Chapter 42: Discussions at the table.

7:14 pm

The canteen of the Ooarai, usually crowded by the students, was now occupied exclusively by the captains of the various teams, who talked to each other between bites.


"As soon as possible we will convene a press conference where we will launch our challenge at Schwarze Sonne." Miho announced.

"Do you think they will accept?"

"You can swear to us, Hana-san. Hilda is not the type to stand back from a challenge."

"The problem is that the coalition we have set up is very quarrelsome…. I'm afraid it can fall apart even before the match starts." Saori stated, not concealing her concern.

"You are not wrong, Saori-san ... It will be very difficult to keep such different personalities together." Her commander admitted.

"Once we did it, didn't we? We can do it now too!" Hana said, more than convinced.

"I hope so ... Also because the Black Sun is stronger than the university team."

"And what about Mako?"

"She have chosen your path, Saori-san. Now she are on the side of the enemy, that enemy who brutally tortured two innocent girls."

"But, Miho ... She is our friend!"

"No more ... Every feeling of friendship she felt towards us disappeared the day he discovered that horrible truth."

"Let's try at least to talk to her!"

"It is not possible, if we go on board their school we will end up massacred."

"They won't do it a second time, not now that they have everyone's eyes on them! Besides, you're the daughter of a big guy in MEXT, aren't you? "

"Even if we get on board Mako wouldn't want to meet us anyway."

"But…"

"Nothing but! Now she is our sworn enemy, you must realize it!"

The tone used by Miho was so threatening that Saori preferred not to reply.


"So will I have to take orders from Katyusha?" Jajka asked nervously.

"Unfortunately yes, commander." Uszka, her deputy, a girl with long pink hair tied in a braid and brown eyes replied.

That answer made her shake her head.

"I hate that midget! I hate her and Maho! I have no intention of licking their asses!"

"If you're so upset, why did you agree to help Miho?"

"She earned my respect by humiliating Pravda and Kuromorimine. She also has exceptional leadership skills, otherwise the Ooarai in the last tournament would have been eliminated in the first round. "

"True ... That girl has what it takes."

"Indeed."


"What's wrong, Erika? I see you thoughtfully. " Maho asked.

"It would have been better if Miho had nominated someone else for you."

"Oh yes? And why?"

"You are her sister, someone could accuse her of nepotism."

"She chose me because she knows I'm one of the best captains, not because of our kinship."

"I know, but the others..."

"The rest of them do their business. Some in the last tournament were eliminated in the first round ... "

"Are you referring to Chi-Ha-Tan? We easily defeated them, the clumsy ones ... "

"Not only. Koala, Bomple, Saunders, BC Freedom, Blue Division and especially Maginot have also remedied skinny figures. If you want my opinion, we'd better not rely too much on them."

"Well, Bomple had to face the reigning champions of Pravda, and BCF the strong St. Gloriana school. At least the two of them are justified."

"Yeah ... Instead I wonder how Maginot managed to lose against Anzio, one of the poorest teams in the tournament."

"A stroke of bad luck, there is no other explanation."

"How dare her call us clumsy? " Nishi asked, furious.

"Now calm down .." Haru begged.


"How dare her call us scarce?" Anchovy said furiously.

"Please, duce ... We are not here to fight!" It reminded her of Pepperoni.


"Nonna?"

"Tell me, Katyusha."

"Do you think we can trust Kay and Jajka?"

"Why do you ask me?"

"They didn't seem happy at all about Miho's appointment as commander."

"Surely Kay will have been disappointed, but I don't think she will take it so much ... She and Mihosha are friends."

"True ... And the other one?"

"She's definitely furious because she'll have to take orders from you."

The little blonde seemed pleased with that idea.


"Are you all right, Kay?"

"Yes, Naomi. Why?"

"You look down on me. Don't you like lasagna?"

"It's not that ... It's that I was hoping to take command of the team." The blonde admitted, demoralized.

"Unfortunately Miho received many more votes ..."

"Thanks, Naomi ... Any other obviousness?"

"Yes, hurry up or dinner will cool down."

Kay replied with an angry gesture, then looked at Miho who ate with her friends.

Why does everyone consider it the best? True, she is a good leader, but in some cases she has been helped by the luck and stupidity of the opponents!


"I still don't believe it ..."

"What are you talking about, Andou?"

"That we will cooperate with Maginot ... There is more rivalry between us and them than between us and St. Gloriana."

"True ... And this cooperation will not be easy at all, given the mutual antipathy."

"In this regard, can you explain to me why you agreed to help that Miho?" Ruka asked.

"Two innocent girls have been ferociously tortured by the black sun students, and I intend to teach those little whores a lesson."

"But they're not our students either ..."

"It does not mean anything."

"In any case, we'd better not trust Maginot." As she said this, Andou shot a threatening glance at the nearby table.

"Ah, no? And why?"

"And you ask me too, Marie? It is a den of vipers!"

"Prejudice never helps reason, rather it feeds mistrust, and mistrust undermines group cohesion. We cannot afford to be divided, as we will have to face one of the strongest teams in Europe."

"However, Maginot is poor ... Even Anzio managed to beat it."

"I don't doubt that."


"We can't trust BC Freedom!" Eclair said.

"For what reason?" Fondue asked her, a girl with brown hair tied in a tail and light brown eyes, who wore glasses.

"Because it's a den of vipers, that's why." One of her companions replied, who had short reddish hair and black eyes.

"Exactly, Galette. I would not trust them more than I would trust a gang of thugs ... And in fact they act as such, always fighting each other."

"Well, if Miho has summoned them, there will be a reason ..."

"Because she needed all the help he could get. . It is no coincidence that she has summoned all the schools, from the strongest (Saunders, Pravda, Kuromorimine) to the weakest (Anzio, Chi-ha-tan)."

"Right, it's true ... Do you think we have any chance against the Black Sun?"

"If we fight together yes."

Fondue snorted, disconsolate.

"Then we're done."

Eclair looked at her perplexed.

"How come you say this?"

"We and BC Freedom hate each other, we are both opponents of St. Gloriana, Bomple is hostile to Pravda and Kuromorimine ... There is no harmony. I fear that the differences can put us against each other. "

"We just have to hope that our coalition will hold up ... After all it is a temporary alliance, which will end after the match against Schwarze Sonne ... Whatever the outcome."

"Yeah…"