Kiyoshi smiled at Ryoko. He stood and waited patiently as she dialed the pizza place, giving them the orders he'd picked out in her much-better English, and then ordering a “Dr. Pepper” or something as well.
She looked at him, presumably to confirm that she'd not forgotten anything. Kiyoshi wasn't totally sure, since he didn't know the names of the pizzas, but he trusted her to have got it right. She was his half-sister and cousin, after all. Plus, she had at least ordered the correct number of pizzas, and the names she had read out sounded at least plausible. So, he nodded his assent.
With that, she confirmed the order and hung up. Then, she turned to him and spoke.
"Alright then, we got ourselves some pizza. I take it you want to get started on that soup now?" she said, grinning.
“Yeah, definitely. I promised Connor, and it will be fun to spend some time cooking with you.”
But, they could get moving, he heard a shout from upstairs.
"EMERGENCY PEOPLE, I NEED HELP DRAGGING A LOONEY AWAY FROM A HELPLESS GIRL, SERIOUSLY NOW".
That's coming from Sakura's room! She's in trouble, Kiyoshi thought with alarm.
At the same time Ryoko spoke.
"Go ahead and start cooking the soup”, she said. “I'm going over to make sure I don't have to do any damage control over here..."
Too distracted by the danger looming to take notice of his sister's words, Kiyoshi started running at top speed towards the stairs.
“Sorry, Ryoko-nee, we can't cook right now. Sakura-nee is in trouble, I need to save her”, he said as he ran towards the room. As he arrived, he summoned his swords ready to attack.