Chapter 6: Italian restaurant, part 2.
When they had finished the first courses, Salò served them the main plates: Florentine steak for Kay, a plate of Mammolese meatballs for El and Piedmontese mixed fry for Sheska.
"Italian cuisine is top quality, right?" The latter asked.
"Very true!" Kay answered her, her mouth watering.
El instead just nodded. That meal reminded her of the banquets prepared by Anzio, which she and her students had gladly attended on occasion. After all, her school and Anchovy's school were on friendly terms.
Speaking of Anchovy, I wonder what she is doing now… She is probably preparing for the 63rd tournament, not knowing that her team will lose.
She let out a sigh.
Well, for that matter Anzio never wins ...
She looked around, noting that a pair of SS girls had entered the restaurant, identical to each other: both had short blond hair and blue eyes and wore the typical black uniform with a red headband fitted with a white circle with a swastika inside.
Two thoroughbred Aryans ...
She thought the dark-haired girl, ironic.
Kay on her side widened her eyes as an instinctive terror took hold of her. In the previous timeline, the SS, after their escape from the Black Sun, had scattered throughout Japan, then began after a certain period of inactivity to carry out murders and attacks on the schools that had supported Ooarai in the annihilation match. Numerous female students had been massacred. She herself had lived in fear that one day they would attack Saunders too, killing her and other innocent girls. Terror deepened as she saw the new arrivals approach their table.
"God eftermiddag (good afternoon), Sheska! Who are your friends? " One of the two blondes asked.
"Meet Scarlett Johnson, AKA Kay and Gloria Navarro, AKA El, aspiring tankers. Girls, meet the Karlsson twins, Ingrid and Rebecca. They are Swedish. " Sheska said.
"Nice to meet you!" Ingrid stated.
"The pleasure is ours." El answered.
"So you intend to join us ... Has the student council already given its approval?" Rebecca asked them.
"Unanimously." Kay replied.
"Strange, they usually never give their assent if the applicants haven't first undergone medical and psychological tests."
"Ingrid, these two saved Eva. This made them welcome to our leaders. "
"Wait… So they're the girls they were talking about at the station?"
"Exact."
"In this case, the pleasure of meeting you is double!" Rebecca said happily.
"You are not German, are you?" Ingrid asked.
"I'm English, Gloria is Spanish. I come from El Alamein and she from Roncesvalles. "
The twins nodded.
"So you are candidates for entry into the Foreign Legion ..."
"Exactly, Ingrid ... You are Ingrid, right?" Kay asked, who couldn't tell them apart.
"I'm Rebecca, I always wear a ruby ring. Ingrid instead wears a sapphire ring. "
"I see."
"We are also part of it, we are part of the Gustav II Adolf division. We are aboard a Stridsvagn m / 42 medium tank. "
"In what role?"
"I'm the driver, Ingrid the gunner. Our crew consists of four people in total, including we. "
"Do you often participate in matches?"
"Only to those that take place in the Scandinavian climate territories. Hilda is convinced that the tank crews give their best in the territories they are familiar with. "
"Our next task will be to support the regular team in the final of the 58th European tournament in Panzerfahren, against the Russian team Kursk. From the information gathered, the battlefield will take place near a city in the Caucasus, Volgograd. "
Upon hearing that name both Kay and El became serious.
"Old Stalingrad ..." The blonde said.
"Exact. The place that was the tomb of the German 6th Army of General Friedrich Paulus, and of Hitler's dream of conquering the Lebensraum, extending the borders of the Reich to the Urals. Today Kursk would like to make it our grave. "
"Will it be a flag match or an annihilation match?"
"Annihilation."
"I see…"
"In any case, we are not afraid of them. The Black Sun has already beaten them in the past. " Rebecca said, sure of herself.
"Anyway now we have to say goodbye, we have to go to our table." Ingrid said.
"It was a pleasure to meet you." El retorted, smiling warmly.
The twins gave the trio a final nod and walked away.
"So, how do they look like?" Sheska asked, turning to her guests.
"Very nice." Kay admitted, breathing a sigh of relief.
"Great good girls!" Was El's reply.
At that moment Sheska received a message on Facebook. She reached for her cell phone and read it.
"Hilda invited you to dinner." She stated she.
"Why?" Kay asked her.
"We saved Eva, I guess she wants to thank us for that." El answered.
The blonde was nervous and she struggled to hide it. As far as she knew, she and her lover had already been unmasked, and that invitation was a lure to lure them into a trap. On that occasion, however, she could not publicly express her fears of her.
"Should we accept?" She asked her.
Sheska gives her an ambiguous look.
"You would be rude to refuse ... And if there is one thing I have learned since I have been here, it is that it is not wise to be rude to the student council."
"When?" El asked.
"Tonight, 7:30 pm. She instructed me to take you there. "
"I understand ... Meanwhile, shall we visit the school?"
"After lunch. Now the second, before it gets cold. "
"Okay ..." she just said Kay, starting to eat.