5 "Pleasure"
kiriko went for a walk after teaching classes and noticed that people were watching her. she knew she had a fan club but she found it unnerving. she went into a room and met with ringo.
"Long time no see, Kiriko-sama"
Ringo bowed elegantly
"... ............ Ringo?"
For a moment, Kiriko who was unable to recognize the where she was, she looked around. Kiriko reaffirmed that she was in her homeroom office.
"Ms. Ringo, this is unexpected... how do you do?"
"There was something I wanted to talk to Seina about, but at the moment ... Seina-san's residence is a top secret, Seto-sama told me to search by myself ... So I came here. "
"Oh! I am sorry I didn't know, please sit down."
Kiriko, who realized that Ringo was still standing, pointed to the nearby sofa in a hurry.
"Thank you" she sat on the sofa gracefully.
Ringo at work is a a very professional woman, but when it comes to her private time, her atmosphere changes. No, private life Ringo is the original personality, and her work persona is due to working in a place like Seto 's accounting department, it's a mentally stressing environment that puts its employees in a position such as a cartoonist, novelist, or animator is in just before the deadline.
Ringo gave kiriko an MMD card.
"this is!?"
"The bounty pay and the breakdown of the property left by Widow.We've added a little extra for seina doing such a great job"
"you added extra... ...."Kiriko was shocked at the figure displayed on the plate. It was a price that was incomparable even to the reward from the mass space pirate arrest."
"Ringo-sama ...... giving seina this much money is irresponsible ... ..."
It was possible to buy and maintain one entire resort planet in the most expensive and populated solar system in the Galactic Federation. If it was in the frontier, it would also possible to possess an area the size of a solar system . Actually, if Jurai acknowledged it, seina could even buy the entire Sol solar system including Earth with this amount.
"But that was her wish .... Widow's wish, and besides it's up to you to manage, you should deal with it responsibly. How about I come home with you and we talk more about it there." ringo said in a flat tone.
kiriko thought over the "ramifications" of bringing ringo to see seina for a bit. She decided against it but couldn't tell her that.
"Okay, there are some jobs that I have to finish first, please wait a little. I'll make a cup of tea for you right now."
"Thank you"
Kiriko headed to the kitchen set in the corner of the room.
(I must do this to ms.ringo for seina-chan)
She told herself.
she took poured the tea and put in some of the leftover sake that airi had given amane to give her the other day. It was filled with sleep inducing nano machines.
"here you go"
"Oh my it smells good smell ... Oh ... is that sake?"
"Yeah, I added some sake to it, to make it fragrant."
"Thank you"
Kiriko headed for her seat and resisted the urge to knock the cup out of ringo's hand.
Donk!
After ten or so seconds, the cup fell from Ringo's hand. Kiriko approached Ringo and supported her limp body.
Kiriko 's home room had a small research station, and a medium - sized transfer terminal was installed.
(I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry)
Kiriko endured her crying, and layed Ringo in a case for valuable items that could be put in cryostasis for hours, and wrapped it up quickly.
"I will send this to Seto ... ... OK, transfer"
When the case with Ringo was successfully transferred, a receipt transferred back, Kiriko quickly went to the entrance of her room. The home room office was as wide as an ordinary classroom, but to kiriko it felt like it was getting cramped and running out of oxygen. Kiriko went out into corridor and took a deep breath.
"Ms. Masaki"
"ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
Kiriko jumped 5 meters away before looking towards the source of the voice
Miki · Steinbeck was standing there quietly smiling at her.
"Miki ...... Steinbeck?"
Kiriko was familiar with Miki 's smile.
(Did she see!?)Kiriko felt like she had. Miki's expression was similar to the expression Tsukiko made when she saw something to gossip about Kiriko doing.
kiriko remembered that miki's father's lab had been nearby so she figured she was just in the area because of it.
"Hey Miki, is it ok if we go somewhere else to talk?"
"Yes, id prefer that. This place is a bit too public anyways.
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amane karen and nb were watching seina do his building blocks training for the day. afterwards amane went with karen to go give seina a massage.
karen didn't want to get naked while taking a bath. amane called in gyokuren to help her strip karen. gyokuren came in and helped amane strip karen they threw her in the tub with seina. she panicked and grabbed onto him.
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"If you have something to say, please say it as soon as possible"
Kiriko told Miki, they had relocated to a unpopulated forest area
"Did you come to check on the state of your father, I never thought I'd see such a thing happen to someone's lab"
"Ah, about that"
"What is that ... ... what do you want to say?" asked kiriko.
"I hear that kind of thing happens around seina quite often."
"Oh... yes... it does."
"Well, then, I'm not really sure there's anything else for me to say."
they stood there in silence. kiriko noticed what airi had said about miki resembling tsukiko.
"Wow! Amane Kaunaq and Seina live together? "
the silence between kiriko and miki was broken by the conversation of some students near the edge of the forest.
Interested Kiriko and Miki snuck up quietly to eavesdrop.
kennith and rajau were talking to miki's roomates.
"But if that is the case, why aren't you two living with him?"
"well seina has special needs when it comes to training, but I wonder why Professor Amane was put in charge of things...."
and with that Miki felt a strange vibration emanating Kiriko who was next to her. kiriko had launched a monitor and was watching something. something going on at seina's house.
the figure of Karen hugging onto seina in the bathtub was reflected.
Kiriko clenched her teeth and started trembling before dashing off like a cheetah about to tear its prey to shreds
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Amane's house performed maintenance on itself automatically, so really there was no need for maids to clean. gyokuren had finished doing amane's laundry and found herself watching the situation going on in the bathroom on a monitor. she was told not to get close to Seina, so after having undressed Karen she got back to work as quickly as possible.
"It Sounds like Karen is having fun, ... ... oh what's this a guest?"
Seiryo Tennan rang the doorbell. he let himself in and walked passed gyokuren.
Gyokuren got in front of him to stop him.
Seiryo had a biased luck probability in the opposite direction of Seina's. Of course, although it was not as high as Seina's, it was recognizable was an obvious plus in his life. But Seiryo had the instincts of a stupid fool and that often invalidated any luck he had .
"Hi there........ where do you think your going?"
gyokuren asked staring seiryo down.
seiryo broke out into a cold sweat and froze looking at gyokuren
"Ah ... .... Well, I heard Seina's training is going well, I've been worrying about him for a while and I've come to see him. Ha ha ha ha " seiryo said paralysed.
he looked away from gyokuren and was released from her intimidating gaze. he walked backwards and out of the house before reversing and coming back to gyokuren
"By the way, where is Seina?"
Seiryo asked trying not to look at Gyokuren's face.
"he is taking a bath with amane now."
"What..... WHAT!?"
"... ... and They've been in there quite a while."
" in the bathroom!?"Seiryo, was afraid of Gyokuren and could not get into the bathroom directly, so he was struggling to make up an excuse to somehow get passed her. Gyokuren was deliberately enjoying messing with him, but she also wanted an excuse to go to the bathroom.
"But now that i think about it... seina's luck is pretty unpredictable... maybe they've have fallen and can't get up."
"oh that's true!" She stopped teasing Seiryo and made remarks that gave her a good excuse to come with him.
"Would you like to go see them? By the way, the bathhouse is this way."
"Well then let's go!"
Seiryo nodded, and began running to the bathroom with Gyokuren.
seiryo ran with tremendous momentum, half because he wanted to see amane half because gyokuren was behind him and she scared him.
"Amane, you're safe Now! Your dear Seiryo has come to help!"
Seiryo opened the door to the bathroom with a kick and looked around.
"What the hell are you doing here" amane said
seiryo looked back at the front of the entrance to spot gyokuren so she could vouch for him being there but she was not there.
Amane smiled and then began assaulting seiryo. he flew out the roof and landed onto the windshield of Kiriko's air car which was driving on the road just outside of amane's apartment. she kept driving and turned on the wipers and wiped him off.
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back in the bathroom the glass from the shattered ceiling crumbled into the bath and began to liquefy as it was sucked into a drainage ditch. the window began repairing itself as wind blew threw it. amane let out a sigh
"amane... don't you think that was a bit much... ...."
Seina said while diverting his gaze from Amane's naked body,
"Why won't he just die already! oh............?"
Amane noticed that Seina was standing so as to shield Karen from debris of the damaged glass. the glass was designed to not be able to scratch people, but even so Seina's face and body still had small red scratches all over it.
"Seina!" karen noticed them too and began to lick seina's wound like an animal.
" Karen! What are you doing?"
"Don't move"
Karen restrained Seina, he was dizzied by the feeling of Karen's chest hitting his skin, and Karen kept licking Seina. amane was shocked.
"What are you doing, Karen!"
"What ?! ............ oh!"
Karen noticed how awkward what she was doing looked and jumped away from seina and turned red.
"oh...I'm sorry ... I forgot I'm not in my hometown ... ... you see my race's saliva has an antibacterial property that is stronger than most antibiotics, so in an emergency like this ..."
"Ahaha what kind of weird ability is that?"Amane laughed
"………uhm well……"
"Well then I guess it can't be helped,"
amane jumped back in the bath with seina. when the three suddenly felt a violent chill in the air Amane and Seina remembered that feeling from before.
"Can you explain to me just exactly what it is you are doing,"
kiriko yelled from the entrance to the bathroom. she looked terrifying
"Ki, Kiriko! ............, and.... Miki-senpai?"
"eh!?" kiriko got confused.
"Miki-san is right next to you... ... didn't you not know?"
"I have been with you since you left the GP Academy ... Seina! what exactly is going on here!" miki asked angrily
"Well, that is ... ...."
"oh kiriko your back. jealous as ever i see" gyokuren said appearing behind them with excellent timing.
although her appearance and words were equivalent to a gas tanker truck showing up at a fire and crashing into it.
"... ... Seina-chan ........."
Kiriko 's anger, which had calmed down, caught fire again, and the situation further deepened her confusion. Amane and Karen lost the energy to think up excuses and hid behind Seina. But that act further fueled the anger of Kiriko and Miki.
Kiriko and Miki began shaking their shoulders like a microquake that happened before a volcanic eruption. The pressure from the two people surpassed that of Seto.
"Ah, ah ah ah ah ah"
Amane and Karen began to tremble without getting stuck in place.
"It's not what you think, Kiriko-san, Miki-senpai ... ... this is a misunderstanding"
"Huh, what's a misunderstanding?"
A passionate, dignified man's voice called through the room
"Oh my, it seems we've arrived at an odd time, ohoho."
an elegant and gentle woman 's voice softened the tight air.
"muh, muh ...... Mother"
Amane suddenly appeared surprised to see a middle-aged man and women.
"Huh?"
inside the bathroom the bad mood from before suddenly quieted down.
"Oh... guests... I'll go make some tea" said gyokuren sneaking out of the bathroom happily.
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In the living room of the penthouse, the awkward atmosphere had grown even more complicated. The biggest cause of this was the confrontation between Amane and her father, Masumi Kaunaq.
There on the couch were Amane's parents, both of them were gorgeous, but not as much as Amane.
Seina carefully watched Amane's parents with interest, this was his first time meeting them. The central cause of this awkward atmosphere was Seina, but for now he was in the eye of the storm- for the time being, he had no idea the situation that was about to arise.
(But why is Miki senpai here?)
he wondered he looked over at her, karen stood behind her.
(and why is Karen still here watching this situation......?
"here you go" gyokuren said interrupting seina's train of thought.
gyokuren placed a small cup of coffee in front of amane.
"So, what did you come here for?"
"Because your mother really wanted to see you in person, I just happened to tag along."
Amane's mother, Nature (*na too ray) Kaunaq, smiled
"your mother says that after you left the house, her appetite has disappeared, and every night seeing your photo makes her look sad! So today I shall take you home. I'm finally doing it. "
masume said next to him Nature shook her head with a smile and denied it.
"You always tell me not to indulge mother!"
"But I never meant you should quit modeling for Kaunaq and join the GP ... to Live with a man in such a shabby house. Do you really live together like this?"
"This is different Seina and I's relationship is that between a teacher and her student ..."
"Is it normal in a student teacher relationship to take a bath together with a maid, to massage your student, and have the maid lick them!"
karen chimed in.
"I am sorry for disturbing your conversation, but i was just disinfection his wounds he had received during practice training ..."
"Is this true?" Masumi asked
"That's not what it looked like!" miki said causing masume to nearly have a stroke
"Amanee ~~~ !!" masume screamed
"Miki! Don't complicate things!" kiriko said
"I was just making an honest comment"
"This isn't the time or place for that!"
"God damn it everyone shut up!" amane yelled, everyone got quiet she looked at masume determined
"I will tell you all this clearly, I will not return to Kaunaq, not now, not ever."
masume was brought to tears
"my amane used to be so beautiful and obedient .... what happened?
Masumi took a mobile picture from his pocket. a Three-dimensional pictures emerged from the terminal. Everyone who saw it gasped
"…… she was cute"
There was a picture of a Young Amane dressed up like a doll was drawn, wearing a gorgeous dress full of ruffles with long flowing hair at around age ten.
"My father ...... I understand your feelings, but Amane-sama is not a child anymore... .... her innocence is long gone" the nb said in airi's voice.
Shut up you stupid tin can! Amane struck the NB down onto the table with force and Kiriko took it off the table and into the kitchen.
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erma came out of kiriko's homeroom office confused.
"that's strange, where is she? I can't get a hold of her ... ...."
As she came downstairs, Erma found Kenneth and Rajau, who were about to return to classroom with miki's friends.
"You guys, hey! you're Seina's roommates right?...Have you seen kiriko?"
"Oh, Erma! Long time no see!"
Like a puppy reunited with it's owner, Rajau came up to Erma. But Rajau was not the only one to run.
"Wow, your hair is really white! what a beautiful woman ~~"
"she sure is, senpai"
"Hi i'm Caliche, nice to meet you."
"oh, uhm... ... I'm Erma.
"Quit that Caliche your startling Erma." the other one of miki's friends said pulling kaliche away from erma.
"Sorry, in our hometown a white-haired Wau is a symbol of good luck and having god's favor."
"Oh by the way I am Miranda · Martis."
"oh... Hi,.... have you by any chance seen kiriko masaki around here" erma asked?
"I saw Ms. Masaki, running off with Miki an hour ago,"
"Miki-san ... ... you mean Miki · Steinbeck?"
"Yes, that's right"
"Thank you. please excuse me, I don't mean to be rude but I'm in a hurry." erma said and she ran back to kiriko's office.
"i just have to find Miki's whereabouts"
she said as she activated the monitor and accessed the management system for teachers. she searched for Miki's whereabouts. Her position was displayed in a few seconds.
"Oh, that's strange, there outside the Academy premises ........., in Amane's penthouse !?" erma panicked and rushed to hack into NB's visual cortex using a trick airi had taught her.
"Airi! What are you doing using NB !! " kiriko yelled to the nb. with a terrifying look on her face
"Ah !!" erma jumped backwards in surprise.
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"Airi! What are you doing using NB !! " kiriko yelled to the nb. with a terrifying look on her face
"What are you doing here? It's almost time for your next class!"
"I uhm ... ... I forgot"
"Miki also has an afternoon class so please take her back"
"Well, you're right ... but ... hurry up and quit poking around in nb ok...?"Kiriko said
" What's that Kiriko-chan. I Can't he-" airi pretended to lose communication.
"A, Airi-sama! That's not funny, I'm serious......"
"I understand the situation. However, abandoning your post at school is serious. Although it concerns Seina this is not a priority. Come back to the Academy immediately along with Miki · Steinbeck. This is a top priority. "
"yes, understood."
"Oh, Kiriko-sama" karen said sneaking up behind kiriko.
kiriko jumped.
"I'm sorry about what happened in the bathroom, I was careless, I accompanied seina and Amane to the bathroom, but in the bathroom I was told to take off my clothes ... and I didn't want to but they stripped me and next thing I knew I was thrown into the bath."
karen said like a puppy dog being scolded by its master. kiriko smirked. kirko knew karen was a serious and sincere person and realized she was only trying to do her duties. she knew that when she wasn't around karen was the most reliable person in the place.
"Okay, I believe you. please! no more apologizing!"
Kiriko smiled, and put her hand on Karen's shoulder, then she left the room and headed for Miki in the living room.
"Miki, we need to get back to the GP Academy soon."
"You're just going to leave seina here like this?" miki said,
having the same reaction kiriko would have had. behind them there was an intense amount of tension between amane and her father, nature kaunaq was the only one pretending like everything was fine. Seina was clearly uncomfortable
"...... It's a waste of time to talk about this ... Seina, let's train outside."
Amane stood up and dragged seina off grasping his arm.
"Then, if you two are teacher and a student, let me make sure you are training properly."
"You're in the way, go home!"
Amane went out to the garden from the living room with Seina. Kiriko grabbed Miki 's arms to keep her from following.
"Come on, we need to go back to school"
"Are you giving me an order as a teacher?"
That expression on Miki's face seemed to despise her in that moment. Kiriko knew what she wanted to say,
"It's appropriate to be concerned about Seina, but it's not going to do you any good to get involved Miki."
"Fine, take me back."
Miki walked towards the entrance . Kiriko chased after her.
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"Alright today we will be doing something a bit more challenging."
Bricks were piled on each other on a mound of gardening soils, flowers, and dirt were placed in the garden. And as with the blocks, semi-transparent finished projections were displayed for reference.
"first fix the foundation of the bricks by lightly digging holes" amane told seina
seina tried to dig and accidentally dug a large hole.
"Ah!"
"Don't be impatient, the point is to train not to complete the entire thing."
"understood"
Seina pulled his hand out of the hole and began digging the soil slowly.
"Please, why don't you sit down?"
karen said to amane's parent gesturing to the sofa by the window. there was a table in front of it and gyokuren put some iced tea down for them on it.
"Thank you ... .... how Nice ... ... so... what kind of man is he?"
"what?"
"you know who i mean... ... that man ... ...."
Masumi was also overwhelmed by the beauty of Gyokuren, so he talked why looking away from her.
"I am sorry, I am unable to talk about my master's private matters."
And, for some reason, Gyokuren handed NB to Masumi and disappeared towards the kitchen.
"Huh, what's this... ... Maybe she means i should ask this thing?"
Masumi wondered looking to Nature, his wife
(*whose name is pronounced Nah Tur Reh and you know damn well you have been mispronouncing it this whole time).
"What's your name?"
Nature did not answer Masumi's question. Nature spoke directly to NB.
"I'm preliminarily called NB for the time being.Thank you, beautiful lady."
"no thank you"
"yes yes, whatever, nb answer my question... what kind of man is he?"
"Yamada Seina. From the frontier of earth like the current jurian queen Masaki · Funaho · Jurai-sama"
"oh really... ...."
"he has a thing going with the other women who live in this house as well."
"What!"
"So, is Amane being cheated on !?"
"Today Amane fed him breakfast in a naked apron, "
"Why! He is underage ...!"
"also, on the way to the Academy before he registered, he rounded up a large amount of pirates which seto kamiki jurai captured, and he has captured many criminals so far including Widow, He is already a multi billionaire. "
"...... What an unforgivable man"
"he seems like a nice boy though" nature said
"well he is" karen said from behind amane's parents
"that is to say, Nb's explanation of him is a bit of an exaggeration seina and the situation with the women in this house is pretty complicated. "
"No, I won't believe that a man who surrounds himself by beautiful maids like you and her all afternoon, can be anything other then scum!"
" even if that is so, what does it matter to you?" nature asked
"Well, i uhm... ...."
Not only Masumi but also Karen became a bit confused at nature's words.
"Look at the face of our girl as she is watching Seina ..."
Nature looked at Amane in the garden.
Amane, who had a mean expression when looking at masumi, had a gentle and smiling expression on her face and occasionally laughed light heartedly while commanding Seina.
"She's enjoying herself. ."
"... .... my little girl... ... is gone"
Tears came out of Masumi's eyes as he stared at Amane.
he realized amane was happy.
"But isn't he too young?"
"It is still too early to think of such a thing, he's better than any of the other men we tried hooking her up with."
Nature took out a handkerchief and handed it to Masumi. He took it, and nodded.
"Let's go home"
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Amane watched her parent's limo drive away from over the garden balcony . Seina was in doubt about whether or not he should have talked to Amane. This was a family problem and Seina was an outsider to the situation. and amane was older then him. she might not have been comfortable taking advice from a young boy who hadn't experienced life yet.
(Would it be better to keep silent after all?)
Seina thought. However…………,
It was impossible for Seina to keep his mind off the sad expression on Amane's face.
"... ... are you alright?" he asked
Amane put her hands on the fence and moved her eyes from the highway when her parents car became too far to see.
"Whenever I meet my father, this is the way it is ... ............ ... ... to think he doesn't believe i'm qualified as a teacher..."
"I was surprised for a moment to meet him but ... well I was relieved."
"Relieved?" amane said looking at seina strangely
"No matter how science develops, things are just like they are on earth, everyone cries and laughs ......."
Seina's face was too pure amane got lost in his eyes.
"I didn't hate modeling," amane said thinking of the photo her father had shown.
"But the thing is as long as I'm a Kaunaq ... I would never be able to know how far i would be able to go in modeling on my own merit. So I joined the GP because how I advance here has nothing to do with being a Kaunaq."
"Teacher ... Do you like working in the GP?"
"I was Desperately trying hard at it and i was finally becoming a first-class detective, before I was downgraded to a GP academy lecturer ... ... ."
"I'm Sorry teacher."
"But then again ... I find this entertaining and rewarding it its own way so it's not that bad.
Amane was smiling a full smile, she put her hand on seina's head.
"…… uhm "
Seina looked up at Amane
"your crew cut... ... it feels good"
"oh... ... Ms. Mitoto said the same thing."
" oh...? ...... Ah ha ha, I understand why, it's like petting a puppy dog who has bad luck." amane said
a white glove was thrown on seina's face ruining the atmosphere.
"Amane, I'm safe and I've come back to save you. Seina Yamada! I challenge you to a dual!" seiryo said
Amane 's right fist smashed into Seiryo abdomen as he tried to approached amane trying to hug her. he flew up 5 meters into the sky and collapsed back down and passed out.
"shit, she is as merciless with seiryo as ever isn't she?" gyokuren asked karen in the living room.
"I'd do the same if he spoiled the atmosphere like that.
Karen said as she looked at the NB floating its side,
"What did you do to Seina's NB?"
"Oh, did you notice?"
"Be careful if you do anything funny to it kiriko will kill you." karen said
amane called
"Gyokuren! Karen! come over her! i need you to put seiryo in a block of cement and Sink him in the deepest underwater trench on this planet!"
"Yes, understood."Gyokuren happily ran over to amane.
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After returning to the academy, Kiriko and erma organized the data they had been sent from each department together in mikami's office. However, since the work procedure was already pre-programmed, they were basically only monitoring it to make sure it did it's job
Erma grew bored and got up to make coffee from a nearby dispensary pod. she gave a cup to kiriko.
"It looks like we will be finished sooner than I expected"
"Well the survey itself is simple, but it's hard to do the follow-up survey."
"That's not our job luckily ... so... What did you talk with Miki · Steinbeck about?"
"...... Nothing , she didn't have anything to really say."
"Oh no, is it possible that she meant to confront you as a sort of declaration of war?"
"That might not be too far from the truth, but if she is serious about seina it is a problem for him not me."
"hmm it seems like your outlook on her has changed since this morning... is that because airi told you that she resembles your mother?"
"my Evaluation of her hasn't changed, but if she wants to pursue seina she's free to do so, but I won't allow her to hurt Seina ... that's all."
"oh so that's what it is?"
"why does it concern you erma? "
"I'm just curious"
Erma, noticed the door of the principal's office opening, mikami came in and hurriedly sat in her seat.
"give me a report on the findings."
Mikami said getting up to check over erma and kiriko's shoulders to check on their monitors
"I am in the process of organizing the data sent from each department, but at the moment there have been no problems with the students' checks and they're likely to be finished later today."
"fine, starting tomorrow everyone can get back to the regular curriculum."
"Yes, I'll notify everyone tomorrow."
Pingping!
At that time, a small warning sound was heard from Kiriko's monitor.
"this girl again!"
Erma stood up and looked at Kiriko's monitor.
"What's wrong with that student? ... Miki · Steinbeck ... ... is this !?" Erma who saw the personal data displayed was surprised
"Oh, that girl is fine." Mikami calmly said
"Mikami, did you know about this?"
"she was at the entrance ceremony, but Airi seems interested in her so leave her alone for now alone, ho ho ho"
"Wow, but this is just obvious..."
The data pointed out by Kiriko indicated that Miki's brain was artificial.
"Airi also expressed respect for her from an engineering stand point, she is quite unique"
That said, Mikami displayed another piece of data.
"This is ... ... an Astral! Then that girl... is a Pinocchio."
"Wow, it is my first time seeing such a thing."
Kiriko and Erma said watching the data
She was an Artificial intelligence with an Astral that had human rights encased in an android shell.
Like Kirche, she was to be treated as a person.
"Okay, in that case, i'll mark her as normal"
"good, then please continue with the work"
Mikami said and she headed to her desk and started on her work as principal. Erma looked at kiriko's expression For a while before she returned to her seat and resumed monitoring.
"But I didn't know he had a daughter... ... or that he was ever even married."
While watching Miki's data, Kiriko remembered Tsukiko's words.
(Well, it's natural that she resembles her mother)
In the past, Kiriko had only gotten small hints about what had happened between her mother and Miki's father, Hiroshi, she sighed a big sigh in her mind.
"…………Oh?"
when she snapped back to reality, Kiriko noticed that a small monitor was running.
(Notice of delivery completion ... ... ... ....!)
It was a notification from the GP home delivery department that they completed the delivery of the valuables she had sent.
at the same time Kiriko received it, Ringo woke up to the bustle of a familiar scene.
"Oh, did you wake up?"
It was Seto that was looking into Ringo with and amazingly happy looking face.
"... ..., Hello, Seto!"
Ringo shot up reflexively, she was on the bridge of the Mikagami, Seto surrounded her along with Minaho who was looking at her with apologetic eyes.
"Ringo!Ringo!"
Honoka's terminal body jumped on top of her head, Ringo finally understood the situation that she was in.
"Did Kiriko do this?"
"you have to be careful when trying to get close to someone she loves."
"... Yes. I think she drugged me with that cup of tea"
"well, Kiriko will be Kiriko-chan,... "
seto said knowing full well she had accidentally provided the sleeping nanobot sake the other day.
"It's a pity that I couldn't express my gratitude directly to Seina, but really it was just my intention to hand over the assets he has acquired from widow."
"oh is that all you wanted to do?"
"It's awkward enough having to deal with Kiriko-san and I don't even want to imagine dealing with ms. Hakuren ... ... Also, our work is just piling up up lately and if I took a moment to pursue such a thing I'd never see the light of day again."
said ringo smiling a smiley smile that was so painfully painful. Everyone except Seto was unable hold back their tears at the thought of their workloads, and the sobs started to leak from the surroundings.
"Well that sounds ...boring." seto said ruining the atmosphere. all the Eyes of the room focused on her in condemnation. minaho also stared at seto. but seto was unphased but such a thing.
"What...I'd rather take the more interesting route."
Seto said
"Seto-sama! ............ quit encouraging Ringo."minaho said
"By the way Seto-sama, some unknown money was added to the amount seina was to receive by the accounting staff, would you please explain to me the details of this?"
Ringo switched from her adorable everyday mode to her aggressive business mode.
"eh?"
Seto turned pale and hung her metaphorical tail between her legs.
"Well, ... Come on ... Please explain ... Thanks to Seina, we can afford to spare, but waste is not something i am willing to forgive. "
"Eh, yeah yeah yeah yeah I got you!"
"Now, please explain!" ringo demanded
Seto got ready to cry , ringo stared at her with a frustratingly cold look.
"Minaho! Minaho!!! ringo... is scary ~~~"
Honoka, surprised by Ringo's mood, hid behind Minaho's shoulder. Minaho gently stroked Honoka as he trembled in fear.
"When she finishes her work, she will return to her former gentle Ringo-y self, so please go back to your ship and wait."
"Okay!"
"M-Minaho, help me ~"
minaho turned around to see seto begging for help. Minaho took Honoka and headed for the transfer gate. And the crowds around Seto quickly vanished to let ringo and her have their space.
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kiriko went for a walk after teaching classes and noticed that people were watching her. she knew she had a fan club but she found it unnerving. she went into a room and met with ringo.
"Long time no see, Kiriko-sama"
Ringo bowed elegantly
"... ............ Ringo?"
For a moment, Kiriko who was unable to recognize the where she was, she looked around. Kiriko reaffirmed that she was in her homeroom office.
"Ms. Ringo, this is unexpected... how do you do?"
"There was something I wanted to talk to Seina about, but at the moment ... Seina-san's residence is a top secret, Seto-sama told me to search by myself ... So I came here. "
"Oh! I am sorry I didn't know, please sit down."
Kiriko, who realized that Ringo was still standing, pointed to the nearby sofa in a hurry.
"Thank you" she sat on the sofa gracefully.
Ringo at work is a a very professional woman, but when it comes to her private time, her atmosphere changes. No, private life Ringo is the original personality, and her work persona is due to working in a place like Seto 's accounting department, it's a mentally stressing environment that puts its employees in a position such as a cartoonist, novelist, or animator is in just before the deadline.
Ringo gave kiriko an MMD card.
"this is!?"
"The bounty pay and the breakdown of the property left by Widow.We've added a little extra for seina doing such a great job"
"you added extra... ...."Kiriko was shocked at the figure displayed on the plate. It was a price that was incomparable even to the reward from the mass space pirate arrest."
"Ringo-sama ...... giving seina this much money is irresponsible ... ..."
It was possible to buy and maintain one entire resort planet in the most expensive and populated solar system in the Galactic Federation. If it was in the frontier, it would also possible to possess an area the size of a solar system . Actually, if Jurai acknowledged it, seina could even buy the entire Sol solar system including Earth with this amount.
"But that was her wish .... Widow's wish, and besides it's up to you to manage, you should deal with it responsibly. How about I come home with you and we talk more about it there." ringo said in a flat tone.
kiriko thought over the "ramifications" of bringing ringo to see seina for a bit. She decided against it but couldn't tell her that.
"Okay, there are some jobs that I have to finish first, please wait a little. I'll make a cup of tea for you right now."
"Thank you"
Kiriko headed to the kitchen set in the corner of the room.
(I must do this to ms.ringo for seina-chan)
She told herself.
she took poured the tea and put in some of the leftover sake that airi had given amane to give her the other day. It was filled with sleep inducing nano machines.
"here you go"
"Oh my it smells good smell ... Oh ... is that sake?"
"Yeah, I added some sake to it, to make it fragrant."
"Thank you"
Kiriko headed for her seat and resisted the urge to knock the cup out of ringo's hand.
Donk!
After ten or so seconds, the cup fell from Ringo's hand. Kiriko approached Ringo and supported her limp body.
Kiriko 's home room had a small research station, and a medium - sized transfer terminal was installed.
(I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry)
Kiriko endured her crying, and layed Ringo in a case for valuable items that could be put in cryostasis for hours, and wrapped it up quickly.
"I will send this to Seto ... ... OK, transfer"
When the case with Ringo was successfully transferred, a receipt transferred back, Kiriko quickly went to the entrance of her room. The home room office was as wide as an ordinary classroom, but to kiriko it felt like it was getting cramped and running out of oxygen. Kiriko went out into corridor and took a deep breath.
"Ms. Masaki"
"ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
Kiriko jumped 5 meters away before looking towards the source of the voice
Miki · Steinbeck was standing there quietly smiling at her.
"Miki ...... Steinbeck?"
Kiriko was familiar with Miki 's smile.
(Did she see!?)Kiriko felt like she had. Miki's expression was similar to the expression Tsukiko made when she saw something to gossip about Kiriko doing.
kiriko remembered that miki's father's lab had been nearby so she figured she was just in the area because of it.
"Hey Miki, is it ok if we go somewhere else to talk?"
"Yes, id prefer that. This place is a bit too public anyways.
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amane karen and nb were watching seina do his building blocks training for the day. afterwards amane went with karen to go give seina a massage.
karen didn't want to get naked while taking a bath. amane called in gyokuren to help her strip karen. gyokuren came in and helped amane strip karen they threw her in the tub with seina. she panicked and grabbed onto him.
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"If you have something to say, please say it as soon as possible"
Kiriko told Miki, they had relocated to a unpopulated forest area
"Did you come to check on the state of your father, I never thought I'd see such a thing happen to someone's lab"
"Ah, about that"
"What is that ... ... what do you want to say?" asked kiriko.
"I hear that kind of thing happens around seina quite often."
"Oh... yes... it does."
"Well, then, I'm not really sure there's anything else for me to say."
they stood there in silence. kiriko noticed what airi had said about miki resembling tsukiko.
"Wow! Amane Kaunaq and Seina live together? "
the silence between kiriko and miki was broken by the conversation of some students near the edge of the forest.
Interested Kiriko and Miki snuck up quietly to eavesdrop.
kennith and rajau were talking to miki's roomates.
"But if that is the case, why aren't you two living with him?"
"well seina has special needs when it comes to training, but I wonder why Professor Amane was put in charge of things...."
and with that Miki felt a strange vibration emanating Kiriko who was next to her. kiriko had launched a monitor and was watching something. something going on at seina's house.
the figure of Karen hugging onto seina in the bathtub was reflected.
Kiriko clenched her teeth and started trembling before dashing off like a cheetah about to tear its prey to shreds
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Amane's house performed maintenance on itself automatically, so really there was no need for maids to clean. gyokuren had finished doing amane's laundry and found herself watching the situation going on in the bathroom on a monitor. she was told not to get close to Seina, so after having undressed Karen she got back to work as quickly as possible.
"It Sounds like Karen is having fun, ... ... oh what's this a guest?"
Seiryo Tennan rang the doorbell. he let himself in and walked passed gyokuren.
Gyokuren got in front of him to stop him.
Seiryo had a biased luck probability in the opposite direction of Seina's. Of course, although it was not as high as Seina's, it was recognizable was an obvious plus in his life. But Seiryo had the instincts of a stupid fool and that often invalidated any luck he had .
"Hi there........ where do you think your going?"
gyokuren asked staring seiryo down.
seiryo broke out into a cold sweat and froze looking at gyokuren
"Ah ... .... Well, I heard Seina's training is going well, I've been worrying about him for a while and I've come to see him. Ha ha ha ha " seiryo said paralysed.
he looked away from gyokuren and was released from her intimidating gaze. he walked backwards and out of the house before reversing and coming back to gyokuren
"By the way, where is Seina?"
Seiryo asked trying not to look at Gyokuren's face.
"he is taking a bath with amane now."
"What..... WHAT!?"
"... ... and They've been in there quite a while."
" in the bathroom!?"Seiryo, was afraid of Gyokuren and could not get into the bathroom directly, so he was struggling to make up an excuse to somehow get passed her. Gyokuren was deliberately enjoying messing with him, but she also wanted an excuse to go to the bathroom.
"But now that i think about it... seina's luck is pretty unpredictable... maybe they've have fallen and can't get up."
"oh that's true!" She stopped teasing Seiryo and made remarks that gave her a good excuse to come with him.
"Would you like to go see them? By the way, the bathhouse is this way."
"Well then let's go!"
Seiryo nodded, and began running to the bathroom with Gyokuren.
seiryo ran with tremendous momentum, half because he wanted to see amane half because gyokuren was behind him and she scared him.
"Amane, you're safe Now! Your dear Seiryo has come to help!"
Seiryo opened the door to the bathroom with a kick and looked around.
"What the hell are you doing here" amane said
seiryo looked back at the front of the entrance to spot gyokuren so she could vouch for him being there but she was not there.
Amane smiled and then began assaulting seiryo. he flew out the roof and landed onto the windshield of Kiriko's air car which was driving on the road just outside of amane's apartment. she kept driving and turned on the wipers and wiped him off.
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back in the bathroom the glass from the shattered ceiling crumbled into the bath and began to liquefy as it was sucked into a drainage ditch. the window began repairing itself as wind blew threw it. amane let out a sigh
"amane... don't you think that was a bit much... ...."
Seina said while diverting his gaze from Amane's naked body,
"Why won't he just die already! oh............?"
Amane noticed that Seina was standing so as to shield Karen from debris of the damaged glass. the glass was designed to not be able to scratch people, but even so Seina's face and body still had small red scratches all over it.
"Seina!" karen noticed them too and began to lick seina's wound like an animal.
" Karen! What are you doing?"
"Don't move"
Karen restrained Seina, he was dizzied by the feeling of Karen's chest hitting his skin, and Karen kept licking Seina. amane was shocked.
"What are you doing, Karen!"
"What ?! ............ oh!"
Karen noticed how awkward what she was doing looked and jumped away from seina and turned red.
"oh...I'm sorry ... I forgot I'm not in my hometown ... ... you see my race's saliva has an antibacterial property that is stronger than most antibiotics, so in an emergency like this ..."
"Ahaha what kind of weird ability is that?"Amane laughed
"………uhm well……"
"Well then I guess it can't be helped,"
amane jumped back in the bath with seina. when the three suddenly felt a violent chill in the air Amane and Seina remembered that feeling from before.
"Can you explain to me just exactly what it is you are doing,"
kiriko yelled from the entrance to the bathroom. she looked terrifying
"Ki, Kiriko! ............, and.... Miki-senpai?"
"eh!?" kiriko got confused.
"Miki-san is right next to you... ... didn't you not know?"
"I have been with you since you left the GP Academy ... Seina! what exactly is going on here!" miki asked angrily
"Well, that is ... ...."
"oh kiriko your back. jealous as ever i see" gyokuren said appearing behind them with excellent timing.
although her appearance and words were equivalent to a gas tanker truck showing up at a fire and crashing into it.
"... ... Seina-chan ........."
Kiriko 's anger, which had calmed down, caught fire again, and the situation further deepened her confusion. Amane and Karen lost the energy to think up excuses and hid behind Seina. But that act further fueled the anger of Kiriko and Miki.
Kiriko and Miki began shaking their shoulders like a microquake that happened before a volcanic eruption. The pressure from the two people surpassed that of Seto.
"Ah, ah ah ah ah ah"
Amane and Karen began to tremble without getting stuck in place.
"It's not what you think, Kiriko-san, Miki-senpai ... ... this is a misunderstanding"
"Huh, what's a misunderstanding?"
A passionate, dignified man's voice called through the room
"Oh my, it seems we've arrived at an odd time, ohoho."
an elegant and gentle woman 's voice softened the tight air.
"muh, muh ...... Mother"
Amane suddenly appeared surprised to see a middle-aged man and women.
"Huh?"
inside the bathroom the bad mood from before suddenly quieted down.
"Oh... guests... I'll go make some tea" said gyokuren sneaking out of the bathroom happily.
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In the living room of the penthouse, the awkward atmosphere had grown even more complicated. The biggest cause of this was the confrontation between Amane and her father, Masumi Kaunaq.
There on the couch were Amane's parents, both of them were gorgeous, but not as much as Amane.
Seina carefully watched Amane's parents with interest, this was his first time meeting them. The central cause of this awkward atmosphere was Seina, but for now he was in the eye of the storm- for the time being, he had no idea the situation that was about to arise.
(But why is Miki senpai here?)
he wondered he looked over at her, karen stood behind her.
(and why is Karen still here watching this situation......?
"here you go" gyokuren said interrupting seina's train of thought.
gyokuren placed a small cup of coffee in front of amane.
"So, what did you come here for?"
"Because your mother really wanted to see you in person, I just happened to tag along."
Amane's mother, Nature (*na too ray) Kaunaq, smiled
"your mother says that after you left the house, her appetite has disappeared, and every night seeing your photo makes her look sad! So today I shall take you home. I'm finally doing it. "
masume said next to him Nature shook her head with a smile and denied it.
"You always tell me not to indulge mother!"
"But I never meant you should quit modeling for Kaunaq and join the GP ... to Live with a man in such a shabby house. Do you really live together like this?"
"This is different Seina and I's relationship is that between a teacher and her student ..."
"Is it normal in a student teacher relationship to take a bath together with a maid, to massage your student, and have the maid lick them!"
karen chimed in.
"I am sorry for disturbing your conversation, but i was just disinfection his wounds he had received during practice training ..."
"Is this true?" Masumi asked
"That's not what it looked like!" miki said causing masume to nearly have a stroke
"Amanee ~~~ !!" masume screamed
"Miki! Don't complicate things!" kiriko said
"I was just making an honest comment"
"This isn't the time or place for that!"
"God damn it everyone shut up!" amane yelled, everyone got quiet she looked at masume determined
"I will tell you all this clearly, I will not return to Kaunaq, not now, not ever."
masume was brought to tears
"my amane used to be so beautiful and obedient .... what happened?
Masumi took a mobile picture from his pocket. a Three-dimensional pictures emerged from the terminal. Everyone who saw it gasped
"…… she was cute"
There was a picture of a Young Amane dressed up like a doll was drawn, wearing a gorgeous dress full of ruffles with long flowing hair at around age ten.
"My father ...... I understand your feelings, but Amane-sama is not a child anymore... .... her innocence is long gone" the nb said in airi's voice.
Shut up you stupid tin can! Amane struck the NB down onto the table with force and Kiriko took it off the table and into the kitchen.
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erma came out of kiriko's homeroom office confused.
"that's strange, where is she? I can't get a hold of her ... ...."
As she came downstairs, Erma found Kenneth and Rajau, who were about to return to classroom with miki's friends.
"You guys, hey! you're Seina's roommates right?...Have you seen kiriko?"
"Oh, Erma! Long time no see!"
Like a puppy reunited with it's owner, Rajau came up to Erma. But Rajau was not the only one to run.
"Wow, your hair is really white! what a beautiful woman ~~"
"she sure is, senpai"
"Hi i'm Caliche, nice to meet you."
"oh, uhm... ... I'm Erma.
"Quit that Caliche your startling Erma." the other one of miki's friends said pulling kaliche away from erma.
"Sorry, in our hometown a white-haired Wau is a symbol of good luck and having god's favor."
"Oh by the way I am Miranda · Martis."
"oh... Hi,.... have you by any chance seen kiriko masaki around here" erma asked?
"I saw Ms. Masaki, running off with Miki an hour ago,"
"Miki-san ... ... you mean Miki · Steinbeck?"
"Yes, that's right"
"Thank you. please excuse me, I don't mean to be rude but I'm in a hurry." erma said and she ran back to kiriko's office.
"i just have to find Miki's whereabouts"
she said as she activated the monitor and accessed the management system for teachers. she searched for Miki's whereabouts. Her position was displayed in a few seconds.
"Oh, that's strange, there outside the Academy premises ........., in Amane's penthouse !?" erma panicked and rushed to hack into NB's visual cortex using a trick airi had taught her.
"Airi! What are you doing using NB !! " kiriko yelled to the nb. with a terrifying look on her face
"Ah !!" erma jumped backwards in surprise.
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"Airi! What are you doing using NB !! " kiriko yelled to the nb. with a terrifying look on her face
"What are you doing here? It's almost time for your next class!"
"I uhm ... ... I forgot"
"Miki also has an afternoon class so please take her back"
"Well, you're right ... but ... hurry up and quit poking around in nb ok...?"Kiriko said
" What's that Kiriko-chan. I Can't he-" airi pretended to lose communication.
"A, Airi-sama! That's not funny, I'm serious......"
"I understand the situation. However, abandoning your post at school is serious. Although it concerns Seina this is not a priority. Come back to the Academy immediately along with Miki · Steinbeck. This is a top priority. "
"yes, understood."
"Oh, Kiriko-sama" karen said sneaking up behind kiriko.
kiriko jumped.
"I'm sorry about what happened in the bathroom, I was careless, I accompanied seina and Amane to the bathroom, but in the bathroom I was told to take off my clothes ... and I didn't want to but they stripped me and next thing I knew I was thrown into the bath."
karen said like a puppy dog being scolded by its master. kiriko smirked. kirko knew karen was a serious and sincere person and realized she was only trying to do her duties. she knew that when she wasn't around karen was the most reliable person in the place.
"Okay, I believe you. please! no more apologizing!"
Kiriko smiled, and put her hand on Karen's shoulder, then she left the room and headed for Miki in the living room.
"Miki, we need to get back to the GP Academy soon."
"You're just going to leave seina here like this?" miki said,
having the same reaction kiriko would have had. behind them there was an intense amount of tension between amane and her father, nature kaunaq was the only one pretending like everything was fine. Seina was clearly uncomfortable
"...... It's a waste of time to talk about this ... Seina, let's train outside."
Amane stood up and dragged seina off grasping his arm.
"Then, if you two are teacher and a student, let me make sure you are training properly."
"You're in the way, go home!"
Amane went out to the garden from the living room with Seina. Kiriko grabbed Miki 's arms to keep her from following.
"Come on, we need to go back to school"
"Are you giving me an order as a teacher?"
That expression on Miki's face seemed to despise her in that moment. Kiriko knew what she wanted to say,
"It's appropriate to be concerned about Seina, but it's not going to do you any good to get involved Miki."
"Fine, take me back."
Miki walked towards the entrance . Kiriko chased after her.
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"Alright today we will be doing something a bit more challenging."
Bricks were piled on each other on a mound of gardening soils, flowers, and dirt were placed in the garden. And as with the blocks, semi-transparent finished projections were displayed for reference.
"first fix the foundation of the bricks by lightly digging holes" amane told seina
seina tried to dig and accidentally dug a large hole.
"Ah!"
"Don't be impatient, the point is to train not to complete the entire thing."
"understood"
Seina pulled his hand out of the hole and began digging the soil slowly.
"Please, why don't you sit down?"
karen said to amane's parent gesturing to the sofa by the window. there was a table in front of it and gyokuren put some iced tea down for them on it.
"Thank you ... .... how Nice ... ... so... what kind of man is he?"
"what?"
"you know who i mean... ... that man ... ...."
Masumi was also overwhelmed by the beauty of Gyokuren, so he talked why looking away from her.
"I am sorry, I am unable to talk about my master's private matters."
And, for some reason, Gyokuren handed NB to Masumi and disappeared towards the kitchen.
"Huh, what's this... ... Maybe she means i should ask this thing?"
Masumi wondered looking to Nature, his wife
(*whose name is pronounced Nah Tur Reh and you know damn well you have been mispronouncing it this whole time).
"What's your name?"
Nature did not answer Masumi's question. Nature spoke directly to NB.
"I'm preliminarily called NB for the time being.Thank you, beautiful lady."
"no thank you"
"yes yes, whatever, nb answer my question... what kind of man is he?"
"Yamada Seina. From the frontier of earth like the current jurian queen Masaki · Funaho · Jurai-sama"
"oh really... ...."
"he has a thing going with the other women who live in this house as well."
"What!"
"So, is Amane being cheated on !?"
"Today Amane fed him breakfast in a naked apron, "
"Why! He is underage ...!"
"also, on the way to the Academy before he registered, he rounded up a large amount of pirates which seto kamiki jurai captured, and he has captured many criminals so far including Widow, He is already a multi billionaire. "
"...... What an unforgivable man"
"he seems like a nice boy though" nature said
"well he is" karen said from behind amane's parents
"that is to say, Nb's explanation of him is a bit of an exaggeration seina and the situation with the women in this house is pretty complicated. "
"No, I won't believe that a man who surrounds himself by beautiful maids like you and her all afternoon, can be anything other then scum!"
" even if that is so, what does it matter to you?" nature asked
"Well, i uhm... ...."
Not only Masumi but also Karen became a bit confused at nature's words.
"Look at the face of our girl as she is watching Seina ..."
Nature looked at Amane in the garden.
Amane, who had a mean expression when looking at masumi, had a gentle and smiling expression on her face and occasionally laughed light heartedly while commanding Seina.
"She's enjoying herself. ."
"... .... my little girl... ... is gone"
Tears came out of Masumi's eyes as he stared at Amane.
he realized amane was happy.
"But isn't he too young?"
"It is still too early to think of such a thing, he's better than any of the other men we tried hooking her up with."
Nature took out a handkerchief and handed it to Masumi. He took it, and nodded.
"Let's go home"
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Amane watched her parent's limo drive away from over the garden balcony . Seina was in doubt about whether or not he should have talked to Amane. This was a family problem and Seina was an outsider to the situation. and amane was older then him. she might not have been comfortable taking advice from a young boy who hadn't experienced life yet.
(Would it be better to keep silent after all?)
Seina thought. However…………,
It was impossible for Seina to keep his mind off the sad expression on Amane's face.
"... ... are you alright?" he asked
Amane put her hands on the fence and moved her eyes from the highway when her parents car became too far to see.
"Whenever I meet my father, this is the way it is ... ............ ... ... to think he doesn't believe i'm qualified as a teacher..."
"I was surprised for a moment to meet him but ... well I was relieved."
"Relieved?" amane said looking at seina strangely
"No matter how science develops, things are just like they are on earth, everyone cries and laughs ......."
Seina's face was too pure amane got lost in his eyes.
"I didn't hate modeling," amane said thinking of the photo her father had shown.
"But the thing is as long as I'm a Kaunaq ... I would never be able to know how far i would be able to go in modeling on my own merit. So I joined the GP because how I advance here has nothing to do with being a Kaunaq."
"Teacher ... Do you like working in the GP?"
"I was Desperately trying hard at it and i was finally becoming a first-class detective, before I was downgraded to a GP academy lecturer ... ... ."
"I'm Sorry teacher."
"But then again ... I find this entertaining and rewarding it its own way so it's not that bad.
Amane was smiling a full smile, she put her hand on seina's head.
"…… uhm "
Seina looked up at Amane
"your crew cut... ... it feels good"
"oh... ... Ms. Mitoto said the same thing."
" oh...? ...... Ah ha ha, I understand why, it's like petting a puppy dog who has bad luck." amane said
a white glove was thrown on seina's face ruining the atmosphere.
"Amane, I'm safe and I've come back to save you. Seina Yamada! I challenge you to a dual!" seiryo said
Amane 's right fist smashed into Seiryo abdomen as he tried to approached amane trying to hug her. he flew up 5 meters into the sky and collapsed back down and passed out.
"shit, she is as merciless with seiryo as ever isn't she?" gyokuren asked karen in the living room.
"I'd do the same if he spoiled the atmosphere like that.
Karen said as she looked at the NB floating its side,
"What did you do to Seina's NB?"
"Oh, did you notice?"
"Be careful if you do anything funny to it kiriko will kill you." karen said
amane called
"Gyokuren! Karen! come over her! i need you to put seiryo in a block of cement and Sink him in the deepest underwater trench on this planet!"
"Yes, understood."Gyokuren happily ran over to amane.
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After returning to the academy, Kiriko and erma organized the data they had been sent from each department together in mikami's office. However, since the work procedure was already pre-programmed, they were basically only monitoring it to make sure it did it's job
Erma grew bored and got up to make coffee from a nearby dispensary pod. she gave a cup to kiriko.
"It looks like we will be finished sooner than I expected"
"Well the survey itself is simple, but it's hard to do the follow-up survey."
"That's not our job luckily ... so... What did you talk with Miki · Steinbeck about?"
"...... Nothing , she didn't have anything to really say."
"Oh no, is it possible that she meant to confront you as a sort of declaration of war?"
"That might not be too far from the truth, but if she is serious about seina it is a problem for him not me."
"hmm it seems like your outlook on her has changed since this morning... is that because airi told you that she resembles your mother?"
"my Evaluation of her hasn't changed, but if she wants to pursue seina she's free to do so, but I won't allow her to hurt Seina ... that's all."
"oh so that's what it is?"
"why does it concern you erma? "
"I'm just curious"
Erma, noticed the door of the principal's office opening, mikami came in and hurriedly sat in her seat.
"give me a report on the findings."
Mikami said getting up to check over erma and kiriko's shoulders to check on their monitors
"I am in the process of organizing the data sent from each department, but at the moment there have been no problems with the students' checks and they're likely to be finished later today."
"fine, starting tomorrow everyone can get back to the regular curriculum."
"Yes, I'll notify everyone tomorrow."
Pingping!
At that time, a small warning sound was heard from Kiriko's monitor.
"this girl again!"
Erma stood up and looked at Kiriko's monitor.
"What's wrong with that student? ... Miki · Steinbeck ... ... is this !?" Erma who saw the personal data displayed was surprised
"Oh, that girl is fine." Mikami calmly said
"Mikami, did you know about this?"
"she was at the entrance ceremony, but Airi seems interested in her so leave her alone for now alone, ho ho ho"
"Wow, but this is just obvious..."
The data pointed out by Kiriko indicated that Miki's brain was artificial.
"Airi also expressed respect for her from an engineering stand point, she is quite unique"
That said, Mikami displayed another piece of data.
"This is ... ... an Astral! Then that girl... is a Pinocchio."
"Wow, it is my first time seeing such a thing."
Kiriko and Erma said watching the data
She was an Artificial intelligence with an Astral that had human rights encased in an android shell.
Like Kirche, she was to be treated as a person.
"Okay, in that case, i'll mark her as normal"
"good, then please continue with the work"
Mikami said and she headed to her desk and started on her work as principal. Erma looked at kiriko's expression For a while before she returned to her seat and resumed monitoring.
"But I didn't know he had a daughter... ... or that he was ever even married."
While watching Miki's data, Kiriko remembered Tsukiko's words.
(Well, it's natural that she resembles her mother)
In the past, Kiriko had only gotten small hints about what had happened between her mother and Miki's father, Hiroshi, she sighed a big sigh in her mind.
"…………Oh?"
when she snapped back to reality, Kiriko noticed that a small monitor was running.
(Notice of delivery completion ... ... ... ....!)
It was a notification from the GP home delivery department that they completed the delivery of the valuables she had sent.
at the same time Kiriko received it, Ringo woke up to the bustle of a familiar scene.
"Oh, did you wake up?"
It was Seto that was looking into Ringo with and amazingly happy looking face.
"... ..., Hello, Seto!"
Ringo shot up reflexively, she was on the bridge of the Mikagami, Seto surrounded her along with Minaho who was looking at her with apologetic eyes.
"Ringo!Ringo!"
Honoka's terminal body jumped on top of her head, Ringo finally understood the situation that she was in.
"Did Kiriko do this?"
"you have to be careful when trying to get close to someone she loves."
"... Yes. I think she drugged me with that cup of tea"
"well, Kiriko will be Kiriko-chan,... "
seto said knowing full well she had accidentally provided the sleeping nanobot sake the other day.
"It's a pity that I couldn't express my gratitude directly to Seina, but really it was just my intention to hand over the assets he has acquired from widow."
"oh is that all you wanted to do?"
"It's awkward enough having to deal with Kiriko-san and I don't even want to imagine dealing with ms. Hakuren ... ... Also, our work is just piling up up lately and if I took a moment to pursue such a thing I'd never see the light of day again."
said ringo smiling a smiley smile that was so painfully painful. Everyone except Seto was unable hold back their tears at the thought of their workloads, and the sobs started to leak from the surroundings.
"Well that sounds ...boring." seto said ruining the atmosphere. all the Eyes of the room focused on her in condemnation. minaho also stared at seto. but seto was unphased but such a thing.
"What...I'd rather take the more interesting route."
Seto said
"Seto-sama! ............ quit encouraging Ringo."minaho said
"By the way Seto-sama, some unknown money was added to the amount seina was to receive by the accounting staff, would you please explain to me the details of this?"
Ringo switched from her adorable everyday mode to her aggressive business mode.
"eh?"
Seto turned pale and hung her metaphorical tail between her legs.
"Well, ... Come on ... Please explain ... Thanks to Seina, we can afford to spare, but waste is not something i am willing to forgive. "
"Eh, yeah yeah yeah yeah I got you!"
"Now, please explain!" ringo demanded
Seto got ready to cry , ringo stared at her with a frustratingly cold look.
"Minaho! Minaho!!! ringo... is scary ~~~"
Honoka, surprised by Ringo's mood, hid behind Minaho's shoulder. Minaho gently stroked Honoka as he trembled in fear.
"When she finishes her work, she will return to her former gentle Ringo-y self, so please go back to your ship and wait."
"Okay!"
"M-Minaho, help me ~"
minaho turned around to see seto begging for help. Minaho took Honoka and headed for the transfer gate. And the crowds around Seto quickly vanished to let ringo and her have their space.
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