Memento...

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Andrea: Ok, wake up people, we have a war to win!

Erica: Funf minuten...

Andrea: No, not a single one, you have to wake up, there's an incoming attack.

Raisa: Yeah, we intercepted some calls, they have a couple of tanks, we need your abilities Erica.

Erica: Just let me sleep for once.

Helma: Ugh... Some things will never change.

Emma: You're better off waking up the others, Andrea, we'll find a way.

Ursula: Schwester, you don't want a syringe of adrenaline so early in the morning, right?

Maria: It would help though.

Erica: ...Fine.

So Andrea went to the next barrack, the one with Orussian girls, then the one with Gallians and Suomous, then the Romagnan-Liberion barracks, then the Britannian or Britannian-speaking barracks, then finally the one of Fuso.

Andrea: Ok people, let's move!

Shizuka: Understood!

Andrea: ...Where's Amaki? Usually she shows up quite early.

Yoshika: Don't know, she's lying in bed but I didn't felt any illness.

Hikari: Maybe she's just tired from the last mission.

Inufusa: Impossible, she went to bed quite early.

Yoshiko: Aww, just let her sleep.

Andrea: Sorry, I can't, we all have to be prepared.

And so he went next to her bed.

Andrea: Amaki, wake up little one it's a little past 7,  we should fight and give the example, right?

Not a response.

Andrea: Come on Amaki, we don't have all the day, it's just a convoy, nothing serious.

Not a response.

Andrea: Well, sorry but I have to administrate some adrenaline, so now just lay your arm right here... Right there, exactly.

The arm was moved by Andrea.

Andrea: Oookay, now just breathe out aaaand... It's... Cold. What's the temperature out here?

Kunika: Twenty two?

Kanno: Twenty two, just checked.

Shibuya: Why, she catch a cold?

Andrea: No no, it's just that it's strange... Nah it can't be, but on the other hand... Amaki, show me just a sec you're forehead, I have to check your temperature.

No response.

Andrea: Amaki, if that's a joke i swear to God I...

And he lifted Suwa's head, pale, with the eyes wide open, not a single sign of life.

Andrea: AMAKI!

The head dead dropped on the pillow, he bounced backwards for the shock.

Yoshika: Andrea what the-?

Andrea: Get a defibrillator, your magic, a painkiller, the fucking squadron here NOW! Move, move!

That's how they realised what was the situation.
They all gave their best efforts to try to take her back to life but... Nothing worked.

He exited the barracks with the whole squadron waiting outside, wishing for some good news.
He exited, kneeled and with a tear in his left eye:

Andrea: ...I've failed.

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