Girls und Panzer:
Two Trains

"So," said Nishizumi Shiho, as the celebrations began to wind down, while she still sat beside her eternal rival. "What are you going to do?"

Shimada Chiyo tilted her head just slightly to regard her eternal rival. "'Do'?" she repeated.

"Concerning your daughter's failure," Shiho clarified.

"Ah. That. Well, I think the first thing I will do is to reassure her that I had decided to sponsor the Boko Museum regardless of her victory or defeat in this affair. Then, I will remind her that there will be other matches, and that she managed to come closer to defeating two heirs of the Nishizumi school than I have ever come to defeating you, and that the next time she clashes with one of your daughters, the other one will not be present. And then I think I shall give her a hug."

Chiyo stood up while Shiho stared at her as though regarding some strange alien life form, and offered the master of the Nishizumi school a polite bow. "Please take better care of your health than you have been," said Chiyo. "I would hate for you to be too ill to watch the future overwhelming defeat of your heirs."

And with that, she turned to walk away.

Victory takes many forms.

Author's Note: Inspired by the song 'Two Trains' by Sue Foley.