Hello again people! Here I am with seventh chapter. Took a while to write it, but with all these holydays and all…

Now, some talk with those who wrote a review.

Imperial-samaB, Telron, New Universe Returns, xghosthunter115, King of Plot Bunnies, Zeus795: Many thanks people, here's an update, sorry that it took almost two months…

Guest: Just wait for next chapter, Ichika himself will explain all about Akatsubaki. And yes, of course Ichika won't even think about sacrificing himself.

Cloud Narukami: I'd call it 'limited harem'.

LabMember009Isaac, that is very possible, yes.


Chapter VII – Realizer

"Sorry for asking you to help me…" Blonde girl with slightly curly hair said.

"Don't worry," Replied a guy who was walking beside her.

Under the red sunset, Ichika and Charlotte were walking together through the corridor. Both of them were carrying the itinerary information for the seaside school that was to be held this month.

"But... is this really alright? You're supposed to go with Cecilia and the rest, right?" Girl asked uncertainly.

"It's alright. It's pointless for me to go if Charlotte's not going," Ichika replied casually.

"Huh?!" Her eyes widened in surprise as she heard the unexpected answer.

"Well, how should I say this. Even if it's just giving out pamphlets, I still prefer to do it with the one I like," Saying that, Ichika's face blushed somewhat. That didn't seem to look like the color of the sunset, and that was so unlike Ichika.

"Ichika..."

"Charlotte..."

On the corridor where they were standing on, both of them were looking at each other in the eyes. At this point, silence is golden. In this orange scene, the two shadows overlap…

"Ah?!" Blonde yelped as Ichika suddenly grabbed her by armpits and lifted up as if she weights nothing. Without saying anything, he made Charlotte sit on nearest windowsill, and, without any warning, untied ribbon on her neck and began to unbutton her dress. "Ah! Ichika, wait! What are you doing?!"

"I guess it's pretty obvious what am I doing," He replied as that merciless expression glinted in his eyes, "You've got a magnificent body, and I want to explore it."

"No! You can't!" She tried to resist, but resistance was so week that it was obvious that her hands doesn't obey her – seemingly her body desperately wanted to be explored. At this moment, Ichika's right arm slipped under her dress, right into her bra and his fingertips touched Charlotte's left nipple. "AH! Ichika! Stop! Not here! What if someone sees us?!"

"Well, I guess in that case you'll be excited over the limit," He replied casually. "You can tell me whatever you like, but at least don't lie to yourself – you're a pervert, and being seen while doing something shameful is your wildest dream…" As he said that he pinched her nipple.

"AH! No! I'm not… Ah?! What?… That's… weird?"

Charlotte looked around to confirm. She had spaced out. She was in her own first-year dorm room in I.S. Academy. It was 6:30 in the morning, July 2nd. While she was still a little drowsy, Charlotte blinked twice, and finally grasped the current situation. Her heart was racing like crazy, images in her conscious were still very bright, but… "It was just a dream..." *Siiiggghhh...* She sighed deeply, so deep that it reached 20 000 feet below sea level, and it was hard to say – was it sigh of relief or sigh of regret. But no matter what, she continued to cling onto to remnants of her dream, obviously she was unwilling to give it up.

Orimura Ichika… These two words were causing extremely contradictive feelings in Charlotte's head (and chest). "That engeance diabolique!" [Fr: Devil's spawn] After all that encouraging talking, he abandoned her at the most critical moment! Left her alone to a pack of she-wolves, which almost torn her to shreds! And didn't even apologize after that! Right now, Charlotte was pretty sure that she hates him. 'But why then… I keep dreaming about him?!'

Charlotte's face blushed heavily. As her consciousness started to clear, she began to feel embarrassed about the dream, very embarrassed… She looked down on her breast, covered with the nightwear. Despite it was just a dream, she still could feel Ichika's fingers on her nipple. She just couldn't help it – blonde closed her eyes and began to imagine the continuation of her dream. Of course, no one could blame a girl of her age for having sexual fantasies, and her wildest dream was to be caught by some third-party people in the middle of an intimate intercourse.

"What have you done to me?!" She exclaimed angrily as she turned towards her roommate's bed. Maybe she had that fantasy before she met Ichika, but he definitely was the one who made her imagination run wild. Too bad no one could hear her indignation right now. Ever since the moment she officially went from Charles Dunois to her actual gender and identity of Charlotte Dunois, she was given her own room, and now she was living alone, she didn't get another roommate, either.

That, however, wasn't the only case… Even if she still would've been Ichika's roommate, that neighboring bad still would be unoccupied. In fact, that morning, when she disclosed her real identity to everyone, that was the last moment she saw Ichika in person. Of course, after an almost hour-long quarrel, the last thing she wanted was to see Ichika, who 'betrayed' her. When she finally arrived to arena to watch some matches (that day was dedicated to 3rd grade students first round), she actually saw Ichika inside VIP lodge, he was sitting beside some man of European appearance, she couldn't see clearly from afar, but he definitely was high ranked military representative, according to his uniform. However, Ichika left before all the matches were concluded.

And when Charlotte finally gathered her thoughts and came to Ichika to tell him everything she was thinking about him and his actions, she only found his room locked up tight, and no one could tell her where he is (she wasn't the only one who came to talk with him).

Next morning, he wasn't attending HRS, and Maya Yamada seemed to be almost as oblivious of his whereabouts as other girls. Only thing she knew that Ichika got some sort of an assignment and he won't be attending school until the end of the month. Of course, his elder sister probably knew more, but she was very busy with the tournament, so no one dared to bother her.

But June has ended, and interdivision tournament along with it. Starting today, school life should return to normal. Moreover, Orimura sensei herself will conduct today's homeroom session, so even Ichika won't dare to not attend it without a good reason. And if he actually has a good reason, at least they can ask Chifuyu about it… maybe.

But there's still almost two hours until HRS, so Charlotte decided that she could sleep a bit more. 'Since it's rare to have a dream, I won't mind having some more erotic content in it… Wha… What am I thinking?!" Charlotte covered the top of her head with the blanket, as if trying to hide her rapidly blushing face, and finally calm her crazily beating heart down.


Class 1-1. Prep bell rang about a minute ago. There are still four minutes until class, but since it was Chifuyu's HRS, almost all students were already here, even Laura Bodewig, who was officially discharged yesterday. She still hadn't recovered completely, but she already could walk without crutches. And, despite official bell hasn't rung yet, the demonic teacher also was already in the classroom. Only few people were still missing – Maya Yamada, Charlotte Dunois, Cecilia Alcott, Shinonono Houki and Orimura Ichika… oh, speak of the devil.

As if nothing happened, Orimura Ichika walked into the classroom. Entire class immediately went silent. "And where have you been?" Chifuyu asked sternly as she turned to her brother. For a moment, someone could assume that she also wasn't aware of where he was for more than a week, but of course that wasn't the case. She just wanted to know why he came so late to her class.

"I've just arrived, wanted to drop my stuff into my room before the class," Ichika replied casually. "There is still three minutes until official bell, I'm not late," He added, as he summoned his I.S. timer and showed it to Chifuyu.

*Sigh* She let out a sigh, her brother didn't change a bit – never late, but never comes beforehand either. Still, Chifuyu had no reason to scold him. "Alright, take your seat…" She nodded towards Ichika's desk, but before he could make a step she asked again, "By the way, you didn't forget, did you?" Her tone changed a bit – definitely that was something personal.

"Sensei, my memory is perfect," Ichika replied, as he narrowed his eyes a bit, as if such a question was insulting, "The piece from latest Andrés Sardá collection, I chose specifi…" Ichika couldn't finish his self-praising sentence as Charlotte Dunois literally flew into the classroom. She used a partial deployment of her personal I.S., the Raphael Revive Custom II, which was basically materializing the parts on the legs, to allow thrust, and on the back, to allow flight. Also, she deployed her arms, so she was able to carry passengers, which were Houki and Cecilia.

"Fiew! We made it…" Charlotte exclaimed with relief, but that was before she realized in front of who she's standing. The homeroom teacher of class 1-1, Orimura Chifuyu, Ichika's elder sister and the ex-representative of Japan in the I.S. global tournament. She was also a winner of the overall and close ranged categories in the first I.S. tournament, and she's a teacher who's still as strong as a demon even without any equipment. Ichika glanced at Charlotte's face, and this was the first time he saw her face turn blue like that, she wasn't that scared when he left her alone to deal with the angry classmates.

"Oh? It's been tough on you," Chifuyu said with that smile that could freeze an erupting volcano. As much as Ichika could assume – they were sitting in cafeteria, most likely discussing him, and lost the track of time, so Charlotte decided to use her I.S. for a shortcut to not be late. "This school is established as an institute to develop I.S. pilots, so this place isn't affiliated to any other country or is it affected by external powers... however…" *BAM!* The attack of the attendance book sounded as loud as ever. "You are not allowed to deploy I.S. without official permission, even if you're in school. Do you understand me?"

"Ye…Yes... I'm sorry..." Charlotte mumbled, she was almost crying. Cecilia and Houki were standing beside French girl, staring into the floor.

To think that the honor student Charlotte would actually do something that would break the rules. This seems to have left quite the impression on the other classmates as everyone just remained dumbstruck. On a side note, Ichika retreated to his seat, he had nothing to do with that situation.

"Dunois, Alcott, Shinonono, after school, stay behind to clean the classroom. If there's a second time, I'll make all three of you to write a letter of reflection and live in the special classroom, am I clear?" Chifuyu announced. Black panther and three cornered roedeers, here we go again.

"Yes..." All three headed to their seats with dejected mood. Being scolded by the devil, tough luck. However, that what just happened to Charlotte and others distracted that unhealthy attention of entire class, which was directed at Ichika. That is understandable though, in the end, he simply disappeared, without explaining anything to anyone, for more than a week. Still, there are no doubts – Charlotte, Houki and Cecilia have a lot of things to say about it, and Rin as well, she just couldn't dare to visit class 1-1 while Chifuyu was there.

Ignoring the occasion, the bell rung, and HRS started.

"We'll be having an ordinary lesson today. Though all of you are I.S. Academy students, all of you are still High School students. Don't fail!" Homeroom teacher declared. That's right. Though there was less lesson time, I.S. Academy students still have to learn ordinary subjects, like mathematic, history, etc. These subjects aren't tested in mid-term, but they are tested at the end of the term. If student fails, she will have to spend the entire summer vacation in remedials, and that's the only outcome every girl wants to avoid at all costs.

"Also, from the next week onwards, it will be the special school trip practical lesson time. Everyone is reminded not to forget your items. We will be leaving school for three days, so remember not to play too much during your free time," Sensei added.

Yeah, that's right, the special school trip – practical lesson time in early July, the seaside school that going to last 3 days. The first day is basically free and easy. Of course, because entire 1st grade is going to the seaside, these girls in their youth of teenage years were already excited since last week. Ichika, by the way, had different opinion about that trip.

"Then, that'll be the end of HRS. Everyone's to study seriously today," Chifuyu instructed.

"Excuse me, Orimura-sensei. Is Yamada-sensei on leave?" The good student in class, Tagatsuki Shizune raised an obvious question. To be honest, Ichika had no idea how this girl could use that information, as he couldn't care less where Maya Yamada is – either she just overslept or got bothered by something else, that's none of his busyness.

"Yamada-sensei went ahead to check the place for our field trip, so she won't be here today. Thus, I'm taking over Yamada-sensei's duties for today," Chifuyu answered the question emotionlessly.

"Huuh, Yama-chan went to the seaside already? That's so cool~!"

"That's sneaky! She should have brought me along!"

"Ah~ Is she swimming? She must be swimming~!"

As expected of the girls in their teenage years. Once there's something, they can make a ruckus out of it. Chifuyu found it irritating as she heightened her voice, "Ahh, stop making a big commotion out of everything, it's irritating! Yamada-sensei went to work, not to play!"

"Yes!" The girls in class answered in unison. Such amazing teamwork…

"Now, prepare for the next lesson," She ordered, "Those of you who already passed the final exams may be free."

Unlike Chifuyu's previous phrase (about Maya's whereabouts), that what she said right now didn't cause a ruckus. In contrary, class became dead-silent for a few moments. Since she said that… does it mean that someone already passed the finals?! High school final exams?! Chifuyu didn't care as she already opened the classroom's door with intention to leave. As if giving a hint on who might be the one who passed finals, Ichika stood up from his seat and followed his sister, with obvious intention to leave as well.

And just as class was ready to explode with squeals (i.e. discussion about Ichika, his sudden return, speculations about where he was, and news about that he already passed finals), Ichika's voice sounded in corridor. "Sensei, about that field trip, I really thi…"

"No," Deep voice of his sister interrupted him. "You're going. You may complain to whoever you want – principal, even minister of defense, you're personal I.S. owner and that's your duty to participate in practical lessons, and you will be participating, you can take my word on that, young man." Leaving no place for objections, Chifuyu left, as knock of her high heels could be heard throughout corridor. But that wasn't all…

BOOM! Entire class flinched as Ichika (seemingly) smashed his fist into the wall. "So, you wish to waste my time that badly? I hope you won't regret this…" Ichika complained aloud as his recessive footsteps could be heard. Completely addled, class finally exploded with ruckus.


Same day, 7 PM. Charlotte, Cecilia and Houki just finished the class cleaning. In the meantime, Rin somehow managed to find out that, despite all arenas officially were closed for reconstruction after the tournament, Ichika secured the right to use 5th arena this evening. 5th arena was used only for semi-final and final matches, so it was much less damaged than others, but still.

In any case, all four girls now were heading to aforementioned arena. Yes, Charlotte included. Of course, right after she disclosed her true identity she was blamed with all mortal sins, but after almost an hour of quarrelling, other girls realized that she's the same 'victim' of 'one-sided love' as they are, so, word after word, she was accepted into the 'club' of Ichika's wanna-be-girlfriends.

As they were walking through arena's preparation room, they suddenly heard several explosions in rapid succession. That whistling sound of supersonic blastwaves couldn't be mistaken – it was Ichika's plasma weaponry. Girls hastened their steps.

As they came out from the hangar doors, they saw Ichika, with his I.S. deployed, in the middle of the field, holding two weapons that girls never saw before, he was shooting at holographic targets. Those two guns could be roughly described as assault rifles with bullpup composition, but, like other Ichika's weapons they had that explicit robotic design, with aggressive angular shapes and glowing, half-transparent parts.

"Oh, you're ahead of schedule," Ichika said as he noticed four girls heading his way. All four girls were 'wearing' displeased and/or angry face expressions, but that was understandable – right now, in girls' eyes, he was the most horrible sinner in the world. He just vanished, without saying a word to any of them, for almost a week. Because of him Cecilia, Houki and Charlotte were scolded by his devilish sister this morning (they were late because they lost the track of time discussing his absence), and now that situation with final exams. And again, he said nothing, just left the classroom! And what was that arguing about him not willing to go to seaside training camp?!

But four angry and displeased girls were not enough to break Ichika's attitude. As they were approaching, he continued to do what he was doing, as he shot another burst from both rifles.

"Ichika!" Houki decided to take initiative, "Don't you want to tell us something?!"

"Not really," Ichika replied indifferently. *Sigh* "But alright," He sighed, "If you want to know something specific, you can ask." Seemingly, he decided that it will be much faster to simply give them what they want and then continue his work.

"Where you been?!" Rin demanded an answer.

"Yes, and how could you just leave without telling us anything?!" Cecilia also couldn't stay silent.

"I was in California," Ichika replied simply.

"Where?!" All four asked in unison, but Ichika was pretty sure that they heard him quite well, so he just continued:

"There was a joint military exercise with US Navy. As you know, despite development of I.S. turned military doctrines of most countries upside down, due to limited amount of I.S. units, governments still have to keep their conventional military departments, just in case. As a personal I.S. owner and naval officer, I got a special invitation to participate, you probably saw me talking to US admiral just before I left," Ichika explained, at the same time adjusting one of his twin plasma assault rifles. "And since exercises already begun, I had to leave in hurry, though, you should've guessed that my sister should be aware about my whereabouts, you could just ask her. Or now not only Rin but all of you are enveloped with that primordial fear of Chifuyu?"

In reply, he only heard some indecipherable bubbling, so Ichika continued to explain, "However, it appeared that I.S. role was just an observation, and for one day only, the rest of the time I only had to participate in morning and evening conferences. In the matter of fact, all that assignment actually was a week-long waste of time, which I couldn't avoid, because such time-wasting events is the shortest way to promotion… damn bureaucrats…" Ichika said scornfully. "Anyway, to make that 'assignment' not a complete waste of time, I used my free time to pass Academy's final exams in absentia, so to speak, excluding I.S. related disciplines."

Girls took a few minutes to stomach that flow of information. "Wait, you just… just decided to pass final exams and did it, just like that?" Houki finally asked, she sounded like she just couldn't believe. Other girls were looking at Ichika with pretty weird face expressions.

"And why are you sound so surprised," Ichika asked, as if that question was offensive, though, he of course wasn't offended at all. "I could pass middle school, high school and university final exams whilst I was in elementary school… I could write a doctoral dissertation like… eight years ago. I simply chose to not do so. Back then, attending those lessons wasn't an issue – I could do whatever I like during those days, without too much of unneeded attention. But situation has changed when it appeared that I can pilot an I.S. – I got access to pretty vast number of resources, both scientific and engineering, so now attending those useless lessons became a time waste, there are much more important things to do. And since principal insisted that we should maintain formalities, I did just that," Ichika explained. Of course, in fact it only took about 20 minutes, and Ichika got 100/100 everywhere.

Girls were staring at Ichika as if all four of them lapsed into idiocy. No, everyone knew that Ichika is a true prodigy, and none of them ever doubted that, with all that advanced plasma weaponry and all, but seemingly only now, when it was applied to some trivial and socially recognizable thing as school exams, they began to comprehend the true meaning of this. Houki suddenly felt some emptiness in her chest… She was well familiar with that feeling – hopeless inferiority, the same she felt when her own elder sister, Tabane, was around. She was just like Ichika, she could write a doctoral dissertation when she was seven years old, and she also was just fooling around, attending school together with Chifuyu. Only difference was that Tabane was always gaining a lot of attention…

Other three girls had approximately the same feelings, let alone irritation about elder sister, which none of them had… That guy, he just woke up and decided – 'I think I have to pass final exams', as if it was a fleeting whim, like 'I'll drink some red tea instead of a black tea this morning'.

"Is that all?" Ichika broke the silence, "If so, I'd like to continue testing, by the way, this is Anguish…" He nodded at rifle with Ivory-white frame "…and Despair…" He nodded at rifle with carbon-black frame, "My new twin weapons, which I made in replacement for my twin pistols." Rifles have higher accuracy, plasma charges energy and velocity, and much higher rate of fire.

Needless to say – girls have lost their momentum. They came here angry, with intention to sort things out, but now they were confused and depressed. "Ichika-san…" Seemingly, only Cecilia was still in mood to ask anything, "…what was that arguing this morning about training camp?"

Ichika sighed, "Don't worry about that. I don't know what exactly she's trying to achieve, dragging me into this, but sometimes my sister can be a real pain in the ass. I will be participating in that 'seaside training camp', those three days just not worthy enough to fight over. Now, if you excuse me…" Ichika raised his weapons as new set of holographic targets appeared in the air.


July 3rd, 1:58 AM

About 2 AM. Ichika woke up. He had very keen sense of danger, which immediately woke him up, because someone 'infiltrated' his room. Light of half-developed moon, together with Ichika's eyes special ability was more than enough to distinguish the 'infiltrator'. Those long silver hair… eyes of different color – one red and one golden… petite but cute body like of a french doll… no doubts, it's Laura Bodewig.

Ichika grabbed his laser pistol, which he always kept beneath his pillow, after his abduction he developed that 'healthy paranoia'. By the way, that was the very same pistol that Tabane presented to him almost twelve years ago. Of course, it was heavily redesigned and upgraded, but still… And now Ichika held it in his left hand, because, well, last time he saw Laura he crippled her and tried to kill, so now he couldn't be sure about her intentions… besides, despite late hour she was dressed into her I.S. academy uniform. However…

Silver haired girl silently walked through anteroom, and approached the unoccupied bed. And then she began to do something that even Ichika couldn't expect. She sat on bed and took off her boots and socks. Untied her blue ribbon, and then took of her shirt. Then, as if her previous actions weren't weird enough, she took of her pants and proceed to her underwear. By the way, she was taking off her clothes remarkably quickly, in one minute all her clothes, underwear included, were neatly placed on bed. Only thing she was still wearing was the black leg band on her right thigh – her I.S. in standby mode.

Ichika was no longer clenching to his gun, he even closed his eyes, continuing to pretend that he's sleeping. Laura could be weird, but probably even she won't undress just to pick a fight. Besides, the one doesn't need eyes at all to know what happened, as someone took away his blanket, and at the next moment someone small, cute and completely naked was lying beside Ichika on his bed.

Good thing was that, among many common traits, Orimura siblings weren't sharing the habit to sleep naked. Unlike his sister, who only could sleep peacefully when completely undressed, Ichika prefers to sleep wearing flannelette pajamas. Still, situation was weird enough already. Ichika felt that two small and unexpectedly gentle hands grabbed his right arm as Laura pressed it to herself. Through the sleeve of his nightwear Ichika could more or less sense her breasts. They weren't big, but still bigger than Rin's (a confident B-size), and pretty soft.

Honestly, confusing Ichika wasn't an easy task, but Laura managed to do so. After their first meeting, after all Laura's proclamations, after that what transpired between them on arena, Ichika could expect anything but that. A few minutes have passed. Since Laura was holding to Ichika's right, artificial arm, he couldn't feel her heart beating, but he could feel movements of her chest – her breathing became slower and steady – she fell asleep.

'And what is that supposed to mean?' Ichika asked himself. Honestly, he had pretty good understanding about what's going on in girls' heads, but this one was a bit more complicated case. However, right now Laura seemingly wasn't presenting any danger, and Ichika had nothing against naked girl in his bed, so he decided just to let her be, they can sort thing out at morning… besides, he has to get used to sleep with girls in the same bed, so he may as well start now.


*Chirp* *Chirp*

The sun that frantically tried to enter the room passed through the window, and the chirping of the sparrows seemed like they were prompting the room's inhabitants to get up. 'It's soft… Soft and squishy… Huh? What's this feeling? Do I have something smooth in my bed?... Ah, yes… Laura…' Ichika remembered the weird event, which transpired in his room in the middle of the night. She seemingly was still sleeping.

He looked at his I.S. clock. 7:34 AM. All I.S.-related lessons today will be afternoon, so Ichika had no reason to wake up early, he had his own plans for this noon. However, unlike him, Laura has to attend conventional lessons, so it's probably the time to wake her up, he still needs to know what's the meaning of all this.

Ichika flipped the blanket off, and what appears in front of him was Laura Bodewig, the German representative. As expected, nothing has changed since night – she was still completely naked, the flowing silver hair was scattered down her waist.

"Mn... what...? It's already morning...?" Seemingly, being suddenly exposed to slightly cool morning air did wake her up (Ichika's window was open).

"Yes," Ichika replied shortly, indifferently looking at a naked girl in front of him. "But we can discuss morning's weather later. What I really want to talk about is your reason to be in my bed, without clothes."

"You're asking such weird things. I heard that spouses should sleep in the same bed, and they have nothing to hide from each other," She answered as if it was quite obvious. "I heard that this manner of waking people up is very common in Japan, isn't it? It's said that engaged couples do this," She added, stretching her limbs.

Well, putting aside the fact that she definitely was gravely misinformed, Ichika still was quite surprised. 'Okay… I was pretty rough with her, yet I'm sure I didn't hit her head even once… Ah, wait… It's most likely onee-san's fault – she was training her for a year, I'm pretty sure – that poor girl got her share of head strikes…" Ichika thought "…and, probably, a share of onee-san's social misbehavior…' He looked at Laura again, "'Spouses?'"

"Yes," Laura nodded confidently. She was sitting on bed on her knees, with her thighs spread quite wide and her back straight, and she made no attempts to cover herself at all. "Bas… Basically, didn't you say that..."

'What what?' Ichika once again was surprised a bit, 'No, my memory's absolute, I'm pretty sure I haven't told her anything like that…'

"You told me to do anything as I want, but now... well, I want you..." She said honestly.

'Chifuyu… this is all your fault… what have you done to this poor girl?' Ichika sighed.

"What's wrong... ah, stop staring at me like that! I'll get really embarrassed," She said, even blushing a little, but again, she made no attempts to cover herself.

"No, you won't," Ichika shook his head. "Anyway, now you are naked and in my bed, so what's next?" However, Ichika got no chance to get the answer.

*Knock* *knock*.

"I-Ichika, are you in there? It's a rare chance, so how about we go out for a breakfast?" Houki's voice sounded from outside the room.

'Oh, come on…' Ichika thought in frustration, 'So out of time…' Naturally, you don't need the ability to see future to imagine what's going to happen within the next few minutes.

"Ichika? Are you still sleeping? I know that you don't need to attend morning lessons, but you'll miss breakfast if you don't wake up," Houki's voice again could be heard from outside. *Clank* Door's lock clanked.

"No, Houki, wait, don't come in!" Ichika tried to warn her.

"But door isn't locked. Why shouldn't I come in…" Houki's expression, movements and her entire body froze. As she pushed the door open and walked in, she saw a thoroughly naked Laura, sitting in front of Ichika on his bed.

"Because if you wouldn't come in, we could avoid an idiotic scene that's is going to happen right now…" Ichika sighed, perfectly knowing that it's too late…

As Houki realized what's she actually seeing, she finally lost it. "ICHIKA! WH-WHA-WHAT ARE YOU DOING, YOU BASTARD!" Probably it was just a bad coincidence, but recently Houki received a 370 years old katana, her family's relic, and since then she developed a habit to carry it with herself everywhere. *Shooh!* She drew out the aforementioned sword in one go, that was the result of training everyday, but to Ichika, who's being pointed at, this didn't seem like a joke.

"Houki, I'm warning you, no sudden moves," Ichika tried to warn her, but of course his warning fell on deaf ears.

"SHUT UP! HUMPH, JUST LET ME SLICE YOU UP! YOU'RE AN IDIOT! YOU BIG MORON!" Her instincts got better of her. Being unreasonable, Houki raised the blade above her head, getting into a position where she's about to slice Ichika's head in half. Unquestionably, that blade that's reflecting pure light is as serious as ever. If she'll hit him, it won't be just a light injury, "YOU-YOU-YOU BETTER ACCEPT PUNISHMENT NOW!"

*Clash!* Suddenly, the lightning has struck Houki's blade. Powerful electric discharge knocked sword out of her arms, scorching her palms. As if that event wasn't shocking enough (in all meanings), the most shocking thing was that lightning has been shot from Ichika's right palm. Metallic hexagonal emitters could be seen on Ichika's fingertips, thought they were quickly 'sucked' back into fingers and covered with 'skin'.

That 'event' put Houki's senses back in order. After all, she never saw people shooting lightning from their hands, aside from those famous movies, which Houki never watched. She instinctively made a step back. "Ah, so it seems that pain and fear are stronger than love and jealousy, after all," Ichika smiled, as Houki was looking at her scorched palms, and that was clearly a sadistic smile. "Though, that idiotic fight over 'my love' is becoming less and less amusing anyway." As he said that, Ichika abruptly jumped from his bed towards Houki, and in the next moment his right palm touched Houki's forehead. That happened within less than a second, the shocked girl never had a chance to do anything. And the moment Ichika touched Houki's head, her sight became defocused, face expression became thoughtless, and she stood, staring into an empty space.

"You've scorched your palms while cooking, and now you are heading to medical room to get treatment," Ichika said, looking straight into Houki's eyes. "Go," He added, removing his palm from Houki's head. Without saying anything, Houki obediently turned around and walked out of Ichika's room, her eyes still were empty and her movements were somehow mechanical.

"Oh Houki," Ichika sighed as he picked up her family's sword, "She always was so passionate, but never could direct her passion into the right direction, sorry for tautology…"

"What just happened?!" Laura asked, since the moment Ichika shot lightning at Houki, she was watching with her mouth wide open, still sitting on Ichika's bed, naked.

"Ah, that… During that incident, because of which Chifuyu became your 'personal instructor', I lost my arm," Ichika raised his right arm, as if to demonstrate, "But I honestly have no regrets about that. This one is artificial, which I constructed myself, and it's much better than the one I've lost. Stronger, almost indestructible, and it has two built-in devices, the electro-matrix emitters, which allows me to project electrical charges, and – my special pride – the device called 'realizer'. It can bleach one's mind, allowing me to fill the resulting gap with information of my choice… I'll show you…"

As Laura saw Ichika's smile, she realized that she's going to get the same treatment as Houki. Being well-trained soldier, Laura tried to escape, but escaping someone who can see the future wasn't an easy task, besides, since she was naked, her every muscle was observable, which allowed Ichika to predict her moves very precise. "No, let me go!" Laura screamed (and that scream sounded surprisingly girlish), but as Ichika caught her, she immediately remembered her martial arts spars with Chifuyu – when you're in her hold – there's no chance to break free from those steel claws. Right now it felt the same, the only difference was that 'steel claws' wasn't a metaphor. Though, Laura didn't get the chance to compare siblings' strength as Ichika's right palm touched her head and her mind turned off.

"Shhh… It's all right," Ichika softly whispered to Laura's ear. Just as it was with Houki, her sight became defocused, face expression became thoughtless, and she was senselessly staring into space. Ichika made Laura to lie on his bed, of course she didn't resist – her limbs were as of a rag-doll. "And what shall I do with you?" Ichika asked himself. He removed glove from his left hand, which was very rare occasion, since actually that glove was his I.S. in stand-by mode, yet… Probably the only setback of his artificial hand was that it couldn't feel anything, and usually it wasn't an issue at all, but right now he wanted to 'feel'…

Ichika placed his left palm on Laura's stomach. No matter what happened in her past – physically she was a teenage girl in her youth – her skin was soft, gentle, warm… and very sensitive. Even though her mind was bleached by realizer, her body trembled a little. Ichika's palm slipped down along her body, and his fingertips touched her labia. "Ah…" Girl let out a weak moan.

"Incredible…" Ichika noted to himself. "Even though she's under realizer's effect… Then maybe we really should do that… and much more than that, when you'll be conscious…" Ichika removed his hand off her body and put his glove back on. "But first thing first," He said, as Ichika covered Laura with blanked, and then snapped his fingers in front of her face.

"Oh…" Laura blinked. "Mn... what...? It's already morning...?" She looked at Ichika, who stood near her. Ichika's realizer wiped her memories, she forgot everything that transpired since she woke up about half an hour ago. For her it looked like she just woke up. After that, all what Ichika had to do is to play innocent, and he was very good at that…


As Laura rushed to cafeteria (Ichika allowed her to use his shower room), Ichika was alone again. He thoughtfully looked at his right arm, where his realizer was hidden. "Damn, stupid mollies…" Ichika swore. "Because of them I've used realizer three times within two weeks. If things continue to go that way, Chifuyu definitely going to become suspicious..." That was pretty serious – young girls losing their memories out of blue, and all those girls are linked to Ichika in one or another way.

Unlike all of his other technologies, Ichika never bragged about it, in contrary – he kept it hidden, even form his sister… no, especially from his sister, he had a feeling that Chifuyu won't approve the existence of device, which is capable of brainwashing and indoctrinating people.

In fact, the very development of this device was abnormal case, because it was created solely by Ichika, from nothing, despite he never was good at creating new stuff. His specialty was improving devices and ideas, created by others, yet, realizer was his own invention. Origins of this device are unknown…

Realizer allows Ichika to manipulate other person's mind, to a certain extent. At its current state of development, realizer is able to wipe recent memories (about an hour, at maximum), and then fill that memory gap with (pretty basic) information. Secondary function allows Ichika to program a certain course of actions directly into person's subconscious. But of course, there are lot of limitations too, at least for now. Actions that contradict person's very nature won't be executed – for example, Ichika can't grab a random person and turn him or her into a terrorist. For now, it only can amplify one's suppressed and/or hidden desires…


July 8th, 8:03 AM.

Sunday. As usual, Ichika was spending the weekend in his and Chifuyu's house. However, right now Ichika was at train station, waiting for a certain girl to arrive. Fact was, Chifuyu suddenly asked him to 'show the city' to her former trainee. Moreover, it wasn't sensei's order, but rather elder sister's request, which made refusal much harder. He could invent thousands of reasons, and 'hide' behind dozens of authority figures to avoid sensei's order, but saying 'no' to personal request of his beloved sister… In the end, Ichika decided that he can spend a couple of hours for Chifuyu's sake, though he couldn't understand the reason behind that request. Either Chifuyu was more affected to her former pupil… or that could be a sister's prank, as a revenge for almost seven years of Ichika's attempts to find her a boyfriend and marry off his sister…

In any case, train that's traveling back and forth between I.S. Academy and mainland has arrived. There were quite few passengers, so even without special eyes Ichika could easily spot silver-haired girl, dressed into pretty cute, short black dress with white frills (proving that Ichika's assumption that Laura most likely has no casual clothes at all was right, since he could swear that he already saw that dress somewhere…) 'Alright, quicker we do this, quicker I can get back to my own affairs,' Ichika decided, as he headed straight to German student.

"Ichika-san," Laura bowed slightly. Unlike Houki, Rin, Cecilia, Charlotte, and other girls who wanted to be Ichika's girlfriend, she possessed some amount of self-confidence, she could look into ichika's eyes longer than two seconds, for example.

"Fräulein Bodewig," Ichika greeted her, "You're looking good today." There were simple, formal words, but for some reason Laura blushed a little. Strange girl, during last week she appeared naked before Ichika several times, usually waiting for him in shower room when he was returning to his room after his practice and/or work in engineering. Ichika thought that this is amusing (and he didn't mind pretty, naked girl), and Laura didn't seem embarrassed, exposing herself to a guy. But now, when Ichika commented her looks, she blushed…

"Shall we?" He asked, offering his hand for Laura to take. And again… she wouldn't mind to sleep naked in Ichika's bed, but hesitated before taking his hand, and she blushed more. Still, now they began to walk towards downtown, and Ichika was holding small, gentle and warm girl's hand… too bad he couldn't feel any of that with his artificial hand.


Two figures were hidden in the shadows, noticing Ichika and Laura walking away from the station. As both of them passed the crossing with the green light on and disappeared into the crowd, those two figures used the opportunity to appear from the tress. One of them had a pair of lively ponytails, and the other one had elegant blond hair. In other words, they were Rin and Cecilia.

"...I say."

"...What is it?"

"...Well, does they are holding hands now?"

"...They are."

Even if they asked a hundred of people people, they would get a hundred of the same answers. Cecilia let out a spastic smile as she holds onto the PET bottle. *PACK!* The bottlecap flew up!

"Is that so? That happened, right. I didn't see it wrongly, and I wasn't daydreaming. So that happened… alright, let's kill him," Rin clenched her fist, and the I.S. was partially deployed on it as she got ready to battle. There were about 2 seconds before the Impact Cannons will be firing. Girls' naive feelings can be that terrifying.

"What are you two doing?!" The voice of the person behind them caught Rin and Cecilia off guard.

Standing over there was another 'rival in love', the one who managed to get closer to Ichika than all others (at least in other girls' opinion) – Charlotte Dunois.

"KYAH! When… why did you appear here?!" Rin frantically asked, quickly undeploying her I.S.

"What you mean?" Charlotte asked a bit surprised, "It's Sunday, tomorrow we're going to seaside camp!" Obviously that girl was here for shopping. On a side note, with her timely arrival Charlotte probably saved Rin as of course Ichika noticed both her and Cecilia, and if Rin would actually have shot, she wouldn't hit him but certainly would earn a severe punishment.

By the way, Rin and Cecilia actually arrived on the same train as Laura; when they noticed a girl who defeated them in 2vs1 battle, heading somewhere, wearing pretty cute casual clothes, they decided to follow her.

"So, you weren't here for Ichika?" Cecilia asked, looking at Charlotte with suspicious.

"What!? No!" Charlotte replied louder than needed, blushing slightly. "In fact, I asked Ichika… but he said he's busy…" Girl admitted with sigh. Actually, both Cecilia and Rin also asked Ichika, but they got the same reply.

"We're here because of that!" Rin hissed. "He's here with Laura! Look!" She pointed at a girl and a guy, which were already quite afar.

"Oh…" Charlotte's eyes suddenly got quite dark expression, so uncharacteristic for her, "So that's how it is…"

"Yes, and if you want to fight against an unknown enemy, we have to collect information first, right?!" Chinse girl exclaimed.

"So, we should tail them from behind and observe what state they're in, c'mon, they're getting away!" Cecilia urged others.

"I see. Let's do it," Charlotte didn't hesitate to agree.

Thus, under ridiculous reasons, they became the mysterious three stalkers.


Ignoring three 'followers', Ichika lead Laura for a short trip through city's key points. And, of course, she also noticed the three.

The I.S. Core Network is a unique network that links I.S. units together. I.S. was developed for space exploration, so even if they are a galaxy apart, they can accurately detect each other's position, so the network had the specialty of identifying each other's location.

Of course, to accurately detect each other's location, they have to get authorization. But even without it, one can tell roughly where they are. However, if one wants to avoid being detected by the Core Network, they can use what's called a stealth mode.

All three were using stealth mode, it was impossible to detect where they are. In other words, they're 'at a place where they don't want to let other people know where they are'. Still, Ichika possesses an Emperor's eye, it has nothing to do with I.S. Core Network. As for Laura… well, she also could tell that three certain I.S. users were 'following her from behind', her military training wasn't just for vainglory. Even as experienced pilot as Charlotte Dunois couldn't hide her presence. But, seemingly, three followers didn't bother Laura at all.


As Chifuyu asked – Ichika took Laura to several places in city that he considered most interesting and/or useful to a girl, who is going to live here for the next three years. On a side note – Laura wasn't too interesting companion, but Ichika wouldn't call her boring or annoying, either. Considering her very special upbringing and education, that wasn't bad at all. After he beat some sense into her (literally) she appeared to be quite nice…

Ichika and Laura returned to train station. "Now, if you need to buy something for our so-called 'training camp', I'd suggest to stop here," Ichika said as he and Laura were standing in front of shopping center 'Resonance' that links the station and the surrounding underground streets. It also has all sorts of restaurants, whether it's European, Chinese, or Japanese. The shops selling clothes have all sorts of top class international brands. Also, there're all sorts of entertainment facilities for all ages. It's been described as 'if you can't find it here, you can't possibly find it anywhere else'. It's that simple, or rather, it's extremely glamorous.

"Since we're here, I need to buy a few things before we depart," Ichika said. "You can buy everything you need here, and if you don't need anything, just look around here for a while," He suggested. As Ichika let her hand go, Laura gave him a strange look as if she missed his arm, but she didn't say anything, just nodded as Ichika headed away.


20 minutes later. Ichika bought all he needed (he had no bags though, just ordered delivery), and now he was heading back to meet Laura. When he was passing by the female swimsuit area, Ichika stopped for a moment and examined the assortment. For some reason, he nodded to himself with satisfaction.

"Over there," Unfamiliar female's voice called for someone. Ichika ignored it. "I'm calling you, man! Arrange the swimsuits here!" Now it was obvious that some woman, who Ichika never saw before, suddenly was talking to him.

Yes, that was it. Ten years after the introduction of I.S, the female superiority quickly spread throughout the world, and every country now treats women better. When guys walk down the streets, they may be ordered to do something by someone they don't know. But…

Ichika slowly turned around and looked at that woman. "Get lost. Vanish. Disappear…" Ichika had his own idea of how he should threat who.

"Oh, do you want to say that? It seems that you don't really understand your own circumstances," Arrogant smirk appeared on her face. After that, the female customer was intending to call the guards. Right now, this is a women superiority society, so if she says something like 'he suddenly exerted violence on me', Ichika will be deemed as guilty by default. That's how society is right now… Well, it would be like that if Ichika would've been a common man.

His eyes bursted with fiery flame, as he smiled with a smile that could freeze over the hell itself. Within a split second he used his emperor eyes to make sure that he's out of security cameras field of view, and in the next moment he was holding that woman's had with his right palm. "Listen carefully, you trash, I clearly understand my circumstances. I could wipe this trade center's floor with you and still walk away without any penalty. But that's not interesting, right? Just wait a bit, you will realize what is interesting…"


'Stupid bitch, she made me to waste my time on her either way,' Ichika was thinking, walking quickly towards the place where he was intending to meet Laura, he didn't want to be late. Though, he was almost there.

"Ichika," Another female's voice called for him, and this voice Ichika would recognized even in Antarctica – Chifuyu. Ichika stopped and turned towards an approaching elder sister. She was accompanied by Maya Yamada.

"Good morning, Ichika-san," Green haired sensei greeted him.

"You people should come out and say hello too, right?" Chifuyu asked, seemingly addressing the concrete pillar.

Some sort of a 'gulp' could be heard from behind it. And then, three people appeared from behind the pillar. They were Rin, Cecilia and Charlotte.

"We… We were intending to come out…" Rin mumbled.

"Tha… That's right! We were waiting for the right time!" Cecilia tried to keep her 'lady' demeanor.

Charlotte didn't say anything, she just came out, looking into the floor. Being pretty angered initially, while 'stalking' she came to realize that they're actually doing quite a shameful thing…

"You three have nothing better to do? I wonder?" Ichika looked at three with somehow scornful sight.

"Girls don't want guys to know their shopping plans!"

"Tha-That's right! Really, Ichika really has got so much nerve that it's mindboggling."

"For real? So tell me – your shopping plans include military-grade binoculars?" He wondered. "Or you just want your nicknames back? Am I right, Hetare Ichigō, Hetare Nigō, Hetare Sangō?" [Loser №1, Cecilia; Loser №2, Rin; Loser №3, Charlotte]

"What?! No! We just… I…" Charlotte stuttered as she was horrified be the perspective to be called like that during the summer field trip. Cecilia and Rin's faces went red immediately.

"Make your purchases and go back to academy," Chifuyu seemingly decided to cease this pointless blather. By the way, Ichika's elder sister had no bags, seemingly she was just accompanying Maya while she was making her final preparations.

"Ah, ah… I got something I forgot to buy! I'll go buy it! Umm, I don't know where it is. Rin-san, Alcott-san, please follow me! Dunois-san too!" All of a sudden, Maya exclaimed, and then headed away, dragging the three girls away without allowing any protests.

With that, only Chifuyu and Ichika were there.

"...Really, Yamada-sensei's way too sensitive," Elder sister sighed.

"That's not how I'd put it," Ichika shook his head.

"Oh, well… anyway, it's meaningless to say such words now. Ichika, where's Laura?" Chifuyu asked.

"Should be here somewhere, we agreed to meet here again, just about now," Ichika explained.

"So, what do you think of her? I know, she's really a problematic kid, but she's an empathetic one. She looks good as well," Elder sister said.

'Ah, so you finally decided that two can play this matchmaking game? Very well, I'm not going to lose…' This thought flashed through Ichika's mind. He was right about Chifuyu's intentions, after all… "Well, she's quite unusual, and very pretty, but that's to be expected, considering her special upbringing. Also, she looks cute in that dress she's wearing now, though that dress suspiciously looks like one that Tabane's mother bought for you when you were in 2nd class of middle school…"

'Oh, drat you and your perfect memory…' Chifuyu thought, thought her face reflected no emotions.

At this moment, all of a sudden, completely naked woman ran pass Ichika and his sister, with two guards chasing her. They ultimately failed, however, as woman made it to the floor's central hall and jumped into a fountain. Some people seemed embarrassed, but many other quickly took out their phones and began to shoot video. When guards finally caught her, she seemed confused and disoriented, despite that few seconds ago she seemed completely determined to make it to the fountain.

Yes, that was the very same woman, who tried to give order to Ichika. And crazy and shameful deed that she committed right now was her punishment. She was an arrogant bitch, but her life was trivial and boring, so even despite realizer's current limitations, making her to do something idiotic was quite possible.

"Now that was fun…" Ichika snorted, looking as indifferent as possible. There was already enough of strange things going on around him – last thing he would want is Chifuyu suspicions that he somehow connected to that what just happened… Luckily, elder sister didn't seem to be interested in this matter at all.


Laura didn't find hanging around the trade center to be an interesting occupation, so in the end she just decided to wait for Ichika's return. Accidentally, the appointed place was near the swimsuit area. 'Hmm… Speaking of which, I don't have a swimsuit myself…' Laura thought, as her sight accidentally fell on the aforementioned merchandise. 'But it doesn't matter anyway. I can just wear the normal school swimsuit,' Laura thought.

On a side note, the I.S. Academy designated swimsuits were of the endangered species, the sporty navy blue piece of art, the school one-piece swimsuit. There was even a nametag on it. While standing there, Laura already could hear two familiar voices that belong to Orimura siblings, but she decided to not interfere, continuing to look at swimsuits. 'Doesn't matter anyway. If I can swim, I just need to wear something right? That swimsuit's functionality's rather good, so there's no need to find a replacement.' Thinking about this, Laura stared at the swimsuits lined together with icy cold eyes, but at the next moment, her white skin immediately became red.

"…she's quite unusual, and very pretty…"

Because of Ichika's voice, of what he said, she suddenly turned around. Laura knows that he and Chifuyu were talking to each other, but, as it was said, she was intending to let them finish their talking, besides, she disliked eavesdropping on others, so she got hit quite hard.

"..."

The sudden words caused her face to be flushed red, her heart started beating like it was in 5th gear. The beating in her heart couldn't stop at all.

'You should praise me more,' Laura did say that to Ichika once or twice, but in fact, he never praised her before, so of course he never told her 'you're very pretty.' But after hearing such sudden words, it's no wonder that the calm Laura who was called the German Ice would panic.

'P…Pr…Pretty?! I'm, pretty... very pretty...' Ignoring the surroundings, Laura pressed her hand on her chest and closed her eyes. She gathered concentration that would normally be unrequired, and after misdialing a few times, she opened the I.S. private channel.


At the same time, in a German training facility, the I.S. special group 'Schwarzer Hase' [Black Hare] were training since the very morning, despite it was a Sunday (ther are 9 hours' time difference between Japan and EU). There were ten I.S. units in Germany, and this unit possesses three, which proved that they were the strongest squad.

The unit's seal was the 'Hare with an eyepatch'. With Laura as the leader, all the members had nanomachines inserted into their eye to improve I.S. computation. Though Laura's eyepatch was a function control, right now, all the members wore eyepatches to protect their eyes and for the pride of the unit.

"What are you doing!? You're late by thirty-seven seconds! Hurry up!" Growling angrily was the assistant commander, Clarissa Harfouch, 22 years old, the oldest in the squad. With so many members who were in their teenage years, she was a 'reliable big sis' who was strict and yet could involve everyone appropriately.

Her I.S. frame Schwarzer Zweig [Black Branch] received a private channel signal from what amounted to a distress call.

"Roger that. This is Lieutenant Clarissa Harfouch," Vice-commander replied.

"It… It's me..." Normally speaking, one has to report the name and rank, but as the other person's voice was wavering ridiculously, Clarissa inadvertently let out a stunned look.

"Commander Bodewig, have you encountered any difficulties?" She asked worriedly.

"Ah, ahh... there's-there's a major problem now..." Voice on the other side mumbled.

Listening to the tone of the speaker from the other side, Clarissa felt that things weren't that simple, and immediately used hand gestures to order 'end of training, emergency gathering'. "Do I need to bring the squad over?" Vice-commander asked.

"No, no need, there's no need for the squad. It's, it's not military-related problem, anyway..." Laura replied.

"What is that then?"

"Clarissa, well. Am… Am… Am I, look, pretty... or not?"

*Several seconds long silence*

"What?!" Clarissa's voice, which was rhythmically flat, just raised by half an octave. Facing the unknown sudden situation, the originally intense tone became what seemed to be dumbfounding words to them.

"I… Ichi… Ichika, he-he seemed to have said that, so..." Laura explained, if you can call that an explanation.

Hearing this, Clarissa immediately remembered. "Ahh, so it's Instructor Orimura's younger brother. Commander seems to have feelings for that guy."

"Uu, well... wha… what should I do, Clarissa? What should I do in this situation?"

"Well... let's understand the situation. Did he say that to you directly?"

"No, that's not it, I think he wouldn't expect me to be here..."

"That's great."

"Is… Is that so?"

"Yes, praising someone when she's not around, that's definitely not a lie."

"I… I see...!" Laura's voice, which was wavering up till now, seemed to bloom like a flower after hearing Clarissa's words.

On a side note, Clarissa had been chatting with her using the private channel and using a pen to pass the message to the other members at the same time. 'There's hope for the Commander and her crush,' She wrote.

"OOOHHHHH~!" More than 10 girls cried out. On a side note, Laura had a lot of interpersonal relationship problems with her squad, but after the VT incident last month, she started discussing with Clarissa that 'I have someone I like' thing, and all walls have vanished.


If there's a need to describe the situation, well, it was something like this:

"WHAAAT! THAT-THAT COMMANDER, LIKES, A... A GUY!?"

"I THOUGHT SHE REALLY LIKED INSTRUCTOR ORIMURA...!"

"Yeah, yeah, I thought so as well. But, well, that commander, we're talking about her now. She actually asked 'What should I do to a-attract a-a guy...?'!" Clarissa wrote another phrase.

"""KYAAAHHHH!"""

"So I seriously taught her! I told her that there's a culture of 'taking the person you like as your bride' in Japan!" …Aha, so source of Laura's misinformation has been localized… too bad even Ichika had no way of knowing it right now.

"AS EXPECTED OF THE VICE-COMMANDER! SHE'S REALLY FAMILIAR WITH JAPAN!"

"Of course, I didn't just read Japanese Shoujo manga just to put a front or because of curiosity!" Clarissa seemed to be quite proud of it…

"SO… SO COOL...!"

"I LOVE THIS COOL VICE-COMMANDER!"

"BUT I LIKE THE CUTE COMMANDER EVEN MORE!"

"THAT'S RIGHT! ME TOO! AHH, WHY COULDN'T WE LINK WITH HER WHEN SHE WAS IN THE COUNTRY!?"

"I REMEMBER THAT THEY COOK RED RICE IN JAPAN AT THIS TIME!"

"I guess so? It probably means that the blood is thicker than what, or something like that…" Clarissa assumed.

"AS EXPECTED OF JAPAN, IT'S REALLY EXCITING!"

"IT'S WORTHY OF ADMIRATION!"

"ALRIGHT, EVERYONE, THAT'S IT FOR TRAINING TODAY! LET'S HEAD TO THE ARMY CANTEEN AND COOK RED RICE TOGETHER!"

"""YES! VICE-COMMANDER!"""


It was that sort of situation. As expected of girls in their teenager years (a small group of them are 20+). Everyone would argue because of trivial matters, and would patch up because of trivial matters.

But returning to Laura, "An… And then, I… I'm at, that… that place where they're selling swimsuits now..."

"Oh, swimsuits! Oh yeah, you have a seaside school next week. What will you be wearing then, commander?" Clarissa wondered.

"U, un? The school issued swimsuit…" Laura replied uncertainly.

"ARE YOU STUPID!?" Vice-commander suddenly shouted, even making Laura to flinch. "I remember that the I.S. Academy has the old-fashioned sports swimsuit, so it isn't bad, or not... guys more or less would be aroused by it. But... that's…"

"That… That's...?" Laura forcefully swallows her saliva, waiting Clarissa to finish her phrase.

"THAT'S NOT GOING TO BREAK THROUGH THE LINE OF EROTISM!" Vice-commander's voice was burning with passion.

"Wha...?" Laura was even scared a bit by Clarissa's surge of enthusiasm.

"It's true that commander can't use voluptuous curves to trap men, but if you give up on this opportunity, you can't progress with 'that guy you have feelings for'!" Lieutenant proclaimed.

"The… Then... What should I do?" Bodewig stuttered.

"Fuu fuu, I have a secret weapon," As even her words were burning with passion, Clarissa let out a glint in her eye.


And that's it for chapter VII. See you soon people!