[kuroishinigami]

Finishing summary so I can continue translating tomorrow(Hopefully).

Originally Posted by kuroishinigami

Spoiler for vol 7 chapter 1 summary:

The story continued where it left off last time in vol 6. Ichika was shot, but Laura manage to shield him using her IS AIC ability. Laura was there because she stalked him to find some time alone with Ichika. Anyway, Madoka manage to run away by creating a diversion through throwing Laura's own knife to herself.

The scene change to the next day, where Ichika is having dinner with his harem as usual. The other harem beside Ichika is very surprised knowing Ichika get attacked by Silent Zephyr's pilot, but Ichika doesn't tell the other about Madoka's name. Cecilia once again make use of her wound to get Ichika to fed her by ordering a dish that has to be eaten using chopsticks. Of course, the other harem make some noise, and Chifuyu is angry at them. One interesting happened for Chifuyu end shipper, Chifuyu seems worried seeing Ichika always hang out with the same girls(his harem) and Yamada-sensei seems to notice this and make a comment to Chifuyu. Of course Chifuyu indirectly deny this by asking Yamada-sensei to a combat practice(in other word, if she keep mentioning it, Chifuyu gonna beat Yamada-sensei to a pulp during the practice :P)

After dinner, all his harem followed him to his room since they're worried he's going to get attacked again. Harem antics happen as usual, this time Charlotte get the good mood with Ichika. After they leave, this time Sarashiki onee-chan come to the room. Ichika tried to resist her entering his room, but onee-chan just cut through the door using the water blade. Onee-chan teased Ichika first of course, but then she make a request to Ichika in the end, to make a group pair with her imouto, Kanzashi, without telling imouto that it's a request from onee-chan.

Now we're introduced to her imouto Kanzashi, which seems to be a gloomy person. Imouto-san is Japanese representative candidate, but she hasn't got her personal IS since the lab that's supposed to develop imouto-san's personal IS happened to be the same lab that developed Byaku-shiki, which means the reason she hasn't got her personal IS is partly Ichika's fault(according to onee-chan's logic :P). We also found out that onee-chan and imouto-san doesn't get along well, and onee-chan become strangely reserved when talking about her. Ichika cured onee-chan's reservedness by giving a massage. After hearing that Ichika agreed to take her request, she left and Ichika is left with fixing the door.

Scene change to Madoka. Squall scold her for acting on her own by confronting Ichika. We found out that Madoka's real target is not Ichika, but Chifuyu, but when Squall make fun of Chifuyu by saying that Chifuyu is weak since she doesn't have IS currently, Madoka throws her knife to Squall. Squall also told Madoka to try being prudent till the next mission which will be some time later. In the end, we also see that Madoka hate Chifuyu enough to feel pleasant when hurting her face, which is the same as Chifuyu(foreshadowing on their relation IMO).

Scene change to the school again, this time the news club president, Mayazumi Kaoruko-senpai, ask Ichika and Houki to have an exclusive interview and photo shoot session with her older sister who works as a reporter in an IS related magazine. Houki and Ichika reject the request at first, but Houki has a change of mind after Kaoruko-senpai told them that as a reward for the interview, they will get a free dinner ticket at a high-class restaurant, of course a pair dinner at that. Since this is Houki and Ichika's first time to a photo shoot(although Cecilia already showed Ichika her modeling photo wearing a frilly dress), they were a little nervous. Rin butt in and said she'll show her photo when she do a photo shoot(if you read my vol 6's translation, a representative candidate is kinda like an idol, they're usually get asked to become a model or for a photo shoot). Ichika reject at first since he thought Rin will only wear strange clothes at the photo shoot, but Rin force him to look at her photo and he find out that she looks quite nice with a casual clothes. Of course, Rin get too absorbed showing Ichika her photo and doesn't here the bell ringing, which get her a smack from Chifuyu.

Next scene, Ichika get lent to Kendou-club next, and a lot of members come to the club activity even though they usually attend the club activity. Of course, they try to request for an Ichika-massage, but Ichika reject the request. The other club member find out about the pair dinner that Ichika and Houki get and tease Houki about it.

Next, We have our heroine trying to invite Ichika to form a pair team with them. First is Charl. She tried to invite indirectly by inviting him for lunch first, but Ichika just bluntly reject her by saying he has prior engagement. Before Charl can press further, the other girl inside the class led by Nohohon-san(anime watcher might remember her as the girl with long sleeve that cover even the palm of her hand) take Charl away for lunch with them instead since she rarely have lunch with other people beside Ichika and his harem group.

Next is Rin. She confront him on his way to class 4 and directly ask him to form a pair with her. Of course he reject it and said he already promised someone else. At first Rin thought the one he's pairing with is Charlotte, and she force Ichika to tell her who is the one he promised to be his tag partner with so she can force Ichika's partner to change partner with her. Of course, Ichika ran away.

Ichika finally reach class 4 and found imouto-san playing with the hologram projector inside the class. It seems the other class member don't like imouto-san since she's been skipping school from the start and they think the reason imouto-san become a representative candidate and personal IS user is only because of her great onee-chan. So Ichika approached her and ask her to be his partner for the match, which she bluntly reject. Before he can persuade her further by saying that everyone else already have partner, Rin arrived and take Ichika to her class instead. It seems she already make a lunch for Ichika. Ichika refuse eating the lunch at first since he already half-eat the yakisoba bread he bought earlier, but Rin force him by eating his half eaten yakisoba bread instead(while aiming for the indirect kiss :P). After finishing the lunch, Rin once again force him to pair up with her. Of course Ichika refuse again, and he run away to his own class before Rin manage to challenge him into a duel to decide if he will pair up with Rin or not.

Back to his class, this time it's Laura's turn to invite him for a pair. Ichika refused her too, and she partially deployed her IS to attack Ichika. Chifuyu stepped in and stop Laura before she make a mess. When Laura said to Chifuyu that this is a husband-wife quarrel, Chifuyu pull the final weapon on Laura by saying that she doesn't want a sister in law that doesn't know manner like Laura. This make Laura dispirited so much that she can't even return to her chair, so Chifuyu tell Ichika to carry Laura back, which he does by princess-embracing Laura, even with cheering from the other girls inside the class.

Next scene is training between Houki and Ichika. Since Houki can activate Kenran Butou at will right now, she has the upper hand against Ichika. The training ends with Houki's win. Houki thought it's decided that Ichika will pair up with her since she won the match against him(even though she hasn't brought up that topic even once). She met with Cecilia in the dressing room, and it turn out Cecilia has the same thought as Houki(that Ichika will pair up with her even though Cecilia never brought up the topic even once). They both think in their heart that they've got the upper hand in the race for Ichika's heart this time.

Later that night, Houki and Cecilia tried to confirm the pairing matter with Ichika in his room, but Ichika also tell them that he already pair up with someone else. They get violent of course and partly deploy their IS to attack Ichika, but suddenly Chifuyu blow up the door of Ichika's room to stop the 2 of them. Of course, she also punish them by having them running laps in their IS form. Of course they can't fly using their IS, and they can't use any help from the IS' assistance program, so everything in manual. She also scold Ichika for always making fuss every time and tell him to decide which girl she want to stop the fuss.

There's also a small part about how Houki and Cecilia look at each other as rival, but that marks the end of chapter 1

Spoiler for chapter 2:

Scene opened with imouto-san setting up her IS in maintenance room. She tried to outfit her IS alone instead of asking someone specialized in this. Just as she finished up because she stumbled on something and about to go back to watch some anime, Ichika already wait for her outside and bring a drink for her. He once again ask her to be his partner. Imouto-san asked Ichika why he wants her to be his partner, in which Ichika respond(of course a lie, because he can't tell imouto-san that onee-chan ask him to do it) that he want to see her IS. He got slapped for it and left dumbfounded.

After Ichika returned to his room, he starts to think why imouto-san is mad with him. He thinks that it's because her IS is not completed yet. He then open the academy introduction pamphlet, and we as the reader get told that 2nd and 3rd year can choose specialization class between "Development", "Research", or "Outfitting". For the tournament, everyone can ask for help from the senpais by making a team to help adjust their IS.

Just as he was thinking about that matter, Sarashiki onee-chan visits him again. She bring a cream puff with her as a treat for Ichika. When she sees Ichika holding the pamphlet, she asks if Ichika wants to ask for maintenance help. Ichika said that he actually think about asking for help for imouto-san. Onee-chan said imouto-san probably doesn't want help, because onee-chan also outfit her IS herself, although Tatenashi said that she only able to do it because it was done more than 70% in the first place. She also added that she asked for Kaoruko's and Utsuho's opinion who respectively is 2nd year Maintenance class ace and 3rd year Maintenance class president. Onee-chan then ask how's Ichika progress with imouto-san, which he responds by saying that he got slapped. She teased Ichika by saying maybe he got slapped because he do something ecchi to imouto-san, which of course Ichika denied. She then asked that girls is weak to an aggressive boy. She then left him with that advice, of course not with the final tease. The puff cream earlier was filled with mustard instead of custard.

Next scene turns to imouto-san. It seems the reason she slapped Ichika wasn't because she's mad at him, but because she's not used to being treated nicely. And we found out imouto-san already start falling for Ichika.

Next is the photo shoot time for Ichika and Houki. At first, she's still mad at him about the pairing things, but after Ichika praise her clothes, she starts to go dere on him. When Ichika said that today is cold and suggest to go to a coffee shop on the way, Houki tells him that she will let him hold her hand instead if he feels cold.

They finally meet with Sakurako's sister, Mayuzumi Nagisako. The interview start and the first question asked toward Ichika is what's his thought about being the only boy in a girls school. Ichika answered that with "the number of toilet she can use is little so it's troubling". Nagisako said that Ichika really is "Harem king who has no interest in woman" just like her sister said. Next is Houki's turn. When she's asked bout her sister, Houki's a little upset, but with the reward of pair dinner in front of her, Houki reluctantly answer the question. The interview continued with several more question such as who's stronger between them(Houki quickly answer she is) and even friendly topic such as Tatenashi. The interview is then over and they have to change their clothes for the photo shoot.

Houki has to change her clothes for the photo shoot. She's flustered because of Ichika's word during the interview that Ichika will protect everyone(which in Houki's ear turns into "I will protect Houki"). For the photo shoot, she has to wear frilly dress while Ichika wear a casual suit. Houki made a promise with herself that she will treat Ichika for dinner outside the school if he praises her clothes, which of course he does. The photo shoot then start.

At first, they awkwardly sit apart from each other, but Nagisako order them to sit closer. When Nagisako still feels it's not good enough even though they already sit next to each other, Nagisako order Ichika to put his hand on Houki's hip, and she also order Houki to entwine her arm at Ichika's. When they look at each other before doing the order, Ichika is entranced by Houki's eyes(this scene is already translated by justpassingby), and it seems the entranced Houki and Ichika is good enough for the photo even without arm entwining. And with that, the photo shoot is over, and they can bring home the clothes they use for the photo shooting.

On the way home, Houki invites Ichika for dinner. At first, she invites him into a popular restaurant for couple that she knows from a magazine that her roommate reads. Too bad, the restaurant is full. When Houki's unable to think about another place to go for dinner, Ichika come out with an idea, which turns out to be Ran and Dan's home which is a cafetaria. Of course, everyone there think Houki is Ichika's girlfriend(which of course Ichika denies) including Ran. She got heartbroken because she thinks Ichika already go out with Houki and run out of the house crying. After getting several beating from Dan's and Ran's grandpa for making Ran cry(even though it's mostly the grandpa fault that Ran misunderstood), Ichika run after Ran.

After he found Ran, Ran brave herself to invite him into her school's school festival. Ichika first hesitated because the festival is on the same day as the pair dinner with Houki, but in the end he accept it. This make Ran very happy because in her heart, they're on a date during the school festival(she even already planned to go around the festival with Ichika with their hands entwined). After that, Ichika take Ran back to her home.

Spoiler for vol 7 chapter 3:

It's been a week since Ichika meet Kanzashi. Kanzashi still rejects Ichika's invitation to team up. Of course, because he invite Kanzashi every day, rumor starts to spread. Of course, when talking about rumor, we get told what happened to the other girls in the harem. To make long story short, the other girls beside Houki still hold a grudge to Ichika for refusing their invitation and promise to themselves they will beat Ichika to a pulp during the tournament. The funniest scene belong to Laura. She throws a knife to Ichika's photo, only to realize that the photo she throws knife at is an exclusive photo that no other copy exist because Laura accidentally burned the negative. Furthermore, it's her favorite photo of Ichika too. She panicked after realizing which photo she made a hole to and even calling medic to repair it :P

Houki on the other hand, get invited by Tatenashi to team up with her. Houki tried to resist at first, but Tatenashi get her to accept by going into "pleading mode". After Houki accepted, Tatenashi brought her into infirmary to update her latest data. It seems the IS has auto-adjustment function inside, but to make the delicate adjustment, the latest data of the pilot is needed. In just a moment, the check is completed, and Tatenashi send it to Aka-tsubaki so Houki can make the adjustment later, of course after teasing Houki about her bust size :P. Houki left the infirmary after that while thinking that it's strange that even though usually she will feel like rebelling if she's being ordered around like that, she doesn't feel that way at all when Tatenashi does that.

After Houki left, Tatenashi is thinking about Houki's aptitude parameter which change from C to S. Aptitude is decided from birth, and although it can increase through training, there's never been a change as extreme as this in such a short time. Furthermore, the only 2 person Tatenashi knows who have S aptitude is "Brunhilde(Chifuyu)" and "Valkyrie". She then deduced that the key must have been Tabane.

Scene changed back to Ichika and Kanzashi. Ichika invites Kanzashi for lunch, which she refused even after Ichika offer to treat her. Remembering Tatenashi's advice, Ichika become aggressive and princess cradling Kanzashi to the cafetaria. Kanzashi tries to resist at first, but finally relents and let Ichika treats her. We also found out that Kanzashi's eyes are good, the glasses she uses are for cell-phone projecting display. Ichika densely offer to feed Kanzashi using his chopstick so Kanzashi can taste how Ichika's chosen menu taste like. After that, he even ask to try tasting Kanzashi's kaarage, but Kanzashi refused that request and to hide her embarrassment, she put a huge amount of Ichimi Tougarashi(Japanese pepper) in Ichika's dish. Upholding the Japanese spirit of not throwing away food, Ichika finish his dish while gulping a lot of drinks. Seeing that Ichika, Kanzashi flash a little smile.

In class, Kanzashi keep day-dreaming about Ichika. She forgets about time and doesn't realize class already ended. When Ichika invites her again for partnering up, she thought that Ichika was a day-dream and she consents to that, only to find out that Ichika is real. Ichika then take Kanzashi to sign up for the tournament, and then they split up to change before going to the maintenance room.

At the maintenance room, they start to prepare for the tournament. Since it's close to the tournament, there's a number of people at the maintenance room including the personal IS user senpai. Kanzashi then starts to tell Ichika information about the personal IS user. First is 2nd year Forte Sapphire, her personal IS is Gold Blood. Next is 3rd year Daryl Cathy, personal IS Hell Hound version 2.5. After that, Ichika spot Cecilia adjusting her IS too and Cecilia turn her face away sulkily when she noticed Ichika. It seems all the girls beside Houki is still mad to Ichika and treats him coldly.

Ichika and Kanzashi then starts to look at Kanzashi's personal IS, Uchigane Niigata. The IS itself is already completed, but the weapon hasn't, and since it hasn't been tested yet, it's still unable to be used in real battle. When Ichika asked what's the Uchigane weapon is, Kanzashi answered Uchigane has multi-lock on system for the high power guided missiles and a charged particle cannon. Ichika then said that if it's charged particle cannon, Kanzashi can use the data from Byaku-shiki. Kanzashi then comments that from the data, there's too many inefficiency in the weapon's output and cause it to overuse energy supply.

As they chat further about it, Nohohon-san approach them to help them tuning up Kanzashi's unit. It turns out Nohohon-san is Kanzashi personal maid from Monday to Thursday(weekend and friday is her off day, said Nohohon-san), just like how Utsuho is Tatenashi's personal maid. It seems Nohohon-san is talented at IS tuning, so she does some of Uchigane's tuning even if Kanzashi protested against it. Nohohon-san also said that Ichika relied too much on Tabane-san's created IS' innate ability, which is very good, and tend to neglect adjusting Byaku-shiki. After that, Ichika and Kanzashi then go to no.6 arena to test Uchigane's flight capability(after Ichika's dense comment which earned him a spanner hit from Nohohon).

Continuing from last time, both of them do a flying test at arena no.6. At first, everything goes well up to when they reach the highest point of the course, but on the way back, the Uchigane malfunctioned and one of the booster on its leg exploded. Ichika, being the hero that he is, swooped down using ignition boost to protect Kanzashi from the fall using his body(on an IS of course). The impact of the fall damage the tower, and one of the teacher found out about this. They didn't get scolded because of this since it's because of IS malfunction, but they still have to make 10 pages of report of the accident.

After that incident, Ichika once again persuade Kanzashi to ask for help for tuning Uchigane. Kanzashi unexpectedly accept the idea, and Ichika asks Kaoruko-senpai to help them. They also get closer because of this incident and Kanzashi tells Ichika to leave out the san part when calling her(she also comments that Ichika looks cool when saving her, but her voice was too small and Ichika missed it as usual).

Back at her room, it seems Kanzashi is even more smitten about Ichika. She also seems to have a huge complex toward Tatenashi since Tatenashi is so perfect, but she found a newfound strength in Ichika.

Back to Houki and Tatenashi, they just finished training together. Houki is as usual very formal, and Tatenashi wants her to be more relaxed. After the training, Tatenashi invites Houki to have dinner together with her at the 2nd year dorm. Houki tries to reject at first, but it's useless in front of Tatenashi as usual. In the changing room, Tatenashi notice Houki is making a scary face(because she's thinking about Tabane) and forcefully make them smile by tickling her. She then ask about Houki's relation with Tabane. Houki thinks to herself she actually respect Tabane a lot, but because of a certain "incident", she can't help but think about the incident every time she meet Tabane and ends up avoiding her. Tatenashi then invite Houki to go to the shower room. They continue the conversation there where Houki told Tatenashi that she doesn't hate Tabane, but she's afraid because she doesn't understand what's in Tabane's mind. Tatenashi then answer that she's also the same, but she says to Houki that it's alright because Tatenashi is sure that Tabane loves Houki dearly.

Next day, Ichika asks Kaoruko-senpai and Nohohon for help with tuning-up Uchigane. They agree but ask for payment of 1 date with Ichika. Kaoruko-senpai then gather 2 other member to make a team. One of them, Kyouko is promised a 2-shot photo with Ichika for the help. The other one, Fi, is promised a massage for her help. With the team assembled, they start working hurriedly on the tuning up while Kanzashi take care of Uchigane's software. Ichika is used as errand boy to bring all kind of tools to Kaoruko-senpai's team. The senpai-team try to tease him by putting non-tune-up related errand between the real errand, but Ichika caught up to that plan and doesn't fall for it.

In the end, the tune-up is completed, although the multi-lock-on system still can't be used. After that, Ichika volunteered to take care of the clean-up himself so the senpais can go home. Kanzashi then realize that she doesn't need to do everything alone. When Ichika tells Kanzashi to go back first, she said that she will wait for Ichika. The walk together until halfway to the changing room, but Kanzashi still can't talk to Ichika at all because she's not confident enough.

Scene change to Ichika's room. Ichika just finished taking a shower and Tatenashi visits his room again. This time, Tatenashi request for a massage and Ichika complies. Tatenashi then tells Ichika that she pair up with Houki. She then tells Ichika that she thinks that he's close with his sister, which Chifuyu shows by being extra strict to him. Of course, Tatenashi tease him by asking if she should remove her underwear.

Scene change to Kanzashi who bake some macha cupcakes for Ichika. When she brings the cupcakes to Ichika's room, she overhears Ichika's conversation with Tatenashi. It seems the data that Ichika gives to Kanzashi for Uchigane's charged particle cannon belong to Tatenashi's mysterious lady instead of Byaku-shiki. Her uneasiness and complex to her sister grow again, and she runs away back to her room and cries alone there.

Spoiler for vol 7 chapter 4 part 1:

Continuing from last chapter, Kanzashi woke up in the morning after crying to sleep last night. She's still participate in the match unwillingly, but when she things about the tournament, her complex starts to surface again. She also thinks there's no hero in real life like those hero anime(she previously thought Ichika looks like a hero when he saves her during the accident).

Scene change to the tournament opening ceremony. During her speech, Tatenashi announce a new sudden event, the person who's cheering on the winning tag-team will get a free meal ticket at the cafetaria. When Ichika interfere by saying isn't that some kind of gambling, Tatenashi replied that she already got permission from the teachers, to the dismay of Chifuyu-nee who doesn't agree to this event. After his useless objection, he then found out his first opponent will be the Houki&Tatenashi pair.

Scene change to Houki. She's very happy to get Ichika as her first opponent round. She even planned to confess after the dinner if she managed to win the tournament.

Back to Ichika again. Before he go to the dressing room to change into IS suit, Kaoruko-senpai approaches him again. He's shown the betting position right now and found out he's in the last place(he and Kanzaki is getting the least cheer), partly due to the unknown factor of Kanzashi's IS which never been tested before. Tatenashi's pair of course place the highest, since she's the only country representative in the school. Ichika also realized the strange huge number of personal IS user in the 1st year since there's only 3 personal IS user in 2nd and 3rd grade combined, including Tatenashi.

After a photo, Ichika is then asked for a catch-phrase to be put on the school newspaper. Before finishing the interview though, suddenly intruders land on the school's arena and everyone is asked to run to the shelter.

Scene change to the teachers. Yamada-sensei informs Chifuyu-nee that the school has been invaded by unmanned IS, furthermore a more advanced model than the previous one(in vol 1). There's 5 unmanned model attacking, and because of that, the school has entered automatic lockdown mode and the teacher is unable to help the students escape. Chifuyu then instructs Yamada-sensei to take a few teachers in order to take down the lockdown between each area and lead the students to safety, while the the combat teacher have to get ready to break-in and defend the school.

Scene change to Cecilia and Rin, battling with one Golem III. They're able to hold their ground against the golem at first, and Cecilia even managed to hit the golem using her new skill, Flexible, to hit its blind spot. Even so, the Golem's armor is very sturdy and they're unable to dent it using the attack.

It's Laura and Charlotte's turn next. They're pushed down by the Golem and Charlotte's get hit hard enough that her shield is damaged. This enrages Laura and she attacks the golem recklessly. At first she managed to corner the Golem using wild attacks, but the golem was still fine even with all that wild attacks and manage to close the range using Ignition boost. The scene ends just before Laura get cut in the torso by the golem and Charlotte screams.

Next is the 2nd and 3rd year, Daryl and Forte's combo. With their excellent teamwork, they manage to easily avoid all the golem's attack. After evading all of the golem's attack, they start their counterattack and start attacking the golem. The scene ends right before their synchronized tomahawk kick on the golem hit.

Spoiler for vol 7 chapter 4 part 2:

Continuing from last time, this time the scene changes to Kanzashi. Facing the golem before deploying her IS, Kanzashi panic and froze. She get really scared and unconsciously called for Ichika when the golem starts attacking. Ichika, being the hero that he is, comes just right in time to saves Kanzashi. Ichika realized the Golem's attack is pretty strong and thinks that it will be hard to win alone, so he asks for help from Kanzashi. The small space they're at is not suited for Uchigane's full power cannot be utilized, so they decide to move to other place by breaking the barrier using Ichika's Reiryaku Byakuya.

Scene change to Houki and Tatenashi. Following Tatenashi's direction, they manage to push away the Golem, but the Golem's armor is too sturdy and Tatenashi's water lance, Souryuusen, is unable to pierce it, even with the extra push from Houki's fold out armor. When the Golem counterattacks. Tatenashi get pushed back by the attack to the arena's shield. When it seems they're going to lose, Tatenashi use her trump card, Mysteltainn Spear. By using all the water nanomachine covering Mysterious Lady that's usually used for defense, she concentrated it into one big lance to do a very huge damage. The golem, feeling the change in Tatenashi energy's flow quickly attacks her. Since she's concentrating fully to make Mysteltainn Spear, Tatenashi got hit directly. Even so, she still manage to complete the spear. She then tells Houki to change all the fold-out armor capabilities into defense so she won't get caught up in the attack. When Houki ask what about Tatenashi, she just teasingly answered that she's invincible so houki doesn't need to worry. The lance is then released and there's a big explosion that shakes the school.

Scene back to Ichika and Kanzashi. They feel the shaking and Ichika instinctively thinks could Houki and Tatenashi be the one causing the explosion. He can't confirm their status since since earlier the communication line has been jammed. Kanzashi then tells Ichika to go ahead to confirm their status while she hold off the golem for a while. When Ichika arrives at Houki's place however, the one welcoming him from the smokes is not Tatenashi or Houki, but a grab from the golem. Ichika then get thrown to the wall, and he realizes from the pain that strangely the absolute defense barrier is broken easily. When he check the enemy IS status, it's confirmed that the golem's hand release energy that jam the deployment of shield energy of IS, so that golem is an IS created for fighting other IS and killing the pilot. He get pushed by the golem, and when he tries to escape to fix his stance, but the enemy shoot him with high density heat wave.

Scene change to Kanzashi. She can't hold off the golem and run to Ichika's place. There she finds Mysterious Lady between the rubble, heavily wounded. She's going berserk and barraging the golem using two charges particle cannons. But, even after barraging the golem until the cannon runs out of energy, it's still fine and even getting closer to Kanzashi. She panicked since the only weapon left is Yama Arashi, which multi-lock-on function is still not running. She then thinks about Ichika, and thought that if Ichika can stop the enemy's movement then she can do something. In that moment, the other golem arrives and throws Ichika to her side with his armor in tatter. She gives up on the situation and accept her death. But, when the golem stabs her, Tatenashi, whose IS armor is also in shambled and doesn't cover her anymore, protect Kanzashi with her body and ends up bleeding heavily from the stab. Seeing Tatenashi heavily wounded, Kanzashi get even more devastated, but at that moment, Ichika came back up while shouting that even though the perfect hero that Kanzashi like in those anime doesn't exist, he still won't give up fighting even if he sometimes cries, laugh, and lose in a fight(more like everytime, big word from someone who keeps losing without help :P). After shouting like that, Houki timely arrives after recovering from the effect of the big explosion. She then said that one of the golem has already run out of shield energy because of Tatenashi's attack and cut that golem in two.

But, when he tries to check Ichika's condition, the other golem closes in and hit Houki. When Ichika tries to help Houki, Kanzashi stops him because in the condition right now where his body is not completely covered by IS, he will die if he fight the golem. Ichika then said that even though he's afraid of fighting in this condition, he's even more afraid of running because he feels that if he runs, he won't be able to fight again. He then goes to help Houki and leave Kanzashi who feels herself is a coward. While thinking that, she somehow hears Tatenashi's voice in her mind that tells her even if she's a coward, she's still her prided imouto. This gives her the courage to also fight against the golem.

Spoiler for vol 7 chapter 4 and epilogue:

Continuing from last time, Ichika approaches Houki's place in his tattered suit. Houki reprimand him for coming in that state, but Ichika said that he's not a man if he doesn't protect his friend in this situation. After exchanging a few blow, the golem suddenly close the space between it and Ichika and he's in a pinch, but Kanzashi arrives in time to save Ichika and make the golem retreat a little by barraging the golem with missiles. Too bad, the energy shield at the golem make the missiles only able to stop the golem's movement instead of damaging it.

Ichika and Houki then approaches Kanzashi to discuss about what to do while Kanzashi keep barraging the golem(don't ask me where the missile's coming from ). They thought about using Reiryaku Byakuya, but there's not enough energy for Ichika even to deploy it, let alone sustain it to attack the enemy. That's why, Houki will refill Ichika's energy using Kenran Butou while Kanzashi hold off the enemy. Ichika doesn't agree at first because it's too dangerous, but Kanzashi managed to convince him. He then speak out loud that he will have revenge for Tatenashi. Of course, Tatenashi interrupts that. She then gives Ichika an aqua crystal, nanomachine imbued water as an amulet. The plan is then executed with Tatenashi's word of encouragement.

Kanzashi then stalls the golem by using the missiles pod Yama Arashi. It's supposed to be used automatically using the multi-lock-on system, but because the function is not completed yet, Kanzashi override it by controlling each missiles manually using a computer terminal. The missiles barrage from Yama Arashi manage to stall the golem at first, but the golem concentrate some power into its hand and fires of an ultra high density heat wave to the defenseless-from-controlling-the-lock-on-system Kanzashi. Luckily, Houki managed to block that heat wave, and when she tries to attack the golem, a crossbow like weapon is suddenly released from Aka-tsubaki's back. An automatic explanation system informs about the crossbow, Ugachi, but because it took too long, Houki just jump straight to use it without waiting the explanation to finish. By using Ugachi, who release a high density beam energy, Houki manage to blow away the Golem's left hand. The golem, still unfazed from losing its left hand, close the range between it and Houki by using Ignition Boost. This time, Ichika comes in to deflect the Golem's blade using Reiryaku Byakuya'ed Yukihira Niigata. He manage to shatter the Golem's blade and with a slash, he make a hole in the Golem's armor so that the Golem's core can be seen. Ichika then punch the Golem's core and it blows the Golem away. Even so, the core, made from a special rare metal, can't be destroyed just by hitting it. But, Ichika release the amulet from Tatenashi along with the hit earlier. Tatenashi then controlled that Aqua Crystal that's inside the golem's armor and make it explode to completely demolish the Golem.

Scene skip to the aftermath of the battle. Tatenashi is badly hurt and brought to the infirmary. Luckily, her wound is not life threatening. Her sister stayed by her bed to look after Tatenashi. After Tatenashi woke up and confirm the situation, she then thinks that it's really nice for the two of them to be able to be together like this, and it's all thanks to Ichika. She also thought that when she first request Ichika to help her, she somehow thinks that he will be able to help her. She also thinks that she's been depending on Ichika's kindness while her face redden(harem #7 geto! :P) and she looks outside the window to hide the blush from her sister. Kanzashi realize the reddened face, but Tatenashi make an excuse that it's only because of the setting sun. Kanzashi then apologized for being a useless sister, which Tatenashi responds by saying that Kanzashi is a little sister that Tatenashi always proud of. Kanzashi then cried from happiness.

Scene change to Ichika's room, where his other 5 harem plays a card game to decide who gets the right for Ichika to listen to her request in exchange for him not teaming up with 5 of them. At first they each want a request, but because Ichika told them that it's too much if it's for 5 of them, the harem decides to play a card game to decide who will get the right. We also find out that Rin's right hand is hurt, and everyone beside Houki is also implied to be hurt. The scenes ends with Charlotte in the lead and Ichika making a bad joke.

Scene change to Chifuyu-nee and Yamada-sensei. Out of the 5 golem, they manage to recover 2 cores, and the 2 cores are unregistered. They decide to hide the core by telling the governments that all the cores are destroyed. When Yamada-sensei worries that hiding a core expose the academy in danger, Chifuyu reassures Yamada-sensei by saying that even if she's like this right now, she's an ex-strongest in the world, and she will protect the academy even if she have to lose her life for it.

Scene change back to Ichika. It seems the card game is stopped with no winner because a teacher get mad at them for making too much ruckus. Ichika seems to also been hurt pretty badly, and got a broken bone or two, but since he has 2 promise for today, he refuses to be put into hospital. Yamada-sensei then visit his room to tell him that he has to attend a hearing for the incident with golem yesterday. When Ichika asks what happened if he skip the hearing because he has prior promise, Yamada-sensei tells him that he will be taken into custody by the government's IS-related department and receive Chifuyu-nee special guidance, which Ichika is very afraid of because that special guidance is another name for a kumite with Chifuyu until the students lose consciousness. With no other choice, Ichika messages Ran that he will be late for Ran's school festival.

Just after he finished messaging Ran, his room's door is knocked again. This time it's Kanzashi who invites Ichika to go together to the hearing. Along the way, he asks Kanzashi about Tatenashi, who will be hospitalized for a while, and asks about her hobby so he can take something with him to keep Tatenashi from being bored when he visits her in hospital. Kanzashi then told him Tatenashi like Shougi and Kendama, and when Ichika asks what about knitting, Kanzashi told him that Tatenashi hates knitting because she's not good at it. Hearing this, Ichika decides to bring knitting set to Tatenashi instead to tease her as a revenge for all the teasing he got up till now.

After talking about Tatenashi, Kanzashi then lent Ichika some anime that she likes(the genre is robot, mahou shoujo, teenage love, and hero anime). Ichika then asks Kanzashi if she likes these kind of anime, which Kanzashi said yes. Kanzashi then tries to confess to Ichika and run away after saying daisuki(really love) to Ichika. She at first thought she succeeded confessing to Ichika, but when she thinks about it again after running away, she realizes that Ichika might misunderstand her profession of love is about anime instead of Ichika.

Scene change to Ran. She's in despair after receiving the news that Ichika will be late by two hours because that means 2 hours less to go around the festival, which ends unusually early compared to other such school festival(only up to 3 o'clock). Just when she thinks it can't go any worse, Ichika sends another message which tell he will be late 2 more hours because of the hearing, which means he'll arrive around 2 o'clock.

Fast forward time to 2 o' clock. Ichika arrives at Ran's school by running. Ichika tried to call Ran but she doesn't answer. He then spot Ran on a bench near the school but she ignores Ichika and run inside the festival. Stopped by a sister at the entrance, the sister asks him to show her the ticket. Because of this, he lost Ran amongst the crowd. While he's looking around for Ran, somehow he felt a gaze since earlier from an unknown source. He also realized the he drew the attention of girls who recognize him at TV. He then asks a group of girls near him if they know about Ran, which they said they don't. The girls then invite him to go around the festival with them. Before Ichika managed to answer, he feels some kind of gaze and he deduced that the gaze is from Ran. He then pretend to accept their invitation in a loud voice to draw Ran out, and it works. Ran come out to prevent Ichika be taken away. Ichika apologizes to Ran, and Ran's mood is a little lifted because her plan of showing Ichika as her boyfriend around the school works. Ichika tries to ask further for apology by treating her Takoyaki, but Ran said that a Crepe will be better. They then go to the Crepe stand while entwining their arms, which Ran said to be a punishment for being late. Even if she's the one suggesting the idea, Ran get very nervous when entwining her arms to Ichika and ends up walking in a strange way.

Fast forward again, this time the scene change to the pair dinner for Ichika and Houki. They got denied entry to the restaurant because they don't wear a dress and suit. While being troubled, a foreign woman named Ms. Myuzel comes in and decides to buy Ichika a casual suit. When Ichika why the woman want to buy a stranger like him a suit, the woman just answer that buying something for young boys like him is her hobby. They then go to a store upstairs and the woman buy Ichika a suit. Ichika first tries to decline the offer, but the woman said that buying Ichika a suit is something she who has extra money wants to do. She also bought a flower for Ichika to bring to the dinner. Ichika tries to get her contact number so he can return the money, but the woman just insist for Ichika to hurry to the dinner so he doesn't make Houki wait too long. Having no other choice, he finally go to the restaurant, but not before asking the woman's full name. The woman's full name turns to be Scholl(Squall) Myuzel, and she knows Ichika's name even before being told.

At the restaurant, it's the usual thing about how Ichika thinks Houki cute in a dress and Houki thinks Ichika looks cool in a suit, and then they order the menu. While eating their food, Ichika compliments Houki's dress, and the restaurant's food. Houki tries to confess to Ichika, but she suddenly get drunk. It seems one of the clumsy waiter mistake Houki's water for sake.

Ichika brings Houki home by piggybacking her while she dreams about a prince on a horse. She's awake for a little while and tries to confess, but she's too drunk to say any clear word and Ichika can't catch her confession. Ichika then brings her to her room and hand Houki to her roommates. On the way back to his room, Ichika met with Chifuyu and he tries to ask her indirectly about Madoka by asking if they have another family member, which Chifuyu strongly answered by saying the only family she has is only Ichika. She then goes away as if she doesn't want to be questioned about it further.

In epilogue, we see Tabane who turns out to be the one making the golem in vol 1 and here. She then commented that since IS is designed to be ridden by human, an unmanned IS is by nature weaker than piloted one. She sent the golem in hope that Aka-tsubaki's ability will be heighten while at the same time she can get Houki's personal data. She also thought Chifuyu-nee will come out using the IS she uses during 1st Mondo Grosso, "Kure Zakura", which she doesn't know its whereabout, but sure that Chifuyu still has it. She then deduce that Kure Zakura might be in "that" place and asks a girl that she saved to go there an thought as her daughter, because she only has one sister, to deliver something to IS academy's special underground area.

That's all of the summary. Some part might be missed, some important part might also not be told enough, but I'm sure that I did okay for the summary XD. Anyone who already read the novel, feel free to add something if there's something you think is important that I left out in the summary ^_^.

Hope you enjoy it. I can't guarantee I will make vol 8 summary since I will drop this if it still follows the same pattern again, but I will still answer question regarding vol 8 after it come out and I get my hand on it ^_^.