciality is observing people and they think similarly, but he wonders if anyone else could figure out how she thinks. An examinee gets frustrated and throws his cup at Futaba, saying how the tea ceremony has nothing to do with being a spy and the exam is a sham. He alongside over examinees, go to attack her and force her to sign their licenses. Taiyo gets ready to defend Futaba, but Futaba simply puts her cup on the floor which sends them all onto the ground. They all can't move, as Futaba says she'll refill their cups.

She tells them all how she was promoted to silver rank at the age of 8 and was the first of her sibling to do so. The exams were a lot more crude and violent when she took them, but she took them all out in order to show the examiners and examinees that if they ever tried to do something unjust to her siblings, then they'd have to deal with her. Since she did so to protect her siblings from injustice, she won't be unjust to them and asks them to continue to try the exam.

Futaba tells them that it's not impossible and they just need to think about all the information available to them. This clicks in Taiyo's head and he thinks about all the information and stands up. Shion is angry that Futaba didn't fail the violent examinees, and Nanao says that's because she's so kind. Kengo says that it looks like Taiyo has figured it out, and Taiyo walks up to Futaba and asks if he can drink the tea, to which Futaba responds "be my guest".

## Characters in Order of Appearance

* Futaba Yozakura
* Usa
* Taiyo Asano
* Yamorin
* Shion Yozakura
* Kengo Yozakura
* Nanao Yozakura

## Events

* The second stage of the silver rank license exam begins
* Usa passes the second stage of the exam
* Futaba flashback to when she look the silver rank license exam