Chapter Ten: It all Started with Stiches
As Ryuko slowly regained consciousness, she became aware of the fact that she was lying on a cold hard surface and that she couldn't move any of her limbs. Low voices drifted towards her ears and she struggled to make out what they were talking about, but the words sounded too complex; a jargon she didn't understand. She opened her swollen eyes slowly and squinted as she tried to adjust to the bright lights pointed directly at her. When the bright spots faded from her vision she turned her head back and forth to take in her strange surroundings. She was in a lab of some sorts, with strange machinery and tools lying around on the tables. And on her right was a group of people talking just outside the door. Ryuko could make out a bunch of lab coat clad figures except for one, who was wearing a white business attire. Her black long hair ran down her back and suddenly the synapses in Ryuko's brain fired and she gritted her teeth in anger as memories of last night flooded her mind. That's right. She had been led by Nui to the Kiryuin mansion where Nui had explained to her what Satsuki had done to her family.
"Satsuki!" she screamed and strained against her restraints. Her loud cries alerted the group to her awakening and Satsuki narrowed her eyes at Ryuko before dismissing the others, except for a small blonde haired boy with a half mask on his face. Ryuko struggled hard but her muscles just wouldn't obey her. The small needles that had her pinned down were not even moving despite her best efforts.
"So our guest has awoken. You took quite the nap. It's already been two days."
"Satsuki, you lying dishonorable murderer let me go so I can fight you. Coward." Ryuko spat and continued struggling.
Satsuki just looked on in amusement at Ryuko's tries before the younger girl noticed it was futile and stopped.
"These are special needles. No matter how hard you try to move you can't. Your muscles have been disabled by them. Which is good because I need you to stay put in one place so I can explain to you what's going on."
"I know what's going on," Ryuko huffed. "You're going to try to kill me, like you killed my father over the scissor blades and over Senketsu!"
Satsuki contemplated a moment before responding. "So that's what Nui told you, did she?" Satsuki pulled a chair closer to the steel table Ryuko was pinned to and sat down. She turned to Iori, "This may take a while. Ask Soroi to make us a fresh batch of tea."
"Yes milady," Iori bowed before exiting the room.
"Matoi do you remember what happened last night?"
"Yea, I found out the truth that you've attempted to hide." Ryuko spat and craned her neck to glare at Satsuki's face which was now level to hers, but still held high and mighty.
"And what happened after that? Do you remember being overcome by your kamui?"
"I...I" Ryuko was drawing a blank. What exactly had occurred afterwards? She remembered pulling out her blade to wreck the room and then she saw black and next thing she knew she woke up here.
"Matoi you were overcome by your kamui-"
"What's a kamui? And where's Senketsu?"
"Matoi do not interrupt me. Your kamui is what you refer to as Senketsu. It is a thing created of a hundred percent life fibers, making it a Godrobe and therefore dangerous to any human it comes into contact with. Except for you. It seems you are able to synchronize with it fully. We ran some tests on you and it turns out we may have found the answer. You Matoi are comprised of life fibers as well. That explains your strength to overcome injuries that wound mortals, and why you can wear your kamui."
"Woah, woah slow down there. What's all this life fiber crap you're talking about? Trying to confuse me to death?"
Satsuki who had gotten up and started pacing the room as she spoke stopped. She smoothed out the nonexistent creases in her jacket and took the chair by Ryuko again. "My apologies. I forgot that while you do have a superior body, you have the mind of a simpleton."
"Hey watch your tongue!" Ryuko warned. Iori walked into the room carrying a tray with hot tea.
"Ah just in time. This tea will suit to accompany us as the story goes." Satsuki took a teacup carefully off the tray which Iori nearly dropped.
"Surely, you're not going to tell her everything? We don't know if she still isn't under the control of Nui!"
"Relax Iori, we found no traces of Nui's fibers on her. It was only on her jacket."
"What story are you talking about? Where's Senketsu!? Will you let me go?"
"Matoi I suggest you relax yourself. This story will take a while. Senketsu is not being harmed currently. He is in fact being stitched back together after you ripped him apart."
"I ripped him apart?" Ryuko asked. How could she ever do such a thing to her friend?
"Matoi your questions will all be answered if you just let me speak," there was a warning tone in Satsuki's voice and Ryuko finally resigned herself to waiting and listening. She still wanted to repay Satsuki for what she had done, the anger a dull burn in her veins. But she was clearly at a disadvantage here so it was best to wait for an opportunity to present itself.
Satsuki took a sip of her tea before she started. "Matoi I am not the so called murderer you claim me to be. Nui has lead you into a trap. She intends to use you in order to ruin me and my plans to save this world."
"That's a funny way of phrasing world domination," Ryuko snorted and Satsuki glared evilly at her.
"I have reason to believe Nui has been tempering with your mind. She wants to turn you against me because you are powerful. She planted that scissor blade there; I do not know how she got her hands on it unfortunately. But I promise you it was not I who killed your father. I would have no reason to do so. She fabricated these lies to get you on her side because of what you are. Matoi you are not...human to say the least."
"What...what are you telling me?" Ryuko sputtered her eyes bulging out wide. "How can I not be human when I still bleed like everyone else?"
"That is true. But your body is infused with life fibers."
"What does that mean?"
"It means your clothing."
Ryuko's head dropped back on the table and she didn't move. The silence in the room stretched out as she lay there, unblinking as her gaze stared off into nothingness. Satsuki let the steam from her tea rise up as she tried to gauge the girl's next reaction. Iori stood awkwardly by his ladies side as he sipped his tea quietly.
"I'm ...clothing? I'm a piece of fucking cloth? I'M A PIECE OF FUCKING CLOTH!?" Ryuko screamed her neck tendons standing out. She thrashed uselessly against the needles until at last she calmed down, an angry sob leaving her lips. "How is that possible?" she whispered.
"I have no clue. But we ran all sorts of tests on you while we tried to heal you from your fight. Your body managed to rapidly heal your body despite you losing several liters of blood. We can show you the results if you don't care to believe us."
"Nah," Ryuko croaked out, her voice shaky. She turned her face away from Satsuki. "This kinda shit is hard to make up."
"We shall move on then. We have a lot to go through and we don't have time to dwell on this topic. Following your attempt to destroy my house and me with it, you managed to overcome what it was that had corrupted your kamui. You ripped him off of your body before passing out from the sheer shock of having removed him. We found your jacket in bits and went to renew him, discovering Nui's influence in the process. We believe she must have altered him somehow and hoped that you would be swallowed by him, giving her complete control over the both of you." Satsuki paused to sip her tea. "He is being fixed up as we speak. He is fine." Ryuko let out an audible sigh of relief at this. "The reason Nui sought to do this is because we believe she has found out about my plans to go against my mother."
"Lady! Are you really going to tell her everything? Surely you can spare some details," Iori stammered.
"If I want Ryuko Matoi to completely trust me, I cannot afford to do so. I want her on my side."
Ryuko turned her head to look at Satsuki, her expression blank. "You want me to help you?"
"Yes. You see my mother is Ragyo Kiryuin, the CEO of REVOCS. She uses her company as a cover for hiding her true sinister plans; those of world domination. She intends to use the life fibers she has sewn into her clothing to start the end of the world. At a certain time and date she will flip a switch that will activate the life fibers in people's clothing causing them to be consumed."
Ryuko's brows furrowed in confusion.
"Allow me to backtrack. Life fibers are an alien life form that came down to Earth many eons ago and it has been the Kiryuin family's duty to look after it. My mother is the current head to look over it. I would be the next, if I didn't plan on destroying it. The life fibers feed on human's life energy and they have decided that now is the time for them to awaken. My mother is intending to do let them do just that. She will use these life fibers and let them consume all of humanities life force before the clothing will rise and cover the earth in a cocoon. This cocoon will erupt, destroying the earth with it and causing the life fibers to spread to other planets thus continuing their trail of world destruction."
"That's just great. Fucking clothing, attacking the planet. Never thought the worlds' apocalypse would end cause of fashion."
"Yes and unless we stop it, it will occur soon. This is where you come in Matoi. I want you to lend me your strength in order to take down my mother. I have created this university to garner the strongest fighters around the world so that I may have an army when I rise up against her." Satsuki got up placing her cup on the chair behind her and titled her head up. "Ryuko Matoi will you assist me in saving the world?"
Ryuko just looked back at her. She didn't know what to say. Her head was spinning from all this information she had just received. Was it even true? What was true and what was false? All she knew was that her head hurt and she wanted to go on a run as far from here as she could.
Satsuki was waiting expectantly for Ryuko's answer when a loud crash came from somewhere out in the hallway. Alarms went off, flashing red.
"Iori."
"We seem to be under attack," Iori announced shards of broken porcelain and hot tea at his feet.
"Stay here. It might be Nui," Satsuki rushed out of the room. Iori looked back at Ryuko as another shock shook the compound they were in.
Suddenly a huge explosion tore the wall on Ryuko's left down, sending debris and smoke at her. Ryuko kept her eyes shut to keep the worst of the dust out as she heard someone coughing from behind the cloud of smoke. Iori who had fallen to the ground pulled himself up by Ryuko's table.
"Matoi, boy are we glad to see you." Aikuro's voice sounded from behind the dust as his image became clearer. He was encased in a shiny metal machine that stood on two legs. Only his head was sticking out from the chest of the machine.
"Oi, where'd ya get that?" Ryuko asked as Aikuro's robot shot some needles pinning Iori to the wall so that he couldn't run for help. "Cause it looks fucking stupid."
"Shut up. We stole it from the school's labs. We got a bunch of these. Their actually pretty sweet." Small mechanical hands brushed away Ryuko's needles before helping her up onto his back.
"How are you operating that? Wait are you naked while in it?" Ryuko asked when Aikuro turned around and she saw his bottom uncovered half hanging out of the robot. She tried to erase the image from her mind as quickly as possible.
"Of course I am. Being naked helps me fight."
"Whatever, you weirdo. We have to get Senketsu before we leave."
"Already ahead of you," Aikuro said. Senketsu popped up from a hidden compartment.
"Senketsu! How are you? I was so worried about you."
The jacket and her embraced and she felt a huge chunk of her worries drop away. She looked him over trying to determine if she had really ripped him apart.
"I'm fine. I feel better than ever. The sewing club people here sewed me up good as new and they fixed what was wrong with me. It turns out Nui had something to do with it. She put some thread into me that was controlling me and making me evil. And once it would consume me it would overtake you too."
"Are you sure? Satsuki told me the same thing, but it could just all be a lie."
"No Ryuko, whatever else they may have or have not said to you I know that this is at least true. I could feel it. Right from the start I had disliked her."
Ryuko quietly tried to process this when Aikuro yelled out, "Hold on." Ryuko scrambled onto the robot as it got a move. Satsuki's workers yelled at her to wait, but she wasn't going to. The escapees had found their way to ground level where a full scale battle was happening. More of these machines were roaming around, nailing down Satsuki's workers who only had small nail guns to fight back with. Even Kinagase was there. "Ryuko!" he greeted before turning his attention to shooting down an enemy behind them.
"We've got what we came for," Aikuro announced and the Nudist Beach members began to retreat.
"You guys went all out for this operation!"
"Yea, we decided this would be our appearance. We won't be working in the shadows anymore. We will fight back."
Ryuko clutched harder to the machine as it began to leap from spot to spot jolting her back and forth uncomfortably.
"Ryuko Matoi!" a loud cry came from behind her and Ryuko turned around to see Satsuki standing amongst the carnage, her hands on the hilt of the sword that pierced the ground in front of her. She glared at Ryuko as the fires around her raged but didn't say anything more.
Ryuko just gulped at the meaning behind those eyes. It meant that Ryuko wasn't going to be free, that she would be hunted down without rest or mercy. Ryuko quickly turned around and felt Senketsu move to reassure her.
When Ryuko arrived at the Nudist Beach base, which had been constructed under one of the gyms, she was greeted by a worried Mako.
"Ryuko! I was so worried about you. After that fight I thought you and Senketsu were done for," Mako cried as she leapt at Ryuko who stopped her friend mid-leap by grabbing her and placing her down on the floor safely. Mako then hugged her friend. "Don't worry, me and him are fine. They didn't hurt us there at all."
Aikuro exited his robot along with the others who were dismounting. A person passing by Aikuro gave him a change of clothes which he quickly put on. "You like what we did, with the base?" he asked as he buttoned up his polo shirt.
"Yea, I'm surprised that you guys managed to do this. How'd you get your hands on this?" Mako ventured off, suddenly interested in the machine Aikuro had exited, while he and Ryuko had their talk.
"Well," Aikuro puffed out his chest. "We just chased out the workers here and took the stuff over. This belonged to the physical department but no one has tried to claim it back. We set up traps and defense in case they try to. Also we managed to steal a bunch of equipment from the labs and from the secret compound under the president's mansion."
Ryuko grunted in approval as she appraised the place. It wasn't too fancy but it was big and more importantly it could accommodate all the team.
"Ryuko, since we decided that we would strike back this week, we want you to lead the assaults on saving students from the horrors of the discipline department." Aikuro looked over expectantly at his black haired friend and Ryuko just stared back uncertainly before she mumbled out. "I don't think I can do it, I'm sorry."
"Why, what's wrong?"
"I need some time to think for myself and I just can't do it while fighting. I don't think I can lead you guys. I'm sorry."
Aikuro looked taken aback. "Why no all of a sudden? You were always eager to fight."
"Yea I know," Ryuko ruffled her hair apologetically. "I just don't think I can do it right now. I'm going through some shit."
Aikuro approached Ryuko and put his hand on one of her shoulders assuredly. "What's wrong? Did they do something to you in the labs? It's okay, you can tell me."
When Ryuko still didn't say anything Aikuro placed his other hand on her shoulder and tried to draw her closer. "Maybe take off your clothes. It'll help free up your mind. Their evil and restricting," he offered and as if on cue his shirt was already unbuttoned and flapping in a wind that came out of nowhere.
Ryuko didn't even react to this as she normally would. "Your right. Clothing is evil. And it's going to take over the world." She covered her face with her hand leaving Aikuro thoroughly confused. "Eh, did you say something?"
Ryuko shook her head no and rushed off disappearing amongst the crowd of people. Aikuro looked after her departure, joined by Mako who had somehow gotten stuck in the machine.
Ryuko found a quiet corner of the base and sat down, leaning against the wall. She placed both her hands against her head and sat like that for a while.
Ryuko are you okay, Senketsu asked
No... I don't know what to do anymore. Everything seems crazy, she mentally answered back. Like the fact that I'm a piece of fucking cloth, the same thing that is so evil it must be destroyed. I just don't know what to believe anymore. Is Satsuki right or is she just pulling my leg and Nui is the right one. Or is Nui the villain?
Ryuko grit her teeth in frustration. I can't deal with this. I need to go away, now.
Ryuko what are you doing? Ryuko ignored Senketsu's cries and tore him off her shoulders. Then she ran off, leaving him behind.
Senketsu had to find someone that could help him bring back Ryuko. Who knew where she had run off to, and what she would do next. He ran towards Mako, her oldest friend and started gesturing wildly. She looked on at him with a blank expression and he wondered if he understood anything he was saying. Finally realization struck her. "Ryuko's gone missing!" she started running around the base with her hands above her head before she tried and fell, not getting back up. "Oh no!"
Senketsu looked at her before placing his head on his sleeves. This wasn't really helping.
Ryuko stole a bike and somehow managed to make it off campus. The drive had been five hours but she'd made it, back to her home town.
She parked the purple monstrosity in front of the ruins of her father's house and walked in with purposeful steps.
"Dad," she yelled but only the crickets answered her cries in the orange glow of the afternoon.
"Dad," she cried out again "Why didn't you tell me? Why didn't you tell me everything, about the scissors, about the jacket, about me?" Her voice was choked with tears.
"What am I supposed to do now?" she asked as she sank to all fours. "I don't know who I am anymore. I don't know what to do, who to follow," she watched as her tears hit the floor dissolving the soot around her.
"I don't want the world to end, but I just can't do it by myself. I'm not responsible enough to help, to try to change it. I'm not good enough. I'm not the hero this world deserves."
She struggled back a few more chocked sobs before she rose up back to her feet. "Why did you have to leave me? I need your help." she asked quietly as she wiped her tears away with her sleeve.
"Why he's buried under six feet of ground, don't think he can help you now." a high pitched giggle was followed by that statement and Ryuko saw Nui standing on one of the ruined walls before she hopped down.
"What do you want?" she asked as she sniffled angrily. "Can't you see I'm busy here?"
"Why the great Ryuko was crying. Ah how touching." Nui tiptoed over to Ryuko who stood unmoving, her fists clenched.
"I'm glad to see your fine. My, when you went on that rampage, I was so scared."
"Oh can it." Ryuko growled. "You weren't concerned. You altered Senketsu and tried to turn him on me."
"Why I would never do such a thing," Nui's face displayed shock. "Satsuki must have messed up your brain when she attacked you. She's been feeding lies about me, hasn't she?" Nui leaned in closer to Ryuko, shadows gathering on her face. "Tell me, what did she say?"
Ryuko leaned away, feeling unease prickle up and down her back. "Well she told me about life fibers and how they are planning to take over the world. That Ragyo is evil and wants to use the life fibers to end all humanity. And that Satsuki is trying to stop her by building up her own army."
"Why that bitch!" Nui growled and Ryuko was taken aback by how vicious the girl sounded. Angry flames momentarily danced in the girl's eye before they disappeared. "Excuse me, I just had to intake a lot of bullshit at once." Nui struggled to regain her usual voice. "She claims she is trying to save the world from her mother, yes?"
"Yes," Ryuko stammered.
Nui clapped her hands and smiled, her face now back to normal. "Did she tell you anything specific about her plans?"
"No, just that she wants me to help her."
"My, my, aren't you the popular little girl," Nui circled around Ryuko and the black haired girl felt like she was prey about to be devoured. "Did she say anything about me?"
"Yea, that your evil and not to be trusted. And that you altered my jacket making him turn on me."
"Oh don't be silly, I could never do such a thing."
Ryuko was getting tired of the girl's innocent act. "Listen I told you all I know; it's the truth. Now it's your turn. Nui just tell me who you are, and what exactly your goals are. I need to know if I'm going to be able to trust you. I can't blindly keep following you."
Nui stopped her circling and titled her head to let what Ryuko said sink in. "Well I do suppose if I have no choice." She hopped over to sit on a chair.
"My goal is simple. To stop Satsuki and her mother from carrying out the evil plans of world domination. And I want your help to stop them. You have a very special jacket and blade that will help us accomplish this goal."
"And what about you? I know about me, but what about you?"
"Me, well I have my uses too. I know top secret information about them and I'm pretty skilled at fighting."
Ryuko looked at Nui oddly causing the girl to giggle. "I know I don't look like it do I? La vie est drole."
"And you think the two of us can just take down a whole organization? A whole plan for world domination?"
"You're stronger than you think Ryuko. With your life fiber enhanced body you can take anything on if you just put your mind to it."
"Wait-how do you know about my body? I haven't told anyone about it," Ryuko growled reaching for her scissor blade which she kept in her pocket.
"Oh silly me, I let it slip," Nui cocked her head to one side.
"Are you working with Satsuki?" Ryuko barked as sweat dripped down her back.
"I'm not. Don't be stupid, pig." Nui stood up. "It's just that it wasn't hard to not notice. You see your father's greatest invention wasn't the jacket or the blade, but you. The fact that he kept you hidden from Satsuki's and Ragyo's clutches for this long was a miracle. But of course you ended up right in Satsuki's palm. And now she's trying to trick you and use you to further her own means." Nui padded up to Ryuko cat-like and hungry. "And are you going to let her do that?" she asked her voice low, her heart earrings jingling.
"I'm not going to," Ryuko answered.
"That's the spirit. Now I have to be on my way. We have guests coming and I don't want to bother the reunion."
Nui opened up her pink frilly umbrella and floated away. "We will continue this chat, Matoi," she warned and was soon gone.
The loud hum of a car entered Ryuko's hearing and she turned around to see a pink beat up car drive up. A huge blonde haired man sat at the wheel and next to him was Mako and Senketsu.
"Ryuko-chan!" Mako flung herself out of the car, the kamui holding onto her back. They zoomed towards Ryuko and hugged her.
"Mako, why'd you come after me?"
"Cause Senks and I were worried about you. You just ran off. What's wrong Ryuko?"
Mako looked up at Ryuko who pulled herself away from her friend. Ryuko found herself unable to hold back the stream of words and emotion in the face of her friend's concern. "Mako I don't even know where to start from. Everything, everything went wrong. This girl Nui told me that Satsuki killed my father, and that she had the other half of my scissor blade. I don't know whether to believe it because Nui tried to use Senketsu against me. And then Satsuki told me that she was actually the good guy and that Nui was evil. And that the world is going to be consumed by clothing. By evil alien clothing. It sounds crazy, doesn't it? But I just don't know what to do anymore. It's so confusing."
"Ryuko don't worry. You have me and Senks on your side, as well as Kinagase and Aikuro and Nudist Beach. We can help you with this."
"But Mako, I'm not who think I am, I'm one of them. One of the evil life fibers that is trying to destroy this world," Ryuko clutched her head, trying to contain the pain she felt as she feared that Mako would reject her.
"I don't understand, how does this change anything?"
"It means I'm one of the enemy. I shouldn't be allowed to exist." Ryuko's anguished cry silenced the noise of the crickets momentarily, stirring up a nearby swarm of birds into flight. Mako looked at her friend tenderly before responding.
"But Ryuko, your still the same you. I don't care if your cloth. It's not what you're made of that matters, it is what you do. Your actions speak louder than anything else."
"But how can I tell others what's happening? Aikuro hates clothing, how will he react to finding out about me?"
"Don't worry Ryuko. Aikuro cares more deeply for you than you think. And if he says anything mean I'll knock him out." Mako raised a fist with her signature brass knuckles on it.
Ryuko out a loud sigh and tugged on her hair to clear her mind. Thoughts swirled in her head and she pushed them aside with much difficulty. At last she looked up. "Okay, let's head back. There's no point in stressing out."
"That's the spirit!" Mako cheered and then Senketsu jumped off her back and pulled himself onto Ryuko.
Ryuko we have to talk about stuff, he informed her.
Yea I know.
Mako hopped back into the chair and patted the backseat for Ryuko to join her.
"I'll take my bike back," Ryuko said. She needed some time to steel herself for what she was to do.
"Okay," Mako buckled herself in. "Don't stray too far," then she turned to the giant next to her who put the car into reverse and zoomed off. "Faster senpai!" she chanted as the wind whipped her hair.
"Mankanshoku I will not go faster. It is a 40mph zone."
Ryuko followed the car closely on her purple bike. The wind whipped her hair around and it stung her eyes a little.
Senketsu can you tell me what happened?
I think Nui used her fibers to try to control me, that's why when you got angry I was overpowered by your anger and lost control over the fibers she had sewn into me.
Are you better now?
Yea, Satsuki's friends fixed me up.
I'm sorry for losing control like that. I promise never to do it again.
It's not your fault. I should have noticed sooner that Nui's fibers were stitched amongst my own. I'm just glad that nightmare is over.
Speaking of nightmare, Nui visited me again. She wants me to help destroy Satsuki and her mother, to stop them from destroying the world, but Satsuki insists that she is actually trying to save the world against her mother. And that Nui is evil. I just don't know whose correct anymore.
Ryuko, just follow your heart I know in the end you'll figure out what's right.
Ryuko arrived back on campus only to find that the car head lead her on a path that ended up behind the gates of the discipline department.
"Oi, Mako why are we here?" she asked as she hopped off her bike. Mako got of the car followed by the giant. "Gamagori brought us here cause he said lady Satsuki wanted to speak to you."
The giant towered over Ryuko, and she had to crane her neck to look at him. Mako barely reached the top of his thigh as she stood next to him, oblivious expression on her face.
Ryuko gritted her teeth. Mako was too trusting. What if they tried to attack her?
The clicking of heels announced Satsuki's arrival on the scene. She came from around the corner of the building they were parked next to.
"Matoi," she greeted the smaller dark-haired girl. "I applaud you on your escape. Your friends, Nudist Beach I assume, saved you. It's an impressive group you put together, did you not? I was not expecting them, to say the least, to attack so soon."
Ryuko cursed Aikuro for revealing the group so early. Now Satsuki was going to say how she was going to crush them.
But she surprised Ryuko by addressing something different.
"Remember the challenge I issued you earlier on for Fight Week, when you would have to fight against my elite department heads? The challenge still stands. But this time I will offer that if you can defeat all my soldiers I will free you from the responsibility of having to accompany me on this task of saving the world. I could sense your hesitancy on this matter and I can still tell that you do not completely trust me. Therefore I am giving you the option to wash your hands completely of this. But should you lose even once, you must give me the chance to persuade you." Satsuki held her head up and challenged Ryuko with her stare.
Well that's a pretty good deal. Ryuko did want to wash her hands off this whole affair, but what was she going to do now, about Nudist Beach? They were supposed to fight Satsuki's administration to free the students from her punishments. But if Satsuki was possibly the good guy than wasn't she actually doing a disservice? Ryuko sighed and rubbed her face. Damn it was so hard thinking this much about matters. It was so much easier when fighting, all you had to think about was getting away with your life.
"Fine, I accept," Ryuko replied.
"Good." Satsuki smirked. "And don't think that my heads will go easy on you just because you'll be going against four in a row."
"And don't think I'll go easy on them just cause there's only four of them," Ryuko smirked feeling her old confidence surging up. She was Ryuko Matoi, and she would get through this hellish college year, no matter what they threw at her. She'd already found out that she was a piece of cloth, nothing else could top that. But of course she had no idea how wrong she was.