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The defense minister: Kanou tarou, an old friend of itami's, who had met itami when he went to akihabara, met and caught up with him.
But this was only part of what happened, he gave information to itami, as well as briefed him on his mission, and now he was called and informed about the arrival of the targets at the hot springs.
Kanou soon arrived at the control room where he let Ryuzaki, director of the general staff department bring him up to date with the situation.
And as for where the control room was located it was the joint committee office, central operations room, subway headquarters of the defense minister.
"Archer, three heat sources 150 meters northwest, ten to eleven o'clock, we'll call them alpha 1, 2 and 3."
"This is archer, confirming alpha visual."
"Response 03, copy?"
"Lancer go to point 3"
"Clear."
"Archer, suppress targets 1, 2 and 3."
Operations in the control center did not stop with Kanou's arrival, and arguably increased in efficiency knowing his superior was in the room.
"To be honest with you, this is not how I imagined the war" kanou let everyone do their thing and decided to have a conversation with Ryuzaki.
"fourth generation warfare can be a mixture of politics, guerrilla warfare or operations where preparations are made to destroy targets in a single blow" Ryuzaki gave his opinion "but in this case it is the first one."
"The sankai roukaku is an inn with hot springs, known for its food and scenery, but unfortunately, it will become today's battlefield." Ryuzaki said
"Oh it looks like they're going in."
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"Archer. Advance to the romeo point. Don't lose sight of the targets."
"Saber, there's a heat source at point Delta. Confirm immediately."
Orders and communications were not long in coming as everyone entered the inn, everyone was busy with something and alert to any outside intervention.
"we deployed Japan's best soldiers to the area, special forces" Ryuzaki said.
"I heard itami was one of them" kanou.
"Yes, it's as you say" Ryuzaki.
But just when they were talking something happened.
"Archer, what's wrong? Your pulse rose and your body temperature dropped to critical levels."
"..."
There was no answer, for a moment, but after a few seconds the girl in the control room could see how Archer's pulse was stabilizing, so she decided to ask again.
"Archer, are you all right?"
"yes... but I request permission to withdraw, my position was compromised." was all he could say as he continued to stare fearfully at the tree behind his head.
Which had turned completely to ice, he could see it if only for a moment, something like an ice spike crossed the side of his head, and when he turned around, the tree was already completely ice.
He knew it, he was sure that if she had wanted to she would have killed him, but he decided it wasn't the best time to panic, so he tried to calm himself to respond.
"it can't be, you're more than 450 meters away, it would be impossible to locate you" the voice sounded somewhat incredulous.
"no... I know she detected me, and I have the proof right behind me, permission to turn on the camera?"
"director" the girl asked Ryuzaki.
"permission granted, but have him just send the information" Ryusaki.
"understood, permission granted archer"
5 minutes later.
"Archer, go to the kilo point immediately, we'll let an assistant inside watch the bathrooms and locker rooms."
Everyone in the control room was shocked by what they saw, the soldiers' body cameras were turned on once they arrived on the scene, but the part of the recording sent by Archer was overwhelming.
they witnessed the recording, how something like a dagger or ice pick passed near archer and how it left the tree on contact, at that moment archer was asked to take samples of the ice created by that object, but when it was touched it turned into snowflakes and disappeared completely along with the tree.
this was esdeath's doing, she knew that someone was watching her, but since she didn't know if it was an ally or an enemy, she decided to just send a warning.
but they all had to put this aside when an alert given by Ryuzaki was said.
"attention everyone, the grail is full, the grail is full, everyone be attentive."
This meant that soldiers from other countries had arrived, and that the confrontation would be imminent.
But while they were fighting, some people were just relaxing.
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"hey kuribayashi-san, do you have any interesting stories...any romance maybe?" risa said while all the girls were already submerged in the water.
"let's see... i think tomita-chan likes bozes-san" shino had a mischievous smile, and even though she knew that bozes was very attached to kei, she still decided to ask.
"ohhh" they all turned to look at bozes.
"What?" bozes was taken by surprise by the look of doubt from the girls, except esdeath.
"what do you think?" shino kept insisting.
Bozes just shifted somewhat uncomfortably inside the water and sent a look of help to esdeath.
esdeath sensing bozes' look decided to help her, after all, she had helped her survive against kei.
"she is already kei sama's" esdeath was direct.
"..." they all blankly looked at each other.
"esdeath-sama!!!" Bozes was embarrassed.
"what's wrong...I didn't say anything that wasn't true" esdeath had a smile on her face.
esdeath suddenly came up to her and hugged her.
"He loves you very much, and even though they only know each other for a short time, kei-sama cares about you" esdeath whispered in her ear.
"aaah" bozes let out a small moan as she felt esdeath's breath so close,
"hey she's mine" piña looked a little jealous and joined the conversation.
Piña quickly reached over and began to pull on one of Bozes' arms, intending to separate her from esdeath.
"ooooooohhhh" risa was excited "material for my work!!".
"by the way risa" Rory.
"me?" risa.
*nod* "how are things between you and itami" Rory.
"I want to know too" shino was also excited "why did you marry someone like that?" for some reason she sounded angry.
*ahaha" she let out a small laugh before speaking "well. we've known each other since high school and I already knew a lot about his personality, tastes and family".
"And you got married because of that?" shino interrupted her for a moment.
"I didn't have enough money to eat and his steady salary made him a good catch. So I told him, "I'll marry you if you'll support me"" risa had a melancholy smile as she recalled things.
"but then why did you get divorced?" shino.
"the Ginza incident was very dangerous wasn't it?"
*nod* shino.
"well... when I knew he was going to the special region, I asked him why he would go to such a dangerous place...and he replied: don't worry, you can always count on my life insurance... *sigh* he doesn't understand anything, not my feelings or the others" risa was lost for a moment in her thoughts, while the place had a contemplative silence.
"I guess I want to start from scratch" risa said.
"How about we stop talking about me" risa shook her head, and searched for esdeath with her eyes "what about you, how are things going between you and kei " she pointed at esdeath.
"mmm" esdeath who was looking at the sky turned to look at them, only to find everyone looking at her *sigh* She didn't know what they were referring to but still she wanted to make some conversation.
"It's all good, kei-sama is always good to me and whenever he can he shows me his love" she didn't know what to talk to them all about, but from the previous conversation with risa, she guessed they wanted to know how good of a match kei is.
"Mmm sounds too good to be true" risa appreciated somewhat gullible.
"I can guarantee that!" Bozes shouted in a exalted way, somehow she felt she had to help esdeath.
"You? How?" Tuka, lelei, Shino and risa asked, after all, how was she so sure.
Piña and Rory wanted to know how Bozes would get out of this.
"Have they forgotten already?" She was dumbfounded.
Tuka, lelei, Shino and risa just cocked their heads, not knowing what esdeath was referring to.
"Ah" esdeath massaged the bridge of her nose a little, she had already given them credit for not reacting much when she mentioned Bozes was kei's, but it seems she was wrong.
"kei is Bozes' master, she belongs to him both body and soul, and as harsh as it sounds in the way I say it, it's true, she literally belongs to him because of the master and slave contract" she tried to explain it as best as she could, Ciel explained it to her, and now she has to explain it.
"Master and slave contract?" They looked confused.
Piña could only smack her forehead for not remembering sooner.
"Yeah... well it would be better if she tells" esdeath felt she had helped enough and figuratively threw Bozes in the pool.
"You see..." Bozes told everything that happened.
"Even your teammates" they were surprised.
"Yes, well although it was my fault too, after all, I remember being very upset at the time" Bozes looked away.
"Well. Why don't we go out and have a drink?" Shino was the first to leave.
"Sure." esdeath weirdly agreed.
*nod* silently they all followed Shino and esdeath.
Author: i make a little lemon in the next one? Everyone outside the hot spring will be killing each other while kei enjoys life, what do you guys think?