"What do you mean that you had the bike damaged?" Sima asked Kay and Alisa. She had Naomi standing beside her who decided to report the behavior to Sima.
"I wasn't expecting them to have any form of firepower. We came across them and we thought that we were going to have some fun." Kay explained to Sima, she thought that they were going to enjoy themselves for the night.
"But that night has led to the bike getting damaged. Plus you prolonged the entire operation because you decided to scatter them." Naomi added to Kay. "Keep this up then we will be found out about this. We are trying to do this quietly and yet you're going around and creating so much noise. We don't want to keep doing that? Do we?" Naomi asked Kay. She was attempting to do this seriously and yet her friends were going off and trying to ruin the whole operation. Naomi growled at the prospect of this all going down hill.
"Yes Naomi." Alisa told her. Kimberly was watching from a distance. She wanted no part in this yet she was being asked to fight.
"Good. Sima, see if you can fix the bike. We're postponing operations until we can get tanks on board. We know the enemy might have more firepower." Naomi explained to the group. "Get some sleep, we're going to be gathering supplies and scouting the area tomorrow." Kimberly meanwhile seemed to be someone who didn't want to follow any sort of orders. She seemed to be more or less isolated. She walked away as Naomi watched. Naomi meanwhile looked at Kay who had nearly killed them for the sake of having fun in a chase was something that she had decided to do.
What Miho had done that night was nothing short but problematic, the firecrackers had blown a hole into the water system of the ship and as a result, water began gushing out from below and flooding the surface area of the ship. Which included many of the rivers of the school. This was going to cause some problems going forward.
Miho woke up the next morning in Tanya's cabin after the haywire mission that occurred the night before. Tomori was sitting next to her.
"Had a nice night last night I may say." Tomori began. Miho turned her head to Tomori who greeted her with a rather friendly greeting.
"Nice night, might have gone a little crazy to achieve said dream." Miho replied to Tomori's request. Tomori gave a nod. "How was Saori and Jake I may ask?"
"Saori was very sweet, she made sure that everything was together and how she was chatting away about even what seemed to be the most nonsensical topics she had to offer. I was surprised that no boy had proposed to her before. She seems to be the perfect girl for a boy like Jake. Jake however, turned her down as he says Saori isn't his slice of cake when it comes to a girl." Tomori explained to Miho about the friend that Saori was. Miho nodded.
"Oh. Jake's got his preferences. I see. I thought the two pieces of the puzzle would come together and hook up. I guess not." Miho explained while she got dressed.
"Oh and Ayami wishes to speak to you about the events regarding last night. I hope you're ready." Tomori added. Miho gulped about this, was she in trouble?
Miho, Yukari and Tanya were heading to the place where Ayami wanted to have this meeting. Miho felt nervous about this, thinking the destruction she caused to shake Saunders off of her was something she didn't want to see happen. Miho and her friends stopped to see Ayami, Hikari, Jouko and Dalmatia standing nearby.
"Is this about the events regarding last night's whiskey run?" Miho asked, she didn't know if she was in trouble for something like this. Ayami turned her head to Miho after speaking to Hikari.
"Kind of, it turns out you discovered another T-26 in the quarry and we need to get that fixed, up. The only problem is that none of our students are half decent mechanics so we can't fix it up. We're going to have to make do with what we have for the time being." Ayami explained to Miho that the discovery of another tank was going to be useful but with none of the students having anything useful to use regarding how to fix the tank, there was going to be a skilled student shortage unless they could solve it. "Speaking of which, I heard how well you took care of Tomori and I got into a conversation with Rowan last night regarding how the training of the students went and based on her suggestions, it's clear that we're letting Yukari lead from Shinobu as Yukari is strong area with tanks maybe she can be able to fix the tanks up. It turns out that accident was worth it."
"Much appreciated there." Yukari told Ayami with a bow to give her thanks.
"That's our Yukari, now let's get down to business." Ayami continued the conversation. "Firepaw, I got reports that some of the students that they are ready for patrol and I want you to investigate an area that Lionheart has said she thinks some of the students are at risk due to the fact that water is rising in a certain area of the ship and needs to be drained."
"Who should go out there and drain out the area?" Miho asked, thinking about the task that was assisting her in this. She didn't want to go down there alone.
"Jouko and Dalmatia had offered to give their services and some of the younger students are also going down there. Two armored cars are also assisting as they are the most likely to be in working. Some of the older students are proving to be more stubborn than what they are worth. Pravda students are also reported to be heading down to that area." Ayami explained to Miho about who was going to head there.
"Okay, I can see what you want me to do?" Miho explained to Ayami.
"Good, the weapons and ammo will be provided by Dalmatia." Ayami told Miho before she headed off to see what she was going to do. "Prepare yourself for when Yukari is finished."
"Right." Miho explained to Ayami before they parted ways, Miho was definitely going to need some help when it came to the swamp. Miho was nervous, this was her first mission when it came to something like this. For now, she decided to go visit Tomori to see how she was doing, there might be an hour or two that she could kill beforehand.
Miho walked over before unlocking the door to the cabin where Tomori and Jake were sitting. Jake was just about to leave as Tomori was curious to see why Miho was back early.
"You seem early. What's up?" Tomori asked Miho about this.
"Ayami has given me a scouting mission and I have an hour or two to spare." Miho explained. Tomori laughed while getting the book she was reading.
"You seem to have spirit there, little kitty. I'm most likely good for the rest of the day at least. If you want to hang out that's fine, I see no problem with that." Tomori explained to Miho. Tomori picked up the book and began to read once more. She was taking where the story had left off. Miho began to think, this certainly was going to be an easy day for her.
"I don't see a problem, you know where my bike is?" Miho asked Tomori where she stashed her bike. She was going to take a ride around the woods for a bit and see what's up.
"Bike is where you placed it, near Tanya's cabin." Tomori explained to Miho. Miho nodded with this information and headed off to go get it. She seemed to be curious.
"Thanks and do I need anything for the road?" Miho asked Tomori if there was anything she could take with her.
"I should be good, thank you." Miho told Tomori before she headed outside. She went to where she had stashed her bike for the visit and she proceeded to pull it out of the brush. After dusting her bike off, Miho got on and began to pedal away. She needed to find Rosie about the news and feed the fresh info to her.
Miho was busy pedaling her way through the forest, trying her best to remember where exactly Rosie's holdout was. It would have been easier if Yukari was with her as she remembered the path to get there. Miho pedaled along, looking at the tanks that were busy with their exercises. Yukari was busy instructing them.
"Aim higher Type-89." Yukari instructed the Type 89 crew to raise the elevation of their gun a bit as they had missed their target. Yukari looked at Akebi, Yuuki and Momoga. "Do you think they will be ready when Saunders comes knocking?"
"Don't believe so, they're making the same mistakes as yesterday and even with Dalmatia teaching them about gun elevation, they seem to have not learned their lesson. The mistakes aren't as big as yesterday so we're making progress… I think." Akebi explained as the Type-89 fired again, this time hitting the target. Miho looked on as she decided to head over.
"Okay, not bad for the T-26 crew. We could've used a better AP round as this one fell kind of short from the center." Azusa told the crew of one of the tanks.
"Most of these rounds are pretty rusty meaning they haven't been used." Chelsea explained that she was dealing with faulty ammunition that had been sitting around that they were just going to shoot up with.
"Where the ammunition that we ordered, we can use new ammunition." Allisyn asked, they were starting to question what exactly was going on regarding the entire situation. Jouko and Dalmatia were watching and listening before they began speaking.
"It'll be coming tonight. We've picked up the fact that the shipment is indeed on its way. Should we ask for a few mechanics to help fix up the old tanks?" Dalmatia explained to Allisyn about the ammunition order. It had been placed but they weren't exactly sure when it was coming until just today.
"We need everything and we can't find a single thing useful. Lack of good ammunition, poor part quality and not a lick of grease between here and Chicago, what kind of school is this?" Hailey asked. "I repair clothes for a living but not tanks as I'm ripping up my sleeves to keep these tanks functioning."
"Yeah, it looks like we're indeed in some kind of dire straits with all of this. We can't get much." Addisyn explained. Yukari looked at Miho who was motioning her to come here for a second. Yukari walked over to Miho.
"Need something?" Yukari asked Miho if there was something she needed.
"Yeah, I do. Do you know how to get to Rosie's place from here?" Miho asked Yukari if she knew exactly how to get to Rosie's shelter, which was the abandoned bus. Yukari began to think of how she remembered how to get to the bus. After a moment of thought, she remembered.
"Pedal your way back to the tank storage shed, take the path to the right, when you get to the fork in the path, head left. Continue down that path and it should be on your right. Want me to take you there?" Yukari asked Miho if she got that and if she could come along to make sure she didn't get lost.
"Sure, I can use the help." Miho told Yukari that she wasn't too familiar with the ship's layout. It wasn't like Ooarai where she memorized all the shops and buildings but here it was trees which made navigation difficult.
"Okay, Azusa, you're in charge of the training, I need to help Miho find a friend." Yukari instructed Azusa to take over for her while she went to help Miho find Rosie.
"Okay." Azusa explained to Yukari. Yukari got onto her bike and began to pedal off with Miho in tow who was following up behind her.
Miho and Yukari were pedaling their way through the woods as the girls were in a conversation regarding the students of the school and how prepared they were.
"The school is in poor shape, there is progress being made but by the looks of it, the school seems to have its tanks covered in dirt and rust. One of the T-26's broke down this morning when we tried to move it and it turns out the engine is busted. We found that spare but even then, there isn't much we can do to fix it. And as for students like Rabbit team and Azusa, they seem to be more interested in fooling around with the students than helping. Azusa still has some spirit but we don't know how well that fire is burning. We should figure out how to motivate the school into helping them fight." Yukari explained that the school was improving but it wasn't going to be enough. This got Miho to think about what was going to happen. She should definitely begin preparing the entire thing if it meant trying to raise their spirits.
"I mean if we can get good mechanics, we should be able to get their team up and running as well as more tanks for the school and probably more volunteers." Miho explained that they needed help and by helping them they needed a lot of help. "Does Rosie know anybody not part of Saunders that could help us out?"
"We can ask her." Yukari replied. "I spoke to Azusa and she says that she's doing well here but it turns out she is able to get the thoughts out of her own head. She might have to talk to Ayami later about cats."
"That's good to hear, I don't want to see Azusa moping around with a raincloud about her head." Miho replied. She began to think of what else she was going to say. "Is she going to help us out today?"
"I mean if we're facing against Saunders which we have to go to the swamp to do, then she will need to help us." Miho explained to Yukari. They approached the bus where Rosie was believed to have settled down. They wanted to see what was up. The bikes pulled up to where the great tree was. Yukari and Miho got off to wander up to the bus to see where their friend was. The bus door opened to see Rosie standing inside. It looked like the bus seemed to be more… settled down by the looks of things. Miho walked in.
"Rosie, you got a second?" Miho asked Rosie if there was something she needed to talk about with her.
"Sure, what is it?" Rosie asked Miho if there was something she needed. Miho began to think about it and they could use some help.
"Well we got news about the tanks that the school has found." Miho began. "It's clear we have no good mechanics to get these tanks fixed. Do you know anyone that can help us with this endeavor?" Miho asked Rosie if she knew anybody with any skills of fixing tanks up. Rosie began to ponder for a moment, was there anybody that was going to be suitable to doing that job.
"I definitely know someone, Sima knows a thing or two when it comes to fixing tanks. And the fact that I know a bunch of students from one of the schools we saw earlier this year." Rosie explained to the group that she knew exactly what she was talking about. Miho and Yukari looked rather curious to what Rosie was saying.
"Who?" Miho asked Rosie.
"Maple High School. I had a chat with them and told them my distaste with Saunders and how I would wish to seek some kind of change. Trout being the helpful person she is became my friend. When I said I wanted to work the rails and not go around blowing up stuff, she understood my need for peace. Even so, I only added those bazookas on the side of my Stuart because I want to try something new opposed to Kay who just wants to keep using Shermans." Rosie explained to Miho about what she wanted to do and the reason she made the changes was the fact that she wanted to stand out.
"Wow, so you take words literally and have a need to be different from Kay's uniformity? I respect that." Yukari replied to Rosie's statement, Miho looked at her and wondered if she was serious.
"So standing out in one way?" Miho asked.
"That is a yes, I will say if you're going to the swamp, can I help you?" Rosie asked. "I heard about last night and I want to see what we can do." Rosie explained. Miho decided to take Rosie's words into consideration before she began speaking.
"Sure." Miho explained. Rosie nodded before Miho and Yukari began to make their way off of the bus with Rosie following them. They were going to be the next task force to intercept whatever Kay might throw at them.
Miho's group consisted of herself, Yukari, Rosie, with Dalmatia and Jouko following along. Azusa, the Pravda students, Tanya's small group with a BA-10 armored car, Ritsu and Mio had joined the group. They were now a group of about fifteen roughly with an armored car. Ritsu and Mio got back in such a rush as Miho was observing the swamp.
"Man what I did last night must've damaged the area and the widest part of the path is flooded. I don't know if the Sherman will be able to cross in the mud." Miho told the group. The students ran over to report their findings.
"So a patrol is coming for us and they took the bait." Ritsu explained to Miho what exactly happened and what this meant for the entire group. Miho nodded as she began to wonder.
"How big is the group?" Miho asked Ritsu. Ritsu began to think about it, trying to remember off of the top of her head on what she encountered.
"Two motorcycles, a truck and a sherman. Twenty students in total." Ritsu reported that this was what she was able to find. Miho nodded, she had to divide her attention up to what she could work with.
"Okay, Ritsu, Mio, you're with Rosie, you're going to act as bait to see if you can distract them. Dalmatia, Jouko, ambush the lightly armed vehicles and support Rosie. Nina, get that Dp-28 running and see if you can ambush them. Me Yukari and Azusa will support the armored car to see if we can take out the tank. Once the students had been forced back, we'll take the tank." Miho explained to the group. The students nodded before they began to split up and find good ambushing positions.
"Do you think this will work?" Tanya asked from the armored car.
"We definitely do but we definitely don't. We're going to see." Miho explained to Tanya about this.
The patrol that Ritsu and Mio had encountered was heading for the swamp entrance. Kimberly was scouting with the motorcycles. The motorcycles this time had M1919A4 machine guns on them just in case. Kimberly was out and scouting for the group.
"Well… I don't see them anywhere." Kimberly told the group. She couldn't see anything besides the swamp.
"She's somewhere in this forest so don't be so demoralized." Kay told Kimberly that Rosie was in the woods.
"There is a giant pond of water here, would it be wise to cut down a few trees to build a bridge?" Kimberly asked. Sima and Naomi agreed to the notion of building the bridge.
"Nah. It looks like this lake wasn't here yesterday and it won't be here for much longer." Kay told them as she had other ideas and it would be easier to drive straight through the swamp. Kay approached the Sherman once more before climbing onto the tank and into the turret. "Now let's advance our way through this swamp." What they didn't realize was the fact that they were heading straight for an ambush.
"Do you think a hunting rifle would be good against a school like Saunders?" Ritsu asked, she was questioning the rifles they had in storage and would be using against their foes. Miho meanwhile was digging in a spot to set up their spot.
"A hunting rifle can do as much damage as a normal one. Just be precise with your shots." Miho explained. Yukari, Azusa and Miho had finished setting up their hunting rifles and were going to act in support of the BA-10 armored car parked nearby. "Tanya, are you ready?" Miho asked. Tanya, Tia, Kate and Aurora were in the armored car with Tia at the wheel, Aurora on the gun, Kate loading up and Tanya leading the operation.
"Just about, we're going to wait to see where you want us to shoot first, we should shoot the machine gun in the hull first." Tanya explained the plan to Miho. Miho nodded while handling her hunting rifle.
"Okay, after this you want to storm the tank?" Azusa asked if this was going to be the plan.
"Looks like it. Just hope the tires don't sink." Tanya explained.
"Ritsu fire when ready." Miho gave the order. Ritsu nodded as she spotted the group of students getting off of the truck. She raised the rifle and fired, Bam! She took out one of the students as Rosie got up and fired. Another student taken out. Mio raised herself and fired again. She missed her shot. The other students looked around to see what was going on and who was shooting them.
"Over there!" One of the Saunders students shouted as she pointed to the bush. The M1919A4 brownings turned to the bushes and began firing away. Rosie and the others were feeling the pinch as they had been noticed.
"They noticed us, we need to get out of there." Ritsu told Miho that they had been discovered.
"Good, isolate them from the tank, we're going to take that tank out." Miho explained to Ritsu. Ritsu, Mio and Rosie retreated with many of the students chasing them. They had abandoned the tank and the truck they had standing around. The tank tried to cross the pond with the machine guns firing, they wanted to see where the enemy was.
"Ready?" Tanya asked the crew as Aurora was focused on the target, the target was the machine gun in the hull.
"Yep." Kate told Tanya.
"Fire." Tanya called out. Aurora fired the gun as the BA-10 armored car fired its shot at the machine gun in the hull. The machine gun went silent as the Sherman crew wondered what had hit them. The tank tried to turn to see where the shot came from.
"Where is it?" One of the Sherman crew members called out, She didn't know exactly where the shot came from.
"I don't know." Another student called out. They were trying to find where the armored car was that just shot one of the machine guns. Kay looked at her Crew rather frustrated.
"It doesn't matter, we still have another machine gun. Use that one!" Kay shouted. The Machine gun in the turret began firing away, trying to locate wherever the armored car was. They were determined to find it. Miho was looking around to see the Sherman crew helpless in trying to find the enemy. She grabbed a radio to see how Ritsu was doing.
"Ritsu, how are you doing?" Miho asked her friend.
"They're on our tail and we need a good position to fight from." Ritsu called out, she was scared.
"Okay keep luring them. You might get a good position to fight from." Miho told Ritsu to keep falling back. The thirteen or so students that continued to follow were about to get them when all of the sudden, a Dp-28 machine gun began opening fire along with a couple sub machine guns from one of the bushes. A couple of the Saunders students fell as the motorcycles came to a halt. They began firing at the direction of the bushes.
"There, in the bushes!" One of the students shouted as she fired her rifle.
"That must be a bunker disguised as a bush!" Another student called out. The Dp-28 belonged to Nina who had managed to ambush the group. This was unexpected to the students. Was this really their plan?
"Keep them distracted, we need to keep their attention on us!" Nina shouted. She continued firing the Dp-28 at the crowd. Another student was taken down as they were unaware of what was about to happen. Jouko and Dalmatia had set themselves up on a nearby hill, overlooking the chaos of the field. Jouko was acting as a spotter for Dalmatia as the latter had an Anti-Tank rifle on them.
"Take out one of those motorcycles." Jouko instructed Dalmatia. Dalmatia nodded before firing the Anti-Tank rifle. One of the motorcycles that was firing away instantly crumbled as the paintball tore it apart. The students looked around to see what was going on and where that shot came from. Ritsu raised herself up and fired at the Browning machine gunner, taking her out. "Steady now, a little to the right." Jouko instructed Dalmata. Dalmatia nudged the rifle to the right to take aim at the other motorcycle. Jouko gave her friend a pat on the shoulder before she fired. The second shot ripped the other motorcycle apart. The students were confused on who was taking out their support. Ritsu rose up again and took out the other browning gunner.
"We can't keep holding, retreat back to the truck!" Naomi shouted, this was going terribly. The remaining students began to make a retreat as Rosie, Mio and Ritsu rose up and fired away, four more students fell in the retreat. The group had been whittled down to just eight. Still decent but to them. This wasn't going to be the case. The six students got up and decided to chase the group down. Dalmatia was still watching as she was looking at the spots to disable the truck. Jouko pointed to Dalmatia to shoot the engine. Dalmatia nodded as the eight students began to make their retreat. After a gentle tap on the shoulder, Dalmatia fired at the engine of the truck. Naomi and the others approached to see the truck get shot in the engine and was disabled easily. Naomi realizing there was one way out decided to give new orders. "Book it out on foot, we can't hold on for much longer." Naomi announced as the students began to make their getaway. Brook showed up with the Papasha-41 and gave a good spray, dropping another student as Alina dropped another student as well.
Kay meanwhile was still stuck in a game of find the BA-10. The Armored car fired again and took out the machine gun in the turret. Kay looked around and knew where the shot came from.
"Over there!" Kay shouted, She found where the armored car was and where it was. Both machine guns were disabled but this didn't mean the tank was out of the fight. The cannon was still there and to Kay, that was the last option. "Might as well take you out any way I can." Kay told herself. She was ready to fire when she felt something rock the tank. Dalmatia shot at the Sherman again, taking out another part of the suspension. Kay looked around to see who it was that was shooting her tank. "Who's shooting us?" Kay asked. Then Tanya looked ahead to see Kay's attention was divided, Tanya tapped Aurora to fire at the turret of the Sherman. Aurora nodded before firing at the turret. The Sherman was rattled before another shot was made at the Engine. The tank spluttered as the students got out and began to run their way across the pond, leaving their tank behind.
"They're retreating." Miho told the group. The students who were coming back seemed to have driven off this small patrol. Ritsu had the reports.
"Saunders has retreated, all vehicles have been knocked out and we captured some supplies from the motorcycles and the truck. I don't know if we can tow that tank out." Ritsu explained, the first battle seemed to have ended in a victory for Miho and her friends. What they didn't know was the fact that more battles were to come.
"Take this tank out and let's see how bad the suspension has been damaged, if it hasn't, then we can use the tank as part of your school's arsenal." Miho explained to Ritsu. Ritsu nodded.
"Okay let's see if we can finish looting the supplies and see what we have." Ritsu explained. The girls parted to see what supplies were left to gather.
Ayami that evening was inspecting the loot that was brought to them. She seemed to be impressed with the results.
"Well Firepaw, it seems you sent the patrol to the flooded area and encountered a Saunders patrol." Ayami began speaking to Miho if this was true.
"Yes it was." Miho explained to Ayami about what had happened. Ayami nodded.
"Impressive, Firepaw, Impressive. It turns out Graypaw told us that you managed to drive the patrol away and took what they had. I seem to be pleased with you." Ayami explained to Miho that this first engagement was a success. "While the suspension hasn't been severely damaged, it's most likely going to sit as a pillbox until we are able to find someone to repair this. It turns out we still don't have any decent mechanics."
"Where should we put this for now?" Miho asked Ayami.
"Put it in storage for now until we can find someone who is able to fix it. Go take a rest Firepaw, you earned it." Ayami explained to Miho that she should take a break especially with how she managed to conduct herself when it came to defeating Saunders.
"Okay." Miho explained. She walked off to where Momoga and Rowan were chatting as they were looking over the supplies. "Anything we managed to loot from the skirmish?" Miho asked.
"About two browning machine guns, some ammunition for said guns, and spare parts. The motorcycles are completely wrecked and will be scrapped to see what we can do with the scrap metal, the truck will need its engine replaced but the suspension is still good. And the tank just needs a couple of its wheels fixed. We wonder if it's part of the spare parts we have." Rowan explained to Miho about the loot they had got.
"It is unlikely Saunders will attack tonight, Piyo." Piyotan explained to Miho. "You seem to have shown that even for a girl like you, you're getting everybody's respect." Piyotan would walk off with Momoga as Satsuki came up with Hailey and Kiara.
"Patrols finished and no Saunders students came along the narrower paths. It seems that we're being asked to patrol beyond our cabins to keep everything safe." Satsuki explained to Miho about the status of the school. Miho smiled.
"Well they must've been too scared after we showed them. With what had happened today and the night before. They are going to prepare to step up their game. It looks like if we can continue capturing their tanks and supplies, we can drive them out of the school." Miho explained that they just needed to set up clever ambushes and pick them off one patrol at a time. "Any status of the training? We managed to take some of the students out." Miho explained.
"We're getting there. It seems to me that a kittypet like you has some guts. If we can contact your school and others, we can see how big the team will be once we get everybody trained up." Satsuki replied that she was giving Miho some respect for what she pulled off.
"I got to say thanks. So what's the orders for tomorrow?" Miho asked Satsuki if she and her friends had any ideas of what they were going to do.
"Nothing as of yet. We'll just have to wait to see what Bluestar has to say." Satsuki explained before she walked away. "Training will resume as normal but we're still lacking in many things. Ammunition is covered but spare parts aren't. Mechanics as Mika would say are unavailable. We're going to see how we can try to fix these buckets of rivets up."
"That's going to be tough. We're making progress but we still have a long way to go." Miho explained. Satsuki nodded before she left with Kiara and Hailey. Hailey seemed to give a wink to Miho for the effort she managed to put up.
"So who's cabin are we sleeping in tonight?" Saori would ask if this was going to be a running theme with their stay at the school.
[A/N]: Sorry for taking so long to update, I was busy finishing up another fanfic and this one took longer than anticipated with the length of the chapter.
Miho's first test is complete as she and a small patrol of students have stopped a Saunders patrol in its tracks and took everything they left behind. Cedar Lake Academy now has another tank they had captured from the enemy but that doesn't mean Saunders will come back with the same number of students. They will need to be careful if Saunders tries to probe them once again. Next chapter will be the next course of action Miho and the wilderness will have to fight off if it means holding themselves together.