Admissions Interview Arc

The Eden Admissions Arc is the second story arc in SPY x FAMILY.

Loid Forger begins making the Forger Family in order to accomplish Operation Strix, starting by getting Anya Forger enrolled in Eden Academy.

Summary
To prepare for the admissions interview at Eden Academy to continue Operation Strix, Loid Forger takes Yor Forger and Anya Forger for a day on the town to develop culture to impress the faculty, but they take a detour to stop a purse snatcher, growing closer as a fake family. Arriving for the admissions interview, other families waited for their interviews in the courtyard as Loid immediately finds they're under observation by the faculty judging their social interactions. With each successive test, Loid's precautions proved successful by impressing academy professor Henry Henderson observing from an upper floor. However, the school petting zoo started stampeding from the stables into the crowd, Henderson was shocked at the turn while Loid misperceived the event as another test. Thinking quickly, Loid saved a child while Yor stunned the leading cow with pressure point strikes, which ended the stampede. With the chaos ended, the animals returned to their pens and Henderson came into the courtyard to thank Loid Forger. Directing them the to clean up before the interview, Loid stuns him again with yet another set of prepared clean clothes. Inside, Loid uses a listening device he planted beforehand to hear the interviews preceding Anya's.

They play out their rehearsed answers while Professor Murdoch Swan's selectively targeted questioning, which Anya mind-reads as Swan's bitterness about his own failed marriage. When Anya's mind-reading Loid causes a slight misunderstanding, Loid saves the interview by phrasing it as Anya's want to climb the academic ladder. After Professor Swan picks at Yor being the stepmother and if Anya preferred her birth mother over Yor, Loid's thinking that Anya's true birth parents were likely dead unknowingly caused her to cry. While Swan continued his phrased harassment, Yor was ready to hurt him, but Loid's focus on mission nearly failed as he readied to strike Swan for seemingly making Anya cry. Thankfully, Loid directs the attack to the table between them to kill a mosquito, saving face before having the family leave. After Loid voiced his disgust at Swan knowingly making a child cry, Swan's prideful stance being the son of the previous headmaster irritated Henderson, who struck Swan squarely for his disrespect. At home, the Forgers fear Anya may not get admitted, contemplating their family future. However, trying to be happy anyway, the trio celebrate over tea hoping to be a better family, but are dejected by a bad omen of their family portrait falling from the wall.

As they return to Eden Academy, they are crestfallen upon seeing Anya didn't make the final admissions list, but Professor Henderson covertly shares that Anya is on the waiting list of students at the top to take another student's place. As Henderson shares his views on the mosquito as a dangerous deadly creature, he thanks Loid for stopping a disease carrier and explains that there is always someone every year that declines attendance, so Anya's chance to enroll are favorable. Henderson admits to striking Swan after their interview, and is awaiting an acceptable punishment; while Loid contemplates routes to deal with Henderson if he should be an obstacle. Told to return home and wait, a call from the school confirms that Anya passed and will enroll. Franky arrives immediately with a celebratory drink, excusing it as his information brokering. At dinner, a drunk Franky slips about stealing the exam answers, but Loid's worry fades seeing Yor too intoxicated to notice the slip up, then helps Anya goad Loid into fulfilling Anya's fantasy of being a princess rescued from a castle. Heading to Münk to rent Newston Castle, Loid calls in several dozen undercover agents to play the role of attendees, as he plays the hero against Franky the villain, and a drunk Yor plays "a witch" who nearly overwhelms Loid with martial arts. However, her heel breaks and Yor goes to sleep once she hits the floor, so Loid slaps Franky and finishes the play, finally 'rescuing' Anya, who thanks Loid for being her dad. The next day, Loid's report of Phase 1 of Operation Strix is sent to WISE, along with the expenses report.

Story Impact

 * Recurring character Henry Henderson is introduced.