The weekend had passed by, leading to a new fresh school morning. Students made their way from their houses onto trains, buses or into their family member's vehicles to reach school on time. The three girls; Mako, Satsuki and Ryūko were walking as per their usual route. Mako was as talkative as usual discussing the various types of meat you could put in spring rolls. They approached the school, the gate flooded with an influx of students arriving at school, one who stood out however was clone Nui who appeared to be speaking to the empty space to her left. Nui noticed their approach raising her hand to greet them cheerfully. Ryūko sighed with irritation as she reluctantly returned her own wave towards Nui.

"Hello Nui." Satsuki added to their approach.

Nui was quick to bow much to the other's surprise, "Good morning Satsuki, Mako and Ryūko!"

Mako responded happily, "'Morning Nui!"

There was a light pause before Ryūko spoke up continuing, her voice akin to a groan, "So how did the mission go for you and the... other one?"

Nui replied awkwardly, not expecting a greeting from Ryūko let alone a question about the mission, "O-oh it... it was alright... we recovered all the stolen equipment with no loss of life and only a few injuries on the enemy side..."

Satsuki was the next to speak up intrigued by the scenario, "Did they ever figure out where the technology came from in the end?"

Nui pondered on whether to talk about this before deciding to confirm, "Er, yeah kinda, they traced the gear back to a Nudist beach storage house that was raided by an unknown group about a month ago."

Satsuki placed her hand to her chin in contemplation, "An unknown group you say? Do you think it was the Servants of the thread?"

Nui was about to continue explaining before realising Mako was dazzlingly bored and mostly confused from the confusion, "oh... We should probably get to class..."

Ryūko chuckled realising what was happening, "yeah we probably should."

And so they did, stopping at the lockers to change their shoes and grabbing whatever items they needed.

They began walking down the corridor, Ryūko speaking up as they walked, "How the hell can you stand having that chick around twenty four seven..."

As they continued walking down the corridor, they fail to notice Mako stopping mid corridor staring a wall seemingly entranced. She started to write something on the wall before speeding up to join the others.

They made their way into class, stopping to sit in their seats among the chattering of the class room.

Not too long after their home room teacher walked in and faced the class, "hello everyone, I hope you had a nice weekend, me? Well I'm sure you don't really care but I had to take care of my annoying nephew..."

The teacher continued drivelling on as Ryūko turned her head to clone Nui.

Seemingly in response clone Nui began shaking as a blood true Nui appeared to wave smugly at Ryūko, who immediately turned back to the front in irritation, "Ugh I don't know if I can ever get used to this..."

The teacher ceased drivelling and raised his voice to grab people's attentions, "Oh and that reminds me, you all had homework for yet another weekend, I don't make the rules but can you all have them ready for collection, thank you."

The room was filled with the sound of opening bags and shuffling of papers as the students reached into their bags to retrieve their homework.

However, Ryūko merely looked down at her desk as she panicked fiercely, her mind filled with nothing but "Oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap!"

Satsuki who sat to her side glared at Ryūko with a heavy intensity as she finished placing her own home work on her desk.

"Ryūko..." Satsuki uttered sternly.

Ryūko turned her head worriedly to meet Satsuki's gaze, "Yes sis...?"

Satsuki sharpened her gaze, "Where is your home work?"

Satsuki's question seemed to provoke even greater panic from Ryūko, "Now I have a good reason this time!"

Ryūko calls back to the previous night where she woke up next to the snoring Mako to the sound of grunts and squealing. Her eyes were met by guts the dog ravaging it's way through her school bag, chewing on her homework sheets.

"You've got to be joking..." Satsuki replied with an exasperated expression.

Ryūko responded with the same level of exasperation, "I wish I was..."

Satsuki in turn sighed with disappointment, "That's so cliché... it seems we will need to form some sort of arrangements for your homework routine..."

At the mention of this Ryūko turned to inner panic as she realised what this meant thinking to herself, "Oh! crap! Does that mean she's gonna do... her supervision again?"

Ryūko remembers a time when Satsuki, Mako and her did a group homework session, Satsuki completing her homework first of course then spending the rest of the time staring expectantly at Ryūko who sweated profusely as she went through each of the questions, "that was way too stressful... I can't go through that again, let alone on a weekly basis!"

Her train of thought however was interrupted by the teacher speaking up to grab the attention of the class.

And so class had began. Mako and Ryūko being almost routinely punished once again for their lack of home work by being forced to stand outside of the class for a period of time. Ryūko looked irritated while Mako appeared unbothered by the punishment, pulling out seemingly from between her breasts her stash of food and chowing down as Ryūko looked at her with a bemused smile. Their last class of the day was lead by a female teacher with an overbearing attitude wearing a tight grey dress bottom, and a smart grey suit jacket paired with a white shirt and red tie. Every part of her expressed her feminine charms including her chin, which was curved and well balanced bearing a black beauty spot on the right side. Her eyes shone behind thin glass wrapped with red frames and showed her ferocity in her strictness with her sharp glare that she would shoot at many of the misbehaving students. She wore her hair in a large dark purple shaded pony tail and held a yellow ruler she would frequently smack the black board with to grab the student's attention with, leading to many of the students to theorise that she's the dominatrix type. She taught maths, and while supposedly she was a rather decent teacher, many of the students ended up rather distracted.

"NUI!" she shouted suddenly however she failed in gaining the attention of clone Nui who stared sleepily out the window to her left.

The teacher suddenly picked up a piece of chalk and chucked it at a high speed. The chalk hit clone Nui on the head, much to the amusement of true Nui who was watching on the side lines. Her face then after the chalk assault was filled with the shock and confusion at the teacher's sudden attack.

Nui then got up out of her chair exclaiming "yes!?" Like a soldier that had just been mentioned by her commanding officer.

The teacher smacked the black board with her ruler, "Solve these quadratic equations! Right now!"

The ruler pointed at what she mentioned, which to Nui looked like a jumbled up mess of shapes and numbers, "Er.. um..."

Nui was lost, and the teacher recognised this immediately, "Its forty eight! Sit down you useless swine!"

Nui looked defeated as she fell back into her seat defeated.

Ryūko thought to herself, "She reminds me of someone..."

Clone Nui's face twisted in anguish as she began lost in thoughts, "She's right! I am a useless swine... At this rate I'm gonna fail everything... Maths, English, science even PE..."

Her train of thoughts was interrupted however by the teacher smacking her black board once again. "Now." All of the class' attention was on the teacher, "I hate to interrupt my own lesson, however we do have the annual sports day coming up in about a week's time."
This failed to spark up any interest from the class. The teacher continued, "I know not many of you are interested but today is the last day of sign ups for the girls running race and we do actually have two sign ups in this class, for that particular event."

This however did spark up the student's interests out of curiosity.

The teacher once more went on to say as she read off a piece paper she held our in front of her, "And those two are... Mako Mankanshoku, and Nui Harime."

The shock hit clone Nui immediately, who stood up once again letting out an audible "Eh?"

The teacher questioned her in her usual stern voice, "Is there a problem Nui?"

The teacher's gaze frightened Nui who jumped in her skin as soon as she caught the teacher's glare.

"Oh er... nothing..." Clone Nui dropped slowly down into her seat.

True Nui appeared by clone Nui's side, looking at her inquisitively, "Huh I don't remember seeing you sign up for the girl's running race."

Clone Nui's face was filled with panic as she looked nervously towards Satsuki, Mako and Ryūko. Mako looked back happily at Nui quietly waving at her naively.

The teacher continued speaking, "well I expect all of you to be cheering them on during the festival, understood?"

Before any of the students could reply however, the school bell began to ring signifying the end of the school day.

The students immediately began chattering away as they got out of their seats, the teacher attempting to speak up over the noise, "Don't forget you got home work again for this up coming Wednesday!"

Nui approached the group of three girls nervously, "Hey..."

Ryūko looked casually over to her, "Oh hey, didn't know you were signing up for the race."
Nui mumbled worriedly, "Um... Did any of you..."

Satsuki replied curiously to her worry, "Is something wrong Nui?"

Nui desperately tired to eek out her words to sound as non-accusatory as possible, "D-did... one of you... sign me up to the race?"

The scene was still, with an awkward silence, Ryūko and Satsuki stood confused by the very notion of clone Nui accusing someone, let alone them.

"Wha-" Ryūko was about to burst the tension.

However Mako suddenly interrupted, "Oh that? Yeah I did that."

This sudden admittance provoked a collective "HUH?!" From all the group.

Nui worriedly questioned her, "Wait what?! When did you do that?!"

Mako obliviously answering with, "Just today, Saw the post about it on the way to class."

Nui continued questioning, her panic coming through with every word. "B-but why would you do that?!"

Mako innocently answered with a smile, "well... I took a little peak at that note book about the things you wanted to do, and I noticed one of them said you wanted to get into athleticism, and I knew you would be way too nervous to do it on your own so when I saw the poster, I thought, maybe this would be good for you!"

Clone Nui fell speechless at this, while true Nui appeared by her side looking smugly towards clone Nui, "heh, she has a point y'know?" Clone Nui wordless looking towards true Nui with irritation.

Ryūko looked down at her sheets of homework before raising her eyes towards clone Nui and Mako who now conversed, Nui looking just as worried as before while Mako oozed with excitement.

Ryūko then unveiled a suspicious smile as she spoke up casually, "Hey Satsuki looks like Mako's gonna win that race huh?"

Satsuki uttered back just as casually, "I'm not so sure..."

Ryūko's smile widened unveiling teeth as she felt the spark of competition, "Oh really? You think someone else will win? Probably won't be Nui though, unless-"

Satsuki interrupted, "I know you're conniving something Ryūko, get on with it."

In accordance to Satsuki's calling out, Ryūko replied raising her hands to her shoulders, "OK OK, its... a bet."

Satsuki in return began to show interest with a simple, "Hm?"

Ryūko continued, "I bet that Mako will win, and you can prepare Nui, betting that she will win with your guidance."

Mako and Nui cautiously listened in on this bet.

Satsuki responded inquisitively, "And what are the stakes?"

Ryūko gestured towards her sheets of homework, "If I win then... You gotta do all my homework for the rest of the year, and if you win-"

Satsuki suddenly interrupted, "If I win then you will need to complete every one of your homework's under my supervision and keep each of your homework's safe to the day they are due and if you don't then... There will be someone else to supervise you."

Ryūko realised what she meant causing a moment of dread to appear on her face before wiping it away to reveal a determined smile, "Alright sounds good to me. We'll kick your ass, Satsuki kiryuin!"

In turn Satsuki looked back at her sister with her own look of strong determination, "Very well, I accept your challenge... Ryūko Matoi"

Mako commented almost intimidated from the exchange, "Did anyone else just get a strong feeling of nostalgia?"

Suddenly Ryūko turned to Mako, grabbing her hand and pulling her along, "Come on Mako, we need to get prepared!"

Mako uttering back in a vain attempt to calm the determined Ryūko, "Isn't the race in like a week though?"

As Ryūko and Mako left the room Satsuki turned to Nui who stood dumbstruck from the whole exchange, "Come Nui, we need to get you prepared as well."

Nui closed her remaining eye before gathering up her own determination to respond, "R-right!"

Both Satsuki and Nui made their way down the corridor towards the back of the school.

Nui spoke up worriedly, "But Sats- I mean lady Satsuki, I don't have any of the strength or speed of the other me, in fact I'm not really athletic at all..."

Satsuki continued walking stalwartly with Nui following closely behind, as Satsuki replied with confidence, "Yes I took that under consideration." She grabbed Nui's attention as she took her phone out of her pocket and continued to speak, "Have no fear, I'm going to call in... Reinforcements..."

The various clangs and bangs could be heard through out the metal working factory. A few men walked over passed a single large figure who stood working stalwartly.

One of the men spoke over to the figure, "Yo how goes the work Ira?"
The figure turned towards the men to reveal the tanned giant, Honnouji's shield, Ira Gamagōri. He wore a black long sleeved shirt with the sleeves rolled up underneath a heavy dark blue leather apron paired with matching dark blue thick rubber gloves. For trousers her wore a pair of light brown heavy duty khaki trousers.

He placed down welding equipment as he turned and pulled up his goggles from his large imposing eyes looking towards the men, "I'm fine thank you for your concern but I don't require any assistance."

The man looked confused as he replied, "N-no concern, just wondering how things are going, you know like small talk..."

Gamagōri responded with his heavy strict tone as he proceeded to turn back towards his work station, "There's no need for small talk in the work place at this time, since My break was about 3.5 hours ago."

The man sighed and shrugged along with the two other smiling amongst themselves as the man replied seemingly to no one, "Yep that's Ira for ya, Just like his old man..." The man's eyes lit up as he remembered something he needed to say, "Oh that's right, I almost forgot, there's a call in the office for ya, Someone called Satsuki."

Gamagōri almost immediately put down his gear, stepped away and proceeded towards the office, "Thank you for telling me, but please notify me of information like that sooner."

The men looked confused at Gamagōri going immediately from diligently working to going to take the call with the one man uttering a befuddled, "y-yeah sure..."

Gamagōri entered the office and picked up the phone, which sat in front of a tired old man doing crossword puzzles in his newspaper.

He placed the phone against his ear and spoke with a calm and respectful tone, "Lady Satsuki, it is an honour to hear from you again."

In return Satsuki soothing relaxed voice emanated from the phone's speaker, "Like wise Gamagōri, I hope my call isn't too much of an inconvenience."

Gamagōri replied with his usual strong determined professionalism, "nonsense, I am yours to command, nothing at your behest is an inconvenience."

Satsuki spoke back with a calm grateful smile, "I see, you have always been so reliable Ira, You have my gratitude for that, now I have a request for you, that will require you to come to my location-"

Gamagōri suddenly interrupted, "Understood, I'll be there immediately."

Satsuki sounded confused at Gamagōri's sudden declaration, "T-that isn't necessary and besides don't you have to finish work?"

Gamagōri spoke up once again, his voice confident and powerful, "My work is trivial and meaningless compared to any one of your requests Lady Satsuki."

Satsuki replied somewhat troubled by her subordinate's overwhelming loyalty, "I-I see, well then I order you to come here after you have finished work."

Gamagōri responded with closed eyes, retreating within his servitude, "As you wish, I'll see you soon Lady Satsuki and give the others my regards."

Satsuki smiled calmly, "You can do that yourself when you're here, farewell Gamagōri."

Satsuki hung up the phone before dialling another number into her phone. This call was going to make it's way into a large gym hall, several individuals dressed head to toe in kendo gear, each one practising kendo with a fellow partner also dressed in kendo gear, the clashes of their wooden blades rang out through the hall along with several yelps of the individuals conducting their strikes and getting hit with by their opponents. One of the players seemed to attack with exceedingly fast strikes with their opponent struggling to keep up with them.

A voice rings out from the skilful player "MEN" he did a swift strike a towards his opponents head, "DOU" He struck the man's shoulders, "KOTE!" And finally the man's legs.

The battle finishes with the opponent of the skilful player removing their helmet revealing a young man huffing with exhaustion, "damn... again... How the hell did you get so good..."

The skilful individual removed his helmet showing him to be none other than Uzu Sanageyama. His dark green locks of hair slipping out of his helmet shining in the light along with his sapphire eyes, a pang of sweat on his angled jaw, "Well a crap ton of training, then you find the strongest opponent you can find and fight them over and over and over, and try to learn and better yourself from every time you lose."

The young man pondered to himself before he replied, "Strongest huh... Hey Sanageyama wanna go another round?"

Uzu chuckled as he replied, "heh sure-" He interrupted himself as he noticed the ring tone of his phone beginning to echo from across the hall, "actually, I'm gonna take five, sounds like I got a call to take."

The young man seemed impressed as Uzu began walking away, "He heard that from across the hall...?"

Uzu made his way towards his bag situated by the gym door way. he reached inside and picked out his mobile phone. He checked the number and began bearing a grin as he proceeded to answer the call "Well its been a while lady Satsuki what do I owe the pleasure? You finally getting back to me about that rematch?"

Satsuki replied, her voice matching Uzu's smug satisfaction, "All in due time Sanageyama, remember Impatience is yet another battle that we must undergo. Instead I have a favour to ask of you."

Uzu spoke with the slightest tinge of intrigued surprise, "A favour huh?"

Satsuki returned in affirmation, "Yes, it will require you to come to my school, after which I'll let you know of the specific details, Is this alright for you?"

Uzu took the conditions into consideration for a moment before replying, "yeah sure I got some time to kill this evening, and hell, with this our rematch is practically guaranteed."

Satsuki chuckled slightly before responding, "Heh thank you Uzu..."

Satsuki once again hung up her phone before once more dialling numbers into the screen. A lecture room was empty with all but two individuals. One was a frowning troubled teacher standing next to a young man who sat at the teacher's main desk.

The teacher wiped the sweat off his brow as he spoke up gratefully to the young man "Thank you for all the help, I don't know what this academy would do with out you, Inumuta."

As the teacher said, the one and only Hōka Inumuta was the young man sitting at the teacher's desk, typing away on the teacher's laptop. He wore a dark blue turtle neck accompanied by a lighter blue pair of jeans, both of which matching his shining light blue hair and light blue shaded glasses.

His sharp jaw line and unflinching confident eyes was the same since he went to Honnōji academy. "No worries sir, although you must take care of your systems, you never know what nasty viruses it can catch."

The teacher grumbled nervously, "I truly don't know how it happened..." The scene was filled with the pressing of keys as Inumuta kept typing away, constantly shifting his index finger to the touch pad.

Suddenly however his confident smirk changes to a slightly surprised frown, "hm sir?..." his mention gained the teachers attention as he continued, "There appears to be some explicit materia-"

The teacher suddenly snatched the laptop off the desk, closing it and hugging the laptop against his chest, interrupting Inumuta.

He quietly mumbled to himself, "damn I thought I deleted everything..." before speaking up to Inumuta, "It must of been because of the hack! You know how it is..."

Upon hearing this Inumuta's subtle surprise changed to a despicable smile just before he responded, "I think we both know that isn't the case sir." The teachers terror in his face deepened as Inumuta prepared to continue, "You know I'm gonna have to report this."

The teacher turned to Inumuta, His terror mixing with shock, "Wh-what?!"

Inumuta stared right through the teacher, "That is... unless you were to give me some system time on the academy's central mainframe..."

The teacher's face now turned to hot anger, "Are you blackmailing me Inumuta?"

However Inumuta was as cold as ice, "what if I was?"

The teacher's anger then began to explode, "I could have you expelled for this!"

But his anger was refuted through Inumuta's calm response, "Now now lets be honest sir, with my academic record and reputation among the faculty if anyone is gonna be punished for talking about this, its you."

The teacher grumbled in his frustrated rage, "damn you... Fine! I'll get you that system time..."

Inumuta failed to hide his smug superiority behind his pleasant façade, "Excellent, pleasure doing business with you."

The teacher trying to suppress his anger made his way out of the room, "I won't forget this Inumuta..."

However Hōka simply replied, "I'm counting on it sir, I'm counting on it."

Inumuta stood up from the desk as the teacher exited the room. He was picking up his bag off the desk before he noticed the muffled sounds of his phone beginning to emanate from within his bag. he Zipped open the bag and pulled out his phone, his smile widened as he saw the number calling him.

Leaning comfortably against the desk he tapped the answer call icon on his phone's screen. "Lady Satsuki, its been a while since you've called, usually we talk online."

Satsuki spoke back, her voice once again calm and soothing, "well there are some things I prefer to talk about over a call rather than in the form of text. At any rate how are your studies going?"

Inumuta close his eyes as he replied with a relaxed demeanour "Ah they're going swimmingly, although this place is a little bellow my level, the tech they got is decent, but the courses aren't teaching me much I don't already know, I was thinking of dropping out and taking up a full position on Nudist beach, god knows they need it with the whole servants of the thread fiasco."
He changed his position to be more upright as he continued, "Speaking of, is that what this call is about?"

Satsuki responded casually, "Oh no nothing that urgent, I do have a request for you though, something that requires you in person, as in return-"

Inumuta spoke up interrupting Satsuki, "Don't worry about anything in return lady Satsuki, I may not be your direct subordinate anymore but you have done for me so much that I couldn't pay back for a life time."
Inumuta pushed up his glasses mischievously, "And besides, the should-be-dead Nui Harime is there... A paradoxical existence like hers should have all the data I could ever want and then some."

Satsuki soon returned with a calm content reply, "Well then it works out, as this request is regarding Nui."

Inumuta stood up from his leaning position with a little jump, "Perfect, I'll finish up here then make my way over to you."

Satsuki closed her eyes with a warm smile, "Thank you, Inumuta." Satsuki had hung up the phone before she turned around to Clone Nui, "Alright, we should be set, although we will be waiting a little while..."

Nui nodded nervously before speaking up, "Erm... Satsuki? was those people who I think they were?"

Satsuki replied strongly, "Indeed it was, you are about to meet the other three of the four strongest, bravest and smartest people I have ever met. Now... Nui?"

Nui almost jumped from the sudden change of the tension carried within Satsuki's statement, "Y-yes!?"

However Satsuki simply replied, "Remind me... Where's the nearest vending machine?"