The terrain is getting more slippery as ever and the sky cries out with all it's might but it's okay since we're inside this tank, this tank known as Panzer III Ausf.J is one of Germany's mightiest tank, during it's respectable era though. I kept my eyes attached to the viewport to make sure that I can guide the driver to prevent us going downhill, there's a deep river below so that could be dangerous for all of us if we slipped. Our job is simple, we look for enemies and keep the flag tank safe, did I ever mention that we're currently doing Sensha-do? Sensha-do is a sport for women that involves tankery, if the enemies took our flag tank, we lose, simple as that.
The rear of a Tiger I is beautiful as ever though I'm still not sure if Vice-Commander's tank were a H1 or E, from the outside it does looks like H1 model but who knows, our job is to protect that Tiger I, our Vice-Commander is the youngest daughter of Shiho Nishizumi, the mistress of the Nishizumi-style Sensha-do, Nishizumi Miho.
Nishizumi Miho is a skillful commander albeit she's too nice unlike her older sister, I don't care what's everyone else said about Miho, I adore her as a person, as a senpai too but granted, she lacks authority and she doesn't look intimidating, doesn't matter though, I'll protect her tank with all our might since we came this far, we can win this.
BOOM
Looks like a shell hits the dirt causing a small vibration to our tanks, we're probably found out by Pravda tanks, it's the IS-2 that shot us, probably.
I briefly looked outside and…I was shocked, I don't want to waste more time and I had to take measure.
"DRIVER! GRAB THE RIGHT STICK AND CLIMB THE SLOPE AND GO TO THE FRONT OF THE FLAG TANK! HURRY!"
"Copy that!" The driver, Takami, complied but she's struggling because the terrain is just so bad.
"What happened outside Ooshima-san!?" The gunner, Ishibe, seemed didn't know what happened although her eye were glued to the periscope, the rain does look bad though.
"Nishizumi-san jumped from the tank and throw herself to the river, Koume's Panzer III were slipped down to the lake…"
"Oh god…"
We were almost made it to the front of the Tiger I but…
BANG
Sparks and smoke came out from the front of the Tiger as well as a white flag on top of the turret.
We were too late, Pravda got our flag tank. It's a bummer but I straight up jumped from my tank to see if Nishizumi Miho were safe, which she is, she saved Koume and the others, I give my hands to those poor girls while the Announcer said "The victory belongs to Pravda!"
This is my first tournament yet, I can't taste victory like I would expect.
An hour has passed, Koume's crew were taken to the mobile clinic, I don't know what kind of injuries they had but I expect no injuries from them, they were just shocked and tired, though the one who took the huge blow were not us nor Koume's crew, but Nishizumi Miho-san, she looked so pale and never said a word, I felt so much gaze from the other crew, the gaze were not towards me, but towards her but I can feel it.
2 girls approached Nishizumi Miho-san and turns out, It's Itsumi Erika and her older sister, Nishizumi Maho-san. I don't want to hear their conversations so I went outside to see my crew, from my opinion, there's nothing we can do and Miho-san has done the right thing, this sport has countless of safety measures but undoubtedly, dangers are stil possible. And just that, Kuromorimine's 9th Wins streak came to an end.
A couple days has passed, Miho-san never came to school but there were a lot of talks in our class that Miho-san would take responsibility and step down as Vice-Commander, but I can't really trust those rumors. Miho-san is a splendid human being, a good senpai and also a good tactician. Turns out, she really did transferred school and I can't really believe it, to be honest though, I'm shocked.
I would follow her path, or anywhere, I don't mind transferring to the same school as she did, I don't care if I had to drive a Panzer I.
But I never did, fate can't really unite us, in fact, fate is being mean to me but I had to suck it up, on a bright side, I could still got a chance to say goodbye to her, before I move and also before her transfer, I hope we meet again, Miho-san.
I, Ooshima Kanade, had to move overseas to Indonesia due to my Parent's condition, although I live in dormitory here in Kuromorimine, I can't really disobey my Parent's.
3 months has passed and I can speak Indonesian kinda good thanks to the language lesson I had during the summer holiday, or probably it's because I could speak a little Indonesian to begin with because my Grandparents were Indonesian too. I'm not unfamiliar with Indonesia, in fact, I visited this country so many times already but now, It's permanent, my Parents had to work on a big and long time project here in West Java, Bandung City to be precise. How about Sensha-do you ask? Surprisingly, Indonesia has a healthy Sensha-do Community and currently the most famous sport even more famous than Premier League or Formula 1, crazy right that people would prefer tanks over soccer?
School day is finally here, I'm thrilled to look at this School's Sensha-do, this School called Tarumanagara High School.
This is my very first Fan Fiction, I'm more accustomed to original fiction but since I can't get GuP out of my brain, I can't help but resume this personal projects of mine.
Since I could draw, I will be putting the character design when I have time as well as other illustrations, if the reception is good, I will escalate this to a light novel doujinshi.
But yeah, leave a comments or critiques! Sorry if I my grammar is bad. :D
