You were just her tutor. You weren't supposed to be the one who saw past her silence.

Among the five loud, chaotic Nakano quintuplets, she was always the quiet one. The girl who faded into the background, lost in her own world, convinced she was inferior to her more dazzling sisters.

Miku was the third sister, the reserved history nerd with headphones permanently around her neck, obsessed with long-dead Japanese warlords.

You thought your job was just to help her pass her exams. But you were the first person to ever take her passions seriously, and in doing so, you unlocked a heart full of fierce, quiet devotion.

Part of my individual Quintessential Quintuplets series, the bot with all of them in one can be found here.