Today, there is only a physical measurement and an explanation of the lessons we will be learning. I'm told that I'll be studying at the institute as a full-fledged student from next week.... I was told to use the extra time from the class time and body measurement that's finished early in the explanation to interact with other students.

'Huh!　Hoo-hee!

　There's Saito-kun in front of me. I don't hate it, you know?　It's just, two guys drinking coffee in a sunny seat in the school cafeteria. I'd love to talk to the shadowy girl over there, but I can't do that without Saito-kun, male friendships are hard!　And Macho said that he's only as hard as his muscles.

"So, didn't military power suits have an escape mechanism until they became the current type?

　Saito-kun asked excitedly. I was explaining to him the concept of the new power suit that my mother had developed. It seems that you love the military, so when I told him about my mother's new power suit, he couldn't help but bite into it.　Back to the power suit, as Saito said, the military model did not have an escape mechanism.... My mom saw a man jumping out of the back of the suit in the picture I drew.

What's this?

He asked me if it was an escape mechanism, and I told him it was.

E.......................

I froze. Mom, who rebooted after a while, laughed and told me I didn't need that stuff. She explained to me that the way they operate on the battlefield in the first place is mainly in single-engine enemy line penetration operations, so if I escaped, I would be captured or killed immediately. No, no!　There's no way that's possible. You need an escape mechanism, I desperately tried to explain the need to my mom.

One, the cost of training the crew.

2. The stress relief from the sense of security that comes from being able to escape.

3. the usefulness of the information that would be brought back to us even if we escaped.

　There are many other factors, but these are the three main ones. Even after hearing that, I still insist on abandoning the power suit, which makes me a bit of a pain in the ass.

Why don't you put a power suit on underneath your power suit?

And the moment I said it, a bit thrown back

Oh....................

　With those words, Mom didn't come out of her room for half a day. Finally, she came out and said, Kochan, how about this!　The new power suit that was shown to me was a reinforced exoskeleton that I had to put on before I could put on the big book suit. In order to escape, the upper half of the suit would be manually pried open from the inside to escape. Honestly, it's lame........
　Can't you just take off all the parts in a flash? She said that and went back to her room in a daze. A few hours later, when I started to worry about dinner, she came out again and showed me another blueprint and explained it to me

'Well, then!　When escaping, all the parts are ignited with gunpowder to purge the joints. Even the flying parts are used in the attack and then the system can be used to escape.

　That's it!　It's like this!　I complimented Mom on how cool and innovative it was, and she seemed happy to start preparing dinner. At that time, I suggested that we manufacture each part so that we could replace broken parts immediately, but in the end, we didn't have dinner until midnight. The result was the "Prototype 6th Generation ARAKAWA", commonly known as the Arakawa Model. All of the power suits currently being developed around the world are based on this Arakawa model.

Did you come up with the concept for this new power suit, Arakawa?

　You can't just sit back and ask me about it, but that's not true. It's not that much of an advice... or even a piece of advice, but your mother could have come up with that much on her own, and more importantly, she was the one who made it up.

Is that so?

　That's right, Saito-kun. I can't live with my mom if I'm going to claim credit for something like that, and I can't keep up with her mentally in the first place. You know what?　He's the kind of person who can single-handedly build a fusion reactor in his house. When I said that, Saito-kun agreed, to a point.






　More importantly, isn't that the third piece of cake?　You were told you're overweight by your body measurement, so weigh yourself........





----Shingo Saito's Viewpoint...

　I was surprised to hear that Arakawa was teaching me about power suits. I had assumed that Arakawa's mother was making the power suit, but it seems that he was thinking about it. I'm talking about it in a casual way. I wonder if Arakawa understands?　Improving survival and manufacturing each part of a suit is a completely different concept from what we used to do. For example, if a suit is wrecked, it used to take weeks to repair it, but now all you have to do is replace the parts and it's done in a few hours.
　I'm known as a military otaku, so I understand what this means. Unlike other suits, Arakawa's model suit could be used to carry bazookas, machine guns, etc., so a single suit could be used in place of various other types of suits. And yet Arakawa-kun is not proud of his accomplishments.

I didn't do anything to it because she made it.

How humble he is. I'm sure Arakawa is trying to be modest with me, which I can't do anything about... I'm very happy to hear that. I'm very happy to see that you're not being sarcastic. So I'm going to go with you, too.

Is that right?　

I replied. I can't blame him for being a little bitter!　Because it was really great. I ate my third piece of cake, smiling.





----Alice Alford Viewpoint ----.

　Arakawa-kun and Saito-kun are sitting near me.... Apparently, they have now moved from talking about miscellaneous topics to talking about power suits. I want to join in......... I've always been too shadowy to make many friends, I've had some, but those friends were also too shadowy to be left behind, often forgotten by the teacher during off-campus classes. Oh, the orange juice you're drinking is so salty....
　That's why I was trying my best to make friends today, when I just entered the academy, to make my presence felt, but when I noticed, I was alone as usual. I'm doing my best too. But the students at the institute were too individualistic, in a good way, and the level was too high for me.
　I can't let this go on!　With that in mind, I was listening to their conversation, but I couldn't find the right moment to talk to them, they were talking about a power suit that even now I don't really understand. The only thing I can talk about is the contents of pharmacology, which is my area of expertise... In the meantime, it seems that the conversation has come to an end, and Saito-kun has started eating his cake.







It's not a bad idea to have a conversation with them.




----Kouki Arakawa's Viewpoint ----.

Hey, do you have a minute?

　The next thing I knew, there was a very pretty girl in front of me. Huh?　Who. I asked the girl, suppressing the tension that was building up. Saito-kun's like, "Huh-hihih! I'm so excited about this........wait a minute. Calm down for a minute.

"I'm Alice. I'm in your class do you remember me?

　Wasn't there ever a girl this cute?　I don't remember. Saito-kun also said, ''Huh?

No, it's okay, I'm... not very good at it.

What'd she say? Sorry, Alice!　I didn't mean to do that. Come on, Saito-kun, apologize too! Desperately apologizing, Alice said this

Um, please be my friend!

　There it is!　That's it!　I waited. Thank goodness, I was thinking that my time at the academy would end with me being friends with just Saito-kun. When I was about to reply, Alice nodded her head and said, "No?

I'm not sure if it's a good idea.　Saito-kun.

Huh?















Sight!　I will never forgive you!






Arakawa-kun, do you think you could do the same?

Oh, I'm sorry, Saito-kun. I forgive you.... I'm really sorry for getting all hot and bothered by myself.




----Alice Alford's POV...

'Heh, so you specialize in pharmacy, Alice?

　Arakawa-kun asked me with interest. I haven't accomplished much in spite of what I specialize in, and I'm sure that Arakawa's mother and Saito are doing much better than I am. In particular, Saito was featured in an electronics magazine last month, and when I told him that

'Seriously?　Saito, you're in that magazine?　Why didn't you tell me?

That's because your mother is on the cover of that magazine, Arakawa-kun. I'm too embarrassed to brag because I'm only on the last page for a few minutes.

　The two of us are flirting with each other while saying that.... My ideal image of a friend was right in front of me, I'd like to do something like that too.

By the way, Arakawa-kun's mother was also active in the pharmaceutical field. Are you still doing research at home?

　When I asked him that question, Arakawa-kun taught me many things. He would study in his room at home and forget to prepare dinner. Suddenly injecting himself with a medicine, saying it was safe for his body. That he often came to me for advice. ....what? What did you just say?

So, you see, Mom, it's your body.

No, no, no!　And then!

Are you coming to me for advice?

　How could I possibly advise that genius?　I wonder if Arakawa-kun is also a pharmacology specialist.... When I asked him about it, he said

No, I'm not much of a pharmacologist.

　What an answer. Well, you just asked me for a moment because you're family. When I was about to conclude that, Saito-kun said something I couldn't believe my ears.

'You said you weren't a specialist in that, but you also developed a new power suit, didn't you?

　That's what I'm talking about! What Arakawa-kun is talking about, but I can't hear him....





Even if it's not my field of expertise, I have a talent that surpasses Arakawa Miki, who is said to be a genius.



　I could sense that he wanted to tell me that. Come to think of it, when I was back in my home country, the adults at the research institute said that Miki Arakawa's research was merely the work of his son, Koki Arakawa, and that he was only presenting it instead. He is the true genius, or rather, the devil's child. At the time, I thought that a child of my age would never be able to do such a thing, but looking at the reactions of Arakawa and Saito, it was probably true. I looked at Arakawa-kun in awe, unlike earlier.














----Surveillance Team Intelligence Officer's Point of View----

　My job is to analyze the information sent to Koki Arakawa's personal terminal and report it to the higher-ups. I'm obliged to submit all information, but since I once had him launch a new spy satellite for my exclusive use, I have to exclude information that a boy of my age would search for. Well, let's just say he has a pretty special hobby.... What an old man with blonde hair, rabbit ears and net tights!

Well, today's mail is...

　Hmm, an email from my friend Shingo Saito. It's trivia about animals, or I'll send it to my terminal as well. There's nothing else of note here, so let's move on to my internet browsing history. Hmm, what's this, "Laxative making course you can make yourself! You spend a lot of time on this page, where did you jump from this page?　'How to mix drugs that won't be discovered, so your drug-hating child won't have to worry about it', 'How to treat your father', 'The perfect crime manual - how to bury a dead body'.............


'Captain, it's me.'

I found myself sending a communication to the captain........

''Oh? What's going on?

　You still sound like a nohawk, but I don't think you understand that this man is in a very dangerous situation right now.

'I'm going to ask you to shut down all the sites I'm about to teach you. Criminality is not an issue except in one case, so I'll just freeze the servers.

　He listened to my verbal instructions as if they were troublesome, but around the time I said 'how to treat your father', he sounded the same as he did when he was commanding in the field. Perhaps the captain's life is safe for the time being........ Next, let's check the inside information, this is like a diary. That's odd, it wasn't there last time I looked, but it was updated 2 days ago. I see it's been moved from another terminal. I'll have to check that one later. The content ... it's been around for a long time, does it contain anything about me? Hmm.

'I met a sister who said she was working with Macho today. She said she wanted to see the earth from space. I'm going to talk to my mom about it.

Oh, you're the big sister.... She's a good judge of character.

I talked to my mom, and she said she can help me improve my rocket launcher. Do you think your sister will be pleased?

Yeah, that was great, Kouki-kun.

"The launch was successful!　Your sister saw the images coming from the satellite and they look great! What a thing to say, but your sister's joyful smile was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.'


Cute!　He's so cute!　You make me want to eat your sister.







I was in a good mood and gently added the contents of the hidden file "study folder" at his bookmarks, the school swimsuit under the bunny girl.