Rokurome
Chapter 8 — Rokurome.
Cafeteria | Squad Gathering | 3:00 PM.
At the cafeteria, there was a small celebration party for Jason and it was held by the Akai Squad.
"Hello, it's nice to meet everyone of you, seniors. I'm Jason Star, a newly graduated pilot that is now assigned under the famous Akai Squad. Please take care of the inexperienced me."
Jason formally introduced himself while bowing respectfully.
He had heard news of the Akai Squad and it was quite famous as it was composed of several talented adept pilots.
He was nothing compared to them.
"It's nice to meet you too, buddy. I'm Mochikuni Akai, the squad leader of this squad."
Akai lightly patted Jason's broad shoulder while smiling happily.
"Also, there's no need for you to use too much formalities."
Jason nodded his head. He was happy to see them being friendly and not too strict.
The other members of the Akai Squad soon started introducing themselves.
"Oh my! I didn't expect such a handsome and cool young man will be assigned to our squad. What a lucky day!"
A beautiful woman exclaimed while looking at Jason's handsome face from many different kinds of angles.
"Not bad at all!"
"Uhmm..." Jason was feeling uncomfortable from being examined all over the body.
"That's enough, Momose! You're making the newbie feel uncomfortable," Akai quickly lectured the woman sternly.
"Haha, don't worry! I was just teasing the new recruit. Ara? Don't tell me you're feeling upset and jealous?" The woman said while wearing a teasing smile toward Akai.
"W-What!? I'm certainly not!" Akai quickly refuted her with a red face.
"Hehe, how cute."
She was laughing cheekily when she suddenly looked seriously at Jason.
"By the way, I'm Hinata Momose. An adept pilot and also your senior in the squad. You can ask me about things that troubles you and I'll try my best to help," Momose introduced herself.
"Anything...?" Jason muttered while asking to himself.
Momose then neared her face near Jason's ear and whispered something.
"And for your information, I and Akai have some special relationship. Don't feel surprised about things I do to him, okay?"
"Ah, yes. I understand," Jason quickly replied and wondered what was their special relationship with each other.
He suspected that they were lovers.
"Hey Momose, what did you whispered to him?" Akai curiously asked.
"It was nothing at all," Momose said while winking at Jason.
Akai grew suspicious.
After Hinata Momose, a tall and muscular man introduced himself next.
"I'm Kawashida Aoki! It's nice to meet you, my junior brother! I see that you take care of your body greatly, if you need help in training your body and want to learn martial arts—the best person to look is for me! I know lots of ancient martial arts from Earth!"
"Ah, I see. Nice to meet you too, Aoki." Jason was able to quickly tell that this man was those freaks who trained their body and muscles everyday.
A gym bro.
He even mistaken Jason for also exercising, but he didn't exercised even once at all.
His body turned naturally muscular and powerful on its own!
The final man of the squad soon introduced himself.
He was handsome with a frame of unique green hair and dark green eyes.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Jason. I'm Izumo Midorikawa. Since I'm considered your senior, If you need help with learning logistics and explicit knowledge like strategies you can come to me anytime. I also include the knowledge about the Gauna, Guardian, and Sidonia. I also have a younger sister, if you see her in the future, please treat her kindly as possible. Although she's quite brutish, she's kind in the inside."
"It's a pleasure too. I will also gladly take your offer since there's still many things an outsider like me needs to learn. As for your sister, I will try to be kind on your behalf."
"Thank you, however, please don't start some random cliché about falling in love with her beauty at first sight."
"Ah, yes.... I promise."
Jason felt wronged about that. He didn't even have any intention of falling in love with his supposed younger sister in the first place.
What was he? An older brother who has a serious siscon complex?
Dude, please stop and get your brain treated now before it gets even more worse.
"Oh right! I remember hearing a rumour that said Jason is super talented and skilled. I heard he even excelled perfectly at every military subjects and even reached the highest possible score at the pilot ranking virtual completion."
Hinata Momose suddenly dropped a bomb. A powerful one at that.
"Hey, is that the truth?"
The three men looked toward Jason for confirmation.
Jason rubbed his cheeks using his finger and smiled awkwardly. It's not something he could lie about, so there was no use to hiding it to them.
"I guess so...?"
"We struck gold!"
"Wow, crazy!"
"Awesome!"
"That's amazing, Jason!"
The four of them exclaimed shockingly and looked at Jason as if he was some kind of monster.
"That's an amazing achievement! It even greatly surpassed our own achievements back when we were still at the SDF Academy. You should feel more proud and confident about this fact, Jason," Aoki said in awe.
The others nodded in agreement.
"Thank you, seniors," Jason took their advice into his heart.
Akai then approached Jason and said something excitedly.
"Jason, you possess an excellent skill as a pilot, do you want to participate at the Gardes Festival competition that will be held next month?"
Jason grew interested.
"Can you explain about it more detailedly?"
Akai nodded and started explaining what the Gardes Festival competition meant.
Jason soon understand what it was about and he chose not to join in the end.
The competition was just about competing with other Guardian Pilots and win at the end.
He didn't decided to join. It wouldn't benefit him that much.
"I'm sorry, however, I will not choose to participate in it. Instead of foolishly pointing my own blade at my fellow humans, I would rather point my unmerciful blade to our mortal enemies."
"Such a manly speech!" The others couldn't help but laugh at it.
Jason's words were true and made sense.
Akai was also surprised hearing it and felt quite embarrassed now since he would participate in it.
"Ahem, ahem. In that case, I will not force you to join."
Akai also decided to include Jason's speech toward his report to the commander. He was after all tasked to monitor him as the Squad Leader.
"Then let's raise our juices high on the air to congratulate Jason for joining our Akai Squad today! Cheers!"
"Cheers!"
"Cheers!"
"Cheers!"
"Cheers!"
"Cheers!"
All of them raised their glass of juice and cheered energetically.
The Akai Squad that now consisted of five people, spent the time to laugh and joke with each other. They had fun while talking about themselves and the others toward Jason. They would also ask Jason some questions to know more about him and to which he answered truthfully.
This was a precious time to Jason that was filled with happiness and tranquility.
And Jason silently enjoyed this celebration party.
He truthfully meant it.
It was not the act he started to wear ever since he got thrown into this strange and unfamiliar futuristic world.
He laughed and joked with them sincerely.
For the first time, Jason felt he now truly belonged to this world.
The urgency about his lifespan silently faded, causing him to feel his shoulder getting lighter.
He cheered,
For the happy ending of Humanity.
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Sidonia's Hangar Site | 10:00 PM.
"Starting today, this big guy here will now be your partner and Guardian to pilot," said a busty woman wearing an eyepatch and had her hair tied into a single tail.
Jason silently stood with his head raised, looking at the gigantic machine before him with hints of anticipation and excitement welling up inside his eyes
A gigantic mecha can be seen.
A variant of Type 18 Guardian that didn't have the automated system, but was instead fully manual control.
A Guardian not created by the Kunato Development, but by the Toha Heavy Industries instead.
A work of art itself.
A Type 18 Variant Guardian that was personally customised toward the Pilot Jason Star's preference and likings.
A machine perfectly tailored for the man who performed the most perfect and excellent achievement in the whole history of SDF Academy.
Jason stood before his partner and he could feel it resonating with him.
A gigantic and streamline Guardian that also stood proudly and imposingly like him. Its jet-black coloured scheme made it even more cool and powerful. Its red visored head added a vicious and menacing charm to it.
It wasn't normally possible to have a personalized colour scheme for a Guardian, but Jason was different from normal pilot.
He was a perfect graduate and an outsider who was favoured by the commander.
An exception could be made.
And it was only the paint job that was different, it was still the same as other Type 18 Guardian in terms of abilities except it doesn't have automated system.
Jason then looked at the black Guardian's shoulder and saw numbers placed on it.
"Guardian Number 666..."
The number sounded ominous, Jason didn't like it that much.
From now on, the black Guardian would be called as Rokurome.
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