Maken pow:

"All right everyone, it seems that you'll have a chance to dehumiliate yourselves during the incoming weeks." I said towards the group of just defeated members Argentinian group as I gave them a report after the one-sided mocking battle. "In two days we're playing with Jatkosota Academy. Next on the course is Bonple High School and as the third sparring I managed to persuade Tategoto High School with my spare change. Your group will be assigned to the third battle ONLY because it's a filler battle to see how much of a diffrence you can make in our Sensha-do team. Do you understand?" I presented the schedule to the group as I gave away my reasoning of the situation.

"We understand." Whole group of fiveteen girls and five boys responded with heads looking down and embarrassed faces.

"Excellent. I know that most of your group does not have any intrest in Sensha-do if not from the position of overall commander, but this doesn't mean you're the elite of this school. Losing in a one-sided manner is a beggining step of almost everything you do in your life, especially in highschool. Feel free to go now lads." I explained my way of thinking about their loss before turning around and leaving the tank depo and meeting up with Ana. As usual dressed in the black tracksuit and brown sandals.

"Hi there kid. What is happening?" I said towards her withy casual style.

"You're always that strict with opponents?" She asked me in return, to which I responded with a frown as we went on our way towards the residential part of the school ship.

"Somebody has to keep the whole place as a whole. Do you even remember what this place was before I even came in, right?" I asked her, triggering her a flashback to the times when this school had regular intergroup wars and chaotic management. "I'm not the best. Heck, I'm not even a decent option in any regard! But no one could nor will be able to change this place for better expect for me. Do, you, understand?" I asked her viaibly sorry self with confident and offended glare.

"I do. If not for you no one in Bolivian group would accept me to begin with." Ana said towards me with sad face as we entered the urbanized area of Nicaraguan group. "But... How long do you even can handle it? Besides, if we''re going to believe what Beatrice has to say, Andou seeme to be a great person for our Sensha-do team and the school as a whole. And thursly you-"

"Passing my leadership before I leave the school is not an option. Not for me, not after all I did to take it." I cut her short with afronted face, making her scowl in silence. "Listen up Ana. I like you, maybe I even like you above average in comparison to others. But I won't tolerate any attempts to take even the smallest fraction of my power without my agreement. Being a dictator for me is responsibility, not a money maker." I said with growing and unrelenting dominance as we went deepee and deeper into the thin crowds that usually fill this parts of the ship at the late afternoon. "You said yourswlf that I was the one to make Bolivians even tolerate you. And I'll give you the comfort of passing on the details of me personally throwing teaching staff of all people onto the backseat and creating the system we are in today."

"I guess I accept yout point. But may I ask you about the sparring matches of our Sensha-do team?" Ana asked me, switching the topic to avoid my ranting.

"Well. First match against Jatkosota is mostly to get myself and the theoretically best our school has to offer in a fight against the top-tier opponent. The second one against Bonple is more of a personal matter and a promise I gave Jajka when I left that school. As for Tategoto... I really want to test the reserves and catch one or two better crews to the first team that will go on the actual tournament." I said to her, explaining the philosophy behind every match.

"And how about Andou? This girl surely has at least some potential to be seen, right?" Ana asked again, this time precisly about the newest student.

"Well. I do believe that she'll make a find addition, but throwing her into the deep water or my personal shenanigans would be destructive for her. She has to first see our highly individual tactics and learn about us if she has to be even a decent tank commander." I said in response, looking forward at the emerging in the distance glass-like walls of expectionally high flats where Uruguayan group resided in. "She'll join us definitly at the match against Tategoto and perhaps also against Bonple. The Jatkosota one will be too much for her, given the conditions she used to work in." I added, as we silently continued to walk forward.

"... Say, how did you became half-polish and half-bulgarian anyway?" Ana asked me as we entered the district for unclassified immingrants, The most unsystematic and variable place on the ship.

"Mom was Polish, dad happen to be a Bulgarian. I grew up in Poland before I came here for a highschool. That's why I have european face and skin instead of so common here asian ones." I answered her question, slowly looking around for a way to kill my boredom. "Wait. No one told I'm not Japanese?" I asked her with unrelenting confusion as I suddenly realised it.

"Emm... You told me when I came here for a first year but... I forgot." Ana maked a weak, excusatory smile as she explained her lack of knowledge.

"Happens. You're having a first year now so this mishaps just happen." I told her before jumoing onto a nearby truck abd tossing the driver two hundred Yen. "Now sorry young lady, but I have paperwork to do." I quickly ended the talk as i has to crouch as to not fell off the speeding vehicle.

"You're always such a gentleman with words! Just wish that the actions would be on part!" An ironic chuckle sounded from the driver's cabin as we turned on the straight road towards the governer palace. My small but reliable centre of command.

"No need to. Autocratic leardership needs to have a way with words, not with truth." I retored, slapping myslef on a knee and making a figer pistol at the passing lanterns as a form of practising my precision.

Andou pow:

"Mhm... Mhm... That's great! I'll tell her right away." Beatrice told to her conversation partner at the phone while most of our group was soializing at the inner plaze of our community. A place big enough to fill three hundred people in a very high comfort.

"How did it went?" I asked her from the seat of a round, plastic table as she turned arpund and put her phone into the stylish red handbag she carried with herself.

"Do you remember that merchandise sponsorship stuff that was taken from you after the BC threw you out?" She asked me in with joyous manner.

"Ymm... Kinda. All I remember was that the agreement was between the BC Freedom and them and not between me and them, so in the end I get nothing." AI responded, looking down at the local version of taiyaki that I promided to try and say how good it was.

"Guess what! Maken took the ocassion in his own style and negotiated a new contract!" She shouted with excitment at which at least some people looked at me and I almost fell off the chair.

"He what?! " I asked with rised voice, not only baffled by the revelation but also angry at things happening behind my back.

"Over here commander!" Beatrice smiled as she took out her smartphone and showcased me the picture that Maken just send her.

"An official document... Same business partners... Wow. He even pumped up the precent going to me alongside the pure ammount of money, how generous of him." I blankly said as I analyzed the paper line after line without spotting any inconsistancies or loopholes in the contract.

"See? Looks like life comes to the normality after all!" Beatrice smiled as I accidently scrolled the picture to the next one and saw Maken shaking his hand with a business executive in his overly casual attire.

"He walk up to the business talks in THIS!? How did they agreed on it?" I exploded with confusion upon seeing the photo.

"Hahaha! Oh silly!" Ella laughed from behind as she turned away from barbecue organised by the boys. "Our school doesn't have any regulations regarding the uniform! People walk in nearly whatever they feel like all the time. Even on Sensha-do matches as long as it fits the demands from federation!" She explained this quirky fact accompanied by a wave of laughs from others.

"I kinda wonder how federation and school even allowed him to do this..." I said with sudden spike of anxiety as I finally took the bite of served taiyaki.

"Maken is a type of... Casual revolutioner, to put it simply." Angela said from the side, resting her exposed back against the wall and playing with the white fringes at the bottom of her long blue summer dress. "He has a weird spike of innovation and doing stuff that will be standard an era or two later, always looking for a legal way of grabbing this one or two small factors that will decide on his victory. Whenever it is business, school life or Sensha-do, he will do all he can." She said her wise words from the side, almost making me choke on taiyaki upon hearing such a praise from the mysterious girl.

"Well, she isn't wrong. No dressing regulations or allowance for boys to play in Sensha-do were his ideas he put full passion onto passing forward." Barbara said, checking up on her nails with weird sense of nonchance.

"I guess this works. I stil wonder how will the learning and Sensha-do go for me here." I said after finishing the first piece of taiyaki, that I had to admit was above average. Roughly but definitly a 7/10.

"No need to worry!" Ella shouted before slapping me on the back as she took the seat to my right with four smoked pork ribs and a bunch of french fries on the plate. "School and learning is like everywhere else. That is, we have nice cohesion and cooperation between students and teachers that makes for a stable and fun place where you can get education like everywhere else." She added as we both went for another bites of our respective meals.

"As far as Sensha-do goes. Our tactics are specifically focused on individual skill and highly speaded out forces to confuse and encircle individual or multiple enemies thanks to our usually higher mobility and maximalization of enviroment usage, which is very useful for guerialla warfare." Angela said, flicking a roll of paper between her fingers and looking up into the clear, orange sky.

"Anyways. You'll see these tactics yourself in upcoming sparring match against Jatkosota." Beatrice added right after, lying against the wall and texting to someone with her legs crossed.

"Come and sit over here! You're just getting addicted here." Ella called her, pointing at the seat to my left before taking the second rib into the mouth.

"No thanks. As a general leader of our group I have responsibilities and others stuff. Maybe another time assuming that nothing important happens." She responded with lowered tone as she left the plaze and walked into the building by a wide open balcony.

"And you Angela? Mind coming to us?" Ella then asked our fourth team members, who was now seemingly asleep.

"Ehh... Fine. I got hungry anyway." Angela responded anyway, correcting her hair to fall on her back and moving herself towards the stand with creole pudding.

"She surely is... Cold." I poinyed out, using the ocassion to talk with Ella.

"Naah, she isn't! She just doesn't know how to relax. Earlier or later she'll break or make a change on her own and then we'll socialize with her." She responded, taking another bite of the rib in between us talking with eachother.

Narrator pow:

"Really? After the achivements of Oarai I haven't expected so many schools to go into more restricted policies on Sensha-do tactics. But I'll take good care of her and provide all necessary arrangements." Maken said throu the phone as I had another one talk with somebody's parents. "From St. Gloriana you say? In that case I already have twelve various groups that will took her under their wings, but I need more characteristics about... Her. To find the most fitting group of course." He calmly continued the conversation as we went into the details. "Hyped on speed you say? That answers my question entirerly, but now I need a date in which we can have her enrolled in... Instantly you say? Just give me an approximate time she'll arrive to our nearest docking space." He continued the conversation with the parent, slowly but surely coming up to the agreement. "The costs of having her enrolled are none on your part Sir. We are a very rich school with an ethos and ambitions no worse or lower than St. Gloriana. Our Sensha-do team also happens to be on the end of construscting so her passions won't go to waste." He still continued the conversation in a usual, yet not so bureacratic style. "So she's accepting? Wonderful to hear she's satisfied with my offer. Please inform her that we're going to Yokohama right away then! We'll pick her up on the place since we're going to have a Sensha-do friendly match against the Jaktosota High School there. Please notify her of the infomation. Good night." I promptly sumed up and solved the last points with the father of soon to be a new student as I turned around and saw a school's principal. A bald and polite men in a grey suit known as Yashabushi Nikayama.

"A new member solely for a Sensha-do team, I assume?" He asked me a rethorical question as we both walked up to the big windows that revealed the look at the rest of the school ship and observed it in the beauty of night falling on it gracefully.

"I hope not. But even if then I won't abandon her like her previous school did." Malen responded, taking a steepe sigh after the sentence.

"I can feel the nerves behind the decision, young boy." Nikayama said, twiching his shiny green eyes at the view of the ship.

"I guess I'm not good enough to hide it from you." Maken maked a weak smile as their faces turned to face eachother. "My policy for this school is to be a second chance and source of doing things diffrently. Doing things with less pressure and ambitions standing way higher than just 'If you don' t do X then...' as other schools seem to adopt lately." He added, shaving off his smile and replacing it with serious glare.

"Oarai used this free expression of tactics to win both sixteeen-third National Torunament and fourteen-first Witner Continuous Track Cup and a match against All-Stars University team. That makes for us an excellent spot to progress very far in the sixteeen-four National Tournament, don't you agree?" Nakiyama asked him, making a proud smile out of his imagination on his school reputation moving upwards.

"Heheh... I guess we do have a upper hand with liberty in achiving our goals." Maken responded to him, checking a fax from The Federation. "And since they DID agree on usage of my new ammunition thanks to advanced ballistic tests they comissioned on their own violation and my money, we have both of our hand sare upper!" He maked a confising pun before placing his smartphone back into the jacket's pocket and walking up to the lights with principal following right after him.

But one thing couldn't escape Maken's head. A thing that was the only actual weakness he had and the only point that if mentioned, could trip him off.

"... I'm not good enough..." The very thing he never wanted to hear from himself or from others at him.

Not after what happened back at Bonple...

Andou pow:

"Why are they so happy?" I asked as me, Beatrice, Ella and Angela had a brief moment of 'training' our team cohesion as we stumbled upon a parade organised by the Jamaican group. A march of variously (in meaning that is) high students playing reggae music and smoking weed." And why are they smoking this stuff?"

"First, they are recieving a student from St. Gloriana, so they are celebrating just as much as we did yesterday. Second, this is their stand-out feature and is completly legal on our school ship. They even grow and prepare it themselves!" Beatrice came in with explaination as our ship came up to the standstill in the port, throwing ropes and ankers whenever they were needed.

"I guess..." I said softly, leaning on the barrier and looking at the city of Yokohama in it's hidden grace. "Jatkosota Academy is a skilled team, but we'll watch it from the sidelines and see how they work in practise." I added with small sights of hope as I got myself back up and joined the rest of my crew in observing the Jamaicans throwing flowers at the small girl with a pink hair, dress and sizeable bag at the pier.

"Is this... Who I think it is?" Ella asked from the side, making her dark eyes go wide at the glance of new girl being carried on the hands of our fellow colleauges.

"Yes, this is Rosehip. A girl hyped on speed and active attacking." Beatrice said, not changing her neutral glare. "From what Maken told us, she was kicked from St. Gloriana due to spike up in their restrictional approach to be more elegant and aristocratic." She added, making my hair rise up at the mention od the reason.

"So this is BC Freedom all over again? Poor girl..." I commented as I looked back at my group. "At least she's getting a proper welcome from them." I added with a somewhat hopeful voice as they put Rosehip back on her legs and granted her a tight paper tube with some thin substance resembling grass and leaves inside.

"Oh great. They maked her a stoner." Angela shortly threw the comment at this sight, earning a chop into lower part of her neck from Beatrice.

"That was just mean!" She shouted at her with anger.

"It was true." Angela retored, blocking the second chop with her forehead. "What's the diffrence anyway?"

"Ladies, please. There is no need to argue." A boy in a dark pants, green sneakers and white t-shirt known to me as Borina spoke up, throwing the yo-yo between them and catching it back with a flash of his beer-like brown eyes. "Being high and speedy is the Jamaican etymology in a nutshell. Arguing over it is pointless." He added as he threw a coin towards us, making Ella catch it in her hands with ease.

"You know he's right don't you?" Angela asked with annoyed voice at which Beatrice stomped the floor with her left leg and left us with furious grimance and mumbling under her mouth.

"Wow. What happened to her?" I asked in confusion as I observed her walking away in strict fashion.

"She takes her job too seriously. You get used to it after a while or two worth of teasing." Ella said from my right side with a carefree attituede. "But say, how about we go shopping on shore and grab ourselves what we want? Later we met up with the new girl and check some minor stuff." She added with shining eyes to which I couldn't just say no.

"All right, I'm in. You two?" I said towards her before I turned to Angela and Borina.

"Might aswell, I actually need to take a thing or two." The first one responded, making a baloon out of the chewing gum in her mouth.

"I guess I can join you two." Borina added before making his own baloon, but without much better effect as it popped out in a halfway point of being created.