The Arts of Warfare aren't just about the fights. It's also about everyone that participates in them, including what they do every day outside of combat. What happens when the Panzerkraft girls are let loose in their everyday lives? Very interesting things. What about if the Jägermeistern guys are included as well? Get ready for a lot of tomfoolery. Part of Projekt Jägermeistern.
Christoph Weidenfeller was making his way to Ooarai High School's gymnasium with a determined stride. He walked through several halls in his school uniform with his sole focus being to get to the gym.
"There's no way that we're the same age," he muttered to himself with a bit of frustrated wonder. "No way, not when they're so much taller than me. I need to find out the truth."
Soon he arrived at the gym. He entered the large room and found it to be just as he expected it to be at this time of day: all of the badminton guys were in the middle of some vigorous training. Their usual outfits, that being their uniforms for the sport or generic gym clothes in the case of their leader, were dripping in sweat as they each pressed on in their training. Right now, they were doing some acrobatics training.
"104… 105… 106…" Ron counted off for them as they all performed jumping jacks.
Christoph was observing from further out, and he found it difficult to believe that they had already surpassed 100 jumping jacks and showing no signs of slowing down. He twitched his nose in frustration at their seemingly unnatural abilities and made to approach the four.
"123… 124… 125." Ron counted off. All of them then stopped after performing the 125th jumping jack and started recovering their breaths. All had their hands on their knees and were hunched over. "Alright… that was a great training, wasn't it?" Ron panted out.
"Oh, yeah…" Seth agreed.
"Always…" Harry pitched in.
"That's the usual outcome…" Alex said as he stood up fully, having already recovered enough of his breath.
"Hey! You all!" the four badminton guys all heard from nearby.
"Huh?" Alex said in reaction. All four of the guys had turned their heads in the direction of the voice. There they found Christoph approach them with a look of highly determined curiosity. "Oh, it's you."
"How is it you can do 125 of those jumping jacks without getting tired?!" Christoph asked with a passion. "There's no way that should be possible!"
"Well, actually we were worn out from them," Ron interjected with a raised finger.
"Yeah, but that's more because the jumping jacks were a cooldown exercise for us," Harry notified as he stood up fully.
"Before those, we had already run up and down the ship's length twice and run up the stairs from the bottom deck to the top three times," Alex elaborated. He then held his hands out to the side a bit in a relaxed manner. "And that's not even counting the twenty-five laps around the hangars we used as a warm-up, or our exercises with flexibility."
Christoph remained silent as he looked at all four of the badminton guys with a huge look of disbelief and skepticism. He soon snapped out of it and addressed Alex, "Are we the same age?!" He had to look up a good bit to actually make eye contact, as the badminton guys were all quite tall by comparison, excluding their captain.
"I believe so," Alex responded as he tilted his head left and right in thought. "You're about 14 or 15?"
"Just how have you gotten so tall?!" Christoph practically demanded an answer. "Was it because of what you eat?! Or your training?! Just how?! I have to know!"
"Oooooh-kaaaaaay…" Alex awkwardly responded.
"I always thought it was because we eat a lot of meat," Harry voiced his opinion.
"Ah, that makes sense," Seth nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, stuff like beef, pork, chicken, fish, hell, even frog," Alex detailed as he looked up in thought.
"It's all about eating right, and after that it's all about using that food as your GUTS!" Ron added on with his usual flare.
"It's all about meat…" Christoph realized.
He started picturing in his mind the badminton guys all eating meat. The mental image was of all four of them around a fire with a slaughtered wild pig hung over it. It was already cooked well-done, as parts of said pig were already cut out from it. Among them included the ribs, which Alex and Harry were both eating up and devouring like they were nothing. Elsewhere, Ron and Seth were each wielding a spear and an axe as they fought some more animals, one of which was a tiger. The two badminton boys now hunters had a carnivorous gleam in their eyes, filled with the hopes of getting that tiger. They knew that they would be set for winter if they could kill it along with the other animals there.
"It's just as I expected for an American appetite!" Christoph proclaimed as he came back to the world.
The badminton guys all looked to each other with questioning gazes. They saw Christoph space out for a bit, and they had presumed he was simply digesting the information he was given, but the four Americans were now second-guessing themselves after hearing his proclamation. Finally, Ron turned to Christoph and said, "You just imagined something really weird, didn't you?"
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Part of Projekt Jägermeistern.
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