3 "Maid in Amane's House"
"Welcome back, master" Hakuren(blue), Gyokuren (white), Karen (red), and Suiren(green) said greeting seina in maids outfits as he exited the carrier ship
"... God damn it!" kiriko said to herself
"Come on in you must be tired" hakuren said grabbing seina by his hand as she lead him inside.
"Siena, please be quiet about us being sent here from seto."
hakuren whispered to seina, he nodded silently
"Oh wow our new maids are almost as pretty as you amane." erma said
But Amane remained unexpectedly calm.
"really? I hadn't even noticed..."
"Oh? You used to be a supermodel aren't you jealous?"
"That was in the past. I didn't choose that job and I've moved on. things like that don't matter to me." amane said laughing without a care in her voice.
"oh I didn't realise that... ... I'm sorry" erma said
"There also exactly what I was expecting from someone recommended by Mikami, royals have to uphold a certain atmosphere even with those who work under them so it's not that surprising.I'm sure they will do a great job of looking after seina." amane said.
kiriko had other thoughts in her head as she was rapidly approaching Gyokuren.
"I would like to consult with you and the other maids about how you four will be sharing the household chores, so why don't you gather the other "housekeepers" get into the kitchen for me so we can talk in private?" and with that kiriko and the four seto scouts went into the kitchen.
kiriko looked around for a bit to make sure the coast was clear before she blurted out.
" Ok What are you planning!What's the big idea!?"
"Oh my Kiriko I've never seen you with such a scary face." Gyokuren said teasing kiriko.
hakuren could feel kiriko getting upset so she hurried in and broke up the conversation between the two.
"Gyokuren be silent! Hey Kiriko, no uhm... i mean to say Kiriko-sama, I guess know you have some idea of what's going on so i won't patronize you."
"I was ok with seto assigning you four to keep an eye on seina, but I am not ok with it taking this form!"
"We've been sent here because of what happened at the entrance ceremony and because of the kidnapping incident yesterday."
"Yes it seems recently something is going on at the academy and we aren't quite sure what it is didn't mikami tell you about it the other day?"
Kiriko remembered the explosion at the entrance ceremony that uncovered a hoard of brain remodeled spies. Kiriko also remembered the trailer type meeting room from the other day that she met mikami in and realized That the reason for meeting her there was not to keep what they were talking about secret but rather to keep kiriko safe in case of an emergency.
"Everyone is busy watching over the most important people at the academy , but unfortunately Seina's been deemed a low priority. so this dispatch was a personal request from Ms. Seto and Mikami."
"............"Kiriko understood the situation.
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translation note: what's going on for those lost is that in the last volume tarrant shank sent out a fleet to invade the academy while their defenses were down and noike and mikami fought them off. that combined with the spies they smuggled into the admissions ceremony has left the academy on red alert. that was only a day or two ago.
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Seina had alot of potential, but his ability was a "double-edged sword". Indeed, many of Seina's incidents had produced tremendously good results, but also a lot of disasters had also been caused. It was necessary to prepare for them.
"I'm sorry I guess I should actually thank you for your help..."
"I can understand your concerns kiriko but don't worry seina is in good hands with us around to watch over him... I'll make sure there aren't any problems."
Hakuren said confidently while looking at Gyokuren like Kiriko had earlier.
"Why are you looking at me. I'm not planning on doing anything i swear."
"Yes but you're just like widow when it comes to men." karen said. The rest of the girls burst out laughing at this unexpected remark.
Gyokuren had such a rare beauty it had caused her many troubles with male relations. she had made many a man go insane from things like sending them a small gaze or any of her other ordinary everyday behaviors.
"I'm not going to do anything... why won't you believe me"
"I don't think it even matters if you try to do something or not! remember the last time we took a day off and got on that spaceship cruise of newlyweds?"
"wait... was that the day when Karen (Red) tried to do the hula?"
"Oh yeah I remember that. it was hilarious watching her try."
"By the time the trip was over it nearly turned into a hundred couple group divorce!"
"You're over exaggerating I only broke up five of them."
"If I hadn't stopped you, you probably would have broken up the whole ship."
"I'm sure at least one of them would have been fine, besides seina isn't that kind of guy."
"well,in any case Gyokuren should not be allowed close to Seina's room except during an emergency!" kiriko said and she left the room to go into the living room.
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In the second kitchen of Naashisu, dozens of cooks were busy preparing meals for the evening. Many people were fans of the shop but it was small and only had one location so not everyone who liked it's food had a chance to physically eat there so when airi took over managing the store she established a special membership program for people who wanted it delivered to their homes.
The second kitchen was as large as a food factory, and it was filled with people making lunch boxes for delivery this night because a lot of places were still closed due to the computer troubles of the past few days, so they were flooded with nearly three times their usual orders.
Airi was wearing a form fitting suit worn to keep the room in its sterile and dust-free state that was required for manufacturing, she was filling an especially large order and making sure all the items were perfect before she left for the night.
"Damn it! It's like Someone intentionally ordered such a troublesome order on purpose ... OK .... OK, OK... alright.. then everything is done, now I'll just leave the shipping up to the overnight workers and leave." airi said to herself she waved to the cooks and headed for the transfer gate
She came out from the transfer gate into her office in nothing but her underwear and proceeded to sit down on the sofa before she began checking her e-.mail.
As the academy's president, it was usual for her to recieve a large amount of e-mails every day. Airi's secretaries were responsible for dividing it according to importance and transferring only the minimum necessary for Airi to check three times a day, but still the number she had to check was never under a hundred.
Airi checked through it again with a special filter, She didn't actually read any of the uncategorized mail but she still verbally replied to it and sent a reply.
"Please continue your hard work."
"shut up, do it quickly!"
"Let's do it!"
"I'll kill you!"
And at the end one mail remained.
"............ Raireza? that's a rare person to hear from, i wonder if it's about Amane-chan?"
she was about to open the email when she got a call from minaho.
"How are you?" Mom"
"Oh Minaho ...... You look well as ever, What are you calling about?"
"I heard that seina moved into his new place, so i figured we should celebrate."
she said pointing to the transfer gate in airi's room. a Giant case of fresh food items came through it.
"Ms. Funaho asked me to send this to you to give to Seina. it's Buckwheat noodles and udon."
"Funaho-san? Why?"
"Tenchi told her about seina and she felt her circumstances and his were similar after all seina is the second special case from earth and she is the first. She said she'd give it to him directly but it seems there are currently restrictions on communicating with him."
"Yes, that is the case... I'll try to deliver this to amane's house directly but for now i'm very busy i don't know when i will get the time....How about you?"
"Thanks to Washu, We finished everything extra and now we're expanding the scope of our work ... .... "
" That sounds neat. I guess I can take a bit of time to go deliver this to seina..."
"try not to bug Kiriko or Seina too much." minaho said quickly ending the call to avoid being counterattacked.
"... ... HEY I WASN'T THE ONE CALLING UNEXPECTEDLY AT NIGHT!!!...."
When the monitor went down airi noticed the corner of a familiar persons foot lingering in the hall behind it.?
"......, Eavesdropping is a bad hobby principal Mikami..."
"I knocked, but someone was busy talking to their daughter in nothing but their underwear."
"... ............ well you know what they say girls will be girls."
"Funaho-sama and Minaho seem to be pretty much concerned about seina. They even tried calling me about it. "
mikami laughed grabbing the handle of the box that was transferred in by minaho.
"I told her to call her mother."
"I'm surprised our call was so brief after what happened with kanemitsu "
"haha yeah it seems everyone is getting married except her, even Misao's beaten her to the punch."
"and mihoshi's already living with tenchi."
"I guess i'm the only one still single."
mikami said with a gloss in her eyes
"............ I noticed, but you look pretty seriously lately about resolving that situation. Did meeting that lady change your mind?"
"!"
mikami was surprised airi would bring her up.
"That lady" of course meant Widow, but historically in a conversation with Airi the topic was taboo. But for Airi it was already becoming a thing of the past.
"Yeah ... it might have ..."
Mikami remembered what happened when she met Widow and answered carefully.
"meeting her reminded me of the time I met Seto"
"Well in any case if you decide to join in the race just remember minaho isn't doing so well off so you won't be the only horse..."
an alert came from airi's mailbox.
"Oops, I nearly forgot"
Airi opened Raireza's e-mail message and started reading it. mikami noticed her expression change and knew her work wasn't over for the night.
"............ Hey Mikami, it's still early do you want to go out for dinner?" airi asked
mikami smiled.
"sure."
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Seina was busy in his room testing out his new furniture
he sat in one of his new chairs and looked at the view from the terrace. it was a great view and reminded him of the one he had seen at naashisu.
(By the way airi said that was called "Washu's pore" ... she must have meant tenchi's washu.... ...)
he thought for a while to himself.
"Er ... ... How do you get that thing started? ... ... ... ... ... Oh, right i haven't set it up yet."
Seina took out his ID card and launched the monitor from there. Thankfully, the knowledge necessary for using the keyboard had been installed as basic knowledge when he first left the earth.
"I'm impressed ... i never thought i'd ever be able to have my own computer let alone one that starts up anywhere. wait... what's that ?"
There was a folder that he did not recognize.
"was this what kennith was talking about?"
seina wondered and we almost opened the file but got a bad feeling and stopped.
he remembered the kinds of things kennith was into and didn't want to open it in the unlikely event that kiriko walked in to find him looking at such things. he had had a similar situation happen in the past.
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he had first seen an erotic book at kai's house and tsukiko came in and found him looking at it.
"So ... Seina has become interested such a things as well."
seina remembered tsukiko saying with a sad face.
" Kai ... ... Who did you get this from?"
kai turned pale at the expression tsukiko made when she said that.
seina ran and could hear terrible sounds coming from kai's room.
"I'm sorry Tsukiko - san, forgive me ~~~~!"
Then eventually she found seina
"Hey Seina-chan ...."
Kai had run off somewhere to hide.
"Hey Seina-chan ... Don't be scared. "
Seina was trembling and tsukiko hugged him.
"If Seina wants to see ... ... ... ...............,"
but he never heard what tsukiko said though because she had buried his face into her chest and suffocated him. he lost consciousness. seina recalled the soft feeling on his face and the trauma of suffocating at the same time.
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"... ... Haa! Ha ha ha ha ha ...... ha ~~~ ......Anyway, Kiriko is similar in character to Tsukiko, I don't want there to be any chance of that happening again..."
but he had started the computer to look up washu anyways.
so he opened up a search engine and typed washu's name in the search box.
as soon as he did a billion frames opened through the room. ?
"ahhhh!" he tried to close them all in a hurry. erma came in swimming through the monitors
"I'm sorry, I was just trying to do some research."
"oh, hold on let me check your settings."
erma said editing seina's set up on his monitor and all the windows suddenly organized himself behind the one monitor.
"Thank you, you saved me."
"Oh I see... so you were doing a search on Washu Hakubi."
"Today, after seeing that scenery .... I am a little interested in the subject ... ...."
"Well living in the academy you're sure to hear all sorts of thing about it's most famous citizen, but it really won't do much good to do a search on her. She was here for over 15,000 years anyway"
"15,000 years?!"
"well she only went missing five thousand years ago .... so there's about 20,000 years of stuff on here total."
Seina looked amazed at the Erma's sense of time, on earth that was an archaeological amount of time.
"Is she really a human, that person?"
"Oh, even ordinary people can live for about two thousand years now, and with modern technology, you can live almost infinitely if you undergo special treatments like you did Seina. With your Bio-Enhancement, You should be around for much longer than 2,000 years "
" Two thousand ..."
The unrealistic figure stunned seina.
( two thousand is almost the same amount of time as the Christian calendar* Kiriko said that it wouldn't be possible to live a normal life, it is this kind of thing she meant?)
note:this is in the mid 90's so almost is an accurate statement
it was then that Seina finally felt that he was no longer a normal Earthling for the first time.
"are you freaked out by that?"
"Eh ... yeah ... a little."
"well ms.Kiriko can probably be a better counselor to you on this then I can, since she is also from earth, but I've never really thought much of it since everyone around me has always had a similar life span. "
"Well, i guess that makes sense, but I still think Washu's 20,000 year age isn't normal ..."
"It's only recently that lifespan technology came out in general but she was a philosopher when the academy had its best scientist. And I've heard that that there are even some students of hers that are still around due to the enhancements that were available to them with the private medical technology they had at the time. ... ... ... ... hey what's in this weird folder?! "
"Well, that's... uhm!" seina began to say but erma opened the folder and just like seina had imagined it was filled with porn.
"Oh what's this?"
erma caught seina by the collar as he tried to run away.
"it's just some files that my friends gave me ..."
"I know you just came in to space seina, there's no way you collected all this yourself"
"Um ... I don't know how to delete it"
"Oh, you don't have to worry, Seina, your a growing boy, you can't suppress your normal desires" while saying that erma was busy changing settings on the files.
"but you're still a minor, and kiriko will kill me if i don't do something."
a beep sound came from the monitor.
"What were you doing?".
"just changing some things in your friendship folder"
" friendship folder?"
"Male friendship folder"
"Haa ............, and what are you changing?"
"well I have an obligation to protect you Seina, I can't allow you to access inappropriate images or personal data. Your friend seems to have a hobby for such things though, so I've put on age restrictions to the things that are a bit too adult for you. and I deleted the illegal pseudo-sex personal data, but don't worry the rest will be unlocked when you're old enough.oh and before I forget......"
Erma launched a program she installed. a stereoscopic image of the building came up.
"Here's the security map of the house, if you ever want to do something but need to make sure no one is around use this."
"............"
seina wanted to thank her but he was also very embarrassed.
"Seina, Erma, can you come to the living room for a moment" amane's voice came from a monitor that came up.
"OK, we'll be there soon. alright Seina, let's go ... oh, that's right, if you're interested in Washu Hakubi, I'll give you a link to a good site later. Anyway information on her is so abundant that no matter how much time you have to dedicate to it it'll never be enough."
they left and went down the stairs to the living room where hakuren kirko and amane where waiting on a sofa.
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They introduced the maids to seina, he already knew them but went along with it. Gyokuen got out of line and was overly flirty so karen dragged her off to the kitchen.
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Amane distracted from the situation by reminding him that it was time to train.
Erma opened a small locked box, which had been put in the corner of the living room, and activated a monitor and the keyboard. inside was metal golf ball sized balls that floated up in the air, they moved to the four corners of the floor and the four corners of the ceiling. and then she scattered some objects on the floor.
"Alright let's get started"
"Amane. ... what is this ... ....?"
"Your training equipment"
"Training equipment? it looks like building blocks."
Seina picked up one of the parts scattered on the floor. It was hard and metallic and shiny but it was surprisingly light.
A translucent picture of a building block castle emerged about 4 meters away from the place where the building blocks were placed.
" all right Assemble the parts over there, according to my instructions"
"haha what?"
Seina, laughed he had imagined some kind of hi tech special training regiment.
"alright we'll get started I'll set your suit to 50% load first."
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karen scolded gyokuren in the kitchen
"Do you want kiriko to cave your skull in?"
"I couldn't help it, when I saw that look on seina's face I just had to."
kiriko came in and scolded her
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back in the living room seina was straining to assemble the blocks. his whole body hurt. If he put too much force on the blocks they would crumble into a liquid metal and reassemble back at the starting point if he was too gentle they wouldn't move.
amane sat on the sofa watching him. she was quite amused.
"How's he doing?" kiriko said coming back in to the room
as she gently looked into Erma 's monitor so as not to distract her.
"Well he seems to be doing his best, he'll probably get the hang of it soon." erma said.
"I'm not worried about that. I meant have any effects from his probability vector manifested?"
"well I've only started gathering data on that... but as expected, a bug has already occurred in the building blocks, and the required pressure for self destruction of the blocks has changed steadily, but it seems that Seina has corrected his grip unconsciously to match it ...
seina was about to grab a block that had the error but stopped and went towards another one.
"Is that just by coincidence?"
"right now the data is insufficient to conclude anything, but the probability of not taking the block where the pressure error occurred is 100% so far..."
The value of the block Seina picked up began to drop sharply, and the block broke apart.
" this bug is causing a great deal of fluctuation in the difficulty of this. in a way its a good thing.."
"I see, well I guess I'll go over to Seina's room to clean it up and get him a change of clothes since he's working so hard." kiriko left and rushed up the stairs
"oh, Ms. Amane, seina's muscle fatigue readings are rising sharply. he should take a break immediately."
"ok...well then let's take a break. what should we do now...?" amane said
the blocks turned into a liquid and a table reformed where they had been
"Oh, thank god." seina said collapsing on the floor.
amane decided to give seina a sports massage to help him recover, erma joined in.
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"Seina chan's already managed to make a mess of this place ........."Kiriko said staring at Seina 's room with disgust.
Most of the furniture and daily necessities bought for Seina were still lumped together near the entrance of the room and only the minimum items required were placed within reach around the desk and bed and it was all huddled together.
"it looks like an animal's nest ... ............ "
Kiriko looked over the large room again with a bitter smile.
Kiriko unpacked seina's luggage and made his bed, and laid out his pajamas.
she looked at her work with a delightful look oh her face like a newlywed wife.
If Amane and Elma were there they would tease her, but they weren't so she was doing what she wanted.
Since early childhood, Kiriko had taken care of most of the housework for her brother and Seina on behalf of her busy mother. Kiriko enjoyed setting up a nice place to relax with seina, her greatest joy wasn't hanging out with friends or working on hobbies but rather she had always enjoyed staying at home studying with seina after school the most.
"Alright. now it looks more like a room." she said crying.
She noticed herself crying and had a bit of a break down.
"Why are you crying ... ... why ... ... why ...?"
The scenery in front of her, made her feel uneasy. she began to remember the day she left the earth and went up to space.
Minaho and her watched the earth getting smaller and smaller and smaller on Mikagami's bridge as they left it behind, Kiriko felt a great sense of liberation. It came from her relief of finally being excused from taking care of seina's bad luck, just as her mother had pointed out.
"Are you anxious? "
minaho had asked her upon seeing her expression and taken a hold of her hand. It was true that she felt uneasy but it was because she felt it was her job now to protect the earth... that was the price in her head to escape from seina... No ... , It was an excuse she had made to justify her actions.
In order to remove her own anxieties, Kiriko pushed her self through seto's training at an accelerated rate. she volunteered and volunteered to take more of the curriculum at once in order to get proficient sooner..
To protect Earth and Seina from threats coming from space .Kiriko's sense of anxiety faded around the time she got accustomed to work and got used to being by herself. but at the same time she felt a big hole in her heart open and in order to fill it she bought things and went out to do things with her friends and she even tried dating other men.
But it never filled the hole no matter how much she did she was never happy.
Every now and then seina would come back and check on seina and the earth to make sure they were safe but it was only to justify her leaving. she tried to convince herself that she had made the right choice but her visiting earth only made her more and more sure she hadn't.
And the day that Seina came to space, it scared kiriko. Of course she feared for Seina's safety, but she feared returning to the ways of her old life even more.
"Don't worry about seina. You should consider your own happiness."
she Noticed the true meaning of her mother's words, and cried.
"... ... What should I do ... "
Kiriko muttered while crying, but no one answered her. she did not have the courage to actually consult someone about it.
"What should I do…………………………"
she cried to herself for a while before slowly coming back to reality.she noticed her face reflected in the window.
"My face looks awful... ... ... ... ... Hello, are you there... what should I do?"
Kiriko spoke to her right hand as she noticed the duvet covered with tears and make-up in front of her.
" I shouldn't!" kiriko said as she stood up quickly. she pulled out a spare duvet and changed the bed again and then she fixed her makeup.
"... .... Yes, after all, whatever I think, there is only one option."
It's a mother bird's job to teach its children to fly on their own.
and so she made up her mind, she had to stay with Seina. She couldn't make the mistake of running away again.
"alright! I have to make everyone dinner soon."
Kiriko took out a change of clothes for seina, took a deep breath to relieve her depressed mood. she took the clothes with her and left.
"Oh, have they already finished today's curriculum?" kiriko wondered. when she went downstairs she noticed no one was in the living room.
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In a bathroom like a greenhouse, many tropical foliage plants were planted, most of the walls and ceilings were made of glass. Despite being in the bathroom, there was no condensation, and the night sky and stars were clearly visible.
"...... Anyway, isn't it strange? Seina's probability bias has been acting up a lot less then we had expected. I wonder why that is.
Erma said as she immersed herself in one of the bathtubs installed in a position slightly higher than the floor. she was checking data on at monitor that floated above the bath as amane dragged seina into the bathroom.
"if it's all the same to you I'd rather give myself a massage." he said to amane
" Don't be ridiculous you can't give yourself a massage, and besides that it's my duty as your instructor."
amane said trying to take off the towel seina had wrapped around him.
"Well, then you can do it while i'm still wearing my clothes can't you?"
"On the earth do you take a bath while wearing clothes?"
"well we take them off, but you can always give me one after the bath can't you?
"I already saw you naked when we did your bio-enhancement procedure you have nothing to be shy about and besides that we live together now."
"..............."seina was a bit confused. he noticed that erma was also nonchalant about him getting stripped. he wondered if casual nudity was normal during bathing in space.
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"Well then first we need to get your body warm and relaxed."
amane said pulling off seina's towel and kicking him into the tub then she took off her own robe and jumped on it.
The water was slightly higher than body temperature, seina hit the floor of the tub but it was soft and elastic like a balloon and he bounced off of it.
seina panicked and reached out for something to grab he found something and pulled himself up and gasped for air. amane laughed the thing seina had grabbed was Amane 's naked body. seina tried to get away but his legs cramped up.
amane grabbed him and sat him down gently on a table in the middle of the bath.
"Here, sit down calmly"
she said placing him in a chair like step in the tub.
"Take a deep breath"
amane's voice was calm and gentle and he forgot he was even in a tub. he calmed down a bit but then he remembered amane was naked and tensed up again he tried to scoot a bit away from her.
"If you're going to tense up there's no reason in us even taking a bath now is there?"
amane said getting in front of seina.
seina blocked his view of her breasts with his hands
"what are you embarrassed?"
amane said crankily. she grabbed his right leg massaged it roughly.
"…………I'm sorry"
"Who are you apologizing to? Are you apologizing about getting a massage or are you ashamed to take a bath with us?"
"well ... ... I ..."
"I'm Just kidding, I understand why you're embarrassed.you're shy.."with that Amane's massage became gentle.
"But I used to work as a model, I am not conscious about being naked or seeing other people naked, I'm conscious of my duty. I used to have to change in front of others all the time.... alright we're done with this side. now i need you to roll over and face down."
seina rolled over.
as the massage went on seina's limbs which had felt like lead had become surprisingly limber and he had fallen asleep during the massage from comfort and fatigue.
erma came towards them.
"Oh, Seina fell asleep already............ Wow! If you look closely his, body is full of scars."
On his back were countless scars, no large scratches, but just minor cuts and from injuries past.
"I wonder if kiriko took care of all of these herself?"
"No wonder kiriko is so nervous about seina."
"Anyways .................. Seina's skin is pretty smooth regardless of the scars
"why the sudden topic jump, aren't we talking about his scars?"
"I was drinking with Kiriko on the evening of the day before the entrance ceremony ... ... we fell asleep and nearly overslept so i hopped in the shower pod with kiriko and noticed her skin was really smooth too"
"Oh, Amane-san ... .... are you?" amane wondered
"I do not care about things like that, besides a man's skin is better, but his skin reminded me of kiriko's"
seina woke up and tried to figure out what was going on.
"... ... ... what are you doing?"
"I'm giving you a Massage."
When Amane and Elma responded to Seina's question at the same time, they laughed
kiriko came in and looked mad.
"......, what took you so long, Kiriko, you're late ... ............ Do you wanna help give seina a massage ?"
kiriko suppressed the urge to explode. amane sensed danger and immediately backed away from seina.Kiriko picked up a wooden wash bucket and threw it at amane it bounced off her guardian and hit seina in the face.
While silent, Amane and Erma watched Kiriko storm out and close the door violently in outrage.
After hitting Seina, the bucket fell on the floor , making a thunky sound. Amane and Elma turned to check on seina.
"hey Seina, are you ok?"
Amane said as she hugged Seina, he was dazed and confused.
"he looks ok."
"that's odd, his guardian should have activated."
" so, Erma, are you going to go outside and talk to kiriko or should I?"
Amane looked awkwardly at erma.
"... that's kind of like asking me if I want to go into a forest full of deadly beasts."
amane wondered what to do about the situation when she noticed the doorbell ring.
"we have a visitor? ... ... Well hopefully it's a god of salvation and not a devil that brings forth a new disaster."
seina began to regain consciousness and they both lifted him up and brought him with them
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End of episode 7
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note: when erma was talking about illegal biodata on nb, she meant data for the nb to shape shift ... basically sex doll data.
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Kiriko was experiencing some internal turmoil in the other room over what she had just done, she hadn't meant to hit seina or to get violent over nothing. She heard the doorbell ring though and went to check on it but hakuren and suiren had already let the guests in.
"A, Airi-san! And Mikami?"
"Ah, Kiriko-chan, how would you like for us to make dinner for you?" airi said
but she didn't wait for a response and headed straight for the kitchen.
When kiriko came in hakuren and suiren were laying out dishes airi had already cooked at naashishu and airi was already eating soba
seina amane and erma had joined in.
"Why are you here airi?" kiriko asked
"I brought soba noodles and udon to celebrate Seina's housewarming. well actually funaho sent them through minaho but i cooked them."
airi said having a drink that hakuren brought her
"Well Thank you for that... why is Mikami-sama here as well?"
"Ho ho ho, because they sent me alcohol to bring."
kiriko was in a drinking mood and didn't question the matter further.
they ate and drank. airi told seina that she had actually gotten his family to come for the admissions ceremony but they were stuck in the outer ring due to the security systems failure. as they ate and drank, airi got drunk and started hanging onto seina.
she asked if she could go into seina's room and lay down. mikami also asked to go with her so she could check on seina's nb.
"NB?"
"Seina, you couldn't get it to start correctly, right? I'll configure it for you but until i do i need you to keep everyone out of your room just to be safe." and with that she dragged airi with her to seina's room.
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Mikami closed the door and locked it
"well that went smoothly." ?Airi said looking around the room
"Kiriko-san has sure tidied this place up... ...."
"Weeee ~~~"
airi divided into seina's bed like it was a pool
"Where did you put your nb seina?"airi asked
"oh it's over there." he said pointing to it.
mikami headed towards it.
mikami took nb out of it's storage box and launched a keyboard and after that a few commands monitors came up all around nb.
"There's no helping it I need airi for this, Seina, could you please help Airi sit up"
Seina got in bed behind airi and helped prop her up from behind.
"Oh Yea ~ ~, Seina you are so bold, ... uhuhu"
airi drunkenly said leaning against seina. he had her arms wrapped around her stomach and she slumped so that his hands rose up her abdomen to her chest.
"Airi-san please don't lean so much."
"I will if you kiss me~ ~"
airi said closing her eyes and protruding her lips towards seina.
" principal Mikami, do something!"
"I know it's troublesome but just bear with the situation for now. Ho ho ho "
"That easier said than done"
hesitantly, seina lightly kissed airi's forehead.
"Hmm?"
airi opened her eyes dissatisfied. but she snapped back to sobriety a bit and stood herself up and put out both hands to be read by the monitor.
When Airi put both hands on the activated monitor plate, the body scan started. airi sang a song.
"Shutoji Shingoji, the garden of the shrine is one of the moonlit night, come and see ~ come and come"
Airi suddenly began singing "Shashiro no Tadashi Bashiko".
"What ... what are you doing?"
"Quiet, it's a voice certificate that encrypts it."
mikami told seina in a low voice.
ping!
When Airi's song was over, NB's protection was disabled.
"I leave it to you"
airi said closing her eyes and passing out against seina
"Ho ho ho, this is easy work, please be patient a little more"
"Wow ... " seina said as he watched mikami work.
"don't think I'm not capable at things just because i'm old enough to be a grandmother , I used to rival seto herself back in the day."
"huh!?"
"It's a long story."
Seina gazed at Mikami with astonishment in his eyes ...... , Mikami's finger movements were so fast.
"Oh what's this"
mikami came across kenneths "friendship folder" which had been renamed "Erma".?
"this folder seems to be interfering with my installation"
"……Please don't open that"
"What? why? What's in there?" airi asked.
she got up on her own and went towards mikami .
seina panicked and tried to catch airi from behind but fumbled and fell on the bed.
"............ oh hehehe ...... I see."
she said looking at the monitor... ...,
"Your friends have terrible tastes, none of these women have any of the experience and beauty that comes with age."
"Don't worry I'll back it up and finish my work, Seina you wont need us for the initial registration procedure. it's simple just put in your id card ... ...."
and with that she grabbed airi by the neck collar and dragged her out of the room.
seina was relieved to finally have peace and quiet in his room.
"I am tired ............ I'll configure NB tomorrow... I just want to go to bed now"
seina changed into his pajamas that kiriko laid out for him and put the nb on his desk and stared at it.
"...... I wonder why they chose today to mess with this?" he wondered
He put his ID card into the slot on the nb it's eyes gleamed and it scanned him.
"User, Seina Yamada... ... I have confirmed you as master"
"why does it sound like Airi?"
the nb spoke in airi's voice.
"Airi? Master, does that mean you wish to name me Airi?"
"Oh no, no ... ... you're voice is just the same as a person I know ... ... you know what I mean?"
"Yes, but not completely.With future data accumulation i will be able to understand the subtle nuances of you master.The voice currently in use is based on the basic setting, but It is possible to change it according to the taste of the master Would you like me to change it now? "
"... No, I am tired today, I will do it tomorrow."
"OK, so how about setting up the schedule management systems master? Your public schedule has already been installed. if you let me know something you wish to do i can add it to schedule, think of me as your Secretary. I can also set a wake up time for you and pick out clothes and prepare breakfast. ...... "
A monitor with a rough schedule appeared in front of Seina. The GP academy curriculum was described in detail there. From there, what seemed to be today's schedule table emerged, and the table divided into seconds which became dark as time passed.
"Today, I have no plans for tonight, and the only thing i have set up for tomorrow is home training"
"understood. we will switch to sleep mode, goodnight master ......"
"Good night"
Seina confirmed and the light disappeared from NB and seina got in bed and went to sleep. as he slept nb changed shape. it's voice changed to sound like one that you would find on the news.
"good morning everyone!" Is everyone at the academy having a wonderful morning today!"
and then it turned back into a sphere and stopped moving or making sound.
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"oh master did i wake you?" airi drunkenly talked to herself in the mirror as she tried on a maids outfit.
"I wonder what would happen if i woke seina up like this tomorrow"
"Ho ho, Seina's heart may stop," mikami said.
"it's more likely that kiriko would stop your heart first if you tried." karen said
Mikami, Karen, Gyokuren, and Suiren were watching airi make an idiot of herself as she tried on the maid outfit
"why? It looks nice, I'm going to do it."
"is she serious? ......... I can't tell... if she's serious we should stop her. " hakuren said.
gyokuren and karen agreed and so they began dragging airi to the elevator
"I am not scared of Kiriko-chan!" she said as they dropped her off in the elevator she noticed her reflection on the walls and started posing as the door shut on her.
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"Mikami, thank you for today." amane said bowing as kiriko and erma walked her towards the entrance
"I had a lot of fun, Airi might have had a bit too much fun, but don't worry I'll make sure she gets into work tomorrow no matter how hard that is."
she got on the elevator
"When am I going to get a break?" she sighed the elevator closed and soon she arrived at the first floor where the staff greeted her and whispered something to her.
"Mikami, I was waiting for you!" a drunk airi said and they went past the staff and onto another elevator that was just a round plate.
however they found themselves in room with a domed roof in which soft lighting poured in.
At first glance it looked like a garden with trees, but the things growing there weren't plants, but groups of various minerals. Seto and Washu were waiting surrounded by a huge quartz pillar atop a small staircase lined with a velvet carpet.
"I am sorry to keep you busy please sit down" seto said mikami sat where seto pointed.
"How long did it take you you make something like this?" she asked washu
"Originally this was one of my laboratory facilities, it seemed to be convenient to hold a meeting here, It didn't take much time to tidy the place up. I'm just lucky the developer of this place kept my lab intact, ha ha ha "
"was he one of your students?"
"He was just a cowardly guy from a long time ago."
(translator note: This implies it's dr. clay)
Mikami had actually acquired the island before amane bought it and all the staff was actually put there by Seto, Mikami, and Airi
"Here you go"
Airi said as she brought everyone tea.
"Oh Airi, What took you so long?"
Airi was still wearing the maid's clothes from earlier and she had sobered up. In the private room of the servants of Amane's House, there was secretly a transfer gate to this and other places.
"I got distracted planning something, Ahahaha"
"Hoho, I hope you take Hakuren's advice frankly, but I wish you well."
"Give out tea and start explaining."
When Airi finished delivering tea and cake to each of them the meeting began.
"we finished gathering the report on the brain remodeled spies, we found none in jurai or in the kuramitsu's employ but we found more than expected in the academy. the technology is in fact the same as that used with mihoshi but..." airi said
washu interupted " but it obviously was derived from a different point in development. thankfully because of that it is easy to find the spies."
airi took over the conversation again " yes and there are no other cases of brain remodeling similar to mihoshi's so we know the technology comes from there for sure. in recent years the amount of spies increased naturally with the increased frequency of new recruits. we aren't sure what there plan is but oddly it seems the newer spies are organized differently from the old ones the old ones were all clustered in the same departments and the new ones are all in random places "
Airi finished her report and took a seat.
washu began speaking "It's just my personal opinion, but ... I think it seems like the spy plan seems to have been taken over by a different leader from when it started and that's why it's like that. whoever took it over doesn't know what they're doing and has no interest in actually taking over the academy they must just want information. their too scattered to be effective in a hostile takeover. the first wave was clearly meant to gather specific intel but the second type is all randomly placed."
seto spoke " As Washu said, there is no doubt that there has been a change in the intent of the enemy's strategy. anyways sweeping out the infiltrators is our first priority now. hopefully we can get some data from them in the process and figure out what happened. Hey washu do you think it would be possible for you to poke around in their astral memory and figure out what happened to them when their brains were remodeled?"
theoretically if you could read someone's astral memory you could see everything that ever happened to them. but without the exact data required you wouldn't be able to retrieve it.
"No that is not going to happen... ... You will have to do an astral copy of all of them if you want that done..." washu said
seto responded "You know how much power you need to do that. In order to check that large number of people, you'd need a Ryo-Ohki type or second generation class Imperial Tree, and there's no way i can do that from behind the scenes. "
washu spoke "Seto, it's dangerous to mess around too much with the astral sea, And I will not interfere in this world as a choushin goddess, even if the result is getting something like tenchi. Neither will tsunami or tokimi. Unlike you, seto I don't believe in cheating on tests"
"alright I get it washu-chan you don't have to be so mean about it." seto responded
airi chimed in," oh that reminds me I found out where that missing AI went. i got an email from reireza. her mikami and I went to visit her in virtual space. "
---flashback---
In the living room of the kirche in the virtual space, Airi and Kirche were sitting on the sofa face to face with each other.
"I love him!" kirche teared up
"Oh when I say such pretty things, my emotions escape me."
"kirche why won't you return home? Do you dislike your father?" Airi asked
Her father tried to forge a fake body and fake birth certificate for her so he could get married to her, it was illegal to marry an AI you created if it had an astral unless you were separated for 100 years before the marriage. so she ran away.
airi pointed out that what kirche was doing by setting up a home with seina's astral lacking data was basically exactly what her father wanted to do with her. she was conflicted over this and cried.
"Hey Kirche, you aren't just a program you are different, so why not try to make a life with the real seina instead of just a nonsentient copy of him. think of it this way as long as he is asleep he is all yours to take care of. I'd like to ask you to be Seina's security escort, watch over him and report back to me, think it over for a while."
Kirche gave a small nod ...
and with that airi finished her flashback.
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Well I have things to do I have to go Airi said
She left the meeting
"By the way, Mikami. When will Widow's astral be delivered?" washu asked
"Well ... it is going to be impossible until the end of her trial. but the sentence is guaranteed just on her report alone. so probably 24 hours after that. Even now though, I'm trying to keep her as isolated from others as possible. she has as little contact with other people as possible. the trial itself will be done under quarantine. but do you think it's really ok to use widow's astral as the core....? "
"It would be a waste to scatter her astral back into the astral sea"
"so this means that you're actually planning another ship like you made 700 years ago?"
"yes, but only because i feel there is a great enough reason for me to. history is moving in a good direction and seina is key to that. how do you two feel about that?"
Washu aimed a challenging smile at Seto.
In response, Seto looked to the Seniwan representative, Mikami, to get consent.
"Please create the best ship possible, Washu-chan" mikami said smiling.
------this dialoge snippet places OVA 4's place in the time line---
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Amane was drinking wine in the garden of her home. erma joined her. she pointed out that the maids were clearly planted there by seto. they both decide to confront hakuren about it. they got to drinking with hakuren and suiren. she tried to change the subject and asked amane if she had known seina a long time. amane told her how they met and why she gave him the pamphlet.
"the pamphlet should have rejected to sign seina up anyways because it had security measures in place to prevent normal people from joining but seina's probability vector probably messed with it."
"Do you regret giving seina the chance to come to space?"
"There's no point in regretting what has already happened, but ... I think that maybe my decision was a little insensitive towards Kiriko."
they went to bed after their talk.
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