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Chapter 173 - Return to the Academy

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Gamagori: form up! at attention! listen closely! tomorrow, the cultural & sports grand festival all no-star students and their parents are ordered to welcome the director of the academy ragyo kiryuin!

Crowd: woah!

Gamagori: ceremonial dress uniforms will be distributed to all of you! gather at the stadium entrance in these uniforms by 8:30 AM! tardiness will not be tolerated! unkempt dress will not be tolerated! assume that even the slightest breach of disrespect can be assume itself death! DISMISSED!

Barazo: wait just one minute!

Gamagori: uh!?

the manakanshoku family was on top of the vehicle that gamagori was standing on.

Gamagori: oh um, *cof* And who are you!?

Barazo: barazo mankanshoku, father of second year class K's Mako Mankanshoku!

Sukuyo: his wife, Sukuyo!

Mataro: their firstborn son, mataro!

Guts: *bark* *bark* *woof* (the dog, guts!)

Gamagori: oh, what a well-mannered family. even the dog introduces itself. what do you want?

Barazo: where is mako?

Gamagori: ugh….

Barazo: i heard that mako was conscripted into the school raid trip. the other students have returned but not mako and ryuko. would you care to explain that?

Gamagori: matoi and mankanshoku? they are rebels.

Mankanshoku family: eh!!?

Gamagori: as the family of rebels, your home is to be confiscated and you are to be banished from Honnou town!

Mankanshoku family: EEHHH!?

Gamagori: however, tomorrow is the cultura & sports grand festival. i will gran you a special pardon! you will be allowed to participate! if you wish to atone for your daughter's crimes, participate in the ceremony and wholeheartedly toast the honor and glory of lady satsuki and lady ragyo! is that clear?!

Barazo: *serious face* I'd like to ask you two things.

Gamagori: uh? what?

Barazo: are the girls alive?

Gamagori: yes.

Barazo: *exhale* question two! will this ceremony be catered?

*menancing*

Gamagori: o-of course.

Mankanshoku family: weeee….

Gamagori: ugh….

then they jump off the vehicle.

Barazo: very well! on the honor of the mankanshoku family, in order to remove our daughter's stigma, we shall clean our plates of this food, leaving not one crumb uneaten! mark my words!

Gamagori:.....

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in the nudist beach aikuro was showing a video feed of the academy to ryuko.

Ryuko: what the hell is this?

AIkuro: a video feed from hidden cameras i had set up inside honnouji academy.

Tsumugu: if ragyo kiryuin is coming, too, this must be something big. 

Ryuko: ragyo kiryuin?

Aikuro then shows images of ragyo to ryuko.

AIkuro: the leading figure of the kiryuin conglomerate, and she's currently using her position as REVOCS CEO to sell clothing laced with life fibers all around the world.

Ryuko: good grief, she's blinding! she's gaudier than satsuki! like daughter skank, like mother skank.

Aikuro: she's even more charismatic than satsuki. she's a formidable opponent.

*click*

Tsumugu: what's this? they're bringing in life fibers in bulk. what are they up to?

Aikuro: !! oh,no…she plans to conduct the final experiment at honnouji academy!

Ryuko: huh?

Aikuro: honnouji academy is an experimentation city. goku uniforms, created to study human resistance to life fibers. repurposing them for military use and conquering all of the country's academies. then forcibly distributing life fiber-laced uniforms to teenagers, those who have the highest resistance. after all that is complete, she offers up every last person gathered at honnouji academy as human sacrifices to the life fibers.

Ryuko: human sacrifices!? 

AIkuro: yes. it must be her final experiment to fully awaken the life fibers. gather a mass of people wearing life fiber-laced clothing in one spot and then instantly convert them into life fibers. that is the real purpose of the cultural & sports grand festival.

Ryuko: wait, so you're saying that mako's dad and mom will be eaten by their clothes isn't!?

AIkuro: put in simple terms, i suppose they will.

Mako: eh!?

Ryuko: eaten by their clothes….screw that! no way am i gonna let that happen!

Aikuro: ryuko-kun?

Ryuko: i don't know what satsuki is thinking but i am gonna beat reason into her! and as for ragyo kiryuin i'm gonna take her out!

Aikuro: leap straight into the jaws of danger?

Ryuko: yeah, i'm gonna jump down its throat and rip out its guts with my teeth!

Varakiel: "no"

Ryuko: uh? what do you mean no?

Varakiel: "no, right now you can't beat ragyo kiryuin by yourself."

Ryuko: is she that strong?

Varakiel: "aikuro put again the images of ragyo kiryuin"

Aikuro:...okay.

aikuro puts on the screen the images taken of ragyo.

Varakiel: …."there"

varakiel point with a tentacle a photo taken of her back and blinding light on it.

Varakiel: "expand the image on her back"

Aikuro: i don't get what are on about, varakiel-kun, but okay.

Varakiel:....."there"

Varakiel points at the scars in ragyo's back.

Aikuro: her scars? what about them?

Ryuko: is that her weak point, aniki?

Tsumugu: wait no those aren't scars...*inhale*

Varakiel: "they are indeed not scars, nor is a birth mark, ragyo did something worse, she herself sold herself to the life fibers"

*slam*

Aikuro: oi! does that mean she's a life fiber human hybrid!?

Ryuko: uh, eh!? what does that mean?

Aikuro: is another of the experiments that dr. matoi was doing in the past, make a perfect fusion of human and life fibers, i thought it was impossible! this is bad.

Ryuko: how so?

Aikuro: her body is life fiber, and she can also wears her own kamui, she has a life fiber of 200% on her body, ryuko-kun!

Varakiel: "exactly, we can't charge head on, on her, you're strong ryuko, but she's stronger"

Aikuro:...then what are we gonna do?

Varakiel: "....i was gonna keep this a secret for later but, satsuki wants to kill her mother too."

Aikuro:......now you're kidding right?

Varakiel: "no, the whole hoonouji academy was actually the plan of satsuki to gather strong people to fight her mother, she just disguised it has a slow plan to conquer the academies of japan"

Aikuro: and how the hell you know all of this?

Varakiel: "satsuki herself told me"

Ryuko:....oi wasn't it in that week right?

Varakiel: "yes it was"

Aikuro: that week?

Varakiel: "i gave special training to both ryuko and satsuki on the purge week, we were hiding in satsuki tower in the academy."

Aikuro: so that's why i never found you in all that time…..then?

Varakiel: "we must join forces with them, but we must be subtle, or the elite four will grown suspicious and satsuki would hate me~"

Aikuro:...*sigh*

Ryuko: leave satsuki to me, i will convince her with these hands.

Varakiel:....okay.

Tsumugu: hmph, this will be interesting.

Aikuro: oh brother even with all that information you leave me no choice. let's hurry, then. we don't have much time.

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REVOCS

Hououmaru: the hyper inner manufacturing facility in mozambique was attacked.

Ragyo: militant extremists? 

Hououmaru: yes, ma'am. it would seem that even anti establishment organizations are awash with rumors that wearing REVOCS special innerwear boosts physical capabilities.

Ragyo: that's fine. it's exacly as planned. we don't just make people buy them. there are some who are best tricked into taking them for themselves. regardless of how it came into their possession, the end result of them being worn by REVOCS clothing will remain unchanged.

Hououmaru: what a beautiful world.

Ragyo: not yet, we're only getting started. tomorrow, we step onto a new stage. the next step to the awakening of COVERS.

Hououmary: lady satsuki is most impressive. she masterfully conquered the teen demographic, which has the highest resistance to life fibers.

Ragyo: it was ingenious, negating their resistance to life fibers by getting them hooked on the power of goku uniforms.

Nui: but things are so dull if they're too neat and tidy.

Hououmaru: grand couturier….

Ragyo: oh, right. it was matoi's daughter that you were more interested in.

Nui: yes. to think that she gathered up the pieces of her kamui and stitched them together all by herself…there aren't many girls who can be quite that rude.

Ragyo: "fair is foul, and foul is fair" eh? how very like you, nui.

Nui: yep!

Ragyo: still, that's mere empty rhetoric. there's only one truth: its only beautiful that is accepted by ragyo kiryuin, that means, me. only those things that earn ragyo kiryuins's approval may be called beautiful. the cultural & Sports grand festival is tomorrow. i expect you to dress up for the occasion. enough to satisfy even my sense of style.

Nui: honestly, like mother, like daughter…

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nudist beach.

Aikuro hands over a dagger to tsumugu.

Aikuro: tsumugu.

Tsumugu: what's this? 

Aikuro: a tailor's dagger and tailor's glove. they're capable of cutting life fibers. you're in disadvantage on close combat with just those sewing machine guns.

Tsumugu: sever the goku uniforms's banshi and my opponent goes stark naked, huh? good. very good.

Aikuro: our targets are only ragyo and satsuki, ignore everything else. well, it's not like there's anything else we can do with just three of us.

Ryuko: keep mako safe.

Aikuro: sure. i've asked our remaining members to look after her here.

Mako: don't fair, don't ditch me here, ryuko-chan!

Ryuko: mako…

Mako: c'mon let's go home!

Ryuko: dummy, honnouji academy isn't safe for you!

Mako: but it's my home! i've got the souvenirs that varakiel saved for me to give to dad and mom!

ryuko rides her bike.

Ryuko: *sigh* just ride on then.

Mako: 'kay! if you're going, so am i!

Ryuko: I know, mankanshoku doesn't listen when they made up their mind.

Mako: that 's right!

Ryuko: Alright hold tight then!

then aikuro, tsumugu and ryuko ride their vehicles to the academy.

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