The Sixth Question
Akihisa's Survey
Today, men are getting a little insensitive when it comes to a girl's ideal guy. Please describe the person you like or your ideal man.
Kirishima Shouko's answer:
Sakamoto Yuuji
Akihisa's comment:
...that's a straight to the point answer.
Dela Rosa Alexa's Answer:
Someone who is admirable.
Akihisa's comment:
uhm...isnt that answer a bit too vague?
Natsumi Haruka's Answer:
A person who is admirable, who doesn't break his own rules until it's necessary, someone who sees things in a brighter side, and someone who risks things.
Akihisa's comment:
Don't worry, the FFF will hunt him down(and murder him).
Kudo Aiko's answer:
Someone who tries his best for me.
Akihisa's comment:
From what you always do, everyone will do their best.
Himeji Mizuki's Answer:
uhm...
Akihisa's comment:
It's ok, Himeji-san. I got it covered.
Shimada Minami's Answer:
Akihisa's comment:
Minami-(written in blood)
Class F and class A are now preparing themselves for the summoner test war in a few minutes.
I am joined with Shouta-kun in Yuuji's mission which involves...
"Oi! Yuuji. I know that things have their reason for doing it so for the outcome of this war but... Why the hell are we wearing female uniform for this mission!?"
"Sakamoto-senpai, isn't there another way to obtain this kind of information?"
I swear, if this involves about something about making fun of us, I'm going to call Kirishima-san and make him suffer more than what he'll do to me now.
"Look, you two. This is an undercover mission since class A knew how both this batch and the alumnis so easily since there's a few of us guys here; and also, we're reknowned to the school when it comes to what we did in our years. So we have to send you guys in, as ladies, to get information about whose with our alumni to be in this war and obtain information about their plan."
"But Yuuji, what about Mitsurini? His skills are still unmatched when it comes to information gathering."
"Akihisa, we're dealing not only Shouko, but also the current 2-A class rep., and second...who's, most likely, aware of Mitsurini's existence. We can't risk losing him in this mission if he is the top of Health Education. We have to improve his grades as much as it takes for us to increase our chances of winning."
I understand Yuuji's analysis and praise to Mitsurini. True that Mitsurini is undetectable when it comes to obtain information but in the case of engaging in the presence of Kinoshita-san who is very cautious during our wars. I believe he won't be getting away with accurate information at hand so easily. Also we really have to rely on his test score to get through this war because if he gets eliminated before the war even starts, we're bound to face a serious problem in this grudge match.
"But it still doesn't answer why we have to wear female uniforms for an undercover."
"Simple, you bunch of idiots. The disguise will camouflage your face to be unnoticeable; your legs are already too feminine so that's good; And Akihisa..."
"Hm?"
Is he going to praise me that 'you are the only person I can rely on for this mission'? If that's the case, he won't get a-
"...you already have a lot of experience from this sort of fetish, right?"
"DAMNIT YUUJI!"
"Ah! Akihisa-senpai, please control yourself!"
"Lemme go, Shouta! My soul will drag this bastard's body to hell and that will be the first and last thing I'll do!"
"Ah! Yuuji, Mitsurini told me thou hast something thou wish to ask of me?"
Damn! If it wasn't for Hideyoshi's cute face, you won't be able to see the light of day, you bastard.
"Oh! Good timing, Hideyoshi. We need you for this undercover mission, so you have to blend in with Akihisa and Shouta."
"Eh? Hideyoshi's in this too? Isn't it too dangerous for a woman to go in this problematic mission?"
"Akihisa...when will you and the rest will accept me as a guy?"
It's too risky for the mind of the world to make your beauty to be gender identified as a guy, Hideyoshi.
"For your undercover to be really successful, Hideyoshi's ventriloquism will be needed to make yourself unnoticed, your feminine voice is well-known to Shouko and to someone else in class A."
Eh? Someone else? Was there in class A aside from Kirishima-san who knew my existence(in female disguise)? Was it Aiko-san? Since she's with the Kimono contest 3 years ago. But if not, who was it? Kinoshita-san?... Gah! It's so frustrating to think about things too much!
"So you three, do you accept this mission? If we lose these information before the war, we'll be in serious trouble. The fate of this war lies in your hands."
"We accept!"
For his compassion and determination(which were fake...) in those words, Yuuji managed to convince us with this awful request.
"It's a good thing the drama club still has thy costumes, but why does it have the label of 'The hall of Hideyoshi-sama'?"
I can understand those guys, his fame for his beauty and acting were unmatched. Once he reads his script and understood the character, he becomes the character itself once the play began. And seeing her in a female uniform, just...captures my heart in an instant.
"Akihisa-senpai?!"
"Hm?"
My attention was changed to the blue short-haired girl who happens to be Shouta-kun. With his shyness and the disguise, he really looks like a girl... If a guy confesses to him, I would understand the FFF's rule...but that's not the case.
"What's wrong, Shou-chan?"
"S-Shou-chan?! Akihisa-senpai, please get a hold of yourself!"
"Wha? Oh right! The mission."
Almost lost for a moment there, not only will I be labeled to a person to like a guy(Hideyoshi's an exception), but I'll be labeled as a shotacon.
"Remember, Hide-chan, Shou-chan. We're here for one purpose and one purpose alone: to obtain the information of class A's units and their plan."
"No good, we lost Akihisa again. And I don't want to be called as 'Hide-chan'."
"I agree to Akihisa-senpai, you look real cute compared to me, Hide-onee-sama."
"What, you too? Why must I be called '-chan' or 'onee-sama'? Both of you knew I'm a guy, right?"
With Hideyoshi's blushing face and a lighter tone of voice, he's like his sister being fragile yet more finesse.
But I have to remain calm. We have to finish this mission and I'll need Mitsurini to gather for me some 'Confidential' material.
Luckily for us, we managed to blend in with class A as they began to gather themselves inside their room for the meeting.
"Class A, we are going up against class F!"
"EEEHH?!"
What's with this class roaring to this? A student then walked to the aisle and spoke the class mind.
"Class F has their worst facilities but they have the top of our batch last year. Facing them is a meaningless battle and we won't have any benefit to it."
Well...that made sense...we are with an unusual class F here.
"Which is why the school coordinated us with two things: first, is the class F's Hiroshima Shouta will be the betting chip."
I don't understand why Hiro-cha-er... Hiroshima was the betting chip for this war. Even the class are muttering 'that idiot?'.
"I know you guys are wondering why him? Why not herself? The simple reason if she's here out of the bet then she won't motivate herself to be in any class war nor her academics will be hazardous to our school. In Hiroshima's case, he has a certain non-romantic connection with her but that forces her to work hard to get him. Meaning that if we get him, we'll take Haruka."
Now I'm really confused why's Haruka-chan in class F? Is it for the FFF or something Hiroshima knows? But one thing's for sure, the confusion had died once her plan was revealed.
"Now, for our chance of winning, they gave us a chance to battle with our senpais, the alumnis of last year."
"EHHH?!"
Another uproar? What is it about us that made these guys get so jumpy?
"The seniors who fought class F that uses outrageous strategies that nearly defeated them? Now we have twice the problem because they probably have the insane duo in class F to guide them. And there's one that Nishimura-sensei identified as the 'Genuine idiot' who became the 'Punishment Inspector' but when he's with the guy named Sakamoto, they become the scariest pair. There are also rumors that they are not only partners in crime."
I like that they treated us together as one of the biggest threat. But why am I being unknown and being identified with him as more than that?!
The president of class A we met earlier (Alexa Dela Rosa was it?), clapped her hands that immediately turned the panicking class A into a silent and attentive state. What proof of power...
"And here, we have the same class A that managed to defeat them in most of their battles."
And what lies before us are the people lined up and introduced themselves one by one from left to right.
"Hi kohai's, I'm Kudou Aiko. But you guys can call me Kudou-chan(wink)."
Kudou-san's one of Mitsurini's rival based from 'experience' unlike Mitsurini's 'research'. She's grown much from her petite figure to a model type yet her tempting slowly lifting her university skirt still hasn't changed...but it sure gave me a blood pack to order when I come back.
The second one had a familiar pair of glasses but his hair was slightly longer than what I knew of him.
"Kubo Toshimitsu...University student."
He's the valedictorian during second year...thinking back and now, somehow I felt a chill coming down my spine...
"Kinoshita Yuuko, I am the commander for the war that happened between us and the idiots."
Her stance was still powerful for even just wearing her strict yet cute uniform. I wish Hideyoshi would wear that uniform.
"By the way Hideyoshi, where did you and your sister study?"
I saw Hideyoshi blushed behind the wig and replied to my question in a low tone.
"Wh-what are you talking about, Akihisa? Surely you're not planning on asking nee-san, right? I-I would be bothered."
Setting aside Hideyoshi's super cute appearance. I can't really remember why we, the old class F, would choose him over Kinoshita-san even if they're twins.
"Ahaha...you're mistaken I just want to catch up. That's all."
Hideyoshi then placed his hand on his chest and gave a deep sigh of relief
"That's good to hear then."
Truth is that I wanna go to your school really. But all our conversation subsided as a familiar black-haired maiden came to the front.
"... Everyone, I am Kirishima Shouko, Yuuji's fiancé."
"WHAT DID SHE SAY? SHE'S THAT SAKAMOTO'S FIANCE?!"
"This is confusing, the best of class A and the best of class F were lovers?"
The uproar is pretty much expected. Seeing that bastard got a good maiden with him. Alexa still being as composed as the rest of her sempais called out to the crowd to calm them.
"Class A, haven't you noticed why, even so close, they bested their class F?"
Now that I had thought about it...the reason why we lost a couple of times in the past was-
"It's because their hearts and minds are connected."
...I dunno what to say...I'm confused myself on what Alexa-san had said...
"Look, since they're lovers. It's not surprising that she also knew what class F is up to because she knew how her lover would act. How their love started is not important to us. The point being that we knew their strategy from his movement will make us quite advantageous against them."
Now that made it clear...Kirishima-san knew Yuuji quite well that she knew how Yuuji would act on any situation. I hate to admit it, but we're in a problematic situation to begin with.
Alexa smiled as she's satisfied with the class's pleasing reaction to the problem they had and made another announcement.
"Now the introduction has ended. It's time for our strategic meeting...I would ask for our class F in this room to leave us alone for now."
Eh!? What did she just said? Why are the class A students staring at us...not good. We tried to act innocent and confused.
"W-what?"
My mouth gapped a bit in shock but Hideyoshi managed to made a feminine voice come out of it. Its cute to hear such voice but its not cute when its from my mouth.
"Don't try that again, Hideyoshi. We knew Sakamoto would be aware of me being alert on Tsuchiya Kouta. So he had to send you guys in to get it...leave now or I'll count how many cracks in your body I can make."
Damn...she became sharper than ever...we can't fight them so many and so powerful so we had no choice but to make a run for it...
"That girl, I had seen her somewhere before..."
"Hm? What is it Kubo-kun?"
"Ah, its nothing Kudou-san, I just thought of something."
I heard a mutter from the distance as we left the room. Are they going to change the plan? Damn, if that's true...this war rests on that guy's hand now.
Kachak!
We changed back to our original clothes (sadly, Hideyoshi wore the male school uniform) and reported to Yuuji what happened.
"Hmm...so they're here...this war will be fun. Shouta, round up the girls. And request Ironman to summon a training field here before the war. I'd like to teach those ladies what idiots can do."
Yuuji's getting excited in this war? It must have been because they took class F too lightly since the class are separated by how well you did theoretically. And for that, he took advantage on practical application of them. I wonder what this guy's up to that he had to call Ironman for a training summon field.
"Alright class F, this is the only mission I can do for now...dodge and fight like our Punishment Inspectors."
"Eh?!"
I dunno what's confusing, class A or Yuuji? Haruka-chan seemed to be confused as well.
"What are you talking about Muscle-Senpai?"
Yuuji's eyebrow twitched but somehow his composure remained still unexpectedly, did he managed to tolerate Kirishima-san's attacks recently?
"I requested Iro-no, Nishimura-sensei to have you ladies battle against the summons of our Punishment Inspectors without your summons. Rules are simple: you all are going to catch them using weapons or your hands; their summons can't use weapons but they'll carry invisible ink that last quite a while if you managed to catch them in 3 minutes, they're yours to deal with freely."
Ah! So we're going spar with them...physically?!
"Oi! Yuuji! How's this going to help us train? And what's the point of us being spar partners if there's no reward for us."
Yuuji placed his hand onto my shoulder and with a serious look we stared into each other's eyes as he said
"Akihisa, a man must aid a woman in times of need. Do you understand?"
"Y-yeah...you should help Kirishima-san with your marriage certificate."
Think you can fool me this easily this time you bastard.
"Himeji, Shimada, If you managed to grab this idiot's summon and bring him to me, I'll give you 3 tickets to the Kisaragi Grand Park."
"WHAT?!"
No way...he still has a grudge against me for what happened that time? But what he said is an obvious-
"We accept!"
Eh?! Did I just heard Himeji and Minami agreeing to this condition?
"Hiroshima! Prepare yourself! This is going to be easy."
Looks like Shouta-kun's in a pretty bad situation as well as the women began to crack their fingers. Looks like we won't be getting out of here without accepting it.
"Fine, we won't lose! Shouta!"
"Yes Akihisa-senpai"
"SUMMON!"
We yelled in synchrony as the familiar geometrical glyph appear before our feet followed by the rise of our miniature selves wearing the gym uniform(for training purposes).
"We Punishment Inspectors won't lose!"
We cried as we picked up the invisible ink with our hands and prepared ourselves for the battle against class F's ladies.
"Okay...three minutes is up and it looks like you ladies are covered with ink and still haven't catch them."
No surprise that Shouta-kun and I possess the fear of being hurt that we can easily dodge all their attacks. And a summon's strength and speed multiplied from that of a human without the points being regarded.
"H-how is it possible? He's the dumbest person we know in our batch?"
Looks like Haruka-chan still hasn't realized it as they were completely exhausted from their first attempt.
"Huff...huff...Akihisa-kun improved a lot..."
"Ha...ha...you took the words...out from my mouth, Mizuki..."
Seems Himeji-san and Minami tried their best to grab me.
Yuuji chuckled and announced boldy to the room.
"Ladies, what I am saying to you now that as class F, we don't pay attention much on our grades, it's the will, the dirty moves, and the most simplest of all: the compensation of one's lacking leading to his other's strength. In other words, being Punishment Inspectors, they have more time to control of their summon due to their heavy errands helped them become what they are today."
So powerful and harsh yet so true. Class F are powerhungry for the facilities so Yuuji used class A as bait to draw out their inner strength as one group of warriors giving their all.
"I'm sorry that I covered you with ink, Haruka-chan, ladies."
Being moved by the sudden apology of Shouta-kun to his comrades, I walked up to Himeji-san and Minami and bowed.
"M-me too, sorry Himeji-san, Minami. I think I let my instinct kicked in."
The ladies surrounded us reddened a bit. Are they mad?
"...one more..."
"Huh?! H-Haruka-san?"
I think I heard Haruka-chan's angry voice as she repeat what she just said.
"Muscle-senpai! I want to battle them one more time."
Yuuji grinned and gave a reply to the angry demanding roar.
"Heh...Ladies, Welcome to Class F!"
Its been 30 minutes but the battle felt like we'd fought for ages trying to avoid their attacks and getting them drenched with ink.
"Huff...A-Akihisa-senpai..."
Looks like shouta's pretty much exhausted as his summon being began to be a bit groggy. I lifted him up, his weight bears pressure on my right but I ignored it since I'm used to carrying heavy things. The ladies have a lot of stamina and fewer ink on them. They have improved drastically.
"Damn...its getting harder and harder to dodge!"
I muttered as our summons nearly dodged the last barrage of attacks.
"Gotcha!"
I heard the announcement as I saw Haruka-san's stick headed straight for us...Damn! I can't react fast enough because I had a dead weight(literally).
Just as soon as I felt the power of Haruka's weapon.
"Time's up!"
"YEOUCH!"
It hurts, I got a headache but I did get saved from having body crushed. As the field and summon dispersed right at the moment my head got hit.
"Muscle-senpai, why did you stopped? I've almost had them."
I hate to say it, but it's true, Haruka-chan would've caught us if it wasn't for Yuuji's bell rang.
"I did say that you only have 3 minutes for each battle and I took note on the time the last battle started. But you should be amazed on how few inks you have than you were at the start of this exercise."
It does took me by surprise, they all managed to get only a spot or a drop of ink but only a few of them had a streak. Still though, I don't have any idea how does this help with the on going war?
"Ok! To compensate to the things that happened. Akihisa, Shouta, you guys prepare for the war."
"EEEH?!"
Even though we won, we're the ones who gonna prep up?! Damn Bastard!
I shouted my voice in english just to make him look stupid.
"You bastard, I'll kill you, if it's the last thing I do!"
"Oh...kill me? And how do you propose that would work with your rusty brain? Idiot, before you think of your opponent's possible weakness, think about your own weakness."
Eh? What did he just say? I understood the 'Kill me' but what's that about the rest of the sentence? Did he just answered me in English as well? Damn bastard, he knew that I wouldn't know english very well in just one year.
I gritted my teeth in anger and turned away muttering.
"Cmon Shouta-kun, we got work to do."
"Ah! Wait, Akihisa-senpai!"
Finally, we managed to prep the room with the help of our summons for the war. But it seems the plan discussion was over. Shouta and I are the only ones seem to be out of the plan but that soon came out as we went over to him.
"Ah! Akihisa, Shouta! Good timing!"
"...Shouta-kun, please pass me some pencil, scissors and a knife."
"Stop that, Aki! You two are adults now."
"I-I agree with Minami-chan!"
What?! Again?! My heart is already crushed by Kirishima-san confessing to this bastard, but hearing these ladies defending him crushes my soul deeply.
"Akihisa-senpai?!"
"Aki?"
"Akihisa-kun!"
Leave me be...I am bound to see the darkest side of life anyways.
"Let's ignore the idiot for now. Shimada, the front lines are on Math-"
"You want me to support them right? Even they're a group of A candidates, I can manage them more."
Due to lack of understanding japanese, Minami was really good in maths so it's good that we had that info covered.
"Himeji, guard the class F Rep."
"I-I'll do my best."
As a class A candidate, Himeji was the most powerful for us in our time. I wonder how strong her summon would be right now?
"Hideyoshi, Mitsurini and I will go gather information separately."
Hmm...I guess they are not used much in the middle of the war...EH?
"What are we supposed to do?"
That guy...he just gave me that dreadful grin of his and replied.
"Do what you do best, Punishment Inspectors."
"Oi! What's that supposed to mean?"
I tried to pry him more of that information but that guy managed to get himself out of sight so easily.
"W-what do we do now, Akihisa-senpai?"
Tsk...what can we do as Punishment Inspectors... Wait! What I DID as Punishment Inspector...
"Shouta, let's wreak havoc in this war."
Because there are things only we can do that others can't.
"Huh?"
"Just follow me!"
I can't expect Shouta to easily understand what I'm planning but if it's Yuuji's idea of fixing this war, then that's what we're going to do.
"But first, let's make ourselves known in the front lines."
Because most of the time in our war. Yuuji uses this idea to lure them towards me to make a break to class A. If we try to use the same tactic a year after that, it might work again.
Kasha!
"Let the grudge war begin!"
"What the hell are these girls?"
"We need back-up now? Is Tanaka-sensei here yet?"
It seems the very hotspot of this war is in the bridge between the two buildings. And the field is in math. It seems it's possible to be surrounded considering the stairs are open to class A making a route towards the hall behind us.
"Shinto Kai, dueling against this senpai!"
Damnit! I let my guard down since i took more time to think that they can enter from the back, looks like I have to face this class A otherwise I'll consider it my loss and will be taken to remedial class.
"I-I accept."
"Hiroshima Shouta, joining in this duel!"
Eh? Did Shouta just said 'joining'?
Our summoned appeared once again but this time, in our battle uniform.
"So...they had the settings around the time."
In that time there was a change of equipment based on the scores...my summon wore a school uniform with a dragon woven into it and worn in a delinquent way and still has the wooden sword at hand.
"Damn that old granny, she didn't say that our summons would look like the same as our time. How bo- what the hell?!"
My grudge on that old granny easily was distracted because of what appeared to me a strange summon wearing a SWAT uniform, what caught my attention is that he wasn't wearing any weapon.
"Shouta-kun...why is your summon wearing a riot shield?"
"It is my weapon Akihisa-senpai. You should know that, right?"
I pity this kid who took a shield as a weapon.
As we argued a bit on the definition, the name and score came out as a school standard.
Class A, Shinto Kai, Mathematics, 261 points
VS
Class F, Yoshii Akihisa, Mathematics, 25 points
And
Class F, Hiroshima Shouta, Mathematics, 19 points
Great...our battle is against a high scored class A and shouta's no help because of his weapon (not to mention his score) and we can't run because we'll be counted as KO by default. What are we gonna do?
Author's comment:
Finally, managed to finish. I've been planning on recreating an AMV in between working this story so this is going to take longer. I'm sorry for the wait. Also this would be the second to the last chapter so be sure to await the side story. Oh and you can send into my forum "baka to test to shoukanjuu reference vault" to tell me what kind of side story you prefer in my 1.5. It will have 5-7 stories, no word limit..
Oh and you noticed that I restrain my story to 4,000 words. Simplest reason is that I did it for you readers. The original light novel is free to be as short as 4,000 to as long as 10,000. I want it to be read by all people so I made it as short as possible so sorry to have these cliff hangers. Don't worry, I might add in volume 3 to the total just to make it a safe way to end my story so that'll be...1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, (3.5?)...
And...that's it, thanks for reading and I'll see you all next time.
Sakamoto Yuuji's comment:
See!... No one's going to answe-.
Kirishima Shouko's answer:
...He did it for me.
Sakamoto Yuuji's comment:
T-that wasn't in my expectations...and I didn't do it for you, I did it for my pride because of those idiots back then so don't misunderst-GUWAAAH! STOP! STOP! MY SKULL'S CRACKING! HELP! HELP!
Mik106's comment:
Aah~!...the scent of loving couple in the air.
Sakamoto Yuuji's comment:
DON'T MAKE IT EV-*CRACK* OW! OW! OW! Shouko, Stop! Stop!
Final Special Question:
Give the most famous group of people that manages the purity of class F?