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(Eshiko Sugata's Opening Monologue)

Hello again, everyone. Sugata Eshiko at your service.

Before we begin, I have urgent news to inform all you readers: Currently, the streets have been deserted due the arise of COVID-19, or the Coronavirus.

It is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.

The Coronavirus began on December 2019 in Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei province, and has since spread globally, resulting in the ongoing 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic.

As of 10 April 2020, more than 1.69 million cases have been reported in more than 200 countries and territories, resulting in more than 102,000 deaths; 504,780 (+36,077) confirmed cases in America, and 5,347 (+579) in Japan; 18,763 (+2,084) death in America, and 88 in Japan. Fortunately, more than 376,000 people have recovered; 28,993 (+3,093) recoveries in America, and 714 (+29) in Japan.

To avoid this possibly apocalyptic disease, it is highly recommended do the following:

1. Wash your hands with soap and water to minimize your infection risk.
2. Keep your hands away from your eyes, nose, and mouth.
3. Stay away from people who are coughing or sneezing.
4. Don't shake hands with people, whether they show symptoms or not.
5. Disinfect high-touch surfaces daily using a product that kills viruses.
6. Try not to worry too much if you're not truly at risk.

Thank you, staty safe, and enjoy.

(End of Eshiko Sugata's Opening Monologue)


Volume 6

"Rebooting. Initialization commence," Astraeus suddenly said. "Debriefing mission: the 'dream'...that the Downer saw, while incomplete, was still a unique phenomenon. 11 years ago, a single Downer's 'dream' became connected to Synapse, the cause of the occurrence is unknown; however, as it was NOT considered a threat, the Synapse highest council's final judgement was to leave it be; however, several weeks ago, traces of Downer's trespassing in central Synapse had been detected by the existence of a 'Rule' in central. Interference is no longer allowed. And so, this is MY mission: execute the Downer...Sakurai Tomoko. Huh?" All of a sudden, Astraeus suddenly reawaken. "Where AM I?"

"Excuse me?" said Sugata from behind. "May I ask: what was your mission again?"

"Uh...mission? WHAT mission?" asked Astraeus nervously. "Oh, shit! I must've told her everything while rebooting!"

"I think you know, sir: the mission you were just taking about...about how you were sent to kill a Downer named...Sakurai Tomoko!"

"Oh THAT mission...I, uh...that was just some silly dream I keep having...hee hee hee hee!" the blond-haired Angeloid boy lied.

"That's funny...I thought Angeloids CAN'T sleep!"

"W-WHAT?! O-Oh, yeah! I-I-I forgot."

"So, you happen to come from the 'New World' that floats above Sorami, don't you."

"'New World'! My world has a NAME, you know! It's called Synapse—EEP!" Suddenly, Astraeus grabbed his mouth to stop talking as he realized he told her some classified information.

"And those trees from Tomoko's dream, I take it they're supposed to be Rules, right?" asked Sugata.

Trees? Rules? You're crazy! Those 'Rules' are supposed to be on these giant stones on our—AHHH!" Astraeus grabbed his mouth again as his eyes became swirled.

"I see..."

"Oh, no! What the hell did I just I tell her?! Quick, I gotta kill her! NOW!" Astraeus quickly summoned his Chrysaor photon in his right hand and his Aegis shield on his left arm, and charged at Sugata for the killing blow.

*SLASH*

*THUD*

Unfortunately, Sugata managed to dodge the attack, sending the blond-haired Angeloid boy falling face first to the ground. "What the hell?! Did she just DODGE me?! That's totally unfair!" Angered, he got up to—

*WHIP*

Suddenly, Makoto tied him up from behind with rope and forced the Astraeus back onto his knees. "Is that so, Delta-kun?" the malicious Yazuka punk asked while holding a knife right next to the terrified Angeloid boy. "Yo gansta homies up high sent you all the way down here to kill Sakurai-chan?"

"Uh, I-I-I, uh, I-I-I HAVE TO! I HAVE NO CHOICE!" Astraeus panicked. "Please! PLEASE, don't kill me!" But he saw Makoto grip the handle more tightly. "PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! DON'T—"

*SLASH*

"GAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" Realizing he was doomed, Astraeus grabbed his slashed chest and—

"Huh?"

—discovered no cut on his body...more than that; the rope that bind his body was cut and he was freed, must to his confusion.

"How'd ya like to join my posse, homeboy?" Makoto asked as he held out his hand to help Astraeus back on his feet. "I've always wanted to kill that hoe fer all the suffering she caused me!"

"Hmm, so it looks like found yourself a new plaything, eh?" thought Sugata.


The next day, it was a peaceful and quiet morning as a chibitized Tomoko rested her head on the table; outside, snow began to fall. "Ah, THIS is what I've ALWAYS wanted! No violence! No U.M.A.s! Nothing...but PEACE and"

"ATTENTION, STUDENTS!" Makoto yelled over the speaker. "Would EVERYONE please report to the field at once?"


On the field, Makoto sat in a general's seat with all the school's girls standing behind her, staring down the boys on the other side.

"Welcome, ladies and gentlemen! Today, we're going to be having a SNOWBALL WAR!" shouted Makoto proudly. "We're into two teams of genders: boys vs. girls; I'll be the captain of the girl's team, and the captain of the boy's team will be...Sakurai Tomoko-chan!"

Across from the Yakuza punk, Tomoko sat in a small chair, all tied-up and terrified, with the world "General" taped onto his head. "W-Why...?" she asked herself.

"Here are the rules: For this snowball war, there will be NO eliminations...which means you can keep fighting as long as you can, even if you get hit. The winner will be the team incapacitates the opponent's general.

"Good," thought Tomoko. "I'll just lose on purpose so I can get back to my peace and quiet. NOTHING will get me to change my mind. ABSOLUTELY"

"And furthermore, the winning team...will have full permission to torment the losing team...ANYWAY they like...even...SEXUALLY!"

"...Sexually? Torment? Losers?" Those three sentences gave Tomoko enough strength to burst out of her chair in a shogun outfit and yell, "Ladies, we shall DEFEAT THE ENEMYS AT HONNOUJI TEMPLE!"

"YEAH!" screamed her lady soldiers.

Sugata blew into her war conch in response.

"Prez, call this game off, PLEASE!" begged Sora. "If WE lose, they'll probably—"

"Chillax, homie," said Makoto. "We'll win against those broads!"


Meanwhile, Sora and some boys stood behind some snowy defense barriers; Astraeus, however, stepped forward. "Hmph, forget you chumps." He expanded his wings as he prepared to take off and fulfill his mission. "I am the strongest Close Combat Angeloid of Synapse, Type Delta. Astraeus. And I will kill ANY Downer who intends to stand in way!"


In the girl's region, General Tomoko began making her move.

"Lady Tomoko," said Strategist Sugata, "attacking the boy's high-ground from below is suicide. May I suggest we send some soldier in front as a diversion? Whilst a different unit advances on their flank with a surprise attack. "What do you think, milady?"

"Excellent," said the perverted female general. "Let's go with your plan!" And so, stepping forward onto the battlefield, holding out her Shogun fan thingy and shouted, "ATTACK!"

A battalion of girls charged onto the battlefield, ready to—

*BOOM*

The boys struck back with giant snowball catapults.

"Those on the left-wing, create a line to side of the enemy!" ordered General Makoto. "Those on the right-wing, take out the enemies on the battlefield immediately!"

"MY LORD!" cried a soldier who ran up to his general. "The enemy is charging and breaking through our defenses at earth-shattering speed!"

"WHAT?!"


General Tomoko and her forces charged and annihilated many opposition who stood in their way...with only Astraeus remaining.

"Hmph! You've done well against my comrades," the blond-haired Angeloid boy thought head-on. "But you fools will NEVER stand a chance against ME!" In his hands were two snowballs. "BRING IT—"

*ZOOM* *ZOOM* *ZOOM* *ZOOM* *ZOOM* *ZOOM* *ZOOM* *ZOOM* *ZOOM* *ZOOM* *ZOOM* *ZOOM* *ZOOM* *ZOOM* *ZOOM* *ZOOM* *ZOOM* *ZOOM*

But the girls just flew past Astraeus...right up to Sora.

"WHA—WAIT!" panicked Sora. "NO! NOT ME! PLEASE! STOP!"

"KILL HIM!" General Tomoko screamed to her soldiers.

*PLOP*

And they DID! The girls bombarded Sora with snowball after snowball after snowball.

*PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP* *PLOP*

"Good job, ladies!" praised the female general.

By the time the girls were done hitting Sora, Tomoko's friend was trapped a small slope of snow.

"Now," ordered Tomoko, "ONTO—"

"HEY! WHAT ABOUT ME?!" screamed Astraeus from behind.

"Huh? You? Nah!" laughed General Tomoko. "Our strategist told us ALL about you, including the fact that you're an incompetent dumbass!"

"AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!" General Tomko's entire squadron immediately burst into laughter that insulted the blond-haired Angeloid boy.

"OH, YEAH!" Just then, Astraeus held a ginormous snowball over his head, ready to annihilate his opponent. "TAKE—"

*TRIP* *PLOP*

Just then, he tripped and fell; the giant snowball fell onto him, burying him alive.


Later that night, the girls threw a victory part in their base.

"Ah, what a tremendous victory!" General Tomoko cheered. "And now..." She turned her attention to Astraeus, now bounded up as hostage. "...I'd like to ASK you a few questions...and I ABSOLUTELY expect honest answers, or else—"

"O-O-Or else...WHAT?!" Astraeus panicked. "Y-You'll never know if I'm dead!" The blond Angeloid was terrified beyond belief "Oh, god! What did I just say? Now they're TOTALLY gonna kill me!"

"My dear Astraeus," the perverted general laughed, "why would you think I would wanna KILL you?!" The next thing you knew, she began stripping (YOU HEARD RIGHT) off every single part of her clothing, right in front of Astraeus' wide-eyed, nose-bleeding face, and snapped her fingers.

*SNAP*

A group of Tomoko's soldiers brought forth a small treasure chest.

"Now, I'm only gonna ask you this once...and I expect an honest answer: Where's the enemy base?" asked the naked female general.

"*SHUTTER* M-M-M-Mark my word, pathetic DOWNER," snarled Astraeus timidly, "I have NO idea what you intend to do, but once I am FREE...YOU'RE LIFE WILL END!"

But Tomoko didn't listen to Astraeus' threat, she merely reached into the chest and pulled out some sort of two-strap harness with a long tan-colored, thick, rubbery stick on the front that she strapped onto her waist.

"W-W-What is that?" Astraeus asked in horror while staring at the extremely vulgar item around General Tomoko's waist.

"LADIES, PREPARE THE PRISONER!" ordered Tomoko.

General Tomoko's soldiers suddenly dropped Astraeus' pants down to his ankles as they forced him onto the floor with his ass faced right up at the perverted general.

"My friend," General Tomoko whispered evilly as she walked right up to Astraeus' big ass, "you have chosen—"

*THUMP*

All of a sudden, a mini-earthquake shook the entire base, shocking the female army. "

"MILADY!" cried a soldier who desperately ran up to her general. "WE HAVE A PROBLEM OUTSIDE!"


Throwing her clothes back on, General Tomoko and her soldiers rushed outside to—

"WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!" screamed Tomoko. She looked up at what appeared to be a giant snowman that looked a lot like Sora. (This is a snow spirit, infused with the anger of Sora Mitsuki, is know simply as...the 'bominable Swon-ra Man'.)

"...Tomo-chan..." growled the giant snowman. "I will make you feel the pain...of every boy...you...HAVE...TORMENTED!"

*CHOP*


All that could be said was that by the time Snowra's rampage came to an end, the entire female army had been decimated and General Tomoko was entrapped in a ginormous snowball; Astraeus also broke free and witnessed all he casualties on the battlefield.

"By the gods…" thought the horrified Angeloid boy. "...This...This is what Downer wars are like?!" Just then, he notied Tomoko bound up in the snowball. "It's her! Now my chance!" Standing right his target, Astraeus withdrew his Chrysaor blade and held it in ready, ready to decapitate—

"Is THAT why you're hear?" Tomoko suddenly asked with a modernized head, almost catching the Angeloid assassin off guard. "Are you hear to kill me because you WANT to? Or because you have to follow 'orders'?" Tomoko looked up at Astraeus with pitiful eyes. "You remind of the other two U.M.A.s. None of you can make a choice on your own, can you?"

Astraeus widened his eyes at what his victim-to-be said.

"Tell me: is that REALLY something YOU wanna do?" asked the pitiful girl.

"I-I-I DON'T CARE!" Astraeus suddenly shouted. "We Angeloid have only ONE purpose: to fulfill the commands of our masters! So DON'T give me your goddamn pity! Just...Just...Just DIE!"

"Astraeus..."

Astraeus suddenly stopped before she could land the killing as Icarus was right behind him. "Oh, uh, Icarus-senpai! Fancy meeting YOU here again!"

"Yes, Astraeus, it's been too long." Icarus began patting Astraeus' head. "However, if you do ANYTHING to hurt Master..." Suddenly, Icarus' eyes turned red as to target Astraeus. "...I will...NEVER forgive you for it."

"OH NO! OH NO! OH NO! OH NO! OH NO! OH NO! OH NO! OH NO! OH NO! OH NO! I'VE GOTTA GET OUTTA HERE!" Desperate to live, Astraeus quickly put his sword away. "Who? Me? hurt your master? No! I'd NEVER do that! In fact, I was simply...simply..."

*ZOOM*

Astraeus quickly flew off, leaving Icarus alone with his snow-confined master.


The next day, Sugata caught a snake at her tent.

The boys were the winners of war, and so the girl, especially General Tomoko, spent the entire day being tormented; only Sugata was spared from the torment by General Makoto.

"Cold!" whispered the shivering Astraeus over and over again; currently, he was fishing for some fish. "Cold! Cold! It's so—"

So, tell me: Why are you here?" asked Sugata all of a sudden. "I presume that because you failed to kill Tomoko, you won't be allowed to go back to Synapse, will you?"

"WHAT?! How'd you know?"

"Because from what I understand, Angeloids are to follow orders absolutely, and for you, failure is a matter of life and death. You've got wings...and yet you CAN'T return to the skies, CAN you?"

As Sugata walked away, Astraeus looked up the skies, remembering what Tomoko said: "Tell me: is that REALLY something YOU wanna do?"

"*SIGH* Sakurai Tomoko, who ARE you?"

End


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