gyaxa | Study Trip on an Uninhabited Island part 1

Yukikaze: He’s over there!

Bear Cub: ……

Kinari: There appear to be several badges hanging from its mouth.

Akuta: C’mon, they ain’t yummy, okay?! Unless you’re a brand new type of bear that eats badges?!

Kafka: Hah, hah… Maybe we could try and surround it.

Ten: I doubt that’ll work. It’s in a good position, and it’s a wild animal.

Renga: H-He’s my friend! I’m sure he has a good reason for taking them…

Ryui: Doesn’t change the fact that he got red-handed. Save the talk for after we catch him!

Renga: Uu… what do I do…?!

Bear Cub: !!

Rat Snake: Hisss?!

Ushio: PWAAAAAAH?!

Chihiro: That’s a hella big snake…?!

Toi: Mr. Bear must’ve stepped on its tail…!

Rat Snake: Hissss!!

Bear Cub: Graah!

Yukikaze: It’s going to bite the bear…!

Liguang: Tch…!

Nagi: Oh. Liguang-san’s…

Kiroku: Taking… his hair tie—

Rat Snake: Sssss…

Akuta: WOAAAHHH!!!! THAT WAS SICK!!! A shot from the secret hair tie gun IN☆THE☆BAG!!!

Raito: Sorry, we just finished changing. What’s going on?

Tao: Woah, what’s with that big snake… why’s it on the ground?

Kuguri: Oh poor thing. That must’ve hurt.

Rat Snake: Ssss~...

Kuguri: Were you the one who bullied this poor little snake, Liguang? It’s not as though it's venomous… How cruel of you.

Liguang: I didn't do anything more than basic discipline. It shouldn’t bite just because it got stepped on.

Yodaka: What’s that sound…?

Drone Taicho: YOU NINCOMPOOPS!!

Drone Sensei: What are you doing all the way out here?!!

Nanaki: Captain!

Tao: Teach!

Drone Taicho: HEY GUYS! The area up ahead hasn’t been unlocked yet! Going in is a big fat NO!

Drone Sensei: Go any farther, and you’re being sent to the hallway! Now be good boys and turn back!

Netaro: AH! That bear or whatnot went inside!

Akuta: REALLY?! We gotta follow him! AFTER HIM!!

Nanaki: Woah, Akuta! Don’t go off on your own!

Ushio: You can’t tell us not to go in when we got our badges stolen. We’re literally victims.

Muneuji: Indeed. Theft is a crime I cannot possibly overlook. Onward!

Kiroku: Ah… Wait for me…

Liguang: Good grief…. I’m going after the brats.

Ryui: Sorry, Teach.

Drone Sensei: Ah, wait! HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!!

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Kiroku: *pant*…

Nanaki: What is this…?

Kuguri: An old building? I wouldn’t have expected to run into one here.

Yodaka: It’s awfully run-down. It seems rather uninviting as well.

Yukikaze: Are we sure the bear came over here…?

Renga: Um… Uh…!

Ah, why don’t we try checkin’ out that building? Maybe he lives there…!

Raito: I’m up for it!

Ten: Maybe we shouldn’t. Cuz, y’know, if that’s a baby bear…

Akuta: AH!! Then maybe his parents are in there, and hungry for revenge…?!

Kinari: I do not detect any heat from the building.

Akuta: Then maybe not!

Chihiro: Hmm… it doesn’t look like there’s anything around here at all…

Yodaka: No… We may have better luck looking under these trees and branches…

Toi: Oh, there’s a bunch of badges…!

Ryui: Looks like some pretty definitive proof to me.

Renga: ……

Kafka: But how’d he take so many without anyone realizing…?

Chief: 『Everyone! What are you doing over here?!』

Tao: Ah, Chief…

Sakujiro: 『This area was intended to be the prize for winning the next battle.』

Nayuki: 『I believe the drones did warn you not to enter.』

Kiroku: B-But…

Ushio: Forward any complaints you have to the bear.

Yachiyo:『Bear?』

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Nayuki: 『… I see. So that’s the situation.』

Liguang: So you all weren’t involved in this?

Daniel: 『Yep. This is all news to us.』

Sakujiro: 『We shall look into the bear on our end. We will also return the badges to all parties involved later, so please return to your bases, everyone.』

Muneuji: I can’t say I’m satisfied with this…

Kafka: Well, there’s nothing we can do about it. Let’s leave the rest to them. It’s already pretty late.

Toi: Oh… where’s Nagi-kun?

Yodaka: I don’t spot Netaro anywhere around either.

Ryui: They’ll wander back once they’re hungry.

───

~A few minutes earlier~

Netaro: Heeheehee…

While everyone went ahead to the unlocked area…

Bear Cub: *whine*...

Netaro: I caught the bear with “Tangly Dangly Foot Trap V2”~!

Nagi: Dangly do~…

Netaro: And I captured Gii too. I gotcha, Gii~

Nagi: I don’t feel the best about hanging here with a bear, though.

Netaro: Why’s that~?

Nagi: I don’t know when he’ll try and take a bite outta me…

Netaro: Mmm, it won’t do that. The only thing it'll eat are the microchips inside the badges.

Nagi: What…?

Netaro: Do I have to repeat myself? The only thing the alien taking over this bear cub’s body eats is—

Nagi: Huh? W-Wait a sec.

This bear’s… being taken over by an alien?

Netaro: Yep!

Nagi: Huh.

(I’ve gotten so used to knowing extraterrestrial lifeforms exist that I’m not even questioning it.)

Bear Cub: *whine*…

Nagi: So he took the badges to eat them…

Netaro: That’s what I’ve been saying.

But it could probably make do with any electronic device, so it doesn’t have to be those badges’ microchips. Based on that, I’d say this fellow is from Planet ●▽■°★.

Nagi: (I couldn’t make out what he said at all.)

Netaro: I’m not exactly sure why it’s on this island, but it probably had to make an emergency landing.

Nagi: Oh… But there aren’t any electronics on this island, so it must’ve been starving… That must’ve been tough.

Netaro: Also, once this fellow leaves this island, it might try to eat all the electronics in the whole world and cause mass-destruction.

Nagi: ……

Bear Cub: ……

Nagi: Netaro… Can you do something about it?

Netaro: Something? Some thing? Hrmmm~~~~~…

I sort of lost interest once I figured out its identity…

Nagi: Netaro.

Netaro: But I can’t have it destroy this planet when my Beatrice is out there somewhere.

Maybe I will do some thing!