Disclaimer: I don't own IS.
The biggest fight scene and the lonest chapter I ever worked on that might rival the fight scene in ch 10 of my other fic. Everyone say thank you to xTenchix for beta reading for me. Now everyone, say 'Thank you xTenchix.'
"Victory without ruin, domination without disgrace. That is true conquest!" Servant Rider, Alexander the Great. The King of Conquest (Fate/Zero)
Ch5 Conquer! Masurao!
Black. Deep dark blackness greeted him. No decorations, no colors at all. The IS that was basking in pure black armor was waiting for its pilot.
"This is..."
"That's right! This is Orimura-kun's personal IS, Masurao."
Lightless black and inorganic, this thing seems like it is waiting for me. That's right, like the last time; it's always been waiting. For this moment, just for this moment.
"Get moving and start mounting. We don't have much time, so format and fit all the settings during the battle from your own memory. You'll lose if you can't do it, got it?"
Being prompted, I touched the IS.
"Strange..."
I didn't get the electric shock-like feeling of touching the IS like I did during the exam, merely common knowledge and understanding. What it is, why it exists— I understood it all.
"So…you desire to the powerful. Very well this is a contract. I hereby purpose, my will shall create thy vessel and your sword shall create my fate. Abiding by this contract, if thou accede to this will and reason, answer me!"
My eye widen and my stance stiff. My hand was grabbing the IS armor so tight my hand was turning white.
"I hereby swear. I will be all that is good in the eternal world. I will be the disposer of evil in the eternal world. You are the guardian of my soul and I your welder the king. I swore an oath before you that my dream of conquest and soaring of the Doukugan Ryu will be achieved. Our name will reach the imperial villa and we shall attain heaven! That is our pact!"
My declaration rang across the room as everyone froze. Their eyes widen at my words and my confident aura.
Kojuro as on his knee on the side with his head down in respect.
"Ichika sama, your orders?"
I turned to my fateful warrior.
"Kojuro! I will head into battle…make sure no one interfere!"
"Hai!"
I walked up to Masurao and turned around. I left my body to the IS with the opened armor of the Masurao. It feels like someone's riding on me as the armor fits to my body and closes up.
The sound of air being let out can be heard as the union of the armor feels like it's a part of my body. It feels like it fused with me, as if it became compatible with me. It was created for me in the first place, so Masurao and I are one now.
It feels like my vision widened and got clearer, like a higher resolution. After that, the feeling spread throughout my entire body. Values spread throughout all the sensors on my body, and I could understand each and every one of them as if I've been staring at them every day.
"Ah. So this is my new eye huh"
Sensing an IS in standby mode, the pilot's name is Cecilia Alcott, the IS codename is 'Blue Tears', it's a long-ranged type suit, and has a unique armor.
"The high spec IS sensors are functioning well, right? Ichika, are you feeling okay?"
Chifuyu-nee looked as usual, but I could sense it from her voice—ah, is she worried about me?
"No, Chifuyu-nee. I'm alright. Don't look so worried. I got into plenty of fights before. A little cocky lady is no match for the Doukugan Ryu."
"I see."
She sounds like she's assured. If not for the hi-specs of the IS sensors, I wouldn't even be able to sense those hidden feelings.
"But since she is using my given name, I should have sensed it, right?"
"Ichika sama please allow this Kojuro to explain about the Masurao!"
"Very well, go ahead Kojuro.'
"Hai!"
Suddenly a screen with data on Masurao came out.
The Masurao was made by Dr. Shinonono and the Katakura faction. We provided her with your fighting style and preference to make a suitable machine for you. This is according to the professor a 3.5 to 4th generation frame. It is equipped with an experimental power drive system that is called GN-Drive. The GN-drive can produce particles called the GN-Particles that are able to be a heat weapon, proportion system, shield, and sheer power. The particles had jamming property that can conceal the Masurao from scanners and satellites. Unless right code was applied and the computer was made to take its data, all other machines will receive random and false data and on other IS it will not be able to analyze you. "
An image of a cylinder like device with a cone shaped back appeared in front of Ichika.
"This drive will provide extra energy for the Masurao to fight with, however because of the addition your Absolute Barrier points are 600 instead of standard 800. Also this frame is made with very power engines for extreme speed combat, because of its insane speed, the armor of the suit was thin. Compare to other IS, it armor is not as bulky and wide. Please don't fight recklessly in a suit that was only minimum defense my lord."
"It has a lot of balancer and stabilizers for steady flight and maximum control to use the suit perfectly. It newest hyper sensor can gave you an analytical vision unlike any other IS ever made. This IS is made to be high-speed combat suit that is armed with three shin kens. Each blade is unique to Masurao."
A picture with three blades came out.
"Ichika sama first two of your weapons are the Shikikyodais, the Expression Brothers."
A picture of a whit sword came out.
"My lord the Byakushiki (White Expression) is a white special alloy; anti-beam katana designed to reflect to deflect beam attacks. While it is not the best weapon to cut into armors or to block shell weapons, however it is still manageable. " said Kojuro.
The scene focused on another blade below Byakushiki.
"This sword is named the Kuroshiki (Black Expression). A black special alloy; anti-matter heat sword designed to tear and shred hard armor and weapons. It is a twin of the Byakushiki and a real nightmare for close combat for its serrated edge and the vibrating edge can tear any armor to pieces. It has special ability to absorb left over GN-Particles to heat the edge to be a heat sword. It improves its cutting power by tenfold and it gave the metal blade a beam saber like property. This blade will be suited for any form of combat."
The screen focused on the last sword.
"This my lord might be your most mightiest and most crippling weapon. The Yukihira Akasuki, a high powered beam saber that is a Yukihira series. It sword has Yukihira's barrier attack property and energy heat beam power. It is made only to be a saber so unless activated it is only a decorative black sword handle with curved golden dragon as a guard. It releases a refined red beam saber that is thin and curved like a real katana. Energy compression is refined and powerful. It cutting power is peerless and its heat energy can burn through any shell weapons or armor. It is a new prototype to gain direct connection with the GN-Drive to change the shape, length, width, power, sharpness, and compression. However using it the entire battle will strain the GN-Particle limits."
I smiled at the three blade.
"So…this blade will be my newest weapons. I can't wait to test them."
"Your unit is built for speed and cutting power, so its defense is very low, however we installed a GN-Shield Generator on your right arm. It can create a dense particle shield that can protect the user from bullets, beams, explosions. The dense and compact particle shield in only half a meter in diameter so it can't protect your entire body sir, so be careful."
I checked my equipments. Hummm it seems the shield can expend at the cost of 3 times the energy use and it will be thinner for it to expand in wide circle. Also making it too big will make the shield unstable to the point it might collapse on its own.
I secretly focused my consciousness on Houki. My eye didn't need to look over directly, since through the IS, I could 'see everything' 360 degrees around me.
"..."
All I could see was that she was trying to say something, but she obviously didn't know what she wanted to say. During battle or serious matter, my sense is top notch for detecting other's state after all.
"Houki."
"Wh-What?"
"I'm going to win."
"Ah...mm, win and come back!"
I nodded my head in response and headed towards the gateway of the control room. After bending down slightly, the Masurao lightly floated in the air and flew forward releasing a mist of red particles.
*Clak* *clak* *clak* *clak* *clak*,
Behind the clear consciousness of mine, the Masurao was processing tons of data and formatted the primary settings in accord to my body. Even during this current second, the surface of the Masurao was continuing to change and shape itself. The armor now looks more thinner and the head piece changed to something like a headband with a two 'ears on the side. He now had a orange visor that cover his eye. Through the visor his vision became clear once again and several data charts appeared.
Even so, now's not the time to notice this background. There's still 2.05718422 seconds before the doors open—and the 'enemy' awaits there.
(Cecilia POV)
I was waiting for that brute to show up. I turned to see the crowd and they were chatting in excitement.
"Hummp...As is the result needs to be debated. It is I, Cecilia Alcott that will win."
I turned to the side and I saw a group of men walking toward a section of the stadium. There was no word to describe them, but the word 'thugs.' They were all brutish looking and ugly. Some had Mohawk style, some Elvis style, and some even was bald. They were in messy cloths and their looks were unkempt. Some of their clothes were biker outfits and some where just revolting like the one with skull picture and spikes.
Some held banners with a symbol of a dragon in a circular curve. Some held flags with the same symbol and some had flags with the word 'Doukugan Ryu."
One man with an Elvis hair style stepped forward. He started to wave a flags around and shouting.
"Aniki! Aniki! Aniki! Aniki! Aniki! Aniki! Aniki! Aniki! Aniki! Aniki! Aniki! Aniki!"
All the other men started to chat along with the man. They started to stomp their feet and bang her fists to the rails and the seat. Some took out a large drum and horns to make a lot of noise.
"Aniki! Aniki! Aniki! Aniki! Aniki! Aniki! Aniki! Aniki! Aniki! Aniki! Aniki! Aniki!"
Their roar and cheer ring around the stadium and their stomping had shook the entire audience. The girl from 1-2, Sanada Yukihana was among them with a large flag on her hand. She was cheering with them yelling "FIGHT ON! ORIMURA DONO!"
"Aniki! Aniki! Aniki! Aniki! Aniki! Aniki! Aniki! Aniki! Aniki! Aniki! Aniki! Aniki!"
It sickened her how they cheer for that man. No one cheered for her. How had those men even got there to begin with? Even some of the regular students were cheering.
"Orimura Ichika...I will make you pay for this humiliation."
Suddenly from the other side, an IS unit came flying out.
(Ichika POV)
"Oh my, so you didn't run away."
Cecilia snorted as she placed her hand on her hip, giving off that princess vibe again.
However, I'm not mindful about that. He faced plenty of over confident enemies before, he know what to expect.
The bright blue machine 'Blue Tears' has the unique characteristic of four rear fin armors on the back, making it look as royal as a knight.
The pilot, Cecilia, was wielding the large 2m long gun—a search indicated that it was identical to a six or seven caliber unique laser gun 'Starlight MkIII'. As the IS was originally developed for space activity, in principle, it'll float in the sky. Thus, it was not strange for her to wield a weapon that was taller than she is.
"A long range machine...let's see if it measure up."
The bell indicating the start of the match has already rung, so it was not strange for an attack to come anytime now.
"I'll give you one last chance."
Cecilia moved the hand that was on her hip and pointed her index finger at me, and the muzzle of her rifle casually pointed downwards.
"Chance?" I asked with my brow raised.
"It's obvious that I'll be winning no matter what. Thus, if you don't want to end up being seen in a battered and pathetic state, I may as well forgive you if you apologize now."
Having said that, she narrowed her eyes at me—warning, enemy IS pilot's left eye is in firing mode. Confirmed to have removed safety lock.—
I received all the information the IS told me and sorted myself out. I smiled at the sense of battle. My instincts screamed at me to fight and dominate.
"That chance isn't yours to give, right?" I said with my arms crossed on my chest.
"Really? That's a pity. If so—"
She hands moved, I was ready.
"It's farewell with this!"
She fired.
I saw it, but...Masurao saw it first.
I barley dodge the shot with a turning step to the right.
"He dodged it!"
"Ho...is your eyes better than mine? Very well Masurao I'll try and keep up."
I saw another shot coming so I fly lower to duck it, but I was hot with another beam attack on the shoulder.
"KKh.."
"Now, let's dance. Dance to the waltz that Cecilia Alcott and Blue Tears are playing!"
A shot, and another, and another, and another. The attacks continued to rain down on me, and they were all shot precisely, so I couldn't dodge them all. However this suit was built for speed. I managed to dodge most of them. I flew around the shot as I adapted to this new environment and gotten little used to the movement.
"Weapon! Where Kojuro said they were again? Where are the weapon!"
Immediately after asking this, the current weapon checklist showed itself—the checklist?
"There's only two useable right now..."
It showed itself. There was only something called a 'close combat sword'. Perfect for me.
"What kind of swordsman will I be without a sword!"
*Clang*...
With the high frequency sound, My left hand released a ball of light. The ball shaped itself, and my hand ended up holding it.
This sword, this 1.6m long 'sword' is my weapon.
"Using a close ranged weapon to challenge me in a long-ranged type suit...what a joke!"
Cecilia immediately launched her attack. Her beam came at me, but...
"Looks like I can fight now."
I deflected her shot.
"What!"
"This Byakishiki...what a fitting sword to deal with BlueTears."
She continued to rain down a steady stream of beams, however Masurao and I dodged about 60% of the attacks and reflected around 38%. Only few luck shots nailed me.
"GN-Particles at 83%! Absolute Barrier at 510 points."
"…it seems this GN-Particles are a good deal after all."
Another shot came, but it was useless. In the end she was shooting me in the open air with no hiding place. How could I fail to dodge a blow that is coming from such clear view. My skill with locating and dodging attacks after seeing their point of fire never failed me before.
"How about THIS!" shouted Cecilia as she launched four objects from her shields. The board like things, there were called a BT. According to Masurao it is an independent mobile weapon made by the England.
From the barrels of the weapon, she fired a short and fast beam attacks. The four BTs attacked together as they came flying at me in a group.
I dodged the shots to best of my ability.
"What are these? A Gundam BITs knock offs? HA HA HA! Cecilia, you are living a dream of every Gundam fans in the world!" I shouted as he dodge another blow and managed to deflect a stray shot.
"—27 minutes. You've really hung in there. I'll give you credit for that."
"Your lack of skill...upsets me thou."
My shield reserves are down to 485, and the actual damage is medium. I been blocking a lot, but didn't have much chance to attack.
"You're the first person I've seen who has managed to hang on that long against Blue Tears." Said Cecilia ignoring my demeaning comment.
After saying that, Cecilia looked as if she was praising a dog that has managed to chase down a Frisbee as she stroked the four independent mobile weapons that floated around her.
"But let's bring this to an end!"
Cecilia chuckled as she raised her right arm. And then, two Blue Tears received the commands—it's too troublesome explaining them, but the BIT-like things came flying at me from multiple angles.
"Ku...!"
A BT fired from my left, but soon after another fire from below. I dodged the shots, but they are kept shooting one after another…one after another? Why not together in multiple angle, including her rifle?
The BITs that have come to surround me from above and below started to glow on their tips and fired out lasers. I flew backward to avoid the attack, but two more behind me fired forcing me to stop and to activate the GN-Shield.
Teh crimson shield on my arm glow and blocked the beam attacks. Then suddenly other Bts opened fired in front of me, so I had to keep the high particle cost shield activated.
"...Kuso...those damned BTs are annoying.
I remembered the enemy pilot herself.
"!"
Cecilia was above me facing my back.
She had a clear shot at me.
"I'm taking your left leg!" she declared happily.
She fired.
The blue and white beam launched toward the back of my leg.
My all seeing vision of Masurao detected her attack's destination.
I simply turned my body upside down to dodge the attack.
"Don't play with your food…CECILIA ALOTT!"
"AHHH!"
*CLANG!* A loud sound could be heard, and for an instant, sparks flew. While forcing myself to accelerate, my body slammed into Cecilia's rifle, forcing the rifle to be knocked aside, and at least I've finally managed to avoid being hit, at least once.
"What...? You're really just messing around! However, this is just futile resistance!"
"You think that's it?"
"Huh?"
I swung my Byakushiki on her shoulder causing their armor there to be cut down.
"AAAGGGHHHH!"
Cecilia pulled her distance away from me and swept her left hand across. With that, the 4 BITs that were on standby suddenly flied toward me.
"Good, so now I understand. " I muttered.
I flew downward in high speed getting above a BT, when Cecilia saw me move, she didn't notice her own BT below me. The sword flashed, and I can feel the heavy metal being sliced in half.
The blue and white sparks danced on the BIT that was sliced in half, and it exploded a second later—one down.
"How did you?"
Facing the shocked Cecilia, I swung the sword downward. I had a calm smile on my face. Even if my eyes are covered, my mouth was not. I smirked at her.
"Uuu..."
Cecilia dodged the attack that came from behind and again waved her right hand. BITs 2 and 3 were deployed.
"These weapons are nothing like from fiction. They are limited and flawed."
I dodge another shot and flew right at BT2.
It fired.
I simply deflect the beam as I approach to perform a clean, graceful overhead slice.
"These weapons will only move on your commands! Also"
I performed a horizontal slash, followed by an overhead slash.
The BIT2 revealed a cross shaped light as it broke apart into four pieces.
I exploded as it fell.
"At that moment, you can't launch any other attacks, because you have to concentrate in order to use them, right?"
"...!"
Cecilia's right eyebrow twitched a bit. Huh, I've nailed it right on the spot! There're only two BITs left, and I can already tell where they're going. If Char Aznable saw her poor performance he would appear with his infamous red mobile suit, Sazabi. Now that is one crazy sci-fi robot, it has at least 8 BITs right. Go Red Comet!
I flew away from the third BT in a burst of red lights.
"They'll definitely come to attack me from an angle where my reaction will be the slowest. However for a seasoned fighter…"
One BT was behind me, it barrel in an angle toward the back of my neck.
The barrel glow blue.
"To sense an attack coming at their blind spot is only natural!" I shouted as I threw the Byakushiki like a sliver disk of death. The spinning disk of death sliced the BT into two horizontal parts. The remaining fell and was destroyed.
I turned to Cecilia as she fired another rifle blast, but I dodged to the left and charged forward. My right hand glow and I summoned the twin of Byakushiki, one of the Shiki Kodai (Expression Brothers).
The Kuroshiki.
The red serrated sword glow red as it absorbed the particles through its guard and my hand to heat up for slicing.
As what Cecilia declared, her IS is a long-ranged type, and in a distance suitable for close-ranged combat, that large and long rifle is completely useless. And from what I see, she doesn't have any close range equipment.
"I don't care for guns, however you better be ready if we go close quarter combat." I whispered.
He slowly clenched his remaining free hand.
"Ooh...Orimura-kun's amazing!"
Yamada Maya exclaimed while watching the live broadcast on the screen inside the control room. Truly, the way Ichika is fighting doesn't look like one who has just mounted an IS for his second time at all.
Kojuro too was sitting on one of the console watching his lord in battle.
"Ichika Sama! May the Fortune of Battle be on your side!"
However, compared to Yamada and Kojuro, Chifuyu looked rather irritated.
"That idiot sure looks happy."
"What? How do you know?" asked Maya.
"He has been clenching his left hand all this time, right Madam? That's a habit my lord had since he was young. When this happens, he'll start to make very simple mistakes. Oh no! This time I am not there to assist him!" exclaimed Kojuro.
"Wha...to be aware of that, you two are really are siblings and a good retainer!" said Maya as Kojuro was holding his head in worry.
Maya just casually mentioned it, but Chifuyu was stunned for a second.
Kojuro was out of his panic mode and was puffing out his chest in pride.
"It is nothing to be amaze at Yamada sensei. For I went through countless confrontations alongside my lord." said Kojuro.
"Ye-Yeah, how should I say it...even if he's like that, he's still my brother..."
"Ah—are you embarrassed? Are you embarrassed?"
"..."
*CRRRAACCCKKK!* The headlock exploded.
"OOWWWWWW!"
"The one thing I hate the most is to be made fun of."
"Yes, yes! I know, I know! So please let go of—OWWWW!"
"Chifuyu sama! Please don't hurt Ichika sama's instructor!...OW! Madam, please forgive us!"
Houki was completely unaware of the commotion Maya and Kojuro was making behind her, staring intently at the screen. For some reason, her expression started to look really scary.
"..."
She wasn't making any praying gesture; Houki isn't the kind of person who would do that.
And thus, because of that, this expression of hers had many feelings within it.
"Ichika...Ganbate(Fight on/good luck)"
I ducked another shot as I approached her with an ominous red and black sword in my hand. The sword glow red as my red particles covered me like a thin mist.
She fired again, but I barrel rolled and kept flying.
She sent out the final BTs at me, she fired, but I barely moved to the side to dodge and followed up with a stab attack on the final BT. The black serrated blades sawed through the BT, destroying it.
The explosion covered me from the view.
(Voosh!)
I flew right underneath the cloud of smoke and flew at Cecilia.
The rifle couldn't aim at me in time, and so this would be a good chance to land a hit on her.
"I got you." I smirked.
But she smirked too!
My Danger senses and my battle instincts detected danger and screaming at me to pull away, but it's already too late.
*PAM*—
The skirt-shaped like armor spread from Cecilia's abdomen, and those parts that suddenly rose up started to move.
"I'm sorry, but there're six Blue Tears!"
I can't dodge them in time! And they're not those laser shooting BITs. These are 'auto-tracking' types. A missile.
"A missile!" I exclaimed as he tried to dodge in vain.
I tried to fly backward, but…
*BAM*—!
The explosion got so red that it became white as it surrounded me. I saw nothing after that.
"ICHIKA...!"
Watching the broadcast, Houki suddenly shouted out.
Chifuyu, Kojuro, Maya, who were squabbling about just now, looked serious as they stared at the screens' image, that was covered with black smoke.
Chifuyu's expression was worry.
"Ichika." She whispered.
(Flash Back)
In a hospital waiting room Chifuyu was crying.
"It was my fault…all my fault. She cried as tears fell down from her eyes."
She was shaking…shaking so much.
She migh tlose him…she might lose Ichika.
"Ichika…my little brother…my responsibleity."
Her heart died a little when she saw him cover in blood and surrounded by bodies. His hunted look was burned into her mind.
"His eye…his right eye is…gone"
Chifuyu, who is a person of discipline and focus, lost all that as she cried her heart out. She is only a girl in the end.
Suddenly a hand grabbed her shoulder.
"Chi-Chan!:
She turned to find Tabane.
"T-Tabane!"
"Shuu! Chi-Chan, I am here to help Ik-Kun."
"Help Ichika? HOW!"
"Iki-Kun has lost his right eye there is no helping that, however…it can be replaced.
"Replaced…"
Tabane nodded her head like a kid. She suddenly dug a blue glowing orb from her pocket.
I was working on a mini-IS core that will connect with the pilot to help analyze mass information for my super hyper sensor, but soon as I heard the news I recalibrated to be an eye. This can connect to the user's brain to see, and to analyze anything it sees. IT was supposed to be a dam to prevent mental damage, so it can strengthen Iki-Kun's mentality to suppress and overcome the trauma tonight.
"It can …heal him." Chifuyu whisper.
She suddenly grabbed Tabane's hand.
"Tabane! Please help him. Please save my brother PLEASE!"
"Of course Chi chan…you and Ik-kun is precious to me after all."
The orb in her hand glow…it glow so much brightly.
(*Flash back end)
"Tabane…was Ichika gaining an IS part of your doing? Or is it something bigger?"
While the black smoke scattered, Chifuyu let out a snort. However, she looked as if everything was okay.
"You got saved by the machine, you idiot."
The smoke that vaguely floated around scattered as if it crumbled.
And the pure black machine was right in the middle of it.
That's right, it's true appearance—
I can't see anything…where am I?
I suddenly got up and found myself on top of a pillar surrounded by a vast body of water. The ari was full if haze and mist, but I could make out several other pillars and a sky above.
"Hee hee hee"
I turned around. There was a girl there. She was wearing a white one piece dress and a white flowery hat. She had long silver white hair and her eyes were deep blue. She was sitting by the pillar and kicking her feet up.
"Who are you?"
She stopped and turned to him with a weird look.
"What are you talking about Oni-chan. If there is anyone in the world who knows me the best, it is you."
"What?"
A girl that I never seen before told me that I know her. What on earth is going on here.
"Can you tell me where we are?" I asked her kindly.
She nodded her head like an eager kid.
"This is my home."
"Your home?"
"Yep!"
"I was in a middle of a battle…did I die or was it all just a dream?"
"Silly oni-chan! You been here before you know. We met before when Oni-chan was hurt and she known me then."
"I-I did?"
"Yep! You heard my name too."
"Your name…what is it then?"
"Silly Oni-chan, even if you already now. My name is…."
"!"
"Can you repeat that, I could hear anything."
The little girls's expression suddenly turned into a sad look, which quickly turned to a pout.
"Mooo! It is Oni-chan's fault for not listening to me! Fine! Until Oni chan accepts me again, You can't hear my name!"
She shouted as he ran into the mist.
"Wait!" I shouted as I followed after her. I jumped off the pillar like her and…landed on top of the water?
"What is this a dream land?"
"Hey Oni-chan!'
I turned back to he pillar I humped off of."
"How are you doing that?"
"I don't know. I just jumped and I-!"
I suddenly fell into the water. I tried to swim back up, but my body fail to move.
"Is this how I will die? This, This is…to cruel…Chifuyu Nee…Houki…"
"Oi!...Get up!" said an annoyed voice.
I suddenly woke up.
I was on dry land. The area was a dry land with a lot of trees, there was a plain filed with grass and forest filled with tress.
I quickly turned around to the voice that woke me up.
…She was beautiful.
Her hair was flaming red; it seems to glow like a fire. Not only that, her eyes was golden and red like her hair, which seems like a fire is burning inside. Her hair was long as it reached her legs and her figure was tall. Her face was…her face was… It was CHIFUYU NEE!
There was no mistake.
She looks just like Chifuyu Nee with her hair down instead of in a pony-tail and she just happens to have longer hair and a mole on her left cheek. She was wearing a red and black hakama with red haori with pictures of dragon and flame. On her side she was carrying three katanas, one white, one black, one mix of red and black.
She had a confident smirk unlike Chifuyu nee and she stepped forward.
"Well well well I have a visitor…I never had a visitor beside that WOMAN."
Whoever that woman is…this red head doesn't like her at all.
"I don't know why you are here, but since you are here…"
She slowly drew her red and black colored sword.
"You will fight me here."
"Why?"
"There is no reason 'why.' I have no reason to fight. I simply fight in order to fight." She said in a careless tone.
I narrowed my eyes at that.
"To fight with no purpose is only senseless violence. I cannot approve of such foolishness."
"Oh…you got guts kid, but can you walk the walk?" she said in a teasing voice.
She lift her hand, and there came out a ball of crimson flame. They took form into a simple, dull katana.
"Here!" she tossed it to me. I caught it.
She got into a stance.
I too got into my stance.
"Oh? Aren't you going to complain about that crappy shit I given you?"
In her hand was a beautiful katana with black and red handle and golden guard that was in shape of a dragon in a circular form. Her blade was stainless steel with taint of red glow.
In my hand was a dull, plain katana with chips and damaged on it.
"It matters not! Even if I am to hold a stick and not a sword…I cannot lose to someone like you." I declared.
We stared into each other's eye.
I stepped forward.
…So did she.
In a blink of an eye, we ran toward each other. We bother spined around to built momentum for a single draw that carries all our power. It was a all or nothing killing blow.
The blades met.
The spark flew.
A blade was broken.
Two of us were on the other side of each other.
Our face was unclear, because of our hair.
A broke tip of the broken blade fell down between them in a 'clank!'
The two faced one another.
In My hand was that woman's red katana!
"W-What!"
"Superb…impressive sword work." said the woman. In her hand was my crappy broken sword.
"What just happened?"
But the woman suddenly hugged me.
"!"
I felt so warm and safe…like Chifuyu nee.
I could smell her scent of musk and flower. Her sweat from our brief duel overwhelmed my sense.
I mind was racing and my blood was bumping.
"My master…I accept thy contract."
"!"
She turned to face me.
"I too desire to be powerful, I to desire to conquest."
She stared into my eye. She slowly and gently touched my eye-patch.
"I hereby purpose, my sword shall create your fate and your will shall create my vessel. Abiding by this contract, if I accede to this will and reason, have answered you."
She held me tighter, her warm body against mine like two lovers.
"I hereby swear. I too will be all that is good in the eternal world. I will be the sword to dispose all evil in the eternal world. I am the guardian of your soul and you are the welder, my king."
Out face was so close.
"I hereby swore to stand by your side to accomplish your dream of conquest and soaring of the Doukugan Ryu. Our name will reach the imperial villa and we shall attain heaven! That is our pact!"
Her lips met mine.
"This Masurao, your servant had accepted your summoning, let us soaring in the blue heaven and conquer the world, my beloved Ichika sama."
Her smile…was so gentle…Chifuyu nee used to smile like that too.
My single eye narrowed in determination. I stood up straight and held Masurao's hand tightly.
"Ore no simobe Masurao, Ore wa tenka saikyo no nami… nashitogemasu naiga?"
("My servant Masurao, Are you willing to attain the name of the Strongest in the Heaven?")
She kneed before me.
"Hai! Waga Alugin!" (Yes! My master!)
I saw a light covering my body.
The light took a new shape.
The light solidify.
I was ready for a round two.
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I was awake again. The information was sent directly to my consciousness, I saw the screen appeared in front of me and I clicked 'yes'. After that, a large wealth of information came flowing into me.
After that, a huge transformation occured in me.
*CLANG...!*
It's a high frequency sound. However, I feel the gentleness within it.
At that moment, my body got wrapped—no, the light ball that appeared on my IS instantly disappeared and then reshaped itself.
"This is..."
The newly-shaped IS again let out a dim glow. This glow erased all the damage I got just now and refined the appearance of the suit.
"Don-Don't tell me...that's the First Shift? This means, this means that you were fighting with the initial settings right from the beginning!" exclaimed Cecilia in realization.
If so, this is my real suit.
I looked at my suit. Those constructive curves that were there in the beginning were now gone, instead becoming one with the polished curves and sharp edges, giving the feeling of a samurai armor.
The armor was once again pure back, but it had some red lines and armor part. My IS was rather thin before, but now it was really thin. The armor on my arm was no longer classic IS large arm, but thin, shapely, compacted armor with a guard on the back of the hand. On the elbow was an extra armor that had a thin blade on it. On the shoulder was a U-shaped armor for the shoulder. It was triangular armor for flexibility and defense in emergency. The new Masurao was missing a very important feature of an IS. It was for one missing the characteristic part of the Infinite Stratos, the wing. The Wing like shield the all IS has were missing.
Or unrevealed for now.
The chest plate was like samurai armor, it was angular with a smooth circular surface. Unlike the normal IS with no chest plates, mine had a full chest plate to cover my stomach and another layer of triangular armor on both side of the upper chest and shoulders.
On the side of my hip were two armor skirts that was arrow like sharp, but it cover the side of my legs. The skirts had a circular device with a spike on it. This device was a proportion system to release GN-Particles to change directions and to perform sudden stops. As the smoke cleared even more GN-Particles were produced to cover the new Masurao in dense red mist.
The leg of the IS was unusually thin and narrow. The armor was black and smooth. It had extra shin and lower leg protections with armors and coverings. The feet were triangular and black, however it had a strange device on the bottom and a metal contraption attached to it. The metal contraption was a u-shaped horse shoe like device. A metal part built to grind into uneven surface for balance and to stomp on unsuspected enemies. In another other words it was an armor parts for attacking or kicking.
The IS had two rather surprising extra equipment.
Also on his head was a black samurai kabuto, or a helmet. The helmet was black and it had the circular curve for the side of the neck and the back. The orange visor from before was replace with a V-shaped orange sun glass. The Helmet also had two large horns. The black stag beetle like horns were tall and strong, it even had a slight curve inward on the top.
Finally the back of the IS had long red mane of hair. At closer inspection one can will there are a very thin cable wire like objects, they were glowing red like the hairs were flaming wires. The pulsing red cables swayed across his back like a real hair. The cables were coming out from the areas from back of his neck, and from the back of the helmet, to look like a real mane.
On his back was the pointed tip of the GN-Drive. The Drive was originally a storage tank that needed to be refilled after battle, but through its evolution the GN-Drive developed a recycling device to gather the used particles and made a self-sustaining device to recreate more particles on its own. All it need are time and energy.
The Masurao was not like any other Sport type IS, it hide my face and given me full armor to make me look inhumane. The full armor and the concealing red mist made him very intimidating.
This Masurao was perfect…it is truly the most powerful IS.
Suddenly a screen appear with a weapon he couldn't use before.
…Yukihira Akasuki. That's the name of the weapon that Chifuyu-nee once used. At that time, the sword-shaped weapon that she used was called Yukihira.
"...Ahh, this is so touching." I said not knowing my voice was in a speaker mode.
I summoned the third blade and held it in my hand. Unlike Chifuyu Nee's it was only a red and black handle with a golden circular dragon for a guard.
"I really have the best sister in the world..."
"...Ah? What're you saying—"
I turned to Cecilia.
"No matter whether it's three years ago or six years ago or even fifteen years ago, that person is still my always-reliable sister. However, it's about time for me to end this one-sided protection. From today onwards…"
I activated the blade and it ignited. From the handle came out a compact, thin, focused beam blade that had a slight curve on the tip like a real katana.
"I'll be the one to protect my family."
In the crimson mist I raise my blade forward.
"Anyway, first of all, I'll defend Chifuyu-nee's name! For this Doukugan Ryu swore an oath long ago to attain the title of the Strongest!"
"What are you rambling about...ahh geez, you're too irritating!"
I turned to the cheering crowd as my voice was heard by the entire crowd.
"ARE YOU READY GUYS?"
"YEAH!" answered my crew and followers.
"PUT YOUR GUNS UP!" I shouted.
"YEAH!" cheered the gangster, even Yukihana and other students followed the cheer.
"ALRIGHT, LETS GET THIS PARTY STARTED!"
"WE ARE BEHIND YOU! ANIKI! ANIKI! ANIKI! ANIKI! ANIKI! ANIKI! ANIKI!..." they chanted.
At the teacher's console area, Yamada sensei was crying on Chifuyu Nee mumbling about how touching it was and how sibling love and trust was so bright.
On the other corner, Kojuro was sheading manly tears as he walked up to the speaker himself.
"ICHIKA SAMA! THIS KATAKURA KOJURO, NAMED AS THE RIGHT EYE OF THE DRAGON, STILL PROTECTS YOUR BACK! MY LORD! YOU MAKE THIS SERVANT SO PROUD! ICHIKA SAMAAAAAAAA!"
Cecilia was agitated by her opponent's revival and the cheering fans.
"…No one cheers for me…WHY IS NO ONE CHEERING FOR ME!"
The two BITs again reloaded themselves with guided missiles, and under Cecilia's command, they started to fly over. It's those multi-angle paths again, and they're faster than the shooting type BITs. However—
"I can see them...!" I shouted as I flew around their attacks. My left side of the orange visor glow like my remaining eye. The glowing eye was yellow with scars on it. ([gundam00]Like Garham Ark's Flags' special glowing eye trick)Unknown to me the visor on my IS had a glowing right eye in blue light.
Two missiles came at me, but I sliced them in two with a single slash. I flew pass them before they exploded and performed a simple overhead slash on the approaching BT.
*CLANG—!*
The blade of light flashed, and the BT that was cut in half moved forward due to the momentum, passing by me before exploding.
Before the explosion reached my back, I again attacked Cecilia. The suit instantly accelerated, and the sensor efficiency was a lot different from before, such that it was easy to control it. Masurao seems to connect with me so perfectly my reaction and instincts were perfectly matched. I was so sluggish anymore.
"OOOOHHH!"
I swung down at the final BT destroying it.
Cecilia panicked.
"Don't come near me!" she shouted as she mercilessly and recklessly opened fire with her Starlight Mk III.
I dodged them all like an angry red ghost. My suit was fast before, but now it was out of the world. Adding the red haze that leaves trails of light, it got in the way of Blue Tear's attempt to track me and to lock me for a clear shot. The particles were doing their jobs, but so did my red mane. These decoration manes seems to be called Akakami, or red hair. It can send out signals through particles to mess up all form of communication, computer, and image.
Every computers and scanner in the arena was going haywire as they received faulty data's and random data's that damaged their main frame. Even camera on IS or even normal camera's couldn't get a clear picture, because the mane and the mist of particles were deflecting light to create blurry image. Not even a supersensitive camera can capture his image.
Currently Cecilia was fighting blind. Before she could see is IS in factory setting just fine. She couldn't hack it for info or gather basic information, but she did managed to record its movements, action, and data's like how much power his booster had and such. But now, she can't even get his image.
To her he is a blur of mist.
Each time he came near, her visions dimmed and the IS's 360 degree view was unclear and blurry. Every time she tried to use Blue Tear to analyze him it came back as an error. Every time he came near, she had to watch him with her naked eyes. Even then it is hard to keep track of fast machine, with red mist to cover his feature.
She doesn't even know how he looks now!
His every slash was too fast without the IS' hyper eye and his rather intimating look with full armor, unclear face and his red mist frightened her.
"Get away!"
She fired again and again, but he dodged them all.
"Naïve! Cecilia Alcott!"
I raised my sword to slash down ward to cut off her left wing. The blow activated her A.B.
She flew low, but I was too fast as I flew lower than her to fly up in order to perform a reverse kesagiri.
She screeched as she raised her rifle to block.
The rifle covered her view even more.
"Foolish!"
I sliced her leg armor instead of her guard.
The attack activated the A.B again and her balance was off.
She was upside down as she fell, but likea pro she fired back at such difficult position.
Blue beam of light came at me with intention of hurting me, however Masurao was too fast to be hit by such hasty counter.
I waved around her blows leaving trails of red light. IN a flash of red glow I reached her in a blink of an eye.
"This match is mine!" I shouted as I performed a thrust to her chest, but she blocked it with her rifle again.
Sparks flew as I slowly stabbed her rifle. My crimson blade slowly tore through the frailer beam rifle. The rifle released several sparks as the burning blade cut through its metal cover and burned away the delicate circuits and parts.
"Did you really just use a beam rifle, your only remaining weapon to block?" I teased with a smirk.
She blushed at her mistake.
I pushed the sword in deeper with a simple push with my hand and sliced it off. My upper slash managed to gaze her chest, activating the Absolute Barriers again. Her shield point dropped in great margin again.
She grunts at the blow, but she leaned backward to follow the force of the slash to fly away.
He allowed her, after she was weaponless.
No easier prey than an injured animal with no claws or fangs.
She activated her close-quarter knife, the 'Interceptor.'
I smirked.
It seems this prey had a hidden blade with her. I took a stance as I raised my undefeated blade at her.
"Master use this…"I heard in my ear.
"…Masurao?"
A screen appeared.
[…One Off Ability: Shunko…]
I read out loud.
"hummm…why not."
I checked my shield and saw it had at least 188pt after the missiles and the stray beams that reached him over the battle. His GN-Particles were 29% remaining. Before the first shift he had at least 67% left. It seems the sword eat up a lot of power.
"Activate, Shunko(Flash Cry!)!"
My IS glow in red light. Not only the mist, but the armor as well.
But something went wrong.
[Error Error Error Error Error Error Error Error Error Error Error]
My Yukihira Akasuki suddenly glow and the beams suddenly extended. Not only that the blade has become unstable.
"AAAGHHHHH!" I cried out as I tried to control the growing blade. The blade was like t was forming an uncontrollable tower of red flames. The untamed tempest on my sword grew longer and thicker.
Seeing me struggling with my weapon, Cecilia came in for an attack. Her close quarter knife posed for a thrust to my open side.
I quickly swung the extremely unstable sword to make her back off.
I forgot how long it is now.
The long tower of unstable fire storm that is a sword gazed Cecilia a little as she charged at me. Cecilia performed a side turn to avoid the deadly attack, but her A.B activated, deciding that the red pillar of fire is too dangerous for the pilot's safety.
Just by gazing.
It was not even being hit by it.
She only touched by the stray energy coming off the blade like fire and her Absolute Barrier was cut down.
Just how powerful is this weapon!
Cecilia watched her shield point dropped to zero.
"What? It can't be…I dodged that." She said in a confused tone.
I on the other hand had a different problem.
The extreme long sword now reached to the end of the stadium. The red pillar of flame slowly destroyed the stadium barrier. The red particles licked the barrier that protects the specters. The audience panicked at the crimson fire as it tried to reach them.
The barrier's spider cracks increased in fast pace.
"Oh Shit!" I shouted.
"!" I released a trembling roar.
I immediately swung the sword up into the air with both hands on the sword.
The tower of destruction followed my movement as it left a trail of red cracks on the barrier. The crimson tip of death reached the ceiling.
The pillar of fire hit the ceiling and it destroyed it completely.
I performed a second slash toward the open sky, releasing the long and unstable pillar of pure power. The blast destroyed the entire barriers surrounding the stadium.
The roaring fire of destruction swiped across the sky. The breath of death has made a pillar of death above the stadium.
The sky for a moment was red.
I panted as I barely avoided killing my fellow students.
"Cecilia…" I contacted her.
"Huh?" she sounded surprise, unknown to me, all her communications were down before, but now it is back. Most likely, because the lack of GN-particles in Masurao. He was out of energy.
"T-This was…a good fight…h-however…it's too bad, that this match has no… W-winner…"I panted out
Before she can ask what he meant, the buzzer signaled the end of the match.
"This match is…"I continued.
"Ending the match. Draw!" said the speaker ending the match.
"Draw!" I said along with the speaker.
"...Wha?"
Cecilia was confused, she shown this by her slightly opened mouth.
And not just her, all the spectators in the 3rd arena, The Date Army, even Houki, Kojuro, and Yamada-sensei, who were watching the match from the control room silently, were the same. Everyone was just shocked.
Only one person...only Chifuyu-nee was giving the 'can't stand you' look.
In these unknown circumstances, the match ended. The result is—draw.
"Everyone was actually praising you, and this is the outcome we got in return! You big idiot! After all that speech you made moving every sissies in to tears. You had a nerve make it a DRAW!" yelled Chifuyu Nee.
After the match ended, I was upgraded from an idiot to a big idiot. This upgrade wouldn't make me happy at all. Chifuyu-nee's style sure is to not relegate me like this.
"It's because you didn't consider the special characteristics of the weapon before you used it. Honestly using up all your power for a single attack and still didn't win. Your attack had enough power to destroy the barrier in the arena! Don't use that attack for now and get your unit check out by the engineers. Now that you have experienced it for yourself, from tomorrow onwards, start working hard. Activate the IS when you have time, got it?"
I was standing there closing my eye and bowing down. Kojuro was standing next to Yamada sensei on his knee begging Chifuyu-Nee to go easy on me. Ah what a friend.
"...Yes Neechan..." I said in respectful tone.
NO! There was something wrong during that match. My Masurao showed me that something was wrong when that ability was activated. The screen was a mess and I couldn't read it, but there was a problem with the unit's engine. According to Kojuro it seems I used an ability that required more power than I had at that moment. My power suddenly dropped and was used to make that unstable tower of GN-Particles. It seems my sword had an Anti-army 'Long Sword" mode and an Anti-Fortress 'Destroyer' mode. It seems that when I tried to finish the fight, both features activated when my particle level was too low. It seems Masurao was too excited and used all her power, when she couldn't...what a good girl.
"Well, the IS is in standby mode now, but if Orimura-kun calls it, it'll deploy right away. However, there're rules to this, so please study it closely.
I looked down at my arm to see a bracelet of some kind. It was a black dragon going around my wrist. The dragon was stylish and artistic. It curved around my wrist like armor. The left eye of the dragon was yellow, but the right eye was simply black like the rest of the body. In the mouth of the dragon was a golden crescent moon. This standby mode is perfect.
"Anyway, that's it for today. Head back and rest."
This order doesn't consider anyone's feelings at all. I really hope that she can learn from gentle medicine and painkillers. Speaking of which, do I really need to protect this person?...might as well, because there isn't anyone strong enough to protect her.
"Let's go."
Oh, she appeared; another person who lacks gentleness. Her name is Houki, and she's my childhood friend.
I stood up tiredly and prepared to head back to the dorm.
"..."
"Wha-What?"
While walking together, Houki stared at me without turning away. Did she discover some treasure? This treasure called 'me'.
"Ichika."
"Hm, what's up?"
"That, well, how should I say it...are you unhappy about the match?"
"Well, of course I am. I am the Doukugan Ryu! I never lost a match. This match is a draw so Cecilia and I will have to settle this on a different occasion."
I turned to her.
"Masurao and I will never lose, Houki. Believe in us."
"Is, is that so? That's good..." said Houki with a small smile.
"Ah, s-starting tomorrow...that...ah, you have to do IS training."
Continuing with the talk, for some reason, didn't her voice sound rather courteous? Or was it distraught...
"So, in the end, Houki's gonna teach me how to control an IS, right?...But didn't I just by all mean crushed a representative?...Aren't I stronger than you?"
She looked angry. She pulled out a wooden sword. Wait Houki I am too tired to fight. Wait!
I ran away as Houki chased me to the dorm.
"GET BACK HERE YOU UNGRATFUL BASTARD! HAVE A TASTE OF MY SWORD!"
"ALL I SAID WAS TRUE! HOUKI SAMA SON'T GET ANGRY!"
Despite the chase...I didn't hate it at all.
*Drip* *drip* *drip* *drip* *drip*...
The hot water continued to spurt out from the shower head. The water landed on her skin and flowed down the curves of her body. Her well-proportioned body that was rare among the white people and her beautiful streamlines, to Cecilia, were something to be really proud of. Those long legs were shiny, silky and beautiful, and they could not only compete with those of an idols, but would most likely even beat them in beauty.
Though her breasts were a little smaller, compared to other white girls of the same age, it made her body profile stand out even more. Thus, she had some rather complicated feelings because of them. However, that was just for white girls. If they were compared to a Japanese girls', they were more than enough, enough to even be called big.
Cecilia continued to let the water rush down her breasts as she pondered deep in thought.
Even now, she didn't understand why Ichika didn't hit her with that attack. The pillar of red lightthat could have completely defeated her.
To Cecilia, who had always believed that she would win, and would constantly strive for it, this bewilderment made her unable to calm down. She didn;t win...by all mean it was his victory. He just simply didn't take it.
"...too bad this match is a DRAW..." that was what he said, before the match was over...he thrown away victory so his unstable attack wouldn't hurt her.
But she wasn't satisifed by it at all; on the contrary, it made her feel uneasy.
She still remembered the guy with those strong-willed eyes.
That not-giving-up look often reminded Cecilia of her own father.
"Daddy would always go according to mommy's whims..."
Having married into a wealthy family, her dad must have felt extremely inferior to her mother. And having such a father during her growth, Cecilia inadvertently thought 'I don't want to marry such a useless man'.
And after the IS was rolled out, her dad's attitude got increasingly sulkier. Her mom must have felt that such a man was a disappointment, so she didn't want to talk to him.
"..."
Her mom was already an impressive woman. Before the society became a women-strong-men-weak society, she had already managed numerous companies, and was an accomplished person. Though she was extremely strict, Cecilia had always respected her a lot. But they died...together in an accidnet.
Cecilia had a vast inheritance, and in order to protect the money from those who wanted to laud it, she studied hard to learn everything, and during an IS suitability test that was part of her learning curriculum, she got an A+ grade. Hoping that she would maintain her nationality, the government came up with all sorts of generous conditions; and in order to protect her parents' inheritance, she immediately agreed. Cecilia was chosen to be the first test pilot of the 3rd generation armament 'Blue Tears'. In order to obtain operation information and battle experience, she came to Japan, and then—
She met Orimura Ichika, the One-Eyed Dragon; she met the ideal man who had such firm looking eyes.
"Orimura, Ichika...Doukugan Ryu..."
Her heart was pounding without any restraint. Cecilia gently stroked her lips. Those pretty wet lips seemed like they were waiting for someone to touch them, as in her body, an unbelievable excitement stirred.
"..."
Warm and sweet, saddening yet delighting.
—What's with this feeling?
Before she knew it, her chest was already overwhelmed with this feeling.
—I want to know.
She wants to know its true identity, she wants to know what's behind this feeling.
—I want to know, I want to know more about Ichika-san.
"..."
Only the sound of water flowing echoed throughout the bathroom.
The next morning during, the SHR, something unbelievable happened.
"Then, the class representative of 1-1 will be Orimura Ichika-kun. Ah, it sure is nice to have a '1' for everything!"
Yamada-sensei said delighted, and the girls showed a strong reaction to this. I was the only one in the dark...just me alone.
"Sensei, I have a question."
"Please say, Orimura-kun."
"The match was undetermined...I didn't win and neither did Cecilia... so why did I still become the class representative?"
"That's because—"
"That's because I gave up on it!"
Cecilia forcefully stood up and quickly put her hands on her hips. She's giving that ojou-sama vibe again. No, actually, I'm not really thinking about that now—more importantly—why did she resign? I expected her to challenge me to another fight like Yukihana would. Of course not all women are like Yukihana. And she seems rather emotional...no wait, she's always like that...however, how should I say it? She doesn't seem as angry as yesterday. She seems to be feeling rather happy however—why?
"Hm, Even though it was a draw, by all mean you won that fight as a superior pilot. So I decided to gracefully step down."
Uu...I can't argue back, since I did had her at a sword point.
"Besides, I have reflected on my actions for being unable to control myself. So..."
So?
"I decided to hand over the class representative position to 'Ichika-san'. For IS piloting, having practical fights is the best way to improve. So, If you become the class representative, you will have lots of battles."
Ooh, thanks for giving me this burden—hm? That's weird. Did she call me by my name? When were we ever that close?
"Ooh, Cecilia's really professional!"
"That's right. There's already a one and only guy down here, so, as classmates, we have to support him—"
"We can gain valuable experiences and sell the information to other classes. Orimura-kun's presence here can kill two birds with one stone!"
"Oye... Don't sell your classmate out like that. "
"Therefore—"
After coughing a few times to clear her throat, Cecilia placed her hand on her chin. This is different from what she normally does; is there a special significance to this? I feel that there's something, but just don't know what it is.
"Also, if this outstanding, graceful, elegant and perfect person that I am, were to teach you how to control your IS so accident like last time will not occur. You would definitely imp—"
*BAM!* With the sound of the table being slammed, Houki stood up.
"Sorry, but Ichika already has an instructor. He already asked me directly!"
Wha, what's going on? Houki I didn't ask you to...Or did I? I can remember because of the beating I received. But for some reason, Cecilia, who was afraid of her just last week, now behaved completely different. She took Houki's glare head on and stared back, looking rather satisfied. Ah strong women, Kojuro I still don't understand them.
"Oh my, IS grade C Shinonono-san? Is there anything you want to talk to this grade A me about?"
"This..., this has nothing to do with level! I was requested. I-Ichika begged me earnestly for this!"
"I didn't Houki-chan" I said until I remember what Cecilia just said. I turned to Houki.
"Huh, Houki's grade C?...I am grade B++, so i am better at IS than you right?"
"That, that's why I said that it has nothing to do with level, right!"
I got scolded. Well, Chifuyu-nee did say before that this is the initial ranking that's obtained from the training suit, so it's not really significant—
"Sit down, you pair of idiots."
Chifuyu-nee quickly walked over and smacked down on Cecilia and Houki's heads as she swiftly went to them.
As expected of the Japanese representative in the first Mondo Grosso, the dreadfulness is on a completely different scale. Both of them could only sit down dejectedly. Dreadful and dejected it's really interesting to combine these two things together.
*BAM!*
"WHAT ARE YOU BEING ALL CARRIED AWAY ABOUT! BUCK UP!"
I got hit by the attendance book. Chifuyu-nee, do you know that the cover of the attendance book is really hard? However, only I know that.
"I should have mentioned before that even representative candidates have to learn everything, starting from the beginning. Though I would say that it's a youth's privilege to bicker over something trivial, unfortunately for you people, I'm in charge, so you better respect yourselves more."
Oh...so Chifuyu-nee's such a reliable person in her profession? That's really unexpected. She doesn't seem to be the kind of person who always complains that the food tastes bland and leaving dirty underwears on the floor.
Speaking of which, since I'm living in the dorm now, how will Chifuyu-nee turn the house around? No one will be in the house, right? Seems like I'll have to go back on weekends. Speaking of which, has Chifuyu-nee been doing her laundry properly? She has always asked me to help her wash her laundry when I'm washing mine. However, it would be great if she threw those underwear-like clothes into the laundry net. If she were to wash them together and damage the fabric, she would be the one angry. You should do that yourself, you 24-year-old member of society.
*PAM!*
"...You're thinking of something rude, right?"
"What are you amind reader Nee-chin!" I teased.
Oh! I see the angry twitch on her forehead. That's going to cost me.
*PAM!* *PAM!*
"I'm very sorry!"
"Good that you know."
A kind citizen actually succumbed to violence? This defies all logic!
"The class representative will be Orimura Ichika. No one has any objections, right?"
"Nope", everyone (except for me) replied. Unity is a good thing.
However, it would be great if it was also good for me. That's what I think.
Review!
I will publish a stat sheet soon after this.