Sherman Jumbo or the M4A3E2 is a pretty rare tank that served the US Army during World War II, It's basically a Sherman with heavier armor, I can't really find the specific history but some said the frontal hull can't be penetrated by Tiger I's 8,8cm KwK 36 L/56, let alone the turret itself. I don't really like American tanks but I guess beggars can't be choosers after all.

"Do you know what's this?" I asked Kyra while she looked around the building.

"Hmmmm I don't really pay attention to Sensha-do so I'm basically don't know anything about tanks." Although She was sad a while ago when telling me that there are no Sensha-do in this school, she didn't know anything about it.

"But… I want to try it, I want to get inside it and see it drives." I was shocked.

"Well… this is basically a good tank, on paper, but I never really saw one of these in Sensha-do because there are only hundreds of it, probably scattered around the world."

"I see… I discovered this building right after the first day of school, I never really ask the Teachers about this, but one thing for sure that… something just snapped when I see it, the excitement you know? Although weird thing is that I'm not into Sensha-do."

"I understand. Well, the tank itself seems is in a good condition although it's pretty dusty, you see… I'm gonna ask Tamara-sensei about this before checking in deeper." Deep in my heart, I know that something can be done.

"You got that right, I never had any guts to ask, I think now is a right time." Kyra agrees.

We both closed the gate again and the Jumbo went into the shadows again and we proceed to the Teacher's room again.

I knocked the door again and enters the Teacher's room with Kyra.

"Kanade! Are you alright!? You collapsed real bad right there!." Tamara-sensei jumped to me.

"It's okay sensei, I'm perfectly fine but I think you have things to explain."

Tamara-sensei looked very concerned but her face just turned serious right now.
"Okay, It's about Sensha-do right? I understand, follow me to the Teacher's lounge."

I looked at Kyra and we both nodded, we proceed to follow Tamara-sensei to a room, the Teacher's lounge is surprisingly didn't seems like a lounge at all, only a pair of sofa and book shelves.

We sit down and I can't help but to look pretty anxious, what's more is that Kyra's personality turned 180 degrees, from a cheeky brat to obedient girl, something definitely isn't right with her.

"You see… I was graduated from this school too." I kinda called it but still, there are some tension when she said that.

"Our school has a Sensha-do lessons for more than 30 years, the sports came from Japan and our school is one of the first foreign school that has it, along with some of private schools here, but only a handful."

Tamara-sensei grabbed a book from the shelves, she showed it to us and she pointed some news clippings, it said "First Indonesian School to win Southeast Asia Sensha-do Tournament"

"This school has a long history, Kanade, you might think that Sensha-do is a new sport here but I'm afraid you're mistaken, if I want to be more specific, the sports begin during the 80's here and the crowd, the fans and the tension is getting higher each year."

Tamara-sensei opens another page and there are photographs of the girls in front of the tanks, there are 8 tanks in total, I see the Jumbo in the middle, a Jagdtiger, a StuG III and a Stuart, probably M5, the rests are blurry, but one face is pretty familiar the girl who held a trophy, that's I think is Tamara-sensei.

"I participated in this school's Sensha-do and we managed to snatch a victory, my first and last victory." At this point, I'm chilling down the spine.

Tamara-sensei proceed to open more pages, we both can't say a word. Another page shown "26th Indonesian Sensha-do National Tournament Ends With Catastrophic Accident, Tarumanagara School is at Fault." I honestly shocked, Kyra's eyes were also blank at this point.

"This happened 3 years ago, but before I proceed, you see there are no casualties, only 2 students that's injured pretty serious, reason? Is lack of sportsmanship, simple as that."

"The backlash of that accident is resulting the disband of our Sensha-do lesson and we withdrew from the Association but we are not banned." I cut Tamara-sensei's explanation.

"What exactly happened? I demand a specific explanation."

"I know that you would ask me… during the accident, I was this school's Sensha-do advisor and also Instructor, I could say that I failed at teaching my students the essence of Sensha-do hahaha."

I never heard a sad laugh more than Tamara-sensei's laugh.

"A girl, which also the Commander, abandoned the essence of this sport by using her comrades as a sacrifice."

"I know that you might think a sacrifice is necessary in order to gain victory, I know where you came from, Kanade."

Tamara-sensei picked an album, then she opened the album to show us some photos, a photo from the aftermath.

In that picture, I could see a StuG III in front of a Jagdtiger, destroyed badly and the Jagdtiger were also knocked out because I could see the white flag.

"The Jagdtiger is the flag tank, the Commander were also in it, she ordered the StuG to become a shield, she was against 7 tanks and had to face them all frontally."

"The result is that the Jagdtiger dragged the StuG to hide it's lower plate, the StuG although already knocked out, got hit so many times from the enemies because she popped out some smoke, the enemies had Panzer IV, Stuarts and S35 and they can't see what are they shooting at."

"Eventually, the Jagdtiger got flanked by one of the Stuart and the StuG armor has a failure, Sensha-do is ridiculously safe but the StuG took so many hits that it eventually fails."

"The judges rushed to the scene because they know that it never happened before, the safety worker also got there immediately, 2 girls from the StuG injured badly because of the energy that they've taken from the penetrating shells, the other 2 only suffered concussions and can't hear temporarily."

"Because of that, I take an action to punish the Commander, she eventually dropped out and never graduates, the injured girls were recovered after 1 month and graduated."

Tamara-sensei took back the books and put them back to the shelves again.

"But… I still want to see this school have another Sensha-do again. So, are you satisfied?"

Tamara-sensei looked at us.

"We are satisfied. Thank you sensei."

"Good then!"

"But, I want to ask you a permission."

"What permission?"

"Can I inspect the Jumbo?"

"So you found out huh? Well, I'll tell you what, you are free to do anything to the Jumbo, drive it around the field if you can, I know you have your license."

"Thank you sensei."

"And one last thing, if you are not satisfied, you can talk to the Chairwoman and then come back to me." Here comes the first cryptic message, reminds me of a girl from Jatkosota, Mika if I'm not wrong, I fought her before during a practice match and she's crazy, and Tamara-sensei also sounded like Darjeeling too.

"Pardon?"

"You'll soon find out, now I think both of you should go back home, it's late already." Tamara-sensei then exited the Lounge and so did we.

Eventually, we both discovered something that we feel that we aren't supposed to.

"What do you think, Kyra?" I asked her while I send message to my Mom to pick me up.

"It seems crazy, but I want to taste victory like sensei did, victory in Sensha-do." Kyra stretched up her arms.

"I think we are on the same boat, but the differences is that you don't know anything about Sensha-do hahaha." I teased her a little bit.

"You are evil!" Kyra hit my shoulders with her palms then she stopped.

"But you're right, I need to read research about it, I'll ask Deon about it I guess."

"Why him?"

"Deon is a tank maniac, one time he wished that he born as a girl so that he could participate in Sensha-do hahaha!" Kyra seems to built her mood back.

"I see, good luck then."

"Why you seem uninterested?" Kyra seems pretty hard to get satisfied.

As we head to the front gate, Kyra headed to the parking lot and then we part ways, she apparently brought a motorcycle with her when suddenly, I felt thirsty and I think I will grab some drink from the school shop, Kyra showed me that there's one particular shop that's separated from the canteen and the shop opens until 7P.M.

As I head there, I see a middle-aged Obaa-san looking after the shop and I took a milk from the front freezer, the one that's called Ultra Milk, as soon as I want to pay it, the Obaa-san talked to me.

"Oh my, I never see you before! And you look like a Japanese woman! What's that called again… Yamato Nadeshiko? You know about it?" The Obaa-san seems very friendly.

"Eh, ah, you've flattered me, I'm not beautiful!" Though I'm pretty ashamed to get that kind of compliment.

"But hmmm, I think you are the new transfer students right? From Japan? What's the school again… Kuromorimine right?" Obaa-san said that while she hand me the change money, but how could it be? How a shop worker knew about me?

"Yes, you got that right, how do you know?"

"Ah, I made a mishaps, I think I should never said that hahaha, don't mind me!" Obaa-san is kinda freaking me out but I managed to keep my cool.

"… But since we come this far, I know you were looking for something, you want to look for Sensha-do, right?"

"Again, how do you know that? Who are you?" This time, I'm pretty triggered, why is some mere worker know about me? Did she eavesdrop?

"I can help you with that, your hunch, but a girl shouldn't stay late like this, come back tomorrow." Obaa-san ignored my questions and she heads back to the shop's kitchen because apparently, she's frying something.

"Who are you…"

I'm now using this format, bold and italic indicates dialogue from the Kanade, the MC, I was inspired by Kokina Tenshi's fiction, this way, it's less confusing.