Chapter I
Familiar Beginnings
As a foreword to this story, this is one I've personally been hoping to do for a long time. I've written Girls und Panzer FanFiction before, and both of my published series here are all but dead. But between then and now, I've been working on another FanFiction with friends, which you guys may know as Augusta Per Angusta and have gained a lot of experience that my works in that as well. So, I've decided to create this story, as a spiritual successor to the ill-fated Panzer for Summer and for my mini-series, Girls und Panzer: Skirmishes. This story combines all of the experience and writing styles I've garnered over the last few years I've been writing FanFiction, with a lot of reading into the lore of Girls und Panzer as well. As a fair warning, this story will follow closely the same plot points of the actual Girls und Panzer show, borrowing a good amount of scenes of the first few episodes of the show and generally follow the same themes in terms of battles, but of course, with my own plot points and twist. So for the first few chapters, it may seem like a rerun of Girls und Panzer with some changes here in there, but I assure that it will change as the story develops. So here we go, a story that been put together over the course of three years: Girls und Panzer: Series Kai
Beep! Beep! Beep!
"Oooooowagh!" The sounds of her alarm clock, buzzing, or rather, beeping away at the morning, frightened Makoto as she woke up. She wasn't used to the harsh sounds it made, it had only been a few days since she was settled in at her new school. Her new room was decent enough, but the clock they decided to provide her wasn't particularly a decent welcome however.
Beep! Beep! Beep!
Before it could let off another barrage of loud noises, she slammed her palm flat onto the snooze button before stepping off her single mattress bed. So basically it was more like pivoting around at the point then setting her feet down. But then it hit her, she was going to be late to school if she didn't hurry up and get dressed. Searching through her closet wardrobe of around a few outfits and finding her school's uniform, which was a simple seifuku with blue accents and a black scarf. It didn't make any sense, since the flag of the town it's based in, Tōkai, is green, but she couldn't really argue against it.
"I should hurry, before I'm late, I don't need a tardy on my record so early in the year!" With haste, she made her bed and grabbed her bookbag, which was basically a satchel, and ran out the entrance. It was a beautiful day, clear skies, sunny, but now there was the walk to campus, which was rather long considering the distance from her quarters to the classroom. Without any friends, or anyone she really knew, the walk there was rather lonely, but she didn't really care, it gave her peace of mind.
"Fresh Bread! Baked right this morning!" A nearby man yelled from a bakery, and Makoto wondered to herself about how early it was for him to start. They never need that at the school she used to attend, and looked at the storefront as she walked past. An assortment of breads and pastries lined both the counters and at the windows, it made her a bit hungry. Her mind had switched from the nice breeze and skies to the fact that she hadn't even eaten anything this morning.
"If only I wasn't so limited on time I could…" Before finishing her thought however, she strided away from the store quickly. The more she thought about food, the more she would feel hungry at this rate. She quicken her step and hoped she would reach lunchtime before her stomach started to digest itself. Before she knew it, the school building came into sight, a run of the mill exterior, she thought herself as she stepped past the main gates. Walking through the front courtyard, with students much like her, walking to their classes, she noticed the nice amount of flora around. A lot of grass around the concrete walkway to the main doors, cherry blossom trees that were fully in season. She must have stepped over tons of blossoms that had fallen and carried by the wind.
As she entered the building, she stared at the huge glistening emblem of Tōkai Girls High School, simply the kanji of Tōkai on top of their seal. Inside, she searched for the student reception and presented her Student ID to them. "Ah yes, the new transfer." The girl running the reception took out a folder and handed it to her, "These are your class schedules, the student handbook, and same basic supplies that will be provided to your due to your recent transfer. Please enjoy your time here." She spoke in a voice that seemed to be happy, but also seemed to be monotone, Makoto couldn't put her finger on it. She just took the folder and thanked the girl for her help.
Looking at her schedule, she still had a little time before Homeroom started, she had the usually classes. Her handbook was much more useful, it detailed the electives here, the period schedules, when lunch was, and just for her, the class roster for her Homeroom. She quickly found her way to Homeroom and entered the class. The girls around her were still talking with each other while she just simply sat down. Her appearance caught the attention of some of the students around her. She mumbled among themselves with things like: "That's the new girl isn't it?", "She's the transfer from that huge Schoolship." and "She must be the transfer, doesn't look like anyone I know." Unbeknownst to her, she had especially caught the attention of two particular students.
Life in her classes simply soared by as time went on, soon enough, it was lunchtime and she was back in homeroom. Finally, she could actually satisfy the empty stomach she's had since this morning. Although, she contradicted her urges by spending a rather long amount of time organizing her personal belongings before leaving. She didn't really have anything else to replace them with if she lost any of it and neither did she have the money to spend on other academic tools either, just enough to live comfortably. By the time she finished, she had just assumed that everyone had left for lunch ahead of her.
"Hey, New Girl! You want to eat lunch with us?" Suddenly, a cheery voice rang out from behind. To which she responding be quickly rising to her feet and turning to face the voice. In front of her were two girls, one tall with straight black hair, and the other about her height with shorter auburn hair stood looking at her. Confused, she pointed at herself, "Yes you, there's no one else in the room but us!" the shorter one responded to her gesture.
"Shiori-san, you're being rude to Shimada-san." The tall girl ridiculed her friend and and looked over at Makoto. "Sorry for that, let me rephrase for her. Would you like to eat lunch with us?" She finished her question, and apology, with a gentle smile, Makoto was still startled that someone would want to have lunch with her, especially because it was practically her first normal day here. But she couldn't just refuse, it wouldn't just be right if she did.
"Y-yes! I-I would like to eat lunch with you." Before leaving with them, she placed her things in her bag. With that, the three of them left for lunch, once in the line, they started to chat with each other while waiting. They were having a pretty nice conversation while they got their lunch from the ladies who worked there. Though Makoto personally wanted to go out for some actual food later, but her budget restricted her quite a bit.
"You're a pretty cool person Makoto, though I personally like when it when you get flustered like you did in the classroom. Sorry if it isn't a quality you like, but I dunno, I'm a fan of it, it's...cute." Shiori giggled just as she was served her food.
"I'm sorry about Shiori-san, she's like this, all the time, so you should be careful around her. Though, she is pretty popular with the students here, and back in town, so she's nice enough."
"Oh Hina, don't be like that, anyways, hey, Makoto, you haven't been talking a whole lot, are you okay?" She looked back at Makoto, who was standing behind Hina and couldn't really be directly talked to. The line sure was long, a string of students in front of them and a string of students behind them all trying to get their food for the day.
"I'm fine Shiori-san, you could stop calling me by Makoto fully if you want, you could always use shorthand if you prefer it. But yeah, not a whole lot is troubling me, it's just that I'm getting used to this." The three continued their conversation, which actually included Makoto at this rate and by the time they sat down to eat, they had already gotten acquainted.
"Oh, how I could I forgot!" The girl with Auburn hair looked at her and gave off a happy smile, "My name is Shiori Tachibana, I'm one of your classmates for homeroom." Then the taller girl also shared her name as well, looking directly at Makoto with her caring eyes.
"And my name is Hina Kazehaya, I'm also one of your classmates in homeroom." She gave off the same smile she did earlier in the classroom. Makoto was tried to place their names permanently in her mind, before she suddenly realized it was her turn to share her name. To which she suddenly stood up and bowed.
"O-oh, my name is Makoto...Shimada Makoto." Which was followed by her giving off a weak smile to make it seem better. The two girls just simply laughed at her formality, lightly of course. "D-did I do something funny?" She was worried that she may had just embarrassed herself in front of her new-found friends.
"No, not really, it's that no one is really that formal around these parts, you must have been a city person before coming here, right?" Hina kindly smiled at Makoto who had just sat down again. They sat right next to the windows, each of them were very large and provided a great view of the rest of the Schoolship. It was a very scenic place to sit, their table were simple metal ones, with some condiments lining the side.
"Y-yeah, you could say I'm like a city-girl, or at the least the Schoolship I used to attended was kinda like city…" She blushed at her own answers before beginning to just eat some of her food. Before long, she was interrupted by Shiori, who had some statements to make herself about Makoto.
"You don't be so shy Mako-san, it's fine to be nervous on the first day I suppose." Mako-san? She didn't realize their friendship had escalated to point of using her name in shorthand so soon. As for Shiori's attempt at making her feel better, it really did, or at the least just a little. The day wasn't so bad after all she supposed, a nice lunch, and two new...friends to boot as well, or at least she hoped that they would stay friends.
"It's not often that we get transfers here, Tōkai isn't a very large place to live, and the schoolship here is attended by even less." Hina so kindly informed her of the situation. "Why did you choose to transfer here? Did anything happen to do beforehand?" She bluntly asked Makoto, setting her chopsticks just before she was starting to eat her rice.
"W-well, I suppose you could say something happened to make me transfer here." Makoto also placed her eating utensils down as a result of the question and looked down in a gloomy fashion. But it didn't seem like Hina exactly picked up on her gestures and continued to ask her questions.
"Was it an issue with the school? Did something happen with your family? Perhaps you had no choice but to transfer here." Yet still, Hina pressed the question, unaware of what her new friend was thinking. Makoto didn't particularly like to talk about her previous school and what happened there.
"Something along those lines I suppose, I don't really really like to talk about it…" Her answer put the three into an awkward silence for a while before Hina realized that they had barely even touched their food since they had sat down. Even the steam from their hot tea was starting to dissipate as they were sitting and staring at eachother.
"Let's just eat our food before it's cold, we could talk later." The three started to dig into their lunch, provided by the school. It was simple, much like most things at this school. A nice bowl of steamed rice, some salted fish, an assorted variety of vegetables like seaweed and such. With some hot tea, though it was starting be lukewarm by now, to finish it off. "So, Makoto-san, out of curiosity, what have you chosen for your electives this year?"
"I don't think so, I haven't had a chance to look at any of them yet, I really should decide soon." Makoto started to think about what electives they had at this school, she had never even thought about it until now. Electives were pretty big, at least for her personally, all those things you would have to commit to.
"There's no rush here, there's not nearly enough students around here to fill up all of them." Shiori chimed in, "Besides, there aren't that many electives in the first place." and she wasn't wrong either, compared to most other schools, they weren't too well funded and thus didn't attract many students nor did it have the electives either.
"I suppose, but I still need time to think about this, I don't want to commit to an elective I don't like." Makoto sat and looked down in an awkward shyness. Suddenly, the PA sprung to life in the nearby hallway and at the front of the classroom. It was a simple system, a speaker inside a wooden box connected to each other by wires hung along the ceiling and walls. It shouted out a surprisingly high sound quality voice.
"Attention, all Students, you are to gather at the gymnasium. There will now be orientation on a new available elective starting today." Before dying out again, leaving the three girls to ponder about what it may be that's so important.
"What do you think it could be?" Shiori presented the question while they were heading over to the gym. "Usually they don't announce new electives in the middle of the day, usually they don't announce anything at all!" Shiori was right again, the PA system was rarely ever used, and similarly, electives were really introduced because of funding and lack of interest for the students.
"I know getting new electives is pretty rare and all, but to announce it…" Hina added on, just before they reached the gym, a large room where all the students were already gathered. They saw them all sitting on the floor as more students trickled in slowly. The three joined in, sitting down somewhere in the crowd. Standing at the front, on a makeshift platform, were two rather important looking students. They had blue bands around their upper sleeve and stood still for a while.
"That's the student council, aside from the administration, they practically run the school." Shiori whispered into Makoto's ear as she just simply stated at the two. "There's usually three of them though, their president is missing, wonder where she is."
"I'm right here." A whispering voice came from behind them, they looked to see a girl crouching down with them. "Hello girls, how are you doing?" She asked them, but it seemed more rhetorical as she didn't even give them time to answer. "Makoto Shimada? I need to have a talk with you, privately, out in the hallway." Makoto looked nervously at her two friends who just nodded at her to go before leaving with the girl.
There the two of them stood alone before the girl spoke up again, in a much more conceited tone too. "My name is Aizu Nishida, I'm the president of the Student Council here." She didn't seem much like a president, not that much different from her subordinates up on the platform. "I wanted to discuss a particular subject about your choice of elective this year…"
"We will now begin an introductory video on the new elective! Please keep your eyes on the screen and pay attention!" The lights in the gymnasium went out as a projector starter to show a video on the white screen they set up on stage. Makoto looked out from the open door nearby and saw the title to the video.
An Introduction to Sensha-Dou. She said to herself in her mind. Before that is, freaking out in her mind about this new elective. "I hope you consider Sensha-Dou as your elective this year, that's a personal recommendation." To her, it would seem that the past had finally caught up with her this time around.
"W-what? I thought this school didn't practice Sensha-Dou! That was the one condition that made me come here in the first place!" Makoto's panicked state didn't even faze Aizu as she just continued with her intended message all the same. It almost seemed like she had planned this all along, including Makoto's anxiety.
"Well, it's clear that we're reinstating the Tōkai Sensha-Dou program. You should very much, consider selecting it." She still smiled while Makoto simply just stared at her in shock. "I know about the old school you attended, I know about the circumstances surrounding your transfer. But I hope you realize my word could easily put you into the same situation." Despite her cheery demeanor, she outright threatened Makoto with academic expulsion if she didn't sign up for Sensha-Dou. "I'll let you figure it out with your friends." She walked off, roughly around the time the video in the gym ended, leaving Makoto to debate her choices.
Quickly, her two new friends ran to join her with Shiori immediately barraging her with questions. "What did she want? Why did she want you? Are you okay? Why are you making that face?" Before Hina cut her off for Makoto to get the chance to answer.
"I-I think was just threatened by the Student Council to sign up for Sensha-Dou…" She disclosed her recent conversation to her friends, much to their dismay. It was clear that it was an abuse of the Council's power, but what could they do?
"We should file a complaint to the Human Resources department!" Shiori encouraging them to do something while going back to home room.
"Shiori-san, we're a high school, we don't have one of those, the closest is the Student Council and they're issuing the threat."
"Hina! They're using their power to force Mako into an elective she doesn't even want! I don't care, but that's dirty, we should just march right up to their office after school and complain!"
"That's not a bad idea, how about it Makoto-san? The three of us go to the Student Council after school and confront them."
"N-no, that's not necessary, it would get us into more trouble than needed, surely they aren't serious as to expel me right? I'll need time to think about this…" She put the other two into a worried silence. Right before they started to walk home, she waved goodbye to her newfound friends, trying to pull a smile. But at home, she could barely sleep in the dark solitude of her room. Her mind was full of thoughts of what to do, staring at the moon, she wished she didn't have to deal with all of this, but she had to make up her mind by tomorrow. So she closed her eyes, had tried to sleep it off for tonight.
The Next Day
The new day brought Makoto back to school and with her friends in the morning. Previously, she did have a rather hard time trying to just simply sleep off the problem. The school had handed out the sign-up sheets for their electives this year, and they just received them early in the morning. Though a new day it was, the worries of yesterday carried with them, especially the threat given by Aizu. "So are you going to sign up for Sensha-Dou, Makoto?" Hina hesitantly asked her as they stared at their sheets.
"Well, I don't know, some of these other electives look tempting...but you remember what the student council said." She hadn't even picked up her utensil for marking what she wanted, the entire time just staring at the sheet. There was a whole assortment of electives to choose from, and Sensha-Dou was so thoughtfully placed on the top of the sheet.
"You don't have to listen to them Mako-san, they're in over their heads, there's no way they could have the power to expel you!" Shiori tried to bring her spirits up about this. Yeah, they couldn't possibly just up and expel from the school, right?
"How could I forget, there's still a sensible administration here, I hope, how about we all sign up for a different electives, at the least we'd have each other if things come to pass?" Makoto was trying to convince her friends to participate in the same elective so that they could be together more often.
"But what should we sign up for?" Shiori did bring up a good point, the three of them had never actually considered what elective to take in the first place. There weren't that many choices, but it was still daunting as they would have to commit to this elective for the rest of the year, or at least the rest of the semester.
"I suppose, my personal choices are between Archery and um...Swimming, never knew that was an elective." Makoto had her eyes down on the two blank spaces next to the two aforementioned electives and so held her utensil rightly in her hand.
"I'm into Swimming but not Archery...I'm not as physically adept…" Hina looked down in a bit of shame because of how weak she viewed herself. Hina wasn't the most keen on any activity that would exert a heavy amount of physical activity on her, swimming be one of the only exceptions to that.
"Well I'm also interested into Swimming, I suppose we should pick it and hope we get in? We still need a second one just in case it doesn't work out for us." The three girls checked off Swimming and searched for a second elective to sign up for. After a long bout of debate, Makoto suggested something.
"Well, maybe we could just take up Music, that's simple enough for all of us." Makoto looked up and her friends replied with a nod, they had all managed to signup for similar electives and when it came time to turn them in, she stared at the blank space next to Sensha-Dou, before putting it through.
A good portion of the day passed by and the girls were sitting in Homeroom right after they finished lunch. "So I really hope he'll notice me this time, at least when we're on-" Suddenly, the PA roared to life, two days in a row, calling out Makoto.
"Attention! Makoto Shimada, please report to the Student Council! That is all." Shocked, the three of them looked at each other, with faces of horror as the PA died off. Suddenly, Makoto went pale as she looked down towards her desk.
"I-I suppose they do have power…" Makoto worriedly mumbled while touching her fingers together. "They must be really mad that I didn't sign up for Sensha-Dou, furious even, I should've just done it in the first place…" Hina placed her hand on Makoto's shoulder, to calm her down.
"It's okay, they can't possibly do anything worse to you at this point. Besides, you don't have to go alone, me and Shiori can go with you." She instilled some hope into Makoto, what little hope she could in the face of expulsion.
"Yeah! We're by your side Mako-san! With three of us, they'll surely be discouraged, at least a little more." Makoto looked at her two friends, and nodded, the three stood up together and went to confront the student council in their office. It was located in one of the deeper areas of the school. It got noticeably dimmer in lighting as they approached their location, and the furnishing seemed to be a bit more expensive as well. They reached the brown door with a sign next to it saying that it was the Student Council's main office.
"Now or never…" Makoto nudged at the other two to follow her into the room who, even though they were the ones that encouraged her, hesitantly followed her. The room was even darker then the space outside, it made it seem like they were now entering an entirely different realm altogether, though that could be some sort of subjective statement.
As soon as they entered the room, Aizu spoke out from behind her desk. "Oh, Makoto, how nice of you to visit us at this time." Then she noticed that she had brought friends. "I see you brought your friends, well these are my "friends", the one with glasses is Mino, the other is Yuki." Aizu referred to the two girls on the sides of her desk who seemed to be standing patiently for their cues.
"Hello, Minori Fukui, I'm the president's direct subordinate, in other words, Vice-President." The girl with glasses stepped forward and bowed, signalling the other to do the same. But rather than just stand still, she actually bowed instead of Minori's rather hostile staring.
"And I'm Yukiko Kuroda, Yuki for short, I'm the closest thing Public Relations and Human Resources, so basically I just run all the public issues and concerns the students have."
"There is a fourth member to our group, but she's been busy around the country preparing for our Sensha-Dou practices ahead of time." Aizu leaned back in her chair and set her feet up on the desk. "So, did you decide yet, Makoto, about our proposition?" She of course, presented the question they were there for.
"I suppose you're thinking we called you here for this?" Minori held up Makoto's electives sheet towards the three girls. She could clearly see her own choices, even in the dim light provided by only a night lamp on a nearby coffee table. The fact that the entire back of the room was window didn't help much because it was in the shadow of the main building.
"That's why you called out Makoto-san right? While me and Hina-san are interested in Sensha-dou, you've been threatening Makoto-san to join!" Shiori came to Makoto's defense almost immediately with Hina nodding in support. "That's not right! You can't threaten her with with expulsion just because she disagrees!"
"It's because we require her in the program, it's her duty as a Student to heed our demands. It's either that, or expulsion." Minori pushed up her glasses and ended her statement bluntly. That sparked a conflict between the two parts, with the Student Council on one end and the Students on the other. The two shouted back and forth while Makoto tuned out the argument. She thought to herself about this, and tried to balance the facts. She had previously promised herself, and family, that she wouldn't practice Sensha-Dou anymore. But, her friends were defending her in this situation, and it wouldn't be fair to either them or even the school itself if they had to do anymore for this strange.
Slowly, she looked up, and her eyes connected with that of Aizu's, who was smiling smugly at her, and then she winked, lightning the last fuse in Makoto's mind. "I'll join the Sensha-Dou team!" She cut the conflict into silence, and shock as the four others just stared at her. "If it would please everyone, I will join the team, okay?"
"B-but Mako-san…"
"It's okay, guys, I don't want you guys to fight so hard for me, you've already done enough just by being friends with me."
"Then we'll join you too." Hina quickly interjected her loyalty. "Besides, me and Shiori were interested anyways, that video was quite convincing you know." Makoto was absolutely happy that her new friends would stick with her all the way. She smiled and her friends did the same to her. Meanwhile Aizu was ecstatic considering the outcome of her "persuasion".
"Good to see you could see it from our point of view Makoto. It's best for you and for the school. I'm looking forward to seeing you and your friends tomorrow, the change to your electives will be made tomorrow. Now bye~! Me and the Student Council have work to do!" She waved to the three girls as they exited the room, by this point, it was time for class again. They quickly blazed through class in order to talk things over in their free time.
"I know this nice Lettuce Cafe, it's just like the one that's actually in town!" Shiori, before they could even talk, dragged them to the Schoolship version of the Lettuce Cafe. Just then, Makoto had realized that she didn't even have money to buy anything here and kept silent about it when they were order. Or at the least she tried to before Shiori noticed that she hadn't done exactly that. "Are you going to order anything? It's been awhile since lunch, Mako-san."
"O-oh! I...I don't really have any money, or at least enough to eat anything other than instant noodles for now." She was hoping be sent money from her family soon, at the least her family had the decency to do that when they transferred her here.
"Oh. Would you want me to order something for you? Me and Hina are ordering the same thing, do you want it too." She gave a very nice gesture to Makoto who was shocked that her friend would do that for her. No one had ever really extended such things to her in the past, it made her rather happy.
Afterwards, they started to talk over a nice meal of Omuraisu, the dish that all three of them had gotten. "See? It's not bad at all!" Shiori was chowing down on her helping on it, Hina and Makoto hadn't even started with eating it. "Why do you still look so down, Mako-san?" She had noticed that despite the food, Makoto was still looking a little gloomy.
"You guys didn't have to come with me…" Makoto was busy talking with her mouth full to really notice. "Wow, this is really good." She looked down at the plate of Omuraisu and wondered to herself, who Shiori was able to convince her to eating an omelette when it was close to evening.
"It is good!" Hina, for the first time, also talked with her mouth full. "Anyways, of course we had to come with you, you're our friend after all." She smiled with her cheeks puffed out due to the food in her mouth and went back to eating. Shiori followed suit with her own encouraging spiel after swallowing her food.
"Yeah! We'll always be with you, that's what friends are for Mako-san!" Shiori always made the situation better, or at the least she tried to. But then she suddenly got serious and posed a really good question "So what's the deal with the student council? Why did they want you of all people so badly?"
"Yeah, why is that? Are you experienced in Sensha-Dou?" Hina looked over at Makoto, who was surprised by the question being asked.
"I suppose you could say that, though I considered myself retired from the sport becoming by coming here. I wasn't expecting for it to be revived with my arrival."
"Wow, are you like, really good at it?" Shiori set her spoon and fork down and wiped her mouth with a napkin.
"Yeah, you could say that too, but good I subjective I suppose. But yeah, in most people's eyes, and I mean only most, I'm good." She thought back to her previous year of Sensha-Dou, needless to say, it sent a pretty deep shiver down her spine just thinking about. "Could we get away from the subject?"
"Well I'm glad you're with us either way, Makoto-san, we'll be with you all the way, no matter how difficult it is. And with your experience, how knows what we could accomplish." Hina instantly was able to bring their spirits up high, and before they knew it, they had finished eating and parted their separate ways.
As she walked home, she looked at the sky with each stride taking her closer to the building she lived in. The setting sun with unblocked by clouds, and it gave everything around her a red-orange tint their shadows were extremely extended. She almost missed her building just gazing at the beautiful sky. In her previous school, she never had the time to pay attention the things in nature.
Opening her door, she walked up the winding spiral staircase up to her room. Unlocking with her School ID, to which she had always kept in her bag, and entering her room. It had occurred to her, just now, that her room was incredibly bland. All her walls are white, there were only simple wooden furnishings, her bed was only the mattress and her closet was devoid. Though she was already aware of the last two things to be fair, she wanted to make it look a bit more lively, but she didn't have any money.
The only thing that made the room better was the window, which let her look out at an amazing view. By now, the sun had already set and the moon was up, Makoto had already changed into her sleeping clothes and looked out the window. Though, she did notice something, there, on her windowsill was a white envelope. "Here's your spending money for the Month." Whoever sent it hadn't signed their name, but she knew clear in her mind who it was.
Opening it, she was actually given a particularly large sum of Yen, enough for the things she needed and then some more. She was glad that her family still kept in touch with her, but still, signing up for Sensha-Dou might been a mistake despite the threat. But she just simply set it aside and laid in bed. Tomorrow would've been a new day, and the first of which that she would be in Tōkai's Sensha-Dou team. Thus, with a newfound hope, she slipped into sleep, and the day was over.