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2223 Hours – Seaside Inn – Dinning Room

(The main theme is still Heaven's Divide from the Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker game)

The room was separated by two groups. One of them was seated by tables while the other ones had decided to stay in seiza position, eating their food elevated on individual table platforms.

Ichika, Charlotte and Cecilia sat in a row with Ichika in the middle. Kenneth on the other hand, sat right across from Charlotte. Happily swallowing on some sashimi with a dab of wasabi and soy sause, Ichika said, "Nothing is better than fresh and real wasabi!"

Charlotte titled her head as she looked at the wasabi paste as she picked up the entire thing and swallowed it. In mere moments, she dropped her chop sticks on the table as she plugged her nose as tears started to fall from her face. Some of the girls snickered at her reaction.

"Char, are you alright?" Kenneth said with concern. Ichika nodded as well.

"It's really tasteful…" Charlotte managed to speak as she continued to plug her nose. Handing over his cup, Kenneth said, "I hope that you're going to be ok."

Sighing relief, Ichika turned to Cecilia as she was struggling with keeping herself in the seiza position. "Hey Cecilia, if you can't stay in this position, you can always move to the tables."

"No, no. Don't worry about me." Cecilia managed to smile out as she muttered, "Compared to getting this seat next to you, this pain is nothing."

"Huh?"

"No-nothing at all!"

Looking around the group, Ichika caught eyes with Houki as she continuously glared at him. Wha. What a face. What did I do? Still seeing Cecilia struggling, Ichika then said, "You know, I could always feed you."

Cecilia's face lit up like a Christmas tree as she said. "Really? You really will feed me? I don't like leaving any food on my plate."

Ichika started feeding Cecilia the sashimi as the other girls took notice,

"Aww, that's completely unfair!"

"Ichika, what about us?!"

Houki's eyes slanted as she started to drink down her soup in distain. Stupid Ichika…

As the racket in the room escalated, Chifuyu barged in as she yelled, "Shut the hell up everyone! If you can't keep your voices don't…"

The students instantly settled down as she turned to Ichika. "Orimura, keep the racket down." With that, she slammed the door again.

With a sigh, Ichika whispered something to Cecilia making her blush madly. As the rest of the class finished their food, they promptly decided to head over to the kitchen to place their dishes. Kenneth had done the same as he decided to exit the room and leave towards the edges of the inn. Charlotte took notice, but decided to let him be for the moment.

Exiting outside, Kenneth looked around the edges of the inn for a quiet corner. Finding one, he crouched down as he tapped a few buttons on his synthetic arm as a microphone and earpiece popped out. Taking both he hailed the local STARIS Command for a line back home.

"Command this is Midshipman Kenneth Arthur Buyuu."

"This is Captain Brian. Hello there Kenneth. How is everything?"

"Captain…"Kenneth said. It has been a while since he had actually spoken to him. After the raid on the Phantom Task base, he only relayed messages to the Captain.

"Well who else were you expecting?"

"Either way sir. Has my SI armor been repaired yet?"

"Sorry Midshipman, we haven't received word on that yet. The mechanics are doing some test bed things with Janus' new information dump on STARIS High Command. It may be some time."

Kenneth groaned a little as he replied, "Very well then sir. Out." Closing the communications line, the microphone and eyepiece retracted back into his arm as he stood back up. Placing his hands in the kimono, Kenneth started to make his way back inside the inn. Looking around, he continued to search around as he eventually found the girls crowding around a door as he walked over.

"What exactly is going on here?"

Cecilia and Rin hushed at Kenneth as they pressed their ears against the door. Listening in, he could clear hear Ichika and Chifuyu. Their dialogue seemed very incestuous. The door couldn't keep the weight of all six of them as they collapsed on the ground inside the room. Looking up, they saw Chifuyu on her back as Ichika was giving her a backrub.

***A few minutes later***

The girls and Kenneth had all settled down as Ichika had sat in the chair patiently waiting to break the silence. However, Chifuyu was the one to. Taking a seat in a chair next to Ichika, she said,

"Alright, what was so interesting for you three to be leaning against the door?"

"Yeah, it was just a backrub."

Cecilia's face lit up with relief. "Ohh, how silly of us."

"Hmmph, it seems that our calculations were incorrect." Laura commented as Ichika blinked. "Uhhh, what were you thinking then?"

"Well naturally we thought it was in-." The rest of the girls, include Charlotte wrapped their hands over Laura's mouth. Kenneth had a low sigh, looking down.

"Uh huh. Right." Ichika said, not exactly understanding what was going on.

"Well he may not seem like it, but Ichika here is a wondrous masseur. Might as well like you girls enjoy him too." Chifuyu chuckled.

Ichika scratched his head, "Nah, it's nothing like that. But yeah, Cecilia, this is kinda the reason I wanted you to come over. So why don't you go first?"

"Re-really?" Cecilia heavily blushed, playing with a curl in her hair. Laying down, she rested herself as Ichika started pressing down at her back. Slowly, Cecilia's face started to doze off.

"Cecilia, are you sure that this doesn't hurt?"

"No, no… Ahhh, this is good." The other girls started their death glares at Cecilia as Chifuyu nonchalantly lifted Cecilia's kimono, revealing French black lace panties to the rest of the girls and Kenneth. The girls reacted with shock as they tried to process what was going through Cecilia's head to wear that. Kenneth closed his eyes and looked away.

"My, my. What a peculiar set of underwear you have."

"Sen-sensei please!"

"What? Did you think that those naughty eighteen year old dreams would-."

"Orimura-sensei please!" Cecilia pleaded as Chifuyu let out a mischievous chuckle and let go. Turning to Ichika she said, "Ichika. Get me a few drinks will ya?"

"S-sure." Standing back up, Ichika exited the room quickly as Chifuyu got up as well. Walking behind a wall, she grabbed two beer cans as she looked over at Kenneth. He looked away as she got the idea. Holding both cans, she snapped one open and relaxed in the chair.

"So girls. What do you exactly see in Ichika anyways?" Chifuyu asked her body more lax. The girls, besides Charlotte, looked at each other before Chifuyu continued, drinking some more.

"Sure, he's a good house man and does a pretty good job with massages. A pretty lucky woman would be happy to be with him." Leaning in she said, "So do you girls really want him? Huh?"

"We can?!" Cecilia, Rin, Houki and Laura said in unison.

"Phff. As if!" A collective groan.

"Get with the program girls. If you're a true woman, go with the attitude of wanting to pick up a man." Chifuyu took a big gulp as her face became more and more relaxed. "Alright, now get. I'll tell Ichika that you all left for something."

Sighing sadly, Houki, Laura, Cecilia and Rin got themselves as they exited the room. Kenneth and Charlotte were about to leave as Chifuyu said. "Buyuu. Stay here for a second."

Nodding, Kenneth looked at Charlotte nodded to her as well. With an understanding closing of her eyes, Charlotte left the room, something on her mind.

"Take a seat Midshipman, 'cause I know I will." Chifuyu then promptly sat back in her chair, her body slouched.

Taking the seat next to her, Chifuyu passed over the beer. Taking it, Kenneth snapped it open as well, remarking. "I am still underage ma'am."

"Drink it. I'll take responsibility if necessary." Cracking open the beer, he took a sip as the bitter taste ran down his tongue. He didn't like a single bit of it, but continued to drink nevertheless.

"You and the blonde one becoming an item?"

The sudden question blipped in Kenneth's mind for a moment before he said. "I… do not know."

Chifuyu gave an irritated growl. "Don't be bullshitting me Midshipman. I was checking around the Grandberry Mall weeks back. I saw you and her at the bikini shop."

Kenneth coughed up some of the beer as Chifuyu sighed. "What a perfectly good waste of booze."

"You saw that ma'am?!" Kenneth said his voice with alarm.

"Don't go jumping off bridges. Just sayin'."

The two sat in silence when Kenneth finally said, "Yes. I guess." He lowered his head.

"The hell are you getting down for?"

"Just personal things I guess." He took another sip of the beer, feeling that the nano-machines in his body not exactly going at maximum potential.

"So you are starting feel human again, eh? Hitokiri of STARIS?"

Growling at the nickname, Kenneth gulped down the beer as Chifuyu raised an amused eyebrow. At that moment, Ichika wandered back into the room seeing it vacant.

"Uuuhh, where did everybody go?"

"They went back to their rooms. Go meet up with them if you want." Kenneth said his voice slurred slightly. Ichika raised an eyebrow at his slurred speech but then exited the room.

"Either way," Chifuyu continued, handing another beer to Kenneth. "What? You don't like that nickname of yours?"

"I have grown to resent it."

"Aye, but its what you are, isn't it?"

"A killer. An assassin. Yes, it is." Kenneth said, cracking the beer open and started chugging it.

"Then why not embrace it?"

Kenneth played with his fingers as they tapped against the beer can as he sighed. "I don't know. I honestly don't know."

"Heh. Did sealing yourself for an entire year do that much damage to ya?"

"No. It was that Black IS in Murmansk." Kenneth took another sip, seeing that the beer was almost gone. Slowly and slowly, he could feel that his body started to negatively react to the alcohol content, as the nano-machines did not register to help remove the alcohol. Chifuyu had only finished one beer and reached for another.

"I had my revenge that day. It simply carried over."

"So what are you going to do now?"

Kenneth shrugged as he finished off the beer. Chifuyu handed him another open one, a small grin on her face.

"All that anger I had back then. Coming here… Was it a mistake?"

"I don't think so."

"The death of hundreds rest in my hands. I should have been killed on the spot after my capture."

Chifuyu punched Kenneth on the synthetic shoulder. "But here you are. Alive and well… ish. Do you honestly think that it's going to be your fault in the end?"

Kenneth sighed, taking another gulp. "Chif- tch, Ma'am may I ask?"

"Shoot."

"What made you quit being Leader of the Three?"

"You had seen the reason right before your face. My little brother of course. I had dirtied my hand in the past. No amount of hand washing will clear that. But at least I can make up the time with something else. Something… different." She drank some more as she exclaimed, "Or I'm just talking out of my ass so heh!"

Kenneth's brain and body lagged behind as he eventually said, "So in other words, that's your reason? To just throw away the past?"

"Not throw away, but to keep it to look forward."

The two continued to drink down beers still pondering on things.

2322 Hours – SeaSide Hotel – Near Kenneth's room

Charlotte had been waiting outside Kenneth's door as she looked down the darkened halls. The sound of the students started to die down as most of the noise was the distance tidal waves by the beach. Still, Kenneth had been away nearly a hour.

The attitude of picking up a man. Charlotte thought as she reflected on Chifuyu's words. It was something she guessed. After figuring out her identity those few months back, Charlotte did realize that she had been with Kenneth a lot. Just walking around, talking about school and the upcoming grades and tests. Just acting like normal people.

Sighing, she started to head back to her room when Chifuyu appeared, holding up Kenneth as he chuckle/laughed in a drunken stupor. Charlotte smelled the booze from the two of them as she plugged her nose, wishing for something else like French wine.

"Here you go! One drunken Super Soldier. Have fun Frenchie!" Chifuyu said, leaving Kenneth at Charlotte's feet as she started making her back. Charlotte, gulping down, crouched down to Kenneth's face.

"You alright there?"

Looking over to Charlotte, Kenneth's face was carefree and lackadaisical. Two words that really shouldn't go with his personality. With a smile he said, "Wwhhy hello there."

"You're drunk." Charlotte said, giving a bit of a pouting face.

"You're cute when ya makin' that face." Blushing slightly, Charlotte helped pick Kenneth from the ground as she made him use something of his legs as she opened the door to his room.

"Why couldn't it have been wine?" She lamented as Kenneth chuckled.

"'Cause wine is for fancy stuff. This is just a little… crash isn't it?" With droopy eyes, he started to stare down at her breasts, despite the kimono suppressing it. Charlotte, really feeling to slap him, just laid him down on the traditional Japanese bed as she sat down to his head.

With another crack of a smile, he said, "If only it was isolated…"

"What?"

"Ya know. You, me. Nice quiet place. Stuff."

"You're a pig." Charlotte scoffed as Kenneth groaned, "Whaat? Just wanted to hold ya close and stuff." Charlotte's face became puzzled as Kenneth looked back with a drunken face.

With a melodramatic feint, he looked away. "So cruel for a French rose to have thorns." Blushing slightly, Charlotte looked away as she said, "Well, it's your fault that you gotten yourself drunk like that. Aren't you underage anyways?" Mentally, she reviewed her words. I sound just like Houki right now.

"Yeah I am… Please don't tell anybody pleeeasse?" He looked over with a begging face. It would have been completely out of character for him if he wasn't drunk.

"Alright fine…" Charlotte said, as she started to feel pity. Kenneth slowly started to get himself as Charlotte forced him back down.

"Now where exactly are you going?"

"Up."

"No your not."

"Eeehhh, fiiine." Kenneth turned away as he started muttering stuff in his stupor. As he started to doze to bed Charlotte started hatching an idea. Seeing Kenneth continuously moving in his sleep Charlotte thought of sleeping next to him. Getting flustered on the thought, she quickly exited the room as she whispered to herself, rushing back and forth.

"Well if I do stay here…"

"No, I really should head back to my room."

"But it's a simple night with him..!"

"No, no that's just too perverse."

"But he's drunk and if the other students figure out..!" Cursing under her breathe Charlotte sighed. This is going to be awhile. Giving up, she decided to check on Kenneth again, he was still moving around and fidgeting. Cursing again, she slowly started to crawl over to him. Suddenly jerking, he faced Charlotte his face low and his body curled slightly.

Blushing heavily Charlotte backed away as she rethought of her approach as the smell of the alcohol disappeared from his mouth. It must be those nano-machines working.

Sighing, she crawled over to Kenneth, placing herself facing his face as she too fell asleep.

0745 Hours – June 7, 2022 – Kenneth's Room

A pounding headache overwhelmed Kenneth as he groaned loudly. So this… Is a hangover. Lovely. Cracking his eyes open; he saw something blonde/yellow in his face. As the nanomachines were still busy cleaning up the alcohol and reevaluating his body condition, Kenneth dismissing it as a reflection of the sun, he started to bring his left arm up only to find that there was something on it. The hangover haze started to disappear as he found himself with Charlotte sleeping right next to him. A sudden shock to his heart and mind, the nanomachines instantly went to overdrive as he no longer felt a hangover haze.

Seeing Charlotte still sleeping, Kenneth's mouth twitched uncontrollably as his eyes rapidly looked around for a way to escape. Leaving his mouth dry, Kenneth swallowed, hoping that she would wake up soon. With his free hand, he went to tap her on the shoulder but instead grabbed it instead. Groaning alittle, Charlotte started to rub her eyes as she slowly noticed Kenneth's shocked and nervous face.

"Uuuhhh…" Charlotte pushed against Kenneth's body as she quickly got herself up and brushed off her kimono. Kenneth quickly got himself up as well, looking the other way. He felt like he was having a heart attack as he gripped his chest.

"S-s-so…" Charlotte said as turned back to Kenneth.

"Why did you stay?" he asked.

"You kept trying to get up, and I didn't want for you to get caught being drunk."

"Orimura-sensei said that she would have taken full responsibility."

The two kept their silence as they heard a loud crash happen outside as the building shook.

"What was that?" Charlotte asked as Kenneth's eyes dulled before walking towards the door.

"Let's go investigate." Charlotte noticed the quick switch of his demeanor as she decided to follow to the outside branch. There was an impact crater from an orange cone that was split down the middle. Stylistic green metal hung at the top of the cone's split ends.

Kenneth looked around as he saw circuitry and other mechanical specifics. Charlotte frowned at it saying. "Why is there a mechanical carrot in the ground?"

Kenneth, not realizing that, took a step back. It was indeed a mechanical carrot. "This is completely impractical."

1324 Hours – Hidden Cove

The personal IS holders were gathered in their jumpsuits as they looked around the enclosed area. It was hidden away from the rest of the students, but still had a fair distance away from the inn if necessary. Strangely Houki had come along as well, holding a wooden bokken. Chifuyu had remained silent the entire time it took for them to all come, giving curt nods. Maya however was with the rest of the Freshman, making sure that their IS training hasn't gone to the wayside despite it being summer vacation from a technical standpoint.

As Kenneth's eyes remained dull, he looked around. Nothing of great importance. All the personal IS holders in one location. Chifuyu decided to start talking.

"So I bet that you're all wondering why you are here?"

"Y-yeah." Cecilia said when Rin included, "Yes. And Houki isn't a personal IS hol-."

"CHI-CHAN!"

The IS pilots look to the right as they saw a dust cloud traveling down the cliffside, as a woman with dyed purple hair and robotic rabbit ears jumped up to the platform heading straight at Chifuyu.

Having an annoyed look on her face, Chifuyu moved back a few feet as the woman slammed her face into the sand. Immediately hopping up without a single scratch on her face, she ran at Chifuyu.

"Oh come'on Chi-chan! Let us hug to show our love for each other! Fuhhmmm!" Chifuyu placed her palm into the face of the woman. Well, almost her face. There was a clear barrier between Chifuyu's hand and the woman's face. The barrier shinned blue like an IS shield.

"One. Don't call me that. Two, shut up Tabane."

Cecilia, Laura, Rin, Charlotte and Kenneth's minds picked up on the name. Tabane. As in Tabane Shinonono, the creator of the IS armors and their cores. While the other girls had their thoughts on how she acted, Kenneth scanned her over. It was a purple dress-like clothing. The creator of one of the greatest threats in the age of deterrence is a child?

Finally stopping her assault, Tabane grinned wildly at Chifuyu. "Mhm, mhm! Still as cold as usual, huh?"

Looking around, Tabane eventually found Houki who tried to hide herself from embarrassment. Popping right behind her Tabane smiled with a "Hi there!"

"Ta-tabane…" Houki said, getting herself up.

"Mhm. Long time no see right? A few years? My my, Houki-chan really has grown up! Especially your breas-." Before Tabane could finish off her sentence, Houki smacked her sister's face with the wooden bokken. Luckily there was a shield, but it still probably hurt.

"I'm going to hurt you." Houki growled to Tabane's complaining. "Waahh! You already did!" Turning to Ichika she said in child-like tone, "Ik-kun! Tell Houki-chan that that's meeann!"

The rest of the group besides the Orimura siblings groaned. There is no way that this child is the creator of the Infinite Stratos. Kenneth mentally snarked.

"Please introduce yourself, Tabane…" Chifuyu cupped her face, as the time was getting wasted away.

"Hi, hi! I'm Super Star Genius Tabane Shinonono everybody!" The group remained silent until she said, "That's it!"

Everybody groaned again as Chifuyu shook her head. "Instructo- Err. Orimura-sensei, with all due respect, but what is the creator of the Infinite Stratos Armors doing in a place like this?"

A twinkle in Tabane's eyes shined as she pointed straight up, mimicking some old anime pose. "Now… Look up to the heavens, children!" As the group looked up, they all spotted a massive reflective diamond as it was hurdling down to the ground. Laura and Kenneth's face became stoic as they forced Cecilia, Rin and Charlotte to the ground as the object kicked up a lot of sand and some rocks as it pelted around them. As the sand cleared, Chifuyu and Tabane continued to stand.

Houki had been lucky enough to simply crouch down to avoid the sand as she popped her head out, furious that her sister would be so careless. Ichika was rather unlucky as he didn't expect something like that to happen as his entire body minus his head was covered by sand and kicked up rock.

"Laura…" Rin started as she breathed out.

"Yes Lingyin?"

"Get the hell off me!" Laura got herself off Cecilia and Rin as the two started brushing off the sand from their bodies.

Kenneth was on top of Charlotte as he shielded her body as he looked at down at her. Immediately getting up the two looked the other way as Cecilia and Rin's eyes slanted down at the two. They obviously saw it.

"OOOhhh, Ik-kun!" Tabane rushed over and helped Ichika back up. "Are you alright?"

"Just fine Tabane…" Ichika groaned as he brushed off the sand.

The group's attention sprang back to the mirror diamond as it split open revealing a dark red IS, inactivated. Kenneth's eyes dulled to a grey as he looked at the machine. No data. Laura removed her eyepatch as well, gazing her golden eye on the machine. Shaking her head, she looked at Kenneth. It seemed that they both had no idea on the specifications on the IS.

"Ta-da! A fourth generation Infinite Stratos personalized for Houki, by her older sister!"

The girls faces besides Laura looked stunned and shocked. "F-Fourth generation?! But countries have only started experimenting on Third Generation!"

Kenneth and Laura's faces turned stone cold as they looked at the red machine. Right here was a nuclear weapon just waiting to be hijacked. What Tabane has done was upset the balance of power in the IS world just to suit her own needs. As if she didn't give a damn about it.

"Alrightly then sis! Hop in for a quick optimization!" Houki hesitantly walked over to the machine and slowly dripped herself into its legs and forearm attachments. Several cords latched onto the back of the IS as they started glowing light blue.

Tabane was rapidly typing away at several holographic keyboards barely looking up from her work. Turning to Ichika she said, "Almost done sis! Now Ik-kun, I need to see Byakushiki for a second."

Ichika nodded as his IS materialized around him. Looking at his own machine and Houki's, he noticed a lot of similarities. It was as if they were built for each other.

Latching a cord from Byakushiki to Akatsubaki, Tabane hopped back to her holo-screens.

"Hey Tabane." Ichika tried to start a conversation.

"Hmh? Yes Ik-kun?"

"So why is it that I can pilot an IS?"

"UUuuhhh… I actually don't know. Maybe if I was to break it down to nano units then maybe I'll understand. So can I do it?"

Ichika's eyes blinked several times, probably thinking what things that Tabane would do to him as well. "No thank you."

Smiling, she removed the cord from both machines as she turned to Houki. "Alrightly. Test fly it!"

Closing her eyes Houki's IS lifted off the ground as she looked directly into the skies as she suddenly boosted away. Ichika, Rin, Cecilia and Charlotte stood in awe. Laura and Kenneth's face became more annoyed.

"Now try swinging those swords of yours! Right one is Amatsuki and the left one is Karaware!"

Houki boosted to a halt as she withdrew both katanas she charged some strange red ball as it fired out, cutting through the higher atmosphere clouds.

"Nice, nice! Now let's have a bit of fun~!" Raising her right hand in the air, a missile pod materialized right next to her as they fired in fired, launching sixteen missiles at the IS. With a clean sweep of her blades, the missiles exploded in midair, not even coming relatively close to it.

"With this IS...!" Houki smiled. Tabane had a small mischievous smirk as she turned to the rest of the group. "So who wants to have a small fight against the Akatsubaki?"

The girls looked at one another, unsure of what to say. Ichika really did not want to fight Houki in any shape or form. Slowly Kenneth stepped forward.

"I shall." He said, thinking. I need to evaluate this threat as well. Whipping his left arm out, his replacement SI armor manifested. It carried a basic combat chassis comparable to most third generation ISs. A basic HUD helmet landed on his head as he looked at Houki. Still nothing showed up on the machine as Kenneth growled. Taking flight, he materialized an IS shield and sword as he swung horizontally at Houki's midsection only for her to block with her twin katanas.

Boosting backwards for a second, he swung with his shield at her head, only to have it blocked again. Houki's face turned for shock to glee as she started a barrage of her own slashes, utilizing a dual wielding kendo shinai style. The speed and power backed by the Fourth Generation IS pounded back at Kenneth's Worker Class STARIS machine as the shield started getting large gash marks.

Back-flip kicking Houki away, Kenneth boosted towards the ocean's surface as he switched out his SI sword for a battle rifle. Turning around, he saw that Houki had nearly caught up with him. Switching to full burst, he fired at her as her shields started dipping down. Taking back to the air, Kenneth switched to three-burst shots, taking account where she was boosting around.

"Oh sis~! You can use an Ignition Boost ya know?" Tabane radioed.

"R-Right!" Houki replied, as she quickly changed her direction and fired red energy lances. Alarmed, Kenneth dodged two of the five as the remaining three blasted through the shields and ripped off the wings of the SI armor.

This is what it must feel like against a STARIS pilot. Kenneth thought as his leg boosters compensated for the back thrusters gone. Still, he started dropping in altitude. Seeing the opportunity, Houki boosted towards Kenneth, katanas at the ready for a finishing blow.

Switching the battle rifle for his sword, he waited for her to get closer… Closer… Closer…

Now! Kenneth swung at Houki's head with a fierce upperhand cut, only to see her ISs red image move just out of range as she slashed twice at his back, as the SI armor power was cut.

Heading straight for the ocean, head first, Kenneth closed his eyes. So this is the newest threat… Damn.

The loud splash of a metal object hit the water and continued to sink. Tabane simply laughed as she placed her hands on her hips, proud.

"That's my little sis~!"