Girl Und Modern Warfare

by Chittatos

When Miho Nishizumi's life changed place into another universe of the modern year of 2016 where there's no such thing as Sensha-Do in that universe. What past have Miho Gone through after a year of modern war and how will she holding up as a field officer of Task Force 141. ( before & after MW2-3, in MW in flashbacks). I'm Indonesian so please be tolerate a little. GUP set in 1960s

21. Chapter 20 - A Walk In Anzio

Nishizumi Residence, the next morning. 07:30 AM.

Shiho was with Maho in the meeting room, waiting for Miho to come in. Well, actually there was another person in the meeting room with them. Ami Chuono was in present alongside them in the meeting room. Shiho wasn't sure if Ami was angry or worried about what Miho did on her raid on the Pravda school, especially mentioning she along with two unknown soldiers which are Maho and Kay were firing their rifles to the students. So right now, they were waiting for Miho to come into the room as they stayed silent to themselves.

Maho was working on her homework she got from Kuromorimine. Guess Miho was right about Maho needs to catch up with the school. When Shiho looked up on what homework she was working on, it was mathematics. Shiho never said anything about mathematics, not even hate it or even like it. But she had a curiosity to ask Miho about what she thinks about maths. But then again, she decided to wave that though off just in case if her daughter unexpectedly retorted at her.

Ami was drinking on her tea that was served by Shiho's servant, Kikuyo. And she was working on some stuffs that are inside her small laptop (to which at this point Miho found out that the tech of computers was improved a little bit faster here in the 1960 than the other universe without Sensha-Do which started to improve in 1970s). Ami then looked over to Maho who was still working on her homework, and she felt comfortable to see Maho doing that right now instead of shooting. Her memory about watching Miho shot her own sister was still fresh in her mind, not sure if she would say that this is one of the funny things Miho ever did to give someone a heart attack.

Shiho was right now finishes her problem with some of the document she got from the department. But beside that, she had taken something from Miho's room while she was away yesterday. It was actually a picture inside its small stand, she was curious about what pictures Miho kept in the room. A picture of 4 men inside, with an etched writing in it. It said OP KINGFISH – 10/8/13.

Why was she curious of this picture? It's because OP KINGFISH.

Shiho recognized two of the men in the picture, Ghost whom she met and Soap whom she saw in Miho's record. Who she didn't recognize was the other two men between Soap and Ghost. When she looked over at the old soldier next to Soap, she had a feeling that the old man must be Captain Price. She has no idea whoever the last man with the US flag on the chest of his Kevlar vest is.

What she was asking the most of this picture was the meaning of OP KINGFISH.

As they waited, suddenly, the door in front of them was opened and revealed Miho. She was wearing her long-sleeve buttoned dark green shirt that has two pockets on her chest. She was also wearing grey jeans along with her belt pouches on her left side and front along with the straps along her torso that attached to her belt, not including the pistol holster for the straps. She has a left drop bag to hide her M9 Berreta inside, in case of self-defense. A grey boonie hat was on her head and she didn't wear any gloves.

Shiho looked up to her youngest daughter's face. And as expected, Miho had sighed to see Ami was here. Miho then approached the table and then sat down with her legs crossed instead of sitting in seiza position. Though, Shiho and anyone else won't argue about how she sits since she was living in London for year which might have affect her seating. Kikuyo then came into the room from Shiho's left and served a tea for Miho. Then, Kikuyo sat down at the table in between Maho and Miho at the corner of the table.

Don't worry, Kikuyo knew about Miho as the 141 along with Maho.

They had heard Ami sighed as she was working on her laptop. Ami then closed her laptop but not fully so she can continue on her work, she then looked over to Miho. Her elbow landed on the table with her fist holding her cheek as she gave her disbelieve expression to Miho. Miho didn't flinch as always and kept her calm and casual attitude. Miho then looked at Ami and raised her eyebrows as if she was tired of something for a moment.

"Well, well, good to see you coming over here, Ami," Miho started, which made Ami to smirk.

"Really, Miho-san?" Ami asked with sarcasm. "Well, it's good to see you up this morning too."

"How's your job doing back there?" Miho asked as her eyes staring at the laptop.

"Oh, doing well, Miho-san," Ami replied as she straightened her back off the table. "How's it doing on your end?"

"Just another day in the office, mate," Miho replied with a flat smile, but then Ami raised her right brow to that.

"But it's not in the office, doesn't it?" Ami asked suspiciously, which caught Shiho's and Maho's attention.

"Well, you're right about that," Miho admitted before looking over to Maho. "Isn't that right, Maho?"

"Erm, yeah," Maho awkwardly replied as she stopped on her homework. "I'm guessing you're upset about what we did back in Pravda school, Ami-sama?"

"Yeah, I'm upset about it," Ami replied with a nod, still staring at Miho.

"Would you care to tell us why you did that?" Shiho asked softly, the only thing she could do to not angering her youngest daughter.

"We were there, raiding the Pravda School because we have to rescue Akaboshi from there," Miho replied calmly and she sighed. "No one died from that raid, right?"

"Thankfully, none," Ami replied with a relieved sigh as she crossed her arms. "But for those student who got shot by your darts they all got wet by buckets of ice waters to wake them up. And there are some of the students got small bruises on their faces."

"You really gave a bad night for the Pravdas that time," Kikuyo commented with astonishment of what Miho did.

"Sure I did," Miho replied with a nod. "They just made things personal."

"But from the reports I got from the Pravdas, they said that Akaboshi was actually visiting Pravda that night until you raid and kidnapped her from them," Ami stated as she looked onto her laptop. "Your team ran out from there along with Akaboshi and escaped with the Black Hawk, but not after a small chopper shoot out its miniguns to the ground to stop the Pravdas running up to you."

Miho raised her eyebrows as she leans her head forward a little to Ami. "That's bullshit, mate. They're the ones who kidnapped Akaboshi, before we have to raid the school and get her out of there."

This happened to surprised Ami and Shiho for that. "Do you have any proof about it?" Ami asked.

"If you referring to what Katyusha said to us through the phone, then no," Miho replied. "But Katyusha did call us by Erika's phone yesterday."

"Really?" Shiho asked as they were tempted to hear that. "What did she said to you?"

"They demanded that the Kuromorimine's commanders to give up their plans for the future National Tankery Match or they'll hurt Akaboshi," Maho answered flatly. "Katyusha and her right hands kidnapped her about 3 days ago yesterday. And thanks to Miho here, we didn't give up our plans to the Pravdas because she said we don't care about her. Which actually she was bluffing about it."

"And then you raid the school to free Akaboshi from there," Kikuyo added to continue their explanation.

"Correct," Miho nodded with closed eyes. "We have to use non-lethal attacks to get through those students. We wanted to avoid any diplomatic incident and not deeming us as terrorists for killing them."

Ami and Shiho was relieved to Miho's answer. "Honestly, that was a wise decision you made."

"Yeah," Ami added in agreement. "Because you're the one who do all that stuffs, I believe you."

"I know, if you happened going to meet Katyusha again," Miho said to Ami. "Just tell them you know they're lying and give her a warning of what she done."

"Why?" Ami asked with a raised brow.

"I want her to think twice before doing something stupid again," a reasonable thing that Miho ever said right now.

"Ah, alright, I'll give them a warning about that," Ami replied with a nod.

Miho then looked over to Shiho, only to notice that she was holding a small picture stand. "What picture you're holding there?"

"Umm, I got this from your room, Miho," Shiho replied as Kikuyo left to excuse herself to take care the kitchen.

"No wonder I lost a picture from my table," Miho commented as looked at the back of the picture. "Why did you take it?"

"I'm actually curious," Shiho replied as she showed the picture to them. "That's Soap and Ghost. Umm, is this old man Cpt. Price you mentioned about?"

"Yeah, that's him," Miho replied with a nod as she remembered her time with him.

"And who's this American soldier?" Ami asked as she pointed to the American soldier in between Price and Ghost. "You didn't mention about him before."

"That's Sandman, an Operator of the US Delta Force," Miho replied, she then paused as she was reminded of the moment of his death. "Ehh, umm…"

"Are you okay?" Shiho asked in concern after seeing Miho's agitated attitude.

"I'm fine, it's just…" Miho paused for a moment with a long sigh. "He's a fine soldier. The best guy we ever met."

Miho only nodded to herself, as they paused for a moment, until Ami started. "What about Soap?"

Miho quickly flinched at that and quickly looked straight at Ami. "What did you say?"

"I'm just curious, what happened to Soap?" Ami asked.

This severely upsetting Miho of the topic. "That's out of question, Ami."

"Miho, can't you tell us about it?" Shiho asked, but Miho shook in denial.

"No, I'm not talking about him!" Miho quickly retorted with a little patient in her tone.

"Miho, just tell us about Soap," Maho added quickly for her curiosity.

*BAM*

Miho just banged the table in front of her hard as she was very pissed of their questions. This took Ami, Shiho and Maho by surprised and off-guard as they jumped to Miho's reaction. They watched as Miho had her hands on the table turned into fists and tried to calm herself down by taking many deep breathes as she looked at each person in the room with her. As they stayed silent to themselves and watching Miho took many deep sighs with heavy concern, Miho then took her cup of tea and drink it. Before she put her tea back on the table, and she looked down to her right.

"I hear one more word about Soap, I'm going to blow us up with a grenade. Understand?"

They were taken back and gulped to Miho's threat, they didn't want to piss her off for sure. "Alright, we're sorry. We won't ask about him again," Shiho said out to Miho, which comforted Miho for that.

"Good."

They stayed silent for a moment, this was a deadly kind of silence. Miho just gave in her dark and dreary eyes toward all of them from underneath her hat that shadowed her eyes. Something that Shiho was really afraid of. If she saw Miho just turned from a soldier into a monster, she would only hope that was only a nightmare. Still they stayed silent until Miho just stopped giving them her dreary eyes.

Shiho had doubted a little to ask something, but then she goes for it. "May… I ask something? Just one question?"

Miho sighed angrily with her eyes closed, before looking back to Shiho. "What is it?"

"Why in this picture had a writing said OP KINGFISH?" Shiho asked, when she looked at Miho, she could say Miho was still willing to answer about it despite she was still angry.

"It was a joined operation executed by the 141s and the Delta Force, the objective that time was dealing on a High Value Target," Miho replied as she looked away, keeping some to secret. "I never been in that operation since it was 3-4 years ago. That's the only operation I know that got backfired to which got Price locked up in the gulag for 3 years."

They quickly amazed on what she said, they couldn't believe if Price ever got that as the risk. "I-I see… thank you, Miho-san," Ami replied with a doubtful nod.

They fell silent again, to which then Maho was reminded of something. "You know? Miho, I forgot to tell you about something."

"About what, mate?" Miho asked, hoping Maho was not asking her the forbidden topic.

"It's about Anchovy, Chiyomi Anzai," Maho replied, which made Miho leans her head back in surprise.

Ami and Shiho was also surprised about this as they widen their eyes. "Wait… the overall commander of Anzio?" Ami asked.

"Yeah, she kinda called me about 3 times for the past week when Miho was not around me," Maho replied with a nod.

To hear Anchovy called Maho three times, it made Miho curious. "Why did she call you 3 times?"

"Well… she was asking about what's up with you," Maho replied, everyone including Miho was surprised as Miho could felt the disbelieve as she puts down her boonie hat on the table. "I think she was interested with you."

"Did she said anything else?" Miho asked softly somehow as she stares to Maho in nervous.

"She asked me if you're actually living here and want to know how are you doing. Yesterday night after our raid in Pravda, she called me and she wondered if she can meet you today," Maho replied, this took Miho off-guard and shock to hear that by only giving her an amazed stare.

"Oh… I think… I can meet her today," Miho said in unsure. "Where do I meet her?"

"At Anzio school carrier, Aquila," of course, why not in the city? "In the Anzio's main plaza in the afternoon."

"Hm, sounds like she's inviting me to eat, didn't she?" Miho asked, which was agreed by everyone including Maho with a nod and 'mmhmm'.

"Why all the sudden you sounded warm after hearing Anchovy wants to know about you?" Ami asked as she was confused to the sudden change of Miho's attitude.

"Because she's fall in love with Anchovy," Maho replied, unaware she just said that as Ami and Shiho stared frozen to her while Miho surprised that Maho said that.

It took her a moment before she realized she said that "Oh… oops."

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"Does… Anchovy know about this?" Shiho asked awkwardly to Miho to break up the silence.

"Not yet…" Miho replied slowly and nervously as she looked down to her right, not even show a blush. "But…"

"I can't believe you're not straight," Ami stated in disbelieve. "Does your men back in 141 know that?"

"Well, they already know that," Miho replied, but then shrugged. "But they rather took it 'too well'."

"Huh?" everyone was now confused on that. "What do you mean by that?" Maho asked with a tilted head.

"Well, it's not something unusual for them to see people who weren't straight."

Now that sums things up. "I see. So… you're good to go to meet her?" Ami asked.

"Alright, I think I'm good to go there, mate."

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BC Freedom High School, School Cafeteria. 10:00 AM

Andou was right now in the cafeteria, eating her lunch at a table. She was sitting at one of the tables near the window next to her. Sitting there all alone as she eats her lunch and studied the biology book that she brings with her on the table. While she was sitting alone there were a lot of students from both factions eat there as well. But Andou doesn't care about it and only wanted to get a peace of mind.

It was another usual day for the BC Freedom. The Escalator Faction being noble and had a good conversation with each other as the Examination Faction were working hard on the jobs they had whether it be inside or outside the school. There are still be apparent fights all around the school, which including the cafeteria. Andou had looked out the window to see that a student each from Examination and Escalators fought each other at the sidewalk with other people watching. And when she looked back around the cafeteria, most of the Examinations and Escalators are taunting to each other endlessly and on some couple occasion they had a fight which involved the food they brought.

Examinations and Escalators still hate each other? Yeah. But it seems pointless for Andou for her to keeping up like the both factions, especially when getting into a fight. Like she said a week ago, she doesn't want any fight even if they had taunted her. For what she's going to involved into the troubles between the both factions anyway?

She's only thinking to her own business as she can hear students from both factions were calling to her. When the Examination students were calling out to her because they wanted to accompany her, Andou denied their offer and tell them to sit elsewhere and leave her alone. When the Escalators came over to her for them to only taunt her, she didn't flinch or even taunted back to them and she only ignored them by kept reading her book. When the Escalators found out that Andou wasn't giving the fun they need, they decided to left her without any taunt to her. Glad to see the Escalators just fucked off, Andou took a spoonful of her food and kept reading the book.

It was a moment of peace for her, until she felt a presence next to her as she was reading her book. She heard a shuffling sound on the chair next to her as she stopped reading and her eyes looked forward. After the chair next to her stopped shuffling and the unknown person puts her book on the table, Andou turned her head to see who was with her. To her surprise, it was Oshida who just sat next to her. Why did she sat next to Andou? she doesn't know, but whatever it is, it was telling Andou that Oshida wanted to accompany Andou.

Andou only stayed silent as she watched Oshida was about to read her book, until Oshida looked at Andou. "What's wrong?"

"Oh… it's just…" Andou paused, unsure what to say. "I'm surprised that you seat here with me."

"Well, what's wrong with that?" Oshida asked again.

"Well, I actually wanted to be alone," Andou then turned her head forward on her table, then she shrugged. "Just wanted to get my own peace that's all."

"Then you're not doing it well," Oshida stated the fact with a chuckle.

"That's true, I'm bad at picking a good place for peace," Andou admitted with a shrug.

"That's right, maybe it's because there are some places you know that you thought you can find some peace for yourself," Oshida added with a small smile. "Which you're wrong about it."

"Yeah," Andou paused, then turned her head slowly to her. "Why you're here with me?"

"You looked like you need some company," Oshida replied as she flips a page of her book. "So I decided to sit here with you."

"But…" Andou paused doubtedly as she looked down, before looking back to her. "Don't you worry about what'll happened when the Escalators and Examinations seeing us like this?"

"I don't think so, seeing everyone in here having lot of fights that they didn't even pay attention to us," Oshida replied with a shrug after she looked around the cafeteria. "I'll say we're fine here."

Andou stayed silent for a moment to stare at her neutrally, before she asked. "You still hate me, right?"

"Well…" Oshida paused in thoughts, seemingly in doubt. "I still hate you."

"Right," Andou replied awkwardly as she looked away and then took a spoonful of her food. "This is awkward."

"Yeah…" Oshida awkwardly replied, she then flips a page. "So… how's your day?"

"*Sigh* fine I guess…" Andou replied nervously, she then shrugged. "How about you?"

"Well… not quite a good day," Oshida replied, again with a shrug. "Someone just busted my engines of my tank. You didn't do that right?"

"Really? You ask that to me while I'm not looking for a fight?" Andou asked in annoyance.

"Just checking if you're back in your old days," Oshida replied as she flips another page.

Andou just sighed to hear that as she crossed her arms and leans her back against her chair whilst looking forward on her table. "If you want to beat me up, just do it, alright?"

"Easy, I don't mean that, okay?" Oshida replied softly, comforting Andou.

"Then why you asked me that, aside from 'checking if I go back to my old days'?" Andou asked back emotionless as she looked at her.

She did have a point, Oshida stayed silent afterwards. She had gathers her thoughts for a moment before she replied. "Well… it's just I'm still worried about you."

Andou paused in silent to hear that, but then chuckled. "Really? You've been worried about me for the past week?"

"Well, yeah," Oshida admitted with a nod. "Do you still bothered about Miho Nishizumi?"

"Well, a little for now," Andou replied. "Right now, there are other rumors I heard from around Japan."

"What rumors?" Oshida asked with a raised brow.

"There are reports from people all around Japan stated that there are some unknown soldiers appearing all around the city," Andou replied. "The most recent one I heard was the news from Ebino City, there were around 12 unknown soldiers armed-to-the-teeth took down around 7 robbers who were robbing people in a bus without taking any loss either the soldiers or the people."

After hearing that, Oshida was reminded of a recent news she heard. "Huh, I heard there were the soldiers you mentioned appeared again yesterday."

"Really? Where?" Andou asked, she was surprised if there's something happened yesterday.

"Right in Pravda High School," Oshida replied, this caught Andou off-guard. "There were around 3 soldiers who raided the school."

"What? Why?" Andou asked in shock.

"I heard there was a student the Pravdas kidnapped from Kuromorimine," Oshida replied. "The unknown soldiers somehow knew the Pravdas kidnapped and held Akaboshi in the school, so they got her out and successfully escaped."

"Did those unknown soldiers kill anyone in there?" Andou asked, worried of the fate of the students of Pravda."

"Oddly, no," Oshida replied with a shook, Andou was confused by this. "They used a lot of tranquilizer darts to the students that time and the only way to wake those get shot was by flushing them with buckets of ice water."

"Huh, that's odd," Andou commented. "How did they escape?"

"They escape using their helicopters, a kind we never seen before," Oshida replied. "Of course not after one of the three helicopters there shoot out a straight line of warning shot on the ground with its machine gun. You know what's more surprising? The pilot of one of the helicopters was giving the Pravdas a threat warning in Russian."

"Jeez, that's something I never heard before," Andou commented in disbelieve. "But why would those unknown soldiers really bother to not kill the Pravdas?"

"I don't really know about that," Oshida replied with a shrug. "For the police, they dubbed those soldiers as the 'elite good soldiers'."

"At least that's something nice to hear," Andou replied with a smile. "So… what happened to Akaboshi?"

"She's back in Kuromorimine after the events yesterday," Oshida replied. "She did say to the JSDF that she doesn't know who were those soldiers that saved her, not even the name of the faction."

"I see…" Andou replied in understood, but then frowned at thought of Oshida is still with her. "Oshida, you still worried about me?"

"*Sigh* like I said before, yeah," Oshida replied calmly. "Why?"

"It's nothing, it's just…" Andou paused as she rolled her eyes down to her right. "I just don't want you to be bother about me. I'm still doing fine until now."

"Well… not for me," Oshida replied as she looked at Andou and smiled. "Not after you changed."

"I see…" Andou said weakly, frowned to Oshida's answer.

Oshida surprised to see Andou frowned to her answer. "You're okay?"

"I just don't want you to bother about me, alright?" Andou said to her as she took a spoonful of her food.

"Nah, I would feel bad if I do that," Oshida replied, which made Andou chuckled.

"Vraiment, Oshida?" Andou replied with a small smile, then sighed. "Don't worry about me, I'll be fine."

Oshida could only smiled to Andou's answer, but then she reminded of something. "By the way, the St. Glorianas just sent us a letter."

"Oh?" Andou surprised to hear that as she asked lowly. "What kind of letter did they sent?"

"Invitation one," Oshida replied. "Darjeeling invites everyone who joined and watched the Exhibition Match."

"Well, well, Marie is going to be happy to eat cakes with Darjeeling," Andou commented with a smirk.

"Yeah, that's for sure," Oshida added in agreement. "But I don't like about what will happen with the other schools joining the invitation."

"What do you mean?" Andou asked confusedly.

"Ooarai and Kuromorimine, remember?" Oshida asked back, then Andou suddenly remembered about it.

"Oh yeah, but I doubt that would happen," Andou replied, which made Oshida raised a brow.

"Why?" Oshida asked.

"I got a feeling that Maho will bring in her sister, Miho to the invitation party."

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That was something 'nice' to hear.

"You mean that Miho-?"

"Yeah, that's right."

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Oshida and Andou both stayed silent, before Oshida break it up. "Well, at least we can't deny the invitation from Darjeeling. You're coming right?"

"Yeah," Andou replied with a nod. "If Miho was really at the tea-party there, let's hope she didn't retort after she sees us."

"Like what happened to you back in Kumamoto?" Oshida asked.

"Yeah, I want to avoid any fight or beatings."

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"Contingency"

Day 5 - 11:22:34

1st Lt. Miho Nishizumi

Task Force 141

Inside Internationalist's base, dock area, 14 Miles SSE of Petropavlovsk, Russia
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"I'm going for the sub! Cover me from that guardhouse by the west gate!" Captain Price shouted as he quickly splits up from the team and run for the docks near the sub.

"Roger that! Roach, Miho, we have to get to that guardhouse by the west gate to cover Price! Follow me!" Ghost shouted as he and the rest of the team followed him.

"Copy," Roach replied.

"Right behind ya'," Miho replied.

Ghost, Miho, Roach, along with other 5 surviving 141 operators quickly ran upstairs at a side of the guardhouse and quickly secure and made a perimeter on the roof of the guardhouse by the fences of the roof. They all were facing towards the courtyard full of containers and rest of the base and the sub harbored at the dock. They all quickly opened fire back at the incoming enemies that are coming to them from below, right from the courtyard filled with containers and snow. Miho quickly puts her M240 w/ heartbeat sensor and red dot sight on the fence and starts firing to below them while Roach snipes any bastards he can get with his MK14.

Ghost and his team managed to mow down around 4 hostiles at the very left side of the courtyard-filled containers. Miho able to kill 6 herself in burst firing mode and managed to kill other 3 with a grenade she threw down the building and landed near the containers where the hostiles took cover. Roach shot three hostiles at the containers and other 4 hostiles on the far side who were about to entered the courtyard. The hostiles just keep coming up to them.

"They're coming out from woodwork!" Roach said aloud in his radio as he sniped two hostiles in the head near the destroyed jeep.

"Just sod off, ye' bastards!" Miho said aloud in the radio as she fires her machinegun. "Ghost, 11 o'clock!"

"I see them, hit 'em," Ghost radioed as he and a few members of his team divert their firing onto their 11 at the enemies hiding behind the circle shaft, killing them.

"Tango down," Roach radioed as he shot one in the head through his scope.

"All right, I'm inside the sub! Cover me, I need a few minutes!" Price radioed as they still firing at the enemies from the guardhouse.

"Roger that, Price," Miho radioed back as she fired her MG. "Just stay safe."

After hearing Price went inside the sub, Ghost spotted something down the road on the right side of the courtyard. "Incoming! Two trucks to the east!"

After the enemy showed up on the far east, Miho smiled to hear what Soap said in the radio. "AGM missile is online."

"Sending in the missile, standby," Roach radioed as he controlled the predator by his tactical laptop and took cover away from the fence. "Missile away."

The missile was sent out from the Predator in the sky and quickly struck the trucks that are coming from the east. *DUUUUUUUAAAARRR* Killing all enemies inside the trucks as the trucks blown and thrown forward to pieces. It was a beautiful explosion for Ghost.

"Now that's just beautiful," Ghost commented for a moment before firing again to the hostiles in the courtyard.

"Good effect on target. Multiple enemy vehicles KIA," Soap radioed who's back in base, monitoring on how the 141s on the field are doing. "Arming AGMs, standby."

"Keep hitting them hard, Roach," Miho radioed as she fires her machine gun and threw a grenade far away, killing three hostiles who were about to come out from the path next to the road on their right.

"I hear ya'," Roach replied, before he began sniping again *PENG*. "He's down"

As they returned fire, one of the 141 operators got shot in the chest and quickly fell back. "Shit, man down!" another 141 operator said before returning fire.

"Corn! Handle him!" Miho ordered aloud to the said operator before he quickly moved away from the fence and quickly tending the downed 141. "Contacts near that truck on our 1 o'clock!"

"30 Mike-Mike out!" another 141 operator said as he launched a 'nade launcher to the said hostiles, destroying the truck and killing 5 hostiles.

"Nice shot!" Miho shouted in compliment, before she heard Soap radioed. "AGM missile is online. I repeat AGM missile is online."

"Copy that," Roach replied, before Miho saw something ahead in a distance as they fire. "Another cavalry is coming in!"

"More vehicles to the east! Use the UAV!" Ghost barked as he not bothered to look at Roach and kept firing at the hostiles down there.

"Sending in the missile," Roach radioed as he used his tactical laptop, sending in a missile from the sky and quickly blew a jeep and a truck that were coming from their front (on their east) on the road. "Got them."

"Good kill. Trucks destroyed," Soap radioed as Roach began sniping again and Miho quickly reloads her MG.

"Reloading," Miho radioed as she reloads quickly, and then cocked her machine gun and began firing back again.

"How long we need to keep up like this?" Roach asked as he sniped two bastards in the head, with some of the 141 operators were reloading.

"Long enough for Price to stop the sub from launching the nuke," Ghost replied as he fires his ACR to the enemies behind the containers.

As they kept firing back, Miho noticed that there are some of the ultranationalist were running away. "Looks like they're starting to thin out."

"We see it," Ghost replied as Roach approached him from behind and everyone slowly stopped firing. "Looks like that's the last of them."

"All units, be advised. The Predator Drone is down," Soap radioed which made everyone in the field surprised. "I repeat. The Predator drone is down."

"What happened to the Predator?!" Roach asked furiously, who hates to hear that.

"The bastards shot it down," Soap replied. "I don't think I can send anymore of it."

"Don't worry, we take it from here," Miho radioed in sincere as she watched the perimeters.

As they watched the perimeter, Ghost turned his head to their north (their left). Until he was tensed up to see something, "Contact to the north, on the dock next to the sub!"

"What?! Shit!" Miho shouted in shock as they quickly shifted fire to the north, spotting some enemies took cover at the crane, jeep and the container near the bridge to the sub. "Engaging hostiles."

"Enemies at the crane!" Roach shouted as he sniped two bastards at one of the leg of the crane.

"Shite, can't get a shot!" Ghost shouted as he ducked from the incoming gunfire that just passed his head.

"Got them on my sight," Miho said aloud as she cocked her machinegun and began firing, the spray of her machinegun killed 3 who took cover near the jeep. "They're down."

"Nice shot, mate," Ghost commented as he returned fire at the fence to the north. "Plywood! Send in another grenade launcher!"

"Affirmative, sending in," the said 141 replied before launching his one round of 'nade launcher, killing the last two hostiles behind a leg of the crane. "All hostiles neutralized."

They all quickly ceased fire and secured the area from the guardhouse. None of the bastards sure coming back again. But then, they were surprised by a loud sound that was coming in from the sub. As they looked at the sub, they were shock to found that the silo doors are open. Miho stood off the fence and watched with her jaw open and eyes widened as her machine gun was left hanging on her right hand and the rest of the 141s only frozen to see the sub.

"Price, are you there? The silo doors are opening on the sub, I repeat, the silo doors are opening on the sub!" Ghost quickly said on the radio as they watched the sub.

To their fear, there was no response from Price. "Price, come in! They're opening the silo doors on the sub! Come on! Hurry!" Ghost barked in his radio as everyone was agitated as the sub was opening its silo doors.

Again, there was no response. Miho had feared the worst happened to Price. "Price, do you copy?! The silo doors are about to open fully!" Miho shouted in her radio in worry.

Still no response from Price as the sub had fully opened its silo doors. It was from bad to worst which Ghost had to shout panickedly in his radio. "Price, do you copy?! The silo doors are open! I repeat, the silo doors are open!"

After two seconds of silence, they heard the reply. "Good."

"What? wait-," Ghost replied, before a missile begins its launch from the silo doors.

The missile quickly engulfed itself in flame before it flew up slowly from the sub. They had to watch in shock. Miho can't believe at what she was seeing. Roach was deadpanned to the sight of the launching missile. While Ghost was the only person in the group who was in panic. All of this happened in seconds

"Wait, Price, no!" Ghost shouted in panic and agitated, Price had let the missile launch.

"О Господи..." Miho said to herself lowly as they stood frozen and watched the missile flying away.

After the missile was far enough from the sub in the sky, Ghost began to shout out his alert.

"WE HAVE A NUCLEAR MISSILE LAUNCH. MISSILE IN THE AIR! MISSILE IN THE AIR! CODE BLACK, CODE BLACK!"

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"Eeegh!" Miho grunted as she quickly wakes up from her sleep.

"Oh, Miho, you're awake," Erika, who sat beside her replied in surprise and worry. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah, I'm fine," Miho replied reluctantly as she looked at her. "Just… another nightmare."

"You sure?" Akaboshi asked, who was driving the Kuromorimine's Krupp Protze truck. "You don't look fine for me."

"I'm sure, it's not like I've been through worst yet," Miho replied as she looked over to the rest of the 5 commanders of Kuromorimine including Maho in the back of the truck. "How long I just slept?"

"Long enough for us to reach the plaza soon," Geshiko replied with a shrug. "You must've been tired after you did a raid to Pravda yesterday."

"Heh, I ever did much more than that," Miho replied with a smirk.

"Really? That was a close call, we barely made it out from there," Maho added in disbelieve of what Miho said.

"Well, at least you didn't come with me to jump a 25 plus meter gap," Miho replied, which made Maho and Erika shivered to imagine that.

"You made quite a show back there, Miho-san," Ritaiko commented, before continued by Mauko. "I bet the JSDF was angry about that."

"Yeah, they did," Miho replied with a nod. "But I got it under control."

"You sure?" Sangou asked with doubt, before achieving a reply from Miho with a nod. "Alright then."

"Girls, we have arrived," Akaboshi told them, before she stopped the truck and turned the ignition off.

"Akaboshi, remember about what we talk about what happened after Pravda?" Miho asked to remind her.

"Sure, I only say that I don't know who were those soldiers and I never seen one," Akaboshi replied with a nod and a smile.

"Good, now let's get off from this bloody thing."

After Akaboshi stopped the truck, they dropped off the truck one by one with Miho as the last person who got off the truck. The truck was parked right outside of the Anzio main plaza at the sidewalk. They decided to take a walk from there until they reached the plaza. Miho can't be sure whether to be happy or to be worry about this situation. Because soon she's going to meet with Anchovy.

Miho was still wearing the same outfit back from the residence, even the left drop bag with pistol hid in it she brought it here. Maho, Akaboshi, Erika and the rest of the commanders in the other hand wearing their Kuromorimine outfit, plus with accessories that would help them from getting cold because of this winter snow. Maho had wondered why did Miho brought her gun here since there is nothing they need to worry about here. But then again she won't argue about it, the reason for self-defense was more than enough.

They walked as they admire the places they passed around them. It was something that made Miho cringed to see something that wasn't supposed to be here. Most of the fucking buildings around here are built in Renaissance-style architecture. She swears that this place was a bloody copy-paste of Rome architecture from the 14th centuries and beyond. There was Fontana del Pantheon in front of the Pantheon building and the Church the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore when they passed by.

They kept walking on as they went through a lot crowds of people on the road. There were a lot of Anzio students in present that time. If Miho had taken a moment to look at the Anzios, she would say that those students were quite a fun-type of people but still she still likes having a chat with the Brits. That what'd she guessed. Though, it still bothers her to know that the Anzios still wearing their school outfit with little winter protection.

As they walked, Miho had noticed that there are some of the Anzio students starting to recognize her. The students stared at Miho as she looked back at them and followed her group. The look that the Anzios made were the followings. Surprised, Shock, Amazed, Disbelieve, Cringed, and Curious. She could see that some of the Anzios were starting to whisper to each other in a gossip about Miho. Miho could hear a low voice from a distant that one of the Anzios just mentioned her name, her rumors spread fast for sure.

"Hey, you're getting popular here," Mauko said to Miho as Miho divert her attention at her.

"I know, mate," Miho replied with a nod. "I didn't expect the rumors about me spread that fast."

"I'm guessing that Anchovy will hear more news about you while you were away," Sangou added.

"That's for sure, mate," Miho replied, a few moments later they have reached the plaza.

They looked around the Plaza, and to be sure it was a such sight for them. Everything in Anzio is a goddamn exact match to the city of Rome. Well, Anzios are Italian-Japanese like people so how Miho would argue about that? If Arguing about that right now, they would say it will be very late to do that.

The Plaza was composed of some famous architectures. The Plaza area is called Piazza di Spagna, the whole area had filled with citizens of the city schoolship and the Anzio students. And then there's a fountain called Fontana della Barcaccia which made into the shape of a half-sunken ship with water overflowing its sides into a small basin. The water flows from seven points of fountain: the center baluster; two inside the boat from sun-shaped human faces; and four outside the boat. They could see some crowds were standing there and took picture of it.

And then there's The Spanish Steps. Located between the plaza area and church on top of the stairs. It has a monumental 174 steps (In which the slightly elevated drainage system is often mistaken for the first step) and some square-like blocks putted in between the stairways on the left and right. And then last but not least, the famous church on top called The church of the Santissima Trinità dei Monti. It was the exact beautiful building as the real building back in Rome.

Miho wanted to give a compliment on whoever create this such sigh. They know how to make someone feels in Rome.

Miho, Maho, Erika and the rest of the group had decided to wait at the bottom of the stairs in front of the fountain. Erika, Akaboshi, Ritaiko and Mauko had decided to sit down on the stairs while Miho, Sangou and Geshiko had decided to stood at their spot and waited. While Miho had an appointment to meet with Anchovy, the rest of them except Maho had an appointment to meet Carpaccio and Pepperoni. As they wait, Miho watched the atmosphere around her.

Crowds filling the stairs on top and the plaza area at the bottom. They could saw some of the Anzio students were having fun play throwing snowballs. Miho chuckled to see one of the snowballs they threw hit Ritaiko's face. Ritaiko jolts in surprise upon impact and quickly two Anzio students walk over to them and apologized to Ritaiko about it. Ritaiko only wiped her face of snow and sighed, before she forgives the Anzios for it. The Anzios bowed with thanks before they left them alone and continued playing snow.

Miho only looked over to Ritaiko as she watched the Anzios leaving. Ritaiko had left a little smile on her face. It was either it was a usual thing for them, or she had forced to make a little smile so Miho won't retort on what she's doing. Miho then looked away from her and continued to look on her surroundings.

Without any expectation, someone called her from their right. "Hey there!"

They all quickly turned their heads to their right, and quickly smiled at who they were looking at. "It's good to see you," Anchovy said as she along with Carpaccio and Pepperoni walked over to them.

Miho's group quickly turned around to Anchovy and her friends with some of them stood up from the stairs. "It's good to see you too, mate," Miho replied as Anchovy walked over to her and shook hands with her.

And suddenly Anchovy cheek-kissed her twice, which made Miho startled. "I'm happy that you can meet me today," Anchovy said as she lets go of Miho.

As Miho's group cringed at what they saw, Miho on the other hand softly asked Anchovy with a little blush. "Umm, forgive me. But… why did you do that to me?"

"It's an Italian greeting among friends," Anchovy replied with a smile. "one kiss for a stranger, two kisses for a friend and three for a family member."

"Oh… I see…" Miho replied slowly as her eyes amazed to her.

"What's wrong about it?" Carpaccio asked with a tilted head.

"Sorry, I thought Anchovy was going to kiss me."

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…

…

…

"She said what?" Everyone except Anchovy thoughts in their hearts as they gave their empty eyes to Miho.

"Ermm, sorry," Miho awkwardly replied as she looked away from Anchovy and scratched her head under her boonie hat. "You just surprised me like that."

"Oh, that's fine," Anchovy replied with an understanding nod. "It's your first time?"

"Yeah, but why two?" Miho replied in confusion as she looked at her. "I mean, we just met a couple of times. I'm a stranger to you."

"No, you're already my friend after what happened in Yokohama and visiting me at my friend's grave…" Anchovy trailed off with sorrow, but then continued with a smile. "Once again, I thank you for all of that."

"Don't worry, it's fine," Miho replied sincerely with an open palm. "It's… what I do."

"I see," Pepperoni replied with a nod, before looking over Miho's group. "Commander Maho Nishizumi, it's good to see you along with the girls you brought here."

"It's good to see you, Pepperoni, Carpaccio, Duce Anchovy," Maho replied with a nod and a shook of her hand with her. "How's your day?"

"Good as always," Anchovy replied with a warm smile. "You girls want to have a break at our place here?"

"Yeah," Geshiko replied, before continued by Mauko. "Especially for Maho to spend her time with her sister here."

"Oh really?" Pepperoni asked. "By the way, regarding that accident on the bridge back in Ooarai…"

"What is it?" Akaboshi asked, waiting for her question.

"Where have you disappeared for a year?" Pepperoni asked to Miho, she along with her friends never got the time to ask Miho that.

"London, UK," Miho replied, Anchovy and her Anzio friends jumped their heads back in surprise. "Quite a good place for me."

"Huh, no wonder you sounded like a British," Anchovy commented in understood.

"I take that as a compliment, thank you," Miho said with a smile.

"So how's life in England?" Carpaccio asked.

"A little bit rough, but I can handle it," Miho replied with a shrug and a smile.

"But I think I should warn you to not give her an edge," Erika interrupted, to which Maho and Akaboshi facepalmed with Miho only sighed while the rest of the Kuromorimine's turn their eyes into an empty one.

"Umm, why?" Anchovy asked with her eyebrows raised.

"I admit I'm actually a hard girl," Miho answered doubtedly. "I think it would found you... uncomfortable about it."

"Oh, it's alright, I think I understand what you meant," Anchovy replied sincerely with a smile, it comforts Miho. "By the way, what's with the choice of your outfit? You were wearing that kind of outfit when you visited us at the graveyard unlike the other girls around."

"Oh, I just found that I don't really fit and don't like the clothes that the girls used these days," Miho admitted with her hands raised to her sides. "So… yeah… this is my kind of favorite outfits."

"That's the first time I heard," Pepperoni commented as she looked over Miho's outfit. "Well, at least not the ones you wear for Tankery Match."

"I agree," Sangou added, before continued by Maho. "To think of it would be such a hassle of course especially on the uniform regulations."

"Yeah, so…" Miho paused with a shrug as she looked at herself, before looking back to Anchovy. "What do you think?"

"Honestly? It suits you well," Anchovy admitted as she looked over Miho's uniform again with a smile. "You looked perfect and neat."

Miho only chuckled at that. "Thanks, my lady. I'm glad to hear that."

"No problem, Miho-san," Anchovy replied happily, comforted to hear Miho called her a lady. "Now... how about we go to the stands near the Colosseum?"

"Sounds great, my lady," Miho replied with an agreement. "Let's go there."

"Follow me."

Anchovy gripped Miho's hand and pulled her in to follow Anchovy to the stands near the Colosseum. If Maho had to admit, seeing Anchovy taking Miho for a walk was kind of cute. After Miho and Anchovy left first, the Kuromorimine's commanders looked over to Carpaccio and Pepperoni for a moment. And then they set off to their destination by following Miho and Anchovy. They walked toward the Colosseum as they chatted to each other of their day.

As they walked down the road and saw the Colosseum in the distance, an Anzio Tankette just passed by next to them. One of the two Anzio crew of the Tankette was right on top of its turret and waved at Anchovy happily as the Tankette passed. After the Tankette crew left, Miho let out a small chuckle of Anchovy waving her hand to the Tankette crew which is kinda cute. Maho and the rest of the group noticed Miho just chuckled, which is a sign that Miho really liked Anchovy. Well, that's what they think actually so they weren't so sure if that's true.

After a small walk in the park, they reach the place Anchovy meant near the Colosseum. When Anchovy said stands near the Colosseum, she meant food and market stands. The place was bloody amazing to be honest. Besides there are some stands that sells flowers and other miscellaneous items. There were a lot of Anzio students that are kind of cooking (and selling?) foods at a lot of food stands.

Made Miho wondered about what happened to their budget.

They walked over to a food stand and met an Anzio there. They all greeted her and have a chat a little there. As time moves on, everyone except Miho, Carpaccio and Maho decided to split up and wanted to go somewhere from there. While everyone had decided to split up from that stand to look for something interesting somewhere, Miho, Carpaccio and Maho had decided to find a bench around the market stands. They found one near a big fountain in the middle of the market stands and sat down there.

As Miho looked around from the bench, Carpaccio called her. "Hey, Miho-san. Everything alright?"

"Y-yeah, everything's alright," Miho replied with a nod as she leans her back against the bench. "Everything in here looked so different than in London."

"Really?" Carpaccio asked, before continued by Maho. "You mean by how much crowds and how the atmosphere in here compare to London?"

"Actually, the crowds in here are different than in London, because the Anzios in here looked very fun for me," Miho explained with a smirk as she looked at them. "As for the atmosphere… everything in here has a very good sight than in London, except in London it has Big Ben that I really love to see."

"I'm glad to hear that," Carpaccio replied happily as she closed her eyes. "You know, the architects who build this place had to put out a lot of budget here."

"Erm, I assume this has to do with these stands in here?" Miho asked, Carpaccio quickly fell silent and stare blankly to her.

Checkmate.

"Well… yeah… you know us Anzios," Carpaccio replied awkwardly, unaware she was scratching her own neck. "We can't spend our time without thinking about snack time."

"Oh, no wonder you girls had budget problems," Maho added as she leans her head forward to looked at them both, then looked only to Carpaccio. "I assume Anchovy is tired about writing down paperwork."

"It's not that bad," Carpaccio replied as she leans back against the bench. "Actually, I would love to hear Anchovy is cooking Pasta for us."

"Don't make me hungry, mate," Miho replied with a sigh. "I'm still not in the mood to eat anything else for now."

"You're not on a diet, right?" Carpaccio asked, which made Miho laughed lowly and Maho snorted hilariously.

"Nah, I'm not on the diet," Miho replied with a shook. "I'm just not in the mood to eat anything, really."

"We just had a lot of breakfast this morning, Carpaccio-san," Maho answered to her.

"Yeah, so let's just have a trip around here for now, alright?" Miho asked as she smiled to her.

"Ok, Miho-san," Carpaccio replied with a nod, then she placed her hands behind her head and on the bench. "Let's just enjoy our snowy day here."

"Miho, you don't want to play snowballs?" Maho asked, Miho just gave a flat smile to her.

"Nah, I'm good," Miho replied with a shook, which made Carpaccio smirked as she was reminded of her childhood.

"Come on, Miho," Maho asked again softly. "It's just like our childhood."

"Maho, no thanks," Miho replied again with a weak tone. "Just… being like this is enough for me, alright?"

Carpaccio and Maho had confused of Miho's reaction, but they understand what Miho meant aside from 'not wanting any childhood memories'. "Alright, I'm not pushing you," Maho said softly with her palms open to Miho, before closing them and put her hands above her thighs.

And then silence again, as they watched their surroundings of the market stands. Aside from the Anzios make their regular Italian foods, they also made foods that they need to warm themselves. Like soup, hot cocoa, porridge, and etcetera, etcetera. Well, besides that they knew the winter will stop soon enough. Man, Miho actually missed to see the buildings that Anzio has are covered beautifully in snow.

And Miho won't fell sick and cold to see the students are lacking of cold protection in the middle of the bloody winter.

As they watched their surroundings, they suddenly heard a loud noise coming from their right. They looked to their right and saw what was going on. To Carpaccio's shock, Anchovy and Pepperoni was having a talk fight with 15 girls from Bonple High School. Carpaccio had recognized the two Bonple girls within the group. There was Jajka, the overall commander from Bonple High School. And also Uszka, Bonple's High School's second-in-command.

Jajka is a medium-sized girl with long blonde hair and a pair of green eyes. She wears her blonde hair in a long braid originating as a swirled bun. While Uszka is a medium-sized girl with long pink hair and a pair of brown eyes. She wears her hairs in a long braid.

Miho and Maho had noticed the expression Carpaccio made, which made Maho asked her. "What's wrong?"

"It's Jajka and Uzska," Carpaccio said quickly to her before she looked back at the Bonple group with Anchovy and Pepperoni. "They're taunting Anchovy right now!"

"Can I ask why they were taunting at Anchovy?" Miho asked, wanting to make sure to know the reason before doing what she should or should not.

"We had a Tankathlon Match, a match limited to the use of light tanks and tankettes," Carpaccio replied to her in worry. "We had a few match with Bonple who are the master of Tankathlon and we… we lost every time we had a match with them and Jajka taunts us about how severe our skill is and mocked our name in the Tankathlon."

This gave Miho a heavy worry about what will happen to anchovy, Maho was also worried about this. "We should help her," Maho suggested quickly.

"Yeah, let's go," Miho agreed as she corrected her boonie hat and quickly came over to Anchovy and Pepperoni who are still talk fighting with the Bonple girls.

They were a halfway there to reach Anchovy, until…

*SLAP*

They were shock to see Jajka just slapped Anchovy's face. To Miho, this made her anger boil.

They quickly reached Anchovy and Pepperoni as the Bonples quickly stepped back from them. Miho quickly looked up to Anchovy's face as Anchovy held her own cheek in pain. Miho was able to contain her anger for now as she was worried to see Anchovy's left cheek was already red from the slap. Maho, Carpaccio and Pepperoni only stood in front of Anchovy and Miho to protect them from the Bonples. Miho rubbed Anchovy's cheek softly as her friends divide them from the Bonples.

"You alright?" Miho asked softly in worry as she kept rubbing Anchovy's cheek.

"Ye-yeah, I'm fine," Anchovy replied doubtedly.

"Oh, how spoiled you are," Miho heard Jajka taunted, Miho turned her head through her friends to Jajka and turned around and walked forward from Anchovy.

Before Miho passed through her friends, Anchovy grabbed her arm from behind and said to her lowly, enough for the Bonple to not hear them. "Miho, look. You shouldn't help me right now."

"Why?" Miho asked lowly.

"Miho, just go away from here. Just go."

"Hey, you've been hurt enough," Miho said to Anchovy softly, she then holds her shoulder then continued with a stern tone. "Let. Me. handle this."

Miho then turned away from Anchovy and passed through her friends. She quickly confronts Jajka right in front of the other 14 Bonple girls. This did surprise Jajka and the rest of the Bonples. But that doesn't matter for them as Jajka smirked evilly to the person she thinks a stupid girl. Miho only gave a flat smile and a sharp eye as the rest of her friends just stood back and watched at what Miho is doing.

"And who might be are you?" Jajka asked curiously in an evil happy tone.

"A girl who wants to finish up this problem with you," Miho quickly answered as her eyes shadowed by her boonie hat, something that made Maho afraid of her dreary eyes. "Is this about the Tankathlon Anzio had participated in?"

"Oh? How did you know that?" Uszka asked with a raised brow, still evilly smiled. "Strange thing to know from a stranger. And what's with the Kuromorimine commanders here?"

Miho and her friends quickly turned around to behind them to see there were the rest of Kuromorimine's commanders coming up from behind them. "What's going on?" Erika asked as they walked over to Miho's group.

"Erika, let her deal with this," Maho ordered her, to which Erika nodded and they quickly formed a line in front of Anchovy with Miho on the front, confronting the Bonples.

"How great this is," Jajka taunted in a teasing tone. "The Anzios asked help from Kuromorimine, how weak you are."

"Hey, you're done yet?" Miho asked aloud, making the Bonples get their attention back to Miho while the people around them including the Anzios looked at the fighting groups.

"Oh yes, I forget about you," Jajka said, pretending she easily forgotten her as the Bonples including her didn't saw the scar Miho had due to her boonie hat. "You should not interfere with our problems with Anchovy."

"Problems, eh?" Miho asked back. "That's intimidating, wanker."

"Well, that's true," Uzska replied. "How about you go away before it's too late?"

Miho paused for a moment, before she gave her reply. "Sorry, wanker," Miho replied with a shook softly, this surprised the Kuromorimine's and Anzio commanders except Maho and Akaboshi. "Your problem is my problem."

Miho's friends stepped back as Jajka walked closer to her, somehow still fail to see the scar on her eye. "Then we should hurt you as well, shouldn't we?"

There were the words yesses coming from the Bonples behind Jajka, but still Miho didn't flinch nor she was afraid. It's the first time Anchovy sees something like this. "Really?" Miho asked, disbelieve of what she said but not showing off and she took this seriously.

"Yeah, really," Jajka replied slowly and in confident. "Maybe you got Maho Nishizumi here along with the Kuromorimine's commanders here. But you will lose, you know that?"

"Hey,-" Maho was about to say something until she received an open palm from Miho, a sign to stop.

"Don't, Maho," Miho said to her. "I'll take care of this by myself."

"You sure?" Erika asked, unsure of what Miho is doing.

"Yeah, I'm sure," Miho replied with a nod, before looked back to Jajka and the rest of the Bonple with a determined and angry sharp eyes. "This is already my problem."

"You want to take us down by yourself?" Uzska asked, as all the Bonples laughed lowly at that. "You are a reckless girl."

"Reckless?" Miho asked with winced eyes, something that made Jajka confused of Miho's expression. "You're all shortsighted."

Jajka then stepped closer to her and leans her head to Miho as Miho bowed her head to not reveal the scar. "Do you know who're you talking to?"

"The overall commander of Bonple High School," Miho replied. "I believe the last time I heard you lost the 63rd National Match with the Pravdas at the beginning."

That did trigger them, the Bonples behind Jajka quickly screamed in denial and taunting to Miho. To see Miho triggering them for the first time made Maho, Anchovy and the rest of the group to disbelieve on what are they seeing right now. Miho just made Jajka angry on that. To Anchovy, this was something that Miho shouldn't say to Jajka.

"H-how dare you talk to me about that!" Jajka shouted as she points her finger to Miho.

Miho on the other hand somehow kept her calm and stay neutrally to her. "It's a bad thing actually. To hear a high school is good at that instead of National Tournament."

"Youuuu goddamn idiot!" Jajka shouted to her as she tried to held back her retort to no avail, until she quickly calmed down. "Well… looks like we need to teach you a lesson."

Jajka then steps back from her as Miho lifted her head to see Jajka walked away and turned around at her Bonple girls. "Deal with her."

"As you wish," Uzska said with a nod, before one of the Bonples got a permission from Uzska to beat Miho.

After Jajka reached behind her group, she turned around again and looked at one of her girls was walking over to Miho, ready to beat her up. Maho, Erika, Anchovy and the rest decided to not interfere on what Miho is doing. Like what Miho said before, let her deal with this alone. They only watched at what Miho is doing while a girl from Bonple coming over to her to get beaten up.

Miho patiently waited for the first Bonple girl to hit her as she walked over nearer to Miho. Miho carefully looked at the girl about what's her attack first. After the Bonple girl was already close enough to Miho, she attacked her by sending her left fist to Miho's face. Miho quickly blocked her attack with her right arm quickly and grabbed her back of her elbow with her right hand. Miho then quickly pulled her arm in to pull her in close and quickly strikes her chest hard as a brick. She bellowed in pain as her chest quickly jolts back before Miho held her back elbow and holds her front hand with Miho's left hand and quickly… forcefully hit the elbow hard.

*CRACK*

"AAAAGH!" the Bonple girl screamed in horrified and in pain, as both of the groups were taken back and horrified on what Miho just did.

For the rest of the people who are around them, they flinched and shock to see that.

After Miho broke her arm, she quickly kicked her back of her legs with her right foot and she fell hard on the snowy ground. The girl quickly screamed-short in pain as she endlessly groaned in pain and held her broken arm on the ground. This led to another 2 Bonple girls to attack her. One of them reached Miho and about to send in her fist, only to receive a hard kick to her left knee to make her drop to kneel in pain. Another girl quickly attacked her from her right, Miho quickly sidestepped to the left to avoid right fist attack from the girl. Miho quickly grabbed her attacking arm by the elbow with her right arm and quickly bent it and hits her stomach with her right knee.

Miho quickly spins her arm around to behind her and quickly kicked her back of the shoulder while pulling her arm away from her.

*CRACK*

"AAAGHH!" the girl screamed hellish in pain as she cries, Miho quickly let her go by throwing her to her right to the ground.

After throwing her, Miho quickly confronted by the girl she did kick on her left. The girl quickly attacked her with a fist to Miho's chest but quickly blocked by Miho's left arm and she quickly hits the girl's face. Miho then kicked the girl's right knee to force her to kneel and then kicked the girl's left knee that was on her front right at the side, breaking her leg. *CRACK* the girl screamed in pain from the broken leg as Miho quickly grabbed her head. And then bashed her head to the food stall's table on Miho's left, knocking her out unconscious as she quickly dropped to the ground on her back with blood came out from her nose.

Seeing 3 girls had been Knocked-out by Miho like that brutally, it made Jajka and Uzska shocked and worried about who were they dealing with. Maho, Erika, Akaboshi and the Kuromorimine commanders all cringed in disbelieve at what they saw. Anchovy, Pepperoni and Carpaccio left their jaws opened in amazement on what they saw. The Bonple girls were all taken back in shock at what they saw. While all the people including the Anzios who watched from afar, were all shock and horrified on what are they watching.

Another Bonple girl had decided to try to take Miho down, by attacking head on to Miho. As she was about to send her right fist to her, Miho quickly responded by quickly ducked down to avoid the fist and counter attack by hitting her stomach. As the girl taken back by the hit, Miho quickly struck her head and then kicked her right knee to force her to kneel. Miho then quickly grabbed and held her shoulder and continuously punching her face harder and harder. Until her face bleeds and quickly thrown to Miho's left after a last hit on her face, knocking her out unconscious.

And then another girl from the group came closer to Miho, and had decided to do a right sidekick to Miho. Miho foreseen the attack and quickly steps forward closer to her and grabbed her ankle in the air, locking it with her hands in front of her stomach. Before the Bonple girl could wiggle to free her leg, Miho quickly steps back and pulled her and forced her to land on the ground with a sitting split hard. *CRACK* the girl screamed hard after the cracks on the thigh wrist occurred as Miho quickly dropped her leg. Miho then proceed to stomps the girl's knee on the leg she dropped *CRACK* and broke her leg. Before the girl could scream, Miho quickly do a sidekick and kicked the girl's face. The girl then quickly fell back to the cold ground while still leaving her leg in a split-sitting position.

Uzska was the last person to try to take down Miho. She quickly ran from the group before Jajka could stop her. Miho saw her running up to her with her fist ready to swing from behind to front. After Uzska was close enough to Miho, she then swings her fist to her. But not after Miho quickly took a step forward to avoid the incoming attack. She quickly counters attack by hitting her face with her right elbow after stepping forward closer to Uzska. Quickly stopped her attack and puts her down to the ground on her backs.

Uzska wasn't knocked out unconscious, she was stunned. Miho quickly grabbed her by the collar and quickly forced her to stand up on her feet. Uzska, in fear quickly looked at the redhead's eyes. Uzska quickly realized the scar Miho had on her right eye, which made her heart race faster than before. Uzska may not know who was this girl in front of her, but she admitted that there was a very dark aura coming from her when she looked straight on her eyes. Jajka and the rest of 8 Bonple girls with her could only stood at their place while Maho's and Anchovy's group could only fear on what Miho is doing to Uzska. All the while people around them are starting to murmurs about what's going on and what are they seeing right now.

Uzska could say nothing in fear, it was a long moment of tensed silent as she looked to the scarred-eyes girl.

…

…

…

"Left or right?" Miho asked, which made Uzska confused.

"W-what do you mean?" Uzska agitatedly asked as Miho gripped her collar harder.

"Right handed or left handed?" Miho asked calmly, somehow made Uzska's fear increased.

"Ri-right!" Uzska quickly replied aloud, this made everyone especially Jajka and Maho confused on what she's saying because they didn't hear what Miho had asked her.

"Alright, I'll call the ambulance for the girls I just beaten up here," Miho said to Uzska aloud, confusing everyone of Miho's sympathy attitude. "But after you do one thing."

"W-what i-is it?" Uzska stammered worriedly.

"I want you to apologize to Anchovy after this," Miho told her as her grips became a little softer on Uzska's collar. "Now give me your left hand."

"Wha-what…?" Uzska asked lowly in fear as she winced her eyes to Miho.

Miho quickly grabbed her face by the sides of her head right under her ears with a *SLAP*, before she pressed her sides of her head harder to feel the pain and stared through her eyes into Uzska's soul. "Give me… your bloody left hand… now…"

Uzska was about to left a tear from her eyes in fear as she unwillingly gave her left hand to Miho. Miho then softly let goes her sides of her head and held her hand. Miho's left hand held and gripped her index and middle fingers while Miho's right hand held and gripped her ring and pinky finger. Miho then split those fingers into a V shape in the middle of the fingers. Uzska had feared on what Miho was going to do with her fingers.

"I'm expecting that you promised me to apologize to Anchovy, you understand?" Miho asked coldly as she lifted her head to look at Uzska's panicked face.

"Ye-yes, I will!" Uzska panickedly replied as her fingers shook in fear.

"Remember, not for me, mate. For who?" Miho asked coldly as she stares down Uzska's closed eyes.

"For-for Anchovy," Uzska replied as her body trembling in fear.

"Alright, for who?" Miho asked again.

"Anchovy," Uzska quickly replied.

"Who again?" Miho asked again coldly.

"For Ancho-"

*CRACK*

"AAAAAAAAAHHH!"

Miho just broke Uzska's fingers.

"Mein Gott…" Maho, Geshiko, Sangou, Mauko and Erika said as they trailed off.

"Che diavolo…?" Anchovy asked fearfully.

"o mój Boże…" Jajka said as she trails off in horrified.

To see Miho broke Uzska's fingers, everyone who watched Miho did that would have nightmares when they returned home to sleep.

"AAAAAAAHHH! M-MY FINGERS! AAAKH!" Uzska screamed as she dropped and lie down to the ground, holding her broken fingers with her other hand.

As Miho watched Uzska holds her broken fingers, she pulled out her phone and called in the ambulance. "Hello, is this the emergency channel? I need an ambulance to come to the food stalls near fountain, right next to the Colosseum. I got around 6 Bonple students who got beaten up to the ground hard here. 5 of them have broken legs, arms or fingers while one of them is bleeding on her face… When?... alright, please be in a hurry. Thank you." Miho then closed her phone and put it back in a pouch of her belt.

"There goes your ambulance, now if you excuse me," Miho said coldly towards Jajka and the rest of Bonple students that are still standing on their feet. "I should go now."

As Miho turned around and walked away to her group, the Bonples quickly ran over to the beaten up girls including Uzska. As the Bonples began to tending the beaten up girls, Jajka had made a grave step. "I will have my revenge on you! Remember that!" Jajka shouted angrily but also in worry at the walking away Miho.

Instead of continuing to walk back to her group, she stopped on her tracks with her head bowed. Jajka just said a word that had tied her for so long. A word that shouldn't have said before.

Revenge.

Maho's and Anchovy's group weren't so sure about why Miho stopped there as the people around them were curious about what Miho will do. Miho then slowly turned around, and slowly looked towards Jajka with her head lifted. Jajka had just realized the scar she had on her right eye, and she was also taken back by it. Then everything went silent.

After a few seconds of silence, Miho starts to step forward to Jajka slowly and calmly. Jajka gulped a little to this, she wasn't sure if it was either her stupidity to shout words to her or the scarred-eye girl wasn't done with her. Miho kept stepping forward, closer and closer and closer to her. Until she stopped, right in front of her face with her hands inside the pockets of her jeans. Miho just stared straight to Jajka's eyes with her dead eyes.

Then there just silence…

Until Miho opened her mouth. "You said you will get your revenge on me."

"Y-yes, I did!" Jajka said quickly aloud.

"What would you do if you want to get your revenge on me?" Miho asked flatly and coldly, this sort of question had caught Jajka off-guard.

"I-I…" Jajka paused in thoughts before replying back aloud. "I will humiliate you and I will threaten all day until you begged for me to stop."

Miho knew her answer was that. The only thing Miho did is only sighed sincerely and took off her hat from her head with her left hand and put it on her right side of her stomach. Miho looked down, before looking back to Jajka. Jajka wasn't so sure why she reacted like that, but she knew her answer won't work.

"Even if it sounds intimidating, that won't work on me," Miho replied, this caught everyone on the scene including the spectators off-guard. "If you want to get your revenge on me, there's only one kind of revenge that would work on me."

Everyone surprised if Miho had admitted that, that made Jajka nervous but also curious. "W-what is it then?"

Miho then threw away her hat softly to beside her on a table of the food stall. She then opens one of her pouch on her belt and pulled out something. Miho then quickly puts her hand right next to Jajka's neck, to her shock Miho had Jajka in knifepoint on her neck. Everyone in the scene were all horrified with gasps to see Miho knife-pointed Jajka. Jajka gulped as she froze while in knifepoint.

None of them including Miho make a move for the moment. Until Miho retracts her hand armed with knife away from her neck to in front of her. Miho then throws the knife in the air to do a flip, and landed on her hands which the knife's handle facing at Jajka. Jajka doubted if Miho really wanted her to take the knife, but she slowly and doubtedly decided to take the knife by its handle.

Before Jajka could take the knife away from Miho, Miho quickly startled her with something that she didn't expect. Miho pulled Jajka's armed-knife hand right next to Miho's neck. Jajka and everyone else in the scene were all shock and confused on what Miho was doing. Jajka gasped a few times as Miho was holding her armed-knife hand right next to Miho's own neck as Miho only gave her cold face and didn't shook in fear on what she's doing.

"If you want to get a revenge on me," Miho said aloud and then paused, before continued. "Then you must kill me right now."

"NANI?!" Maho's, Anchovy's and Bonple's groups all shouted in shock to hear that.

"W-what?! No! You're crazy!" Jajka shouted in disbelieve as she couldn't shake her armed-knife hand off from Miho's grip on her neck. "You're bluffing! There's no way you want me to do that!"

"Why do you think I'm bluffing?" Miho asked coldly and softly.

"Because there's no way you want to die right now," Jajka replied aloud in little retort and disbelieve. "You're bluffing!"

Miho then reacted by forcefully pressing Jajka's hand armed with the knife down to Miho's neck. Not enough to cut through her neck, but enough to not make a very small cut on her neck. As Miho forced the knife Jajka's holding push slowly down on her neck, Jajka quickly notices that Miho's eyes had somehow… gone dark as she does that. This severely made Jajka panicked on what she's doing right now.

"Honestly, I want to die right now," Miho replied coldly to her. "All you have to do now is only to kill me."

Jajka gasped as Miho lets go the knife Jajka was holding, leaving it still on her neck. "Come on, kill me."

Jajka very doubted on what she's doing as if she's starting to lose her sanity and her body shook trembly. "Isn't this the revenge you want, Jajka?" Miho asked coldly.

"This is the only way for your revenge to work."

Jajka wasn't so sure what she will do right now. Her kind of her evil personalities somehow have gone from her soul along with her arrogance, just because of this scarred eye girl. Maho, Akaboshi and Erika had never seen a girl like Maho's own sister to be as dark as her aura when she was a soldier. Anchovy had never seen a girl that is very tough, very determined, very brave, and very eager to finish any problems with her insane ways. For everyone who watched this including the Bonples, they thought Miho just lost her mind.

As Jajka doubted to do any move, Miho continued to speak. "Do you know who are talking to right now?"

Jajka stared back to her eyes in fear as her hand armed with knife still sticking on her neck. "N-no… Who are you…?"

"My name is Miho Nishizumi. And you're about to kill someone that just came back from her grave."

To hear Miho just said her name right in front of her with the knife next to her neck, this took Jajka and the rest of the Bonples gone horrified with their eyes widen and their jaws dropped wider. For all the spectators who watched the scene, they all gasps in shock to see Miho was alive right in front of them (some of the Anzios were disbelieve that they were right she was Miho Nishizumi). They may not know how's Miho's face looked like, but they know who is Miho looked like. And to see the girl back from the dead here, they all would freaked out on that.

Jajka quickly pulled away the knife from Miho's neck to her right side, and then in agitation dropped it from her hands to the snowy ground. Jajka then looked up to Miho's eyes nervously and agitatedly as she steps a few times backwards before she stopped.

"Why you didn't kill me, mate?" Miho asked coldly as she steps closer to her. "You almost got your revenge. Why with the change of your decision?"

"No, no…" Jajka replied lowly as she fearfully shook her head. "I… I can't…"

"Why you can't kill me?" Miho asked again as she stopped step forward right in front of her.

"I'm… I'm…" Jajka paused as she doubted on what she's saying, before she continued. "I'm not a murderer…"

"Good," Miho said with a nod, before she continued coldly. "I give you a chance here. You walk away, stop harassing my friends here especially Anchovy and I guarantee you won't have any trouble. I will not look for you and I will not chase you. But… if you don't… if you continue harassing my friends here… I will look for you… I'll find you… and I'll do a lot a damage that you can't even sleep at night every day. Understand?"

It is not sure whether what Miho's threat is true. But for the Bonples, Jajka, Maho's and Anchovy's groups, the threat was sounded like a dead sentence for them. Jajka gasps a lot to hear the threat as the fog of breath created due to the cold winter and their breathing flew in front of her face. To see Miho didn't breathe hard from all that fight and telling her to kill her, it wasn't a girl she was facing at.

Miho was more than a monster and more than the Nishizumi style.

Jajka let her sweats pouring down her forehead as she willingly replied. "Alright, I understand. I'll stop, okay? Just don't…"

"You made the right decision," Miho quickly interrupted her. "Now go, take care of your friends. I'll leave now."

Miho then turned around and walked away from Jajka, picking her boonie hat she threw to a table first before heading back to her group but not after she picked the knife Jajka dropped. Jajka only stood frozen at her place, watched Miho walked away before a girl from Bonple quickly comes up to her. Jajka yelped in surprise after the Bonple girl patted her shoulder and she looked at her. Jajka nodded to the girl as they both make their way back to the injured Bonple girls, not after Jajka took another few moments to see Miho walked away and then turned her head toward the injured students.

Miho took a calming walk back to her group as her friends back there were all quiet shock that Miho had finished up the problem Anchovy had. It's the first time for them to see that Miho just finished the problem, flawlessly. After Miho reached them, she stopped right in front of Anchovy as she looked over to her eyes. Maho, Erika, Akaboshi, Pepperoni, Carpaccio and the rest of the Kuromorimine's commanders had all noticed that Miho's expression turned into a frown after looking at Anchovy's fearful face. Then there's only silence amongst them not including the noises around them who are the spectators of the scene.

Miho stayed silent for a moment in thoughts, before she said to Anchovy softly. "I'm… I'm sorry about that. My life back in London gave me… rough times."

Anchovy then began to be comforted by her words as she starts to calm down. "I… I can't believe you've done that by yourself."

"Yeah, I know," Miho replied softly, as she was felt guilty doing the fight brutally in front of her. "I'm sorry about that. I didn't to mean to scare you after you saw what I just did. Like I said before, I'm a hard girl."

They paused after that, but they didn't expect to see Anchovy smiled to Miho. "It's alright. There's no need to apologize to me. You have protected me and I'm glad you did that. I'm thankful for that, Miho. I owe you one."

Miho smiled back thankfully to hear as the rest felt the same to hear that Anchovy wasn't afraid of Miho. "It's very good to hear that, my lady."

"Don't mention it," Anchovy replied back happily to her savior.

"Umm, shouldn't we get out of here?" Ritaiko asked worriedly. "The crowds will be coming a lot soon."

"You're right, let's go, Miho," Pepperoni said in agreement to Miho, and received a nod from her.

They then decided to move out from to avoid any commotions that might coming up to them. Anchovy held Miho's hand as they walked out from there. If she had to be honest, she felt that she was being protected by a war veteran. To which Miho thankful that Anchovy didn't know she was a soldier. Miho smiled to know that she was holding her hand with Anchovy's.

Maho and the rest of the group then turned their heads for a moment to look at Miho and Anchovy. It was cute to see them like that, as if they were like dating right now. But they know they are not dating right now and they decided to keep their mouths shut from saying something stupid. Anchovy then looked over to Miho, before lean her head onto Miho's shoulder. Something that Miho didn't expect from Anchovy as she didn't blush but she was confused on what she's doing.

Miho didn't know that Anchovy liked her.

As they walked on, Anchovy reminded of something that she forgot to tell Miho. But though she had to hold it back for a moment because she doubted that Miho had heard about it. But then again, Anchovy decided to ask her because she wasn't sure if Miho ever heard everything said in the letter. Anchovy stopped as the rest did the same and looked over to Miho.

"Umm, I remembered something," Anchovy started as she scratched her head. "Have you heard the letters sent by Darjeeling?"

"Pardon me, who?" Miho asked because she had misheard.

"Did you have received any letters from Darjeeling?" Anchovy asked again, which reminded the Kuromorimine commanders including Maho about it.

"Oh, yes, we got and read the letter," Erika replied with a nod. "But, Kommandant. You didn't tell Miho about it, right?"

"Umm, yeah, but I'm sure Miho wasn't so interested about it," Maho replied with a nod which made Miho curious about it.

"What kind of letter did Darjeeling sent?" Miho asked, she ever heard a girl by that name but not meet with face to face.

"An invitation letter," Pepperoni replied. "We'll be coming over to St. Gloriana Girls College for a tea party."

"Yeah, every school who joined and watched the Exhibition will be there, including us," Sangou added.

"So… you're coming to the invitation party, right?" Anchovy asked, but she was surprised to see Miho had doubted to come to St. Gloriana Girls College.

"Um, I don't know, I don't really interest about it," Miho replied doubtedly as she looked down to her left.

"But, why?" Anchovy asked with her raised brows.

"It's just… I don't really want to meet them," Miho replied. "I rather be stay away from trouble before something worse happened there."

"I'm sure everything will be fine," Anchovy assured her, Miho felt comfortable to hear that. "Just come to the invitation at St. gloriana, please?"

Miho didn't want to go there because it would be a fuss to her, but also she doesn't want to upset Anchovy about it. So… she made her decision.

"Alright, I promise I'll come," Miho answered with a nod. "I'll try to watch my attitude when we get there, but I can't promise that."

"It's good to hear that, Miho-san!" Anchovy said aloud as she cheek-kissed her twice again, something that made her friends giggled. "Come on, let's continue our trip!"

And then, they spend their rest of the day walking around Anzio until the evening. It was a really great day for Miho, to know that Anchovy really liked her besides the hard and dark side she had. She enjoyed her day as she has funs with her friends around Anzio, well not really much. She also gave the compliments of the Anzio school to Anchovy and she loves to hear that. Which Miho reminded on one thing.

She wished everything here was like back in London, she missed it.