All of this training hinjinks will soon stop as we enter the first battle after the tournament. Chapter 6 for all of you readers and the last of the chase uploads.
Senshado und nichts ー 6『Der Rest die Vergangenheit』
[Miho]
I was quite worried on what Anzu was planning as a a punishment but good thing it isn't cleaning all of the comfort rooms of the school with a toothbrush. But an anglerfish costume is something as bad as it's own. We were driving across a sandy plain in the academy just to get used to the ammount of sand we kick up at the mountains in Oarai. "Miporin, I still do remember how hard it is when we were at Oarai but I think this is too much," Saori-san said while the sand was building up in front.
"This is just the same as Oarai, Saori-san," Mako-san spoke beside her, "it's easier on your side because the dust doesn't get in."
"Try using these, Reizei-dono," Yukari-san handed a protective glass to Mako-san.
"Thank you," she soon wore it, "ooh, it's really better with the glasses!"
"The Wehrmacht issued those kind of glasses to the troops back in the African Front," Yukari-san was now wearing goggles before peeking out of her hatch, "Rommel commanded the DAK well in the African Front and it really feels like we're in those battles with these amount of sand!" Her words gave me a small idea. Rommel made his troops to kick up more sand to make it look like that their fighting force was big to the reconnisance planes up above, maybe a trick like that could do something.
"What do think is better, Yukari-san, the German 7.5cm L/40 or the Brittish 17lb. gun?"
"The German L/40 was good in against Shermans in long to extreme ranges but the 17lb. had really good penetration compared to the L/40, so it's based on the situation all in all."
"Oh, okay."
[Louise]
"Oh crap, pothole!" We soon tilted about 30 degrees to my side as we got stuck in the pothole. "I'll take a look at it," I climbed out just to see that the sprocket was torn off.
"How bad is it, Strawberry-san!" Momogawa shouted from her hatch.
"We're not gonna be practicing for today that's how bad it is."
"What happened?"
"The frontal right sprocket was torn off, it would take us a day or two just to repair."
"That bad eh," Nekota-san spoke.
"I'll get the truck but if you don't want to wait here, you could walk with me."
"Or we could just hitch a ride with Anko team," Anko team was just about to pass us.
"Or that," I pointed my finger to myself.
"Oi, Miho-san!" Momogawa waved her arms.
[Miho]
"Hey, it looks like Anteater team is in trouble," I soon noticed their tank which had it's nose dipping through a hole, "Reizei-san, please stop by them."
[Louise]
"Hai?" The Panzer IV ausf. H stopped in front of us.
"Can we hitch a ride, Nishizumi-san, the sprocket broke off," Nekota-san asked.
"Sure," we soon climbed the moment she replied. Momogawa and I sat near the engine block behind the turret while Piyotan and Nekota-san sat on top of the turret. Of course we locked the turret in place before doing this stunt. As we stopped at the garage, we made sure that the truck had fuel in it as the others were using it to practice drifts somewhere in the school. The tires and treads were recently changed but that's probably because of the drifts too.
"Hey, I want in too!" Momogawa shouted when I started the engine. She climbed on the other side of the truck and said that she wants to see how we recover these tanks after battle.
"You know that there's no speed limit here, Momogawa," I implied something, and that is me going 0 to 60 km/h the moment I pressed the pedal. "Drag racing is one of the few ways to drive, that is what Hoshino told me, besides, this truck could do 150."
"This isn't a sports car or a Ferarri or something!"
"I know it isn't a sports car but who the hell places a really powerful Diesel engine with full ECS on a truck." Probably the mechanical club, I answered my self in my thoughts.
"This is just plain crazy, I mean, the ECS and everything," she said while the mufflers popped as I changed gears. We ended up at 125 before slowing down. As we stopped by the tank, we tied it into a steel cable and started to lift it off the pothole.
"There it is, dang that's gonna be hard, it's torn off hard, if we're to field change this, we would take half a day, and we're technically out with all of the shock we received."
"So how are you going to fix this?"
"I don't know, probably remove the broken axel then replace it with the new one, or change the torsion bar or something else, I'm a beginner for Anglerfish's sake!"
"So are you done yet?"
"Can you place the tank into neutral," I asked her.
"Sure." After placing it in neutral, I started pulling it with a winch into the back of the truck.
"Come on, let's go back." Then we drove back to the garage, I can take care of the tank tommorow morning and Nekota gave us the idea of searching the map that we had from a book.
"A Hummel and a BT-7," Nekota said as she saw the two tanks. It was half burried in old stuff.
"Nekonyan, kochi kochi!" Piyotan shouted from the middle of the pile. We moved to her and saw these platings. Probably German spaced armor for their main line of tanks. "StuG III ausf. H conversion module," Piyotan read a piece of paper which was placed in the middle of the plates.
"There is a good amount of rust yet, I guess we can use these with just a bit of cleaning," I spoke, "maybe there's more things in here."
"Let's spilt up, Strawberry north, Momogawa south, I'll take east, Piyotan take west, call out if you found something," we agreed with her plan before separating ways. As I moved north, I saw tons of papers. It looked like old documents. Photo albums, reciepts, documents, maps, blueprints, it was a massive collection of papers, probably 20 years old. Tanks, older tanks, school layout, Oarai Girls Highschool 1988 champions picture, a list of tanks, another list of components.
"Found anything yet?" Piyotan asked.
"Just a pile of documents here, probably with something that we can use," I replied, after the search, I only brought six books with me, a photo album of all Oarai championship wins, the two inventory books, a blueprint for a H6K, a map of the school, and a paper containing a seal of some sorts. While we headed up, we also got StuG III ausf. H kit, all of the trophies of the championship wins and a pair of tanks that needs to be stripped, transported and reassembled and modified for the current Senshado requirements. There were also some live ammunition there, which really worries me, considering most of them are real 15cm Spgr shells, which is the HE eqivalent for the Germans.
[Miho]
Three weeks soon passed, and now, I am about to announce who will wear the Anglerfish costume for the next seven days. "The ones who will wear the Anglerfish costumes are, Akebe-san, Riko-san, Karina-chan, Sodoko-san, and Momo-san."
"Now that's up, you can ge- wait, what!?" Momo-san shouted.
"Momo-chan lost by half a second to Yuuki-san," I explained, it was a test of loading 10 rounds into the I-Go's 35mm. Anteater team was excluded by Anzu for their efforts in finding the Hummel which had a new top cover and a BT-7 mod 1939 which was in good shape, the StuG was now also fully converted into a ausf. H. We still haven't looked at the pictures but those documents would probably looked at after the fight against Pravda.
"Such misfortune," Momo-san said while wearing a skintight pink anglerfish suit.
"You look cute in that Momo-chan!" Yuzu said as a compliment.
"Why are you teasing me!" But apparently, Momo-san took it as sarcasm.
For those who will ask, if you look closely to the material about Senshado, you'll find that the old ones still used live but toned down ammunition.
