Disclaimers: Infinite Stratos do not belong to me.

Story so far: Orimura Ichika was suppose to fight against Rin in a Class Representative Tournament but an attack involving a digimon and an unmmaned IS suspended the match. During the attack, Ichika has learned Slide Digivolving(Thanks for the info) and save the IS academy along with Rin and Cecilia. Houki has moved out into another room and as she left a declaration was made by her to Ichika regarding about the upcoming match.

IS Arena 1

"Mega Flame!"

"Howling Blaster!"

Red and blue flames collide with each other as Ichika(Greymon) and Dan(Garurumon) were having a spar.

It was Sunday and Ichika and Dan decided to practice by having a friendly match against each other in the IS academy, specifically in the arena. If they would have a spar or practice somewhere else, it will cause a problem. Since they have the school pass, Dan was allowed to go in. While they were fighting, a conversation can be heard between the two digimon.

"So..?"

"So, so what?"

"How's life in here?"

"Pretty good I suppose."

"Don't lie to me, I can tell you were lying."

"Oh really?"

"Look around you, you have only girls in this facility."

"And I'm suppose to be happy about that?!"

"What, are you that dense, or is it the helmet?"

Just then Kanzashi came into the arena.

"Um Ichika, are you here? Would you like to-"

Kanzashi who was carrying DVDs, dropped it when she saw Garurumon.

"Is that Garurumon?" Her eyes are filled with amazement.

"Is that a friend of yours Ichika?"

"Yeah, she helped me during training."

"KYAA~!" Kanzashi approached Garurumon like a fan girl.

"Uh...she seems energetic."

"The fur is soft~"

"I suppose it's the time to stop for lunch."

"Orimura, what are you doing-" Chifuyu came in and check the arena in case if it's need for maintenance along with Maya. Ever since the Greymon and the mysterious IS incident, the school tried to upgrade the security to prevent the same incident from happening. And what they find was rather surprising. They turn to Kanzashi as if she knows what is the whitish blue wolf.

"Kanzashi, you might want to explain us what is that bluish white wolf later."

The girls are gathering in the arena as they walk in and take a gander at the white wolf.

"Onii, let's go to the cafeteria." Dan's little sister, Ran who joined with him called.

"Ah, we'll be going now. Come on Ichika."

"OK, lunch awaits."

Both Ichika and Dan digi-devolve back into Agumon and Gabumon respectively.

Dan and her sister didn't brought their own lunch so they would order lunch at the school itself. Despite it's Sunday, this is a boarding school and students stay, sleep and eats in the school.

"Ichika-san, who is this 'person'?" As soon as the guys reached the cafeteria, Cecilia asks Ichika about the new friend.

"Oh, this is Dan, my middle school friend."

"Dan, don't tell me that's you."

"Surprised Rin?"

'You're not like this the last I saw you, you guys have changed literally ever since I returned to China."

"Oh come on Rin, it's not that bad. I can spit blue flames now!"

"No it's not good, my friends are turning into 'that'!"

Houki seems to be quiet as she was with them the whole time during lunch.

"Hello Ran..."

"Rin-san..." Both Ran and Rin glared at each other, sparks are coming from their eyes. Dan sighed when he saw this," This brings back memories..."

If I remember what Dan told me, Rin and Ran are not exactly in terms with each other when they first met.

"Hey, what's that furry creature?"

"Maybe a friend of Orimura-kun?"

"It might be, but what is it?"

"Maybe he'll be here at the IS academy." The girls that surround the cafeteria started to gossip.

Houki

Ichika seems to be not the only one who turned into a 'digimon', his friend as he might say it seems to have almost the same story. Why was it that they were turned into a digimon in the first place and how they were turned from a human into a digimon for that matter.

His friends little sister seems to have attracted to Ichika, this is bad. It has been six years since we saw each other and he has changed dramatically in a very physical way.

From what I've heard from him that Ichika hasn't wield a sword for a year and it's new physique is actually a hindrance for Kendo, at least his sharp claws make up for it in battle.

Still I can't help but feeling curious and I just have a bad feeling or rather a bad omen is coming.

Normal POV

"So Ichika, does this mean that I'm gonna be here just like you?" Dan started to spoke.

"I don't know, I was able to come here through special means."

"'Special means' you say?"

"Now that you mentioned it, how and why did you come here?" Cecilia asked.

"I suppose Chifuyu-nee recommended me to."

"Hmm..."

"If I were to come here in the IS academy, then Ran will be my kouhai then.'

"Kouhai, does that mean that-"

"Yes Ichika-san, I'm going to the IS academy next year." Ran spoke and showed Ichika the IS suitability test. It was an 'A'.

After that incident, Ran decided to take the IS suitability test and it was free. No charges were made when students would like to make the IS suitable test.

"An 'A'? Then you'll be a great pilot like me, the great Cecilia Alcott, The cadet representative of England and a valedictorian along with Ichika-san."

Along with Cecilia, Houki and Rin were also surprised by Ran's IS suitability test result. They have a rival on their hands next year.

"Oh you're Cecilia Alcott, the one who Ichika-san duel against during the class representative match?"

"Yes, that would be me, I see Ichika-san mentioned about me to you, is that right?"

In the IS suitability test, it seems that each person from the group has respective grades:

Cecilia-A

Houki-C

Rin-A

Ichika-N/A(In the canon, he's 'B')

Ran-A

Dan-N/A

After much sparring after lunch, Dan and Ran decided to head back to their home and Ichika was exhausted from the spar. In that spar, Ichika digivolved into Geogreymon to surprise Dan and after the spar Dan thought he can also digivolve into another form after a lecture from Kanzashi until 6 PM where they would go home.

"Well that was worth the spar." Ichika decided to take some time with Kanzashi, who is in a happy mood.

"Hm, you seem in a good mood Kanzashi."

"Mm, that's because I met with another digimon."

"Oh, you mean Dan?"

"So this Dan is your friend?"

"Yes, me met each other like this around a year ago."

"You mean when you two become digimons?"

"Yeah."

"I wonder if there's any more digimon beside you two?"

"..."

After parting ways, Ichika and Kanzashi went to their respecting rooms to get some rest.

Ichika

It's quite lonely since Houki moved out, even though I've got all the room to my self. Before Houki left, she said something about some tournament that suppose to be within this month of June. I looked at the calendar that's hooked into the wall and sure enough, there it is, the individual division tournament.

The individual division tournament, as it states is an individual tournament and it will be held for an entire week. This is because every student from all three years were taking part of it including me. As if now, I'm the only 'male' who is able to entered this IS academy and it will be quite a surprise to the people of the world if they knew about me.

I heard that even high-ranked officials from around the world will come to see this tournament, probably because they want to see the third-years I suppose. This place really is a high prestige I had to admit.

Last match, the class representative tournament was suspended because of that attack and everyone was ordered not to say a word about it despite their curiosity. As for Rin, Cecilia and me, we were forced to signed an oath since we were the one's directly involved in the attack.

It still on my head, where did that Greymon came from and why does it attack here along the mysterious IS despite they are not accomplices? I can tell they are not allies during that fight.

Ring Ring~

Hm? Who would send me a message this time of the night.

'Orimura Ichika, You might be curious as where that Greymon come from so I shall tell you. I send that clone Greymon to test your abilities to ensure your safety is in your own strength. As for the IS 'Golem', I am earnestly not responsible for it, Shinonono Tabane is the culprit you're looking for since she's the one hacking the IS 'Golem' to attack the IS academy. I will keep an eye on you to see your progress and there should be the 'Guardian of the Sea' which you might want to make friends with. -Rukotaro.'

Hm, it's been a while since I've been make contact with him. He has saved both me and Dan and he wants me to see the so-called 'Guardian of the Sea'. Whoever it is, it must be related to Rukotaro since he mentioned it in the message.

Yawn~

That sparring really tire me out, and I'm just a short distance from my bed. As I went for my bed a knock can be heard from my door, there goes my early sleep.

"Ichika, are you there?"

"Yeah."

I opened the door and reveled Rin just outside my dorm standing there.

"Hey you yellow dinosaur thing."

"It's Agumon."

"Whatever, so do you want to come with me for dinner?" Rin asked me for a little dinner.

"Uh sure, that's sounds nice."

"Well let's go to the cafeteria. Hey Ichika, mind giving me a ride?"

"Hm?"

"Just this once."

"Okay..."

As Rin who is on my head and I arrived at the cafeteria, many girls in there are wearing their casual night outfit which doesn't cover much of their skin.

"Oh, it's Orimura-kun. Hello-"

"Whaa!? O-Orimura-kun!?"

I guess me and Rin are gaining much attention over here. And there's the Agumon costume wearing friend and classmate of mine, Honne.

"Yo, Orimu-"

"You're calling me that?"

"It's confirmed, Also you're eating with me and Kanalin~~"

The Agumon cosplayer somehow always stick to me, whether I'm aware of her or not.

"Too bad for you, Ichika's gonna have dinner with me."

"Ah, you're so courageous Ling Ling,"

"D-Don't call me that!"

Hm, Rin seems angry, I wonder why?

"But would it be more appropriate if you would eat with someone of your own species?" Honne seem to add on something.

"But you're just wearing that costume, that does not make you the same as him."

"Awww~~ Eh, where's Kanalin? W-Wait for me!" There she goes, Honne can be slow sometimes.

After ordering our food and find our tables, we sat down eat our dinner and discuss about our time together in the past until it's very late at night.

Somewhere on the sea nearby the IS academy, late night

The IS academy was placed in an island on the mainland and the way of transport is through carriage that links from the academy to the mainland. Here in the sea nearby the IS academy lies a shadow that swims about in the sea in a carefree manner. It is not any type of fish that people would usually see and it is not a fish at all. It is a shadow of a serpent and it is the size is larger than the largest whale on earth, the Blue Whale. The serpent would appear at morning, noon and late night. The serpent surfaces from the sea and reveal it is not a serpent that exist on any myth, rather it is a Digimon. A Digimon who is nicknamed by the title 'Guardian of the Sea', Seadramon.

It appeared almost the same time as Ichika and Dan and he himself is once known as Charles. Charles was once an ordinary teenage boy in France where he was raised by a foster mother after his parents abandoned him.

One day around two years ago, he was claimed dead after he was drowned at sea after a ship that he board on sunk by a mysterious IS terrorist attack. And instead of being dead, he was resurrected back as a Digimon named Seadramon. He was rather shocked by his new body but after a while he get used to his new body. But after a year being a Seadramon, he was feeling rather lonely. He cannot return to his home because of his current form, to the people, he is a monster. If he would show himself to the people, it would cause chaos.

As he was going to suffer from the loneliness he had, he had a dream. A dream that Rukotaro, the one who turn him into Seadramon in the first place entered.

He said to him "Go to Japan...Your friends are waiting...in the IS academy..."

Charles was rather confused, but goes to Japan anyways as he has nowhere else to go. It took him lots of energy and time to navigate through the sea, the ocean and after battling to the sea against strong currents, he became stronger than he was ever before. He gets his energy from eating fish that varies from around the world that he had visited. As time passed for him he forgets some of the things he was once done as a human and despite that he would not worry about that.

After another 8 months of taking wrong directions as he is not good with Geography and trial and error, he finally made it in Japan. During his stay in Japan, he once saw a boy drowning nearby the offshore area of the sea and save him as he doesn't want to see someone else to drown like he was as a human. He saved the boy and the boy saw him and was stunned in admiration saying that he saved him. There are few witnesses aside the boy Charles had saved that saw him as well and Charles swim back to the sea and focuses on his destination, which was the IS academy.

During his stay in Japan where he would wait for a friend that his dream told him. He had made a legend of his own in Japan. After saving the boy, he would patrol the sea as a protector to save any individual that is on his sight to prevent any drowning. People who he usually save are fishermen whose boats are sunk for any sort of reason. And within three months after much saving and concealing himself from the people's eyes, he had earned the title 'Guardian of the Sea'.

After months of waiting, a rumor have sparked inside his mind, a rumor that states an attack has occurred in the IS academy and the problem was resolved by a huge dinosaur like creature. To him, he thought it might be the friend his dream was talking about. So he stayed nearby at the IS academy while remaining invisible from other people until the friend comes near the shore where he will talk to the friend face to face.

IS academy, cafeteria, morning

"Hey, did you hear?"

"What?"

"Another group of fishermen was saved by the rumored 'Guardian of the Sea'."

"Eh~ When?"

"Yesterday around late afternoon."

"Wow, this 'Guardian of the Sea' has been around for a year now."

"Yes, I even heard that the fishermen gave the guardian an offering as for saving them around later that night."

Rin, Ichika and Kanzashi went to the cafeteria to have their breakfast, and Ichika have become curious by the discussion happening in the cafeteria.

"So, what's the talk about?' Ichika was the first to start the conversation.

"It's the rumored 'Guardian of the Sea', it said to have said thousands of lives in the sea at this coastal area." Kanzashi answered.

"'Guardian of the Sea' huh? Yeah, I've heard of it too. It's said that no one ever seen it but, they can tell it's a big one as they saw it's shadow under the sea." Ichika was equally interested as Kanzashi.

"OK hold on! All these interesting things happened when I was back at China? Why does everything interesting happened after I left back to my home country huh?!" Rin was frustrated.

After much conversation, Rin goes to her class while Ichika and Kanzashi go to their class as homeroom is almost starting.

Class 1-1

"Alright, From today onwards, we'll be having practical training. As there are training suit, we'll be using IS, so everyone must pay attention! Don't forget to put on the school regulated attire before you get your own IS suits. Anyone who forgets will have to wear the school swimsuit and truit! And if there is not enough school swimsuit, they can wear a bikini as an emergency! And for some unknown reason they don't have a bikini, they would go au naturel for all I care!" All the students are sweat dropped when the homeroom teacher Chifuyu made the announcement.

"Then, Yamada-sensei, begin the homeroom."

"O-Okay."

After giving the command, Chifuyu hands it over to Maya, who is nervous as ever. It is reasonable that Maya would be nervous of Ichika but Maya has been like this even before Ichika came in.

"Well, today, I'll be introducing two transfer students."

"""WHAT!?"""

'Hm, two transfer students?' Ichika thoughts as the two transfer students came in into the front of the class. One was a blonde girl and the other one was a silver haired girl.

"I'm Charlotte Dunios from France. I'm not too familiar with this country so please take care of me."

The blonde transfer student introduced herself.

"France huh?"

"Um, what is this yellow creature that is sitting in the middle front row?" Charlotte notices Ichika.

"Oh that's Orimura Ichika, he's an Agumon and the class representative here. He was once a human and the reason was unknown why he became like this in the first place." Kanzashi answered.

While Charlotte was intrigued by the fact, the silver haired girl's eyes widened while retains her position, which is similar to Chifuyu.

'This is the younger brother of the instructor!?'

"Hurry up and greet them Laura."

"Yes instructor." After Chifuyu ordered the silver haired girl Laura, she snapped out of her thoughts and about to introduced herself.

"Don't call me that, I'm no longer your instructor, you are a normal student here. Call me Orimura-sensei."

"Roger."

Laura stands in front and introduce herself,

"I'm Laura Bodewig..."

"..."

"I-Is that it?" Maya was nervous.

"That's it..." After the brief introduction, Laura approaches Ichika and ready to slap him.

"So it's you-"

Ichika sensing danger readies his pepper breath but as soon as he's going to fire, Laura slaps him hard sending his fireball in the upper left direction, hitting the corner near the ceiling.

"I won't accept it. You're that person's little brother. Who would accept it!?" Laura ignores Ichika's form.

"What did you do that for!?"

"Hmmph!"

Ichika

I can't believe it, she slapped me in front of the class!

"Ah..ahem! Homeroom lesson will end right now. Everyone has to change up as we'll be doing IS practice together with class 2. Orimura, you must come as well, dismissed!"

Somehow I got dragged in as well, oh well. I went along with my other classmates to proceed with the lesson.

"First, we'll be watching a practical battle that involves shooting and close range combat."

"Yes Ma'am!"

The combination of two classes made the reply even louder.

"Today, I will let Alcott and Huang to demonstrate as everyone would going to see a real battle."

""Why me!?"" Both mentioned girls replied in surprised.

"Since you two have personal suits, you can start battle immediately. Okay get out here."

"Why us?"

"You two better up, unless you two are cowards turning on their backs."

In that moment, both Cecilia and Rin perked up.

"This is the stage for me, the representative candidate for England, Cecilia Alcott!"

"That's right. It's a great chance to show everyone the difference in ability as a personal IS pilot!"

"Then who's my opponent? I'm alright even if it's against Rin-san."

"Fufu, that's my line. I'll slaughter you."

"No need to rush, idiots. Your opponent will be-"

*Kiiiiinnn...*

Hm? What's that sound? Sounds like air being split. Don't tell me-

"AHHH-! PL-PLEASE GET OUT OF THE WAY~!"

Huh? What, she's referring to me? -Ack, WAA!"

(Agumon Digivolve! Greymon!)

As I digivolved into Greymon, I grabbed the falling which happens to be Yamada-sensei.

"Hi..." I greeted her.

"A-ah, Orimura-kun, this is rather a romantic situation."

"Hm...?"

I can't understand what she's taking about, all I did was grabbed her like a human would carry his partner in a bridal fashion—oh I think I'm starting to get it. I put Yamada-sensei down gently into the ground.

"Wah~, nice catch Orimura-kun."

"And just in a nick of time too."

"A bridal style carry, I wanna be carried by Orimura-kun too~"

I can hear girls from both classes talking about me what I've done just now.

"Your opponent will be Yamada-sensei, a 2 in 1 match." Chifuyu-nee declared as the battle begins.

"No, this is too..."

"Relax, if it's you two, you'll definitely lose."

Maybe they felt unhappy after hearing that they would lose, as Cecilia and Rin's wills start to

burn, especially Cecilia, since it's important for her to beat her opponent at least once, so her

killing intent and power have risen.

"Then, let's start!"

Cecilia and Rin shouted out as they flew. Seeing this, Yamada-sensei flies up as well.

"I won't hold back!"

"I wasn't serious back then anyways!"

"H-Here I come!"

Yamada-sensei's talking as per normal, but her eyes are now as cool and sharp as they were

before. Cecilia and Rin launched a preemptive attack, but Yamada-sensei easily dodged them.

"Then, during this time...Dunois, give a commentary on the IS Yamada-sensei's using."

"O-Okay."

Charlotte continued to watch the battle in the sky as she explained with a reliable voice,

"The IS Yamada-sensei's using is a [Raphael Revive] from the Dunois' Company. It's a machine

developed at the end of the 2nd generation phase, but the specifications rival that of the early 3rd

generation machines. In terms of deployed mass production IS models, it was the last to be sold,

but has the 3rd largest user-base in the world. Only 7 countries are permitted to create it, and 12

countries use it as a standard IS. Most notably, because of the controls it can allow pilots to fit

what they want. By changing the equipment, it can be configured for all types of combat,

including close ranged combat, sniping and defending types, so there are many partnering

companies working on it."

"Mm, that's enough for now...it's ending!"

Engrossed in Charlotte's explanation, I forgot to look at how the battle is right now.

I turned back to look at the battle, and found that Yamada-sensei's shots were luring Cecilia and

Rin to collide together. Yamada-sensei then threw a grenade at them, and once the explosion

occurred, two figures fall from the smoke of the grenade.

"Orimura, think fast!" Think fast, you want me to catch both of them!?

Without waiting for the answer, I managed to get hold on both of them.

"Good job Orimura, You're starting to use your body very well." Chifuyu gave me a some sort of compliment.

"Uh...thanks?"

"Ku, uu...to think that I actually..."

"Ah, you...she predicted so much of your evasive maneuvers, it's so silly..."

"Is-Isn't it the same for you, Rin-san? We failed because you made too many meaningless mixed

tactics and Impact Cannon attacks!"

"That's my line! Why did you release your BITs immediately? The power was depleted so fast!"

"Ggggrrr...!"

"Kkkkkkk...!"

Seems like they don't have any common agreement do they, at least thank me for saving your asses.

"Whoa~another nice catch Orimura-kun." Well at least there's someone complimented me.

What should I say? Both of them have their own ideas that are pretty random. Anyway, I just

can't watch this further. I can hear the 'representative candidates with their personal suits' stock

drop drastically. However, the most heartless thing seems to be that there's doesn't seem to be a

limit in the drop.

In the end, both of them continued to glare at each other until the girls of class one and class two

started to chuckle.

"Okay now, everyone should understand the ability of the teachers now. From now onwards,

please show some respect to the staff members."

Chifuyu-nee clapped twice to divert everyone's attention.

"The ones with personal frames are Alcott, Dunois, Bodewig and Rin. Then, we'll be

dividing the class into groups of 8. Personal machine users will act as leaders, and you Orimura are also act as leader got that? Split up now."

The instant Chifuyu-nee finished, the 2 classes of girls rush over to me.

"Orimura-kun, let's work hard together!"

"Teach me what I don't know~"

"Hey, hey, can I join in too? Let me join you too!"

...What can I say? The reaction's a lot stronger than what I expected, and I don't

know how to respond as I could only stand about. I can't even see any girl in all the other groups as all the girls come on to me.

Either because she couldn't stand this situation or 'cause she's angry that she didn't foresee this,

Chifuyu-nee pressed onto her forehead with her fingers, feeling really bothered as she bellows,

"These idiots...EVERYONE SORT OUT ACCORDING TO SEATING ARRANGEMENTS!

GROUP LEADER ORDER WILL BE AS DESCRIBED. IF YOU DON'T GET SORTED INTO

GROUPS FAST, YOU PEOPLE WILL BE BURNT INTO CRISP AS I ORDERED ORIMURA TO USE MEGA FLAME TO INCINERATE YOU LIKE THE FIRE FROM HELL!"

Hey, that's an abuse! Regardless, the girls who were surrounding me like ants all moved quickly

and managed to get into their groups within 2 minutes.

"I should have done this from the beginning. Really, they're a bunch of idiots."

"...That's great. I'm in the same group as Orimura-kun! I'm really grateful for my own surname."

"...Sigh-, it's Cecilia...she just lost so badly..."

"...I'll be in your care, Rin-san. Please tell me more about Orimura-kun..."

"..."

On a side note, the group that isn't saying anything is the group of that German transfer student

Laura Bodewig.

The tense atmosphere, the presence that refuses to work with others, the cold stare-down on the

other students, and the mouth that never spoke since the beginning.

Facing such an iron wall, even those pure-hearted 10+ girls wouldn't even dare to talk to her.

Everyone's just lowering their heads and forced to remain silent...ahh, I really feel sorry for

them...

"Then, please listen up. Each group is to take one training suit. There are 3 Uchigane and 2

Revives, so each group, please decide on the type of frame you like the most. Ah, it's first comes

first served-"

Yamada-sensei's even more reliable by 3 times-no, 5 times now. The mock battle just now got

her confidence back, right? As her attitude's really proper, so just removing her glasses alone

seem to make her a 'really capable woman'.

However, what's proper isn't just her attitude. The breasts that girls who are in their teens don't

have are now exposed. Yamada-sensei has a habit of adjusting her glasses, and every time she

does this, the breasts that seem to be called out will touch her elbows-and the heavy sweet fruits

will jingle. Mmmm~sweet fruits that jingles.

I felt a nudge on my foot, I turn to wherever the nudging came from. It was Houki.

"What are you staring intently at? Hurry up and start!"

"Alright then, Houki..."

"Aa-n, this IS is really heavy. I never lifted anything heavier than chopsticks."

"I remember that the practical lessons require 2 people in a group. Orimura-kun, let's go."

"Hey, hey, it's great to be five times bigger than an IS, right? I'm so envious of you Orimura-kun-"

Just when I wanted to talk to Houki, the girls in my group took the opportunity to surround me,

and besides, since I'm the group leader, I can't just say okay to everyone. Things have gotten a lot

complicated.

"W-Well, everyone, please listen to m..."

"Every leader is to assist each group member in putting on the suit. As everyone needs to use it,

we removed the optimizing and personalizing modes. Anyway, before lunch today, everyone

please practice on the initializing."

On the IS broadcast channel, Yamada-sensei's voice can be heard. As it's already past the lesson

phase, right now, I still have some aspects that I don't understand. And besides, I'm the group

leader. It'll be bad if I mess up. The one my group will be using is the IS 'Uchigane'.

"So then, please queue up in order of your student number. Practice your walking. The first one-"

"Register no. 1! Aikawa Kiyoka of the Handball club! My hobbies are watching sports and

jogging!"

"O-Okay, but you didn't need to do a self-introduction..."

"Nice to meet you!"

No really, you don't have to be polite Aikawa-san..

"Oh well, let's begin. Aikawa-san, you should have taken an IS a few times, right?"

"Ah, yes, but only during lessons."

"Then there should be no problems. Anyway, please suit up and try to activate it. If we exceed

the time, we have to stay behind after school."

"The-then that would be bad! Okay, I'll do this seriously!"

I detect no problem with the suit up, initializing and walking, and the practice went by

smoothly.

-Logically, that should be the case, but when the second person suited up, there was a small

problem.

"I'm sorry, but, I can't reach the cockpit..."

"Ah! Aa~..."

Damn it, it's over. I forgot everything since I don't pilot an IS-while using an IS

training suit, you have to kneel down to get out. If you stand up to remove it, the IS will naturally

be in a standing position.

"What's wrong?"

Ohh, Yamada-sensei appears! As she removed her IS already, she's wearing the busty IS suit-so

naturally, I can only look away awkwardly.

"The, that, I forgot the instruct to leave the IS bent down..."

"Ah-so you mean that the cockpit is at a high position, right? If that's the case...can't be helped.

Orimura-kun, please escort her up there."

"...Huh?"

"Wh-What?"

"Huuh~ How lucky-!"

Let me add on, in order, the people who spoke that were me, Houki and the 2nd person (sorry, I

forgot the name).

"Because that's the easiest way. Orimura-kun, please lift her up."

"Oh, okay..."

As instructed I pick her up carefully and help her with adjusting the 'Uchigane'.

Hm? Yamada-sensei's leaving. I guess Chifuyu-nee ordered her to check Laura's group as they are in a slow pace.

Just like last time, as soon as every girl removes her IS, the IS was in a standing position every time despite I told them not to! What is wrong with these girls?!

After much helping the girls with adjusting to Uchigane, Houki seems the last girl in my group. And I have to help her because the last girl made the same mistake of letting the IS in the standing position AGAIN!

"Ichika...would you like to go on a lunch with me later?"

"Um...sure, just make sure we're finished here." Houki seems rather happy.

After the end of the practice, I revert back into Agumon and meet Houki in the roof during lunch.

Houki seems to bring a lot for lunch, is her appetite that big or is it for me?

"Here...I just made a lot so I'll share my food with you." Houki's face is red for some reason.

I took my share of her food and just as I'm enjoying my meal, Houki speak to me.

"What do you think of the transfer students Ichika?"

"...I don't know about the blonde girl Charlotte, but the silver haired girl Laura hates me."

"Do you have any idea why?"

"Honestly, no. I don't even know her for that matter!"

"...I see."

"..."

"Ichika, you could have just let them fall on the ground instead of catching them both."

"What? Chifuyu-nee said think fast." How insensitive of you Houki.

After sharing different conversation, lunch is over and we went to class as usual.

Late night, near the shore

I can't sleep right now due to some anxiety about one of the new transfer student, Laura Bodewig. Why did she slapped me out of hatred? If I remember well, she referred Chifuyu-nee as 'instructor', probably she's one of the soldiers who Chifuyu-nee taught around last year. So why does she hate me in the first place?

As I tried to think about it, I saw a huge shadow in the body of water. It must be the rumored 'Guardian of the Sea' that everyone has talked about. No one really knows what it looks like, but it get it's title from saving people's lives in it's territory. Then I heard someone mentioned my name.

"Are you the rumored Orimura Ichika?" That voice came from the body of water, it seems the 'guardian' can speak.

The guardian surfaces himself from the water, revealing himself to me. It was huge, almost bigger than both of my champion forms.

"Do not fear, I am called by the name of Charles. I'm the guardian of the sea and you seem to be the same as I am. I cannot really explain it how I got this information but I am a creature of your own kind known as Seadramon and you are an Agumon."

Hm, he already knows he's a Seadramon without even thinking about it and he seems to know me as well.

"It's been a long time since I have a friend. I have traveled all the way from my home country of France to meet you in this land of Japan."

"So you've been waiting for someone like me?"

"Correct, you are the only person that I can really open up to right now. Here, here's something I made to proof our friendship."

Charles gave me a blue flute, which as he said is our proof of our friendship.

"After all these two years, I've finally found a friend. I guess this is a start of a new friendship, good night Ichika." Charles swims back into the depth of the sea. I've finally met the 'Guardian of the sea'.

That is it for this chapter, Charles has been introduced as Seadramon and Dan the Gabumon came to the academy for a spar with Ichika.

Next Chapter will involved, Ichika fight against Laura Bodewig in the Individual Division Tournament where Ichika will dark digivolved into Skullgreymon and cause havoc in the IS academy and possibly the whole city. Dan and Charles involved also in the next chapter and there are chances that Ichika will be paired with someone else than Charlotte. Chances are, Dan will tag along with him during the Individual Division Tournament instead of Charlotte.

Characters introduced so far:

Ichika(Agumon)

Dan(Gabumon)

Cecilia

Rin

Houki

Charlotte

Laura

Charles(Seadramon)

Hopefully next chapter will turn out good, anyways laters.