6 "Miki and Seina · Aftermath"
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Translator note: this is day 33
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That morning, Seina put on his school uniform for the first time in three weeks.
"It's been awhile since I went to the GP Academy ..."
he had finished his Bio-Enhancement training without any problems and was to resume schooling at the GP Academy from that day on. his classes were mostly going to be communication and practical skills and things of that nature. Amane and Kiriko had caught him up, so there was no lapse in his teaching.
"I solved the biggest problem which was physical fitness so now i just have to keep going."
"Well, sonny, soon it will be a long time i reckon since ya got here."
NB said in an old man voice
"NB ...... , please don't do anything strange at school, everything that goes on here is a secret."
"I understand young man, I've been keeping secrets since before u where a young whippersnapper."
"yes but Sometimes you bring up some strange things, ... well, Erma said it wouldn't be an issue though and if you say so then i guess it's ok ."
Kiriko came in pushing a food cart.
"Good morning, Seina,"
Following Kiriko, Gyokuren and Karen came in, they carried with them a large table and began preparing for breakfast. By the time the preparation had almost finished erma and amane came in.
after Amane's parents visited unexpectedly, life at Amane's House calmed down.
Of course, it also helped that Seiryo, Airi and Miki weren't around causing trouble, but it was also due to them all coming to know each other and their living habits.
Amane, Kiriko, and Erma began assisting Seina with the classes that they specialized in and Hakuren and the maids kept watch of seina, Seina's room quickly became the place for everyone to hang out instead of the living room, and breakfast was now held in Seina's room.
(Somehow, it looks like were all one big family)
Although it had only been three weeks, the atmosphere at breakfast was enough to make Seina think this way.
"Seina-chan, in about a week or so we will begin to move you back to the dormitory, so please start getting the things you need for that together. If you have anything else you need, let me know and i will buy it for you " kiriko said
" ... ... it's ok i have everything i need."
" the dormitory is close to here, if you have something you need, you can come pick it up from here easily. and don't forget you if you want you can come over any time." amane said
amane sounded like her father masumi, like she didn't really want seina to go, but no one pointed this out for fear of angering her.
"Amane, don't forget you are also a lecturer at the GP Academy so you will be seeing him throughout the day. oh that reminds me it's time for us to go."
"Yes, let's get going " erma said standing up and finishing off her coffee.
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"Your ride is here" Gyokuren and karen presented erma's car to her at the door of the house. they got in and drove off through the highway connecting amane's island apartment to the mainland.
The sunny sky and the brilliant tropical aquamarine sea shined green with the morning sun and the coral reefs inside it made for a spectacular view as they drove to the academy.
"you know, now that you're going to be gone from amane's, I'm going to miss you a bit" said erma
"I uhm ... ... I also like that house, are you still going to live there erma?"
"Well, I ended my lease with the place where i was living before, and I don't have to pay rent at amane's and i don't have to make meals, we have maids to do all the chores, and the living situation is pretty great, i see no reason to move. Besides, I've never been roommates with people the same age as me, it's a lot of fun. "
"What about when you went to school?"
"I... uhm... the people who raised ... ... uh... I moved here to work, I have never been to school. but even if I get to live with my work colleagues, it still won't be the same without you."
"really?"
"But I have never really been that lonely because face it, I'm pretty cute."
Erma replied with a smile and a wink.she was a polar opposite when compared to Seina who was shunned by everyone around him.
"Please come back for the occasional holiday ... ... it's always fun to hang out with friends."
"I will find time and try to return as much as I can ... ... after all that's my home."
Seina looked happy, as he looked back at the island disappear behind them.
Their conversation stopped and time passed without words for a while.
About a couple minutes later, the car approached a group of GP academy students on the sidewalk. Erma noticed Rajau and Caliche in it, she stopped the air car a little bit away from the crowd so that they wouldn't bother seina.
"Sorry, Seina, you might get a little bit of attention today, so ill drop you off here"
"Thank you for taking me to school."
Seina got out of the car with NB.
"Have a nice day! be careful!"
Erma waved and winked, then she U-turned the air car and went into a small side street. at the same time Rajau and Caliche ran up to seina.
"Seina how are you! was that Erma driving that car just now?!"
"Why did she drop you off?"
"...... uhm, Rajau, who is this person ... ... ... .... "
Seina said looking at Caliche
Seina saw Elroy and Fingu running at the top and noticed that the group rajau was waiting with was filled with members of the Amane and Kiriko fanclubs and so seina tried to escape in a hurry. However, Rajau and Caliche kept him from running off and he was soon surrounded by a large number of students.
"Were not letting you go till you tell us about these last three weeks!"
but soon a stampede of wild boars came out from the forest near the dorm and trampled the students.
Three hours later There were 596 students who were brought to the military-scale medical unit that had been hastily set up on the ground to treat the victims of the stampede. Because the GP academy instructors were all qualified to administer quasi-medical care, Kiriko and Erma were there to help, as well as the GP's medical staff, and military doctors, and a few civilian physicians.somehow NB was also able to work in emergency situations and was also helping out.
"a stampede hasn't happened in decades! everyone here should be lucky that they aren't dead."
Mikami sighed as she looked at the sight. Next to all the injured was Seina, standing almost unharmed, with a puzzled expression on his face.
"Even though you were in the center of that runaway stampede, you only have minor injuries, I wonder if you should say that too."
"Sorry, mam."
"Ho ho ho, don't worry about it"
?Mikami smiled wryly, to Seina who bowed his head many times.
" principal Mikami, everyone has been accounted for"
"alright then, I'm going now." Mikami struck Seina's shoulder, and went up to the central command center, which was on the floor above them.
after Mikami was gone, Kenneth and Miranda, came up to seina... and after waiting a while, Miki came too
"when I saw the disaster, I realized that Seina must've finaly come home, ha ha ha!" kenneth said
"everyone looks pretty banged up."
"It serves them right. it'll teach those idiots a lesson."
Miranda said laughingly
"Her name is Miranda. She's My teammate." miki explained
"was that wau with Rajau ... also your teammate Miki-senpai?"
"Yes, Caliche is sleeping over there" miki pointed over to a capsule with the wau girl
"uhm... that man ... ... is that Miki-senpai's father?"
"Once, I had to get a doctorate degree in bioengineering and a doctor's license in order to get a promotion, it's rare though that i ever have an opportunity to put it to use."
"Haa ... but ... ...."
the Hiroshi that seina was familiar with was somewhat a comical and quirky scientist, but his facial expressions right now were the kind that a brave and famous doctor would have. Seina wasn't the only one who noticed. the amateurs around him were also noticed him work and seemed to admire his way of doing things.
"... .... Miki-senpai, your father... is he always this good at his work?"
"I wish that was always the case.... we should go out and have lunch, if we stay here we will only get in the way..."
miki said happily. she took wrapped her arm around seina's and led him outside. Kiriko watched.
"Oh wow ~ ~, you sure are being mature about the miki situation ... you haven't made a peep at all... have you given up?" erma asked
"hold on my work is almost over.... done!"
Kiriko quickly finished the medical work she was doing and got ready to leave the place quickly.
"are you coming with me?" kiriko asked hiroshi
"I'm still at work."
"sorry" Kiriko casually bowed
"are you sure you're worried about seina and not worried about miki's father being your father?"
"He's not my father, he is just an old friend of my mothers."
Kiriko said trying to get erma to drop the subject.
"oh! I see...!" Erma teased kiriko.
But kiriko quickly glanced at hiroshi and whispered to erma.
"But if you look at his daughter ... You might notice something about Miki."
"Oh i see..." erma said.
Kiriko had noticed something in hiroshi that reminded her of seina.
Kiriko tried to head towards the direction Seina had gone out,
but he had just finished his bioenhancement training and was able to walk quickly like everyone else so he had gotten away from her.
Kiriko realized this and immediately stopped walking, she changed direction and headed to the central command center to see Mikami.
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"Okay, we're going to go get lunch, you two go and find us a place to eat it at."
Kenneth accompanied Miranda and headed towards the transfer port.
"well then let's get going."
Miki took Seina's hand and took him to a promenade that cut through the forest.
"Remember this procedure for the future, you should be able to memorize it after only seeing it once, its not hard... First of all ..."
The boardwalk was built with two rows of large cobblestone stones. Miki started walking on the right side of the two rows. After about ten meters, the two rows of cobblestone turned into a single big cobblestone.
"This single stone serves as a landmark, I will walk on the left side, and when we get to the next big stone, then we will go to the other side until the next stone, like so."
?Miki released Seina's hand and began to go ahead skipping lightly.
"uhm.... right"
seina stood for a while fascinated by the figure of miki skipping through the forest singing as the sunbeams shined on her.
"What are you doing? come on!"
In a hurry, Seina followed Miki. Miki grabbed seina by the hand again when she caught up to him
"Do I have to lead you again already?" miki's tone reminded seina of kiriko's when he was a child. Miki noticed seina thinking about this.
"Hey now ... ... you're not thinking about ms.misaki are you?"
"oh uhm...Sorry about that ... ... yes.. Kiriko ...... I was thinking about Professor Masaki ... ...."
"we seem to be very similar, Ms. Masaki and I."
"Yes, you two have the same atmosphere about you... ...."
Seina, who noticed that Miki's voice wasn't angry, but rather relieved.
"Actually, when I saw Ms.Masaki I was a bit surprised, probably a lot more than others think"
Miki took Seina 's hands and stopped as soon as he arrived in front of a large square area. The area wa tiled with a circle of about 15 meters in diameter, consisting of a stones about 5 meters in diameter
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Translator note:[O] like this but with smaller circles making up the circle.
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and its surroundings were made up of elongated lithographs radially assembled like an analog clock dial. Miki grabbed seina by the hand and began walking again.
"Now, move from here clockwise ... ...."
Miki stopped at the stone pavement in the direction of about 2 o'clock, and again released Seina 's hand. she started walking towards the center circle from there. As soon as she entered the center, she disappeared.
"Miki-senpai!"
Seina hurried after her and was enveloped in the darkness, he felt like he was floating. the next moment, he was thrown into a normal space with dazzling light.
"We've arrived!"
Miki turned around and looked at Seina, smiling. Behind Miki, there was a pretty and expansive geometrically built European-style garden.
"Miki-senpai ... ... where are we?"
Miki took Seina's hand as he looked around and they climbed a flight of several stairs and came to a broad cobblestone terrace.
"Wow ........."
He could see The full view of the GP Academy spread before him as he approached the fenced off terrace.
"are you Surprised? this is one of the floating islands in the Academy."
Miki looked at seina's surprised expression with satisfaction.
"The Floating islands were built by the Philosophy department, Aircraft are neither allowed to approach nor land on them.The way to come here is through the transfer devices.
And since you have to know the special patterns to get here only a few people know how to get here.
"Oh ... ... That's amazing!"
"The key pattern was passed down from my senpai to her closest juniors, and the Academy has lots of special secret gates just like this all throughout it."
"so then is this your secret hiding place?"
"shit, this is a relatively well known place."
Miki turned lean back against the fence. seina turned around as well and could see that there were quite a few students under the shade of the plants and trees nearby.
"Do you want to see my secret place?" miki whispered in seina's ears.
"What !! ... uh, uh.. that.... um" seina turned bright red
"ahahahaha"Miki began to laugh at his red face.
"........................"
"I'm sorry, Your reaction was just priceless...."
as miki apologized kennith came though the transfer gate.
"It seems that our delivery has arrived. Let's go, Seina."
miki took seina and led him towards kenneth.
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"There already assigning you to practical training?"
Seina finished lunch on the terrace bench
"Yes, after two years, I'll work get to work at an actual site, for a half year, and then they will give me a hand full of assignments to choose from based on my aptitude. and after the next half year if i will come back and officially graduate. "
"I want to graduate as soon as possible."
Kenneth stood up posed like he was shooting a gun.
"Kenneth are you aspiring to join the criminal division?"
"Obviously, I want to become a first-class detective and catch bad guys!"
"... ... i know this is an odd question to ask, but what did it feel like to catch hundreds of space pirates all at once? What kind of person is Seto-sama? and what kind of woman was Widow?"
Miranda asked Seina as if she was a nervous reporter.
"Calm down! He can't answer all those questions at once."
Miki said
"Actually, I don't remember much of when i was chased those Space pirates ... I was just frantically fleeing. we're just lucky we got help from Seto's fleet."
"I heard you met with Seto, and that you entered the Mikagami as well?"
"I investigated her a lot later, but from what I have seen published almost everything about her is well ... .... Seto-sama was a much more friendly person than the rumors give her credit for, It's thanks to Seto-sama that I'm in space. "
"I'm so envious, there's a big difference in seeing the ship in person and seeing it on video, you are so lucky to have been invited to see it directly. Seto is such a hard person to even talk to"
"Seina himself, was originally from the same planet as the Juraian first Princess, Funaho."Kenneth proudly chimed in like seina wasn't there.
"I hear you also captured widow by yourself! hey kenneth are those reporters still after you about that? "
"It's been about a week or so since they last tried to chase rajau and i down. there sure were a lot of them though."
"Oh i didn't realize............ I'm Sorry about that" seina said
"Do not worry, it's because we are your teammates, but it's frustrating, I can't believe Rajau and I almost came so close to Widow ..."
"So what kind of person was Widow?"
Miranda got excited and turned back to Seina again.
"What kind of person... she was a normal person ... ...."
seina was self aware that this was a terribly stupid answer and it was far too far from the answers Miranda and the others would have liked to here.
"Huh?"she looked at Seina with confused eyes
"Well ... ... I only saw her as an ordinary person."
Seina tried to remember the situation of that time in as much as detail possible - at that time, she had called out to him, he felt an earthquake, and then the huge structure they were on dropped .............
seina zoned out....
"Hey, Seina ..." miki shook him back to reality
"huh?" as soon as he snapped back miki let him go and sighed.
"your explanation of Widow is fine the way it is. I understood it somehow."
Kenneth and Miranda nodded at Miki 's words.
"... oh... ok then."
"so... miranda-senpai, Miki-senpai, where did you choose to do your practical training?"
kenneth changed the subject to break the tension
"me and Caliche have been assigned to the courier affairs department, and Miki ... ... has been assigned to the decoy department." miranda said
"Wow! the Decoy department... ... that decoy department?"
"Yes, by going there Miki can choose to go anywhere she wants when she's done ... ... but I still don't know why she decided to be assigned to such a dangerous department."
"Danger?" seina said looking at miki
"Well, this is the GP Academy, we are the galactic police, even if it's dangerous, the criminal division is far more dangerous"
said trying to relieve seina's anxiety
"yeah, that's right ...... but The decoy section is said to be dangerous, but it's really quite boring ......" miki said
"They don't catch criminals but it's an important department for the parcel delivery service." kenneth said
"Ah well, I'm sorry, I'm glad i had a chance to meet Seina and you guys, but I have to go now" miranda said
"so When are you are seniors leaving for practical training?"
"Caliche and I are leaving in a week, Miki ... ... is leaving tomorrow"Miranda said a bit sadly.
"What! So suddenly!"
Kenneth and Seina were surprised and looked at Miki.
"Originally if there hadn't been computer problems, I would have been gone by now, but since there fixed they're rushing me out."
In contrast to Miranda, Miki spoke with a flat expression, and stood up with her empty lunch box.
"Miki-senpai ..."
"Half a year will pass by quickly, I'll see you then"miki said
seina tried to think of what to say but miki quickly walked to the transfer gate with miranda and left.
"we can see her off tomorrow, you can say goodbye then, and as she said, it's only half a year"
Kenneth said as he put his hands on Seina's shoulder and stared at the transfer gate to comfort Seina who was still looking at the place where miki disappeared.
"Yeah, that's right, and we have to get to class soon too ...."
"Hey Kenneth. What exactly is going to do in the decoy division? Miki-senpai said that it was going to be boring, but ..."
Seina looked worried
"Oh yeah ... actually it is hard for Space pirates to find a shipping ship in outer space.Of course it's not impossible to some extent, but without any information The potential of encounter is close to zero, so they are always gathering in-depth information on the shipping routes.If all the information leaks can be prevented, there is no need for a decoy.
but Space pirates are considerably organized when it comes to information gathering and there are even people who sell information to the Space pirate, so the best the gp can do is deploy a decoy ship and try and leak information leading them to the dummy ship."
"Is that how the decoy force works?"
"Well since they deliver their location information intentionally, it's natural that their encounter rate with the Space pirates will be higher compared to the other shipping departments"
"that sounds dangerous ...
Seina inspected Kenneth 's face awaiting a reaction. Kenneth opened only winked and smiled
"Well, just because they're in a decoy ship doesn't mean they're going to be on there own undefended and it's not like she is just going to be sitting there doing nothing. even on decoy unit, there are many things to do from maintenance to clerical work, and also if the pirates capture them they just surrender and receive a consolation prize so there's rarely any damage done to them. "
"a consolation prize?"
"Empty containers for shipping, especially those used for decoy ships are good for sending valuable goods, they can also be used as building materials, of course they can also be sold on the black market In that case the customers are usually GP themselves. "
"why Do they buy back the stolen goods?"
"It's cheaper than building a new one and it's a it costs less then having the shipment stolen ... ... like miranda was saying ... ... She will be fine. let's get going, Seina"
Kenneth, got up patted seina on the shoulder and went to the transfer gate with seina they arrived in their classroom right before their lesson started.
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when their class was over they had a small break.
"Hey, hey Kenneth ... ... I have something to show you,"
David of the Ryoko fan club called to kennith Unlike his teammates Elroy and Fingu, he was not involved in the stampede this morning.
"me?" kenneth asked next to him. seina got an email on his nb
(Who is it from? ...... Miki senpai!)
Seina, confirmed that no one was around and began reading it.
"Huh, I see. ..."
"hey, NB!" kenneth said
"oh, ahhh!" seina jumped.nb erased the email suddenly. the bell for the next class rang
amane was in her classroom waiting for the next class
"I thought we were supposed to be back at work again."
"It cant be helped, class was canceled in the afternoon due to the stampede this morning, by the way did you hear about miki?"
"I know, she's been assigned to the decoy department."
"If you are thinking of suddenly changing departments to spy on her you should ask airi"
"No. No. kiriko is much better off assigned to seina!" airi said suddenly appearing behind the two.
Kiriko and Amane didn't seem too surprised
"Airi, aren't you supposed to be at work?"
"I am at work."
airi brought up a monitor to show kiriko the email nb had received from miki
"Here! I got this from NB this afternoon ............"
airi said boasting a bit before remembering that amane didn't know that nb had a spy feature.
"Don't worry i figured out what was going on a while ago."
Amane was smiled at Airi.
"well it's a trivial matter really the most important issue is Seina! we have no time to discuss my wrong doings when seina could be making plans to get it on with miki!"
Airi clasped her fist in resolve.
"Okay whatever..."
the Three of them stared at the monitor. Each started working on their plan that would be dubbed the "Seina and Miki's Last Goodbye Meeting Interference Operation". Or the SMLGMIO
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after class was over, seina got up from the monitor he was working on and nb followed him.
"Oh, Seina. wanna go hang out for a while?"
Kenneth asked
"Sorry, I'm in a bit of a hurry ...!!" seina said and he tried to run off but soon a group of students came in front of him and blocked his path.
"Apparently the information in that anonymous email seems to be true." david their leader said
"Uhuhuhuhu, You might as well give up meeting Miki-senpai until you answer our interview Seina."
"What!? why?"
seina was in a hurry though and he knew that behind him was a fenced off area with a staircase that went down to the floor below. the problem with that being that it was unstable and rickety.
(Because it 's me, I know if i go there ill probably trip and fall off the ledge ... ... ... oh but what about the fence!
The fence was a grid of thick pipes, and it seemed that people could get through it easily enough. Seina held NB and dashed for it, he ducked down and slid under the gap between the fence and the floor. but he slid a bit too much through the gap and found himself on the edge of the cliff looking down.
(alright!)
seina hurriedly regained his balance and climbed down the stairs and got on the transfer pad.
"wow!" The students who had been chasing him were amazed by his swift getaway
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in airi's office, her and kiriko were carrying out their plan when suddenly nb, who they were using to track seina strayed off course and disappeared.
"Kiriko ... That day ... why was Miki with you on the day my fucking father came?"
"What ... ... that ... ... ... ... Oh! Damn it!" kiriko remembered what happened that day and suddenly knew why nb disappeared.
"What's wrong?"
"Well, sorry, uhm...that girl ... ... she also knows about NB's spy function."
Kiriko diverted her face away from Airi's who approached her with an angry expression.
"WHY, why, why !!"
"i sort of ...... was using it to spy on amane. Ah ha ha"
"It's not a laughing matter! Ooooo, that girl! ... I will find her, even if I have to use the Academy's first-class alert network! I will find Seina you Miki Steinbeck and I will keep seina out of your evil Evil hands! " airi said intensely
"Ms Kiriko Masaki , you have a Delivery ~ ~" a voice knocked on the door
"Yes, I will go right now and pick it up"
kiriko said sneaking off to the door to get away from airi
"Thank you for your hard work, what is it? ............ Ah!"
the delivery man presented her with a crate. she signed for it... and it had a ton of wrapping on it as if it had been duct taped over and over again.
after struggling to unwrap it. She found NB inside.
"Hey! Why are you there! Get over here and help."
Airi said throwing random things towards kiriko and nb.
An angry Airi began to throw things randomly towards NB,
"Wait a moment, what is that?"
"Ah ~ ~ Oh, you got it back! Brilliant!... Hey Kiriko, what's wrong?"
"oh, nothing, nothing"
Despite that, Kiriko's expression was obviously worried.
Kiriko noticed a small message card in the case. There was a handwritten letter written there.
"Damn, damn it, damn that girl! I'll begin the search for Seina using the high-level surveillance system ! Kiriko, please Ask nb for assistance!"
"Ms. Airi, let's stop this ... ... we can't win."
"Huh?" amane who was on airi's side was confused by kiriko's statement
Amane also agreed with Airi who was stymied by the words of Kiriko.
"It is our role to protect seina as his teachers!"
"you Traitor ..."
"did i ever tell you how minaho was conceived?"
airi whispered in kiriko's ear. Suddenly Airi started smiling.
"Minaho was born because Airi and Masaki · Yosho · Jurai did it once back when they were in school at the academy because she was leaving."
"... ..., Kiriko-chan, who did you hear that from ... who?"
" from Ms. Minaho herself."
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Miki stood in front of Seina and led him into the depths of the forest with no words said between them. Seina looked around uneasily as they walked.
Miki-senpai, where did you send my NB in that box and why? ..."
"The place were going to now is secret to all other people, no matter who they are."
"Haha"
Miki paused and looked back to Seina, she looked somewhat irritated.
"You don't need to think too much about it, this is just a tradition .... a kind of ceremony ... and i sent NB to ms.Masaki so don't worry."That said, Miki started walking again.
(………Hmm?)
Miki noticed that Seina's footstep behind her changed a bit. if the woods weren't grassy she might have not noticed.
she looked back and seina was still there. but she remembered
(That's right ...... This sound, the Wild Beast of the forest that I've met several times in the forest ... ...)
miki realized that seina was cautiously walking and looking out for them. however he was doing it subconsciously.
"Seina, why are you walking so cautiously...?"
"I used to living in the country, so I'm used to such a place, and that's just how im used to walking in them"
"Oh ... ok i guess that makes sense,"
Suddenly the trees ended and opened up to stone laying in the same shape as the walking path from earlier that day. The place looked like decaying ruins in the forest, it was covered with moss and weeds.
"Is this where we enter?"
"yes but the code is a bit different... first of all, we need to do the same procedure as the one to get to that floating island. What is different from the previous one is that it goes over here a little more and goes from the 3 o'clock direction to the center this time"
?seina followed miki and stepped into the center disk.
the Transmission light faded and Seina saw that they were in a dim forest just like the place they were before. there was a meter long disk-shaped stone that Seina was transferred to and a stone pillar as high as one meter behind Miki.
"I'm sorry there's a lot of work to get where were going, but this is the gate that leads to our destination."
Miki smiled and placed her right hand on the stone pillar.
bing!
The stone pillar began to produce a subtle light and a sound like when a wind chime made of crystal sounds.
"Seina, can you hit that button next to my right hand?"
seina put his hand slowly on the part of the a stone pillar with a rectangular cross section polished like a mirror.
"This is biometric registration, the code will not work unless your a registered by a previously registered person ...... If you are authenticated, you can jump directly, see!"
Unlike the previous transfers, seina felt a floating feeling.
This was a much darker place than the forest. he looked up and saw a zigzag on the ceiling in which light was leaking through
"Come on!"
miki was leading seina with her warm and soft hands though the dark. as they went on the light began to get more and more brighter. eventually seina noticed the place was a narrow alley at the bottom of a steep cliff and the lighting was the sky.
"this is a pretty high cliff."
Seina was reflexivly cautious about objects falling from the cliffs but miki's grip calmed him. Miki stopped in front of the exit to their destination, she suppressed the impulse to want to show him her favorite place right away. it was more important to make sure it was safe for seina. Even though it was dark the lack of light gave her poor vision, she decided to take time to let her pupils adjust before going out to the open place outside. there could have been danger our there for seina.
Of course Seina was used to coping with such situations. but it was better to avoid unnecessary dangers altogether.
"alright, we arrived"
Miki released Seina's hand and slowly went outside. Seina 's eyes got used to the light and he could see a grassland and flower garden came into view. Seina slowly and carefully walked outside.
"...... oh, wow ~~"
The scenery was beautiful and looked like it was a bright water color painting. the fresh air and brilliant fresh green field grassy plants was filled the brilliant colors of the rich variety of flowers within it and and the light of the sun reflected on the dew on the flowers.
"I'm glad you liked it."miki said and she burst out laughing watching seina's reaction to the scenery.
Seina looked around at the scenery until Miki 's laughter ceased.
Where they were was at the bottom of a huge hole surrounded by a nearly vertical cliff wall. But the hole was angled on the slope of a mountain. For that reason the light of the sun fully illuminated the inside of the hole.
"this is a beautiful flower garden"
Seina said
"It looks like it's a flower garden, but look a little closer."
Miki stabbed the ground with a nearby stick . The stick pierced the ground and water came up from it.
"Water? Miki-senpai, this is ..."
"Everything that looks like a meadows is actually grown on top of a lake, everything here is a group of aquatic plants, and the flowers are all of the same kind of plant even though they look different."
"really?"
"Miki-senpai, the flowers all look different... ...."
"I don't even know all the details, but the important thing here is that it's beautiful"Miki winked .
"I'm sorry"
"I have something I'd like to talk to you about, but let's explore a bit more first."
Miki took Seina's arms and pulled him into a stone passage about 2 meters wide installed along the cliff.
they emerged at a place with lots more exposed water with long thin rocks peeking through the surface of the water . Several trees grew on the rocks, it looked like an ink painting of a mountain valley.
"were going over there" miki said pointing to a cave
"you're joking, right?"
she took seina's hand and they crossed a stepping stone bridge heading for the cave. However, if you look closely, the bridge was made of stepping stones, but it was a combination of rectangular stones without gaps. It incorporated a whitish stone into the pebbled stone to make it look like a stepping stone. Perhaps the stepping stones were subjected to a process that made it difficult for the moss to grow on it..
In the vicinity of the cave there was no water grass covering the surface of the water, the water wasn't that deep and the white sand at the bottom of the water was swaying blue. The fish in the water had dark silver scales that glittered around the pillar supporting the bridge.
"Wow, look at the fish."
Seina looked into the surface of the water like a small child.
"come on let's hurry up."Miki said pulling seina like a mother pulling a child away from a shiny toy.
The inside of the cave was wider than seina thought, there was nothing but a bench about 1 meter long that lined the inner wall. the cave itself was about 20 square yards and had a staircase to the second floor. Miki pulled Seina 's hand as if to hurry and went up the stairs.
"Wow ..."
they went up the stairs. the sight in front of them opened up into a scene like a panorama. they could see almost a complete 180 view of the area around them. it was as if there were no walls around them at all. they could see the sea and many islands and in the distance snow peaked mountains could be seen
"Did you like it?"
miki asked
"Of course, but uhm...where are we in the Academy exactly?"
"Here is a paradise, a country of dreams, a retreat from prying eyes, but be careful the time zone here is over six hours away from the GP Academy"
"oh ... ... is that why it looks so different?"
The color and atmosphere of the scenery, which was illuminated by the dazzling sunlight, was really refreshing. It was late evening at the GP Academy it was morning here.
"After the flowering season, the view changes completely."
"Is it the flower season?"
"After the flowers bloom, it takes around a month from now As the flowers finish reproducing, and the grass on the surface of the water withers out and almost disappears completely ........., that's the best time to visit."
"Well then I'll check it out!"
"oh Seina you, you saw a fish right? when the grass dies it leaves a small pier.There are a lot of fish in here. the fish here are delicious enough that you can live off of them and only them if you want but If you fish, please eat what you catch, and don't over fish... "
"Wow ~ ~ It sounds fun .... Ah, but no one can come with me...."
"Well, it would be fun if everyone could come here, Originally, this was a public place full of people. Currently there are about ten people who are registered here, so you will rarely ever run into anyone. maybe a person and their lover from time to time.Others come here to harvest the fruit that's produced when the flowers bloom. others come to fish.some come here to camp over night but for now we have it to ourselfs, in case we meet again, we can always come here to have tea or fish. "
"Oh, I am looking forward to it"
"...... I also don't know much about it because I've only seen it in from afar , but ..."Miki pointed at something in the distance.
"... ... ... ... is that ... ... a Juraian house!?"
Hidden in the shade of the East, a distinctively designed tree house was built seina could only see half of it because it was surrounded by big trees.
"It seems that someone comes there occasionally to tend to it but no one knows who, or how they get in there. perhaps there's a dedicated gate into it."
miki looked back at the lake.
"Seina, I need to ask you something about my father."Miki looked at the scenery vaguely.
"Miki-senpai's father?"
"I don't want you to take care of my father, but if you can... just check on him every now and then and make sure he is alright."
(that's right it's just her and her father in her family and she isn't going to be back for half a year ... ...)
"Seina i know it's a bother... there is no one else for me to ask! ... So ..."
It was unusual for Miki to ask such a thing, They hadn't known each other that long and her father and seina did not exactly have a good first encounter.
(That's why she showed me this place......)
Miki looked like she was about to cry over asking him and for seina this was enough reason for him to agree.
"Miki-senpai.. your father might get caught up in my luck if i do, but ... but you can leave it to me"
Seina told Miki as firmly as possible.
"Thank you, Seina,"
miki was about to cry from joy and she turned away from seina to go back through the stairs.
"Mi... Miki-senpai!"
Seina tried to grab Miki's hand but he missed. Seina fell into the water with a loud sound.
" are you all right?"
Miki turned around when she heard seina fall and reached out to pull him up.
"I tripped"
"It's too early to swim here it's still too cold... haha"
"maybe we can come here next year and go swimming?"
"seina I'll have graduated next year." seina looked sad
seina helped himself out of the water. they went back to the first floor and went down another flight of stairs to the basement
"if you harvest any fruit or fish here and want to save it for later there is a storage room here."
Miki took two towels out of storage and gave one to Seina
"You can use this thing freely. If you use consumables please replenish them, and things that you do not want others to use can be put in the containers with biometric authentication keys."
Miki took the towel and threw it into the laundry system. it was a system seina recognized from the dorms.
"understood"
"Well, let's go home soon, if you stay too long, Ms. Masaki will get angry besides ...I have to prepare for tomorrow."
"oh..."
Seina remembered that tomorrow was miki's farewell party.
"Miki-senpai, can I see you off tomorrow?"
"Of course, of course."
They climbed the stairs and the two of them made it back to the transfer pad .
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When they came back to the GP Academy, the sun was already setting, the stars were beginning to blink. After separating from Miki, Seina was transferred to the highway entrance to the island with amane's apartment. the maids greeted him and so did kiriko with nb. nb came up to him to question him and kiriko kicked it out of the way. seina thought she was mad and looked at her strangly. she turned bright red out of embarrassment. she didn't want seina knowing how she felt about miki. she tried to distract him by telling him that dinner was getting ready and told seina to hurry up and take a bath in time for dinner. seina ran off to take a bath.
"Wow, I ... I Can't believe Seina did that!"
"Kiriko, your voice is trembling"
"Amane, you're a teacher, what would you do!"
"I understand that you don't want to admit it, but nobody can stop the passion of youth!" nb said kiriko became enraged and kicked nb again.
"Um ... ... Kiriko, I think that Seina's strange look at you just now was due to something else entirely..."
Hakuren said
"You sort of just kicked NB across the room right in front of seina..."
" I DID? .................. No way !!"
Kiriko turned red she had kicked nb instinctualy and didn't even realize it.
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seina finished eating in the living room
"Seina, are you going to see her tomorrow?" amane asked casually.
" yes, I got in touch with Miki senpai's teammates and Kenneth and Rajau a while ago."
"Although only a small number of people are leaving tomorrow, it's the first team departing for practical training, so there will be a departure ceremony in the morning and there will be no morning classes, so we are supposed to go as well to see them off."
"are you going to be there too?"
"Teachers have other things they have to do so I can't come."
"Seina, we need to get up early to get there on time so please go to bed early."
"yes I will" seina was tired from his busy day anyways and passed out as soon as he sat on his bed.
"oh wow he's asleep already ............ "
Nb transformed into kirche and tucked seina into bed. she stared at seina's face
"Sleep well, I'm sorry ... Today, I just want to look at your face for some reason..." NB said in the voice of Kirche and then it returned to its original sphere shape and moved to a fixed position on the desk. The interior light disappeared and silence dominated seina's room
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