I was depressed about what happened yesterday [UTC 8:00 (Philippines)] so I can't able to update it.. Now that they're fine, I'm gonna support them for their fast physical, mental and emotional recovery. And with that, I'm gonna update now my fic....
cisda83: You're welcome.
kazutoryu: Here it is.
Kakeru15: Actually this arc only focused much on Atsumina even though that Kojiyuu are there...
Justqle: This update is your reply.
And now... ENJOY READING~!!!!!!
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Phase C: Kanashimi no Ame (Rain of Sorrow)Roof Garden, National Armed Force Mansion, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan; Wednesday, 10:40 pmA seifuku girl, who’s wearing eyeshades, appeared behind the opening door of house-like rooftop exit. Closing the door, she walks on the highest floor of the mansion, filled with green grasses. The blind girl walks to the center of the garden and breathe the incoming fresh air.
“Kaze wa kimochi (The wind feel good).” The girl said.
“For three years of my life as General and living in this mansion, this place never fails to amaze me.” Her eyes went narrow as she tries to remember why she’s here.
“Ahh, I forgot. There something I need to do in here. Now where’s that thing?” The girl uses the wind as her radar to detect something. In an instant, she heard the wind bounces on an unknown structure.
“Ah, I found it.” She went to the unknown object.
A 250 cm shelter standing on the right farther side of the rooftop. The 300,000 square centimeter roof was made in glass-fibre reinforced plastic. The frames including the roof beam and the poles are made in Ti3Al2.5V0.05Pd also known as Gr 18 Titanium alloy.
Below to these advanced materials and the center of this shelter, is a 1960 Steinway D-274 Concert Grand Piano. With the size of 274 cm long and 156 cm wide and weigh about 480 kg, this 188 years old piano still standing in one piece. The reason behind the very old piano remains in one piece, without any decay and destruction and without any sign of breakage even it passes to the 50-year lifespan, is that the shelter has installed with anti-corrosion, anti-radiation and anti-decomposition system. With that, the piano will remain new and doesn’t need a maintenance.
According to Leo General Takahashi Minami, this piano was own by former Cancer General Jo Eriko. The former General bought this at the City of Music, Vienna, Austria on September 15, 1961. After the three Japanese military powers and the Juuniseiza were formed in 1975 and the mansion was created in 1980, General Jo brought her favorite piano and placed it on the right farther side of the rooftop, the same place where the current Cancer General was standing. This metal shelter, with the installation of those mentioned systems, was made also by her to provide the protection of her possession against the cruel ways of the nature and the man-made pollutions.
The girl open the keyboard lid, showed a multitude of black and white keys. She sighed and looked at the most wondrous musical instrument.
“It’s been a while since my last touch with this thing. How many years? I think its seven years. I hope that my piano skills didn’t deteriorate after my very long hiatus.” She sits on the piano stool as she ready herself to play. But before her hand touches the keyboard, she put her hand on her chin.
“Wait, what piece should I play?” Then after a couple of minutes of thinking, the girl snaps her fingers.
“That’s right. Since I’ve heard the the water from the sky. I’m gonna play this.” Her pair of hands finally touched the keyboard.
“Frederic Francois Chopin’s Prelude, Op. 28 No. 15: Raindrop.”
Eastern Tree Farm, Near the Main Gateway, National Armed Force Mansion, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan; Wednesday, 10:55 pm“T-t-takamina?”
When the two saw the short girl looking at them, Kojinyan quickly separates herself from Yuko. On the other hand, Yuko can’t look directly at her bestfriend. She felt the guiltiness rising to her mind.
“How could you do this to me?” Takamina said. The midget was ready to give in her emotions now but she forcely fends it from inside.
“Takamina, let me ex..” Kojinyan can’t finished her sentence as she blasted out by the powerful force of the wind. Luckily, Kojinyan uses both of her hands to push the wind and prevent herself from being thrown.
“Explain? Do I need now an explanation? After what I saw the whole thing?’ Kojinyan remove both of her hands blocking on her face and lowered her head.
“Please Takamina, you have to understand.” Yuko’s instinct prevails, instantly dodge another blast of wind.
“Oh sure, I really understand what are you two doing now, Yuko.” Takamina stressed the last word very hard.
“I’m sorry.” Yuko also lowered her head.
“Why should I trust everyone? Why should I love someone? In the end, I’m all alone.” Takamina’s tears flow on her cheeks.
“You’re not alone, Takamina. You have us.” Kojinyan saw another blast of wind and dodges it using flash-step, then she’s reappeared beside Yuko.
“Us? You’re referring to all of you? You don’t love me nor think of me as a friend. You’ve only think that I’m a garbage. A trash. All of you are the same!”
“We don’t think that way!” Yuko protests.
“Shut up!” Takamina swinged her hands in wide motion creating a deforestating sonicblast.
“縛道の八十一 「断空」 [Bakudou no Hachijūichi: Danku (Way of Binding #81: Splitting Void)]” A translucent wall appears in front of Yuko and Kojinyan.
“You’re just using me, then after that you’re gonna betray me and throw me like a trash.”
“Takamina.” Kojinyan’s trying to get near to Takamina but she’s received another sonicblast.
“Don’t come near at me!” Takamina activated her Gift of Acceleration then disappeared instantly.
“Itai~” Kojinyan tries to stand up but she’s almost stumbled down. Before the tall girl touches the ground, Yuko catches the girl instantly.
“Are you alright, Nyannyan?” Yuko’s face with concern.
“I’m alright, Yuuchan. But we should worry more to Takamina than mine.” The two saw their fellow friends coming to them. Acchan saw Kojinyan’s injury.
“All of those injuries are made from Takamina right?”
“Yeah.” Yuko supports Kojinyan. Then they saw the three Nanatsunorai Generals coming to them.
“
I saw what happen last time. Don’t worry about that, Yuuchan. And I should thank you for what you did.” Acchan gave to Yuko a smile full of assurance.
“Thank you, Acchan. And I’m sorry from what I did.” Yuko said.
“
It’s fine. We should worry more to Takamina. Her speed is superbly unbelievable. Even my clairvoyance can’t catch Takamina’s movement.”Tomochin goes to Kojinyan with her medicine box and tends the tall girl. The Sagitarrius General gave her gratitude to the Capricorn General. The duck-lip girl replies her with a smile as she continues to tend her.
“Gift of Acceleration gives Takamina an unnatural speed. It also gives to her a massive boost to her movement that she can outrace all of us, until Acchan, Kumi and Yuria came. Despite being weak in terms on raw physical strength, she can cover that weakness using hyper-speed attacks. Overall, she’s really a very powerful General.” Yuko explained.
“We should find her as soon as possible or else, bad things come.”
“What bad things?” Mayuyu asked.
“I’ve known about Takamina since we’ve became friends 11 years ago. I found her on the dark alley muttering some words like ‘alone’, ‘distrust’, ‘solitude’. I’ve tried to talk to her but she attacked me with destructive wind. Luckily, my Gift of Hyper-intuition takes over my body and avoiding that or else, I will be into a million pieces.”
“Destructive wind? Are those wind attacks are not destructive enough?” Yukirin asked.
“Those attacks are indeed destructive, but what I’ve experienced 11 years ago is more destructive than now. Those winds are capable of obliterate anything, even the air in the atmosphere.”
“When I looked to her eyes, what I saw is empty.”
“Empty?” All of them said.
“Her eyes are completely empty, as if she has no soul.”
Somewhere in Kanto Region, Japan; Wednesday, 11:00 pmThe midget sits beside the sliced tree. Her unstoppable tears are flowing on her cheeks. The girl was surrounded by the destroyed trees and uprooted grasses.
“Why Nyannyan? Why?” She continued to cry.
“I’m all alone.”
Without the crying girl noticed, an unknown figure walked to her. The figure pats the midget that makes her look up at the figure.
“Who are you?” She asked between in tears.
Living Quarter, National Armed Force Mansion, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan; Thursday, 1:00 amAll of the girls are finding a way to find Takamina. Mayuyu and Rena are in charge in computer while the rest are looking at the holographic map. On the outside, the heavy rain drops from the sky along with the wailing thunders.
“We have to find her as soon as possible.” Yuko said.
“We’re trying, Yuko-chan. However, it’s been three hours and still no Takamina.” Mayuyu said.
“How about you, Yukirin, Yuihan?” Yuko asked.
“We’re searching on every corner of Japan, Yuko-san. Sill the same result, no Takamina.” Yukirin said.
Acchan was the only one who’s not in front of the computer nor searching on the holographic map. By the look, her mind wanders around, trying to think about the situation. In her mind, she’s trying to recollect something that relates to this. An imaginary lightbulb appears on her head. Then she looks at the bulb, which it envelops with imaginary fire then turns into a dust. Then the Aries General went to Yuko for slight interrogation.
“
Ne Yuko, about what happen in 11 years ago. You said that her eyes are empty, right?”
“Yes.”
“
And she muttered some words like ‘alone’, ‘betray’ and ‘trash’, right?”
“Yes it is.”
“
And you said that her attacks are more destructive than now, right?”
“Yes. Wait a second, Acchan. Why are you asking?”
“
Well, by all of your answers. Looks like I know what that was all about.”
“What do you mean, Acchan?” Paruru asked. The rest stops from their work and looking at the mute girl.
“
It looks like we saw Takamina’s doing but that’s not really Takamina’s doing.”
“Wait wait wait, I’m confused. Takamina’s doing but not Takamina’s doing? I don’t really get it.” Yukirin said.
“
All of those things, the destructive wind. The ultra fast movement without being imbues with either gift or her elemental powers, and the attacks that totally focused on the lethal spots, are not really Takamina’s work.”
“What do you mean?” Jurina asked.
“
I also experience that too, although totally different to Takamina. 8 years ago, I was wreaking havoc everywhere that I almost took a village into an incinerating wildfire until Maimai-baachan totally disabled me and bring me back to real world.”
“You mean that, all those flames you’ve created last time are not your doing?”
“
Exactly. Moreover, by the research that I’ve done a couple of years ago, it looks like I found something interesting.”
“
Each one of us has an own shadow. And I’m not saying about the literal shadow, it’s the shadow in our conscious mind. Now each of our shadow we have starts as an empty vessel and the shadow develops through individual’s mind. The shadow is the sum of all personal and collective psychic elements, which are denied expressions in life. As we grow and change the shadow, also grow and change. The shadow was created depends of every situation what we have. We can encounter our shadow through imagination and dream. The appearance of the shadow is mirror to us, same gender. Their personality was completely different from ours, because all of the shadow’s personalities are the personalities that we completely deny it from our life. The shadow will act as your adviser first, enlightens you to the situation what we have. Be warning, when we experience stressful circumstances, fully indecisive or showing full vulnerability, the shadow will gonna control the person’s body and take command of the will. And take note, because they’re like very same to us, they can also have the powers that mirrors to the original personality but in more powerful version not in darker version.”
“So what are you saying is..” Yuko said.
“
That Takamina’s will was being controlled by her own shadow.”
“Hey guys look at this.” Airin interrupts them and points to the holographic video screen. Then they saw a weathergirl holding the umbrella and the mic and stands on the side of the road.
“Minna as you can see from my background, the rain drops heavily. But what was very disturbing is an whirling clouds appeared on my back. By the location, it’s 40 km east of Shimoda, Shizuoka. Despite so far, we’ve currently experience high-speed gusts. Oh my god, there too many flying objects everywhere. We’re going out here now.” Then the video feed turns series of monochromatic lines.
“Minna, I’ve calculated the wind speed of the whirling cloud. Its 300 mph.” Mayuyu said.
“No doubt, we already know who can do that.” Paruru snapped her right hand.
“No mistaken, it’s her.” Yukirin nod her head.
“By the weathergirl’s report. 40 km east of Shimoda, Shizuoka.” Kumi pinpoints the Japan country map using her index finger and stops at the certain area.
“Toshima Island.”
Tsumekizaki Park, Shimoda, Shizuoka, Japan; Thursday, 3:00 amThe gang runs to the very long road until they reached the dead end. Then they saw what the weathergirl’s report, a giant typhoon appears on the top of the small landscape.
“Well, here it is. We’re at the cornerstone of this country. And I thought it’s very near yet it’s far.” Kumi pouted. The wind was so strong despite being far, that their seifuku’s skirts are almost flying.
“Minna, it seems that the typhoon was growing stronger and faster spin. We need to stop before the whole Japan will be erase to the map.” Mayuyu shouted.
“
I’ll go.” Acchan volunteered.
“Then, we will go too.” Jurina and Kumi said.
“
No, I’m going alone.”
“WHAT?”
“
I want to save Takamina. She needs a support and love.”
“Go now, Atsuko.” Erica said from behind.
“Erica.”
“
Like you said, Takamina needs a support and love. And I know you’re the only one who can do that.” Erica goes near to Acchan and hugs her, and then the mute girl hugs her twin sister in reply.
“But remember, I want you to get back here alive. Do you understand?”
“
Wakarimashita, my dear twin sister.” Acchan jumps to the cliff and hovers herself using Ανάφλεξης Ρεύματος Πιδακας [Anaflexis Revmatos Pidakas (Jetstream Ignition)]. She look at the gang’s waving at her. With her motivation and determination, she takes a flight now on the deep sea.
Toshima Island, Toshima, Tokyo, Japan; Thursday, 3:15 amAcchan tries to look the midget in the middle of the artificial typhoon. Despite the strong wind and the clouds blocking on her way, the mute girl can’t give up. After 5 minutes of search, she found the girl with ribbon standing on the multitude of large sea rocks. The Aries General lands on the large sea rocks and takes her weapons. With the preparation has been complete, she jump on each rocks and trying to get near to her fellow General.
“
Takamina!” The midget heard that and looked at the source. Acchan swears that she saw Takamina’s change, along with her empty, soulless eyes.
“What do you want?” Even the way of her talk also changes.
“
Takamina, I want you to come back.”
“Come back? Hahahahahahaha.” Takamina laughs hysterically.
“Why should I come back? So you will gonna throw me again like a trash? Betray me again?” By those words, Acchan’s expression changes to anger.
“
Looks like I was right. I know who you are now, Takamina’s shadow.” Takamina flinched at that statement.
“
Why are you doing this?”
“I’m protecting her for the likes of you. You always throw her like a garbage. You’ve pretended about making friends with her but in the end, you’re simply put her away like a useless trash.”
“
We’re not like that! We’re consider Takamina not as a friend, but as a family. And as her fellow family, I will gonna save her from the depths of sorrow.” Acchan then she felt a cut on her left cheek and felt a water explosion from behind.
“Enough of those not-so-interesting, makes-me-sleepy words. If you’re here just to hurt her more, then you make me have no choice. As far as I promised to her not to hurt someone, you will be my first victim.” Takamina unsheathes her two katana.
“
As far as I’m gonna end this in a conversational matter; then I also have no choice. I’m gonna use physical force just to remind Takamina to think straight and get back to her right sense that she’s not alone!!!”
Takamina releases a tremendous royal blue colored spiritual aura which Acchan also releases a tremendous scarlet red colored spiritual aura. Their tremendous spiritual auras clashes that makes the whole area shaking from the clashed immense forces.
Then the two dash forward and clash their weapons; creating a star-like light that shines to the whole island.
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To be continued
Let me rest for a while before I work for the rest update... The incident yesterday makes my blood drain....