Chapter 4 "Lessons, teachers, senior students, the first day"
Seina stood outside in the long corridor that spread from the auditorium where the entrance ceremony had just abruptly ended.
A row of three Freshman led by a senior student walked out from from the auditorium
"... Oh man... I sure managed to get everyone caught up in My bad luck today."
Seina muttered out loud to himself as he thought of the incident that just happened.
"You sure caused quite a commotion" The senior student who was showing the freshmen students to their classrooms said in response to seina's whispers.
"I'm sorry for making your entrance ceremony into a giant mess." he said.
"No, no, It was a masterpiece, an absolute masterpiece! there is no doubt that that ceremony will go down in the annals of GP history" said the senior student.
"But some of the students are being carried out in stretchers..." seina noted
"It's alright, they only fainted... but that teacher who went flying" said one of the freshmen
"Oh don't worry about him, That teacher will be absolutely fine" the senior said
"oh really? That's good!" said the freshmen in response to the seniors confident reply.
"Well we better get going... Please don't interrupt my conversations if you don't have to." The senior scolded the freshmen as she turned and walked off, they chased after her.
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kennith came out to find seina.
"Huh! Was that.... ...."Kenneth said trailing off.
"Do you know who that was kenneth?" Seina asked
"That was Miki Seinbeck, She was last year's Miss GP Academy.
"wow" he said as he noticed her beautiful long straightened hair flutter in the wind as she walked off. She had an atmosphere about her that was very reminiscent of Kiriko for some reason.
She suddenly turned around and said
" You're Seina Yamada right?"
"Yes, that's right." he replied
".................." she stood silently looking at seina her eyes had an expression in them that was a mix of anger anxiety and sadness all at once.
"Wh, what are you looking at me like that for?" seina asked
"I wonder what she wants?" Kennith asked out loud. it was the question everyone around seina was wondering too.
"Forget about it... I have to go show these students around." Miki said returning to normal she gave seina one last quick glance and then quickly turned back around and walk off
Miki, who noticed that her crowd had stopped, once again returned to her original expression, and led her crowd forward.
"Okay ........................?"
Seina heard everyone around him talking about him like they did the other day when he was with amane and kiriko the only thing that changed was that now they were talking about him and miki
"Kenneth, ... ... I'm going to have to do another interview broadcast tonight aren't I?" he asked
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Most of the buildings of the GP Academy were tens of thousands of years old. But seina was standing in front of a dull silvery contemporary looking building.
"Why is this building different from the others?"
"Oh, They made it out of a large shipping container."
"a shipping container?"
Seina remembered the huge container ship he had seen when he came to the academy.
"It's amazing to see it on the ground"
It was the only new building in the area.
They entered. The transfer plate to the second floor didn't work because the system was still down so they had to take the stairs to the 10th floor. Their classroom had only 3 desks and lockers in a very very very small room. It had no 4th wall however. it was more like a cubicle partition then a room.
Seina sat down in the chair, he was tired from the climb.
"The format of the terminal is the same as the one in the dormitory," said raujau he tried to turn it on. "Hey Kenneth,"
"Whats up?"
"...... i can't get the system to start how about you?"
Kenneth pushed the activation switch on his desk, but there was no reaction.
A voice came on on a speaker system and said:
"It seems that everyone has reached their own space now so I'll explain. I think that some of you know, but the entire Academy is experiencing large-scale network system failures. Until the restoration is completed, all courses are canceled except for a few specific classes. The schedule until then is written on the bulletin board on each floor. "
They were supposed to be doing PE today so they changed and went to where PE classes were held.
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In the vicinity of the center of the GP Academy there was a building reminiscent of a European fortress. This was principal Mikami's office.
"Last night was the worst night ever!" Airi complained to Mikami as they drank tea.
"Well it involved Seina so I guess it's to be expected ohohoho!"
"It's not a laughing matter! I'm going to be up all night because of this... I should have Seiryo thrown into jail!"
"It's alright everything has already been settled legally with the tennans and the urban development company, and the crew and the students who were affected have all recovered and have been placed elsewhere. it's as if were no victims ..."
"Violence against rescue workers, obstructing public performance!"
"Yes, yes, I've submitted everything to the accounting department and they are reducing Mr.Tennans salary for the next three months and well considering the scale of the incident today, I'd say last night was trivial ...."
"Damn it!" Airi violently slammed her cup of tea down on the table
"Were just lucky to have so few people injured in the explosion."
"But weren't there dozens of people who lost consciousness and were carried away?"
"Yes, and since the medical system of the GP Academy is down, I had them taken to our hospital warship, but there's seems to be no noticeable trauma with most of them, Really the most injured person is Professor Tennan."
"Serves him right."
"And also, around 85 suspicious people and wanted criminals were arrested at the entrance ceremony"
"... That's nothing compared to last night's troubles, but that's still a surprise. it's the GP entrance ceremony, even if criminals aren't the brightest, You'd have to be an amazing kind of idiot to show up there of all places."
"Criminals are complicated... ... They don't necessarily always worry about getting caught ..."
"The existence of Seina is a double-edged sword, on one hand a lot of crime has happened lately and on the other hand a lot of criminals have been caught, the people living in this area seem to be unsure how to feel about it......."
"How do you feel about it Airi?"
Mikami was talking about Widow.
"... Well, I feel like I have lost my opponent."
"That's right I almost forgot, what is the status of the work on the new system modifications?"
"Kuramitsu Home security and the information department took advanced priority, and are all finished now. as for the rest it should all be done in a week."
"When was this system installed anyway?"
"It seems that it was installed before Mr. Washu became missing"
"That's was over Five thousand years ago ......? No wonder our system engineer was surprised."
"But if we turn this into the main system, Won't we have to pay licensing fees to Washu? How much is it?"
"Hah! If we had to do that it would make Hakubi Washu and Akara Naja the enemy to the entire galaxy, half of the world products wouldn't be able to be manufactured."
"Well ... then I guess it's not such a bad idea after all..."
Mikami got an incoming call and answered it.
"Yes, this is Mikami ... ... ... ... What?"
The smile disappeared from Mikami's face when she answered the phone and as the conversation went on she gradually began to look more and more nervous.
"............ Yes, I understand, That's all O need to know for now goodbye."
"Did something happen?" airi asked
"I'm sorry, please come with me Airi"
"Yes, Understood." without being informed anymore on the subject Airi downed all of her remaining tea and stood up.
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On Mikagami 's bridge, to the stunned gaze of minaho and her ladies in waiting seto was sitting on a large sofa like throne and repeatedly rewinding the video broadcast that had been sent to her from Hakuren. She was laughing herself stupid.
"A ~ ~ Ha ha ha ~ ~!"
"lady Seto ... you might not want to do this in front of your subordinates." said minaho intervening.
"Why? isn't this just the most hilarious thing ever?"
"But Hakuren and Suiren were injured while filming this."
"oh Poo.... They couldn't have been hurt that badly... .... I can see them during the explosion just fine. they were hardly scratched look"
Seto says pointing at the screen to a clip of seiryo nearly flying into hakuren who was shielding herself from the blast of the speakers and not paying attention. she fell back into suiren who was behind her.
it was unscrupulous to laugh at her misfortune, but it was one of Seto-sama's personal hobbies.
"oh that reminds me... I heard from Kanemitsu. The child was a girl."
Minaho turned pale.
Seto got an extra boost of laughter. The blood vessel throbbed in minaho's temples in a loud and heavy rhythm, Minaho's facial expression distorted.
".................. I am banning all secret filming of Seina's in the future!" said minaho
"Oh no! What if i introduce you to a nice guy? "
"That's not necessary. For the time being, I am far to busy dealing with processing the massive amount of criminals seina's caught for that."
"Well if you ever change your mind... ...."
"If you want to Film him, you should do it yourself."
"... Hmm ... that might be fun actually..."
In the midst of Seto and minaho's battle they could hear two of the operators talking to each other.
"Why is she mad about Kanemitsu's child being a girl?"
"Well, if it was a boy, Yuzaki-sama promised minaho him as a husband."
"Oh mr.kanemitsu's wife did such a thing? wow ~ oh, that's a little spicy..."
"Yes Yes"
The operators were gossiping with glee.
"Shut up and Do your work without eavesdropping!" Minaho yelled.
the operators went back to their work as seto rewound the film again.
Minaho stared at seto again.
"Your such a bad influence Seto ...... the Mikagami has been corrupted by your stupidity"
"Oh really is that so?" seto said looking to the tree of the Mikagami which was behind her throne.
Light rays were emitted irregularly from the leaves of the trees. It seemed like a puppy asking it's owner to play with it.
"I guess I've had a little influence..."
"HMPF"
"Mikagami-chan, let's watch it again again after work." said seto, and the rambunctious lights quit their flickering.
"Oh, That reminds me a woman asked to speak with you about seina."
"Who?"
"Originally I thought she was Seina's mom but She told me she wasn't. I guess there's another person who is concerned about him?"
"Oh was it Tsukiko-chan?"
"She had something she wanted to tell you, Should I ask her to come visit the Mikagami?"
Seto nodded affirmatively
"I'm on it"
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Not limited to the GP part of the Academy, the Academy in general stores and uses all old buildings without demolishing them. Therefore, almost all of the teachers have their own individual room. Kiriko and amane's classrooms where together however in a sort of double room.
Kiriko was considering rearranging the curriculum schedule due to the system trouble.
Amane was supposed to be checking students' physical ability values.
However, the screen was scrolling with amazing momentum, and Amane wasn't paying attention at all to it, instead she was giggling to herself about something..
"What's wrong, is something interesting?" kiriko asked
"That Idiot, The explosion damaged his nano-machines so he's just walking around wrapped up in bandages like a mummy."
"That idiot? ... You mean Professor Tennan?"
"Who else?"
"What do you mean his nano-machines were damaged?
Seiryo was practically a cyborg due to all the nano machines he had inside of him. it was nearly impossible to hurt him he always regenerated almost instantly.
"They were damaged by a natural resonance vibration."
"Are you lying!? That has to be a lie ... ... there's No way"
But If that explosion was due to Seina's bad luck, it was indeed possible.
"I heard that it was pretty damn serious, I'm surprised he can even move today."
"Amane ...... It's not good to laugh at other people's misfortune."
a call came in for kiriko. she headed to the terminal and answered.
"Ms. Masaki, this is the principal. Please come to meeting room 822."
she left the room in a hurry
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Seina's freshman PE class was gathered outside near a running track. seina was still tired from going up and down 10 flights of stairs luckily there was a cool breeze on his face from the ocean nearby.
A large black air car arrived on the track and stopped in front of them. It looked almost like a luxury limo. Seiryo came out of the car wrapped head to toe in bandages.
The class saluted their teacher. He greeted the class and informed them that all classes besides PE were canceled due to the systems being down. He then turned to Seina with an angry glare and spoke as if he was yelling at seina.
"So Today we will be doing basic physical fitness training!"
And Seiryo began walking between the aligned students, slightly dragging one leg .
"Instead of preparatory exercise, I want you do 20 sets of laps, 100 push ups, 100 crunches. Do it as one set!"
"I'm sure none of you should have any problem with that!" said seiryo as he stopped beside seina.
"Well then, on your mark, get set!" seiryo took out a cap gun and fired it into the air
The students all began running at once.
Seina ran but soon noticed everyone else was running so fast that no one was around him.
"Huh!?"
They were going so fast that It was like the other students were riding motorcycles
"You should hurry!" seiryo called to seina
seina ran even faster. but was soon engulfed by the other runners and was trampled.
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Room 822, which kiriko had been called to was supposed to be a large trailer parked in the middle of a parking lot. However Kiriko found no such building when she arrived.
"That's funny ... There's no doubt in my mind that this in this place ... but ... Where is it?"
Kiriko, who was looking around, Noticed a large trailer descending from the sky.
The rear part of the container of the trailer landed slowly onto a fixed position without a sound and then opened, Mikami came out.
"I'm sorry I was delayed. Please come in. And sorry for the clutter."
A lot of computers were queued up inside the container behind Mikami.
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"Ms. Masaki, I asked you here today because I wanted you to check up on the adjustments of the new GP Academy network system while the new main system of the academy is being restored."
"Did you say the new main system!? Does that mean they've built a new unified system?"
"Washu did actually. It's been attached this whole time to the system that had previously been installed."
"Washu, are you serious?!"
"Is like a versatile version of the things used in Seto's network, if that makes it easier to understand."
"That is amazing, The systems will be much more versatile now."
"Well, we have Seina to thank for it." mikami said. this clouded Kiriko' happy expression.
"but what about the system engineers shouldn't they be taking care of this?"
"Well, actually... I was late in coming here because I was aboard the Kuramitsu's
medical ship"
"... ... were they injured at the entrance ceremony?
"Well yes, but fortunately there was no trauma as to anyone there, they just lost consciousness ......"
"huh?"
"Did you hear that Dr. Tennan's nano-machined body was damaged by that explosion?"
"Yes ... from Amane"
"It was caused by natural vibration ...... The people who collapsed at today's entrance ceremony were affected in the same way."
"No way!"
The fact that the body's lost consciousness meant that their brains had been modified.
"Yes it seems that everyone who fainted had undergone brain remodeling. "
this was a procedure where they clone and replace part of the brain using a shape memorizing alloy that returns to it's memorized shape when exposed to heat, regardless of how it was deformed previously.
"Their brain remodeling surgery, was it the same as Mihoshi's?"
Kiriko had read a report on Mihoshi earlier. There was a similar incident where a spy was sent to the GP Army, a gun battle had taken place between the Spy and Mihoshi.
What happened after that was not mentioned in the report.
Kiriko had asked Mikami about it but never thought it would come up like this. Mihoshi survived but was hospitalized. she left the army after leaving the hospital and entered the GP Academy and was currently living on the Earth with the Masaki family.
"Maybe, I am currently investigating that possibility. Anyways, the vibration waves caused by that explosion destroyed Mr. Tennan's nano-machines including the ones that would have triggered his brain to be overwritten."
"So what about all the other people?"
"They regained consciousness soon after so they've been sent back to their respective places but their being monitored."
"Okay, so what do you want me to do?"
"First of all, you could start helping by getting the cooking system for meals back online."
"Huh?"
"If it's not fixed how are we supposed to feed everyone oh ho ho ho, when you're done with that I'll update you on the next thing I need done."
"ok ... ...."
kiriko felt exhausted already.
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About two hours after Seina's class had started, Seina had collapsed on ground.
As the sound of the school bell reverberated on the ground, all the other students gathered into a line.
"Everyone has exceeded expectations!"
Seiryo said with a satisfying expression, as he crossed the rows of students and slowly walked towards Seina.
"I see that you're better students than imagined, I am very happy!"
He stopped in front of Seina and overlooked him with eyes filled with satisfaction and contempt.
"............"
When Seina turned to him with empty eyes filled with extreme fatigue, Seiryo's mouth distorted at the edges into a smug grin grin.
"Alright, this is the end of the morning lesson ... Those who failed to digest the program, think carefully what you should do to better yourself! We have Afternoon lessons so don't get to comfortable! "
Seiryo looked towards the students with a faint expression "Dismissed!"
"... .... But instructor, Seina hasn't undergone Bio-Enhancement yet"
Kenneth rushed to Seiryo and took an upright immovable posture.
"So what?"
"Doing the same program as us is impossible for him."
"There are many crimes being committed right now in the universe, the GP Academy has to send people who can quickly and promptly show up to the scene as soon as possible, this is a place to screen people who can make proper GP officers from the ones who can't. Remember that well! " Seiryo said smugly
seiryo tripped on seina in his smugness and went rolling away.
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Seina was carried by Kenneth, and they managed to reach their classroom on the 10th floor of the the container building.
Seina collapsed on the chair like he was a pair of clothes hung on them.
"It's a good thing that the transfer pads are working again" rajau said
"Well, It's limited within this building, communications with the outside are still cut off, so we can't take our other classes yet and we still have basic physical strength training in the afternoon" kenneth said
"We should probably use this time to have lunch." rajau said pulling out bento boxs
"Oh ... Hey Seina, can you eat this?"
"…………I feel sick……" he muttered with his eyes closed
"I have a drink-type nutrient substitute meal, here take it." kenneth said giving seina a large cylindrical water bottle.
When seina removed the cap, a straw-like object popped out. Seina practically inhaled it.
"how is it?"
"... ........... .... It's delicious. It's easy to drink because it has little taste."
the liquid inside was at a temperature slightly lower than body temperature. it had a slight sweetness and a scent like mint.
"aaaah ........." seina let out A comfortable sigh like one would let out when you take a hot bath.
Seina drank all of the water in one go.
"If you go over to the health department, they can help you make a complete recovery in time for the afternoon class using accelerated healing treatments and a combination of nano-machines ... ... Anyways, try not to push yourself to the limit."
"Should I just take the day off instead?"
"Oh, that's right, we have to go let's hurry up"
Kenneth and Rajau finished eating lunch quickly.
"Okay, let's go!"
They held both sides of Seina at the same time and stood up vigorously.
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Seina and his roommates left the building and were offered a ride by Seiryo's driver they accepted and he took them and dropped them off and apologized for his jerk of a boss and let them off at a bank.
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"Let's take a rest on the bank there, thanks to that person, we saved a lot of travel time."
seina sat down in the grass next to the bank and sunbathed.
Rajau wondered why it was taking so long for seina's bio-enhancement to be done.
seina asked why they had theirs already.
"in recent years, the number of people who wanted to enter the GP Academy has increased, so local branches have also started doing Bio-Enhancement before entrance."
"but It's still unusual for most people to be receiving it this late into classes,"
"Is that so"
"Well, you'll just have to be patient until then"
"Yup"
Seina kept his eyes closed and thought
"it sure is warm……"
Seina felt the smell of the grass and the warmth of the sun that filled the sky and he thought to himself that Even if the stars were different, the smell of the earth and the smell of the grass were the same. That made him really happy and he felt a sense of security.
He didn't noticed, but some other students were watching seina.
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"... ... hey, Miki! Are you listening?"
"huh!?"
Three of Miki's friends were sitting near the school building where they liked to eat lunch.
"what are you looking at?" one of her friends asked as she took opened up a terminal looking in the direction miki was staring and magnified it.
"Hey, stop that!"
Soon the image of seina was magnified on the screen.
"hey that's the kid who entered today"
"Huh, that's ... isn't that Seina Yamada sleeping over there? ... Miki are you finally interested in a man other than your father?"
"It's not like that! .... I'm just find him interesting, he's a celebrity after all."
"Miki I've never known you to be interested in celebrities."
"But he isn't just any celebrity he comes from the same planet as the Juriaian empress funaho, I wonder what such a legendarily daunting planet is like ... ...."
"Speaking of seina, isn't his probability bias abilities similar to those of the Kuramitsu's?"
At that time, the bell marking the end of the lunch period interrupted the conversation.
"Hey, what do you want to do today? We don't have classes in the afternoon, don't you want to go into the city for once instead of going back to the dorms? one of her friends asked.
"I'm sorry, I have some things I need to organize at home."
"fine, be that way" her friend said crossing her arms
"we'll start classes soon, so I want like to check each department.I always say that your academic record is the same as your bank account savings ..."
"The higher the number is, the better things you can choose to do."Her friends parroted back her saying.
Her friends put their hands together to dramatically pray to the heavens as sunbeams shined down upon them from the clouds like a religious painting.
"Dear god, it seems all we can do right now for her is to pray for her social life!"
Miki was amazed at the content of the prayer but was a little moved by the beautiful sight.
miki left her friends but as she was walking she noticed seina's P.E. class lining up to start class and began to watch.
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as before Seiryo was there looking like a mummy.
What was different from that mourning though was that the Seiryo's body was wrapped in something transparent.
"What is that ... around the teacher?"
"That is a guardian energy force field, it is a type of powered suit, but it is also used as a fix for the physically handicapped and as a substitute for injured people's casts."
"Instead of preparatory exercise, I want everyone to do twenty laps, one hundred push ups, one hundred crunches. said seiryo
Seiryo shot off his cap gun.
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About two hours after the afternoon classes began, Seina Collapsed on the ground again from fatigue, Kiriko who finished work was walking in the hallway of the school building where the ground was visible.
"... ... Amane?" she noticed amane gazing at the PE Grounds.
"What are you doing in a place like this ...?"
Kiriko, who was concerned about Amane's focused glare, followed her line of sight.
"Is that... .... Seina-chan ... ...!?"
Kiriko immediately noticed that it was Seina who fell to the ground in the distance.
Kiriko clasped her fist and fought the desire to go over and help Seina.
Seina hadn't gotten bioenhancement yet and so there was still a chance he could leave.
The bell marking the end of the class rang and the students arranged in front of Seiryo.
"Okay, Today's lesson is over! Those who have not finished the program can stay here until they finish it."
everyone left but seina and his roommates.
"What's the matter? The lesson's done go home!"
"Teacher, Seina still hasn't undergone Bio-Enhancement ......"
"I've told you I don't care about that! You are dismissed! Go home!"
Seiryo turned again towards Seina,
"Every year ... we have Some students who quit and drop out ... ... but I don't think of that as failing ... I think of it as starting a search for a new path ... Each person has a path that matches that person, sometimes you make mistakes and wonder down the wrong path and you need to have courage to go back and start down another path! "
Seiryo stood by Seina and began emphasizing his words while staring into the sky.
(That means ... ... he wants me to drop out.)
For Seina,dealing with this degree of hate from someone was routine matter. he was used to this kind of thing.
"Are you listening to me?" seiryo shouted at seina
Seina had noticed Kiriko looking through the corridor of the school building behind of Seiryo.
(Kiriko - san !?)
Although she was far away, Seina could always spot Kiriko.
And that was clearly Kiriko wearing teacher's clothes.
(But why is she wearing teacher's clothes? )
"Seina, Go back to Earth" he heard kiriko's words from yesterday in his mind.
It didn't bother him that Kiriko was wearing a teacher's uniform.
It bothered him that kiriko was just sitting there watching him from all the way over there.
Kiriko knew that seiryo was demanding impossible things from seina, things he could never do without body enhancement and she should have been there reprimanding seiryo for it but instead she just stood there watching from a distance.
Seina breathed in heavily and put all his power into his trembling hands and feet and powered through the pain he was feeling.He stood up.
"Kiriko, aren't you going to yell something encouraging at him like "do your best" or something?" Amane asked?
But Kiriko just kept silently staring at seina.
Amane sighed and stood next to Kiriko and continued talking to herself like she was delivering a soliloquy.
"Seiryo sure is a nasty guy ... He knows Seina hasn't undergone Bio-Enhancement yet..."
"... ... The GP is a dangerous job ... and Seina still has bad luck... That hasn't changed...Seina should expect this kind of treatment."
Kiriko said with no expression in her voice However she seemed to be saying it to herself.
"Well, even so, they need to hurry up and fix this computer trouble, so we can hurry along and get his bio-enhancement done"
"I don't want to admit it but you're right" kiriko said
"Geez……"Amane was amazed at Seina's stubbornness
"Oh, He got up I guess he must have some good luck after all."
"............" kiriko stared silently
"Oh some birds just pooped on him, ha ha ha, What bad luck."
"Seina is doing his best, you shouldn't laugh!" Amane's laughs cracked kiriko's iron skin.
"So are you going to tell him to "do his best" or what? "
"Oh!"
kiriko turned back to look at seina to give him some encouragement when she noticed that there was a female student watching seina downstairs over by some trees.
"Who is that girl ... ....?"
"Oh that's Miki · Steinbeck ...... she was Miss GP Academy last year, she's been standing there since the class began."
"The whole time !?"
"Well, Seina is a celebrity now..."
"... ... Why?"
"Why?"
"Why didn't you do something about it!?" Kiriko said unintentional aggressively
"Shit, I just thought it would be interesting to sit back and see what happens don't you?"
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The chime notifying the school day was over began to ring.
as if waiting for it, a hover car came onto the field.
"Hmm, it's already that late? Then i guess we're done here for today" seiryo said.
Seina collapsed as soon as he heard that.
"Seina Yamada! You should consider taking it easy this evening, haha ha ha!"
Seiryo yelled at seina, it seemed his mood was getting better all the time.
Seiryo tried to head to the hover car while skipping. But his body had not recovered enough to handle skipping, so Seiryo tripped and fell into the hood of the car with great force.
Naturally, the car was owned by the Tennan family's conglomerate and had various defense functions.
It's defense function judged Seiryo's fall as a terrorist attack and activated an anti-energy shield to offset the impact.
The body cast like guardian Seiryo was using was unfortunately a low-quality guardian hurriedly borrowed from a nursing home, so its was completely broken by the car's defense mechanism.
Seiryo was hit with an immense and instant wave of pain and lost consciousness and collapsed.
"oh my ... ... not again "
The driver came out of the car and pulled Seiryo up off the ground and threw him into the back seat casually so he sat like he was a jellyfish washing up on the shore.
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"aaah ........."
Liberated from the pressure of Seiryo, Seina took a deep breath.
"AHAHAHaaa you gotta love his driver..." amane said giggling and striking the railing with laughter.
"Well, apparently today's class is over" said kiriko
Amane pulled her self up from her laughing fit and started towards the stairs to go see seina but she stopped suddenly to ask kiriko a question
"Aren't you coming?"
Kiriko just stood staring at seina she clenched her fist tightly and ignored amane's question.
"Boy, you sure are stubborn."
"I could say the same for you... ... ... huh? ... what is that girl doing?"
"Huh?"
in the distance miki started walking towards seina
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"Kenneth, look!"
Like Amane, Rajau, who was watching Seina, noticed that Miki was getting closer to Seina.
"Wow is that Miki-senpai ......, Seina has all the luck."
"Well, he is a celebrity,"
"yes... ... but we are his friends and teammates."
"I see. That's right... are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
Rajau noticed Kenneth 's intention, smiled and smiled back at him.
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Seina closed his eyes as he lay on the ground and basked in the breeze blowing over him for a while before he noticed footsteps approaching him.
(It's probably Kenneth and Rajau? but why do I only hear one person's footsteps?) he thought to himself
"Are you alright?" a voice called
"Oh .........Kiriko." he said in response he used all his strength to look up
"Kiriko?" Miki said looking at Seina with a grievous expression
"Ah ... ... no, I'm sorry ... I thought you were someone else."
Seina recognized Miki as the student who he has met earlier. If you listened carefully, you could easily tell her voice was different from Kiriko's, but Seina still mistook it for Kiriko's ... Or rather kiriko was who he wanted and expected.
"I hurt all over!" seina moaned
"You look like you're in pretty bad shape" miki said taking out the handkerchief from her pocket.
"You're all dirty." miki said and then she tried to wipe some of the dirt off of seinas face he tried to squirm away from her.
"What are you doing? I'm trying to wipe away the dirt." she grabbed him so he couldn't get away and drew him towards her so she could wipe his face.
"Quit moving!" she yelled
"Ok" seina gave up on trying to get away from her.
He remembered how he felt when he had met kiriko years ago.
she really did remind him of kiriko after all, the kind gesture and her tone and the sparkle in her eyes all reminded him of kiriko and it wasn't just her appearance, he could tell that she was very similar on the inside.
"Sorry" seina said apologizing for squirming.
"Actually I'm the one who's here to apologize ... ... I'm sorry about earlier."
"Huh what do you mean?"
"After the entrance ceremony was over, I stared at you, and I am sorry."
"oh that's all, I didn't mind... I'm used to that... ..."
"Oh right because you're famous right?" miki said smiling
"Well yeah...but never in a good way until I came to the academy. "
"What do you mean, is there a such thing as a bad celebrity on earth?"
"Yeah, well I ... ...."
but he was interrupted,
"Seina, are you OK?"
Kenneth and Rajau came right in time to interrupt them. But they weren't there for Seina they were there for Miki
"Oh, Miki-senpai, Hello. My mate is Kenneth · Baru, I'm Seina's roommate."
"I am Rajau Ga Waura, and I'm also Seina's roommate ~ ~"
the two came like a pair of comedians towards Miki.
"Oh, nice to meet you" Miki said her smiling face disappeared and turned back to her serious face.
"Seina, are you OK? I Kenneth · Baru have arrived, it's all right now!"
"Seina, you are safe for I Rajau · Ga · Waura am here!"
Kenneth and Rajau said in a very hammed up manner as they held Seina from both sides and emphasized their names.
"Don't worry because we are your teammates! Rajau · Ga · Waura"
"Yes, and Kenneth · Baru!"
Miki looked at the two idiots awkward display and sighed a little to herself.
"The wind has gotten colder, We will have to get back to the dormitory as soon as possible we can not let Seina's body cool any more!"
"I Kenneth · Baru, Agree"
" Well then I Rajau · Ga · Waura, say OK lets get on with it."
Kenneth and Rajau saluted miki at the same time.
"Thank you, Kenneth, thank you Rajau" seina said
Miki did a heel turn and quickly began walking off in the direction she came from.
"Alright then see you! and remember I'm Rajau · Ga · Waura"
"It was nice meeting you, I'm Kenneth · Baru"
Then they made a few stupid strongman poses while holding seina before they began running towards the school building with Seina.
"Oh wow kiriko managed to make it to the end of the class without doing anything" Karen said
she was watching seina and kiriko from a distance with gyokuren.
Suiren called Karen. Karen answered. It was time for them to switch places so Karen could take a break.
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Mikami was meeting with Airi in the Chairman's Room When she received Kiriko's report.
In the massively monolithic obsidian space, about ten secretaries were busy making system adjustments throughout the academy. They had been up for days and they were all very tired.
"Yes, thank you very much" said Mikami right before she cut communications with Kiriko.
Airi breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thanks to Kiriko-chan everything is working again earlier than expected."
"The only thing that we have left to do with the GP Academy is the medical system and the general curriculum." mikami said relieved
"Kiriko says that will be done soon too, but ...."
"well then, There is no helping it, we will just have to wait until the future comes, the new operators need to get accustomed to the new system anyways..."
"So Airi, was there any damage to the data in the philosophy department?"
"The data there doesn't matter, every philosopher keeps their own personal backups of the data off line. The real problem is that all of their encryption was easily cracked by seina's data." airi said with a tense expression
"Well that system was designed by the galaxy's best mind after all"
While saying that, Airi glared at Mikami for a moment. Like Seina, the Kuramitsu family 's "natural abilities", including Washu's, had caused many people to suffer from painful hardships.
"The only thing i really need to worry about with the philosophy department is keeping them away from seina." said airi as she began to write a letter on her desk.
"Shit, Seina has a hard enough time keeping you off of him airi," said mikami.
"I don't know what your talking about, he's like a relative to me."
"uhm ...... Airi-san,.... Mikami, good morning." said Erma.
she had come into the room a while ago but had been too afraid to say anything to disrupt the two women. she had also been up all night and looked exhausted.
"Oh, good morning. Have you been released already?" asked airi.
"Yes ... I'm sorry to inconvenience you like this. is there is something I can help you with?"
"Everythings already in the final stages for now so that won't be necessary.
"Okay, I'm sorry."
she said bowing deeply she also apologized to two of the ten secretaries in airi's office before she headed towards a third. airi grabbed her and teased her over the incident. the other secretaries giggled mikami suggested that Erma make tea for everyone instead of apologizing to everyone individually. Erma went to make tea.
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Supported by Kenneth and Rajau, Seina managed to find himself in the dormitory where he fell down onto his bed.
His soft bed felt more comfortable than usual to him after lying on the hard ground for so long.
"There's a large public bath that will be open soon, so be patient a little while longer and we will take you there. being immersed in hot water should help."
"Thank you. Sorry for troubling you guys..."
"we are your teammates don't worry about it, we'll never get tired of helping you out."
"That's right... oh hey it's almost time,"
kennith and rajau looked at the paper bag faces in the corner of the room.
"how are we going to do this exactly?"
"Luckily for us the system should still be down and most people will be staying home after what happened last night."
"Oh That's right."
They sat down on the bed next to Seina.
"Even so if seina doesn't get his bio-enhancement soon there's no way we can do this every day. Seiryo sure hates him."
"... ... When I met him yesterday, he told me that he hated all earthlings..."
Seina said as he remembered the first time he saw seiryo
They all agreed that seiryo was a jerk, however his driver was interesting.
they opened up a terminal and looked him up.
he was the chief of vehicle maintenance for the tennan's security department. they couldn't figure how someone in that position got stuck as the tennan's personal driver.
"Oh, it's about time for the bath to open, lets get going"
kenneth and rajau grabbed seina on both sides and headed out to the public bath.
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Besides holding Seto's throne, the Mikagami's bridge also contains Seto's private quarters which is located on the opposite side of the Imperial Tree.
It was a modest sized house surrounded by a small moat and a garden that was surrounded by a nice circular terrace. The only ones allowed there were seto's close friends and family members.
Today she was visited by Kiriko's mother, Tsukiko, who appeared from the ultra long distance transfer gate that had been skillfully hidden in the hedges of the garden.
"Sorry for being late Ms. Minaho. " tsukiko said bowing deeply. She seemed more like kiriko's older sister then her mother. Her calmness and glossiness was even greater than kiriko's and she had a more mature atmosphere about her then minaho.
"It's alright. I know it was spur of the moment for you."
"Tsukiko-chan, welcome, I was waiting." seto said
"I'm sure, it has been a while since I've been here hasn't it, seto-sama"
"Yes and I have a lot to show you!" seto said pulling tsukiko by the hand into the house.
they went around a blindfold partition which led into the living room.
Inside the beautifully polished wood was carpeted by grasses and moss planted that the Juraian's used for their lighting and air conditioning properties.
they sat down and began to chat.
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" I wonder if it's ok if I call him right now..." kiriko wondered as she stared at the clock in the living room of her home.
"It's dinner time and he might be eating, or sleeping... but I really need to meet up and talk to him..." said kiriko, she noticed her palms were sweating.
"wha.. ... What am I even getting so nervous about? I'm just calling Seina like I usually do." she quickly wiped her palms on her skirt and waved her hands dry before she took a deep inhale and started calling the Academy dorm.
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Medical technology at the academy was inherently advanced.
The earth's medical technology, even at the private level, was no match.
Seina had been sat in a large gel-like public bath that gave him a massage.
although he felt some pain he had quickly regained his ability to move normally and was now back at the dorm where he had finished dinner.
"Why don't you take tomorrow off? the curriculum hasn't even really begun yet so it shouldn't be a problem" rajau said.
"That's right ... Well then, shall we?" kenneth said.
Seina got a call after he said that.
He sealed himself in his bed for privacy and took the call.
"Good evening, Seina. did I call at a bad time? " asked minaho, who surprisingly was the one who called him
"Oh no, good evening"
"Were you sleeping?"
"No, i just finished dinner and i was just taking a break for a while ..."
"It's just the first day, you seem worn out are you ok?."
"Oh, yeah about that ... ...."
"It was Seiryo wasn't it ... ... He sure hates earthlings..."
"... ... Hey Seina. I apologize for not doing this later, but ... I think I might be able to help. "
"What do you mean?"
"I can transfer your Bio-Enhancement over to a facility on Jurai, or would you prefer i leave your enhancement up to Professor Tennan ..."
"Oh!?"
To be honest it was a very attractive proposal ... but ....
"well you see……"
"Hmm? "
Seina looked at minaho with an odd look.
"!"
"No, that's okay. I'll wait"
"Why?"
"I haven't talked it over with kiriko yet."
"Well then ... I understand... good luck"
"Hey wait a moment!"
but minaho cut communications with him and the privacy shield on his bed opened up.
"I hope that wasn't anything too serious Seina... we kinda need you." said kenneth
"Huh why?"
Kenneth pointed to the monitor on the wall that was video broadcasting someone he didn't recognize.
"He says he's the head of the Miki · Steinbeck fan club representative. Ha ha ha"
"............"
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"Sorry your call cannot go through right now ... ...."
Kiriko was in a state of despair at that moment.
Whenever she called seina she couldn't get through due to the line being busy. She gave up
"I have no choice but to talk directly with him tomorrow ...... I must get him to return home... ... ... ... That reminds me... I wonder what was up with that girl"
she said as she remembered miki from earlier that evening.
she opened up a monitor and began looking up her profile. Since she was a student it was easy to find data on her.
"Miki · Steinbeck. Her only family is her father.... ... there's no listing for her mother that's odd. ..."
Looking at the photo of Miki's face, she noticed something that made her feel uneasy but she doubted that she was indeed noticing what she noticed.
"Whatever, it won't matter once Seina goes home. I'm going to take a bath and go to bed." said kiriko to herself and she got up and headed for the bath.
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After finishing communication to Seina, Minaho went back and told seto and Tsukiko.
Tsukiko and Seto watched the recording of the conversation. Tsukiko had an expression on her face that was similar to the one Kiriko had made towards the subject of seina being in space.
Minaho softly sighed and left the room to go outside.
"No matter how she feels, Seto is not going to give Seina up."
she sighed a long sigh and looked up at the tree of the Mikagami towering in front of her.
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Seina and his roommates barely made roll call on time. The interview with miki's fanclub went on for a very long time and tired seina out. They all got in their beds and went to sleep.
At midnight, in the corner of the dark and quiet room, the paper bag masks that were made by Kenneth and Rajau were placed one on top of the other.
"...... Ping"
A small light spot on the eye part of one of the masks glowed and emitted a small start-up sound. The night before the entrance ceremony, the NB that airi had made had been used as a dummy to escape from the dormitory. and there it sat forgotten and covered with paper bags like a toy lost in a child's room.
"here ... ... I'm stuck in here"
"but"
"I'm ok with this ...... because i'm here with you."
That was what was whispered by the NB.
Even though it was coming from a somewhat comical paper bag mask, the faint light in the dark room was quite bright. But the exhausted and sleeping Seina never noticed it, the light and voice quickly disappeared and the original silence returned to the room.
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"That's Surprising"
Raireza muttered in a dim room where she was monitoring the NB.
"It should be impossible to get into one of airi's workshops NB's their unhackable even by supercomputers. That boy's abilities really are something"
she decided to tell Airi in the morning and went to bed.
END OF CHAPTER
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Seina stood outside in the long corridor that spread from the auditorium where the entrance ceremony had just abruptly ended.
A row of three Freshman led by a senior student walked out from from the auditorium
"... Oh man... I sure managed to get everyone caught up in My bad luck today."
Seina muttered out loud to himself as he thought of the incident that just happened.
"You sure caused quite a commotion" The senior student who was showing the freshmen students to their classrooms said in response to seina's whispers.
"I'm sorry for making your entrance ceremony into a giant mess." he said.
"No, no, It was a masterpiece, an absolute masterpiece! there is no doubt that that ceremony will go down in the annals of GP history" said the senior student.
"But some of the students are being carried out in stretchers..." seina noted
"It's alright, they only fainted... but that teacher who went flying" said one of the freshmen
"Oh don't worry about him, That teacher will be absolutely fine" the senior said
"oh really? That's good!" said the freshmen in response to the seniors confident reply.
"Well we better get going... Please don't interrupt my conversations if you don't have to." The senior scolded the freshmen as she turned and walked off, they chased after her.
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kennith came out to find seina.
"Huh! Was that.... ...."Kenneth said trailing off.
"Do you know who that was kenneth?" Seina asked
"That was Miki Seinbeck, She was last year's Miss GP Academy.
"wow" he said as he noticed her beautiful long straightened hair flutter in the wind as she walked off. She had an atmosphere about her that was very reminiscent of Kiriko for some reason.
She suddenly turned around and said
" You're Seina Yamada right?"
"Yes, that's right." he replied
".................." she stood silently looking at seina her eyes had an expression in them that was a mix of anger anxiety and sadness all at once.
"Wh, what are you looking at me like that for?" seina asked
"I wonder what she wants?" Kennith asked out loud. it was the question everyone around seina was wondering too.
"Forget about it... I have to go show these students around." Miki said returning to normal she gave seina one last quick glance and then quickly turned back around and walk off
Miki, who noticed that her crowd had stopped, once again returned to her original expression, and led her crowd forward.
"Okay ........................?"
Seina heard everyone around him talking about him like they did the other day when he was with amane and kiriko the only thing that changed was that now they were talking about him and miki
"Kenneth, ... ... I'm going to have to do another interview broadcast tonight aren't I?" he asked
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Most of the buildings of the GP Academy were tens of thousands of years old. But seina was standing in front of a dull silvery contemporary looking building.
"Why is this building different from the others?"
"Oh, They made it out of a large shipping container."
"a shipping container?"
Seina remembered the huge container ship he had seen when he came to the academy.
"It's amazing to see it on the ground"
It was the only new building in the area.
They entered. The transfer plate to the second floor didn't work because the system was still down so they had to take the stairs to the 10th floor. Their classroom had only 3 desks and lockers in a very very very small room. It had no 4th wall however. it was more like a cubicle partition then a room.
Seina sat down in the chair, he was tired from the climb.
"The format of the terminal is the same as the one in the dormitory," said raujau he tried to turn it on. "Hey Kenneth,"
"Whats up?"
"...... i can't get the system to start how about you?"
Kenneth pushed the activation switch on his desk, but there was no reaction.
A voice came on on a speaker system and said:
"It seems that everyone has reached their own space now so I'll explain. I think that some of you know, but the entire Academy is experiencing large-scale network system failures. Until the restoration is completed, all courses are canceled except for a few specific classes. The schedule until then is written on the bulletin board on each floor. "
They were supposed to be doing PE today so they changed and went to where PE classes were held.
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In the vicinity of the center of the GP Academy there was a building reminiscent of a European fortress. This was principal Mikami's office.
"Last night was the worst night ever!" Airi complained to Mikami as they drank tea.
"Well it involved Seina so I guess it's to be expected ohohoho!"
"It's not a laughing matter! I'm going to be up all night because of this... I should have Seiryo thrown into jail!"
"It's alright everything has already been settled legally with the tennans and the urban development company, and the crew and the students who were affected have all recovered and have been placed elsewhere. it's as if were no victims ..."
"Violence against rescue workers, obstructing public performance!"
"Yes, yes, I've submitted everything to the accounting department and they are reducing Mr.Tennans salary for the next three months and well considering the scale of the incident today, I'd say last night was trivial ...."
"Damn it!" Airi violently slammed her cup of tea down on the table
"Were just lucky to have so few people injured in the explosion."
"But weren't there dozens of people who lost consciousness and were carried away?"
"Yes, and since the medical system of the GP Academy is down, I had them taken to our hospital warship, but there's seems to be no noticeable trauma with most of them, Really the most injured person is Professor Tennan."
"Serves him right."
"And also, around 85 suspicious people and wanted criminals were arrested at the entrance ceremony"
"... That's nothing compared to last night's troubles, but that's still a surprise. it's the GP entrance ceremony, even if criminals aren't the brightest, You'd have to be an amazing kind of idiot to show up there of all places."
"Criminals are complicated... ... They don't necessarily always worry about getting caught ..."
"The existence of Seina is a double-edged sword, on one hand a lot of crime has happened lately and on the other hand a lot of criminals have been caught, the people living in this area seem to be unsure how to feel about it......."
"How do you feel about it Airi?"
Mikami was talking about Widow.
"... Well, I feel like I have lost my opponent."
"That's right I almost forgot, what is the status of the work on the new system modifications?"
"Kuramitsu Home security and the information department took advanced priority, and are all finished now. as for the rest it should all be done in a week."
"When was this system installed anyway?"
"It seems that it was installed before Mr. Washu became missing"
"That's was over Five thousand years ago ......? No wonder our system engineer was surprised."
"But if we turn this into the main system, Won't we have to pay licensing fees to Washu? How much is it?"
"Hah! If we had to do that it would make Hakubi Washu and Akara Naja the enemy to the entire galaxy, half of the world products wouldn't be able to be manufactured."
"Well ... then I guess it's not such a bad idea after all..."
Mikami got an incoming call and answered it.
"Yes, this is Mikami ... ... ... ... What?"
The smile disappeared from Mikami's face when she answered the phone and as the conversation went on she gradually began to look more and more nervous.
"............ Yes, I understand, That's all O need to know for now goodbye."
"Did something happen?" airi asked
"I'm sorry, please come with me Airi"
"Yes, Understood." without being informed anymore on the subject Airi downed all of her remaining tea and stood up.
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On Mikagami 's bridge, to the stunned gaze of minaho and her ladies in waiting seto was sitting on a large sofa like throne and repeatedly rewinding the video broadcast that had been sent to her from Hakuren. She was laughing herself stupid.
"A ~ ~ Ha ha ha ~ ~!"
"lady Seto ... you might not want to do this in front of your subordinates." said minaho intervening.
"Why? isn't this just the most hilarious thing ever?"
"But Hakuren and Suiren were injured while filming this."
"oh Poo.... They couldn't have been hurt that badly... .... I can see them during the explosion just fine. they were hardly scratched look"
Seto says pointing at the screen to a clip of seiryo nearly flying into hakuren who was shielding herself from the blast of the speakers and not paying attention. she fell back into suiren who was behind her.
it was unscrupulous to laugh at her misfortune, but it was one of Seto-sama's personal hobbies.
"oh that reminds me... I heard from Kanemitsu. The child was a girl."
Minaho turned pale.
Seto got an extra boost of laughter. The blood vessel throbbed in minaho's temples in a loud and heavy rhythm, Minaho's facial expression distorted.
".................. I am banning all secret filming of Seina's in the future!" said minaho
"Oh no! What if i introduce you to a nice guy? "
"That's not necessary. For the time being, I am far to busy dealing with processing the massive amount of criminals seina's caught for that."
"Well if you ever change your mind... ...."
"If you want to Film him, you should do it yourself."
"... Hmm ... that might be fun actually..."
In the midst of Seto and minaho's battle they could hear two of the operators talking to each other.
"Why is she mad about Kanemitsu's child being a girl?"
"Well, if it was a boy, Yuzaki-sama promised minaho him as a husband."
"Oh mr.kanemitsu's wife did such a thing? wow ~ oh, that's a little spicy..."
"Yes Yes"
The operators were gossiping with glee.
"Shut up and Do your work without eavesdropping!" Minaho yelled.
the operators went back to their work as seto rewound the film again.
Minaho stared at seto again.
"Your such a bad influence Seto ...... the Mikagami has been corrupted by your stupidity"
"Oh really is that so?" seto said looking to the tree of the Mikagami which was behind her throne.
Light rays were emitted irregularly from the leaves of the trees. It seemed like a puppy asking it's owner to play with it.
"I guess I've had a little influence..."
"HMPF"
"Mikagami-chan, let's watch it again again after work." said seto, and the rambunctious lights quit their flickering.
"Oh, That reminds me a woman asked to speak with you about seina."
"Who?"
"Originally I thought she was Seina's mom but She told me she wasn't. I guess there's another person who is concerned about him?"
"Oh was it Tsukiko-chan?"
"She had something she wanted to tell you, Should I ask her to come visit the Mikagami?"
Seto nodded affirmatively
"I'm on it"
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Not limited to the GP part of the Academy, the Academy in general stores and uses all old buildings without demolishing them. Therefore, almost all of the teachers have their own individual room. Kiriko and amane's classrooms where together however in a sort of double room.
Kiriko was considering rearranging the curriculum schedule due to the system trouble.
Amane was supposed to be checking students' physical ability values.
However, the screen was scrolling with amazing momentum, and Amane wasn't paying attention at all to it, instead she was giggling to herself about something..
"What's wrong, is something interesting?" kiriko asked
"That Idiot, The explosion damaged his nano-machines so he's just walking around wrapped up in bandages like a mummy."
"That idiot? ... You mean Professor Tennan?"
"Who else?"
"What do you mean his nano-machines were damaged?
Seiryo was practically a cyborg due to all the nano machines he had inside of him. it was nearly impossible to hurt him he always regenerated almost instantly.
"They were damaged by a natural resonance vibration."
"Are you lying!? That has to be a lie ... ... there's No way"
But If that explosion was due to Seina's bad luck, it was indeed possible.
"I heard that it was pretty damn serious, I'm surprised he can even move today."
"Amane ...... It's not good to laugh at other people's misfortune."
a call came in for kiriko. she headed to the terminal and answered.
"Ms. Masaki, this is the principal. Please come to meeting room 822."
she left the room in a hurry
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Seina's freshman PE class was gathered outside near a running track. seina was still tired from going up and down 10 flights of stairs luckily there was a cool breeze on his face from the ocean nearby.
A large black air car arrived on the track and stopped in front of them. It looked almost like a luxury limo. Seiryo came out of the car wrapped head to toe in bandages.
The class saluted their teacher. He greeted the class and informed them that all classes besides PE were canceled due to the systems being down. He then turned to Seina with an angry glare and spoke as if he was yelling at seina.
"So Today we will be doing basic physical fitness training!"
And Seiryo began walking between the aligned students, slightly dragging one leg .
"Instead of preparatory exercise, I want you do 20 sets of laps, 100 push ups, 100 crunches. Do it as one set!"
"I'm sure none of you should have any problem with that!" said seiryo as he stopped beside seina.
"Well then, on your mark, get set!" seiryo took out a cap gun and fired it into the air
The students all began running at once.
Seina ran but soon noticed everyone else was running so fast that no one was around him.
"Huh!?"
They were going so fast that It was like the other students were riding motorcycles
"You should hurry!" seiryo called to seina
seina ran even faster. but was soon engulfed by the other runners and was trampled.
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Room 822, which kiriko had been called to was supposed to be a large trailer parked in the middle of a parking lot. However Kiriko found no such building when she arrived.
"That's funny ... There's no doubt in my mind that this in this place ... but ... Where is it?"
Kiriko, who was looking around, Noticed a large trailer descending from the sky.
The rear part of the container of the trailer landed slowly onto a fixed position without a sound and then opened, Mikami came out.
"I'm sorry I was delayed. Please come in. And sorry for the clutter."
A lot of computers were queued up inside the container behind Mikami.
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"Ms. Masaki, I asked you here today because I wanted you to check up on the adjustments of the new GP Academy network system while the new main system of the academy is being restored."
"Did you say the new main system!? Does that mean they've built a new unified system?"
"Washu did actually. It's been attached this whole time to the system that had previously been installed."
"Washu, are you serious?!"
"Is like a versatile version of the things used in Seto's network, if that makes it easier to understand."
"That is amazing, The systems will be much more versatile now."
"Well, we have Seina to thank for it." mikami said. this clouded Kiriko' happy expression.
"but what about the system engineers shouldn't they be taking care of this?"
"Well, actually... I was late in coming here because I was aboard the Kuramitsu's
medical ship"
"... ... were they injured at the entrance ceremony?
"Well yes, but fortunately there was no trauma as to anyone there, they just lost consciousness ......"
"huh?"
"Did you hear that Dr. Tennan's nano-machined body was damaged by that explosion?"
"Yes ... from Amane"
"It was caused by natural vibration ...... The people who collapsed at today's entrance ceremony were affected in the same way."
"No way!"
The fact that the body's lost consciousness meant that their brains had been modified.
"Yes it seems that everyone who fainted had undergone brain remodeling. "
this was a procedure where they clone and replace part of the brain using a shape memorizing alloy that returns to it's memorized shape when exposed to heat, regardless of how it was deformed previously.
"Their brain remodeling surgery, was it the same as Mihoshi's?"
Kiriko had read a report on Mihoshi earlier. There was a similar incident where a spy was sent to the GP Army, a gun battle had taken place between the Spy and Mihoshi.
What happened after that was not mentioned in the report.
Kiriko had asked Mikami about it but never thought it would come up like this. Mihoshi survived but was hospitalized. she left the army after leaving the hospital and entered the GP Academy and was currently living on the Earth with the Masaki family.
"Maybe, I am currently investigating that possibility. Anyways, the vibration waves caused by that explosion destroyed Mr. Tennan's nano-machines including the ones that would have triggered his brain to be overwritten."
"So what about all the other people?"
"They regained consciousness soon after so they've been sent back to their respective places but their being monitored."
"Okay, so what do you want me to do?"
"First of all, you could start helping by getting the cooking system for meals back online."
"Huh?"
"If it's not fixed how are we supposed to feed everyone oh ho ho ho, when you're done with that I'll update you on the next thing I need done."
"ok ... ...."
kiriko felt exhausted already.
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About two hours after Seina's class had started, Seina had collapsed on ground.
As the sound of the school bell reverberated on the ground, all the other students gathered into a line.
"Everyone has exceeded expectations!"
Seiryo said with a satisfying expression, as he crossed the rows of students and slowly walked towards Seina.
"I see that you're better students than imagined, I am very happy!"
He stopped in front of Seina and overlooked him with eyes filled with satisfaction and contempt.
"............"
When Seina turned to him with empty eyes filled with extreme fatigue, Seiryo's mouth distorted at the edges into a smug grin grin.
"Alright, this is the end of the morning lesson ... Those who failed to digest the program, think carefully what you should do to better yourself! We have Afternoon lessons so don't get to comfortable! "
Seiryo looked towards the students with a faint expression "Dismissed!"
"... .... But instructor, Seina hasn't undergone Bio-Enhancement yet"
Kenneth rushed to Seiryo and took an upright immovable posture.
"So what?"
"Doing the same program as us is impossible for him."
"There are many crimes being committed right now in the universe, the GP Academy has to send people who can quickly and promptly show up to the scene as soon as possible, this is a place to screen people who can make proper GP officers from the ones who can't. Remember that well! " Seiryo said smugly
seiryo tripped on seina in his smugness and went rolling away.
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Seina was carried by Kenneth, and they managed to reach their classroom on the 10th floor of the the container building.
Seina collapsed on the chair like he was a pair of clothes hung on them.
"It's a good thing that the transfer pads are working again" rajau said
"Well, It's limited within this building, communications with the outside are still cut off, so we can't take our other classes yet and we still have basic physical strength training in the afternoon" kenneth said
"We should probably use this time to have lunch." rajau said pulling out bento boxs
"Oh ... Hey Seina, can you eat this?"
"…………I feel sick……" he muttered with his eyes closed
"I have a drink-type nutrient substitute meal, here take it." kenneth said giving seina a large cylindrical water bottle.
When seina removed the cap, a straw-like object popped out. Seina practically inhaled it.
"how is it?"
"... ........... .... It's delicious. It's easy to drink because it has little taste."
the liquid inside was at a temperature slightly lower than body temperature. it had a slight sweetness and a scent like mint.
"aaaah ........." seina let out A comfortable sigh like one would let out when you take a hot bath.
Seina drank all of the water in one go.
"If you go over to the health department, they can help you make a complete recovery in time for the afternoon class using accelerated healing treatments and a combination of nano-machines ... ... Anyways, try not to push yourself to the limit."
"Should I just take the day off instead?"
"Oh, that's right, we have to go let's hurry up"
Kenneth and Rajau finished eating lunch quickly.
"Okay, let's go!"
They held both sides of Seina at the same time and stood up vigorously.
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Seina and his roommates left the building and were offered a ride by Seiryo's driver they accepted and he took them and dropped them off and apologized for his jerk of a boss and let them off at a bank.
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"Let's take a rest on the bank there, thanks to that person, we saved a lot of travel time."
seina sat down in the grass next to the bank and sunbathed.
Rajau wondered why it was taking so long for seina's bio-enhancement to be done.
seina asked why they had theirs already.
"in recent years, the number of people who wanted to enter the GP Academy has increased, so local branches have also started doing Bio-Enhancement before entrance."
"but It's still unusual for most people to be receiving it this late into classes,"
"Is that so"
"Well, you'll just have to be patient until then"
"Yup"
Seina kept his eyes closed and thought
"it sure is warm……"
Seina felt the smell of the grass and the warmth of the sun that filled the sky and he thought to himself that Even if the stars were different, the smell of the earth and the smell of the grass were the same. That made him really happy and he felt a sense of security.
He didn't noticed, but some other students were watching seina.
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"... ... hey, Miki! Are you listening?"
"huh!?"
Three of Miki's friends were sitting near the school building where they liked to eat lunch.
"what are you looking at?" one of her friends asked as she took opened up a terminal looking in the direction miki was staring and magnified it.
"Hey, stop that!"
Soon the image of seina was magnified on the screen.
"hey that's the kid who entered today"
"Huh, that's ... isn't that Seina Yamada sleeping over there? ... Miki are you finally interested in a man other than your father?"
"It's not like that! .... I'm just find him interesting, he's a celebrity after all."
"Miki I've never known you to be interested in celebrities."
"But he isn't just any celebrity he comes from the same planet as the Juriaian empress funaho, I wonder what such a legendarily daunting planet is like ... ...."
"Speaking of seina, isn't his probability bias abilities similar to those of the Kuramitsu's?"
At that time, the bell marking the end of the lunch period interrupted the conversation.
"Hey, what do you want to do today? We don't have classes in the afternoon, don't you want to go into the city for once instead of going back to the dorms? one of her friends asked.
"I'm sorry, I have some things I need to organize at home."
"fine, be that way" her friend said crossing her arms
"we'll start classes soon, so I want like to check each department.I always say that your academic record is the same as your bank account savings ..."
"The higher the number is, the better things you can choose to do."Her friends parroted back her saying.
Her friends put their hands together to dramatically pray to the heavens as sunbeams shined down upon them from the clouds like a religious painting.
"Dear god, it seems all we can do right now for her is to pray for her social life!"
Miki was amazed at the content of the prayer but was a little moved by the beautiful sight.
miki left her friends but as she was walking she noticed seina's P.E. class lining up to start class and began to watch.
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as before Seiryo was there looking like a mummy.
What was different from that mourning though was that the Seiryo's body was wrapped in something transparent.
"What is that ... around the teacher?"
"That is a guardian energy force field, it is a type of powered suit, but it is also used as a fix for the physically handicapped and as a substitute for injured people's casts."
"Instead of preparatory exercise, I want everyone to do twenty laps, one hundred push ups, one hundred crunches. said seiryo
Seiryo shot off his cap gun.
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About two hours after the afternoon classes began, Seina Collapsed on the ground again from fatigue, Kiriko who finished work was walking in the hallway of the school building where the ground was visible.
"... ... Amane?" she noticed amane gazing at the PE Grounds.
"What are you doing in a place like this ...?"
Kiriko, who was concerned about Amane's focused glare, followed her line of sight.
"Is that... .... Seina-chan ... ...!?"
Kiriko immediately noticed that it was Seina who fell to the ground in the distance.
Kiriko clasped her fist and fought the desire to go over and help Seina.
Seina hadn't gotten bioenhancement yet and so there was still a chance he could leave.
The bell marking the end of the class rang and the students arranged in front of Seiryo.
"Okay, Today's lesson is over! Those who have not finished the program can stay here until they finish it."
everyone left but seina and his roommates.
"What's the matter? The lesson's done go home!"
"Teacher, Seina still hasn't undergone Bio-Enhancement ......"
"I've told you I don't care about that! You are dismissed! Go home!"
Seiryo turned again towards Seina,
"Every year ... we have Some students who quit and drop out ... ... but I don't think of that as failing ... I think of it as starting a search for a new path ... Each person has a path that matches that person, sometimes you make mistakes and wonder down the wrong path and you need to have courage to go back and start down another path! "
Seiryo stood by Seina and began emphasizing his words while staring into the sky.
(That means ... ... he wants me to drop out.)
For Seina,dealing with this degree of hate from someone was routine matter. he was used to this kind of thing.
"Are you listening to me?" seiryo shouted at seina
Seina had noticed Kiriko looking through the corridor of the school building behind of Seiryo.
(Kiriko - san !?)
Although she was far away, Seina could always spot Kiriko.
And that was clearly Kiriko wearing teacher's clothes.
(But why is she wearing teacher's clothes? )
"Seina, Go back to Earth" he heard kiriko's words from yesterday in his mind.
It didn't bother him that Kiriko was wearing a teacher's uniform.
It bothered him that kiriko was just sitting there watching him from all the way over there.
Kiriko knew that seiryo was demanding impossible things from seina, things he could never do without body enhancement and she should have been there reprimanding seiryo for it but instead she just stood there watching from a distance.
Seina breathed in heavily and put all his power into his trembling hands and feet and powered through the pain he was feeling.He stood up.
"Kiriko, aren't you going to yell something encouraging at him like "do your best" or something?" Amane asked?
But Kiriko just kept silently staring at seina.
Amane sighed and stood next to Kiriko and continued talking to herself like she was delivering a soliloquy.
"Seiryo sure is a nasty guy ... He knows Seina hasn't undergone Bio-Enhancement yet..."
"... ... The GP is a dangerous job ... and Seina still has bad luck... That hasn't changed...Seina should expect this kind of treatment."
Kiriko said with no expression in her voice However she seemed to be saying it to herself.
"Well, even so, they need to hurry up and fix this computer trouble, so we can hurry along and get his bio-enhancement done"
"I don't want to admit it but you're right" kiriko said
"Geez……"Amane was amazed at Seina's stubbornness
"Oh, He got up I guess he must have some good luck after all."
"............" kiriko stared silently
"Oh some birds just pooped on him, ha ha ha, What bad luck."
"Seina is doing his best, you shouldn't laugh!" Amane's laughs cracked kiriko's iron skin.
"So are you going to tell him to "do his best" or what? "
"Oh!"
kiriko turned back to look at seina to give him some encouragement when she noticed that there was a female student watching seina downstairs over by some trees.
"Who is that girl ... ....?"
"Oh that's Miki · Steinbeck ...... she was Miss GP Academy last year, she's been standing there since the class began."
"The whole time !?"
"Well, Seina is a celebrity now..."
"... ... Why?"
"Why?"
"Why didn't you do something about it!?" Kiriko said unintentional aggressively
"Shit, I just thought it would be interesting to sit back and see what happens don't you?"
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The chime notifying the school day was over began to ring.
as if waiting for it, a hover car came onto the field.
"Hmm, it's already that late? Then i guess we're done here for today" seiryo said.
Seina collapsed as soon as he heard that.
"Seina Yamada! You should consider taking it easy this evening, haha ha ha!"
Seiryo yelled at seina, it seemed his mood was getting better all the time.
Seiryo tried to head to the hover car while skipping. But his body had not recovered enough to handle skipping, so Seiryo tripped and fell into the hood of the car with great force.
Naturally, the car was owned by the Tennan family's conglomerate and had various defense functions.
It's defense function judged Seiryo's fall as a terrorist attack and activated an anti-energy shield to offset the impact.
The body cast like guardian Seiryo was using was unfortunately a low-quality guardian hurriedly borrowed from a nursing home, so its was completely broken by the car's defense mechanism.
Seiryo was hit with an immense and instant wave of pain and lost consciousness and collapsed.
"oh my ... ... not again "
The driver came out of the car and pulled Seiryo up off the ground and threw him into the back seat casually so he sat like he was a jellyfish washing up on the shore.
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"aaah ........."
Liberated from the pressure of Seiryo, Seina took a deep breath.
"AHAHAHaaa you gotta love his driver..." amane said giggling and striking the railing with laughter.
"Well, apparently today's class is over" said kiriko
Amane pulled her self up from her laughing fit and started towards the stairs to go see seina but she stopped suddenly to ask kiriko a question
"Aren't you coming?"
Kiriko just stood staring at seina she clenched her fist tightly and ignored amane's question.
"Boy, you sure are stubborn."
"I could say the same for you... ... ... huh? ... what is that girl doing?"
"Huh?"
in the distance miki started walking towards seina
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"Kenneth, look!"
Like Amane, Rajau, who was watching Seina, noticed that Miki was getting closer to Seina.
"Wow is that Miki-senpai ......, Seina has all the luck."
"Well, he is a celebrity,"
"yes... ... but we are his friends and teammates."
"I see. That's right... are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
Rajau noticed Kenneth 's intention, smiled and smiled back at him.
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Seina closed his eyes as he lay on the ground and basked in the breeze blowing over him for a while before he noticed footsteps approaching him.
(It's probably Kenneth and Rajau? but why do I only hear one person's footsteps?) he thought to himself
"Are you alright?" a voice called
"Oh .........Kiriko." he said in response he used all his strength to look up
"Kiriko?" Miki said looking at Seina with a grievous expression
"Ah ... ... no, I'm sorry ... I thought you were someone else."
Seina recognized Miki as the student who he has met earlier. If you listened carefully, you could easily tell her voice was different from Kiriko's, but Seina still mistook it for Kiriko's ... Or rather kiriko was who he wanted and expected.
"I hurt all over!" seina moaned
"You look like you're in pretty bad shape" miki said taking out the handkerchief from her pocket.
"You're all dirty." miki said and then she tried to wipe some of the dirt off of seinas face he tried to squirm away from her.
"What are you doing? I'm trying to wipe away the dirt." she grabbed him so he couldn't get away and drew him towards her so she could wipe his face.
"Quit moving!" she yelled
"Ok" seina gave up on trying to get away from her.
He remembered how he felt when he had met kiriko years ago.
she really did remind him of kiriko after all, the kind gesture and her tone and the sparkle in her eyes all reminded him of kiriko and it wasn't just her appearance, he could tell that she was very similar on the inside.
"Sorry" seina said apologizing for squirming.
"Actually I'm the one who's here to apologize ... ... I'm sorry about earlier."
"Huh what do you mean?"
"After the entrance ceremony was over, I stared at you, and I am sorry."
"oh that's all, I didn't mind... I'm used to that... ..."
"Oh right because you're famous right?" miki said smiling
"Well yeah...but never in a good way until I came to the academy. "
"What do you mean, is there a such thing as a bad celebrity on earth?"
"Yeah, well I ... ...."
but he was interrupted,
"Seina, are you OK?"
Kenneth and Rajau came right in time to interrupt them. But they weren't there for Seina they were there for Miki
"Oh, Miki-senpai, Hello. My mate is Kenneth · Baru, I'm Seina's roommate."
"I am Rajau Ga Waura, and I'm also Seina's roommate ~ ~"
the two came like a pair of comedians towards Miki.
"Oh, nice to meet you" Miki said her smiling face disappeared and turned back to her serious face.
"Seina, are you OK? I Kenneth · Baru have arrived, it's all right now!"
"Seina, you are safe for I Rajau · Ga · Waura am here!"
Kenneth and Rajau said in a very hammed up manner as they held Seina from both sides and emphasized their names.
"Don't worry because we are your teammates! Rajau · Ga · Waura"
"Yes, and Kenneth · Baru!"
Miki looked at the two idiots awkward display and sighed a little to herself.
"The wind has gotten colder, We will have to get back to the dormitory as soon as possible we can not let Seina's body cool any more!"
"I Kenneth · Baru, Agree"
" Well then I Rajau · Ga · Waura, say OK lets get on with it."
Kenneth and Rajau saluted miki at the same time.
"Thank you, Kenneth, thank you Rajau" seina said
Miki did a heel turn and quickly began walking off in the direction she came from.
"Alright then see you! and remember I'm Rajau · Ga · Waura"
"It was nice meeting you, I'm Kenneth · Baru"
Then they made a few stupid strongman poses while holding seina before they began running towards the school building with Seina.
"Oh wow kiriko managed to make it to the end of the class without doing anything" Karen said
she was watching seina and kiriko from a distance with gyokuren.
Suiren called Karen. Karen answered. It was time for them to switch places so Karen could take a break.
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Mikami was meeting with Airi in the Chairman's Room When she received Kiriko's report.
In the massively monolithic obsidian space, about ten secretaries were busy making system adjustments throughout the academy. They had been up for days and they were all very tired.
"Yes, thank you very much" said Mikami right before she cut communications with Kiriko.
Airi breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thanks to Kiriko-chan everything is working again earlier than expected."
"The only thing that we have left to do with the GP Academy is the medical system and the general curriculum." mikami said relieved
"Kiriko says that will be done soon too, but ...."
"well then, There is no helping it, we will just have to wait until the future comes, the new operators need to get accustomed to the new system anyways..."
"So Airi, was there any damage to the data in the philosophy department?"
"The data there doesn't matter, every philosopher keeps their own personal backups of the data off line. The real problem is that all of their encryption was easily cracked by seina's data." airi said with a tense expression
"Well that system was designed by the galaxy's best mind after all"
While saying that, Airi glared at Mikami for a moment. Like Seina, the Kuramitsu family 's "natural abilities", including Washu's, had caused many people to suffer from painful hardships.
"The only thing i really need to worry about with the philosophy department is keeping them away from seina." said airi as she began to write a letter on her desk.
"Shit, Seina has a hard enough time keeping you off of him airi," said mikami.
"I don't know what your talking about, he's like a relative to me."
"uhm ...... Airi-san,.... Mikami, good morning." said Erma.
she had come into the room a while ago but had been too afraid to say anything to disrupt the two women. she had also been up all night and looked exhausted.
"Oh, good morning. Have you been released already?" asked airi.
"Yes ... I'm sorry to inconvenience you like this. is there is something I can help you with?"
"Everythings already in the final stages for now so that won't be necessary.
"Okay, I'm sorry."
she said bowing deeply she also apologized to two of the ten secretaries in airi's office before she headed towards a third. airi grabbed her and teased her over the incident. the other secretaries giggled mikami suggested that Erma make tea for everyone instead of apologizing to everyone individually. Erma went to make tea.
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Supported by Kenneth and Rajau, Seina managed to find himself in the dormitory where he fell down onto his bed.
His soft bed felt more comfortable than usual to him after lying on the hard ground for so long.
"There's a large public bath that will be open soon, so be patient a little while longer and we will take you there. being immersed in hot water should help."
"Thank you. Sorry for troubling you guys..."
"we are your teammates don't worry about it, we'll never get tired of helping you out."
"That's right... oh hey it's almost time,"
kennith and rajau looked at the paper bag faces in the corner of the room.
"how are we going to do this exactly?"
"Luckily for us the system should still be down and most people will be staying home after what happened last night."
"Oh That's right."
They sat down on the bed next to Seina.
"Even so if seina doesn't get his bio-enhancement soon there's no way we can do this every day. Seiryo sure hates him."
"... ... When I met him yesterday, he told me that he hated all earthlings..."
Seina said as he remembered the first time he saw seiryo
They all agreed that seiryo was a jerk, however his driver was interesting.
they opened up a terminal and looked him up.
he was the chief of vehicle maintenance for the tennan's security department. they couldn't figure how someone in that position got stuck as the tennan's personal driver.
"Oh, it's about time for the bath to open, lets get going"
kenneth and rajau grabbed seina on both sides and headed out to the public bath.
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Besides holding Seto's throne, the Mikagami's bridge also contains Seto's private quarters which is located on the opposite side of the Imperial Tree.
It was a modest sized house surrounded by a small moat and a garden that was surrounded by a nice circular terrace. The only ones allowed there were seto's close friends and family members.
Today she was visited by Kiriko's mother, Tsukiko, who appeared from the ultra long distance transfer gate that had been skillfully hidden in the hedges of the garden.
"Sorry for being late Ms. Minaho. " tsukiko said bowing deeply. She seemed more like kiriko's older sister then her mother. Her calmness and glossiness was even greater than kiriko's and she had a more mature atmosphere about her then minaho.
"It's alright. I know it was spur of the moment for you."
"Tsukiko-chan, welcome, I was waiting." seto said
"I'm sure, it has been a while since I've been here hasn't it, seto-sama"
"Yes and I have a lot to show you!" seto said pulling tsukiko by the hand into the house.
they went around a blindfold partition which led into the living room.
Inside the beautifully polished wood was carpeted by grasses and moss planted that the Juraian's used for their lighting and air conditioning properties.
they sat down and began to chat.
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" I wonder if it's ok if I call him right now..." kiriko wondered as she stared at the clock in the living room of her home.
"It's dinner time and he might be eating, or sleeping... but I really need to meet up and talk to him..." said kiriko, she noticed her palms were sweating.
"wha.. ... What am I even getting so nervous about? I'm just calling Seina like I usually do." she quickly wiped her palms on her skirt and waved her hands dry before she took a deep inhale and started calling the Academy dorm.
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Medical technology at the academy was inherently advanced.
The earth's medical technology, even at the private level, was no match.
Seina had been sat in a large gel-like public bath that gave him a massage.
although he felt some pain he had quickly regained his ability to move normally and was now back at the dorm where he had finished dinner.
"Why don't you take tomorrow off? the curriculum hasn't even really begun yet so it shouldn't be a problem" rajau said.
"That's right ... Well then, shall we?" kenneth said.
Seina got a call after he said that.
He sealed himself in his bed for privacy and took the call.
"Good evening, Seina. did I call at a bad time? " asked minaho, who surprisingly was the one who called him
"Oh no, good evening"
"Were you sleeping?"
"No, i just finished dinner and i was just taking a break for a while ..."
"It's just the first day, you seem worn out are you ok?."
"Oh, yeah about that ... ...."
"It was Seiryo wasn't it ... ... He sure hates earthlings..."
"... ... Hey Seina. I apologize for not doing this later, but ... I think I might be able to help. "
"What do you mean?"
"I can transfer your Bio-Enhancement over to a facility on Jurai, or would you prefer i leave your enhancement up to Professor Tennan ..."
"Oh!?"
To be honest it was a very attractive proposal ... but ....
"well you see……"
"Hmm? "
Seina looked at minaho with an odd look.
"!"
"No, that's okay. I'll wait"
"Why?"
"I haven't talked it over with kiriko yet."
"Well then ... I understand... good luck"
"Hey wait a moment!"
but minaho cut communications with him and the privacy shield on his bed opened up.
"I hope that wasn't anything too serious Seina... we kinda need you." said kenneth
"Huh why?"
Kenneth pointed to the monitor on the wall that was video broadcasting someone he didn't recognize.
"He says he's the head of the Miki · Steinbeck fan club representative. Ha ha ha"
"............"
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"Sorry your call cannot go through right now ... ...."
Kiriko was in a state of despair at that moment.
Whenever she called seina she couldn't get through due to the line being busy. She gave up
"I have no choice but to talk directly with him tomorrow ...... I must get him to return home... ... ... ... That reminds me... I wonder what was up with that girl"
she said as she remembered miki from earlier that evening.
she opened up a monitor and began looking up her profile. Since she was a student it was easy to find data on her.
"Miki · Steinbeck. Her only family is her father.... ... there's no listing for her mother that's odd. ..."
Looking at the photo of Miki's face, she noticed something that made her feel uneasy but she doubted that she was indeed noticing what she noticed.
"Whatever, it won't matter once Seina goes home. I'm going to take a bath and go to bed." said kiriko to herself and she got up and headed for the bath.
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After finishing communication to Seina, Minaho went back and told seto and Tsukiko.
Tsukiko and Seto watched the recording of the conversation. Tsukiko had an expression on her face that was similar to the one Kiriko had made towards the subject of seina being in space.
Minaho softly sighed and left the room to go outside.
"No matter how she feels, Seto is not going to give Seina up."
she sighed a long sigh and looked up at the tree of the Mikagami towering in front of her.
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Seina and his roommates barely made roll call on time. The interview with miki's fanclub went on for a very long time and tired seina out. They all got in their beds and went to sleep.
At midnight, in the corner of the dark and quiet room, the paper bag masks that were made by Kenneth and Rajau were placed one on top of the other.
"...... Ping"
A small light spot on the eye part of one of the masks glowed and emitted a small start-up sound. The night before the entrance ceremony, the NB that airi had made had been used as a dummy to escape from the dormitory. and there it sat forgotten and covered with paper bags like a toy lost in a child's room.
"here ... ... I'm stuck in here"
"but"
"I'm ok with this ...... because i'm here with you."
That was what was whispered by the NB.
Even though it was coming from a somewhat comical paper bag mask, the faint light in the dark room was quite bright. But the exhausted and sleeping Seina never noticed it, the light and voice quickly disappeared and the original silence returned to the room.
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"That's Surprising"
Raireza muttered in a dim room where she was monitoring the NB.
"It should be impossible to get into one of airi's workshops NB's their unhackable even by supercomputers. That boy's abilities really are something"
she decided to tell Airi in the morning and went to bed.
END OF CHAPTER
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