Anchovy sighed. It didn't make sense. Closing Oorai and selling for scrap was not sensible. It had similar museum value to Anzio being the first Japanese carrier school ship. Anzio was still the first school ship though. Then Anchovy decided to sit down and think as a graduate of the Maskylene school of sensha-do. Misdirection. Illusion. Props. What linked the battles?

"Oorai is safe for now, but the problems won't stop. Oorai was used as a cats-paw and the minister was expendable."

Pepperoni spoke up "What? You mean Oorai wasn't under threat of closure."

"Actually, it was. But that raised the question of how Nishizumi could transfer in? Then I asked myself, what would you assume if a famous sports star with a famous name from a famous school transferred in to a school without that sport after an accident narrowly avoiding fatalities?"

"But Kuromine and Nishizumi effectively got rid of Miho because she put saving lives over winning."

"Pepperoni, Il Duce means, in any other case, it would be sensible to assume that that star was at fault and couldn't be prosecuted because of the name." Carpaccio sighed

"Tell all except Darjeeling the revolution has started. Tell her the rebellion has."

Virtually every high school Sensha-do captain was at Oorai as well as the heads of the two notorious families. Anchovy spoke up "I'm disappointed that Alice and Miho couldn't see this but the irony of them being exemplars of the rival style to their families doesn't help. But I'll explain this. First thing. An outsider would assume Miho's transfer would be because she was the cause of the near accident."

"No Katyusha was, But if any other team was in that position Katyusha would not have fired on stopped flag tank. Katyusha gives other schools time and would have called the Marshals" declared Katyusha, the egotistical and childish Russian commander.

"Even if it did lead to our loss to Oorai" Nonna pointed out. "But the match was not stopped because of Kuromine's reputation. But back to the matter at hand."

"I think the Minister wasn't attacking Oorai per-Se but Sensha-do itself. When the minister called you in what were his words, Anzu?"

"That Oorai was being closed but used to have an excellent sensha-do..." Anzu realised something. "And I walked straight into the baited trap. But why would he..? Oh you've told me."

"Exactly- fortunately the trap was poorly constructed. The key pieces were not at all what the minister expected. Both Angie and Miho were not who he thought. Anzu had taken the blame to protect Momo whilst Miho was the opposite personality to what he thought."

Suddenly everyone understood Momo and Anzu's relationship at this point. things finally made sense, and why Anzu tended not to gun despite her incredible skills at that.

"Then everything went wrong for him. Oorai had been using several things to improve it's chances of surviving. The Anteater team saved the flag tank. Miho rescued the Caerbannog's, which in the end allowed Oorai to not only be able to but actually win. Demonstrating exactly the opposite to what the Minster had wanted. The Minister needed a new avenue of attack."

Shimada Alice sighed. "He needed someone just as desperate as Anzu. But more naive. Me. the Siege Mortar. Mum yelled at me for that She claimed that was going too far for any style to allow it." Miho and Maho winced at that whilst Shiho somehow missed the implication. It was how many people saw the Nishizumi style . "Forgive me." Alice carried on.

"Exactly. A thirty tank university all stars verses an eight tank single high school annihilation match would blacken the name of sensha-do. You did spot that Alice, so as soon as you could move it to a more even match you did so. Good decision on that point. Not so much in using the siege mortar."

"So?"

"We were extraordinarily lucky in the last match to have no injuries let alone deaths. The world cup is being held here in Japan. Imagine an 'accident' when the world is watching. Unfortunately we have no proof of who is truly behind this threat. It could just be the minister but I doubt it because the attack started twenty years ago at Oorai high school. That's why the remaining tanks were hidden across the ship in varying places."

All the captains looked downcast. Anchovy's analysis made far too much sense. The danger to Oorai high school had been delayed by multiple efforts from the sailors and parents starting pushing the museum purchase through, whilst Anzu was forcing most of MEXT to have to be on Oorai's side by her zany plan of doing Sensha-do incredibly well.