Little Battlers eXperience

Peace at Last?

Nikolai Yezerverk:

The next day, early in the morning, we all head for the hall where Haruki gave his speech. The rest of Jenock stood behind him.

"Thanks to all your help, we stopped Ezeldarm from making it in to the Lost Area and protected Underbalance. Thank you all."

"Haruki, you were a fantastic commander." Andrei stated. "We should be the ones thanking you."

"Good work, Haruki!" Yuno said.

"Everyone really did their best!" Cathrine exclaimed.

Then Arata stepped forward. "Everyone! Though we stopped Ezeldarm, Ms. Mito's father is still locked up in the Lost Area. I want to save him somehow. But the Parasite Keys are gone. What should we do...?"

"We will find a solution to that." Mr. Kaidou appeared on the stage. I guess Niara was right about this guy being a ninja.

"Jin-san..." Arata acknowledged.

"Saving Professor Mito is a job for us adults." He stated. "We can't continue to rely on you all like this."

"But..." Arata trisd to protest, but Mr. Kaidou cut him off.

"He's a teacher that I very much respect." He stated. "Four years ago, I travelled to Country A to research LBXs. There I met a professor of neuroscience... Professor Mito. The professor was researching how to stimulate the brain so that players could more efficiently control their LBXs. I learned many things from the professor. It was the professor that camebup with the idea of the Overload. That man is locked up inside the Lost Area. Now that we know this to be true, Management can't easily lift a hand against us. We can definately save him."

"It's true that we can't do much beyond this..." Haruki muttered.

"It'd probably be a good idea ot leave it up to Jin-san and the rest." Hikaru stated.

"Um... After you save the professor, what will happen to the Second World?" Yuno asked.

"The central computer will result in an error and it should stop functioning." Mr. Kaidou replied.

"It means that this proxy war will come to an end." Muraku stated.

"And that's a good thing... Right?" Arata asked.

"I don't know." Muraku replied. "However, Management will no longer have a neef for this place."

"This school will be closed down." Mr. Saruta stated.

"I thought so..." Hikaru muttered.

"I... Can't let that happen." Arata said.

Muraku looked up at him. "Arata?"

"I love this school." Arata stated. "I mean, it pisses me off that you adults used us and I know that there's no point in living peacefully when someone else has to suffer for it. But I really had a lot of fun living here!"

"Well, that's true." Cathrine agreed.

"I've made both happy and painful memories here." He continued. "If I hadn't come here, then I wouldn't have met a lot of my friends. And even though getting used to better LBXs was tough, now that I think back on it, it was really fun! I want everyone who comes here in the future to have those same experiences! There's still so much that I want to do. And I want to polish my skills so that I can become a pro player!"

"I'm the same." Hikaru stated.

"And I'm going to be like Asuka-sama!" Cathrine declared.

"Instructor Saruta!" Arata called. "I want Kamui Daimon Coprehensive Academy to stay as it is. I don't care about this war or what the adults want. I just want it to be a normal school for LBXs, like what I thought it was when I enrolled!"

"I agree with him." Hikaru said.

"Me too." Muraku said. "Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to look at our LOST teammates in the eye." I caught a glimpse of Hannah noding silently at his words.

"I understand how you all feel." The insturctor said.

"However, convincing Management is no easy task." Mr. Kaidou stated.

"There's one way we can do this." Rikuya suddenly spoke up.

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Kenbishi Hannah:

The next thing I know, we all ended up in the headmaster's office. Nikolai and I stood at the very back of the group since we both won't be commenting much.

"Cut this place off frombthe ERP?" The headmaster repeated.

"Yes. We'd like to make this a simple LBX speciality school that has nothing to do with real-world battles." Haruki stated.

"I'm afraid I can't do that." The headmaster replied. "A large number of countries are depending on the ERP."

"So are you planning to keep Professor Mito down there forever?!" Arata raged.

"No one would want to continue this stupid war anyway, so why bother continuing it?" Nikolai whispered to me. I shrugged in reply.

Rikuya offered to speak tobhis father and try to convince him to do it.

Soon after, the first platoon along with Gendou, Cathrine, Yuno and Kaito went to the docks to watch Seredy and the rest of Ezeldarm to go back to the mainland. The rest of us waited in class.

"Hey, is it just me or is there a black dot right over there by the harbour?" Nikolai asked while sticking his face to the window.

I stood up and went to the window. "What black dot?" I took out mini-binoculars from my pocket and looked through it. "Why is a submarine there? Why isn't Seredy in the boat yet? What are the teachers doing just standing there? Why are there men inuniforms coming out of the submarine? Why are they holding rifles? Why are they all coming back to the school along eith the Ezeldarm students- Oh wait... Damn the World Sabers."

"What I wanted to ask you just now was, where did you get that binocular, but- WHAT?! THE WORLD SABERS?!" Nikolai freaked.

We're in big trouble now.