Full Metal Panic! Short Stories Volume 7 [Parts 1 to 5] by Shouji Gatou

Author:Shouji Gatou
Language: eng
Format: epub

The impromptu drinking party was still going an hour later. O’Neil brought out a CD cassette player and started blaring James Brown’s greatest hits, which had Kaname feeling fired up.

O’Neil was right. The time they would have spent waiting in boredom for Hayashimizu’s return had turned into a really fun time. And he still hadn’t shown up, after all.

“Oh, by the way...” Kaname said, her third beer in hand. “What’s Senpai doing in this run-down old guest house? Er, sorry for the terminology, but...”

“Of course, this is because the rent is cheap,”

“Nothin’ wrong with a Japanese person livin’ here.”

“I admire that he earns all of his school and lifestyle funds himself at his young age,” Preacher O’Neil put in. “It’s truly inspiring! Even God Almighty is surely weeping from the firmament!”

The strange foreigners all testified merrily on Hayashimizu’s behalf.

Kaname recalled something Hayashimizu had said once about being effectively disowned by his father. He’d been expected to go to a prep school, but certain events in his life had led to him pushing back and attending Jindai High instead.

“Senpai’s a harder worker than I expected,” Hiromi whispered, his face bright red.

Kaname smiled groggily. “Yeah... He’s pretty amazing. Trying to live all off on his own like this without relying on his father’s money. It’s pretty darn cool... I’m looking at him in a whole new light.”

While Kaname was singing his praises, Sousuke suddenly shook his head and arms rapidly, as if trying to assert his presence.

“What’s that? Pantomime?” Kaname asked.

“No, I...” Sousuke, looking vaguely hurt, turned his eyes downward as Kaname just drank more of her beer.

“Hmm... I’m not sure I’d call him a hard worker, though. I don’t know what he does to make money, and he is the most well-off of the lodgers here,” Natalia murmured, arms folded.

“Really?”

“Yes. Every morning he reads the Nikkei, so perhaps he plays the stocks,” she mused. “And he never loses in our poker or mahjong games.”

“Not exactly making his money through hard work, then...” Kaname muttered, shoulders slumping. It’d be more impressive if he was delivering newspapers or something. But just as she thought that...

“Whoooah! I feel good! Da-na-na-na-na-na-na! I knew that I would, now! Da-na-na-na-na-na-na!” Okada Hayato, who was now on his sixth beer, began dancing and shouting along to the song on the tape player. The lodgers all leaped to their feet and clapped in time.

“Ahh, Oka-pii’s all worked up. Keep it together, man. Ha ha ha...” Kaname laughed before turning her eyes to Sasaki Hiromi, who was seated across from her.

Hiromi seemed to be engaged in a fervent conversation with the Kansai-accented Caucasian, and just as Kaname looked over, he suddenly stood up and shouted. “You just don’t get it!”

“Don’t get what now?” the Kansai speaker asked.

“The VF-0 and the SV-51 are superior to the fighter jets that came before!” Hiromi insisted. “They already have electromagnetic stealth features like ECS, which means contemporary radar can’t even track them!”

“But then why does the VF-17 look like that?” the Kansai speaker demanded to know.

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