"That match was crazy." Miho began. She and her friends were settling down for the night as Pravda was the only one left that they needed to face.

"Sure, was and we still have Pravda. Whatever strategy they have is going to make us worried. You see what Jatkosota had done to us, we had a narrow victory because of Memphis group causing havoc behind the enemy's lines and then taking out much of the enemy." Yukari added on to the fact that if Jatkosota was that bad, Pravda was going to be much worse.

"Well, we shouldn't fret over the results of that match and try getting some sleep, maybe we can pull off a win tomorrow, we don't know for certain." Saori tried her best to keep the group motivated on the matters that they could possibly win though the possibility of that was fifty-fifty. Miho yawned as she knew Saori was right.

"You're right. I'm going to hit the hay. See you in the morning." Miho responded. She was just too tired to continue the conversation. Hopefully a good night's rest will help her clear her mind. Miho then pulled the covers and fell asleep. Yukari entered the room minutes later to see Miho tossing and turning. It was clear something was off. She would normally be sleeping like a rock, but something was making her nervous. Yukari decided to read her behavior and she was quick to confirm one thing. It was Pravda.

"I guess Miporin is scared about the final match as of tomorrow." Yukari muttered to herself. She seemed to be nervous about it too, could Pravda have a cakewalk on through much like Jatkosota did beforehand. Yukari continued to think as she seemed too scared to speak about it. She just shut the light off and decided to go to sleep.


The next morning, Momo decided to come and visit for breakfast and to give a bit of a pep-talk to give the students some encouragement.

"Students of Ooarai, may I have your attention?" Momo began. The students turned to look Momo in the eyes. "Yes, thank you. So, I want to begin this meeting by saying that we're going to face a formidable school coming up and we had an easy match this first round and we nearly got taken out in the second round by Jatkosota so we don't know what Pravda is going to throw at us. If I know, it will be much worse than what we dealt with yesterday. So, I will say that there is a high chance of us losing this match." Momo decided to give her speech on the fact that victory was slim and the chance of taking the championship spot was next to nothing. Momo was betting on the fact that they were going to lose.

"We don't know what Pravda has done to get this high up to the spot?" Miho asked Yukari if she did any infiltration and information gathering, she had done the day before. Yukari began to think, she was wondering what happened as of yesterday's matches that can determine what exactly was happening.

"It's the layout of Pravda's team. It's one Dp-28 and the rest are submachine gunners. These sub machine guns have a high rate of fire and seventy-one round drum magazines, I bet they're going to be moving in swift to hit us hard and run off." Yukari told Miho about the team's layout. Miho nodded as she began to think.

"Okay then we're going to try to plan this. We're only going to react when Pravda decides to attack. We should try something I learned in Kuromorimine and that is formation. We're going to have to play around with several to keep Pravda distracted and hopefully we can catch them off guard." Miho responded. She was willing to lead but what was Pravda going to do was the question.

Miho was getting her team ready as she was looking at Pravda, she was determined to win but Momo's words were still reflecting in her head. The chance of not winning seemed high but Miho knew she needed to deal as much damage as she could. Dimitri was talking to Brook and Nonna about what was ahead.

"So, you want to see her after this match tonight?" Nonna asked Dimitri. Miho looked on as she was curious.

"Yes. I was digging around with Vladimir this morning and we managed to stumble upon a picture of a girl that looks a lot like her. He's sending me the picture later today so we can confirm that it is her. I wish you both good luck for the final match to come." Dimitri knew he didn't want to keep holding them up and decided to instead let them go.

"I'll promise nothing but a victory for Pravda." Brook replied. She hugged Dimitri as the girl knew she didn't want to let him down. Dimitri hugged her back.

"Make Katyusha proud." Dimitri made the simple request to have an excellent match. Brook nodded as the two of them released each other and began walking away. Miho was watching as this was the tipping point.

Pravda and Ooarai had got themselves into position and were waiting for the match to start. Pravda was in their spots as Nonna was chatting with Katyusha.

"He surely has a liking for her." Katyusha began. She was listening to what Dimitri was saying earlier.

"Yeah, they even danced a bit last night so I think what you said might be true. Also, from what I learned, he has a few loose ends that he wants to tie up with before we leave and head back to Japan." Nonna replied. The plan for Pravda was simple: "Nina." Nonna began.

"This is Nina, how can I help?" Nina asked Nonna.

"Okay Nina, your plan is simple, pin Ooarai down with your Dp-28 while Alina provides cover and ammunition that we've packed away in several record player shaped magazines, once you have them distracted, we'll hit and run constantly and keep harassing them until they have no balloons left." Nonna explained to Nina what she would be doing if they were going to win this match. They acted as bait and a distraction while they ran in and popped Ooarai's balloons while they had their backs turned.

"Okay I'll see what I can do Nonna." Nina replied. Dimitri then fired off the AA gun into the sky as it was the signal for the final match to begin.


•1&5 Ooarai Girls Academy vs Pravda Girls High School


Miho and the others were heading down the snowy trail. Their plans were like before. Adapt to what the enemy was going to throw at them. Miho was leading this formation while they continued down the snowy road. She turned to her rear and decided to get everyone into formation.

"Everyone, fall in behind me. Single file." Miho gave the order. The snowmobiles began falling in behind Miho. Watching from the brush however was some of Pravda's groups, they were spying on Ooarai to gather intel on them. They then drove off as they were going to give the news back to Ooarai.

"I feel like we're getting stalked." Momoga told Miho that she must've heard a noise that someone was following them in the forest.

"Well, we should drive slowly and keep our eyes peeled; they must be somewhere." Miho advised the group. They continued to slowly drive along the trail as they were being led into an ambush. Nina and Alina were waiting for Ooarai at the end of the trail while Alina was keeping the snowmobile running as Nina was preparing a DP-28 position so they could catch them off guard. Nina had dug down deep as she slung the light machine gun off of her and placed it down on the dugout. Alina was passing out the pan shaped magazines to Nina as she was going to need a few of them.

"See them yet?" Alina asked Nina if she spotted Ooarai.

"Nope, nothing yet." Nina responded. She grabbed one of the pan magazines and loaded it onto the machine gun. She pulled the bolt back and began looking down the sights once again. Miho was driving along the path as she spotted Pravda's red balloons on one of their snowmobiles.

"That's them but where are the students?" Miho asked, was Pravda leaving it out in the open so they could take the bait? "Everyone, follow behind me." Miho gave the order. She began to slowly drive closer and closer. Was Pravda making a trap for them? Miho was going to get her answer in a few moments. Nina was waiting anxiously for the precise moment to begin firing the machine gun. Nina licked her lips and adjusted her Ushanka.

"They're coming into range, permission to fire Katyusha?" Alina asked Katyusha for permission to shoot the machine gun.

"Permission granted." Katyusha replied. Alina nodded as she cocked her Tokarev pistol.

"Fire now Nina!" Alina shouted. Nina nodded as she began firing the DP-28 machine gun at the attackers. Miho and the others skid off to try avoiding the machine gun fire, but they end up piling onto each other in confusion. In the ensuing chaos, two balloons popped from Nina as she kept firing. Miho knew she needed to reorganize everyone.

"Yukari, get that machine gun working to see if we can take out Nina and Alina. Azusa, guard the rear from any attacks, Akebi, help Yukari out with the ammo. Nekota, Takako, guard the sides." Miho instructed. Yukari then laid her M/21 BAR down and began firing away at Nina's group the very moment her gun went click-click.

"Hey Alina! We're out! We're out!" Nina called out to her friend. Alina nodded and grabbed another pan magazine from the snow while Nina got the empty one off of it. Then they slapped a new one on together and Nina cocked the bolt, now firing directly at Yukari and Akebi. Akebi raised the rifle up and fired, popping one of Nina's balloons. Yukari reloaded as she wanted to keep Nina under pressure and their heads down. Alina popped her head out and fired two more pistol shots, but she failed to get more balloons popped.

"So far so good." Akebi told the group. Suddenly there was a noise coming from the forest and suddenly two snowmobiles appeared from nowhere in the forest. They were going to prepare for a sneak attack.

"Okay Brook, this is your chance, go in there and hit them as hard as possible. This is meant to attack the flanks." Nonna instructed her. Brook finished loading a drum magazine into her Papasha.

"Got it." Brook replied. They quickly closed the gap as Azusa spotted them. Brook and Nonna were dumping the deep magazines of their sub machine guns at the bunched-up group. Azusa fired the shotgun multiple times trying to hit the fast-moving targets However she was empty within seconds while the two girls kept firing away, they quickly disappeared into the forest as Azusa poked her head up. The run-by dealt a blow to them, Ooarai had about seven balloons left though some of their groups were still hanging onto a single balloon while Azusa only managed to pop one of Pravda's. Miho knew needed to pull back and regroup.

"Everyone, fall back, we're going to regroup by the lake." Miho ordered. Miho pulled out a smoke grenade and she prepared the withdrawal as Klara and Katyusha prepared to do their run. Miho pulled the pin to the grenade and tossed it into the air, the group turned and fled as Nina popped another balloon from Ooarai. The smoke grenade landed on the ground as smoke filled the area as Katyusha and Klara appeared from the sides and went in, spraying their guns. They found out they were firing at nothing as Ooarai had managed to slip under their noses.

"They've gotten away. We have to go after them." Katyusha decided to let everyone know what she had next. Nina and Alina were down to one last balloon and Brook had lost one balloon in her attack run. The smoke cleared to reveal that there was nobody and Ooarai was retreating.

"Right you are, we'll try getting on ahead of Ooarai through the woods." Nonna suggested. Nina and Alina went first as they were going to take the main route over. The others decided to traverse through the woods in order to get to Miho quickly and trap her before she had time to plan and regroup.

Miho and the others were down to the last bit of strength they had as Momo's words were reflecting back into her head; they were bound to lose. Miho decided if she was going to lose, she might as well take out as many groups with her to try having some impact. However, Pravda was right on Ooarai's heels and closing in fast.

"Stick together, we'll reach the lake and dig in. We don't know how much longer we'll be able to last." Miho gave the order that even at this strength, no one should be allowed to wander out all alone. Pravda meanwhile was right on their tails. Two pairs were heading out along the narrow paths to outflank and block the path right in front of Miho in order to trap her. Nina and Alina were following up along the rear as Alina was driving as fast as she could. Alina also had a similar plan to Nonna, but she wanted to get in front of them before Nonna was able to make the trap. The reason for this plan was the fact that Nina was riding backwards and holding her DP-28 in the opposite direction. This was going to be a spray tactic to get those riding out caught up.

"Don't know if this will succeed but it is worth it to try it out." Nina began, she didn't know how feasible this plan was going to turn out to be.

"It's worth trying it out though." Alina responded. She was willing to use every tactic in the book if it meant slowing Ooarai down. Alina then drove onto the main trail as Miho and the others were moving in on them. They managed to get ahead of them,

"Wait." Miho began. "Weren't they behind us?" Miho didn't know they must have snuck past her like that, and it seemed to be like magic.

"Believe so." Aya responded. Nina was holding one of the DP-28 bipod legs as a grip and she began firing away in bursts. She wanted to remain accurate while the enemy was chasing them.

"Everyone, loosen up the formation!" Miho shouted, one of her balloons popped as the group began splitting up. Shelby group had their last balloon popped as they weren't fast enough to evade. Miho was down to four balloons left. Miho drove faster and faster trying to catch up as Nina kept firing the DP-28 trying to eliminate the others. The remaining groups tried to dodge and distract Nina as they were firing their guns away. Miho then caught up to Nina as the Dp-28 pan magazine went empty.

"Drats, we need to reload!" Nina shouted with frustration. She tried to pull out her Tokarev TT-33 but she was too slow. Miho whipped out his pistol and fired three shots. Alina's group had been knocked out having lost their last balloon. The DP-28 crew came to a stop as the remaining groups sped on. Nonna meanwhile was not too far ahead as Brook's group appeared and decided to rush headfirst into the enemy group. She wanted to avenge Nina and Alina.

"Nina and Alina are out and you're launching an all-out attack?" Nonna asked Brook if that was the best decision she was going to make.

"Yes. We must avenge our fallen friends and keep fighting. Tell Katyusha and Klara to begin their next line of attacks. Ooarai is very weak at this point, so victory is almost certain." Brook responded. Her driver went up closer to Miho who spotted Brook as the former raised her Papasha and began spraying away at the group. Shiloh group was knocked out next as the remaining groups fired at Brook not before Oakley group was taken out within moments after Shiloh. Brook's two remaining balloons had popped as she was now out of the match. Azusa and Nekota looked at each other as they were the only ones left with one balloon. Suddenly, Katyusha and Klara came from the bushes driving perpendicular to the two remaining groups. Azusa and Nekota turned to face these threats, but they were too slow to react. Katyusha and Klara sprayed their Papasha's away as the two remaining balloons of Ooarai were popped.

"And the winner of the match is Pravda!" Ami shouted. The crowd went wild as Miho took off her helmet and sighed. Momo was right, they had lost. Nonna walked over to Miho as she wanted to speak to her.

"You did well in this match. You gave it everything you had." Nonna stuck her hand out for Miho and Miho grabbed it, giving a soft shake as in thank you.

"I wasn't expecting us to hold out the way you had in the attacks." Miho replied. She waited for what Nonna was going to say but Nonna was smiling as she was chatting with Miho.

"I wasn't expecting you to take out two of our groups either. You did pretty well today." Nonna turned and began walking away. "Maybe I'll see what you're really capable of in Sensha-Do when we meet again. Take care Miho." Nonna and the others walked away as Momo decided to contact them.

"Did we lose?" Momo asked Miho. Miho sighed with a smile.

"Yes Momo, we lost." Miho responded. Momo sighed. Now came the time to have the rest of the day to themselves. Miho's group began driving away. They had fulfilled Momo's wish of losing and they didn't feel proud, but they felt relieved that they lost. They didn't have to be number one.

"We're free!" Momo said at last. "We don't have to be slaves to stay at the top!" Anzu and Yuzu cheered on with excitement as they were happy.


A little while later, Pravda was being celebrated as the new champions. Dimitri was watching ahead as the ten students were celebrated. He wanted to speak to her about what he wanted to give to her when he turned his head to see Kay and Naomi talking in the background.

"She's probably not going to talk to me, especially with what happened. She might still be mad." Kay told Naomi; Brook wasn't going to reason for what she had done.

"If you will not talk to her, then you might as well have to talk with this gentleman over there that she has been flirting with. Maybe he has some answers." Naomi suggests Kay to talk to Dimitri to get everything sorted out. Kay walked over to Dimitri who was sitting on the bench. Dimitri looked back to what he wanted to do, gave her the music box and told her everything he knew. Kay then sat down next to him.

"Anything you want to talk about?" Dimitri asked Kay if there was something that they should talk about.

"It's your girlfriend, I think there is something I want to say. The problems we've had between us. I feel bad ever since we had that train ride up here and the fact that she went out of her way and took me out first in that match.

"Yeah, I noticed, and I asked Vladimir about it. When she was talking to me, there were no problems between us. What did you say to her that angered her to where she is?" Dimitri asked for Kay to retrace her steps and find out what it was that was making her mad.

"It happened sometime before when I found that someone was controlling her, and I helped some people with getting rid of a holy healer that I thought was a fraud. I was punished for not seeing her for a month and that month was up, so I asked her for a cuddle in bed. She never responded to me back and when I looked it up, she tossed her phone onto the ground almost as if she was ignoring me." Kay began telling Dimitri what exactly happened on her end and what resulted from her interactions.

"I think she wanted to be left alone. You're moving way too fast for her and if she says no. She means it. I've learned that from Peter, her older brother. Try being slow and gentle like myself, you can get a better response from her even if it means backing off from time to time. Try finding somewhere that you two can meet each other." Dimitri knew what was wrong with Kay. She was trying to do everything all at once and it was bothering Brook.

"Well, I guess I want to keep all of my friends close. I wanted to appear open and friendly to everyone." Kay tried her best to hide her embarrassment. It was clear something was at her own fault, and she didn't realize this.

"Well, everyone is different, and they react differently. Maybe if you promise that you will do something and keep that promise, then she would see you differently. I've been around everyone, and everyone acts differently, whether we don't get the facts, or they say that they don't affect us which is something I don't believe in any way. We should take a look in the mirror and try looking back and ask: How can I be a better person?" Dimitri gave some instructions to Kay if she finds herself somewhere like this. "You can't act one way and expect everyone to act the same way back to you."

"Then how do I act around people?" Kay asked. She was confused. She wanted to seem open and friendly without being a nuisance and pushing other people away.

"Simple, just be as down to earth as you can. Be honest about yourself. If the person says no, then they mean no." Dimitri suggested to Kay about how to approach people and what this would mean.

"Can I still take her with me to university?" Kay asked Dimitri.

"That is something I sadly can't answer for you. If Brook says no, leave her be, being persistent is only going to make her frustrated and she will lash out." Dimitri responded. It was best to let certain students be where they were and nothing else. Possibly the fact that certain students should be left alone.

"Okay I understand." Kay huffed. Brook came walking over after the cheering of the students who were more than happy to see Pravda win this time around. Dimitri stood up along with Kay as they were going to flag her down.

"Hey Brook, I was talking to Kay, and we've decided to agree on something, but I think you need your opinion on it: Whenever Kay comes along to hang out with you, I will supervise so nothing bad happens to you. Plus, I think you two have stuff to work on if you want to become better." Dimitri told them what they were going to work on. "Is that a deal?" He asked.

"Well… I say it is…" Brook seemed nervous, she didn't know what she was getting herself into.

"It's okay Brook, if you are nervous about something, I'll be here to help you I promise." Dimitri reassured her that if Kay was doing something she wasn't too comfortable with, she could always turn to him for support.

"I'm actually nervous about making this deal." Brook replied. Dimitri gently took her hand and stuck it out to the middle.

"Shake on it." Dimitri calmly told them. Kay got out her hand and shook Brook's eagerly. The two then retracted their hands and they pulled them away. "Okay good. Now we shouldn't have any more fights between the two of you?"

"Okay, you're clear." Brook sighed. She felt embarrassed shaking Kay's hand but if they needed to move on, they had to do it.

"Now that settles everything. We should be off." Dimitri replied. He and Brook left the scene while Kay looked on. She was hoping this was going to produce some good results.

[A/N]: Ooarai actually loses for once aside from Chapter 3. I believe this is what Pravda might be doing to achieve success in both this and Sensha-Do. However, the next chapter will be just wrapping up a few loose ends and then the story will be over. Goodbye.