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GXP 3 Chapter 2

2 "Morning, Shadow and Light"


There were about 50 people surrounding a large table, many of whom were holo projections that shined with bright red contours on their silhouettes.
The head of the Daruma guild was there in large seat and the whole scene looked like Yama, the King of hell, surrounded by his demon underlings

A man named Tarant shank's holoimage appeared shortly after the meeting had started
he was a beautiful white-haired young man but he was covered in blood and smiling about it

"You appear like that! before the general, how dare you!" said Megi Maia
"For us pirates, this is like make-up isn't it?" tarrant replied.
It was necessary for Space pirates to take a cargo or money, not a person' s life.
"Be careful or I will make you wear your own blood just like i did to your father." tarrant said as he stared at a pirate named Megi Maia who was serving as ryoko's representative. tarrant's smile distorted on his face and he glanced at her projection.

"Tarrant! such words should be reserved only for enemies of the guild!"
Megi said without any fear of him.
"The agenda of this conference is about the massive capture of our compatriots the other day, it seems that the other day there was a similar case in the academy "
"What!?"
A large collective groaning occurred inside the venue.
"That's right. I also couldn't contact the intelligence staff we sent to the academy."
"According to the announcement made to the cities in the outer ring there was major system trouble."

"If the defense capabilities of the Academy are down, Isn't this our chance to attack?"
"Are you stupid enough to start a war against the academy?"
"We need information only from the Academy ...... there's no reason to start an invasionary war on them!"
"It's as if you are a parasite"
"That's right! We do not let the host die"
"No matter how much fighting power we boast, we can not do war with the Galactic Federation directly, And going after the academy would get Jurai and Seniwa involved. it seriously risks too much!"
"Most of us are doing this as a business not for any kind of ideological reasons, this is not some kind of holy war, so it would be better for our business partner not to get angry. We need to keep it so that the GP considers loss compensation for some items much more economical than extensive, large-scale sweeping actions to annihilate us. "

there is actually an implicit rule between Space pirates and the GP.
If it's judged that the GP transport ship is not able to escape, the circumscribing container unit is separated, and the Space pirate will not chase the ship any more as long as the GP doesn't put up a fight or put any traps in the container.

Of course, this is the case only for ordinary container shipping.
In the case of special transport such as fake transfer of important items, like what Seina was mistaken for, they often make use of automatic weapons and melee fighting, and in that case there is sometimes casualties.

However, most of the time when they get inside the ship, the GP side gives up on the goods in many cases. In the case of Seina it was a special example due to them misunderstanding seina from the intercom transmissions and the pirate luring abilities of Seina.
And naturally, the space pirates are all about economic efficiency. They don't want to get involved with a camouflaged decoy ship or a troublesome opponent.
That is why information gathering was necessary.

"For us, war is nothing but a massive profit loss, and it's danger is evident judging by what just happened with the devil princess of jurai's recent capture."
The deputy supervisor looked up at Daruma, seeking a ruling.
"Today, we will collect information by making maximum use of the route that each member has, as well as dispatching intelligence agents, we will do our utmost with the central information department."
in response to Mr. Daruma 's resolution, the meeting was over.

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At the end of the executive meeting, the image projection that was displayed in a room of Tarrant's ship,  the Daedalus, disappeared.
In a room luxuriously furnished aboard Tarant's ship, blood was scattered everywhere, and the corpses of young men and women smelled foully in the air.
"Damn it, those cowards!" Tarrant's deputy officer said
"I don't know what happened to those guys, they used to be better than that." Tarrant said with a slim smile, overlooking half-naked women without heads.
"All the people who finished camouflage surgery have completed entry to the Academy, the rumors of the system being down seems to be true."
"Really"
"Are you going clean up your toys or are you still looking forward playing with them?" tarrant's assistant asked, tarrant gestured at him with his hand to leave
"Well then, I'll be on my way." he said and left
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outside the orbit of the academy, which was surrounded by several outer rings woven together like a birdcage, there was an assault going on of people trying to illegally force their way in. Thankfully due to the combined powers of Jurai and Seniwa, the Academy had a solid defense plan in place.

Mikami Kuramitsu's private Third army destroyer ship known as Bond released hundreds of thousands of smaller ships piloted by AI's to fight off the intruders
 while Noike Kamiki Jurai's ship , Kyoko , unleashed a massive coordinated attack alongside them.
The battle was hectic, Mikami's private planetary scale warship, G-Windel, was deployed into the fight as well along side back up from Kanemitsu Hirata and the 7th Juraian armada.
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Noike as holo image appeared before mikami afterwards.

"Noike, You saved us out there today, thank you."
"Think nothing of it. I am honored to help serve you Ms. Mikami. "
Noike was a member of the GP before becoming the daughter of Seto.
She was Currently living with the Masaki family of earth as Mr. Tenchi's Fiance .
"Today is the entrance ceremony of the GP Academy, are you sure you don't want to go and make a speech? it's been awhile since you've been there hasn't it. Seina and a few of your old colleagues are going to be there."
"Unfortunately I can't. I don't want to make Sasami-chan have to do all the housekeeping by herself, and I also have to help with the farm work. " she said,
she was wrapped in the royal clothes of jurai and her words did not match her outfit.
"Ho ho, you're practically a housewife already."
"Mikami, do you need anything else from me? "
"Hoho, no that was all. Please give my best regards to the Masaki family"
"Yes I will." noike bowed and her hologram disappeared.

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The sun rose over seina's dorm it was the day of the entrance exam. he looked outside and admired the nice weather.
"... ... Good morning, Seina."
" you're up early."
rajau and kenneth said as they got out of their beds.
"Look, The weather outside is nice today!"
seina exclaimed as he pointed out the window with joy.
His two roommates looked at him like he was stupid.
"......... ??"
"What are you saying ... it's always this way."
"Kenneth, Earth is still in its early stages, They still don't know how to control the weather."
"Ha ha ... but this it's just the normal way it always is outside"
"Even so, Seina, seems pretty happy,... maybe the earth has unstable weather?"
"It's not like that .... I ... .... well, Entrance ceremonies, graduation ceremonies, excursions, athletic meetings ... ... I've never been to one where it's been sunny outside." seina said
he looked sad like a puppy that had been left out in the rain.
"It's never been sunny?"
"Yeah, so on those day I was often told to stay at home by the school."
"Huh ~ ~ ... ... I see, "
"Even if you think it's a nuisance, you'd have to be terrible person to say that to someone"
"... ............ I have been told things like that from my teachers and the friends of my friends ...."
".................."
It was a sad confession and kenneth and rajau understood that. they tried to console him.
and it looked ridiculous when they did because they still had paper bags on their heads.
"Alright then !! Don't Look so down, Seina! Look up, at that sunny day outside!"
kenneth said putting his hand on seina's shoulder and pointing to the sky like a scene from a cheesy movie.
"The sky is celebrating your arrival here just like we are!"
said rajau also putting his hand on seina's other shoulder.
"Thank you"
even though it was cheesy and dramatic seina was glad to have friends. he looked out at the sky that kenneth was pointing to. that was the moment when they officially became a trio of friends in his mind.

"By the way seina, what's going on? you don't have a mark on your face anymore?"

seina suggested that perhaps then they also might have had theirs removed and so his roommates took off their paper bags that they had fallen asleep in to check.

"huh, hey your right!" seina said checking a mirror monitor that materialized in front of him.
the mark that wouldn't come off the other night was gone.
"Wow ~ ~ Hmm ... ... ... this is probably an example of his biased probability isn't it?"
"But Seina's probabilities skew towards the negative side."
"Then maybe that mark was good luck?" kennith said
"I see!"

Rinnnnnnnng!
seina heard a communications ring. he ran to his desk and pressed the button to accept the call
"... ... Good morning Seina how are you" minaho's hologram appeared.
she was wearing a flashy outfit different from her normal attire.
"oh Minaho, good morning ............"
"Oh, are you wondering about this costume? This is a sort of juraian formal wear "
minaho said in response to seina's stares at her.
"Today is your special day after all."
"…………Oh, thank you"
"Do your best"
"Yes!"
seina's smile made minaho happy.
"... ... Hey Seina, I know that today is the beginning of a new hope for you" she said
her smile becoming clouded and her eyes falling downwards into a sad expression
"What ...? Yes?"
"I know some people might bother you but please don't feel bad "
"It might be troublesome, but please just endure it."
" Oh? what do you mean ...?" he said .
the answer became clear to him who she meant, she cut him off
"sorry" minho said and cut her broadcast to him.


his roommate, who had left came back in and told seina that that the food system was down so they had gone to the cafeteria to get food while he was talking with minaho. they put out the food on a table and got ready to eat.

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In the courtyard outside seina's dorm people were lurking with complex camouflage equipment . they were spying on seina, it was hakuren and three others sent by seto.
"... Are you kidding is that all were supposed to do... Hakuren, why do we have to do this?"
Karen complained
"This is an important mission"
hakuren said dismissively at karen.
"Is this really that important?"
"Hey Gyokuren ... ... isn't voyeurism a crime?"
"this isn't voyeurism, its surveillance, if we were vouyers we'd want seina to know we were watching."
The group of girls went on and on with chitchat like this as they watched seina eat breakfast
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white rice, potatoes and seaweed miso soup, salted salmon fillets, spinach noodles and natto, raw eggs.
Seina was impressed at the food in front of him, it was a very traditional Japanese breakfast.

Seina was surprised by this. his roommates said it was a classic mourning breakfast of the academy. seina told them that it was Japanese in origin and that he was surprised they could eat it, especially the natto part of it. They didn't know it was from earth originally and were surprised too. kennith had a father who went to the academy so he had grown up eating natto at home.*

*natto is slimy fermented soybeans that most people find disgusting.

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Kenneth turned on the tv.
"Well, lets see what today's world situation is." he said as a new program came on.

"Kenneth, if you're going to watch the news why don't you just switch to something else and record it. there's no point in watching it in real time."
"Because her smile is the best thing to see first thing in the mourning!"
a distant aerial view of the city was displayed.
"Good Morning, Everyone at the Academy ..."
the image moved out of the shot and was replaced with two moderators who appeared and bowed. it was pretty similar to a normal earth mourning show.
"What? That's not Kirche-chan..."
"Today we will be having a slight change in our program due to the fact that we have special news to report on last night's incident in city 199"
"speaking of city 199, isn't that where we went last night?"
"I don't care about such things! Why doesn't Kirche come out?"
"It's strange, only one of the moderators and the commentators are the usual people."
"Maybe they had a sudden illness?"
" It must be Because of Seina, Kirche is a CG idol, She doesn't get sick."
"Well, maybe she's just reporting from on site lets wait a bit and see"
"... ... you're right."
Kenneth sat down somewhere and began eating natto with rice.
"... ... that thing crashed into the base of the city?"
On the screen they showed seiryo's crashed battleship jammed in the middle of the city it had no damage on the outside it was just laying there like a beached whale. it hadn't crashed anywhere too important but the ripples from the crash had caused damage all over the city, damage seina had gotten caught up in when the structure he and widow were on fell.
"Oh, that was what caused it..." seina said as he remembered his encounter with widow.
That night had led to the discovery of a secret server established by washu hakubi and the deployment of lots of gp troops. there was tons of damage and many criminals were caught.

"It seems that we caused a huge fuss. not only are systems down in the dormitory but their down all over the academy ..."
"What happened to Kirche! was she hurt!" Kennith yelled out after spitting out his miso soup ?
"For Kenneth, it seems that the fact that Kirche isn't onscreen is an even bigger incident."
rajau said opening up another monitor thin air and searching for news about Kirche.
"What is it! what's going on with Kirche?" kenneth said nearly crying.
"Yeah yeah ... I'm checking ...she is a famous idol girl, so maybe she is doing news somewhere else today."
A certain channel was flipped to and her image was reflected in it.
"Is this Idol ever going home?" was displayed as the headline.
The news was about kirche moving out of her home.
"Kirche is an AI, an artificial intelligence, but she has an astral as well, she is probably going to move away from her creator."
"is an Astral ...... like a soul?"
"when an artificial intelligence acquires new information over the years just like ordinary person would it often generates an astral which is something like a soul."
"Ha ... ... that's amazing, it's a program with a soul"
"Basically it is the same as us, the only difference is that she is artificial, but her intelligence that has reached that level she has been properly recognized as having the human rights just like us."
"oh is that so? but if it's a program, what happens if you make a copy?"
"The astral won't copy, so it is precious. the copy wont have human rights. it's not like an astral can just be copied. oh wait she's about to say something."
"Good morning, everyone at the Academy"
"Good morning, everyone at the Academy"
"Good morning, everyone at the Academy"
"Good morning, everyone at the Academy"
"Good morning, everyone at the Academy"
"Good morning, everyone at the Academy"
"Good morning, everyone at the Academy"
"Good morning, everyone at the Academy"
"Good morning, everyone at the Academy"
"Good morning, everyone at the Academy"
"Good morning, everyone at the Academy"
"Oh ... ...."
Seina seemed to admire Kirche's greetings which where different every time. With artificial intelligence, he had imagined something uniform, but she had no such sense of incongruity. In her short greeting, he could read her emotions at that time.
And above all, she had charm. she was very cute.
"... I understand what Kenneth meant by "this is good for waking up in the morning" seina said
"I will not deny that ... Kenneth, are you feeling better now?"
"... ........................... OK, I'm ready for today! Let's do this"Kenneth stood up cheering.

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outside the seto scouts monitored seina. they realized he had finished breakfast and was headed out the door.
"It seems that he will be out soon, Karen and Gyokuren go meet up with him, me and Suiren will stay hidden and we'll meet up with you at the ceremony."
"roger that"
Without making a sound, the four divided into two groups and started moving.

End chapter two

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