The Legends Still Live On
Bogen Dreizehn-komma-zwei: Extra Vier
Kapitel Dreizehn: Ooarai Weg der Künste der Kriegsführung
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In the hangars of Ooarai High School, a dozen people were all gathered in a circle. They were the two groups of freshmen on the Panzerkraft team and Jägermeistern team respectively. All were in their combat uniforms.
"So, everyone understand?" Matthias began with a determined and motivated appearance. "It's our mission as the freshmen to continue on Kapitän Nishizumi's and Staffelkapitän Hartmann's way of the Arts of Warfare." He then put his hand in the center of the group. "So let's get on with it!"
Everyone else put their hands in the center as well, and they all broke apart as they mostly cheered, "Hurra!" The only exceptions were the two silent ones, Saki and Bastian, who were staring off into space once more. Besides those two, the rest were highly motivated for their self-proclaimed mission.
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"The way the Hartmanns fly: stalk and ambush!"
Matthias was up in the air in his F4F during a practice session. As he watched the others fight amongst each other below, he soon found an enemy to take on, and he dove on the unsuspecting foe and acquired the necessary lead on them. When he was within about 500 meters was when he opened fire. He didn't wait until point-blank range, as his gun convergence was set at 400 meters, meaning his wing-mounted guns were most effective at or near the gun convergence distance.
"McBraun's way of loading!"
Down on the ground in the M15 CGMC, Julius and Bastian were loading the 37 mm M1A2 cannon. They had been practicing so they could reload it extremely quickly. Now in the midst of a ground combat practice session, they were able to get the time down to just two seconds for reloading the feed trays with new ammunition. This time, the ammunition consisted of the M59A1 shells better fit for armor piercing duty.
"Benz's way of precision accuracy!"
Such a quick time was needed now since they had just caught the I-Go out on its own in a clearing being aggressive once more. The Japanese tank was charging straight for the M15's side. Mesut aimed the guns towards it and let loose on the I-Go. The hail of fire from two M2 Brownings and a 37 mm cannon shredded the tank up, and its white flag deployed in response.
"Faul's way of evasive action!"
The M15 didn't have long to rejoice in victory as the Chi-Nu made a dramatic appearance quickly coming over the crest before coming to a stop and slowly turning its gun to the halftrack. Christoph booked it and maneuvered the SPAA to escape the 75 mm shell just fired at it. He then maneuvered to get the guns a line of sight on the tank's side, and Mesut turned the guns to aim at the armor that was thin enough to be pierced by them.
"Silva style commanding: direct and clear!"
Erik was standing up in the passenger seat up front through the nonexistent roof. He pointed to the Chi-Nu with an entire arm extended to it along with a finger as he loudly yet clearly ordered Mesut to fire. Heeding the order, Mesut dumped all the ammunition he could into the side of the Chi-Nu, which forced the Japanese tank to eventually succumb to the barrage of fire and pop its white flag.
"Nishizumi style: art of reconnaissance!"
Elsewhere on the ground, the M3 Lee was moving along through the forest used as Ooarai's practice grounds. Azusa then chose to stand atop the turret to get a better look at her surroundings, but she didn't notice a tree branch at her head level that she was currently approaching. Her head ended up going through the leaves of the branch, which caught her off-guard when it occurred.
"Akiyama's way of the jump!"
Later on, Karina jumped out of the M3 Lee with her body fully extended out. Why she jumped out was to perform reconnaissance. She then landed in a roll to cushion the fall.
"Isuzu's way of the diet!"
That evening, Ayumi was in her apartment eating dinner. Her servings for dinner were sized at a similar size as would be expected for Hana or Erich. She was clearly trying to force herself to eat the entire thing.
"Reizei's way of the sleep!"
When the night came along, Aya was peacefully sleeping on the bed within her apartment. When the sun came up, she did not wake up. She didn't wake up when the birds started chirping, either, and she had purposely turned off her alarm clock to boot.
"Takebe style: art of falling in love!"
Later when they were in the hangars, a few of the freshmen girls were gossiping in girlish manners. To add to the girlishness, they were also swinging their hips around in a similar girlish manner with their hands to their cheeks.
Watching from the hangar entrance was Miho, Erich, and their main group of friends. The girls were all staring at the freshmen girls with blank looks after seeing the freshmen girls imitate each of them. The boys didn't have much of a reaction to the scene.
"We have to do something about those freshmen," Miho finally spoke up after staring on for some time.
"Na ja," Erich shrugged. "There isn't really any harm in them doing these things, I think. I'll be honest, I'm somewhat proud of the boys for the amount of dedication they've recently exercised. The girls…" He tilted his head side to side. "Well, at least they're trying."
"They're trying too much," Miho retorted. "They're all trying to be just like us."
"Well, would you rather have to tutor them all individually?" Erich replied to her. "Let's face it. It's best to just let them learn their own way. They'll learn that on their own eventually."
Miho then turned to him as she grew a slight playful smirk. "Why is it you're so lazy yet so insightful at the same time?" she asked him.
"I don't know," Erich shrugged with a similar playful grin. "You tell me. You're the one that's put up with me for a decade so far."
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Part of Projekt Jägermeistern.
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