4 "Fleeting peace"
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note:
this is the 12th day since seina left for space and the start of episode 8
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The next day kiriko was busy preparing food for breakfast. a timer went off. it was time for her to wake up seina. she had karen take over the cooking.She knocked on the door but there was no reaction from inside.
Seina never locked his room in case there was ever an emergency. since there was no reaction she should have entered the room immediately and woken him, but Kiriko was hesitant to enter Seina's room. She was conscious that he had grown up and should be waking himself up.
She thought up an excuse to enter and entered anyways.
"Good Morning, Seina-chan"
Kiriko gently and silently said with hesitation.
" no ... stop another five minutes, please only five minutes ... ... Mom ........."
"... ... Mom? Are you still a child?"
Kiriko was relieved by Seina's innocent sleeping face.
"Seina, it's morning, get up!"
she pulled off his covers. and was surprised to see his morning wood
"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"... ............ oh it's you... ... , good morning Kiriko-san ...............!"
he said waking up he noticed kiriko gazing at his clothes. he hurried to conceal his morning boner.
"oh wow."
"...."
Airi and Gyokuren came in to the room and looked at seina
"so seina, which one of your maids do you want to help you?"
kiriko slapped both of them and seina at once and then dragged the two women out of the room into the kitchen down stairs .
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"Why are you here? you have no reason to be here!" Kiriko said coldly.
"Well, I wanted to wake up seina and have breakfast with him.... ..."
karen let them to the kitchen and noticed seina walking out of his room she intercepted him.
"Good morning, Seina, Breakfast is already ready, please sit down in your favorite place and I'll bring it to you."
"oh... okay." Karen encouraged Seina to sit at the table farthest away from the kitchen.
she went into the kitchen and got rice and miso soup and put it in front of him.
something about the situation made seina see a bit of kiriko in Karen.
They were both serious types.
Seina thought about it the images of Karen and Kiriko overlapped.
"here you go"
He suddenly met eyes with Karen, Seina turned bright red.
"Oh, thank you"
Seina hurriedly deflected his eyes. he noticed karen also blushed.
"Please eat slowly, if you need anything else, please don't hesitate to call me"
karen put some distance in between her and seina. Kiriko came out of the kitchen and karen set up breakfast for her on the side opposite of seina so they could talk.
karen bowed and headed to the kitchen.
Karen exhaled when she went into the kitchen, she was finally Liberated from that awkward situation. Airi was busy scooping out a bowl of rice and was full of energy. gyokuren was sitting down icing her face, which had yet to recover from kiriko's slap.
kiriko and seina sat on the side opposite of each other eating rice in awkward silence.
"That smells delicious" erma said coming in.
"Erma!"
"Good morning, Seina, morning Kiriko-san"
erma ate some of seina's food
"erma that isn't for you" kiriko said
"you know what.... I'll let you two eat by yourself for a while so you two can make up. I can't believe you haven't done it already."
"we aren't fighting" kiriko said.
"here seina-chan" erma said holding out a bite of food in front of seina. say ah-"
seina reflexively ate it like he was a baby bird and erma was his mother.
" I thought you two would be playing newlyweds like this by now" erma said
"quit joking around and eat...!"
said looking away however she looked in the direction of where amane was coming from and was surprised by what she saw. amane in her undergarments.
"amane what do you think you're doing running around like that!" kiriko yelled.
Ignoring kiriko's shouting, Amane to moved the chair next to Seina, and hugged his arm.
"How's your condition?are your muscles in any pain?"
Seina desperately diverted his face.
"... What is that?"
amane said noticing kirikos slap mark. kiriko turned red.
"I'm sorry about the other day seina I hope your not mad..."
Amane forcibly directed her face towards seina's, and did exactly the same thing that Erma did earlier with the food.
"say aaaaaa"
"Amane cover up!"
kiriko said pulling amane away and handing her an apron to wear.
"some how that's even worse."
"AMANE!!!!!"
But Kiriko's anger surpassed Amane's sex appeal
"What's going on in here?"
"A, Airi?" amane said
airi looked at the situation.
" Didn't anyone ever teach you not to talk while eating? and also AMANE what are you doing!"
"uhm..."
"A naked apron is a sacred dress that should be shown only to truly important people.Besides that it is a special item that activates it's maximum effect in a closed space with only two people making love ...... You are a fool to try to use it out in the open like this!" airi said way to seriously but after all airi is a philosopher.
(note: and this is a sly reference to spaceship Aggaruter)
"I can't tell if she is being serious..."
"Seina!" airi said
"Yes?!"
"Can you come to my house with me? I will show you the Proper essence of the naked apron" airi said, she was serious after all.
Kerslap!
a furious kiriko whacked her again.
"you need to hurry up and leave. If you don't go now your going to be late for work." kiriko said dragging off airi somewhere.
"ow, my face..."airi said as she was dragged off
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Approximately fifteen minutes later, They were all at the shuttle port on the roof to see airi off.
"I also want to train Seina, so i can give him a massage..."airi said
"too bad! Mikami-sama, told me you're going to be busy today."
Kiriko roared violently throwing airi into the cruiser.
"Oh yeah, Seina is all mine, that reminds me we got to get to work soon"
Kiriko who heard Amane 's happy words and ran to Karen And clasped her's hands tightly,
"Please Karen, you're the only one here who is reliable. keep watch over Amane, please ask Hakuren to help." kiriko whispered to her. karen nodded silently.
kiriko then grasped gyokuran hands this time expressionlessly.
"Please, Gyokuren, you do not have to do anything, do not move any closer to Seina, otherwise i might have to put extra power into my hands the next time they are on you."
she said to her to intimidate her.
"Yes, I understand"
"Well then get to work"
the cruiser slowly started moving away from the dock with its door open.
"you bastards! I will train with you Seina!" airi said crying out the door of the cruiser.
"Airi, don't be so childish!"
"Airi, before you go do I need to know anything about seina's NB?"kiriko asked
Airi stopped crying.
"... .... Kiriko chan, come with me and I'll fill you in."
airi made the cruiser come back for kiriko and erma
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"Seina, meet me in the living room in 5 minutes"
amane called to him. seina went into his room and changed outfits.
"Master"
The NB who sensed Seina's presence activated without warning.
"Wow! ............ , Airi's voice nearly gave me a heart attack"
"Master's pulse seems normal, no defects were found in the heart."
"I didn't mean literally... ...."
"oh you meant you were surprised. i see..."
"oh wow it understands something as subtle as that... that's amazing....I really should change it's voice though.... oh ... right i'm supposed to go downstairs. amane will scold me if i'm late"
"The one called Amane is my master's instructor, please take me with you if you are going to see her. I am supposed to be with you to help you maintain your schedule "
"ok."
As soon as Seina could quickly change clothes, NB suddenly rose.
"I do not need you to carry me."
"oh wow it's Floating!"
"I can fly over at mach speed, i can even move in space."
"move in space?"
"I have no super space navigation functions though, so it would take some time but it is possible to use me for interplanetary navigation"
"That's ... ... amazing."
"Let's hurry, we shouldn't make our instructors wait."
"Yes"
seina followed NB out of the room and went straight down the stairs. Amane, who was reading a book on the sofa in the living room, noticed that Seina had come down, and raised her face.
"Is that the NB Airi-san was talking about the other day?"
"I would like double check the master's schedual with his instructor, is that ok?"
"Wow! What is that... Airi's voice?"
Amane stared at NB
"Yesterday, when I started it, this was it's voice."
"Ha ... ... airi is such a kook."
"ms. instructor...."
nb said reminding amane of it's question.
"Well ... ... When the curriculum of Seina is announced at the GP Academy, I will update you, but for now his studies are on hold as we get data on his abilities for a while."
"roger that"
"well then seina we will be doing blocks again like yesterday so get ready, by the way what did you name it?"
"I haven't thought about it yet."
"Wait, then why do you need NB if you haven't even decided a name for it?"
Amane looked at NB with interest, she sat on the sofa with NB and started something like a monitor, and started tinkering with NB.
"What are you doing amane... ..."
"it's voice is annoying, i know of one much better, i will customise it for you don't worry
"May I accept customization from the instructor master?"
"Oh ... yeah, I don't mind that."
"OK"That said, NB accepted access from Amane.
A lot of monitors started up and Amane began to hit the keyboard.
"Also I'll put in various kinds of interesting software, you wont regret it."
"Please, please ... Amane, wait a moment!"
Seina remembered the "friendship folder" that was in the NB and panicked. he attempted to get back NB. However, Seina forgotten that the load on his body was dropped for training and he jumped over Amane and hit the wall.
"What are you doing ...? ... Ha, well, i guess there is something you don't want me to see in it."
Seina remembered that "Friendship Folder" was already seen by a number of people. Amane began to investigate the contents of NB's memories gently.
(I need to just delete that folder already)
"...... oh that's odd... There nothing in this folder... i was expecting to find a friendship folder on here. after all you have made some friends... right?"
(a "Friendship Folder" must be a thing here. But what does that term even mean ............ it's a good thing it deleted itself.)
"In that case, I'll put in one of my friends friendship folders that i got back when i was a model..."
"No, I don't need it!"refused Seina
(If Kiriko knew that I recieved something like that from amane ... ... it's likely to rain with blood up in here.)
"Well, it's fun to get them secretly and watch them."
"i guess...?"
seina said While rubbing his bumped head, Seina headed to the building block and tried to begin training when...
"...... Get off my lawn" Nb's voice changed to that of an old man.
"What the heck!?"
"I like a warm glass of milk before bed"
"Amane! What did you do to nb?"
"oh this? it's just some AI Character Software"
"Please do not put such a strange thing into my NB."
"Ah ha ha, it not strange it's hilarious besides we need more men in the house ."
she was done changing it's settings and quickly lost interest and went back to her magazine.
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note: in japanese she installed a kansai dialect onto it... i am not bothering to try translating that shit into an american dialect. you are getting old man nb
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Kiriko and Erma, what was going on in the living room in cabin of the cruiser, were rolling around laughing in spite of being in front of Airi.
"I wonder who deleted Seina's" Friendship Folder was it you Kiriko-chan?"
"I don't mess with other people's belongings!"
Kiriko stopped smiling and glanced at Airi.
"i just figured it would be you since Seina is still a minor, it is too early for him to see such things!"
"Seina will not be a child forever, I know that I can keep treating him like one, there are few people who dislike Seina's bad luck here, I hope he will pursue real women instead."
"like Miki Steinbeck or something?"
"I hate that girl, she used Seina for her father!I cannot trust Seina with that child!"
"............ she looks a lot like you, that girl."
"we are not alike!"
"Well then, what if i told you she looks like Tsukiko-chan?"
"Why are you bringing up my mother ...........................!"
in Kiriko's mind, an image of Tsukiko and Miki overlapped. Kiriko and Tsukiko are said to be very similar The same goes for Kiriko and Miki.
"No matter what you say, that girl is not fit for Seina!"
"perhaps you have an incestuous hatred?"
"No!"
Kiriko glanced at Erma , Erma hid behind Airi like a cat surprised by a loud noise.
"The problem is not Miki-san, but Amane and Gyokuren!"
"In any case, unlike Ms. Gyokuren, I do not think that Amane is a big problem"
"either way I'm not happy with the situation, were going to have to live with seina for about two weeks more and during that time we have no way of keeping track of him throughout the day to make sure she isn't up to anything"
"actually, i hate to say this, but please look through this." airi said a monitor showed up in front of erma and kiriko's eyes
the report explained that there were much more spies than they initially thought and they were still weeding them out and the ratio of freshmen that were actually spies was still being determined.
"So Seina, what your saying is that it will be awhile before Seina will return to the dormitory. "
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"I see ... so that's why contact with the academy had been interrupted"
kyo komachi, a giant woman said standing across from ryoko balta in a dark space. She was one of the top executives of the Daruma guild.
What was displayed before Komachi was the same report Airi showed to Kiriko.
"There is nothing in this report suspecting the Daruma Guild which is good because this is clearly Tarrant's organization's doing There is no doubt about his involvement when i look at the data. "
To Komachi 's cool tone, Ryoko gazed away as if frustrated.
" is that so?"
"So what are you going to do with this information? If there is no objection to me doing so Ryoko, I have to report this back to the daruma..."
"I don't like the way Tarrant does things .... and I don't want to admit it but this is no longer my fight. "Ryoko said
"He is a direct successor to the shank Guild that was originally destroyed by Jurai, although it was a medium-sized organization, it had a long history, so this is a complicated matter ... ... Even I am not sure what to do, his military force is necessary for the current Guild. "
"Why do you need such an evil person as an ally?" "
"As long as his enemies are the same as ours we both benefit."
"..............."
Such a conversation has been repeated many times in the past.
"But indeed his way of doing more than necessary makes us feel he has a sense of hostility towards the Guild and there are many executives who are concerned about it ... he needs to be put on a leash... ........... so this information is good for me. "
"i agree! "
"Please continue collecting information"
Ryoko 's stereoscopic picture disappeared and only Komachi was left in a pitch - dark space.
"... So, what about your impression?"
Komachi said to an empty space. At the next moment, what appeared there was Kamiki · Seto · Jurai who should have been both their enemies.
"You passed"
"depending on your approach to this, I have an idea for this situation you might enjoy."
"I'm satisfied with her information, i think this situation will work out for our mutual benefit. "
"Mutual benefit? ............ No way, how?"
"It's still too early for me to conclude that. for Now though is enough to just get Tarrant on a leash. Now then, the list of arrested inmates you requested, all of them are to be transferred here right? "
Many of the Space pirates who were caught up in the bad luck of Seina not to long ago, had been requested to be handed over from another country for various reasons.most of them were going to be executed immediately if they didn't if for nothing more then keeping their mouth shut. by detaining them in jurai their deaths could be postponed.
"yes, I appreciate it if you do so"
It's better to be a hostage than being executed.
"I'll see you around"
end of chapter
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