Angel Beats: Harmonics girl
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Warning: I am still studying so please forgive me if there is too much grammar mistake
Chapter 7
Operation Path to Perfection
"Now that Operation Tornado is a failure, another operation is needed in order for us to get food." Miu said while typing onto her laptop that was once left behind by the former SSS. Everyone of the SSS2 was present in the SSS2 headquarter or rather, the principal office of this school including Shiina-san. Since Operation Tornado was a failure… … I don't really want to recall about that embarrassing event…
"Wait a minute, why was Operation Tornado a failure in the first place? I thought Tachi-chan had managed to play the piano well with Ayane-san yesterday?" Sekai who was sitting bedside me spoke up for me. When the concert had finished, for some reason Miu did not issue the order to turn on the fans even though with a miracle my fingers had managed to play the piano on their own.
"Well the reason is that the song did not manage to reach its climax. In order for us to safely lift the students' meal tickets we needed to have a very fast and rock song to distract them. The song sang yesterday was far too peaceful therefore did not bring up a climax scene for the students." Miu explained while continue to type into the computer. After a while she finished typing, she then closed the laptop and began to spoke up.
Wait a minute! Then my effort and embarrassment yesterday was for nothing!
"Okay since Operation Tornado yesterday was a failure, I decided that we would be doing Operation Path to Perfection this time."
"Wait a minute!" I shouted out, realising that we were suddenly out of topic.
"What is it Tachi-chan?"
"I thought we were supposed to get food supplies? What does perfection has anything to do with our food anyway? No what is Operation Path to Perfection in the first place? I bombarded my questions consecutively; part of the reason was that I was embarrassed yesterday for nothing.
"Ah, I forgot that you just joined us so you don't know most of the operations. Actually unlike the name suggested, Operation Path to Perfection is actually about travelling in the forest or mountain outside the school and hunt for food."
"…Then what does that have anything to do with the name Path to Perfection?"
"Of course it's to make the operation name cooler. It's a tradition that the previous SSS had passed down to us so we must uphold this tradition."
…No, no, no I don't think this kind of tradition needed to be upholding in the first place…
"Don't mind the small details! Most people in the living world didn't even got the chance to camp in the wild before because of safety reasons. Here we can't die so it's a waste to not try camping. Besides, there was an interesting spot in the mountain that you would never guess that its there." Miu declared, judging from her tone she was not going to change her mind anymore.
Well, like she said even though I don't have my past memories I probably didn't have the chance to camp before. It would actually be an interesting experience now that I think about it…
"So now that there is no objection, we will be having Operation Path to Perfection this week! We will be gathering at the front at 9 o'clock sharp, those who are late are don't want to come will just have to face the punishment game that the SSS had left behind hehehe…"
Next morning
"Talking about punishment game, what was the punishment game that the first SSS Miu said yesterday?" I asked Sekai out of boredom. It was now 8:55a.m. and only both Sekai and I were present. I had brought a few bottle of water and a few changes of clothes. Sekai had also brought a few bottle of water and changes of clothes but his bag was strangely a bit larger than mine. Since this is my first time Sekai had helped me to pack up the camping equipment and gave me a sleeping bag which I would most probably be using during the trip.
"…The punishment game was it… … I never tried it before but I heard that those who are subjected to the punishment game left behind would be driven to madness or personality changes… so it's better to don't try it."
"What kind of punishment game was that! Wait a minute why was that kind of punishment game being invented by the first SSS in the first place?"
"Who knows, it sure fulfilled it purpose of threatening us to do the leader's bidding though…"
"Ha-choo!"
"Hrm? Do you have a cold Yurippe? Maybe you should go to rest in the infirmary.."
"Don't worry I am fine! More importantly it's time for your punishment game ahhahahaha!" (Ojou-sama laugh)
"Noooooooooooooooooooo!"
"Eh, where were we again?"
"…I don't know myself too…"
I was pretty sure I saw a vision of a purple haired girl doing an Ojou-sama laugh just now…
…It must be my imagination…
"Ah you couple sure are early for such a morning trip…" A voice could be heard from the back, I quickly turned my head to look at who was it.
"Ah Shiina-…..san…?"
Only to find that she was dragging along Taejin-kun with a chain that was linked to his metal collar…
"Taejin-kun!"
"Ah you don't have to worry about him. Since he was trying to run away from this operation this morning I had to use physical force to capture him. Ah you also don't need too worry about the fact that he was being eaten by a tiger before, I will make sure that I would watch over him closely." Shiina-san cheerfully answered, wait what tiger?
"Ah I had forgotten that this is your first time doing this operation. Well the summary is that last time during the operation, Taejin got careless and was eaten by a tiger. Oh by the way, those who got eaten up by an animal or something would reappear again in the school after three days."
Wait a minute, there were tigers in this afterlife world!
"Well if a tiger really appeared, just shoot some round at it or slash it and serve it for dinner then. I remember the last time I had tiger meat was delicious."
"… …"
"Don't mind her Tachibana, …"
"Don't worry, I am not concerned about-"
"Because I must admit that the tiger meat last time was delicious."
"…"
"Stop staring at me as if I were some kind of a barbarian, eating wildlife is the main purpose of the entire mission after all…"
"Eh?"
You must be joking with me…
"Erm Sekai, now that you said that what does camping has anything to do with solving our food shortage?"
"Since we don't have enough food, the purpose of this operation is to hunt for food in the wild until we could do a next performance." Sekai explained. Hunting food in the wild! Now that I think of it, won't we be eating something that was dead in the afterlife world?
Oh this was bad, I was starting to feel ill…
"Tachibana your face looks ill, are you okay?"
Sekai asked with concern while I quickly replied that I was fine. Just as I was thinking about running away, Miu and the others had arrived…
"Now that everyone is here, operation start!"
"Is it okay to just leave the school like that? I mean I thought that the only place we could actually go or stay in was the school?" I asked as this question occurred to me. How large was this afterlife world anyway? Beside the school, the only other thing I could see was the mountain that was stretching endlessly in all direction.
"Well, who knows? Except for a certain member that left the school into the mountains for training, the information that the previous SSS left behind did not contain anything about outside the school. We tried to travel through the mountains…" Miu explained as she walked besides me. Out of boredom she kicked a stone on the road, only to hit Taejin-kun in the face. Even though he was bleeding in the head, he was unconsciousness while Miu only acted like nothing had happened. Seeing this as the only one who saw her crime could only sweat dropped and continue the road.
"But?" I asked, trying to continue the topic that we were talking about.
"The mountains seemed to extend on forever. Before we knew it we were out of food supplies and had to return back to the school." Miu said and sighed, I guessed that she had really wanted to explore outside the school after all.
"Eh by the way Miu, why wasn't Miyuki-chan with us?" I asked upon noticing that Miyuki was missing from the group. Aside for Miu and I who was walking side by side leading the entire group, then was followed by Sekai talking with Akito-kun and Raito-kun with Reina-chan while the end of the line was Shiina-san dragging the still unconsciousness by the rough road.
"Oh as for Miyuki, she would normally hang around with the diversion division so she said that she would help solve the food problem there. Well it's no helping that she wanted to stay close to her cousin anyway. Sigh… even though I had told her that there would be a girl's night…"
"Huh, Miu did you said something else?" I asked as the sound of a crow blocked me from hearing what Miu had said in the last sentence.
"Ah nothing!" Miu only cheerfully smile while we continued our journey to…
…
Where were we heading to anyway!
A/N: Okay first thing first, I apologize for the late update even though my exam was already over. There have been various reasons that I couldn't update fast and that is…
I was a bit lazy after the exam lately…
Okay I could hear some snapping of people that had read this note already so I would make it quick before somebody sent me to meet the SSS2. Since this was urm ….Operation Path to Perfection (original name operation camping but I scrapped that off) feel free to give some ideas or events you want to happen in the trip since the entire trip could take a few chapters and I was out of inspiration anyway.
So read and review!