By Shirogami
Chapter 1: Kohran, glad to have you back.
As Oogami walk out from Yoneda's office, he keeps thinking of the ways for encouraging the other members, and to get inspiration, he go to the library. When he walks up the stairs, he hears an explosion from the basement.
"An attack?" On impulse, he ran to the place where he guesses the sound from - the hangar for the Kobus. When he arrived, he saw clouds of smokes everywhere.
"Wh... What happened?" As Oogami is nearly confused by the situation, a shadow is coming out from the smokes.
"Sorry, Oogami-han, it is me."
"Kohran? What are you doing here? And what happened? I thought I just heard an explosion from here." Oogami asked as he tries to clear the smokes in front of him.
"Well, cough... cough... I try to fix the Kobus and cough... cough... it seems like they cannot be repaired anymore: cough... cough... the engine is totally broken, the mechanic parts are mostly damaged, especially cough... cough... especially the spirit energy transfer system, it need to be replaced with better equipment." Kohran explain the reason for the incidents, with a sorrow looking face.
For better place to talk, Oogami leads Kohran out from the hangar, then try to get tissue from his pocket to clean his face, "I think you need this." As he hand the tissue to Kohran, he noticed the tears start to drop from her eyes already.
"Kohran..."
"Oogami-han, I... I am really useless, as a mechanic for those children, I am not only cannot fix them back, now I even make them become worse... sob... I... I don't know what can I do already, I... I..." As Kohran blamed herself, her tears had silently draw two lines on her face as she continued, "If... (sob) if... I had empower the Kobu, it won't... (sob) become into this bad situation, if... (sob) if only I improve my spirit energy, at least there is one kobu still functioning."
"Kohran, stop it!" Suddenly Oogami shout at the depressed Kohran because he cannot keep seeing she keep blaming to herself.
"Oogami...han..." Kohran glares at her captain.
"Look! It is not everyone's fault for that battle. If there is, it will be me to be blamed! Not you, or anyone of you but me! Besides, even we lose in that fight, but if you keep depressing yourself, then you are totally lose, not only physical, but spiritual as well!" Kohran surprised to hear Oogami's word.
"Now, self-confidence is more important than everything for you. So please, Kohran, don't blame yourself anymore, just think that it is time for those "children" to rest for a while, so as you, okay?" Oogami try to advice and encourage Kohran as best as he can.
"You are right, Oogami-han. Defeat is defeat, but I still can move on and improve, there is a quote: 'anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.' So, may be I can get something better from this failure." Kohran reply Oogami, as she wiped away her tears and stopped crying.
"That's right, Kohran, This is the Kohran I know." Oogami lower his voice tone and glad that Kohran accept his advice.
"Thank you very much Oogami-han, I feel better after talk with you. Now, time to work out, there is still a lot to be done." As Kohran finished her words, she walked back into the garage.
"Glad to have you back, Kohran."
Author's Note:
Greetings, everyone! Shirogami here and I would like to thank you all for keep reading this story.
With the reason of break the paragraphs for scenario and dialogues, you might find the length of my story's chapters is different. I will beg for forgiveness if it looks weird and troublesome but I promise that it is for the good flow of the story.
Next chapter is up soon, please R&R, Thank you.