They Saw that as a giant step of progress considering that in some people's eyes they had been homeless as a makeshift shelter next to a dumping site did not fit quite well into their definition of a home. Up to then however, they had known not the gates of a school. Everything they knew up to then, they had learnt it in the streets. No one had offered to buy them school uniform or at least be their guardian. They would tell Shiko the landlady how they would love to join a school. Having no children of her own, Shiko started to treat them as her own. She promised them that they would soon join a public school since it used to be free then as long as one bought uniforms and learning tools for themselves. Shiko however was willing to do all that for them on one condition.