5 "Loss and determination"
Orbiting the main star of the academy was a medical treatment facility. there was a beautiful garden at the top of the GP advanced medical satellite.
Many people came to see it and enjoyed relaxing at it's entrance The rest of the floor was filled with information desks.
As if to break that silence, Amane jumped out of the elevator. her beautiful face instantly gathered the eyes of everyone there. Amane had clearly been overwhelmed with tears, still no one was able to look away until she disappeared from their view.
Amane didn't hesitate to come into seina's hospital room, she went in without knocking.
The interior was surprisingly silent, as if there was no one there.
Seina leaned up in the sofa-shaped bed, that looked out over the wide garden, the usual noisy NB was sitting casually next to him. it looked like a toy placed in a child's room casually.
Amane visually confirmed that Seina was ok, and she sighed with great relief,
She sat down loudly as if to show off her presence in the chair next to the bed.
Amane was staring at the same scenery as Seina without saying a word, he blended into the scenery.
The room was quiet for a long time but it's atmosphere had definitely changed with Amane's presence. It was as if the sun of the spring had came in to melt the snow.
"........................ Five people died on that ship ......."
Like a drop of water dripping from a melted pillar of ice , Seina began talking.
"But even then ... ... I could only escape ... ... Although I hate him, he scared me, ... I wanted to stop him, but my body ran away ... ...." Seina 's voice gradually trembled.
"And even though Kiriko saved me ... ... I couldn't do anything ...... even Kiriko, who helped me this time, was scared ..."
Seina had been mulling over just how much others had to pay to fulfill his own dreams.
Seina's clenched his fist over his knee firmly and a drop of tears fell on top of it.
Amane stood up and with out actually sitting she seated herself next to Seina, and she gripped his trembling shoulder and hand tightly as if holding him from behind.
"Do you want to quit the GP?"
"... no I still ... I have to ... I wish I could ..."
Seina could not afford to pay the price to stay there, but his selfish feelings of wanting to be there were merciless.
─ ─ ─ ─ But that wasn't something that Seina alone had to bear.
is what amane wanted to say. However, it wasn't easy to take a such heavy burden off of Seina.
"I regret, I regret that I want to be strong ..."
"............"Amane still stared at Seina.
The person that made Seina want to become strong was Kiriko, not Amane. But for Amane it did not matter. Seina's thoughts were decided by love.
Of course for her it was still like, not love. But in that moment Seina made a special place for himself in her heart.
"... .... I ... I don't want to quit." Seina held onto her tight and said powerfully so.
"Its alright. Everything's going to be fine"
Amane stroked Seina's head a bit roughly and warmly embraced him.
"... ... then I'll help you"
she whispered into Seina's ears gently like a little kiss.
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In the living room of Amane's penthouse, Airi was busy peeping at the state of Seina's in the hospital room through NB.
not just Airi, but the Hakuren's quartet and Erma watched and were also crying as they watched the moving scene.
"Hey what are you doing?! Mind your own business! you'll disturb kirche."
Airi yelled at the other five people. it reminded them of when they were watching seina met tennyo.
"You're unbelievable, Airi-san"
"I agree with you all,"said Mikami
"Why are you here ... ...? No way!"
Airi looked up from NB's monitor. she tried to run off but Mikami grabbed her and restrained her.
"I was silent before with Minaho and her secretaries*, but I think that recently Airi-san's behavior has gone a bit too far, Ho ho Ho"
"eh!" Airi's face instantly turned pale.
"We also want to talk to you about various things, so let's go to the president's office anyway."
"No, please! I'll Be a good girl, there's no need to punish me!"
It felt like watching a mother dragging off a child to their punishment as airi was taken with mikami.
"I feel a bit sorry for her, but ... we got work to do, so let's go back to it."
Hakuren said everyone in the place agreed and went back to their respective jobs.
*surprise her secretaries are Mizune Fuuka and Otoka from ova 4. so technically this is one of their first canon mentions*
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"86 people injured, five dead ... ... for an encounter with Tarrant · Shank, it's amazing we got away with this little damage."
Airi was reading a report as she was lying on the sofa in the reception room next to the president's office room. Regardless of her appearance, Mikami had scolded her severely just moment's before , and the expression on Airi's face, was an extremely serious thing as she returned to sanity.
"Records of Ms. Kiriko's invasion of the Daedalus have been removed from the records and reports and the bridge personnel also been co-ordinated at the meeting with captain Ries. But there is no way to hide the Space Pirate's killed inside the ship, so it's settled that were blaming it on a malfunction of Airi's prototype equipment."
"Well, thanks... I guess were lucky that I did in fact help make Kiriko's equipment..."
"I'm sorry to say that we were unable to destroy the Daedalus, to be honest, If she had manged to get into the core, it could have resulted in an even worse situation ..."
"There are a lot of people who if they knew that we skipped over a chance to destroy the Daedalus would blow a gasket. "
"Letting you clean this mess up worries me more then the thought of the complaints Ho Ho Ho"
"Well, it's still the least worst thing that could have happened.... It's just a miracle they survived encountering the Daedalus."
"If you ask me it looks like there was a spy on board."
Some GP and military members send information to space pirates in order to get a share of the goods they plunder.
"It's currently under investigation."
"Were lucky that the captain managed to get out of that situation."
"That's true but rumors are spreading from the surviving staff of the ship, we're having trouble finding a crew to assign to seina's decoy division team, everyone we tried to has requested a transfer or resigned ...... "
"I don't blame them, if seina was on board they probably would have been half as likely to be attacked, Why don't we just make seina the ships captain?"
" ...... It is not a bad idea, but what about the captain promotion standards? There's nothing we can do about changing the required working hours necessary for promotion."
"they are a specially affiliated team reporting directly to me, there should be no problem If i attach some assistants, it will also be an good excuse not to let outsiders close to the "Kamidake" before it's actual debut. we can make Kiriko an assistant, I can't complain about that and so then no one else will have any room to complain.
"
"Nevertheless, The GP is still strongly tied to the Seniwan family, there's a possibility that criticisms will concentrate on Seina if you make it a small tight knit crew and this is seina were talking about. you need to take measures to make sure there is no friction at all Okay. let's use Mitoto's cleaning department. "
"ah yes... the second information department ... that should work..."
Mitoto's cleaning department performed maintenance and inspections, and in the case of GP vessels, they cleaned everywhere. they specialize in not just the removal of garbage and dust, but also various high level radioactive substances and hazardous materials, They cleaned down to the gun barrel and where known for doing a first class job.
The Cleaning personnel never come in direct contact with confidential information, but from what they over hear, they have quite a wide range of advanced information. And there are many people who consult them on various matters. The staff use that to make some income on the side and most are very well taken care of.
"Ho ho ho, In that case we should be fine."
"If we do this seina should be able to fulfill the official captain's promotion criteria by the time he graduates."
"Huhuhu ... ... this will be fun, Well then shall we arrange for Kiriko and the rest to join the Kamidake's crew." Without waiting for Airi to finish speaking, Mikami launched a monitor.
"... .... Kiriko Masaki report to the principal's office ... as soon as possible ......"
Mikami bowed to Airi who headed to the transfer gate.
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A few dozen minutes later, in the principal's office of the GP Academy, Mikami and Kiriko were sitting opposite each other. The damage to kiriko had been much more severe then Seina's but she only needed an hour to heal up from them, But one part had not healed, there was bruise in her heart.
(Seina has seen it)
She rescued him while covered in blood, it couldn't really be helped in that situation though. she had showed a part of her self to him that she never wanted him to see.
kiriko sighed a second time since she had sat, every time kiriko sighed she deflated like a balloon and slipped downwards in her seat.
(Ho ho Ho) Mikami was enjoying the sight. It would have been easy to put air in that deflated balloon, but she wanted to see that sight just a little more.
It reminded her of when she first met kiriko.
A few years ago, Seto happily introduced her to Mikami. The first time she met with Kiriko was after a decade of Kiriko's education and training in a special acceleration space a year earlier.
she was similar to Funaho when she was young.
At least Mikami thought so from her first impression. Of course she knew that Kiriko was from the Royal Masaki Family and she had heard about her from Airi and Minaho to a certain extent.
But Kiriko was more like Funaho than anyone she had ever met.
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So kiriko is over 29 technically... even though only 19 years have passed since she was born-----
that clears up where that weird rumor of her actually being like 30 came from. but no one in universe seems to count time accelerated aging.
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(Well, I might as well do this now) Mikami pushed a letter plate in front of Kiriko.
"... is this a Transfer?"
"Yes."
"... Well, it might not be bad to put a little distance ... ...."
Kiriko began to say, Mikami was desperately resisting the urge to laugh.
"Please check the contents carefully "
"Eh ... ............ I'm being Attached to a ship? The Kamidake! Captain Seina !?"
Kiriko looked at Mikami with a confused expression, to the point of dismay.
"But, Mikami-sama ... Ah, that...."
"Seina's started walking, what will you do?"
"uhm ... I'm ... ...."
"In this assignment, Seina will be your superior officer."
"Oh, I forgot to mention, I have decided that another person will be onboard, Amane · Kaunaq, will be attached as Seina's assistant, In addition to her Hakuren, Karen, Suiren and Gyokuren are supposed to be assigned ... ... ... what do you say? "Mikami smiled happily.
Thunk! Kiriko banged her hands on the desk.
"I'll do it!"
"very well"
"Thank you. Mikami, sama"Kiriko's expression grew sunny.
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When they received the report from hakuren that the ship seina was on was hit by Tarrant, Erma was the most upset.
"Seina's wounds have already undergone restorative treatment and he is undergoing medical treatment at the advanced treatment satellite."
"Well, let's hurry and go see him! Hey Erma?"Amane shook Erma's shoulder. she wasn't paying attention.
"huh?"
"I'm going to go see Seina."
"What... oh, I ............ I can't go ... ...."
"What are you talking about? Are you OK?"
"Oh, I'm sorry ... I'm a little surprised .... Please go on without me I don't want to overwhelm him by having too many people around, I have to go over to Airi's place anyways."
"Well, then what are we waiting here for, please let me know if you find out anything more over there"
"Of course ... ... well then, I'll be back soon!"Amane stole a coat off the sofa and jumped out of the living room.In exchange, Airi came and started to tinker with NB.
After Mikami came in and Airi was dragged away, Erma went, distressed, to her room in the president' s office and was unable to handle her work.
a monitor for communication was activated,
"Erma, are you there?" when you get some free time Come over here! "
As usual, Airi cut off communication without waiting for an answer.
"I can't keep sulking forever"
Erma stood up as if pushed by Airi's message. but Airi was standing in front the door as she turned to opened the door to go see her
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"
"Don't cry, you're coming with me!" Airi dragged Erma off forcibly.
"Ah ah ah ah, where are you going, don't pull so much!"
"I have something good to show you!
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he dragged her to a small ship docking site at the bottom of the ship,
Airi threw Elma wildly into the two-seater spacecraft which was the of the size of a mini car, before she jumped into the driver's seat.
"Owch ... ... You didn't have to be so rough!"
"we have to hurry!"Airi drove the spacecraft wildly.
"Hurry ... ? Where are we going?"
"Never mind that, Erma, are you sure you don't want to be on staff on Seina's ship?"
"Well ... but ... ... ... ... I have work to do here."
"Amane and Kiriko are on board why should you miss out on the fun?,"
"you already have Amane and Kiriko, is that really necessary?"
"Are you going to let Hakuren chan have all the fun?"
"Is this an order?"
"No, it's different."
"If that's the case, I will withhold my application for the time being, of course I will still help others as backup... ... now Where are you taking me?"
"My first studio."
"huh!oh!"
A Philosopher 's first workshop is the place where they conduct only the most important research and its usually overseen directly by the philosopher themselves.
It was a place more exclusive and secure then the central hub of any country, it was a highly confidential place, even Airi's high-ranking secretaries rarely were allowed to enter.
"get ready!"
At that time, the academy's star which was visible on the right was distorted and it disappeared. And the next moment the scenery returned to normal again. But before their eyes appeared a space station similar to a honeycomb, which she had never seen been before.
"Is that it? it seems to be a little small..."
It was about one kilometer in length.
a Philosopher 's research is diverse and usually needs lots of space.
But this was small.
The small ship on which they road went into one of the beehive holes.
"Here's the gate, follow me."
Two people who got off the small ship started walking. they seemed to be in a small passage that had nothing in it but it was a collection of a surprisingly large number of identity checking mechanisms and transfer gates. In the passage of only 50 meters, hundreds of checks were being conducted and repeated and only those who passed through the checks could go to the destination at the end of the transfer gate.
The sense of incongruity was felt by Erma when she passed through the super long distance transfer gate and came in front of a giant room full of giant equipment.
"Is this?"
"Yes this is the ship Seina will be put on."
"Your giving him a ship that you built in your first studio !?"
Airi did not answer Erma's question, she went down the stairs directly in front of her instead.
It was like an open mobile operation room even though it was a small circular room.
"I've been waiting for you, Airi," A woman came over to Airi.
"Tennyo ......?" Erma was familiar with the face of the lady.
She was the woman who was with Seina at the lake after Miki's incident.
"Do i know you? I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've met someone name Erma ... ... OH Wait, that's right your one of those girls who peeped on me and Seina at Seto-sama's place that one time."
"Oh ... uhm ... ... ... ... I'm sorry!"Erma turned red and lowered her head.
"It's okay, you were worried about Seina, and besides you were just there to help Airi, just like your here to help her now."
"... ... I'm here to help her?"
"This ship was unexpected delayed in delivery, so everyone here is staying up all night to do the final checking work, We have to be through so I asked Airi for assistance ..."
"eh!?" Elma looked at Airi.
"Uhuhuhu! You did say you'd help out as back up, didn't you?
"Yes, yes, but... isn't this a bit short notice?"
Airi and Tennyo grabbed both of Airi's arms and dragged her both at same time to the operator seat.
"I Hope you got some good sleep before you got here!"
"Good luck ...!"
Erma looked like she saw a ghost
"Make sure to double check all the bells and whistles the GP added, thank you."
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Tennyo and Airi sat on both sides of Erma.
Since the checking was done mostly by a program, the work itself was not very active.
They were checking on the operations of basic equipment, the automatic responses and maintenance systems, and making notes accordingly. Nonetheless, it was a long and tedious job where they had to repeat every process tens of thousands times.
Erma began checking the work process.
"This is ...! ... This ship is ......"
Erma looked at the specs displayed, and became silent.
Because it was the size of a GP main battleship, it was comparable to its ability.
Of course, it was nothing surprising when compared to something like a royal ship, But it was completed perfectly so that it was easily mass producible. the estimated maintenance costs were a fifth of that of a single GP battleship.
"This ship is a being developed as Jurai's next major series of battleship,
it's code-named the " Kamidake ""
"Why !? Why are they giving this to Seina?"
"Is it that odd of an idea? He's already encountered Komachi · Kyo, and Tarrant · Shank ...... Oh yeah, and he also encountered Ryoko · Balta."
"That's!"
"With such an encounter rate, isn't it just natural to prepare a suitable ship for him?"
"Well Yeah ... maybe .... But still it is not the Academy's place to give him Jurai's next major ship ... ...."
"The most important thing to remember about Seina is that he has the full backing of Jurai, or well more specificly Seto-sama, and that comes with certain benefits.
His luck attracts various troubles, so it's perfect for testing new ships."
"I see ... ... that certainly may be so."
"Aren't they afraid of showing it off too soon though. a big country like Jurai is pretty careful in deploying it's new armaments, it no doubt will cause other countries to be worry about their intentions."
"Are they trying to leak it's schematics?"
"... ... Who knows what that crusty old hag is ever up to! Does it matter? Is that why you're so interested in this ship? Airi who kept silent till said happily
.
"Oh ... but ... ...."
Tennyo looked a bit embarrassed for Erma.
"Don't think about it too hard, I just trust that Seto-sama, has Seina's best interest in mind."
"Well, she could be right right."
"Oh? now your worried Tennyo?"
"The motive for putting him on here could be impure. We better make sure everything is in order."
"I'm surprised you have so little faith in my invention!"
"Ah ha ha! Why shouldn't I we all known the kinds of things you've done with your inventions lately."
"You little twep! I'll show you what i can do!"
Airi and Tennyo, began fighting against each by moving their hands with quick movement that grew in speed with the intensity of their argument.
"ahaha ...... you two are so similar."
"Well she is my grandma."
"Don't call me grandma!"
That hit a nerve Airi suddenly stopped her hand flailing.
" Fine, but for seina's sake, Airi, I hope you haven't put anything funny in this ship, after all this is a ship to protect my precious brother's life."
" is Seina your brother?" Erma asked
"Well I used to switch places with Kiyone and she was like his mother, he's also like my son!"
"Well, either way that would make Airi his Grandma."
"I, .....HE! ............ NO IT'S Different ... Don't CALL ME HIS GRANDMA!"
Airi, panicked and began to look for way to get out of there.
Tennyo who watch her squirm gave a satisfied V sign.
"Victory"
"Remind me how you two are related to minaho again? Your so different from her?"
"Oh is that so.... Minaho has to be particularly strict because she's one of seto's top officers, there's a big difference between someone working for the Royalty of Jurai and the Academy's executives."
With that the conversation ended, the three people went back to concentrating on work for a while.
As Erma was also Airi's secretary, this work was familiar feeling to her. the Three of them rhythmically operated the keyboard as if they were competing in a piano competition.
"There are fewer loaded weapons than I thought ... ... even so, the power output of each one is amazing,"
When their work came to a stop for a short break, Erma listened to Airi and Tennyo talk.
"We'll it is just a decoy ship after all. For the time being, it is more then well equipped immobilize another ship and it was designed with high mobility and firing accuracy in mind, but it's still more important to protect the crew in these ships then it to be victorious in battle."
"I see……"
"Also, Seina's ability is incredibly powerful, but we don't know how much effect it will have long term.
Space Pirates will think up countermeasures. Speaking of which, there's an even bigger ship being built for him, but what is most important for Seina is high reliability, that's why were using a ship that is suited for mass production. "
"But the main computer is a bit strange, why is that ...?"
"Isn't it super efficient?"
"Well, yeah, but when I input commands ... ... it gives me some strange outputs ..."
Erma was puzzled by the Kamidake's main computer's reactions to her input. it felt off, but she couldn't put her finger on just how.
"... ... like a child"
"Yeah, that's right! or like a strange animal... ...."
"Ahahahaha! Oh yeah! It's cute, right? The ship is going to be mass-produced, but this is the only one with the main computer prototype I designed, which imitates the royal trees."
"Royal Trees !? your putting a Royal tree ship computer in something like this?"
"A royal tree is not a computer, it has a proper personality ... No, a god-like existence that surpasses that of a human beings, they are a higher-dimensional life form"
"Higher dimensional ...... life form, I've heard rumors, is it really true?"
"Well, it doesn't have any of the power of the royal ships, but there are many uncertain factors that may contribute to their power, but Airi-sama figured that Seina-chan would be the perfect fit for testing that theory out."
"But what is inside of a royal ship is a super top secret, how can you do research on it?"
"You can do it, if you become their friend."
"Is makes friends? But it's a higher dimensional life form, isn't that like being friends with a God?"
"Well, I used to think the same thing, until I met Yosho."
"Yosho-sama is the oldest son of the Emperor of Jurai who is now missing, right? Well, I heard from the senior secretaries that you and him had some various complicated circumstances ... Well, for the time being your going to have to give me a brief backstory, cause I'm lost ...... "
"You know, I'm from Airai,"
"Yes"
"I'll spare you the details, but Airai was seeking a tangible god. when they heard about Tsunami who was the founder of royal ships, They wanted to capture her because she was believed to be one of the three highest level goddesses and we didn't want the Juraians to use that power against us, or so I thought, when I went to the Academy it was the same time when he was there ...... I was Yosho's guide and well... we did everything that was associated with that. "
" Are you OK? ... why would you tell me such a thing."
Erma answered confused to Airi who spoke joyfully about a story that could easily be sold to a gossip magazine for a ridiculously large some of money.
However, Airi continued
"Oh no It's ok! we did a large variety of things, and eventually I successfully got inside and got to see " Funaho-chan" ... ... Can you believe that he named his tree his mother's name, isn't that hilarious? such a mama's boy right?"
"Airi, the story has derailed! get back on track ...... Yosho-sama gave Funaho-sama's name to his ship ..."
"oh right! anyways, I was scared to meet funaho-chan, terrified, but funaho-chan was every bit as silly as the name that mama's boy gave it. Not at all threatening."
"You left out the embarrassing part of that love story that was so hilarious, you know that part where you slept with that mama's boy, who was a minor... and gave birth to Aunt Minaho, wasn't that the main cause of the Airai's continued nation wide isolation ?"
"Ahahahaha! well I, uhm... I'm the president of the Galaxy Academy and the great philosopher, Masaki Airi! Is there anything wrong with that?"
Airi's title made her nearly invincible.No one would say anything about what she did for fear of the repercussions. However ... ...
"Weren't you supposed to tell her about the royal ship?"
Tennyo dashed away when Airi came at her.
"Oh ... right ... ... it was surprising to meet the tree in his ship, it was cute and pretty it tickled me till I cried for mercy."
"Haha ... so it's cute?"
"Although it may seem unbelievable, The tree's don't like fighting"
"But aren't the tree's said to be the strongest thing in the galaxy?"
"Can't the same thing can be said for Seina, too?"
"Huh?"
"When you look at it objectively, Seina has in only a few battles caught hundreds of Space Pirates, hundreds of criminals, Widow, he survived Tarrant ... ... what would other people who don't know him think about that?"
"Is that ... .... how it is for the royal trees too?"
"If the Trees were just a computer, Jurai would be able to conquer all of space not just the galaxy, but the tree's don't care for that and the owners of the ships can't force them too."
"If the tree's ship got serious about it, would it be possible rid the galaxy of Space Pirates?"
"If they felt like it they could destroy the entire galaxy and everyone in it."
"They have Such a power!?"
"No royal ship wants such a thing, they only wish to deter fighting. but Seina is different ... His power can rid the world of Space Pirate without destroying the galaxy ..."
"Oh!" That meant that Seina was even more dangerous than the royal ships for the space pirates.
Erma realized and turned stone cold in the face.
"It's amazing to think that Seina only got into space by pure coincidence."
"... ............ Kiriko tried to make Seina return to the earth she was worried about him ... ... but irresponsibly so ......"
"I can see why she would think of it in a bad way, it means he will face lots of enemies, that old hag is up to something terrible, I wonder how many times I've had that thought since he came here."
Airi started shaking her fist in the air as she recalled some bad memories.
"Well, all of us, especially Airi, has had to work hard to make sure we had the power to protect ourselves but Seina doesn't have the time or luxury to do that on his own..."
"Yeah ... Your right."
"I am sorry, this is a lot to dump on you I know, but if it were your cute little brother, Wouldn't you want to give him whatever protection you could."
"For my cute little brother?"
Erma remembered The sight of Seina and Tennyo at the lake.
"Yes, If he looked at me that way, I would do anything."
Tennyo gave a really gentle and sad smile.
(……Ah!)
Erma remembered when seina's smile was empty right after she informed him about Miki 's indecent and sent Seina off to the dormitory.
(At that time, I remember ... ... Seina seemed to be just walking around like a doll just moving emotionless, like something was missing. )
( ── He's never been allowed by life to have any hopes or desires.
the only thing that he's wanted was to stay in GP, but he's aware of what he has to pay for that.
── Seina opened himself up for once, even though life had decided drill a hole in him and fill it with more misfortune then any one person should ever have to experience...
I want to fill that hole of sadness left by his luck ... with happiness!)
Erma felt a strong desire resembling a severe thirst
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---------keep in mind airi and tennyo clearly know and have hinted several times here that they know who Erma really is and there telling her this highly classified information----------
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-------I lost track of time I'm gonna say like this is like day 112 honestly after this point there's no reason to count the days----
A week after that, Seina who was in the hospital was getting use to peaceful everyday life again.
he found spiritual stability in telling Amane how he felt and Amane came and she visited him regularly, but other then that there wasn't much foot traffic to see him. As for Kiriko, communication between the parties during the investigation was forbidden, so his communication with the outside world was blocked and there was no way for him to know her situation,or for Kiriko to know his.
"It can't be helped... I'll just have to be impatient ... ... honestly, even if I meet with Kiriko now, I don't know what we would talk about ..." he felt a sense of discomfort.
"... ... but it's amazing she was able to save me at all."
Seina rolled up the hems of his clothes and looked at the burn scars on his arms and legs that had been completely shot out. it took three months to move normally again as a result of Seina's experience But, It had only been a week, and at that point it was cured to the extent that it still felt a bit off.
"The holes themselves were healed up in a matter of hours that was really amazing ... but ...."
Seina had several needles poked into him to stitch up the various wound on him but many had been put in the the wrong place cause of his bad luck. It happened so often that seina had to convince them to let him do it himself. He was so good at it because of how often he had to do first aid on himself. It amazed the doctors and nurses and they had all gathered watch him do it.
"Uhmm......We'll let you do the rest by yourself, Later"
is what they said
"In the end, I even bothered the doctors and the nurses."
But it wasn't all bad, it was a good opportunity for him and the doctors to get to know the hazards of treating him and he was thankful that the people who managed the facility were so attentive and understanding of his condition.
On that day, Seina who had finished lunch in the big cafeteria of the hospital Changed out of his medical clothes after receiving his last medical check up. He changed back into his GP Clothes and had to re-adjust to how they felt after being out of them for so long.
The alert for notifying him he had guests rang.
"Here I go I guess..." he said. The doors opened and in came Mikami.
"principal Mikami !"
Seina corrected his attitude and saluted. Mikami nodded in satisfaction of his salute with her powerful gaze.
"You look healthy, the results of your medical check up look good I'm relieved."
"I apologize for causing any inconveniences."
"No need to be sorry, You're here, but don't forget Mitoto was also involved."
"I'm probably the one that attracted the Space Pirate ... ... as a result ..."
"Regardless of how much you regret it, It won't change anything, and it is more important for you to learn and grow from that experience then to mope over it. You ought to know that by now."
"Yes"
"Seina Yamada, you are now permitted to leave the hospital. you'll be instructed on your next reassignment soon. we have forwarded the information to your NB so please follow the instructions you find there."
"Immediately, ...? ... but ... ...."
Seina wanted to go to Amane's house immediately to check on Kiriko.
"Work is work and you don't want to hold people up now do you? you should go to the site immediately."
"I understand! I'll be there soon!"
Seina stretched his spine quickly before he saluted again.
"Thank you."
Seina turned his back on Mikami as she smiled, He left the room with NB and left after saying goodbye to the doctors and nurses who had come to know him over the past week, He headed for a transfer gate that NB guided him to. most of them were very busy with people coming and going but the pathway to this one seemed abandoned.
Nb looked back at seina as they proceeded toward down the empty passage suddenly.
"Master, are you concerned about Kiriko?"
NB asked Seina, who stopped walking suddenly.
"Of course, I wonder how she's doing ... ...."
Seina smiled with a light expression and looked out the window nearby into outer space at the Academy's planet.
"... ... I remember what happened when I got up to space for the first time."
"When you came from the earth to the Academy?"
"Can you believe it? On the Earth, only a handful of people ever get to see such a sight, and it costs a lot of money."
"Sorry, but here it's just an everyday sight."
"............ One day, I got a pamphlet from Amane and filled it out half jokingly, when I woke up I was on a GP transport ship, Mitoto was in front of me ...... And just like now I was unable to get in touch with Kiriko no matter how hard I tried... "
"There are lots of similarities, like when Amane first came to visit me in the hospital, and when I was brought in front of principal Mikami and I chose to remain in the GP ... ......... ... Well, at least then I was reunited with Kiriko at the immigration office. "
"I see"
"Well, I guess we will see each other again soon enough."Seina said
"...... Right now I guess I should just be glad that none of the nurses tried anything funny with me...."
"If you like I can do that ... I seem to have that feature still installed ... ... do you wan't me to initialize it?"
"please dont...."
"If you like i can change my voice setting? I can make myself sound like a young nurse if you like. I have the voices of many famous young actresses installed."
"Please don't do that, besides I like your weird old man voice, I've gotten used to it ... ... And besides if you change It like that it might cause some sort of crazy misunderstanding."
Especially if they were the kind of actresses seina thought they were.
"Airi sure put some weird features in you, but you know... some of them are actually kind of amusing."
"oh is that so ..."
Seina looked outside once again with a bitter smile.
"... ... ... ... Master are you lost?"
"I'm just checking ...... I'm making sure I'm prepared"
"I only ask because my data base refers to this hall as the passage of the lost "
"Passage of the Lost?"
"It seems this part of the hospital is for advanced treatment, and they only bring people here who are in serious and likely fatal condition. It's also a very confusing part of the building and its easy to get lost in."
"did Mikami direct you to go this way?
"... she must have wanted you to have plenty of time to get over there, to think until you were convinced. are you sure you don't want to stay a while longer?"
"I don't feel like leaving."
"huh?"
"I like this place, but if I am not here, I know that the probability that someone will get caught up in my luck and get hurt will be reduced, so I'm leaving even though I want to stay here. Whether I'm prepared or not I have to just push through it. "
"Being a Human being seems hard"
"Haha, yeah it is." Seina regained his composure
"Let's go, NB!"Seina stared straight at the transfer gate
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Seina came out the gate into a passage with no doors or windows with many strict guards standing by.no signs were anywhere to be found indicating where he was.
"This sure is a strictly guarded place"NB said as they went through the 10th door so far.
"There are so many doors, and a tremendous number of sensors and there seems to be transfer gates built in the doors well."
"Transfer gates?are we still in the hospital?"
"eight of the gates so far seem to be for eliminating foreign bodies, mostly microscopic things."
"huh?"
"to remove any explosives or nanomachines, this place must be very confidential"
"Why are you taking me to such a place?"
"I am only following my orders master, I will understand if you want to go back."
Psssshh! A wide space spread across the door that opened next with the sound of a pressurized lock being unsealed
"Oh! Apparently this is the last gate."
he passed through the door, there was a small ship docked there. Andthe ship was surrounded in cubic containers
"Wow ... what?!......what is this?"
It was a pure white, seamless container that seemed different from a regular container.
"Oh that's High level sealed container ...... it's used when carrying large fragile objects like precision parts or other special items ...."
"There's a person over there so why don't we ask them?"
Seina found three people 's shadows near the container.
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"Oh Alan, are you sure we have to do this?"
"I Don't want to be on the same ship as Seina Yamada."
"What are you saying? We have no choice! We're broke."
Alan, Barry , and Cohen talking on the other side of the container
"I heard he encountered Tarrant."
"But the salary is really high, and we fit the qualifications ... Do you know any were else we can make this kind of money? We can't quit, we can't even afford to get fired, If we don't make a lot of money soon our Debt will become inescapable."
"That's right, but ... it's still better than being dead right?"
"Hey, if your okay with not having anything to eat and having to always feel like you did when we had to run form those fan club members then go ahead. "
"well ... I don't want that either."
"Think about it, if you encounter someone like Tarrant and survive you'll be able to brag! you'll be a legend! and this is an army battleship, isn't it? You know the specifications of this ship, right? The Rumor is that they made it to take down the Daedalus."
"Really?"
"Like Alan says this is certainly not an ordinary ship,"
"Also what if we see Ryoko-sama or some new Space Pirates that could be an idol ?"
"We could ... ... create a new fan club ... ...."
"That's right! If you and then we could pay off our loans right away, and even have enough to never have to work a dangerous job for the rest of our lives right?"
"I miss the days before we met those Space Pirates ..."
"Ah the glory days!"
"Then let's do it right this time, We won't let greed get in the way!"
"hahahahah! Yes, lets's do it! Hey wait who's shadow is that, did seina yamada walk over here while I was talking?"
When Alan turned nervously he found Seina next to him.
"Oh! Seina, How are you?" He said in a panic.
"oh, Alan! It's been a long time." Seina saluted.
"Hmm, I've seen you salute better, but you look good Seina."
"Thank you."
"When we first met you you were are cargo, so we treated you like a vip."
"But this time it's different, now you're on the bottom rung, so if you don't mind could you do our laundry for us?"
"Oh and of course we will be the first to speak when we see Ryoko."
Following Alan, Barry and Cohen also began to speak arrogantly at Seina.
"...... Oh, okay ... but why would you be the one to talk to Ryoko?"
"Superior officers orders are absolute!but we will forgive your questioning this time."
"Oh... Thank you!" Seina saluted, he heard someone else clear their throat.
"Crew line up!"
"What is that now... I bet some teacher is here to scold the cadets ... EEEP !!"
Alan, turned and saw the voice was going from the former GP secretary, Minami Kuramitsu, he turned blue and assumed an upright stiff posture.
"Long time no see!"Seina turned towards Minami and saluted.
"You seem to be healthy... I'm sorry Mitoto has caused you various inconvenience.s"
"No, I am sorry that I got Mitoto caught up in my own happenings."
"Anyway I'm glad you're safe, It's good to see you again although I never expected it would be this soon."
"I understand why I only started my practical training less then half a year ago,"
"Indeed ... oh! it seems that preparations for boarding have almost been completed."
Minami looked up at the container.
A small hole suddenly opened in the side wall of the container, Hakuren and her girls came down from on a moving plate.
"Oh oh oh oh!WOW!"Alan hardened when he saw the beautiful quartet of Hakuren's girls and he raised ruckus of cheers.
Seina, who had experienced similar things in the student dormitory once,
relived this reunion less appreciatively.
"Welcome, we've been waiting for you"
Hakuren's quartet wore the uniform of the GP cleaning department and saluted.
"I'm having trouble picking one!"
Alan pushed Seina, he jumped out towards the quartet and looked like top as he spun to pick his favorite of the four. Gyokuren who boasting unrivaled beauty, especially caught alan's eye, he became fixated and began to shiver as if his soul had been pulled out.
"... ............This is it! This is our lucky break!"
"Welcome, please you three, get on the plate"
Hakuren came in front of Gyokuren to shield her from Alan's disgusting gaze she responded with a gaze that pierced Alan's soul.
"Seina, please come with us"
Karen and Suiren went around Alan's who was in a daze and they held Seina's arms and led him off as those left on the plate watched.
"... What why are they taking Seina? He's our subordinate!"
"Oh, that's right! I forgot to mention, He's the captain and the cleaning staff out rank you" "Minami responded with dissatisfaction to Alan.
"Remember a Superior officers orders are absolute! I'll forgive you this time."Minami mimicked Alan's previous tone to Seina
"He's the what!?"
"Oh ... ............ ah!"
They jumped to salute Hakuren's quartet realizing they were their superior officers.
"Huh, how rude!"
"Please start boarding"
Following Hakuren 's words, Alan's group headed to the plate as they resisted the urge to run to the exit.
"Thank you Minami, please excuse us."
Hakuren and Gyokuren saluted Minami, he walked towards Seina who was being held still by Karen and Suiren.
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" Is that the sound of opportunity i hear rolling in so soon?"
Alan said as he headed for the boarding plate
"Opportunity?"
"You saw them, their beautiful enough to be idolized ... one of them even reminds me of Amane · Kaunaq! I think we've found our new idol Space Pirate substitute!"
"Okay! so If we create our fan club ... ..."
Alan started rambling as the plate went up in the ship.
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The moving plate that Seina got on entered into another entrance that showed off the ship. the entrance closed as if it had always been just a wall.
"Seina, this is the Kamidake It's your ship."Hakuren said, the ship was shaped like a cone laid on it's side. It was perfect to describe such a space ship as looking like a toy space ship in a Styrofoam case.
"Why is it in such a container?"
"The Kamidake is a prototype made for mass production, It was just completed ahead of schedule." "I don't have specific details but Airi-sama made this ship so if you like you can ask her. "
"huh?" Seina reflexively thought of NB who he had with him.
"What's that look for?"
"Uhm well ... ... That worries me a bit."
"Don't worry if anything happens we'll remove the plugins like last time... unless you want your ship to turn into a pretty young woman?"
Hakuren joked about the situation Seina and NB experienced when they lived with him. She paused for laughter but none came.
"uhm... ... well then... Seina,there's no need to worry our performance checks all came up good and the crew is also made up of some excellent people, so you should be relieved."
Hakuren said to stop the discussion about Seina and his NB.
"Yes, that's right."
"Master, If you like I can acquire the personal data of miss hakuren. Or miss suiren, Or do you prefer gyokuren, how about karen?"
"AH! uhm no thanks NB that's alright. No need for that."
Seina pulled NB close to shut it up. At the same time, the moving plate rose to enter the Kamidake.
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Seina was taken into a room decorated much like that of a luxury hotel, Seina's closet was a master bedroom sized room, he changed into his uniform as instructed by Hakuren. And Hakuren waited till he came out and finely groomed him when he was done switching outfits.
"Um ... ... By the way, what will I be doing with this ship?"
"Please come with me"
Hakuren brought Seina to a desk at the back of the room without answering him.
"Please sit here,and try not to move your body."
"Ok"Seina sat in the chair, a shield was enclosed him, and he was sucked in together with the chair into a hole that opened on the floor.
"ehhhh?"
After moving for a few seconds through a dimly lit tube, Seina was suddenly surrounded by bright light, he had arrived at the Kamidake's bridge.
"Where is this?"
He looked around, Seina looked down at the lower Teir, Alan's group saluted him.
"........., Seina! Why are you are seated in such a place! That's the captain's seat!"Alan's said
"Hey, they must have made a mistake come down here quickly."Alan beckoned.
"It's not a mistake"
the seats where Hakuren and Suiren sat came up from both ends of the operator seats with five seats in front of them
"What!!" Alan became upright and immovable, he saluted Hakuren and the others.
" Seina Yamada, today you are appointed as the captain of Kamidake."Hakuren said saluting him
"You're doing what now !?"
Alan and Seina made the same declaration at the same time.
"Well, alan I guess that means he's the captain"
"Then what are we waiting for?"Barry said. Alan tightened his facial expression.
"... ... ... ... ... salute to the captain!"they saluted
"Hehe," Seina reflexively saluted himself and felt a bit stupid for doing so.
a seat with Amane in it rose on a elevated platform diagonally beside the captain seat seina was in.
"... .... Oh, Amane-sensei!?"
"I'm not your teacher anymore, captain" Amane saluted Seina, and winked with a smile.
"Well, even so, It's sudden and I'm not surprised you feel that way"
"I'm the captain now... ... everything feels too sudden!"
"I'll tell you the details later, but everything is always sudden for you and you still do it, don't you?"
"That's true……"
At that time, Seina remembered Mikami's words in the hospital room.
"Even so, You've changed the powers structure of the galaxy in a blink of the eye....."
another seat rose up on the other side of seina
"……huh?"
Seina turned around to see Kiriko sitting on the seat that came up.
"Kiriko!"
It was an abrupt reunion, Seina looked at kiriko's face tensely.
Of course it was the same for Kiriko, her expression was also nervous.
The people around them were patiently waiting for the two to quit staring.
Of course Alan, who did not know the circumstances of their stares, ordered Hakuren and Suiren to quietly wait at the operator's seat.
"What's the matter is something wrong ...... It's about time we launched off."
"... ... oh yes..."
Seina had reunited with Kiriko just like at the immigration office as he had predicted to NB earlier in the "Passage of the Lost". Not only Seina but also Kiriko remembered that day.
they smiled at each other and the atmosphere of the place went back to normal.\
Kiriko stood up with a crisp expression,
"I'm here as your head information officer, I am Kiriko Masaki. Thank you for having me Captain Seina Yamada!"she saluted seina
"Nice to meet you."Seina said also a bit awkwardly.
"When are they going to quit staring at each other? It is about time to set sail."Amane poked Seina from behind.
"Oh, that's right, I almost forgot!" Kiriko hurriedly sat down in her seat and began preparing for launch
"Er, um ... ... What am I supposed to ...?"
"Captain us somewhere, we'll take care of all the details." Amane pulled the hem of Seina's outerwear to usher him down into his seat and she began preparations just like Kiriko.
"But first we must perform the initial certification and registration of you as this ship's captain."
Kiriko said, a scanning plate appeared around Seina. It was a more sophisticated one the the ones used to take role at the student dormitory.
"Scan complete, Your Registration as captain of the Kamidake is completed, Kamidake launch program start"At that time, Seina's heard a laughter like a child in his ear
"Ahahahaha"
"uwaaaa...."
a light like a spherical aurora appeared behind him, it turned to face Seina happily.
The rainbow-colored light appeared and disappearing in a complicated pattern,
as if it had a shape like a tree.
(This atmosphere is ... ... just like Seto's tree ... ...) Seina remembered the bridge of Seto 's ship.
"Engine, start complete, they are rising to the scheduled output values, raise the first and fourth to the normal operating range."
"Each block checks out, startup is good, first startup complete."
"Ready to start the main engine, Captain, please authorize."
"Yes, start the main engine!" Seina said, the huge white pillar that reached to the ceiling, which held the Kamidake in place, disappeared into grains of light.
"Kamidake launched! All green, no problem!"
"It seems that the startup has completed successfully."
Airi was on the main screen with her technicians who performed the final checks, Seto, Minaho, Tennyo, Hakuryo, Erma, Minami, Mikami, Mitoto, and the Kamidake were displayed.
All of the Kamidake crew stood up and saluted.
"From this Day on you belong to the GP decoy division, the special mission for your new ship, the Kamidake, will start once you depart for your first training flight."
"Everything looks Good. They're allowing our departure."
Kiriko Reported, Airi nodded satisfied, and saluted Seina back. And after Airi, everyone there saluted too.
The Kamidake, which descended to the starting passage began to sound a shrill groan.
It was from the powerful engine that sounded like it came from a ship much larger then the Kamidake's small hull.
"Engines shows no abnormality"
"No obstacles on the scheduled navigation route!" Amane and Kiriko reported, the eyes of everyone concentrated on Seina.
"hmm ........." Seina sighed deeply, and calmed his feelings,
"Alright Kamidake, Let's Go!" He said powerfully.
"The Kamidake, will now take off!"
Without any shock, suddenly the scenery outside began to flow by with great speed, and in a few seconds the Kamidake was hugged in twinkling stars and a jet black universe.
【End of Volume 5】
Afterword
Kajishima: OOPS no I'm getting ahead of my self....
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Concluding Theater Part 2
Last time:
When he tried to call Yosho's Shrine office by calling the Masaki Family Home, Seina, who's calls were being refused, got Ryo-Ohki on the line to listen to some of his complaints. Of course Ryo-Ohki was planning to tell everyone shortly after, but she had a short attention span and often nodded off in the middle of his complaints and later would forget to tell anyone most of his complaints about Airi. It wasn't surprising considering that seina had been talking with her for a long time. She yawned.
"Thank you for listenng Ryo-Ohki-chan, let's end things here for now."
"Miah, Mia! "Ryo-Ohki jumped as she responded to seina
Seina who ended the communication turned his head a little curiously.
"... ............ I am afraid Ryo-Ohki doesn't understand what I'm saying, but oddly I also feel like I understand some of what she's saying now..."
It was later on that Seina learned that Ryo - Ohki 's words were a kind of high - speed language, and if one listened for a while, you could understand most of the meaning of what she said. but thanks to his Bio-Enhanced hearing he would soon be able to know what she said....
"Oh right... I wonder how Kai is doing. I know he doesn't know his alien identity yet, so I have to be careful in conversation."
Seina quickly entered the telephone number of Kai 's house.
Thanks to Ryo-Ohki, Seina was able to change his sour mood,
"Yes, You've reached the Masaki's ~ ~"
Seina could tell he was a bit out of sorts from his usual self by his voice.
"... ... It's been a while ... How are you Kai!"
"Oh, that voice! is that you Seina ?! Ha ha, how are you doing."
"That voice? Oh, I see ... ...." Seina remembered that the other side couldn't see the picture.
There is was no camera on the other party's phone. Nevertheless, Seina wondered how the image could be seen, He tried asking Erma about it before ─ ─ ─ According to her it distinguished the shape, material, and even color from the reverberation of sound and then computer generated the image in real time .
However, due to the poor audio recording performance of the earth handset, the noise levels in the sound was severe, and it could not fully reproduce the image by itself. so it compensated by referring to an long distance image taken from an observation satellite in Earth's orbit.
"Yeah, well, I am as good as usual ... ... How was school? is everyone surprised that I was suddenly gone?"
"How do i put this ... Well, when It was explained to everyone by the teacher, everyone was surprised. it was impossible to believe that there was a school that would accept you Seina."
"Hahaha ... are you surprised they accepted me?"
"Every day is really quiet here and boring now, thanks to your absence. ...... "
"Wow really .... Sorry, I'll do my best to check in whenever I can... so how are things with my house?"
"Smooth sailing. Business is prospering. Uncle, Aunt, and Yoshiko also seem to be busy.
Better yet, are things are going well with my sister?I hear your living nearby, have you had any chances to do things, ha ha ha ........., ha ha! "
BONNNG! With a flat dull sound, Tsukiko's heel stomped Kai over the head.
she held kai's head down and he endured the pain.
Tsukiko stood standing prettily posed while keeping her legs on top of Kai's head.
Seina could clearly see up Tsukiko's skirt from how she was standing.
"I've told you not to say such vulgar things! ...... Who are you talking to, Kai? "
"........., Seina"
"eh!?"
Tsukiko, who knew that Seina was in space, realized that the image was visible from Seina's side. she turned bright red and quickly lowered her legs, and fixed her skirt, she picked up the receiver from Kai, and violently pushed away her son who was still in pain.
" Hello ... is this Seina-chan? " Tsukiko was afraid to ask if he had seen
"... .... Oh, it's been a long time ..." Seina turned red and answered in a troubled way.
or Tsukiko, Seina was not just a friend of Kai's but he was also something like a son, but she was also not lying about the comments about her wanting him to become her husband and what she planned to do with seina that she had scathingly told Kiriko earlier before, and she had been conscious of him as a man for a while.
And youthful Tsukiko who looked at the very most to be an older sister to Kiriko had enough charm to make Seina conscious of her as a woman.
Tsukiko's undergarment grew conscious of the opposite sex ............ Well that's one way to phrase it.
"....................................... (did you see up my skirt?)" she silently thought to say
"…………………………………(I saw)" he silently responded in his head
The silence between confirmed that fact.
the end
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kajishima commentary: basically he just talks about how the next volume is going to be about how tarrant holds ryoko's crew's family hostage after failing to kidnap seina's family on earth and and sets her up to have to kill seina and also how neiju is introduced... nothing surprising there.
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------------ Translator end commentery -Well that concludes another book translated, If you haven't already check out the OVA 4 novel. Which I'll be grammar correcting next I guess.
anyways
I bet ryo-ohki just curses up a storm.... it would be funny if she was the Kenny of the tenchi house hold. ryoko is clearly the cartman... speaking of did you know her english ova 3 VA is the voice of like half the south park girls including Kyle's Mom.
Speaking of.... not to start a flame war or anything but you know how OVA 4 is about how minaho heals tenchi's wounds of kiyone's death by giving him a pseudo mother experience?
Well if minaho is like the mother in tenchi's head, the story has definitely showed so far that Ryoko is more like how tenchi's mother actually was then any of the other girls.
Just saying....
anyways see you next Novel.
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Orbiting the main star of the academy was a medical treatment facility. there was a beautiful garden at the top of the GP advanced medical satellite.
Many people came to see it and enjoyed relaxing at it's entrance The rest of the floor was filled with information desks.
As if to break that silence, Amane jumped out of the elevator. her beautiful face instantly gathered the eyes of everyone there. Amane had clearly been overwhelmed with tears, still no one was able to look away until she disappeared from their view.
Amane didn't hesitate to come into seina's hospital room, she went in without knocking.
The interior was surprisingly silent, as if there was no one there.
Seina leaned up in the sofa-shaped bed, that looked out over the wide garden, the usual noisy NB was sitting casually next to him. it looked like a toy placed in a child's room casually.
Amane visually confirmed that Seina was ok, and she sighed with great relief,
She sat down loudly as if to show off her presence in the chair next to the bed.
Amane was staring at the same scenery as Seina without saying a word, he blended into the scenery.
The room was quiet for a long time but it's atmosphere had definitely changed with Amane's presence. It was as if the sun of the spring had came in to melt the snow.
"........................ Five people died on that ship ......."
Like a drop of water dripping from a melted pillar of ice , Seina began talking.
"But even then ... ... I could only escape ... ... Although I hate him, he scared me, ... I wanted to stop him, but my body ran away ... ...." Seina 's voice gradually trembled.
"And even though Kiriko saved me ... ... I couldn't do anything ...... even Kiriko, who helped me this time, was scared ..."
Seina had been mulling over just how much others had to pay to fulfill his own dreams.
Seina's clenched his fist over his knee firmly and a drop of tears fell on top of it.
Amane stood up and with out actually sitting she seated herself next to Seina, and she gripped his trembling shoulder and hand tightly as if holding him from behind.
"Do you want to quit the GP?"
"... no I still ... I have to ... I wish I could ..."
Seina could not afford to pay the price to stay there, but his selfish feelings of wanting to be there were merciless.
─ ─ ─ ─ But that wasn't something that Seina alone had to bear.
is what amane wanted to say. However, it wasn't easy to take a such heavy burden off of Seina.
"I regret, I regret that I want to be strong ..."
"............"Amane still stared at Seina.
The person that made Seina want to become strong was Kiriko, not Amane. But for Amane it did not matter. Seina's thoughts were decided by love.
Of course for her it was still like, not love. But in that moment Seina made a special place for himself in her heart.
"... .... I ... I don't want to quit." Seina held onto her tight and said powerfully so.
"Its alright. Everything's going to be fine"
Amane stroked Seina's head a bit roughly and warmly embraced him.
"... ... then I'll help you"
she whispered into Seina's ears gently like a little kiss.
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In the living room of Amane's penthouse, Airi was busy peeping at the state of Seina's in the hospital room through NB.
not just Airi, but the Hakuren's quartet and Erma watched and were also crying as they watched the moving scene.
"Hey what are you doing?! Mind your own business! you'll disturb kirche."
Airi yelled at the other five people. it reminded them of when they were watching seina met tennyo.
"You're unbelievable, Airi-san"
"I agree with you all,"said Mikami
"Why are you here ... ...? No way!"
Airi looked up from NB's monitor. she tried to run off but Mikami grabbed her and restrained her.
"I was silent before with Minaho and her secretaries*, but I think that recently Airi-san's behavior has gone a bit too far, Ho ho Ho"
"eh!" Airi's face instantly turned pale.
"We also want to talk to you about various things, so let's go to the president's office anyway."
"No, please! I'll Be a good girl, there's no need to punish me!"
It felt like watching a mother dragging off a child to their punishment as airi was taken with mikami.
"I feel a bit sorry for her, but ... we got work to do, so let's go back to it."
Hakuren said everyone in the place agreed and went back to their respective jobs.
*surprise her secretaries are Mizune Fuuka and Otoka from ova 4. so technically this is one of their first canon mentions*
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"86 people injured, five dead ... ... for an encounter with Tarrant · Shank, it's amazing we got away with this little damage."
Airi was reading a report as she was lying on the sofa in the reception room next to the president's office room. Regardless of her appearance, Mikami had scolded her severely just moment's before , and the expression on Airi's face, was an extremely serious thing as she returned to sanity.
"Records of Ms. Kiriko's invasion of the Daedalus have been removed from the records and reports and the bridge personnel also been co-ordinated at the meeting with captain Ries. But there is no way to hide the Space Pirate's killed inside the ship, so it's settled that were blaming it on a malfunction of Airi's prototype equipment."
"Well, thanks... I guess were lucky that I did in fact help make Kiriko's equipment..."
"I'm sorry to say that we were unable to destroy the Daedalus, to be honest, If she had manged to get into the core, it could have resulted in an even worse situation ..."
"There are a lot of people who if they knew that we skipped over a chance to destroy the Daedalus would blow a gasket. "
"Letting you clean this mess up worries me more then the thought of the complaints Ho Ho Ho"
"Well, it's still the least worst thing that could have happened.... It's just a miracle they survived encountering the Daedalus."
"If you ask me it looks like there was a spy on board."
Some GP and military members send information to space pirates in order to get a share of the goods they plunder.
"It's currently under investigation."
"Were lucky that the captain managed to get out of that situation."
"That's true but rumors are spreading from the surviving staff of the ship, we're having trouble finding a crew to assign to seina's decoy division team, everyone we tried to has requested a transfer or resigned ...... "
"I don't blame them, if seina was on board they probably would have been half as likely to be attacked, Why don't we just make seina the ships captain?"
" ...... It is not a bad idea, but what about the captain promotion standards? There's nothing we can do about changing the required working hours necessary for promotion."
"they are a specially affiliated team reporting directly to me, there should be no problem If i attach some assistants, it will also be an good excuse not to let outsiders close to the "Kamidake" before it's actual debut. we can make Kiriko an assistant, I can't complain about that and so then no one else will have any room to complain.
"
"Nevertheless, The GP is still strongly tied to the Seniwan family, there's a possibility that criticisms will concentrate on Seina if you make it a small tight knit crew and this is seina were talking about. you need to take measures to make sure there is no friction at all Okay. let's use Mitoto's cleaning department. "
"ah yes... the second information department ... that should work..."
Mitoto's cleaning department performed maintenance and inspections, and in the case of GP vessels, they cleaned everywhere. they specialize in not just the removal of garbage and dust, but also various high level radioactive substances and hazardous materials, They cleaned down to the gun barrel and where known for doing a first class job.
The Cleaning personnel never come in direct contact with confidential information, but from what they over hear, they have quite a wide range of advanced information. And there are many people who consult them on various matters. The staff use that to make some income on the side and most are very well taken care of.
"Ho ho ho, In that case we should be fine."
"If we do this seina should be able to fulfill the official captain's promotion criteria by the time he graduates."
"Huhuhu ... ... this will be fun, Well then shall we arrange for Kiriko and the rest to join the Kamidake's crew." Without waiting for Airi to finish speaking, Mikami launched a monitor.
"... .... Kiriko Masaki report to the principal's office ... as soon as possible ......"
Mikami bowed to Airi who headed to the transfer gate.
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A few dozen minutes later, in the principal's office of the GP Academy, Mikami and Kiriko were sitting opposite each other. The damage to kiriko had been much more severe then Seina's but she only needed an hour to heal up from them, But one part had not healed, there was bruise in her heart.
(Seina has seen it)
She rescued him while covered in blood, it couldn't really be helped in that situation though. she had showed a part of her self to him that she never wanted him to see.
kiriko sighed a second time since she had sat, every time kiriko sighed she deflated like a balloon and slipped downwards in her seat.
(Ho ho Ho) Mikami was enjoying the sight. It would have been easy to put air in that deflated balloon, but she wanted to see that sight just a little more.
It reminded her of when she first met kiriko.
A few years ago, Seto happily introduced her to Mikami. The first time she met with Kiriko was after a decade of Kiriko's education and training in a special acceleration space a year earlier.
she was similar to Funaho when she was young.
At least Mikami thought so from her first impression. Of course she knew that Kiriko was from the Royal Masaki Family and she had heard about her from Airi and Minaho to a certain extent.
But Kiriko was more like Funaho than anyone she had ever met.
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So kiriko is over 29 technically... even though only 19 years have passed since she was born-----
that clears up where that weird rumor of her actually being like 30 came from. but no one in universe seems to count time accelerated aging.
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(Well, I might as well do this now) Mikami pushed a letter plate in front of Kiriko.
"... is this a Transfer?"
"Yes."
"... Well, it might not be bad to put a little distance ... ...."
Kiriko began to say, Mikami was desperately resisting the urge to laugh.
"Please check the contents carefully "
"Eh ... ............ I'm being Attached to a ship? The Kamidake! Captain Seina !?"
Kiriko looked at Mikami with a confused expression, to the point of dismay.
"But, Mikami-sama ... Ah, that...."
"Seina's started walking, what will you do?"
"uhm ... I'm ... ...."
"In this assignment, Seina will be your superior officer."
"Oh, I forgot to mention, I have decided that another person will be onboard, Amane · Kaunaq, will be attached as Seina's assistant, In addition to her Hakuren, Karen, Suiren and Gyokuren are supposed to be assigned ... ... ... what do you say? "Mikami smiled happily.
Thunk! Kiriko banged her hands on the desk.
"I'll do it!"
"very well"
"Thank you. Mikami, sama"Kiriko's expression grew sunny.
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When they received the report from hakuren that the ship seina was on was hit by Tarrant, Erma was the most upset.
"Seina's wounds have already undergone restorative treatment and he is undergoing medical treatment at the advanced treatment satellite."
"Well, let's hurry and go see him! Hey Erma?"Amane shook Erma's shoulder. she wasn't paying attention.
"huh?"
"I'm going to go see Seina."
"What... oh, I ............ I can't go ... ...."
"What are you talking about? Are you OK?"
"Oh, I'm sorry ... I'm a little surprised .... Please go on without me I don't want to overwhelm him by having too many people around, I have to go over to Airi's place anyways."
"Well, then what are we waiting here for, please let me know if you find out anything more over there"
"Of course ... ... well then, I'll be back soon!"Amane stole a coat off the sofa and jumped out of the living room.In exchange, Airi came and started to tinker with NB.
After Mikami came in and Airi was dragged away, Erma went, distressed, to her room in the president' s office and was unable to handle her work.
a monitor for communication was activated,
"Erma, are you there?" when you get some free time Come over here! "
As usual, Airi cut off communication without waiting for an answer.
"I can't keep sulking forever"
Erma stood up as if pushed by Airi's message. but Airi was standing in front the door as she turned to opened the door to go see her
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"
"Don't cry, you're coming with me!" Airi dragged Erma off forcibly.
"Ah ah ah ah, where are you going, don't pull so much!"
"I have something good to show you!
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he dragged her to a small ship docking site at the bottom of the ship,
Airi threw Elma wildly into the two-seater spacecraft which was the of the size of a mini car, before she jumped into the driver's seat.
"Owch ... ... You didn't have to be so rough!"
"we have to hurry!"Airi drove the spacecraft wildly.
"Hurry ... ? Where are we going?"
"Never mind that, Erma, are you sure you don't want to be on staff on Seina's ship?"
"Well ... but ... ... ... ... I have work to do here."
"Amane and Kiriko are on board why should you miss out on the fun?,"
"you already have Amane and Kiriko, is that really necessary?"
"Are you going to let Hakuren chan have all the fun?"
"Is this an order?"
"No, it's different."
"If that's the case, I will withhold my application for the time being, of course I will still help others as backup... ... now Where are you taking me?"
"My first studio."
"huh!oh!"
A Philosopher 's first workshop is the place where they conduct only the most important research and its usually overseen directly by the philosopher themselves.
It was a place more exclusive and secure then the central hub of any country, it was a highly confidential place, even Airi's high-ranking secretaries rarely were allowed to enter.
"get ready!"
At that time, the academy's star which was visible on the right was distorted and it disappeared. And the next moment the scenery returned to normal again. But before their eyes appeared a space station similar to a honeycomb, which she had never seen been before.
"Is that it? it seems to be a little small..."
It was about one kilometer in length.
a Philosopher 's research is diverse and usually needs lots of space.
But this was small.
The small ship on which they road went into one of the beehive holes.
"Here's the gate, follow me."
Two people who got off the small ship started walking. they seemed to be in a small passage that had nothing in it but it was a collection of a surprisingly large number of identity checking mechanisms and transfer gates. In the passage of only 50 meters, hundreds of checks were being conducted and repeated and only those who passed through the checks could go to the destination at the end of the transfer gate.
The sense of incongruity was felt by Erma when she passed through the super long distance transfer gate and came in front of a giant room full of giant equipment.
"Is this?"
"Yes this is the ship Seina will be put on."
"Your giving him a ship that you built in your first studio !?"
Airi did not answer Erma's question, she went down the stairs directly in front of her instead.
It was like an open mobile operation room even though it was a small circular room.
"I've been waiting for you, Airi," A woman came over to Airi.
"Tennyo ......?" Erma was familiar with the face of the lady.
She was the woman who was with Seina at the lake after Miki's incident.
"Do i know you? I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've met someone name Erma ... ... OH Wait, that's right your one of those girls who peeped on me and Seina at Seto-sama's place that one time."
"Oh ... uhm ... ... ... ... I'm sorry!"Erma turned red and lowered her head.
"It's okay, you were worried about Seina, and besides you were just there to help Airi, just like your here to help her now."
"... ... I'm here to help her?"
"This ship was unexpected delayed in delivery, so everyone here is staying up all night to do the final checking work, We have to be through so I asked Airi for assistance ..."
"eh!?" Elma looked at Airi.
"Uhuhuhu! You did say you'd help out as back up, didn't you?
"Yes, yes, but... isn't this a bit short notice?"
Airi and Tennyo grabbed both of Airi's arms and dragged her both at same time to the operator seat.
"I Hope you got some good sleep before you got here!"
"Good luck ...!"
Erma looked like she saw a ghost
"Make sure to double check all the bells and whistles the GP added, thank you."
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Tennyo and Airi sat on both sides of Erma.
Since the checking was done mostly by a program, the work itself was not very active.
They were checking on the operations of basic equipment, the automatic responses and maintenance systems, and making notes accordingly. Nonetheless, it was a long and tedious job where they had to repeat every process tens of thousands times.
Erma began checking the work process.
"This is ...! ... This ship is ......"
Erma looked at the specs displayed, and became silent.
Because it was the size of a GP main battleship, it was comparable to its ability.
Of course, it was nothing surprising when compared to something like a royal ship, But it was completed perfectly so that it was easily mass producible. the estimated maintenance costs were a fifth of that of a single GP battleship.
"This ship is a being developed as Jurai's next major series of battleship,
it's code-named the " Kamidake ""
"Why !? Why are they giving this to Seina?"
"Is it that odd of an idea? He's already encountered Komachi · Kyo, and Tarrant · Shank ...... Oh yeah, and he also encountered Ryoko · Balta."
"That's!"
"With such an encounter rate, isn't it just natural to prepare a suitable ship for him?"
"Well Yeah ... maybe .... But still it is not the Academy's place to give him Jurai's next major ship ... ...."
"The most important thing to remember about Seina is that he has the full backing of Jurai, or well more specificly Seto-sama, and that comes with certain benefits.
His luck attracts various troubles, so it's perfect for testing new ships."
"I see ... ... that certainly may be so."
"Aren't they afraid of showing it off too soon though. a big country like Jurai is pretty careful in deploying it's new armaments, it no doubt will cause other countries to be worry about their intentions."
"Are they trying to leak it's schematics?"
"... ... Who knows what that crusty old hag is ever up to! Does it matter? Is that why you're so interested in this ship? Airi who kept silent till said happily
.
"Oh ... but ... ...."
Tennyo looked a bit embarrassed for Erma.
"Don't think about it too hard, I just trust that Seto-sama, has Seina's best interest in mind."
"Well, she could be right right."
"Oh? now your worried Tennyo?"
"The motive for putting him on here could be impure. We better make sure everything is in order."
"I'm surprised you have so little faith in my invention!"
"Ah ha ha! Why shouldn't I we all known the kinds of things you've done with your inventions lately."
"You little twep! I'll show you what i can do!"
Airi and Tennyo, began fighting against each by moving their hands with quick movement that grew in speed with the intensity of their argument.
"ahaha ...... you two are so similar."
"Well she is my grandma."
"Don't call me grandma!"
That hit a nerve Airi suddenly stopped her hand flailing.
" Fine, but for seina's sake, Airi, I hope you haven't put anything funny in this ship, after all this is a ship to protect my precious brother's life."
" is Seina your brother?" Erma asked
"Well I used to switch places with Kiyone and she was like his mother, he's also like my son!"
"Well, either way that would make Airi his Grandma."
"I, .....HE! ............ NO IT'S Different ... Don't CALL ME HIS GRANDMA!"
Airi, panicked and began to look for way to get out of there.
Tennyo who watch her squirm gave a satisfied V sign.
"Victory"
"Remind me how you two are related to minaho again? Your so different from her?"
"Oh is that so.... Minaho has to be particularly strict because she's one of seto's top officers, there's a big difference between someone working for the Royalty of Jurai and the Academy's executives."
With that the conversation ended, the three people went back to concentrating on work for a while.
As Erma was also Airi's secretary, this work was familiar feeling to her. the Three of them rhythmically operated the keyboard as if they were competing in a piano competition.
"There are fewer loaded weapons than I thought ... ... even so, the power output of each one is amazing,"
When their work came to a stop for a short break, Erma listened to Airi and Tennyo talk.
"We'll it is just a decoy ship after all. For the time being, it is more then well equipped immobilize another ship and it was designed with high mobility and firing accuracy in mind, but it's still more important to protect the crew in these ships then it to be victorious in battle."
"I see……"
"Also, Seina's ability is incredibly powerful, but we don't know how much effect it will have long term.
Space Pirates will think up countermeasures. Speaking of which, there's an even bigger ship being built for him, but what is most important for Seina is high reliability, that's why were using a ship that is suited for mass production. "
"But the main computer is a bit strange, why is that ...?"
"Isn't it super efficient?"
"Well, yeah, but when I input commands ... ... it gives me some strange outputs ..."
Erma was puzzled by the Kamidake's main computer's reactions to her input. it felt off, but she couldn't put her finger on just how.
"... ... like a child"
"Yeah, that's right! or like a strange animal... ...."
"Ahahahaha! Oh yeah! It's cute, right? The ship is going to be mass-produced, but this is the only one with the main computer prototype I designed, which imitates the royal trees."
"Royal Trees !? your putting a Royal tree ship computer in something like this?"
"A royal tree is not a computer, it has a proper personality ... No, a god-like existence that surpasses that of a human beings, they are a higher-dimensional life form"
"Higher dimensional ...... life form, I've heard rumors, is it really true?"
"Well, it doesn't have any of the power of the royal ships, but there are many uncertain factors that may contribute to their power, but Airi-sama figured that Seina-chan would be the perfect fit for testing that theory out."
"But what is inside of a royal ship is a super top secret, how can you do research on it?"
"You can do it, if you become their friend."
"Is makes friends? But it's a higher dimensional life form, isn't that like being friends with a God?"
"Well, I used to think the same thing, until I met Yosho."
"Yosho-sama is the oldest son of the Emperor of Jurai who is now missing, right? Well, I heard from the senior secretaries that you and him had some various complicated circumstances ... Well, for the time being your going to have to give me a brief backstory, cause I'm lost ...... "
"You know, I'm from Airai,"
"Yes"
"I'll spare you the details, but Airai was seeking a tangible god. when they heard about Tsunami who was the founder of royal ships, They wanted to capture her because she was believed to be one of the three highest level goddesses and we didn't want the Juraians to use that power against us, or so I thought, when I went to the Academy it was the same time when he was there ...... I was Yosho's guide and well... we did everything that was associated with that. "
" Are you OK? ... why would you tell me such a thing."
Erma answered confused to Airi who spoke joyfully about a story that could easily be sold to a gossip magazine for a ridiculously large some of money.
However, Airi continued
"Oh no It's ok! we did a large variety of things, and eventually I successfully got inside and got to see " Funaho-chan" ... ... Can you believe that he named his tree his mother's name, isn't that hilarious? such a mama's boy right?"
"Airi, the story has derailed! get back on track ...... Yosho-sama gave Funaho-sama's name to his ship ..."
"oh right! anyways, I was scared to meet funaho-chan, terrified, but funaho-chan was every bit as silly as the name that mama's boy gave it. Not at all threatening."
"You left out the embarrassing part of that love story that was so hilarious, you know that part where you slept with that mama's boy, who was a minor... and gave birth to Aunt Minaho, wasn't that the main cause of the Airai's continued nation wide isolation ?"
"Ahahahaha! well I, uhm... I'm the president of the Galaxy Academy and the great philosopher, Masaki Airi! Is there anything wrong with that?"
Airi's title made her nearly invincible.No one would say anything about what she did for fear of the repercussions. However ... ...
"Weren't you supposed to tell her about the royal ship?"
Tennyo dashed away when Airi came at her.
"Oh ... right ... ... it was surprising to meet the tree in his ship, it was cute and pretty it tickled me till I cried for mercy."
"Haha ... so it's cute?"
"Although it may seem unbelievable, The tree's don't like fighting"
"But aren't the tree's said to be the strongest thing in the galaxy?"
"Can't the same thing can be said for Seina, too?"
"Huh?"
"When you look at it objectively, Seina has in only a few battles caught hundreds of Space Pirates, hundreds of criminals, Widow, he survived Tarrant ... ... what would other people who don't know him think about that?"
"Is that ... .... how it is for the royal trees too?"
"If the Trees were just a computer, Jurai would be able to conquer all of space not just the galaxy, but the tree's don't care for that and the owners of the ships can't force them too."
"If the tree's ship got serious about it, would it be possible rid the galaxy of Space Pirates?"
"If they felt like it they could destroy the entire galaxy and everyone in it."
"They have Such a power!?"
"No royal ship wants such a thing, they only wish to deter fighting. but Seina is different ... His power can rid the world of Space Pirate without destroying the galaxy ..."
"Oh!" That meant that Seina was even more dangerous than the royal ships for the space pirates.
Erma realized and turned stone cold in the face.
"It's amazing to think that Seina only got into space by pure coincidence."
"... ............ Kiriko tried to make Seina return to the earth she was worried about him ... ... but irresponsibly so ......"
"I can see why she would think of it in a bad way, it means he will face lots of enemies, that old hag is up to something terrible, I wonder how many times I've had that thought since he came here."
Airi started shaking her fist in the air as she recalled some bad memories.
"Well, all of us, especially Airi, has had to work hard to make sure we had the power to protect ourselves but Seina doesn't have the time or luxury to do that on his own..."
"Yeah ... Your right."
"I am sorry, this is a lot to dump on you I know, but if it were your cute little brother, Wouldn't you want to give him whatever protection you could."
"For my cute little brother?"
Erma remembered The sight of Seina and Tennyo at the lake.
"Yes, If he looked at me that way, I would do anything."
Tennyo gave a really gentle and sad smile.
(……Ah!)
Erma remembered when seina's smile was empty right after she informed him about Miki 's indecent and sent Seina off to the dormitory.
(At that time, I remember ... ... Seina seemed to be just walking around like a doll just moving emotionless, like something was missing. )
( ── He's never been allowed by life to have any hopes or desires.
the only thing that he's wanted was to stay in GP, but he's aware of what he has to pay for that.
── Seina opened himself up for once, even though life had decided drill a hole in him and fill it with more misfortune then any one person should ever have to experience...
I want to fill that hole of sadness left by his luck ... with happiness!)
Erma felt a strong desire resembling a severe thirst
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---------keep in mind airi and tennyo clearly know and have hinted several times here that they know who Erma really is and there telling her this highly classified information----------
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-------I lost track of time I'm gonna say like this is like day 112 honestly after this point there's no reason to count the days----
A week after that, Seina who was in the hospital was getting use to peaceful everyday life again.
he found spiritual stability in telling Amane how he felt and Amane came and she visited him regularly, but other then that there wasn't much foot traffic to see him. As for Kiriko, communication between the parties during the investigation was forbidden, so his communication with the outside world was blocked and there was no way for him to know her situation,or for Kiriko to know his.
"It can't be helped... I'll just have to be impatient ... ... honestly, even if I meet with Kiriko now, I don't know what we would talk about ..." he felt a sense of discomfort.
"... ... but it's amazing she was able to save me at all."
Seina rolled up the hems of his clothes and looked at the burn scars on his arms and legs that had been completely shot out. it took three months to move normally again as a result of Seina's experience But, It had only been a week, and at that point it was cured to the extent that it still felt a bit off.
"The holes themselves were healed up in a matter of hours that was really amazing ... but ...."
Seina had several needles poked into him to stitch up the various wound on him but many had been put in the the wrong place cause of his bad luck. It happened so often that seina had to convince them to let him do it himself. He was so good at it because of how often he had to do first aid on himself. It amazed the doctors and nurses and they had all gathered watch him do it.
"Uhmm......We'll let you do the rest by yourself, Later"
is what they said
"In the end, I even bothered the doctors and the nurses."
But it wasn't all bad, it was a good opportunity for him and the doctors to get to know the hazards of treating him and he was thankful that the people who managed the facility were so attentive and understanding of his condition.
On that day, Seina who had finished lunch in the big cafeteria of the hospital Changed out of his medical clothes after receiving his last medical check up. He changed back into his GP Clothes and had to re-adjust to how they felt after being out of them for so long.
The alert for notifying him he had guests rang.
"Here I go I guess..." he said. The doors opened and in came Mikami.
"principal Mikami !"
Seina corrected his attitude and saluted. Mikami nodded in satisfaction of his salute with her powerful gaze.
"You look healthy, the results of your medical check up look good I'm relieved."
"I apologize for causing any inconveniences."
"No need to be sorry, You're here, but don't forget Mitoto was also involved."
"I'm probably the one that attracted the Space Pirate ... ... as a result ..."
"Regardless of how much you regret it, It won't change anything, and it is more important for you to learn and grow from that experience then to mope over it. You ought to know that by now."
"Yes"
"Seina Yamada, you are now permitted to leave the hospital. you'll be instructed on your next reassignment soon. we have forwarded the information to your NB so please follow the instructions you find there."
"Immediately, ...? ... but ... ...."
Seina wanted to go to Amane's house immediately to check on Kiriko.
"Work is work and you don't want to hold people up now do you? you should go to the site immediately."
"I understand! I'll be there soon!"
Seina stretched his spine quickly before he saluted again.
"Thank you."
Seina turned his back on Mikami as she smiled, He left the room with NB and left after saying goodbye to the doctors and nurses who had come to know him over the past week, He headed for a transfer gate that NB guided him to. most of them were very busy with people coming and going but the pathway to this one seemed abandoned.
Nb looked back at seina as they proceeded toward down the empty passage suddenly.
"Master, are you concerned about Kiriko?"
NB asked Seina, who stopped walking suddenly.
"Of course, I wonder how she's doing ... ...."
Seina smiled with a light expression and looked out the window nearby into outer space at the Academy's planet.
"... ... I remember what happened when I got up to space for the first time."
"When you came from the earth to the Academy?"
"Can you believe it? On the Earth, only a handful of people ever get to see such a sight, and it costs a lot of money."
"Sorry, but here it's just an everyday sight."
"............ One day, I got a pamphlet from Amane and filled it out half jokingly, when I woke up I was on a GP transport ship, Mitoto was in front of me ...... And just like now I was unable to get in touch with Kiriko no matter how hard I tried... "
"There are lots of similarities, like when Amane first came to visit me in the hospital, and when I was brought in front of principal Mikami and I chose to remain in the GP ... ......... ... Well, at least then I was reunited with Kiriko at the immigration office. "
"I see"
"Well, I guess we will see each other again soon enough."Seina said
"...... Right now I guess I should just be glad that none of the nurses tried anything funny with me...."
"If you like I can do that ... I seem to have that feature still installed ... ... do you wan't me to initialize it?"
"please dont...."
"If you like i can change my voice setting? I can make myself sound like a young nurse if you like. I have the voices of many famous young actresses installed."
"Please don't do that, besides I like your weird old man voice, I've gotten used to it ... ... And besides if you change It like that it might cause some sort of crazy misunderstanding."
Especially if they were the kind of actresses seina thought they were.
"Airi sure put some weird features in you, but you know... some of them are actually kind of amusing."
"oh is that so ..."
Seina looked outside once again with a bitter smile.
"... ... ... ... Master are you lost?"
"I'm just checking ...... I'm making sure I'm prepared"
"I only ask because my data base refers to this hall as the passage of the lost "
"Passage of the Lost?"
"It seems this part of the hospital is for advanced treatment, and they only bring people here who are in serious and likely fatal condition. It's also a very confusing part of the building and its easy to get lost in."
"did Mikami direct you to go this way?
"... she must have wanted you to have plenty of time to get over there, to think until you were convinced. are you sure you don't want to stay a while longer?"
"I don't feel like leaving."
"huh?"
"I like this place, but if I am not here, I know that the probability that someone will get caught up in my luck and get hurt will be reduced, so I'm leaving even though I want to stay here. Whether I'm prepared or not I have to just push through it. "
"Being a Human being seems hard"
"Haha, yeah it is." Seina regained his composure
"Let's go, NB!"Seina stared straight at the transfer gate
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Seina came out the gate into a passage with no doors or windows with many strict guards standing by.no signs were anywhere to be found indicating where he was.
"This sure is a strictly guarded place"NB said as they went through the 10th door so far.
"There are so many doors, and a tremendous number of sensors and there seems to be transfer gates built in the doors well."
"Transfer gates?are we still in the hospital?"
"eight of the gates so far seem to be for eliminating foreign bodies, mostly microscopic things."
"huh?"
"to remove any explosives or nanomachines, this place must be very confidential"
"Why are you taking me to such a place?"
"I am only following my orders master, I will understand if you want to go back."
Psssshh! A wide space spread across the door that opened next with the sound of a pressurized lock being unsealed
"Oh! Apparently this is the last gate."
he passed through the door, there was a small ship docked there. Andthe ship was surrounded in cubic containers
"Wow ... what?!......what is this?"
It was a pure white, seamless container that seemed different from a regular container.
"Oh that's High level sealed container ...... it's used when carrying large fragile objects like precision parts or other special items ...."
"There's a person over there so why don't we ask them?"
Seina found three people 's shadows near the container.
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"Oh Alan, are you sure we have to do this?"
"I Don't want to be on the same ship as Seina Yamada."
"What are you saying? We have no choice! We're broke."
Alan, Barry , and Cohen talking on the other side of the container
"I heard he encountered Tarrant."
"But the salary is really high, and we fit the qualifications ... Do you know any were else we can make this kind of money? We can't quit, we can't even afford to get fired, If we don't make a lot of money soon our Debt will become inescapable."
"That's right, but ... it's still better than being dead right?"
"Hey, if your okay with not having anything to eat and having to always feel like you did when we had to run form those fan club members then go ahead. "
"well ... I don't want that either."
"Think about it, if you encounter someone like Tarrant and survive you'll be able to brag! you'll be a legend! and this is an army battleship, isn't it? You know the specifications of this ship, right? The Rumor is that they made it to take down the Daedalus."
"Really?"
"Like Alan says this is certainly not an ordinary ship,"
"Also what if we see Ryoko-sama or some new Space Pirates that could be an idol ?"
"We could ... ... create a new fan club ... ...."
"That's right! If you and then we could pay off our loans right away, and even have enough to never have to work a dangerous job for the rest of our lives right?"
"I miss the days before we met those Space Pirates ..."
"Ah the glory days!"
"Then let's do it right this time, We won't let greed get in the way!"
"hahahahah! Yes, lets's do it! Hey wait who's shadow is that, did seina yamada walk over here while I was talking?"
When Alan turned nervously he found Seina next to him.
"Oh! Seina, How are you?" He said in a panic.
"oh, Alan! It's been a long time." Seina saluted.
"Hmm, I've seen you salute better, but you look good Seina."
"Thank you."
"When we first met you you were are cargo, so we treated you like a vip."
"But this time it's different, now you're on the bottom rung, so if you don't mind could you do our laundry for us?"
"Oh and of course we will be the first to speak when we see Ryoko."
Following Alan, Barry and Cohen also began to speak arrogantly at Seina.
"...... Oh, okay ... but why would you be the one to talk to Ryoko?"
"Superior officers orders are absolute!but we will forgive your questioning this time."
"Oh... Thank you!" Seina saluted, he heard someone else clear their throat.
"Crew line up!"
"What is that now... I bet some teacher is here to scold the cadets ... EEEP !!"
Alan, turned and saw the voice was going from the former GP secretary, Minami Kuramitsu, he turned blue and assumed an upright stiff posture.
"Long time no see!"Seina turned towards Minami and saluted.
"You seem to be healthy... I'm sorry Mitoto has caused you various inconvenience.s"
"No, I am sorry that I got Mitoto caught up in my own happenings."
"Anyway I'm glad you're safe, It's good to see you again although I never expected it would be this soon."
"I understand why I only started my practical training less then half a year ago,"
"Indeed ... oh! it seems that preparations for boarding have almost been completed."
Minami looked up at the container.
A small hole suddenly opened in the side wall of the container, Hakuren and her girls came down from on a moving plate.
"Oh oh oh oh!WOW!"Alan hardened when he saw the beautiful quartet of Hakuren's girls and he raised ruckus of cheers.
Seina, who had experienced similar things in the student dormitory once,
relived this reunion less appreciatively.
"Welcome, we've been waiting for you"
Hakuren's quartet wore the uniform of the GP cleaning department and saluted.
"I'm having trouble picking one!"
Alan pushed Seina, he jumped out towards the quartet and looked like top as he spun to pick his favorite of the four. Gyokuren who boasting unrivaled beauty, especially caught alan's eye, he became fixated and began to shiver as if his soul had been pulled out.
"... ............This is it! This is our lucky break!"
"Welcome, please you three, get on the plate"
Hakuren came in front of Gyokuren to shield her from Alan's disgusting gaze she responded with a gaze that pierced Alan's soul.
"Seina, please come with us"
Karen and Suiren went around Alan's who was in a daze and they held Seina's arms and led him off as those left on the plate watched.
"... What why are they taking Seina? He's our subordinate!"
"Oh, that's right! I forgot to mention, He's the captain and the cleaning staff out rank you" "Minami responded with dissatisfaction to Alan.
"Remember a Superior officers orders are absolute! I'll forgive you this time."Minami mimicked Alan's previous tone to Seina
"He's the what!?"
"Oh ... ............ ah!"
They jumped to salute Hakuren's quartet realizing they were their superior officers.
"Huh, how rude!"
"Please start boarding"
Following Hakuren 's words, Alan's group headed to the plate as they resisted the urge to run to the exit.
"Thank you Minami, please excuse us."
Hakuren and Gyokuren saluted Minami, he walked towards Seina who was being held still by Karen and Suiren.
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" Is that the sound of opportunity i hear rolling in so soon?"
Alan said as he headed for the boarding plate
"Opportunity?"
"You saw them, their beautiful enough to be idolized ... one of them even reminds me of Amane · Kaunaq! I think we've found our new idol Space Pirate substitute!"
"Okay! so If we create our fan club ... ..."
Alan started rambling as the plate went up in the ship.
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The moving plate that Seina got on entered into another entrance that showed off the ship. the entrance closed as if it had always been just a wall.
"Seina, this is the Kamidake It's your ship."Hakuren said, the ship was shaped like a cone laid on it's side. It was perfect to describe such a space ship as looking like a toy space ship in a Styrofoam case.
"Why is it in such a container?"
"The Kamidake is a prototype made for mass production, It was just completed ahead of schedule." "I don't have specific details but Airi-sama made this ship so if you like you can ask her. "
"huh?" Seina reflexively thought of NB who he had with him.
"What's that look for?"
"Uhm well ... ... That worries me a bit."
"Don't worry if anything happens we'll remove the plugins like last time... unless you want your ship to turn into a pretty young woman?"
Hakuren joked about the situation Seina and NB experienced when they lived with him. She paused for laughter but none came.
"uhm... ... well then... Seina,there's no need to worry our performance checks all came up good and the crew is also made up of some excellent people, so you should be relieved."
Hakuren said to stop the discussion about Seina and his NB.
"Yes, that's right."
"Master, If you like I can acquire the personal data of miss hakuren. Or miss suiren, Or do you prefer gyokuren, how about karen?"
"AH! uhm no thanks NB that's alright. No need for that."
Seina pulled NB close to shut it up. At the same time, the moving plate rose to enter the Kamidake.
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Seina was taken into a room decorated much like that of a luxury hotel, Seina's closet was a master bedroom sized room, he changed into his uniform as instructed by Hakuren. And Hakuren waited till he came out and finely groomed him when he was done switching outfits.
"Um ... ... By the way, what will I be doing with this ship?"
"Please come with me"
Hakuren brought Seina to a desk at the back of the room without answering him.
"Please sit here,and try not to move your body."
"Ok"Seina sat in the chair, a shield was enclosed him, and he was sucked in together with the chair into a hole that opened on the floor.
"ehhhh?"
After moving for a few seconds through a dimly lit tube, Seina was suddenly surrounded by bright light, he had arrived at the Kamidake's bridge.
"Where is this?"
He looked around, Seina looked down at the lower Teir, Alan's group saluted him.
"........., Seina! Why are you are seated in such a place! That's the captain's seat!"Alan's said
"Hey, they must have made a mistake come down here quickly."Alan beckoned.
"It's not a mistake"
the seats where Hakuren and Suiren sat came up from both ends of the operator seats with five seats in front of them
"What!!" Alan became upright and immovable, he saluted Hakuren and the others.
" Seina Yamada, today you are appointed as the captain of Kamidake."Hakuren said saluting him
"You're doing what now !?"
Alan and Seina made the same declaration at the same time.
"Well, alan I guess that means he's the captain"
"Then what are we waiting for?"Barry said. Alan tightened his facial expression.
"... ... ... ... ... salute to the captain!"they saluted
"Hehe," Seina reflexively saluted himself and felt a bit stupid for doing so.
a seat with Amane in it rose on a elevated platform diagonally beside the captain seat seina was in.
"... .... Oh, Amane-sensei!?"
"I'm not your teacher anymore, captain" Amane saluted Seina, and winked with a smile.
"Well, even so, It's sudden and I'm not surprised you feel that way"
"I'm the captain now... ... everything feels too sudden!"
"I'll tell you the details later, but everything is always sudden for you and you still do it, don't you?"
"That's true……"
At that time, Seina remembered Mikami's words in the hospital room.
"Even so, You've changed the powers structure of the galaxy in a blink of the eye....."
another seat rose up on the other side of seina
"……huh?"
Seina turned around to see Kiriko sitting on the seat that came up.
"Kiriko!"
It was an abrupt reunion, Seina looked at kiriko's face tensely.
Of course it was the same for Kiriko, her expression was also nervous.
The people around them were patiently waiting for the two to quit staring.
Of course Alan, who did not know the circumstances of their stares, ordered Hakuren and Suiren to quietly wait at the operator's seat.
"What's the matter is something wrong ...... It's about time we launched off."
"... ... oh yes..."
Seina had reunited with Kiriko just like at the immigration office as he had predicted to NB earlier in the "Passage of the Lost". Not only Seina but also Kiriko remembered that day.
they smiled at each other and the atmosphere of the place went back to normal.\
Kiriko stood up with a crisp expression,
"I'm here as your head information officer, I am Kiriko Masaki. Thank you for having me Captain Seina Yamada!"she saluted seina
"Nice to meet you."Seina said also a bit awkwardly.
"When are they going to quit staring at each other? It is about time to set sail."Amane poked Seina from behind.
"Oh, that's right, I almost forgot!" Kiriko hurriedly sat down in her seat and began preparing for launch
"Er, um ... ... What am I supposed to ...?"
"Captain us somewhere, we'll take care of all the details." Amane pulled the hem of Seina's outerwear to usher him down into his seat and she began preparations just like Kiriko.
"But first we must perform the initial certification and registration of you as this ship's captain."
Kiriko said, a scanning plate appeared around Seina. It was a more sophisticated one the the ones used to take role at the student dormitory.
"Scan complete, Your Registration as captain of the Kamidake is completed, Kamidake launch program start"At that time, Seina's heard a laughter like a child in his ear
"Ahahahaha"
"uwaaaa...."
a light like a spherical aurora appeared behind him, it turned to face Seina happily.
The rainbow-colored light appeared and disappearing in a complicated pattern,
as if it had a shape like a tree.
(This atmosphere is ... ... just like Seto's tree ... ...) Seina remembered the bridge of Seto 's ship.
"Engine, start complete, they are rising to the scheduled output values, raise the first and fourth to the normal operating range."
"Each block checks out, startup is good, first startup complete."
"Ready to start the main engine, Captain, please authorize."
"Yes, start the main engine!" Seina said, the huge white pillar that reached to the ceiling, which held the Kamidake in place, disappeared into grains of light.
"Kamidake launched! All green, no problem!"
"It seems that the startup has completed successfully."
Airi was on the main screen with her technicians who performed the final checks, Seto, Minaho, Tennyo, Hakuryo, Erma, Minami, Mikami, Mitoto, and the Kamidake were displayed.
All of the Kamidake crew stood up and saluted.
"From this Day on you belong to the GP decoy division, the special mission for your new ship, the Kamidake, will start once you depart for your first training flight."
"Everything looks Good. They're allowing our departure."
Kiriko Reported, Airi nodded satisfied, and saluted Seina back. And after Airi, everyone there saluted too.
The Kamidake, which descended to the starting passage began to sound a shrill groan.
It was from the powerful engine that sounded like it came from a ship much larger then the Kamidake's small hull.
"Engines shows no abnormality"
"No obstacles on the scheduled navigation route!" Amane and Kiriko reported, the eyes of everyone concentrated on Seina.
"hmm ........." Seina sighed deeply, and calmed his feelings,
"Alright Kamidake, Let's Go!" He said powerfully.
"The Kamidake, will now take off!"
Without any shock, suddenly the scenery outside began to flow by with great speed, and in a few seconds the Kamidake was hugged in twinkling stars and a jet black universe.
【End of Volume 5】
Afterword
Kajishima: OOPS no I'm getting ahead of my self....
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Concluding Theater Part 2
Last time:
When he tried to call Yosho's Shrine office by calling the Masaki Family Home, Seina, who's calls were being refused, got Ryo-Ohki on the line to listen to some of his complaints. Of course Ryo-Ohki was planning to tell everyone shortly after, but she had a short attention span and often nodded off in the middle of his complaints and later would forget to tell anyone most of his complaints about Airi. It wasn't surprising considering that seina had been talking with her for a long time. She yawned.
"Thank you for listenng Ryo-Ohki-chan, let's end things here for now."
"Miah, Mia! "Ryo-Ohki jumped as she responded to seina
Seina who ended the communication turned his head a little curiously.
"... ............ I am afraid Ryo-Ohki doesn't understand what I'm saying, but oddly I also feel like I understand some of what she's saying now..."
It was later on that Seina learned that Ryo - Ohki 's words were a kind of high - speed language, and if one listened for a while, you could understand most of the meaning of what she said. but thanks to his Bio-Enhanced hearing he would soon be able to know what she said....
"Oh right... I wonder how Kai is doing. I know he doesn't know his alien identity yet, so I have to be careful in conversation."
Seina quickly entered the telephone number of Kai 's house.
Thanks to Ryo-Ohki, Seina was able to change his sour mood,
"Yes, You've reached the Masaki's ~ ~"
Seina could tell he was a bit out of sorts from his usual self by his voice.
"... ... It's been a while ... How are you Kai!"
"Oh, that voice! is that you Seina ?! Ha ha, how are you doing."
"That voice? Oh, I see ... ...." Seina remembered that the other side couldn't see the picture.
There is was no camera on the other party's phone. Nevertheless, Seina wondered how the image could be seen, He tried asking Erma about it before ─ ─ ─ According to her it distinguished the shape, material, and even color from the reverberation of sound and then computer generated the image in real time .
However, due to the poor audio recording performance of the earth handset, the noise levels in the sound was severe, and it could not fully reproduce the image by itself. so it compensated by referring to an long distance image taken from an observation satellite in Earth's orbit.
"Yeah, well, I am as good as usual ... ... How was school? is everyone surprised that I was suddenly gone?"
"How do i put this ... Well, when It was explained to everyone by the teacher, everyone was surprised. it was impossible to believe that there was a school that would accept you Seina."
"Hahaha ... are you surprised they accepted me?"
"Every day is really quiet here and boring now, thanks to your absence. ...... "
"Wow really .... Sorry, I'll do my best to check in whenever I can... so how are things with my house?"
"Smooth sailing. Business is prospering. Uncle, Aunt, and Yoshiko also seem to be busy.
Better yet, are things are going well with my sister?I hear your living nearby, have you had any chances to do things, ha ha ha ........., ha ha! "
BONNNG! With a flat dull sound, Tsukiko's heel stomped Kai over the head.
she held kai's head down and he endured the pain.
Tsukiko stood standing prettily posed while keeping her legs on top of Kai's head.
Seina could clearly see up Tsukiko's skirt from how she was standing.
"I've told you not to say such vulgar things! ...... Who are you talking to, Kai? "
"........., Seina"
"eh!?"
Tsukiko, who knew that Seina was in space, realized that the image was visible from Seina's side. she turned bright red and quickly lowered her legs, and fixed her skirt, she picked up the receiver from Kai, and violently pushed away her son who was still in pain.
" Hello ... is this Seina-chan? " Tsukiko was afraid to ask if he had seen
"... .... Oh, it's been a long time ..." Seina turned red and answered in a troubled way.
or Tsukiko, Seina was not just a friend of Kai's but he was also something like a son, but she was also not lying about the comments about her wanting him to become her husband and what she planned to do with seina that she had scathingly told Kiriko earlier before, and she had been conscious of him as a man for a while.
And youthful Tsukiko who looked at the very most to be an older sister to Kiriko had enough charm to make Seina conscious of her as a woman.
Tsukiko's undergarment grew conscious of the opposite sex ............ Well that's one way to phrase it.
"....................................... (did you see up my skirt?)" she silently thought to say
"…………………………………(I saw)" he silently responded in his head
The silence between confirmed that fact.
the end
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kajishima commentary: basically he just talks about how the next volume is going to be about how tarrant holds ryoko's crew's family hostage after failing to kidnap seina's family on earth and and sets her up to have to kill seina and also how neiju is introduced... nothing surprising there.
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------------ Translator end commentery -Well that concludes another book translated, If you haven't already check out the OVA 4 novel. Which I'll be grammar correcting next I guess.
anyways
I bet ryo-ohki just curses up a storm.... it would be funny if she was the Kenny of the tenchi house hold. ryoko is clearly the cartman... speaking of did you know her english ova 3 VA is the voice of like half the south park girls including Kyle's Mom.
Speaking of.... not to start a flame war or anything but you know how OVA 4 is about how minaho heals tenchi's wounds of kiyone's death by giving him a pseudo mother experience?
Well if minaho is like the mother in tenchi's head, the story has definitely showed so far that Ryoko is more like how tenchi's mother actually was then any of the other girls.
Just saying....
anyways see you next Novel.
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