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GXP 8 Chapter 7


7 "Fuku · struggle"

One of the huge residential areas within the Kamidake was a huge floating bath facility made of the same material as Ryo - Ohki and the Kamidake 's crystals.
The complicated and intricate structure was like an amusement park, its shape was changeable by moving the walls in blocks it was possible to partition it from a single bath to hundred of them.
They had found the gate to this large bath when they "explored" Seina's home in the Kamidake with Kiriko.

"This is the size of my grandfather's mansion" Amane said when she found it
the ceilings were so high that it was reminiscent of a European cathedral.
The bath facility could move to any of four huge spaces, and now it was floating above the mountainous areas in the winter section. Of course, because there was a shield function, Seina was able to enjoy bathing while watching the scenery spreading in front of him without being affected by cold.

Seina was taking a bath with Fuku when they got a distress signal.
When Seina got to the bridge the crew was already in battle mode against a pirate ship, Currently the Kamidake was disguised as a small container ship.
"Miaa ~~" Fuku said with an uneasy voice.
"Fuku, it's all right, don't be scared." Fuku perked up.
"Ship enemy ship firing! It a warning shot!" Erma said the attack passed by bow of Kamidake.
"Mya!"

Fuku's body stiffened reflexively. her facial expression was already distorted, and she had teary eyes.
"It's Only one ship ... calm down!"
"Mya! Mia!" Fuku stared at Amane who scolded her as Amane looked away at a monitor, another attack launched from the enemy ship and passed close to the Kamidake, Fuku froze up like a stone.

"The link with with the ship is suddenly dropping!" the next moment, all the monitors on the bridge disappeared.
"Switch to pattern B!" Kiriko's orders where carried out quickly, the monitors and controls returned, they were now under attack by the enemy ship and their camouflage was disappearing.
"Mia! Miaaaaaaa !!" Fuku jumped into Seina's lap and began to cry while trembling.

"Our ships camouflage is gone ... ...."
"The enemy ships jumping away from us!" Erma raised her voice to yell over Amane's voice.
"Damn it! They escaped!" Amane said angrily leaning back deeply into her chair.
"It's no wonder they jumped ..... any idiot could recognize this ships as being similar to that of Ryo-Ohki's." The crystal used for the exterior matched that of Ryo-Ohki.

"Well ... at least they ran away, the last thing we need right now is enemies collecting information on this ship before we master using it"  Kiriko sighed and stared at Fuku who was busy hugging Seina.
"Well, We still have plenty of time to find more pirates, Let's get the systems back online and go back to work..."

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A couple of hours later, a violent fireworks display of lasers rained down upon the disguised Kamidake once more. However, the flashy barrage of attacks did not significantly damage Kamidake's shield.

"Well...at least all the ships attacking us are under powered pieces of junk."
Amane looked puzzled at the monitor in front of her.
The display told her that all of the weapons control systems were in an unusable state.
"It's a good thing this disguise is only luring out low ranked Space Pirates, this could be quite a serious problem if we were up against anything worse."

Everyone on the bridge gazed at Seina and Fuku, who was crying.
"Mia! Miah! Mia Ann !!"
"Energy output has lowered! The link value with the hull is below the lowest value we've ever read before, I'm switching all operations to manual!"
"Should we just ditch them?"
"Even if they're low ranking Space Pirates, a pirate is a pirate, I think we should stay and arrest them ..." Seina quickly glanced at Fuku who was crying.
"Well then I'll make try to make this a quick and easy victory..."
" Please do."

"Okay! removing camoflauge!"kiriko said, the Kamidake' s camouflage was removed. When they noticed it's appearance however the pirates quickly fled.
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After the Kamidake docked back at the academy, Seina and Fuku headed back.
" It's ok Fuku, You can't win every time, Don't let it bother you."Seina told her
"Mew ... ...." Fuku looked depressed as she curled up in Seina's arms. 
Even though she was still freshly born little child, she was fully aware that she had done poorly. The consolation she had received from the crew wasn't going to change the mood she was in so easily.

"Welcome home" Hakuren and her crew surrounded them as they welcomed Seina home. They were dressed as maids and had been reassigned to work at Amane's apartment as before.

"Fuku, welcome home,"Karen, who noticed Fuku's mood led the charge to greet Fuku as well to cheer her up. Their cheerfulness did the trick.
"Please come this way, we have already prepared a bath for you." The girls escorted them to the bath.
 
After the Bathhouse was damaged by Seiryo being launched out of it the facilities were remodeled and it now had two dressing rooms separated by gender but there was still no partition in the bathroom, but Seina mostly used a small tub that was sectioned off by some decorative plants.
Although since he had acquired Fuku it was normal for all the girls to join him as he bathed. Although having them there concerned Seina, he knew that having Fuku there would keep anything weird from happening. They kept to there section mostly and were distracted by Fuku's presence.

 Even so, Seina was tense and conscious of being in the same bath as Kiriko especially because recently due to his enhanced Bio-Enhancement he found that if he closed his eyes he could visualize the reverberation of things like a bat. So anything around him he could perceive stereoscopicly with his eyes closed even though it was only vague. it was seeing a blurred nude of everyone covered in steam and that caused various serious problems for Seina.
"Miyaaaa!"
Fuku jumped into the part of the bath Seina was in to escape the women who had gotten a bit rowdy.

Seina slowly stroked her head to calm her down.
"Fuku-chan ~ ~ come back! Let's play ~ ~!"
"Mya, Mya ~ ~ ~ ♡" Fuku responded to being called back by the women and ran happily and over there.
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".... It's a shame that we have such a powerful ship but can't make any use of it yet."
 After bathing and finishing eating, Kiriko and others were relaxing in the living room.
"I guess we're just going to have to wait for Fuku to mature ..." Amane complained... she noticed that Seina was sitting awkwardly.
"Hey, ... Seina what's wrong Seina ..."
"Where's Fuku-chan...." He asked
Karen pointed to Gyokuren who was busy hugging her as fuku's tail wagged.

"she's gotten used to her, they're finally hugging."
 Gyokuren smiled happily. It was a gentle, straightforward smile that was rare for her. Gyokuren was somewhat scary and intimidatingly decadent but she had a beautiful appearance, and in this moment Gyokuren seemed genuinely attractive to Seina. The usual feeling he got from her was a sort of mild terror, like one feels when encountering a genuine god. It was like she had changed from encountering a demon to a moon goddess, and surely everyone else felt it too.
Amane sighed a little

"Whew ... ... well I guess that's a little progress..."
 Amane was the first to recover from the trap of gyokurens attractive presence. her words snapped Kiriko and Erma back to reality.
"Both pirates and Gyokuren are the same in the sense that they are instinctive fears for fuku, but in this case, gyokuren only wants to play with her."
 Kiriko said... hinting that maybe she thought she could change fuku's fear of pirates if she made her look at it from a different angle but the other girls didn't notice.
"I realize her potential is high but she seems unreliable .... don't you think the former Kamidake was better in terms of reliability"
"The Old Kamidake? Well ... I don't see why that should matter."

"What? do you want to see about switching back?"
"No, I'm saying maybe we should move towards making the ship completely manually."
Kiriko said talking so so that Seina couldn't hear it. she didn't want to upset fuku or seina.
"Oh that might work. after all it is best technology you can get even without fuku. I think we should work on it."

"Let's start first thing tomorrow. Erma, would you borrow the equipment from Airi's studio for me?"
"Airi-san's studio is the fastest way to get this done, but I'd have to explain the circumstances to Airi-sama, it's too expensive of a matter to keep secret, I think i can manage it .... but she might be opposed to this plan"
"What, why?"
"Because Airi is a philosopher, there is a possibility that we won't be able to master the functions on our own .... the Kamidake is very complex."
"That's Something Airi-sama is likely to say, but it is certain that there are many unstable factors when using Fuku, and Seina 's biased probability bias adds to it, so it can't be helped now can it?"
"Well, I guess things won't wait until she can master her abilities, there is no choice but to find a substitution."

"would we be able to do it without Airi?"
"I could ask some people I know back from human hunting, were going to need considerably sophisticated equipment, although not nearly as sophisticated as Airi's studio."
"those people are dubious at best, Is it such a good idea getting them involved with helping seina?"
"shit ... Well, i guess it could be, but luckily for us they already got his data."
"Were going to have to do this quickly... let's make a list of things we need right away."
 When Kiriko sent a small sign to Hakuren, and pretended to go to the kitchen so that Seina wouldn't notice them, and they headed to Amane's room.
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