The plan was simple: Hana had to lure Chiho away from her desk and the Natural Disaster Department floor in whatever way she thought best.
Yet, even if she had been resolved in the moment, answering Mari, she still had to have the courage to act in the real situation.
Sitting alone at her desk she was still thinking about how to approach her former stalker. Should she still display a strong and unquestioning attitude? Threaten her again? Ask her to apologize? Anything, as long as the other young woman would follow her?
Anxiously, Hana looked to her right and left, then ahead. Mari, Yuuto and Ren's offices had been empty for a quarter of an hour already, a sign that they were already moving on.
For his own task at hand, Ren had told her the exact time he would be waiting patiently in the stairwell to intervene, once he had taken a turn at the IT department. Which would happen in less than fifteen minutes, now.
