Talk:Shizune Hakamichi/@comment-7097168-20130525153856/@comment-1387259-20130526175044
You can also think of it this way. At the point in Shizune's path when they all go to her house for the summer, Lilly and Akira are there and they say they're going away "for a while." This "while" is the Satou's being summoned back to Scotland for life.