( Yuuki's POV )
The day after Laura's transfer, I went with Ichika to find out what he knew about her, her presence at school had to do with the Orimura brothers and I was pretty sure he wasn't going to get anything from Sensei but when I asked Ichika he got serious, he said he didn't know Laura and I saw that it was true but there was something he was keeping to himself that was surely something personal and if he didn't want to share that I wasn't going to dig into it any further.
I was depending on the information that Matsu was gathering there so while I waited for that I continued my day as normal while I had Laura's piercing gaze on the back of my head, later as always I was at the stadium for my practice but when I was in the changing room the door slid open.
The one who had entered was Origami, I didn't have my shirt on, and my scars were showing, but she didn't react to that, I was going to ask what she was doing here, but she spoke first.
Origami: Yuuki, tell me the truth... In the previous rogue IS incident, you were the one who defeated it, weren't you?
Yuuki: That's an interesting thing to say, how did you come to that conclusion?
Origami: The flying form and fighting style, I haven't seen anyone pilot that way except for you.
Origami was as observant as ever, and although I thought about denying what she said, the way she was looking at me didn't let me do so, she had an emotionless expression as always, but there was something different this time, her aura also became somewhat cold.
Yuuki: Another good observation, that was me, but what are you going to do with that information?
Origami: I want to-
I was curious about Origami's intentions but when I heard a commotion in the stadium I ran leaving Origami behind, and when I got to the stands I saw a battle between Cecilia and Lingyin against Laura, Because of her training with me Cecilia was holding up well but I could see that they were on the losing side, that was mainly due to a function of Laura's unit that could cancel attacks in front of her.
Laura was constantly pushing the two girls and she was able to lower her shields completely, normally this is where the battle would end but at that moment Laura prepared her biggest weapon which was a rail cannon mounted on her shoulder, she not only wanted to win but to dominate them with a lot of pain, I was not going to allow that under normal circumstances and much less when my Cecilia is involved.
I made my body intangible and passed the stadium barrier, I activated my IS and appeared in front of Laura, with one hand I raised her cannon and the shot flew over us, the arrogant smile that Laura had disappeared and she tried to use an extendable blade to attack me but I grabbed her hand and used my sub arms to shoot her at point-blank range.
Laura flew backward while dodging, and then she activated her cancellation barrier, but seeing Cecilia fight, I could discover the flaw in that function, Laura could only nullify attacks in a limited area in front of her hand, so I used my tails to grab her by her leg and threw her against the wall.
I pulled out my sword and flew straight towards Laura, but I stopped when someone unexpected appeared in the arena, she was Chifuyu-Sensei.
Chifuyu: That's enough! This is not a sanctioned fight.
I looked at Chifuyu for a moment and then I shrugged my shoulders, I didn't start the fight but I guess that doesn't matter, I deactivated my and walked towards Cecilia to check on her and the good thing was that she was almost unharmed, We walked out of the field but I saw that the girl Lingyin was having some difficulty walking so I approached her and gave her my shoulder to lean on.
Lingyin: e-eh What are you doing?
Yuuki: You are hurt, you need to go to the infirmary.
Lingyin: .. thanks.
When I helped the girl, I could feel Cecilia's gaze on the back of my head and she had a moment of silence.
Cecilia: ... Yuuki I need help too.
Cecilia took my other shoulder and pretended to be hurt, we went to the infirmary and Ichika appeared to check on her childhood friend, I left Lingyin in his care, and Cecilia and I returned to the dorms, she was still pretending to be hurt so I carried her like a princess back to her room.
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That night, I went out on a night walk, and this time, I didn't leave the island, hoping to attract the attention of a certain silver-haired girl, after a few minutes of walking, I saw Laura coming out from behind a tree just like the day before.
Laura: ... Kurokawa Yuuki, what is your goal here, on this island?
Yuuki: Well I'm a student, so I would say to learn.
Laura: It is not possible, your skills are far above many veteran pilots, and you come from a basically unknown place, you cannot be like a normal student.
Yuuki: well, obviously not, but what about you?
Matsu sent me the information about Laura and there wasn't much of it, basically because Laura Bodewig didn't exist that was a fake name, she was trained from a young age to be a perfect soldier, and when the IS were created she trained with them but she was a failure, Chifuyu was the one who changed that when she trained with her for a year, and now she felt great admiration for Chifuyu.
Yuuki: I really feel sorry for you, you feel so lost.
Laura: I don't need your Pity! I need you out of the way.
Annoyed, Laura activated her IS and I saw that she had very serious intentions of ending the fight we started before.