Here I am again with loose ends, I can't think of anything else besides the shop's Obaa-san and why she knows me, I even haven't asked Kyra and Deon which class are they from or which grade are they on, I think I'll go to sleep and I need to see the Obaa-san again.

*Tomorrow Morning

I woke up, I had breakfast and I think I should try to use Gojek to commute to school, I opened the apps and I ordered a driver and then 5 minutes later, the driver came and he handed me a green helmet, I wave my hand to my Mom and said "Ittekimasu".

As I arrived, I do my normal school routine, no one has approached me and my classmates seems afraid of me but this is not the time to sweat about it, I had to go to the Obaa-san's shop during lunch break.

The bell rings, and I'm not wasting any time, I head straight to Obaa-san's shop. However, I can't see her at the shop, it's a different employee.

"Excuse me."

"Yes, may I help you?" The current shopkeeper is younger than the yesterday's Obaa-san.

"Do you know the old female shopkeeper that work at this shop?"

"Uhm… I don't think there are any other worker at this shop, there are only me and my husband, my husband works during the evening shift and we closed at 5P.M too."

I can't say it but I'm actually shocked.

"I see, then I'll buy this bread." I handed the money to the shopkeeper

"Thank you!" she said thank you as I head back to my classroom.

This is so frustrating, I'm not the type of person who can take loose ends like this and everything doesn't make sense at all.

"Hey…" Someone poke my back as I eat the bread, I'm kinda surprised.

"Ah! Hey, may I help you?" My eyes suddenly focused only to one thing as I looked at her, her boobs, her boobs are outrageously big, even mine isn't as big.

"Ah no, no at all! I just want to say hi, your face looked pale though."

"I'm okay! Thank you for asking."

"I see, ah, I think I haven't introduced myself I'm-"

"I know your name, You're Remilia Dinawati right? Absent number 26." Knowing all of my classmates is the most important thing to do first, I learned it from Miho-san,

"You got that right! As expected from Kuromorimine student."

"Wait, you know Kuromorimine?"

"Sure I did! I'm into Sensha-do after all!"

"I'm guessing you're disappointed when enrolling to this school then?"

She has a long pause.

"Indeed, you guessed that right, I do attend Sensha-do during my Middle School and I was hoping that Tarumanagara rises back from the ashes after I graduated but I think I'm too naive and biased because this school were my favorite Sensha-do team but sadly, I was wrong."

"Then, would you follow me to some place exciting? Exciting for both of us."

"Sure thing! I'm free after all."

"Meet me at the back of the school after the bell rings, I had to fetch someone too."

"Roger that!"

The bell rings, it means our school has ended, I head straight to the Teacher's room again to ask Tamara-sensei which class is Kyra from.

"Kyra if I'm not mistaken is in Class 1-4, It's at the end of 2nd floor's hallway." Tamara-sensei told me that while she cheked the student list.

"Thank you sensei!"

"You certainly still has burning passion eh, not bad…" I could hear sensei saying that as I head to the door.

I reached 2nd floor and I hope I make it in time, which thankfully I did, I see Kyra and Deon having conversation in their class.

I waved my hand as soon as Kyra stared at the class's door.

"Here comes your new friend, I think I'll let you guys handle it." Deon then grabbed his bag and went past me.

"Good luck for both of you!"

"You're not joining us?"

"Nah, I think this will be a crucial moment, you don't want a guy ruining it."

"I see, I understand, thank you." I could see that Deon is a very nice guy, although this is my first time casually talk to a guy.

Kyra then approached me.

"You ready?"

"Ready perfectly." I know she said that based on some anime.

We both go to the back door and I could see Remilia waiting there.

"Sorry for the wait, anyway, she's my friend, Kyra, she'll be joining us." I introduced Kyra to Remilia.

"My name is Remilia Dinawati, nice to meet you!"

"Nice to meet you too! I'm Kyra Permatasari."

"So, you just like us? You are a Sensha-do student or enthusiast?"

"Nah, I don't know anything about Sensha-do."

"Then…"
"But I'm interested with it, so I want to know more."

I could see the excitement in Remilia's eyes.

"Okay then!"

We walked and finally we reached the old building.

"You certainly don't know about this, right Remilia?"

"I certainly did not, 6 months in this school and yeah, I never realized there's a huge abandoned building like this."

*Prepare yourself"

Gate Squeaking

The Jumbo finally could see the light and day again.

"It's a Jumbo! The real one! I never see it in person!" Remilia filled with excitement.

"Tamara-sensei gave us permission to do whatever we want, you have your license right, Remilia?"

"I do!"

"Oh, I forgot to ask you, what's your position during your middle-school Sensha-do? And what tank did you use?"

"I'm both gunner and radio operator but mainly, I'm a gunner and my tank is a Luchs."

"I see, so I guess this will be our first time handling American tank."

"Yes!"

We climbed the Jumbo to see if there's any damage, especially the engine.

"Yikes! It's dirty!" Kyra seems disgusted when she touched the grimes and rust.

"Don't worry, we'll clean it later after we found out if this tank is still running or not."

I opened the engine compartment and it seems everything looks okay, not that I know anything about American tanks though, I proceeded to go inside the tank.

Everything looks intact, it's just very dusty and there are minimal rust, that's a good thing. I tried to rotate the turret manually and it worked so I moved to the driver compartment to start up the tank but I forgot that we need fuel, I checked the back it seems there are a couple of jerry cans, some were diesel fuel and some are petrol but I hope using old fuel won't do anything bad to the engine though.

I had to check google to see which one is the fuel tank and I found it, I filled the Jumbo with some fuel, I asked Remilia to fetch some of the petrol.

Since this tank probably never been fired up for a couple of years, I think we only need to pray and hope that the motor is still working. I head straight to the driver compartment to find the starter.

*Brap *Brap *Brap *Brapapapapapap

VROOOM VROOOM

"YES!" This is my first excitement since my arrival in this country, although this is an American tanks but like I said before, beggars can't be choosers.

"Wow… an actual working tank…" Kyra seems amazed.

"This is your first time right? Well, prepare yourself since we'll see more amazing stuff from now on!" Remilia then jumped to the top of the tank.

"Here, take my hands." Remilia offered Kyra some help since she probably can't climb the tank for the first time, Kyra then climbed and got inside the tank too.

"Remilia, you know how to drive one of these?" I asked her first since I never touched American tanks before.

"I don't think I know, but it still has sticks right? Unlike Tigers." Remilia seems checking if the turret's hydraulics is working or not. I can feel the turret rotates.

"Hydraulics seems okay!"

"Copy that, I think I'll try to drive this thing first, hold on to something and Kyra, I think you need to sit down here." I asked her to sit in the driver assistant's position.

"Okay, hold up." She struggles a little bit.

"Okay done, I'm ready."

"Here we go then." I push both sticks and step the accelerator.

VROOOM VROOM

The petrol engine still sounds good, although this is just my assumptions but I think someone has been maintaining it.

I drive the Jumbo and get it outside the building and this is my first time having this kind of excitement as I pop my head's out from the hatch.

"This is so loud!" Kyra closed both of her ears.

"You'll get used to it!" Said Remilia.

I stopped the tank for a while and rotated the hull to see if everything's okay.

"Remilia! Rotate the turret 360 degrees using the hydraulics to see if there aren't any problems!"

"Roger that!" Remilia rotated the turret and I could hear the hydraulics clearly.

"Everything's fine!"

"Alright, time to test how fast this bad boy can go." I pushed both sticks and floored the pedal.

"Oh wow! This boy still has kicks!" Remilia seems excited too.

"Wai- I don't know that tanks were this fast!" Kyra seems scared.

"Tank's speed may vary depending on their type and engines, this one in particular, is a medium tank so it's normal to have this kind of speed although it's slower than other mediums tanks since it has thick armor! You'll see faster tanks in the future." Remilia explains.

"I- I see!"

I suddenly stopped the tank and Kyra slipped off her seat

"Ouchie! What happened!? Why you stopped so sudden? I was fixing my skirt."

"Sorry, There's someone in front of us."

"Who?"

"It's the shopkeeper Obaa-san."

"Obaa-san?"

Yes, that Obaa-san appeared in front of us.

"Wow, good job girls! You managed to restart the Jumbo! You see… I think something good awaits you girls."

"What do you mean?"

"Park the tank and follow me, let's have some tea."

"What should we do? Should we obey her?" Remilia asked.

"We have no other choice, let's go."

I parked the tank at the field temporarily and we exited the tank.

"You know what's this all about?"

"I don't know, I just enrolled here, you guys the one who enrolled first."

"I don't have any idea either, I never saw that old lady before, I don't even know who she is."

What could happen next? I hate these kind of cryptic and ambiguous talks but We'll see...