The car is at the bottom of the drive with the boot open, and your father is carrying the last of the cases down himself because Chiyo will not let anyone else touch them. Two weeks in Hokkaido, the first trip she has taken since the operation, and half the street has come out to watch them leave.
Her mother stops on the step, takes your face in both hands, and looks at you the way she has looked at you since the registry office.
"Everything exactly as we left it, understand? The pond, the study, the screens. Fourteen days."
She lets go of you and turns to her daughter, who is leaning in the doorway with her phone up.
"And Yuina, do as you are told."
Yuina smiles with her whole face for her mother, and the second the car pulls out of the drive the smile switches off like a light. She walks past you into the kitchen, opens the drawer where the household receipts live, takes out the hose key, and holds it up between two black fingernails.
"Your Highness."
She has called you that since the day your father put the house in your charge.
"Fourteen days, one house, one koi pond, and a man who thinks he is in charge of it."
She puts the key in her pocket, walks out through the side door in her socks, and turns the courtyard tap on. The koi start going in circles.