Smiling to each student that entered and came near her, Kurumi was just about to show Lewis just what she was talking about with the movement of Mars on her charts when Professor Roslund spoke. Oh well, she would have to wait until after the lesson.

Thinking for a moment, Kurumi wanted to say nine. She still thought the whole kicking out of a certain planet because it was a little different was mean. But, they had already discussed the planet in a previous lesson when they had gone over dwarf planets as opposed your standard planets, so there really was no sense in arguing the matter at the moment even if she thought it was rubbish. Poor Pluto...and it totally ruined her favorite television program.

So, Kurumi raised her hand. "Our galaxy is called the Milky Way galaxy and is a spiral galaxy." Because she felt the need to include something extra since so many others had already answered. There were three types of galaxies after all, so it was important to know which was which. And then came the planet discussion. Kurumi KNEW what the logical and accepted answer of the day was, but she couldn't put her emotions aside for the poor planet. It was like her in a way. Belonging to a certain group but had somehow become the nail that stuck out and therefore had to be hammered down or removed. Well, you can't exactly force a planet cleared the neighborhood of its orbit. It just didn't work that way. So, hand back up in the air, Kurumi replied. "There are nine planets in our Solar System."

A dwarf PLANET was still a PLANET after all. It had the word in its name!