Hey guys.

First of all, I hate to disappoint this is my least favorite part that I will have to cover in this fic. There is not much to work with and it has been a wall for a way a long time. Couple that with a rough weekend and a bit too much bad news, I have gotten in a real foul mood lately.

If you want not to read this piece, I won't blame you. I hated writing this part.

Also, there is not too much on plot (and this series has a plot, believe me). The only thing that is here is the reconciliation between Yurishia and Scarlett and fighting Gravel two times. That is all.

This is not going to be my greatest work but I just want this mountain to get over and done with. Sorry for the rough bits.

Also, Oslight made a pic of one of the last scenes. Enjoy so far you can.

It took a lot to really surprise Ichika Orimura. After all, in his life, he had seen crazy things. When you lived at the ISA, things were not normal. He had seen that all before.

Yet, when the Masters, (he wondered what sort of badly chosen name that was), came in Ataraxia, the White Knight was sure that there was stuff that didn't make sense in the long run. Like for example.

Scarlet's interactions with Yurishia who was a former member of the group.

It wasn't like old friends. Or enemies.

This carried a lot more of betrayed trust between those two and he was sure about it.

He hadn't seen too much of it but when Laura and Charlotte had a sit down with him, he knew those girls got something on their mind. They had seen the Masters as well and despite the fact that those girls were strong, it wasn't like Amaterasu. They had power yes but if you would pit those girls vs the Infinite Stratos, they weren't sure if it would be a solid defeat.

Their teamwork was strong but there was something that was lacking in them.

The biggest question was what?

And it took Laura to figure it out.

The Masters lacked a strong leader. That was carried by most of the group. They didn't have someone to stand out and work with them.

Of course, you had those behind the scenes like Reiri with Amaterasu or closer to home, Chifuyu. But boots on the ground leaders like Kizuna. Not in this case.

Something was eating on Scarlett and it turned out that Yurishia had something to do with that. But on the advice of the oldest guy in the group, the Infinite Stratos girls were told to leave them be.

So long it didn't concern them directly, they had no right to get involved.

The girls took that to a happy notion. With Ichika being laid off for a while now two teams were involved in the fight, Ichika and Mattheus both were freed for their duty until further notice.

For Mattheus, it meant that Joel could work on the new weapons he was thinking off while spending time with Natasha. They both had been with each other many more nights. Joel had missed out on it but didn't question it.

For Ichika, the seven girls had weeks of lost damage to catch up on and they did with a vengeance. The Hunter didn't see his best friend too often and when he did, there was always some girl around them.

But for now, they could do nothing but sit and wait. And enjoy their time.

Kizuna had hoped that he could have talked to those guys because male advice was something he would take right now.

Yurishia and Scarlett had met each other but they weren't good friends like he had thought. They had been rough to each other. It had come from Scarlett who would not light up with Yurishia nearby and Yurishia's wonderment had caused nothing but more pain for the girl.

He had been thinking about it and when he had a spare moment to talk to Mattheus, he just told Kizuna that something happened in the past between them and that if he wanted to solve it, he had to look around for those bits.

He didn't look forward to that but he just left it be for now. When he had some time over on lunch break, he had asked Yurishia to join him.

When they got to eat out, they were greeted by a few old friends of Yurishia. Not really used to the whole eating out thing, Kizuna had joined them.

Gertrude was a pleasant company if he could be honest about it, although there were some clashes between her and him on the matter how to eat fast food. But the bickering went well.

Like with Mattheus and Ichika before them, the Masters would help them. Getting to know your allies was a big deal. But even so, there were some things that he couldn't ignore.

Like the question of Scarlett in how to restore its machine. And of course, the stuff that came with it. Truthfully, he wasn't too big on it. The whole rumor mill had learned not to mess with Kizuna. Mattheus could be one scary motherfucker.

He had gathered some interesting nicknames during the course and things went out.

"So Kizuna, it turns out you are a big deal," Scarlett said to him and he had blushed on the question what his special power is.

But in the words of Ichika. "Dude, you don't do it to get your rocks off. You do it cause there's no other choice. If you do it, you save lives. Don't let anyone else tell you differently.

"It's not too big," Kizuna had hoped to defuse them alas to no avail.

"I'm getting interested in it. How about you show me around?"

"Sorry, but there is afternoon class."

"It's fine, you can just skip school. Rather than that, let's deepen our relationship as fellow leaders? From now on the number of joint operations will increase, it will be really important to hold on to communicate with each other."

For some reason, that ticked off Yurishia. And he could guess they were really competitive once upon a time.

"Wait there, Scarlet. Can you stop that? Kizuna is the captain of Amaterasu. Please don't talk to him so familiarly like that. Besides, right now, he is planning to have a lunch meeting with me."

The smirk on her face really made Kizuna fear.

"What's with you?"

"So this is how it is. You looked at me in a scary way. So how about this. Those who finish first will spend the afternoon with Kizuna." Yurishia looked up to her hamburger and it was barely touched. So she took it up and began to eat.

"Hold on. I haven't agreed to that." His protests went out as Scarlett was done eating. He got yanked by someone he could see as his junior.

"What's with you, don't follow us! There is nothing that the loser will be given in the end." Scarlett retorted to the girl.

"You really talking big for someone who arbitrarily decides the rule and arbitrarily starts the game. That one is invalid, invalid! Now Kizuna, leave alone that woman without sex appeal, let's go to a date with me."

Yurishia took Kizuna's left arm and pushed her voluptuous bosom on him. Kizuna's arm was sandwiched between soft hills.

He did have to admit, it was great.

'A, amazing. What softness, what pleasantness. Even though only one of my arm is tasting it, this sensation feels like it is healing my whole body.'

"This Holstein cow, your sex appeal is just too excessive! This walking obscenity!"

Why were women so vain sometimes, he wondered.

"It's better for Scarlet to add a little bit more sexiness you know? Well, perhaps it's still too early for you. Your breast too, isn't it far smaller than even Hayuru who is a Japanese?"

"That's unnecessary advice! Not all American are big breasted! Mi, mine too has average size already! Don't look down on me!"

Scarlet pushed Kizuna's right arm on her own body. Certainly its volume was overwhelmingly little if compared to Yurishia, but even so he could feel the softness, furthermore, her body with muscle that omitted any pointless fat could be vividly felt by his arm.

"I can't help but look down on such poor breasts, isn't it Kizuna?"

"Please don't ask for agreement from me." This had nothing to do with him and he had tried to ignore it.

At his left and right, the female bodies' sensation with goodness that was completely different from each other through his arm and encroached into his body and brain. The different pleasures were fighting each other as if his body and mind would be split into two. He had come to some solution.

"I'll show you around if you agree that Yurishia will be with us. Okay." The two agreed and it would be a long walk for him.

And it turned out to be one with the girls constant bickering. When he saw Ichika hanging out with Cecilia, the guy turned tail and Kizuna would be sure to remember it one day.

What he did notice was how alike the two were in some regards. Especially when it came to swimsuits.

Both had taken out a white two-piece that looked really good at them. He had to admit they were really similar to that matter.

He had to admit. Yurishia was damn sexy in her suit but there was an appeal that he saw in the face of Scarlett. It was something that he hadn't seen before. And for some reason, she had gotten a Heart Hybrid with him.

And that was unintentional

But even so, the times went by in the park. And there is was where things went south. Yurishia was angry on the two. But more like cold and distant. While she left.

During the time, it had become clear for Kizuna that Scarlett used to look up to Yurishia.

And when they got a notion, they just rushed outside.

Ichika had to cut his time with the girls short as he was called to arms. For Mattheus, he dropped Joel off with Natasha.

He was lucky that Joel had downloaded a new weapon on him.

It had been a big fight and by the time, the group was there, Ichika wondered where the senseless slaughter of throwing human lives would end.

The person. A blond haired, brown-skinned woman, delivered a whole lot of damage on the fighters. And the Masters had real problems of taking her down as she avoided them easily. When Amaterasu joined, things weren't much better.

Mattheus wondered why it didn't hurt too much. Last time, he saw such a slaughter party, it was during the Metal Claw raid.

He shuddered on the carnage he unleashed that day. But even so, the fight went on as Hayuru was thrown away by the force until Aine met her.

"Are you also a fan of mine I wonder? It seems before I realized it, I have become famous in the AU."

She had been joking and Mattheus wondered if that was true.

Even while talking frivolously, Aine was observing the enemy without letting her guard down.

The woman before her eyes was smiling thinly, she was standing in a natural stance. She wasn't even readying anything or being alert. If she attacked right now, she had the hunch that she could easily defeat her――but, the dangerous air Aine felt behind the enemy made her hesitated to carelessly rush ahead.

"This is our first time meeting face to face. My name is Gravel. I am entrusted with the sixth conquest army of Lemuria district by Vatlantis Empire."

"Lemuria…sixth?" Aine didn't understand the meaning of Gravel's words. No, there was no need for her to understand.

She just needed to think of the way to defeat her. Aine persuaded herself like that.

Victory goes to the one who makes the first move. Should she begin? However.

A hesitation was born inside Aine.

She sensed a strange pressure from Gravel who was calm and took a polite attitude. She gave off an even more dangerous smell compared to any kind of gigantic magic weapon.

"I want to ask one thing. Do you remember your time as a child?" Shaking her head but she felt things in her body that weren't right. She had been trying to ignore it until the blade of Hayuru had come in and faced her. They had been fighting against her and there was like she was not even trying to wrap up the fight.

"You two are different. Although with the Ross series, I didn't expect anything else." The sweat went down her spine. And it even was worse when they saw the big weapon that Gravel carried.

That was not a sword and also not a gun. It was a huge single edge sword with wide width, combined with a particle cannon of a large caliber that was equal to a bazooka. A gunsword.

There was a trigger on the hilt, from there an ammo cylinder like a revolver with a vertical length of fifty centimeters that was connected to the gun barrel. That gun barrel was shaped to half sink into a wide sword blade, the blade was lengthened longer than the gun muzzle. The length from its handle until the sword tip was even longer than Gravel's height.

Before it could come of using the thing, a huge bang went off and they could see someone standing with a smoking gun in his hands. They turned to see how the gunsword had been destroyed by Mattheus who looked over to Gravel.

"Sorry I am late. But shit got in the way. Hate to interrupt but I'd like to wrap his show up." He said as he replaced the smoking gun by something else.

Gravel could only look in shock as Mattheus deployed a small canon in his hands. With the first shot, a blast of energy came out. It was high enough.

"Joel had worked on a new thing. Blastergun. Something new. Miss, if I were you, I'd start running, cause I have reached a point that you did enough carnage." She looked as Mattheus aimed and pulled the trigger. She had avoided it but the damage in the concrete was high enough to make her fall back.

She had left but the damage was high. And Aine and Hayuru realized that if Mattheus didn't fight back at her and the help of Joel, it would have been a real big fight.

{Ten thousand square meters of surface part is replaced. Fourteen commercial buildings are half destroyed or completely destructed otherwise. Another six are damaged. Even the underground lifeline was also influenced to some extent, but we estimate that it will be repaired in three days. And without Adjzof's intervention, things might have gone down a lot worse}. Mattheus shrugged as he had helped out with carrying the wounded as well and administering first aid where it was needed.

The Infinite Stratos girls had also helped out by transporting the wounded. It was a damn miracle that there was no death. Mattheus' intervention had stopped Gravel and got the dying out of there and stopped them from not dying. But there were wounded. And their own teams made part of that.

But for now, they had to think about the next course of action. Ichika had hoped it wouldn't end up with more close calls. And when he laid with the girls around them, they had been scared.

They had been there once before. And this was not going to end well.

I hope you guys forgive me for this one and I hope I can make up for this in the next Volumes.

I'm gonna say it ain't cool but I just want to get this Volume over and done with. That's why I am not going to spend too much time on it as this stuff just doesn't have anything for me in that I would find easy to work with.

I want to get this Volume done, reading over it one more time and see what I can use. The only big part is the Three Some with Yurishia and Scarlett. And the extra things that come with it.

So sorry but the next chapter is hopefully not going to suck as much as this one.

See you guys soon.

Saluut.