After bidding the Hanzo Girls goodbye, the Peach Creek Boys headed to the next school on their list; Gessen Academy. After taking a bus, they were dropped off by a road near a semi-rural landscape. Rolf smiled as he took notice of some farmland.

"Ah, this reminds Rolf of the days of frolicking in the Old Country." The Son of a Shepard said contently.

"We really gotta take a vacation there one of these days, man," Kevin said. "I really need to figure out how your culture works."

Double-D took out a map and looked it over before nodding and smiling as he pointed to where the school was.

"Well gentlemen, the school is just a mile's walk from where we're standing. Let's make the trek!"

The seven boys headed down the road. After walking for half an hour, they came across a Japanese-style dorm. Believing this might be their destination, they went inside to see the inside was that of a traditional Japanese building. There was even a cherry blossom tree in the center.

Ed looked in awe at a Japanese curtain with dragon statues on the top right and left positions. Rolf also admired the dragon statues as the others looked at the academy's flag, a spider with a snowflake as the background insignia.

"Hello? Is anyone home?" Eddy called out. "We're here to scout out the school!"

Suddenly, five blurs zoomed down from out of nowhere and surrounded the seven, who all cried out in alarm and bunched up together on all sides as the five shadows revealed themselves as girls and beautiful ones at that.

"Who are you and what are you doing intruding on the grounds of Gessen Academy?!" Demanded a girl with pale skin, icy blue eyes, and silver hair holding a pair of white and blue decorated war fans.

"Whoa, easy there! We're not bad guys!" Kevin said, getting on guard. "Jeez, you're acting like we're here to burn the place down or something?!"

A girl with burgundy eyes, a beauty mark, and long wavey blonde hair hummed, holding a dual-ended scythe over her shoulder with a look of interest before giggling as she pinched Jimmy's cheek, making him squeak in fear.

"I like these guys, girls. Not a lot of boys have the guts to just, like, waltz on in looking for a party."

A girl wearing a Hannya mask with long dark brown hair tied in a side ponytail with a red-violet ribbon looked closely at Rolf and Ed, a giant blood-stained cleaver and a snake-styled spear held in both hands.

"These boys...They're foreigners." She said in a deep voice.

"Americans?" A girl with short dark blue hair done in a bowlcut with a white cherry blossom hair clip and dark blue eyes asked with interest. "Could these be the Survey People Wang Pai told us about?"

"Um, y-yes! That's us!" Double-D said nervously. "We sincerely apologize for our intrusion so please put the weapons down."

"I see...Forgive our disrespect then." The silver-grey-haired girl said, folding her fans and putting them away.

"Are they here to play with us?" Asked a childish-looking girl with light brown hair tied in pigtails and bright baby-blue eyes.

No, we're just here to make a survey of your school." Double-D explained. "To see if it is manageable enough to handle becoming co-ed."

"Yes, we did become co-ed recently..." The masked girl said, folding her arms. "We know who the seven of you are from Wang Pai's descriptions. Allow us to introduce ourselves. I am Murakumo."

The grey-haired girl bowed. "I am Yumi, I'm the leader of our group."

"Yozakura." The blue-haired girl said.

"Shiki. Totes lit meeting you, fam!" The blonde winked.

"I'm Minori!" Cheerfully chirped the childish-looking girl, waving happily.

"Heh, she seems like your type, Fluffy." Kevin playfully said, ribbing Jimmy, who blushed in response.

"Is that Nazz's sister?" Ed asked, looking at Shiki, who giggled.

"No, I don't know who Nazz is but she totes sounds like my kinda party gal!"

Kevin chuckled. "Man, you don't know the half of it."

"Asuka did tell us that she and the others had friends here." Double-D noted. "Never expected you to be so well-coordinated."

"You met Asuka?" Yumi asked. "Hmmm...Perhaps you can be trusted, it seems."

"That mask reminds Rolf of the demons my Great Nano slayed in his youth," Rolf noted as he inspected Murakumo.

"It is merely an aesthetic choice. My mask holds no true demonic power." Murakumo simply said. "But your...'Great Nano', what was he like?"

"Ho-Ho! The stories Rolf has on hand!"

"Your friends are quite the eccentric group," Yozakura noted as she talked with Double-D.

"Yes. But I've lived with them almost my whole life now. Their shenanigans are practically day-to-day average to me."

A few hours later, Yumi led Double-D and Kevin to the library to tell them about Gessen's history. Minori ended up hitting it off with Ed, Johnny, and Jimmy real easy while Yozakura kept an eye on Eddy, especially when he tried flirting with her and got a bonk on the head for his troubles.

"Gotta say, Muracchi, you and Rolf seem to be getting along pretty well!" Shiki giggled as she looked at Rolf telling Murakumo about the stories of his homeland, which she was writing down on paper.

"His stories make for amazing new content in my doujin." Murakumo cooly said, keeping herself focused on drawing and on Rolf's storytelling.

"Rolf is curious, why does Masked Murakumo-Girl conceal her face?" The Son of a Shepard asked, causing the masked girl to put her pen down and stand up defensively.

"That's none of your business."

Startled slightly, Rolf ended up swinging his hand by accident, knocking Murakumo's mask off her face, which flies off and lands on Ed's head, making him laugh as he puts it over his face and pretends to be a monster which Minori pretends to defeat with Johnny, Plank, and Jimmy.

Rolf was stunned when he saw Murakumo's true face behind her mask. Contrary to what one would expect, she looked perfectly normal and cute, her eyes were forest green and she gasped when she realized she was exposed.

"M-M-M-MY MASK! S-S-SOMEONE FIND MY MASK! I-I'M NAKED WITHOUT IT!" She squealed in a cuter, more high-pitched voice.

Rolf looked apologetic, now realizing just why Murakumo wore her mask, and quickly marched over to Ed and scooped the mask off his face before returning it to Murakumo, the brunette gratefully taking it and putting it back on.

"Rolf apologizes for his rudeness. But you must acknowledge the beauty that stings Rolf's eyes beneath that mask."

Murakumo was silent for a moment, blushing behind her mask bashfully as Kevin chuckled and slung an arm around his best friend with an approving nod.

"Way to go, Rolfy-Boy. She's a real keeper!"

The boys still needed to head to Hebijo Clandestine Academy as the third and final school to survey. Bidding the Gessen girls farewell, the boys were about to leave before Yumi stopped them to give some parting words of advice.

"I wish to warn you, the girls at Hebijo are...different from us and the girls at Hanzo. I advise you all to be on your guard."

"Don't worry though, fam. Just tell them you're our friends and they'll let you in, no prob!" Shiki added with a wink.

"We'll make a note of that, thank you." Double-D smiled as the boys headed back to the bus stop by the road, which was a mile's walk away, of course.

Unbeknownst to them and the Gessen Girls, the mysterious benefactor was watching over them while perched upside-down from a tree branch, his red and purple eyes glowing intently.

"You boys best heed the girls' advice. Hebijo Academy is known for being a little...EVIL."

Sorry for the short chapter. I kinda wanna get through the introduction of the Main 20 Girls so we can move on to the true beginning of the story.

Also, this story takes place after Big Picture Show and Estival Versus but before Season 2 of the Senran Kagura anime.