Chapter 3 The Sisters and The Arrogant British.
/ 5 years after Ichika kidnapping /
The world were still revolving. Five years have passed since Ichika kidnapping. During that time the world has become a little bit unstable. While many male still retain some high position of power, in the lower level of social ladder many discrimination has taken place. Some of it were subtle, but there also some that pretty open in its practices
While in someplace this shows in the form of special places or facilities that only allow women to enter in the extreme side a male could be beaten by a women in public without the interference of police. Many new elite school open that only allow girls to attend, while the boys were left in a poorer school.
This discrimination were all rooted from the female military superiority in the form of IS. In the last few years many anti IS movement rise across the world. Some extremist terrorist group also appeared that only targeting IS related assets. This further destabilized the world balances.
Many in the UN were pushing for IS to be allowed to be used as active military assets. Many of the supporter of this movement were the member of the fairer sex.
In the middle of this political time bomb an earthshaking news were revealed. A single male has been discovered that can used IS. This single piece of news rocked the entire world in its emergence.
Some saw this as the start of the salvation of men. The time for men to claim back its social position. Others saw this as some freak DNA accident that need to be studied. Others more saw this as an opportunity for business. And some female extremist saw this as a threat to their gender social position.
But unknown to anybody except a select view this is all just the start of domino fall that will end in a great unexpected event. Hidden behind the excitement that engulf the world, a group of people were working to enact their own plan.
/Unknown location /
The room were dark, the only light source in the room were from several computer screen. Each screen shows a black silhouette of people. The silhouette gives nothing that can be discerned about the identity of the people shown, except that each silhouette shows the body proportion of male gender.
In the room forming semi circle formation were several people sitting in front of the screen. Their faces were covered in shadows, all of them were also male.
"So it has begun?" Ask one of the silhouette, his voice were distorted.
"Yes. In 1 month the 'Genestealer' will enter the wolf's den. From there he will gives us report regularly about his development and any information we needed." The person who sit in the middle chair answered.
"Won't there be any suspicions from the wolf's?" Ask another silhouette.
"There won't be. They has grown lax from the years they spend flaunting their superiority. The cubs won't be a problem because most of them are lacking in contact with the opposite gender. Their caretakers are the same. The only one we need to be careful of are the alpha female and some of their brighter cubs." Answered the same man. "Even then, as long as he didn't raise too much heat it won't be too much of a problem."
"Then let us hope so." Said one of the other silhouette.
"Then what about project APEX?" This time the one who answered were the man who sit in the second sit on the right.
"Oh about that. The project is progressing nicely. The construction of the prototype frame are 70% complete right now and we predict it will be finished in about 2 weeks time from now." Answered the man his voice shows to be the voice of an aged man. "The frame itself are still subject to changes in the future depending on the information we got from Genestealer. Anyway, we just need some volunteer to try the frame when its complete." Answered the man his voice shows to be the voice of an aged man.
"Then do you want one of us to send some our personnel to test it."
"Well if you could, we will appreciate it."
"Consider it done." Answered one of the silhouette.
"Then I don't need to remind you about the protocol considering the selection procedure?"
"Don't worry it will be done according to it."
"Good now, is there still other issues we need to talk about?" Asked the middle man again. A few moment of silence were his answer. "Good, then gentlemen, this meeting is adjourned."
And with that each screen flickering off one by one until all of them were off. Looking around his compatriot the middle man release a sigh.
"Well, there's no turning back now."
/ One month later/ /Location : IS Academy /
The IS academy like any other academy when in the beginning of a school year were bustling with excited students, all females of course.
In the middle of the hallway a peculiar student could be seen walking. She has a messy long black hair with 2 bangs framing her face and dark brown eyes. Anybody that saw her for the first time oftentimes mistake her for her sister, in fact if not for her shorter and smaller stature she will looks like an identical twin to her sister, a certain brunhilde.
This peculiar girl has the name Madoka Orimura, the younger sister of Chifuyu Orimura, the current known strongest women in the world.
Swinging around her gaze, Madoka were in the middle of searching for specific someone. That someone was the rumored first male IS pilot in the world, Ichika Biaggi.
When the news first shows up, there only so little information that the media could find about the boy. The only information they could find were that he is the son of Gary Biaggi, a member of board director of the famous and powerful IS manufacturing and research company based in French, Arche Corporation.
Hell! The only thing they could get were his name, age and address which is a general information. While fortunately they still could get a picture of him even though they picture only capture his side. But it was enough.
When her sister heard the name and saw the picture, she looks a little bit shaken. Piqued by her curiosity she examined the picture a little bit more. And that is when she recognized some semblance in his face with her and her sister.
She already know from her sister that she has an older brother that were lost when she was still a baby. From her sister story her brother fell into a river when they were babies and never be found. Her sister presumed that her brother died from drowning. It was the biggest mistake that her sister regretted still until this day.
Putting two and two together, she suspects that her sister suspects that the boy Ichika Biaggi were her long lost brother. Hell their name were the same.
But stil,l this is still a long shot, but damn if she will give up first. But first she's got some complaining to do.
"What the Hell! How big is this academy!" She has been exploring the academy for nearly an hour and she still only have explored about 50% of the academy.
A ringing of bell caught her attention, the bell signifying the time for the student to go into their own class.
Suddenly realizing something, she shouted."Oh crap!. Where the hell is my class?!" She didn't know the location of her class, she already knows which class she's been assigned to but she didn't know the location of it, and she only got about 5 minutes left to enter the class. The worst of it her sister were supposed to be her homeroom teacher.
"Shit!" Horrified she begin to run while searching for a map of the academy.
/ Class One classroom / / Madoka PoV /
"Everyone's here, right? Then let's start the SHR (student homeroom meeting)-"
The vice homeroom teacher, Yamada Maya-sensei, who introduced herself before, stood in front of the blackboard as she earnestly smiled at everyone.
She has a petite figure, and doesn't look any different than a student. However, wearing clothes that didn't quite match her body made her look even more petite. And it looked even more out of place with her large olive green eyes, behind her hazy glasses.
How should I say it? Instead of saying that it was a disproportionate sense of 'a kid wearing adult clothes'...it was more like a kid being forced into adult clothes and it seemed that I wasn't the only one thinking like this. But that was the last thing in my head. My heart were still beating fast from all the running.
"Then everyone, let's get along with each other over the next year~" Chirped Yamada sensei.
"..."
However, the classroom was filled with an awkward mood, nobody reacted.
"Now, let's move on to self-introductions. Mm, we'll go by seating arrangements."
Even though I thought that the vice homeroom teacher was a little cute when she panicked, that didn't stir me with a 'I feel that I've got to do something' kind of state of mind, because unfortunately, I had no time for that.
If you want to know why,
The reason is simple: everyone were focusing their gaze at me.
Today is the high school entrance ceremony, and for the first day, a new world opened up. That itself was good, something worth being happy about.
However, the primary problem is that I'm the only sister of Chifuyu Orimura the brunhilde.
(This... is a lot more serious than I thought...)
It wasn't just me over-thinking it, but in fact, I really could feel the gazes of all the girls in my class.
Besides, my seat isn't preferable. Why was I placed right in the front middle row of the class? My extremely unmistakeable upper body continued to be noticed even though I didn't want it to.
My eyes turned toward the windows.
"..."
Though I sent a pleading look, the sad thing is that my childhood friend, Shinonono Houki turned her head away irritably, pretending to look outside. Such a cold reaction. Is this the attitude that a childhood friend should show after being separated for 6 years? No... Does she completely hate me now?
"...san, Orimura Madoka-San."
"Ye-yes!?"
Suddenly having my name called out, I subconsciously responded. As expected, there were snickers, and it was difficult to stay calm.
"W-well, I'm sorry for calling you out so loudly. Did I startle you? Sorry-sorry! But, the self-introductions... we started from a, and now we're at o for Orimura-san now. So, pl-please, could you introduce yourself? Co-could you?"
The vice homeroom teacher, Yamada Maya-sensei, bowed politely. However, the bowing caused her spectacles to slide forward. And her air of 'anything goes' really worried me. Speaking of which, is she really older than me? If it was said that she's as old as me, I could believe that.
"No, there's no need to apologize... besides, it's just a self-introduction, so please calm down, sensei."
"Re-really? Really? Really? Yo-You said it, so you better do it properly, okay?!"
Yamada-sensei suddenly looked up and grabbed my hand, and held it really tightly... well, it seems I just attracted quite a bit of attention again.
I stood up and turned to face the class.
Uu...
At first, I just thought that I sensed them staring at my back, but now I could definitely feel their gazes piercing through me from the front. Anyway, even Houki, who had abandoned me, glanced over. As expected, even I, who is self-admittedly a pretty confidant and a little tomboy girl, am fearful.
"Hm-... Well, I'm Orimura Ichika. I'll be in your care."
After I bowed courteously—wait a second? The expressions on my classmates' faces seemed to generate a weird feeling, almost as if they were thinking, 'say something more' and 'it can't be just this, right?'.
The girls are giving me looks of 'tell us more about yourself!'.
Hey, Houki, aren't you going to give me a hand as a childhood friend?—Ah, she's ignoring me again? So heartless.T-T
(Not good. This is bad. If I remain silent like this, I'll end up being branded a 'sinister individual'.)
I held my breath before inhaling deeply, looking determined as I said,
"That's all."
DANG~! Several girls collapsed onto the floor. What were they expecting from me? Stop spouting nonsense.
"That, that..."
Behind me, I could hear a voice crying. Eh? This won't do?
PANG! Suddenly a hard object collided with the back of my head.
"OW—!?"
It hurt, but compared to this, something even more important flashed through my head.
This way of hitting — with suitable force, perfect angle, acceptable speed, someone — though it's extremely similar to someone else's method that I'm familiar with, but...
"..."
I gingerly turned around. Black tight fitting skirt, tall and slim, the body line of someone who doesn't look muscular even after lots of training. Her hands folded in front of her chest, her sharp slim phoenix eyes would remind anyone of wolves.
"Eh, Guan Yu!?"
PANG! There goes another hit. The impact was quite hard, well, look, all the girls are staring.
"Who's a hero in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms? Idiot?"
A deep voice. Though I have heard the sound effect of a gong, but, eh?
'Oh yeah It's Chifuyu-nee she's supposed to be my homeroom teacher.
"Ah, Orimura sensei, is the meeting over?"
Ah, Yamada-sensei. It's been tough on you, forcing you to make them introduce themselves."
Oh, I've never heard her use such a gentle tone before. Where did Guan Yun Chang go? Did he ride the Red Hare Horse away and change into Liu Bei?
"No, it's nothing. As the assistant homeroom teacher, if I can't even do that..."
The crying disappeared, as vice homeroom teacher Yamada-sensei responded to Chifuyu-nee with such an energetic voice and an attentive look. Ah, she's actually embarrassed.
"Everyone, my name is Orimura Chifuyu, and my duty is that for this one year, I'll be training you in the operations and controls of IS. Everything I teach, you have to remember, and understand. To those who can't understand, I'll teach them till they can. My job is to thoroughly train you during your first year, from the age of 15 to 16. You can dislike my attitude, but you still have to do what I say. Understood?"
What's with this declaration of war? No mistake... this is my older sister, Orimura Chifuyu.
But there weren't any awkward cries, but shrieks,
"KYAAA—! It's Chifuyu-sama, it's the real Chifuyu-sama herself!"
"I've always been your fan!"
"I came to this school from North Kyuushuu because I admired you, onee-sama!"
"I came all the way from southern Hokkaido!"
"I'm so happy to be taught by Chifuyu-sama!"
"I'll gladly die for Chifuyu-sama!"
Chifuyu-nee stared at the chattering girls with a disheartened expression.
"...it's really quite a sight to see so many idiots gather here every year. What a surprise? Or is there a special reason? Are these fools only here to attend my class?"
It's not an act, Chifuyu-nee really is disappointed. Chifuyu-nee, popularity can't be bought you know? How about you be a bit gentler?
"KYAAAHH! ONEE-SAMA! SCOLD US MORE! CONTINUE TO SCOLD US MORE!"
"BUT BE GENTLE TO US FROM TIME TO TIME!"
"AND BE EXTREMELY ELEGANT AFTERWARDS~!"
"..." At least my classmates are good at being energetic.
Sighing my sister turned to Yamada sensei. "Anyway, I come here also to bring the special student here."
'Eeh, a special student?'
Perking up Yamada sensei asked. "Eh, a special student? Is that what the meeting about?"
"Yes, the meeting are to decide which class the student will be placed. And its decided to be this class"
'Wait - wait a special student? And she gonna attend this class?' I wondered looking back I could see that most of the girls are also interested except for a blonde girl in the back. She's a British I guess.
"Well then, let's get this over with. You can come in now!"
The door of the class opened and the special student entered. Except that the student weren't a she but a he. He wear the male version of IS academy uniform with both hand covered in black gloves. He were of average height, his body were slim but firm. He has short messy black hair, and a brown eye. Yes, an eye, just one because the other one were covered in black band with some strips red steel in it, the right one. The lower half of his face were covered in a black face mask.
The boy himself held a lackasaidal gaze in his eye. And is that a slight arrogance I saw? Or maybe confidence?
This boy were the one named Ichika Biaggi. This boy were the person who has the possibility to be her brother.
"Now introduce yourself." I heard my sister ordered the boy. The boy open his mouth.
/3rd PoV/
"My name is Ichika Biaggi, I'm 15 years old. Well... I have no intentions of telling you my likes and dislikes. As for my dream hmm nah haven't thought much about it, hobbies... I have few hobbies" Introduced Ichika making some of the girls who have leaned in up close to face fault.
(Somewhere in another dimension in a world that is filled with overpowered ninjas, a single person felt a feeling of pride suddenly bloom in his chest making him perk up. "What's the matter Kakashi-sensei? Asked Naruto. "I don't know I just got this happy feeling in my chest like a feeling that somebody has decided to use me as a role model." His student could only give a weird looks to their sensei.)
"Is that all?" asked Chifuyu with neutral tone.
"Well I come here because of the government order for me to study about IS."
Chifuyu recognized how he used the word 'study' and not 'how to pilot an IS' in his introduction. This could imply that he already has some experience and training in piloting an IS. But considering who his parent were, it won't be a farfetched idea that he already been given some training.
"Yup, that's all I want to say."Chirped Ichika.
"Then you could take the empty seat by the window." Told Chifuyu while pointing to the empty seat behind Houki.
Ichika walk to his designated seat and promptly sit down with his back in a leaning position.
Deciding to ignore it Chifuyu ordered the class to continue their introduction. Meanwhile Madoka focused her gaze into the boy while sometimes glancing to her childfriend Houki The blonde British girl in the back snorted in disgust from seeing Ichika demeanor.
As the last student finished her self-introduction, the class proceed to explain the theory of IS.
Along the long class hour a variation of student responses to the lesson could be seen in the class.
"First there some who are having some difficulty or straining in following the teacher explanation. Most of the student in this category could be seen sweating heavily in their attempt to follow the theory explained.
Second there some student that could follow or at least has already cover up the basic theory at home so the lesson were somewhat bearable for them. The student in this category all has a pretty normal face with some looking smug.
Madoka could be seen belonging to the first category, while she already got some practice training with her sister, theory were something she's not to good at. The smug looking one of the second category falls to Cecilia Alcott, the British blonde girl, she already know the basics of IS theory from the lessons she took in her home country.
And then there's the third very rare category. The bored looking one. The sole occupant of this category were the only boy in the school Ichika Biaggi. His upper body were slouched on top of his desk, with one hand supporting his head to stay upright. His only visible eye were showing boredom, if he could he would have been sleeping but he won't or cannot do it in the presence of the brunhilde.
To stave his boredom he decided to converse with his partner.
'Hey Didact.'
'What?"
'I'm bored here.
'Welcome to the club.'
'Could you connect to the internet?'
'Yeah, so?'
'Well, patch me in won't you?'
'Sigh.. If you insist, fine.' Replied Didact. Suddenly a holographic screen shows up in front of his eye. This is something that they have found out long ago. When Didact is fused Ichika hand, his nerve fiber are also connected with Didact core. This allow Didact to send information to Ichika brains near instantaneously.
Right now Ichika is using this feature to surfing the internet. The screen in front of him are only a projection of information send by Didact into his brain so it cannot be seen by any other people.
Another agonizing hour later, the bell signifying the end of the period finally come to an end.
A second after both teacher exit the class almost all of the girls all whirl their faces about to look into the only boys in the school, only to find the seat were already empty along with an opened window besides it. This prompt an agonized groan from all of the girls.
Madoka were about to leave her seat to search for Ichika when Houki steps in front of her.
"Can we talk? On the roof?" Ask Houki.
'Aah.. so that what she wants.' Nodding Madoka rose from her seat and follow Houki to the roof.
On the roof silence fell between us. Deciding to end the silence Madoka open her mouth.
"By the way..."
"What?"
"Last year, you won the world kendo championship, right? Congratulations."
"..."
"Why do you know that?"
"Why, because I saw it in the newspaper..."
"Why, why did you see it in something like a newspaper." Silence once again descend upon them.
"Oh yeah. You haven't change huh."
'Huh?"
"You know still the same hairstyle."
"Hnh, and you are still a little bit of a klutz." Said Houki with a huff.
A smile form on both their faces then they both hug each other.
"It's been a long six years huh Houki."
"Yeah, it's been long."
"It's good to see you."
"Yeah, good to see you to."
Houki were about to say something but then the bell rang out signing the end of the rest period. Both girls decided to return to the class because they didn't want to be late, considering who is their teacher the punishment won't be pretty.
Behind the door leading to the roof a figure steps out from the shadows showing itself to be none other than Ichika.
"Hmm... so the sister of the brunhilde is a childhood friend of the sister of professor Shinonon. Hmm.. interesting."
He then walk down to return into his class, it won't do for him to be late. (In the world of Naruto, a certain white haired Konoha Jonin got a feeling of being betrayed suddenly appear in his heart. Making a stream of tear to fall from his eye suddenly.)
After another agonizing couple of long hours later that is the 2nd period, the bell rang again signifying the beginning of another break time.
This time when the girls focused their gaze to his seat Ichika were still there with his head face down on top of his hands trying to sleep.
After a few minutes of silence, finally one of the girl approach the slouched form of Ichika.
/Ichika PoV/
I was trying to sleep from all of the boredom of the previous 2nd period when Didact alerted me that someone was approaching my seat.
"Ahh, can I have a moment?" Ask the voice of a girl with arrogant undertone. I decided to pretend that I'm already asleep/ Maybe then she will leave me be so I could sleep for real
"Excuse me.".
"..."
"Excuse me!" This time the voice spoke with anger in her tone.
"..."
"I'm talking to you! Wake up you hairless monkey!" Okay that does it, nobody speaks to me like that. I rise my head up and turn it to see who the speaker is.
The girl who asked was naturally blond. She's stared at me, and her blue eyes which are held exclusively by people of white descent revealed a sense of unhappiness or indignation.
Her hair was slightly curled up, giving off a sense of nobility. Her radiating demeanor was that which women normally give off in today's society.
In current day society, due to the IS, women are given higher status. It's not just a privilege, even the archetype of 'women = great' came into being. At the same time, men were relegated to being slaves, manual labor. Right now in the city, it's not rare to see men being abused by women they never met on the streets.
Anyway, in the minds of the women nowadays, men are basically considered servants. To be honest, that's not necessarily a bad role, it's a Really Really BAD role.
On a side note, since this IS Academy has the duty to accept a large number of students, it's not rare to see foreign students enrolled here. Even among the victors , only half the girls in the class are Japanese.
"Are you listening? Hello?"
"Ah-, ah, yes, I'm listening... was there something you wanted?" I reply nonchalantly.
Upon hearing my reply, the girl in front of me deliberately increased her volume.
"Wait a second! What are you saying? Just with me talking to you should be enough to make you feel greatly honored. Shouldn't you have a better attitude towards me?"
"..."
To be honest, this is the kind of person that I'm the worst at dealing with.
Being able to use an IS means that the person will become part of their country's military. Thus, IS pilots are held in high regard, and currently, only females are IS pilots.
But the difference between that and flaunting power is that if the power is begotten through violence, it's just a tool for violence.
"I'm sorry. But I have no idea who you are."
It's true. Even though I did pay attention to the self-introductions and all sorts of rhetoric, I couldn't recall what was said before, to my defense I found reading online manga as something that worth my attention more.
However, my reply didn't seem to go over too well with the girl in front of me (it would be great if she would tell me her name). She narrowed her eyes to slits and said in a tone conveying complete contempt with regards to men.
"You don't recognize who i am? You don't know who Cecilia Alcott is? You've never heard of me? The representative candidate student for England and the top scorer of the school's entrance exam?"
Ah, so her name's Cecilia. Oh it will be fun messing with her.
"Well, may I ask a question?"
"Humph, it's the job of a noble to answer the requests made by people of the lower class, so you may ask."
With an eye smile I give my question "What's a representative candidate student?"
KA—THUNK! Several girls eavesdropping on our conversation collapsed onto the floor.
"A, a, a..."
"Ahh?"
"Are, are you serious?"
She really looked angry now. If this were a manga, she would most likely have a crossed-vein popping out of her forehead.
Inside my head me and Didact were laughing at her reaction "Ah. Because I really don't know."
"..."
After being angry for a bit, Cecilia actually calmed down. She pressed her thumb against her temples, conveying a headache, grumbling...
"I can't believe this, this is really quite unbelievable. Though this is a land to the far east, this is not some under developed country. This is common knowledge, common knowledge. Don't tell me you don't have a television..."
How rude, I do have a television, I even have the newly released 108 inch HD television placed in my room.
Indulging my humor I ask her again "What's a representative candidate?"
"The pilot of a country's IS is decided from the pool of representative candidates, which means the elites...you, should be able to understand what the words mean."
'Well duh!' I rolled my eyes mentally "Now that you mentioned it, that does ring a bell."
"That's right, we're elites."
Oh, she's back to being haughty again. As expected of females of this time.
She pointed her finger at me, the tip nearly touching the tip of my covered nose.
"It's a miracle for you get into the same class with the chosen ones... you should feel blessed. Do you realize the situation that you're currently in now?"
Rolling my eyes I said mockingly "Is that so? How fortunate for me."
"...Are you trying to make a fool out of me?"
'Wasn't it you who told me how lucky I was?' I just show her my eye smile.
"In the first place, I'm sure that you knew nothing about IS. How you could enter this academy is beyond me. When I first heard that you were the only male in the world who could pilot an IS. It had me expecting a lot more of you."
'Hmph I bet that I know about IS more than you do. I even have one living inside my head.' Keeping my smile I replied "Making assumptions about me, will only leave me in an uncomfortable situation."
"Humph. Because I'm an elite, I'll even be nice to people like you."
Oh, what a friendly attitude. This is the first time I've experienced something like this during my 15 years of life.
"If you don't fully understand anything regarding IS. Hm... if you cry and beg me, I may be inclined to teach you. After all, I'm an elite amongst elites, the 'only' one who defeated an instructor during the entrance exam."
It feels like she purposely emphasized on the word 'only' —eh, hm?
"That's the entrance exam you're talking about, right? Are you talking about initiating the IS?"
"What else?"
"That? Well, I managed to beat an instructor as well."
"Huh...?"
That's what happened. Actually, I just evaded the instructor that had suddenly come charging towards me. She accidentally crashed into the wall and was unable to move and I take my leisure time firing at him with my weapon. If that is the level of instructor in this place, forgive me if I don't have a high expectations of the quality of this place..
Maybe my words caused quite a shock to her, since Cecilia widened her eyes in disbelief.
"But, but I heard that I was the only one?"
"Hmm... Maybe it's because I'm not a girl?" I asked innocently.
*Pacha*. Ah, that's not a good sound. It sounded like walking on cracked ice.
"In-, in other words, I'm not the only one?"
"Well, I don't know."
"You! You said that you beat an instructor, right?"
"Mm, well. Something like that."
"Something like that? What do you mean by that?"
"Erm, calm down, okay?"
"How-? How can I calm down after hearing that—?!"
DING—DONG—DANG—DONG.
The bell for third period interrupts our conversation. And there goes my nap time.
"...! I'll be back! Don't run away! All right?" I heard her warning me.
'Sigh, just one more hurdle in my life.'
"Alright before we begin the 3rd period, we have to decide on the class representative who will take part the inter class tournament."
Perking up from that, I mused 'Hmm the class representative huh? It will present a great chance to collect some data. But in the other hand it could garner to much attention and I could still collect it by other method. Hmm to be or not to be hmm...'
After Orimura-sensei finished explaining about class representatives and what its entail, one of the student suddenly stand up.
"Sensei! I recommend Biaggi-kun!" 'What?'
A murmur spread among the students. Another student stands up too. "Sensei! I feel that it's a good idea to!"
"Is there no other candidate?"
"Sensei! I recommend Orimura-san!" Hmm so it seems someone has the same bad luck as I am.
Suddenly the class were split into two group. One group supporting me and the other supporting Orimura Madoka. Both group start to argue against each other. I could see Orimura-san the younger one, you know what! I will just call her Madoka when I'm thinking in my head for convenient sake.
BAAM ! the sound of desk getting slammed broke the debate of the girls. I turn to see Cecilia standing up.
/3rd PoV/
"Hold on a minute! I can't accept this outcome!" Shouted Cecilia.
"This kind of election outcome is totally unacceptable! All of you chose Orimura-san only because of her sister and I won't accept it. Besides it, having a man as our class representative is totally disgraceful! Do you expect me, Cecilia Alcott to endure this embarrassment for a whole year?"
By this point all gaze were focused on her.
"In terms of ability, it's obvious that I should be the class representative. It'll be troubling if some rare far-east monkey is to be chosen because he is a rare breed! I came to this island country to polish up my IS skills, and I have no interest in joining a circus!"
Continuing she added "Isn't that right!? Only the most talented can be the class representative, and I'm the most suitable one!"
Twitch! Twitch! Even though most normal people won't be able to see it, somebody who were close to Ichika could see the sign of him being annoyed from looking at his body language.
"In the first place, living in such a country with an underdeveloped level of culture is excruciatingly painful for me—"SNAP! The sound of something snapping could be heard. Surprisingly the one who snapped first is not Ichika, but somebody else.
"That's weird, how come me and Biaggi-san are no longer human? Why? Speaking of which, Britain is an island itself, right? That means that Britain and Japan aren't much different." Snapped Madoka, her face showing an angry expression.
Surprised at getting cut off suddenly, Cecilia couldn't get out a proper response.
"Besides that, even if Britain's a powerful country, you're far too arrogant on your part, right? How many years has it been now that you've won the world's worst cuisine award?"
"Wha...!?" Let out an indignant Cecilia. "Y- you! Are you insulting my country?"
"If your brain can't even caught up to my insult, then you are a lot more stupid than you showed. Hnh some elite you are." Insulted Madoka. Cecilia was about to retort back but a new player cut her off first.
"Mah, Mah, Orimura-san, don't be too hard to the British girl, everyone has their own fault." The whole class were surprised that Ichika would defend the one who has practically insulted him not a minute ago, this sentiment were shattered by his next comment. "It's really clear that Alcott-san are trying to cover her inferiority complex with her bold words." STAB
"Although I must agree with you that Britain doesn't have much to offer in food department." DOUBLE STAB
"What? " Her face red with anger, Cecilia demanded Ichika to explain about his words.
Turning around to face her with an eye smile, Ichika decided to explain his statement.
"Well, it's clear that you have inferiority complex. Who, wouldn't you are in the same class as the sister of Chifuyu Orimura 'The Strongest Women in The World", her sister would at least got some of her sister talent. Then you just know that your accomplishment of 'defeating'." This were said with an air quote move of his hand "The instructor at the entrance exam with the highest score are not true, because somebody else has done it to, namely me" Said Ichika while pointing at himself.
"So it is pretty normal for you to develop feeling of inferiority." Finished Ichika. In her seat Madoka were stifling a chuckle watching Cecilia get insulted without any way to retaliate.
"Why you!"
"Why me what, Alcott-san? Or do you want me to bring out your other darker secret." When Ichika said this the room suddenly got darker forming a large shadow behind Ichika.
Unfortunately Cecilia were too much drowned in her anger to notice. In her mind she only wanted to make this pathetic male to pay from insulting her.
"It's a duel!"
BAAM! Cecilia slams her hands on the table. In the next instant, she would have thrown her gauntlets, had she been wearing any.
'Hah, hook, line, and sinker! Take it Ichika! Let show her not to mess with you' Shouted Didact in Ichika head.
"Heh, figures when an animal is cornered, their first instinct are always try to bite back. Fine, let's do it. It's better than a debate anyway."
"You talk big. Since you deliberately asked for defeat, I'll accept you as a servant —no, a slave!"
"Fufufu.. it's not wise to look down on me. This is a serious showdown, don't try and do it halfheartedly."
"Is that so? Perfect timing, this will be the perfect opportunity for me, Britain's candidate, Cecilia Alcott to display her ability."
"A-Hem!" A cough draw the class attention to their teacher.
Gaining their attention an amused looking Chifuyu stated her decision.
"While it's good that you two has found the way to settle your differences but it won't change that there are 3 candidates for the position."
Hearing this Madoka were surprised because her sister considered her as candidates. Trying to escaping from the situation Madoka protested "But - but... me? Chifuyu-nee are you serious? PAM! Her answer comes in the form of notebook of death impacting with her head.
"It's Orimura sensei to you, besides you are already considered as candidate once you yourself or somebody give out your name. So just suck it up,or..." Chifuyu finished her sentence with rising her notebook threateningly. Facing this Madoka could only give out a frightened nod to show that she understood.
Satisfied, Chifuyu then address the whole class. "Like I said because there is 3 candidates for class representatives position, and in order to satisfied all sides. We will conduct a battle to conclude this affair. The battle will take place next Monday, in the 3rd arena."
One of the girl raised up her hand to let out a question. "Excuse me Orimura-sensei but a battle? Aren't you mean battles to decide the representative?"
"No, you already hear me right. I said a battle, just one battle. The battle to decide who is the representative will be done in a three way, FREE FOR ALL BATTLE." Explain Chifuyu. This piqued the interest of Ichika while Madoka could be seen looking nervous at the prospect of fighting multiple opponent, Cecilia could be seen puffing out her chest, feeling sure that she could get a fast win.
"Because of this, I hope that all the participant making sure that they are well prepared. Now, let's get back to the lesson."
/Madoka PoV/
Chifuyu-nee clapped her hands to end the conversation. I harbored an uneasy feeling as I sat down, speechless.
'Don't worry Madoka, It shouldn't be too hard. You already have some practice training from your sister and you also has beat one of the instructor too. Never mind that there are 2 opponent you need to beat this time. I'll think of something once I get there.)
/Ichika PoV/
'So it will be a free for all huh? It sure will be interesting.'
'Damn right Ichika. Not even one day here and this kind of thing happens. It won't be boring here.'
'Damn right indeed partner. By the way how is the progress of our personal IS?'
'Don't worry. It will be here on the day of the battle. Ian says that there's nothing much that he changed, just a few tweaks here and there. So you don't need to worry for needing to readapt to it.' That really alleviate my worry. It sucks trying to readapt each time Grandpa Ian decide to modifying my IS. Some of his modification are a little bit 'extreme'. SHUDDER! Remembering some of it only making my body shudder from it.
'That's good. Okay now let me go back to reading my manga.'
'Cue digital sweat drop by Didact... Aren't you at least gonna listen to the lecture?'
'Nahh, what for? I already got you to cover it for me.'
'Cue bigger sweat drop... Damn you lazy bump.' I could only give a chuckle to that comment.
/After school hour/ /Madoka PoV/
"Ugh..."
After school, I moaned while tiredly sprawling on to the table.
"I didn't understand anything at all... why must it be so complicated...?"
Why did we need to know all of this theory anyway. It's not like we will need it when we pilot an IS.
While I'm trying to cool down my head I notice someone is standing in front of my desk. Glancing up its turn out to be my sister. "What is it nee-san?"
"Sigh.. raise up your head Madoka." Noticing that she didn't bother to correct me calling her nee-san I knew what this is going to be about.
"So, what do you think about it? Do you really think it's really him, Nee-san?"
"Sigh... I don't know Madoka. I'm not sure if its him or not."
"Hey Chifuyu-nee?"
"What is it?"
"Do you know why he wear that mask?" Hearing my question Chifuyu-nee face turn into a frown.
/Flashback at the teacher meeting room/ /3rd PoV/
Chifuyu were sitting on her desk waiting for the new transfer student. The teacher council has decided to place the new student on her class, the official reason were because she's were the brunhilde, the strongest IS pilot in the world so she is the best choice to teach the new student. The unofficial reason were so that she could keep an eye on the student.
Normally a normal student won't get this treatment but this one were special. The student in question were the first male in the world that can use IS so it's normal for the teacher council which consist of all female to keep an eye on the 'newcomer'.
Chifuyu were pretty grateful with this placement. Why? Because she could freely watch over the male student while finding out if he is her long lost brother. While her memory of her brother only go as far as when he was a baby but still she could recognize the similarities between him and her as well as Madoka, especially Madoka because they were twin.
The sound of the door open and somebody stepping behind her draw her attention causing her to turn around in her seat. And voila there he is the new male student standing in front of her.
Looking at him, the thing that quickly catch her attention were the mask and black headband that he wear, that only shows his left eye region. The brown eye that is the same as her and her sister along with her long lost brother. This cause hope to blossom n her heart but she quickly squash it down and making sure nothing shown on her face.
"Ichika Biaggi, I suppose?"
"Yes, that's my name." Answer Ichika with an eye smile.
'How could an eye make a U form like that?' "And why did you wear that thing on your head?"
"Oh this?" Asked Ichika while pointing at his mask and headband. "Sorry about that, I wear this because of an accident I caught a few years ago."
"An accident?" This cause a pang in Chifuyu heart.
"Yes, in that accident my face were caught by fire, so it left a burn scar on my face. Pretty nasty if I have to comment about it. So I try to hide it with this mask."
"If I remember in your photograph there's no scar on your face."
"Oh that, because the scar were only the right side of my face. If you look at it the photo I summit to the academy were only the photo from my left side."
"And I suppose you have the permission to wear it."
"Oh yes I do. I also have the paper with me." Ichika took out a few sheet of paper from his pocket and give it to Chifuyu.
Making sure that it was genuine and proper, which it is she return it to him.
"Well it seems everything is in order, now I assume that you already know that I'm going to be your homeroom teacher, my name is Orimura Chifuyu."
"Yes, I got it Chifuyu-san." Answered Ichika with an eye smile only for the spine of certain notebook of death to impacted on his face.
"You are my student, call me Orimura-sensei."
"Massaging his nose Ichika could only respond weakly. "H-hai, Orimura-sensei."
"Good now follow me, it's time to bring you into your class." With her piece said Chifyu rise up from her chair and walk out of the room.
/Flashback End/
/3rd PoV/
Remembering that even Chifuyu let out a smirk on her face. Her brother or not no one could get away from her notebook of death, not even her sister, especially her sister.
Madoka could only feel a shiver going through her body while looking at the smirking and suddenly menacing form of her sister, especially the notebook in her hand, she could swear that the book were glinting like a metal sword.
/With Ichika/
Ichika were rummaging at the closet in his room, making sure that everything were in place.
Finishing up he look around his room. There room were the same as any other room in academy dorm. There were 2 bed, a bathroom and any other furniture like the other room in the dorm.
He didn't need to be concerned with sharing a bathroom because he were the sole occupant of the room, because of his hurried induction there were an odd number of student this year, so as a result he could get a room all for himself.
Reaching up he remove the band covering his right eye along with his mask showing his burn scar. The scar start on a wide area around his right eye the narrow down until ended near the edge between his cheek and neck. It looks like someone took the South American continent and stamp it on his face. (A/N : His scar were the same as the burn scar own by Balalaika from Black Lagoon)
Sitting on one of the bed he called out. "Didact, please send a message to Grandpa for he to make sure to deliver our IS at least before the match. I don't want to fight in a training IS if I could."
"Dont' worry, already done that."
Letting out a chuckle at that Ichika replied. "What I would have done without you Didact."
"Heh, its simple you would have already be shipped out who knows where."
"Ha ha ha, really funny Didact."
" Hahaha well if that's all I got some hacking to do. So if you would let me, bye bye for now." And with that there were silent in the room.
Laying his back into the bed Ichika release his glove and look at the orb form of Didact in his right hand, pulsating periodically with dim red light.
"Heh, Monday huh. An all out battle for my first match. Heh this will be interesting." A grin found its way to his mouth.
/Unknown location/
Once again a meeting were taking place in the same location with the same setting.
"So, not a day and Genestealer has decided to make a wave huh." Said one of the screen.
"Yes, the match were scheduled to be done on Monday, it will be a three way battle." Explain the middle man.
"It seems the opponent were the sister of the Brunhilde and a British representative candidate."
"Yes, your information are correct."
"Will this be a problem for Genestealer?"
"Heh, it won't be a problem for him. If nothing else this will only make him stronger."Answered the man with a smirk clear on his face.
"Ho, so sure are you in your confidence? Nevertheless we expect a good result."
"Don't worry he won't disappoint."
"Meanwhile how does the training for the pilots of project APEX?"
"Their training has proceeded as scheduled and the prototype also performing on acceptable level. If this keeps up we are sure that they will be ready for a hunting mission soon."
"Ooh, so it has gone that far huh?"
"Yes."
"Good, but we expect result. We have risk a lot in this plan so don't disappoint us."
"Don't worry it's not just your head that is on the platter if this failed."
"Good, Godspeed." And with that the screens in the room flickered off bathing the room in the darkness.
Author Note : As usual please give your comment and review for this chapter. Constructive review will be appreciated. If you think that the ending were a little bit hurried or not satisfying, don't worry I feel the same to. I maybe will try to fix it sometimes in the future.
Thank you for reading!