Infinite Stratos: Solar Akatsuki

Chapter 7 - Boy Meets Boy

Last Time: Zora, Ichika and Rin work together to take down the mysterious IS

This Time: The class gets an unexpected male surprise 

(Opening Theme: Back - On)

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A week had passed since the 'rogue IS' incident at the IS Academy's inter-class tournament and now that everything was finally going back to normal. Even though many of the students were still a bit disturbed by the crisis happening that day, the fact that the Academy was quick in their action to resolve it did somewhat put them to some peace.

Zora, Ichika and Rin were also given praises and received admirations from many thanks to their action of holding back the rouge IS to buy time for the trapped students, though, Ichika got quite a bit of scolding on his part by his sister and first childhood friend. As for Zora...well....he got a week of toilet cleaning duty for disobeying Chifuyu.

As of now, Zora had woken up on Saturday morning, dressed up, took the monorail to the mainland and was currently walking through town, listening to music. He was about to cross the street when the ringtone on his phone sounded (Start A Riot: Spiderverse). He put on his headphones and pressed the call button to answer the call.

"Hello?" said Zora.

"Hey Zor, it's me Ichika," a familiar voice responded.

"Yo Ich, what's up?"

"I checked out your room hoping to find you but you weren't around," said Ichika.

"Meh, I'm in town right now. But I'm free,"

"That's great, I'm heading over to Dan's place to visit and I wanted to see if you wanted to come along,"

"Sure, I'm down."

"Okay bye," then the connection was cut off.

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Soon enough Zora arrived at the destined location, there he sat on the seat and was playing a game on his phone to while away the time.

"I wonder what's taking him so long, he said that he would be here soon," Zora muttered to himself.

"Hey Zora!"

The orangette looked up to see Ichika approaching him while dressed in a casual clothing of a blue and white T-shirt with brown trousers.

"Geez, took ya so long?" Zora said as he stood up.

"Sorry about that, I was checking on things at home," said Ichika sheepishly.

"No prob, so ready to go?" asked Zora.

"Sure," said Ichika before walking away with Zora right behind him. They walked for a bit before stopping before what appears to be a restaurant with a large banner on the front written 'Gotanda Eatery'.

"Let's go inside," Ichika and Zora went in and saw a kitchen that is in full view of the guest tables but is separated by a counter. That is when someone appeared from behind the counter and was greeting them.

"Hello and welcome to...Ichika? Zora? Hey guys, long time no see!" said the person, he was a male with long scarlet hair that is tied with a grey bandanna, he also wore a grey t-shirt and blue jeans.

"Hey Dan, it's been a while," said Ichika with a smile.

"Yo" Zora greeted with a wave.

"How, it's good to see you two. How about you come up to my room since there are any customers here at the moment?"