Akito and Estelle's Summer Wars

chapter 14

Lunch was soon being prepared.

"Steaks..." Connie sighed.

"Are you okay, Mama?" Alexandrite asked her mother.

"Oh, I'll be fine, dear," Connie smiled. "It's just that these steaks remind me of my old dog Rover before he went to live on the Hill farm with Daisy and your father and I adopted two puppies."

"Cadpig and Tripod." Alexandrite remembered.

"That's right." Atlas nodded.

"I'm sure he's okay, Mom." Alexandrite soothed.

"I know he's happier with Daisy, but I really miss him sometimes..." Connie sighed gently as she thought of her old dog back in Las Vegas.

They all soon got ready with the food.

"Lunch time?" Yumi asked.

"Have you guessed?" Nana replied. "Come on."

"Yeah, come on." Mo added.

"Um, just a minute!" Yumi replied. "The game went into extra innings!"

"Move it!" Mo told her, pushing her off of the chair and into the kitchen.

Wabisuke was now giving his respects to Sakae. Alexandrite sniffled and found herself crying. Hercules pouted and then hugged his sister to settle and soothe her. Akito had left the world of OZ to join in the meal.

"You okay?" Emi asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine," Akito told her. "Let's get some lunch, I'm starved."

"We'll need a lot to eat with the battle ahead." Emi said.

"Yeah, we're gonna need as much energy as we can get." Akito agreed.

They all then gathered together to begin eating their family lunch, and where Yumi was explained the entire issue at hand.

"Back in the summer of 1615, we stood tall against Tokugawa's army of a 515,000 with the Jinnounchi's." Atticus educated.

"Amazing." Lee smiled.

"But didn't we lose that war?" Yumi asked.

"There's more to valor than fighting only when think you'll win or sitting it out every time you think you'll lose," Mansuka said. "The Jinnouchis and Fudos have fought losing battles throughout history."

"Which is a surprise since Atticus has never once lost a battle." Cherry said.

"Idiots! All of them!" Rika complained.

"Sure, but that's our heritage." Mariko replied.

"In my case, the apple didn't fall far from the tree." Naomi shrugged.

"So, does anyone have a plan of how to beat Love Machine?" Connie asked as Wabisuke joined them.

"Yeah, I'm gonna hack into his code and take him apart," Wabisuke started. "There might not be enough time to pull it off, so--"

"Everything's happening because Love Machine stole those accounts, so what's going to be the most efficient way to steal them all back." Kenji replied.

"The most efficient way?" Kazuma asked out of confusion.

"You said he likes games, didn't you?" Kenji reminded.

"Huh?" Kazuma shrugged.

Kenji soon brought out the Honafuda deck of cards.

"I think that's a casino thing in OZ, I better look into it. "Marc nodded as he saw where this was going.