Chapter 5 Changeable and unchangeable part2
(October 24, 2001)
Takeru POV
Takeru sighs out loudly with little care of his surroundings. Takeru was actually surprise at his new discovery. However, sadly, this new discovery of his only brings him nothing but sorrow and worry. He let out a sigh again for the second time.
This morning, Takeru has finally discovered that he himself was able to…wake up before the alarm clock rings. He felt proud of himself for a moment as the thought he could finally become a diligent soldier just by associate with Meiya. There was an old typical Japanese idiom "Habit could be rubbed off." Perhaps, Meiya's diligent also works out the same way. However, the result of this huge improvement of his spoiled the mood of a silver hair girl. She was totally fuming and pouting at the fact that her Takeru actually doesn't need her to wake him up every morning anymore.
He had followed Kasumi back to the lab to explain. However, the snow fairy ignores him and closes her ears tightly with both her hands. This scenario broke his heart for this whole morning. No matter how much he tried to explain, the snow fairy just won't listen to a single explanation of his. Finally, the crazy scientist Yuuko sensei who abruptly appeared in the lab to get her experimental data, somehow found this entire situation amusing.
"Shirogane, it's a crime to make an advance on Kasumi" Yuuko sensei flashed me one of her usual smirk.
"No, I didn't. You are horrible. Is that all you could think of? You had totally missed out the points here" I can't help but roar with my peak lung capacity.
"Ara ara, so energetic in the morning, I guess you are still a healthy young man. I apologize for my misunderstanding" Yuuko sensei apologizes while showing her usual grin on her lips
[This pattern of her is totally new] Takeru was genuinely surprised at this rare behavior of his Yuuko sensei. "It's good that…"
Yuuko cuts in godspeed before Takeru manage to finish his line "I underestimated you Shirogane"
This single line of Yuuko send chills to Takeru, his whole body went stiffed. [Did she discover it? No way, it's still too early at this stage.] Thankfully, he still manages another roar "What are you talking about Yuuko sensei?"
Yuuko is grinning at him and while advancing straight to his direction. Takeru's instinct tells him to retreat before this unpredictable woman. He chooses to obey his survival instinct without a single question. However, if he retreated three steps, Yuuko will advance three steps. Takeru continues his retreat further until he realized that Yuuko has finally cornered him to the wall. [Crap, this is a bad situation]. Before Takeru manages to make his tactical retreat to any of his sides, Yuuko dexterously wrapped her arms around the young man's neck to prevent his further retreat. Takeru is totally covered in cold sweat right now. He has totally no idea what is his Yuuko sensei has on her mind at this very moment. Even if this woman is a genius among genius, she would never able to figure out the fact that he is actually working behind her back. The simple reason for that is simply because he has not pull out any of his cards yet. Takeru used every single cells of his brain looking for a clue to explain this situation. He tried to look deep into his Yuuko sensei's eyes to find out any clue that he could. Sadly, he is no mind reader and he was an extremely dense person to boot. That's act of his only bring Takeru some flashbacks of the Christmas night he spend at Yuuko's office in one of his loops. He flushed furiously while trying to dispel his inner thought. [What's on the earth is this about?] , though he want to scream that out loud at the grinning vixen, his mouth refuse to do so.
"You are really bold, neh, Shirogane!"Yuuko spoke in a flirtatiously manner. Takeru can't do anything except continuously sweating. He is completely terrified by this entirely scenario. [What's going on? Did she know? No way, did I underestimate her too much? Is she a mind reader?]. "You are really bold Shirogane!" Yuuko repeated the same line this time with some clear intonation on the word bold. [Crap, she knew. I should have known, there are nobody in this earth could ever work behind her back in her own board. Her intelligence is clearly on a God realm level].
Just as Takeru decided to confess everything, before Yuuko would order his execution, something he never expected, happened. "To think you are manly enough to even gun for Marimo, I salute you Shirogane" Yuuko giggled.
Takeru abilities to access the situation were undoubtedly frozen. If his mind was to display on a CPU screen right now, it's definitely could only show nothing but "Error, error, requesting backup! Main processor is unable to process this data".
"How on the earth did you come up with such terrifying information?" despite Takeru's own intention to scream this part out loud, his voice was extremely meek to his surprise.
Yuuko giggled again "Eh? I thought that you was clearly doing something to spark her interest yesterday, didn't you?"
"Gulp" I unknowingly swallowed a large chunk of saliva while tried to process any hint from Yuuko sensei words. After several seconds passed, I have no other choice but "What the hell were you talking about Yuuko sensei?" to ask her in person, since my main CPU was totally frozen by her teasing just now".
"Eh? Stop pretending innocent now. I heard every single complains about you from Marimo yesterday. From how you approached her in such a tearingly novelty approach, dexterously use my connection to call her in such intimating manner "Marimo chan", to pretend be a clown while hiding your true potential." Yuuko sensei spoke while grinning as if she going to thoroughly enjoy Takeru upcoming reaction.
"No…it…it's not true at all", Takeru stuttered.
"Ara ara, so everything Marimo chan told me yesterday was nothing but a lie?" Yuuko put a finger on her chin while let her sight wander in an indescribable innocence.
" Geh" Takeru has to admit that his Yuuko sensei is definitely a devil incarnate. If he has the eyes to discern evil beings like some Beautiful Monkey King in one of China great novels, he could probably able to see devil tail and horns from her shadow. Moreover, if Yuuko was to aim for Hollywood, she would definitely win some Oscar prize for acting in no time giving her brilliant performance just now.
Yuuko still continues her silly acting, fully taking advantage of Takeru silence "Eh? I am sad. How could Marimo lie to me in such a horrible way?"
Good God, she is definitely enjoyed this entire scenario. "Stop twisting the event with your words, sensei. I am sure Marimo chan didn't phrase the words like that knowing her personality"
Yuuko's eyes abruptly opened widely as she heard Takeru finish his line. She is appeared to be in deep shock. Then for some reason, she collapsed. Takeru was extremely bewildered by this sudden turn of event as he was only able to catch Yuuko falling body reflexively.
Yuuko then turned her head sideway and pretended to wipe some fake tears while let Takeru supporting her body. "So you said that you choose to believe Marimo over me…sob…sob, so be it then,…please…forget about me and go to your true love."
"Geh" This is obviously so fake. This smell likes some old Japanese drama. No matter how fake the plot is, Takeru has to bow down on all four and give credit to his Yuuko sensei for her brilliant acting. (There is no way my sensei could be this cute. Lol) Takeru was unsure how to put up with this performance, so he would rather be silent than take a wild guess. Yet, his instinct told him if he can't think of anything good to continue this conversation, he could be as good as death. [I have to come up with something fast. My survival instinct told me that if I can't come up with something to continue this silly performance; by the time sensei turns her head to face me, my death is already sealed.]
CRAP. She looks at me now. Darn it, I don't care the consequence anymore. Here go nothing. "Oh, ...Yuuko my dear…you are my only true love". Darn it, if a bull sees me in this moment, it would undoubtedly continue to chase me till the end of the earth. That's just how embarrassed I am in this moment.
"…"Yuuko sensei looks genuinely stunned. Maybe this for the best if she was so stunned that she just might actually forgets this entire silly East-meet-West soap opera. Then, abruptly, "Pfft. AhHAHAHA" Yuuko sensei fought hard to control her laughter. Darn it, this is seriously embarrassing.
Anyway, I could not believe my eyes that she was able to laugh in such way. Probably, she has never found something amusing as that.
"Ahhahaha…What…what's with…that…awful…acting of Romeo and Juliet?" Yuuko fought hard to control her laughter while manage to ask Takeru.
"Geez. I can't come up with anything else sensei. It was too sudden." Takeru spoke as fast as he could, turned his head away while blushing furiously.
"I have never had this much fun for ages" Yuuko giggled as she used her left hand to wipe her tears (this time for real). "However, despite that bad performance of yours, you were totally serious about me huh?"
"…"Takeru's main CPU froze another time.
"You don't have to act surprised. You are still holding my body so tightly and supporting it now. This is the proof that you have chosen me over Marimo ,right?" Yuuko grinned victoriously at Takeru
Even as Takeru finally realized what Yuuko has implied, he could not let go of her body. Her body positioned in a way that if Takeru was to let go, his Yuuko sensei would hit head first to the ground. That would be the last thing he ever wanted. That could mean a secure of his very KIA report in her office in very a few hours. (A.n: Or obviously a drop in affection points, dudes). On the other hand, Yuuko sensei has no intention to stabilize her center of gravity, as the result, Takeru couldn't help but still hold on to her until she satisfied. Takeru has to admit that Yuuko sensei is obviously a first class schemer with frightening talents. "Sensei, did you have enough fun? If you keep me any longer here, Marimo chan going to give us a yell sooner or later"
Yuuko still showed no intention of ending the opera show. Moreover, she wrapped her arms around Takeru neck one more time. Takeru bewildered as she did that, he could not hope to dodge it even if he want to. Yuuko then look into Takeru eyes and spoke "You are free to perform your own mission and obey orders from higher positions as you see fit. However, Shirogane just remember one thing. You belong to me." Yuuko spoke slowly with seriousness as if she means each and every single of her words are to be conveyed to Takeru.
[Her godly sharp intuition must have detected something from my activities and reactions] Takeru detected her seriousness, he thought for a moment and replied while meeting Yuuko gaze with his own "Yuuko sensei, I am your ally, your accomplice and assistant in this dangerous chessboard you are playing. I swear on my honor that this will forever remain unchanged no matter how ugly things turn out. Whether it's hell or something even worse than that, that oath of me forever remains solid like steel itself." Takeru then stopped before his emotion run wild and let his real intention slip. Then, he lied "We share the same goal sensei. We may not completely agree with each other at our way of doing things. However, we ultimately share a same goal. That's why, please forgive me if I will ever step out of my bound and do things my way."
"I understand. However, I don't promise much in return. If I ever see any of your actions were to be a hindrance to our goal, I won't hesitantly have you grounded. Is that clear?"
"Thank you sensei. I know I can always count on you."Takeru let out a relief sigh. [That's good enough. I am already expected this much. It's just that entirely scenario come faster than I ever expected. That's Yuuko sensei for you. Her talent is something to be respected and scared.] Takeru then can't help but thinking of something to lighten ups the mood. This particular conversation is getting nowhere.
"By the way sensei, you belong with me, huh? It's completely sound like a love confession?" Takeru can't help but want to get her back for playing around with his feeling for so long.
"What would you do if I say it is?" Yuuko speak confidently while having her usual business poker face.
"…" Takeru regrets his childish action immediately. Yuuko would never make slip no matter what. She would never make a mistake as well. Fighting her in a battle of words is only an act of suicidal. That's why I and Marimo chan will forever be toyed around as she wished. "I admit my loss sensei"
"Eh, that's no fun at all" Yuuko has a disappointed look on her face.
Then abruptly, another icy voice interrupted our conversation "How long do you intend to stay in that position?"
Crap, I was so absorbed by Yuuko conversation that I even forgot about Kasumi present in this room. Good God, this is just way too embarrassing. A replay button was push inside Takeru mind and replayed the whole soap opera he played with Yuuko sensei with an exception that Kasumi was sitting in the Sofa and look at the duo with an icy look of a Yuki-onna that is unfitted of her image. Sumika, let me redo this loop again. This is way too embarrassing.
Finally, sensei has decided to stand up straightly. I guess it's time for me to let go of her. However, for some reason, Yuuko sensei still keeps her arms wrapped around my neck. "Ara ara, Kasumi, Are you perhaps jealous that I take your Takeru for myself?"
Kasumi blew up her mouth like a balloon pouting and turn her head away as if she was to ignore Yuuko sensei.
"Too bad, I seem that I make a mistake" Yuuko sensei sighed outward loudly. "It appeared that Kasumi chan has no interest in you at all Shirogane"
Even if I know it's a lie, it's still hurt sensei. I can't stand being hate by Kasumi at all. Eh, if my eyes didn't fail me; I think I just saw Kasumi's rabbit ears twitched slightly.
Yuuko sensei continued her ranting "Nah, maybe it's better this way. I has lesser one rival",[eh?]. "Shirogane, let me show you much I love you." [eh!] Yuuko sensei then closed her eyes and pushed her face closer to mine.
"Stop! Cut! Stop it, Sensei! There is a minor in this room"
"I don't care. I want you, Shirogane"
"Crap, you are not listening at all. Stop at all cost sensei! My age is completely out of your strike zone, remember? "
"Don't worry. My taste has changed recently."
"Stop! It doesn't make sense at all"
"So you prefer to be kiss by your Marimo chan right? What am I then? Am I just your concubine?"
"No, stop joking around sensei. Why are you my concubine?"
"Then what's so bad about kissing your legal wife?"
"Good god, what the hell are you talking about sensei? It makes no sense at all" Crap, she is to close, way to close. Her face is only a few millimeters from mine. Crap, sensei please stops your joke. Don't do it in front of Kasumi like this.
Suddenly, sensei opened her eyes. Her eyes reflected only mischief. [I have been had] Takeru cried inwardly. Yuuko sensei giggled as she used both of her hands to pull my cheeks "Heh, Shirogane, what's with that disappointed look of yours? Do you really want an actual kiss after all?"It's only this moment that Takeru has finally realized that no matter what action he took, he will be toyed by Yuuko around her fingers in the end.
Sensei then turned her head around and spoke "So Kasumi chan was really fond of Shirogane after all heh?"
I turn my head to the direction of sensei's gaze. Kasumi was doing her best to pull sensei's white blouse while looking at me with puppy eyes.
"Don't worry Kasumi, I was just kidding to relief my build up stress.", Sensei spoke nonchalantly
"But if I didn't stop you, it would…." Kasumi seems to mutter something herself, I just can't hear a single things.
"Shirogane, how long do you intend to dilly-dally here? Wasn't you late for your class?"Yuuko sensei grinned evilly.
Crap, now I just remember about Marimo's morning lecture. I quickly check the time only to realize that I am already half an hour late. Good god, Marimo chan are surely going to kill me in her own way now. Should I start writing my will?
"If you stay here any longer, even I won't able to guarantee your safety Shirogane", Yuuko sensei let out a wicked giggle.
It's clearly a threat. Her rank is higher than Marimo chan. She could just give some orders and some sort of excuse to help me out. After all, she is the main reason for this whole mess. She was just enjoying see me suffer.
Good god, I have to pull out my Joker now. This card has never failed me once whenever I used it to deal with Marimo chan, Sumika chan, Class rep, Meiya or Ayamine. I 'm sure not even sensei is completely impervious to its effect. Here go nothing, behold my trump card, Takeru' s PEO
Takeru's Puppy Eyes Operation.(Takeru's PEO)
10 seconds [Weird…no reaction at all]
30 seconds [ Geh, she is tough]
2 minutes [There is no way that she couldn't feel anything]
5 minutes [Is she even human?]
"Shirogane,…"[Yes, finally I manage to get my message through. She responded to it] "…what is it supposed to be?"Yuuko asked curiously
"Are you really human? Do you even have a human heart? Aare you a devil?" I roared at her at my peak lung capacity the second time of the day while dashing toward my impending doom."
Takeru POV (Class room)
"Cadet Shirogane, can you explain why you were 45 minutes late for my morning lecture? Do you hate my lecture that much?" Marimo is grinning evilly while the veins on her forehead are popping up.
Takeru sweat profusely as he endured his Marimo glare while accept the pitied gazes from his squad mates. Good god, he has dug his own grave the second time in his second day. Is this revelation that he will continually digging it till the day he would able to graduate? He wondered himself.
"Shirogane. Answer my question!" Marimo snapped
Jesus. If I continue to daydreaming as this rate, the revelation I has just now just might come true. "Marimo chan…"
Marimo eyes have gone blood shot
"My sincerest apologize instructor Jinguuji. This morning I was late because I was helping out with Professor Kouzuki on a project of her."Takeru decide to speak truthfully [It's half truth anyway, But I don't care. As long as I survive through this]
"Hm…Why I didn't hear anything about it?" Marimo facial expression has not softened once bit.
"My apologize, Instructor. I was also summoned abruptly in this morning. I am sure she probably didn't has time to contact you this morning." Takeru decided another white lie
"…You may go back to your seat for now Shirogane. I will check with Professor Kouzuki later on regarding this"
Takeru goes to his usual seat while even sweating more profusely. If his Yuuko sensei found its amusing to see how he is going to deal with his Marimo chan's furry, no matter how many lives he has, it is always not enough if the opponent is Marimo chan.
Tama whispers to me "Lucky for you Takeru san, I thought it would be over for you. I had never seen the Instructor this furious."
Takeru nodded toward the squad mascot in appreciation despite his inner conflict [This just might be the opening of a tragedy for me]
Good God, lucky me, the next lesson which is field-stripping will start in another 10 minutes. At least, I will able to regain some of my lost honor.
(Break time)
"We was so worried about you Takeru san." Tama speaks
"I' m fine now Tama"
Chiruzu giggles "You are definitely braver than I thought. Not even Ayamine got the nerve to be late for Instructor Jinguuji lecture. I can't believe that this is the same crybaby we saw yesterday"
Ayamine shows a rare mutual agreement with class rep while giving me a thumb up "Takeru, brave man"
"Stop teasing me! I really thought it was the end of the world."
"It can't be help since you were helping with the Professor project. Knowing her eccentricity, it's only natural for you to have such a disruptive time table. By the way, we are really surprise to learn that you are her assistant and independent officer." Meiya speaks kindly
"No, it's nothing really. Hahaha. She just happened to find one of my thesis lab reports interesting. You know how eccentric she can be. That's how she made me an assistant of her. It's no big deal at all" Takeru lies
The girls "Gasp… wow. We don't know you were that smart Takeru"
Crap, I think I just dug my own grave here. "No I'm not at all. It's only a coincident that Yuuko sensei finds my thesis interesting"
The girls speak in unison again "But, this is the famous genius Professor Kouzuki that we are talking about. You must really smart to be chosen by her"
"No, not at all. If you come to know her personality, I would say that she choose me because she found an interesting experimental pet for her project and a pet to kill her boredom rather an assistant" I gingerly answer
"You are really humble Takeru." Meiya looks at me in full expectation.
Crap this stuff make me feel really guilty. If someone was to record a video of me and her flirting in this morning, I'm sure all these girls will come to despite me in no time.
Field stripping class
Alright, I just need to lock this part and snap on the receiver.
"Done!"
Marimo seriously doubted her ears. "You are done?"
"Sir, yes sir"
"2 minutes and 22 seconds. Shirogane, leaving that gun on the table, I will check it" Marimo was not quite sure if Shirogane would able to do it so fast in his first time.
"Please go ahead Ma…instructor"
"Hm…There is no mistake in your work. Have you done it before?"
"Ah yes, I love dissemble and assemble my dad's guns when I was small. They were my only toys" Takeru has thought up about this lie last night. It's somewhat sound better than the one he use in the last loop.
Everyone was stunned by these lines of his. Suddenly, Takeru discovered that everyone showered him with pitied gazes. It is as if he is the most pitiful child in this whole world.
Marimo "I apologize for dig up your old wound Shirogane. However, I hope that even so, once day, you will find these skills of yours useful"
"Marimo chan…"Takeru has to clear up this misunderstanding somehow
"That's enough, Shirogane. You don't have to hurt yourself anymore" Marimo speaks while try her best not to let any tear come out.
Takeru just can't handle this reality anymore. His CPU froze the fourth time in the day.
Marimo continue " Until now, Ayamine has held the record of 6 minutes and 17 seconds. Though, I don't wish for any of you to follow …Shirogane example. But keep on practice until you are just as good.
The girls "Roger that"
Takeru POV (PX)
I have never experience such an eerie silent meal with the whole squad before. I think my excuse this time was truly a bombshell to them. God, please let me redo this part. However, praying here won't do me any good. I better act. "About what happen in the class…"
Tama "You don't have to think about it anymore Takeru san"
Chiruzu "Yes. It's better to avoid hurting yourself any further"
Ayamine "Takeru, poor boy…"
Meiya "… I am very sorry to hear that Takeru "
Good god, I make a terrible mistake. My impression today is even worse compare to yesterday. [ I swear I am going to kill the person who write such a twisted plot one day]. What am I now? Firstly a crybabay, a clown and now the world most pitiful child? Common, this is just a second day. I still had another 1 month until graduation, if it means I would receive 30 others twisted titles, I would not able to handle it at this rate.
Takeru POV (Takeru's room)
It's almost unbelievable that Yuuko sensei could actually locked on him in this early stage. Takeru has finally fully understood who he is dealing with. She is not the worldwide infamous genius for nothing. Even, before Takeru has a chance to pull out any cards, Takeru has a feeling that she probably already has a hint of what is he up to. However, Takeru already foresaw it. As this rate, even if she could get a hint of his backstage working, it doesn't mean she will stop it or she can stop it as long as Yuuko sensei still not fully understand the true nature of Takeru's plan that is. Yuuko did aware the fact that Takeru have yet told her everything about the future event due to the fear of the Time Paradox effect. That's the only reason she still gives Takeru some room for his freedom of movement.
"She is finally got caught in one of my trap." Takeru feel extremely relief. I told her "We share the same goal sensei. We may not completely agree with each other at our way of doing things. However, we ultimately share a same goal. That's why, please forgive me if I will ever step out of my bound and do things my way." She has acknowledged my way of doing just as I acknowledged of hers after listen to that lie. That's all I need for now. As long as she still recognizes and acknowledge me as one of her chess piece, I still have an advantage over her in this board.
However,Yuuko is a first class schemer and the world smartest genius. If I want to have a victory over her for the right to be the representative player, I have no choice but play dirty. By tricking Yuuko sensei to believe that she and I have a same goal, she won't suspect the nature of my backstage working. Our goal is ultimately lies in a same direction; the only different is probably the dimension of the goal. However, it doesn't mean that I lie to her. I will follow her to even the depth of hell if I have to, as long as I could save everyone else. The only intersection of our path is the total destruction of the BETA. Nothing more, nothing less.
(October 25, 2001) Takeru POV
I should have known it by now. Just by associate with Meiya alone won't make me into a diligent and discipline person in one night. I continue to sleep in after turn off the alarm.
Poke, poke,poke. Alright, without open my eyes, I could tell who is poking me now. "Kasumi, please just a little longer". Poke, poke, poke, poke,….
"Arg, stop it! Just another 5 minutes"
Poke, poke, poke, poke, poke, poke, poke,…
"Good morning Kasumi", I groggily open my eyes while greeting Kasumi
"Good morning Takeru san"
It's great now that Kasumi has stop angry at me anymore. I'm not entirely sure the reason for this change of mood. However, it's really the best when I could make up with Kasumi.
"Bye bye Takeru san"
"Wait a sec Kasumi!"
The poor snow fairy can't stop immediately with her slow reflex. She hit the door as she about to stop.
I hurried jump out of my bed to see if she was truly hurt. Good god, look at the way she massages her fore head, it wasn't as bad as it looks.
"Tonight, I will pay you and Sumika a visit. It may be rather late due to my schedule so could you endure a little bit"
Kasumi nodded obediently.
Takeru couldn't help but think that she is just extremely adorable.
Takeru POV (Shooting range)
Marimo "Aim for the 100 meters target. Full auto mode for one round. Shoot!"
Even it has been a while since I use small arms, I seem that my skill has not rusted one bit.
As I look around, it seem like my squad mate bad shooting habit "Trigger happy" didn't change one bit as well.
Takeru walked toward Marimo direction as he begins his speech. "Instructor, I think my squad mates are developing bad habit in their shooting."
Marimo perplexedly looks at Takeru and asks "Cadet Shirogane, you may explain your point"
Takeru "Their shooting skills are accurate and fast. That's good. However, they aim and shoot too quickly. They are clearly rushing over the line. It's a good habit for foot soldiers. However, they are all aiming to be Eishis. That habit of them can be fatal and it would take a long time to fix."
Marimo still had her perplexed look on her face "You may clarify it, Shirogane"
Takeru "They all shoot too soon after they raise their guns. That's because they get used to the firing range. Since they all plan to become Eishis, it's a different matter. When we pilot the TSF, most of the system is about automated decision and optimization. That does include the lock-on feature. The correct approach is to optimize first, aimed with the lock-on system and shoot. If they start to shoot immediately as they rise they guns in this practice, they would just wasting their ammo rather hitting the target. As the battlefields are constantly in motion, you could choose to take cover first, pause a little to make use of the operating system and shoot. That's way it would bring out the max effectiveness of the TSF."
Marimo is genuinely surprise as she heard Takeru explain his point, she asks "Shirogane, have you ever pilot a TSF before?"
Takeru decided that it's better to lie for this question of Marimo "I was but a civilian days ago. There is no way the governments let a civilian piloting a secret of state TSF, don't they. I have some experience with the designing of OS for the TSF. That's the reason I able to work out their mistake. That's all, instructor Jinguuji."
Marimo thinks for a while and call the girls off to repeat what Takeru just advice her regarding their shooting habit.
Marimo POV
Marimo can't help but think that Takeru existence is just as bizarre as her childhood friend Kouzuki Yuuko. Beneath the young man strange behavior, tardiness, mysteriousness and his talent to drive someone insane is totally another world of wonder. He is strangely good at everything. In barely just 2 days, he managed to set a record in any lessons or any activities that he joins for the first time. If Marimo was to use a sentence to describe him, it would be the opposite side of the coin of Kouzuki Yuuko.
"Shooting range, Sniping lesson"
"Tama, can you show me your sniping skill? I heard from Yuuko sensei that you are really amazingly good at this." Takeru begs
"Hehe, I am not really that good" Tama squeaks
Chiruzu "Tamase, show him what you're made off. We can't have a new guy to ace all the record here in just a few day, can't we."
Way to go class rep, you are not a squad leader for nothing. You really know the way to motivate someone else.
Tama "Ehhehe, I'm not good enough to show off"
Chiruzu "Come on, I hate to keep losing to this crybaby ace of our"
Takeru"Geh, stop calling me a crybaby already!"
"Tama "Yosh. I will give it a try"
Takeru "Don't get motivated by such a weird sentence of class rep"
Chiruzu smirks "I don't know about that. You should really look closely. Up until now, I have never seen anyone could come close to Tamase prodigious sniping ability."
I smile at Class Rep words. I know it only too well. Tama was my mentor at sniping in some of my previous loops. Her ability with a sniping rifle is so amazing that no one could rival with the exception of Kashiwagi of the fame Valkyrie.
Chiruzu passes me her binocular "Here. You can have it"
"Thanks. Wait, I don't think that we have talk about which target she is going to snipe"
"Isn't it obvious?" Chiruzu grins
Wait I don't think I have seen this pattern in any of my previous loop yet. Did my action here has somehow change the future?
"It could only be the farthest." Chiruzu finishes her sentence and grin at Takeru's shocked face.
"The 1500 meters target?"
"I am surely you will be impressed"