========== Infinite Stratos Academy ==========
Even with the heating torment outside, the instructors’ office remains cool thanks to the network of ceiling ACs. Nevertheless, it does not ease any tension for Kaori who’s restless in her own cubicle with a brown folder neatly filled with a thin stack of papers resting on her desk. The folder has “Unknown-01” written on its cover with a bullet-tip marker pen.
“That took a while…”
Twirling the pen around her fingers, she stares blankly at her computer screen which displays a written record of the Minerva along with a picture of it;
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Subject Designation:
Unknown-01
First Sighted:
April 25th
First Sighted Location:
Tokyo Bay
Subject Details:
Humanoid Armor Unit armed with lethal particle-based weaponry and manned by a single user. Roughly 1.8 meters tall, user is voice-confirmed male in his mid-late teens as reported by Aegis One. Multiple encounters, none hostile. Subject appears to be actively deterring third-party attacks on the Academy. Armed humanoid attack drones, designated Unknown-02, appear to trigger 01’s appearance on every occasion.
Action Taken:
Supervision.
Reason For Action Taken:
Subject is deemed non-hostile. Active deterrence of attacks directed towards the Academy is unnecessary but appearance can be used as a tell-tale sign for potential attacks. Hence, supervision of Unknown-01 is highly-advised.
Additional Report(NIL if none):
As of July 7th, Unknown-01 will be dubbed “Minerva”, the confirmed proper designation of report subject reported by Aegis One.
As of July 8th, Minerva is classified Missing In Action. Decision to pursue report subject investigation is on hold until disciplinary board’s action review of Aegis One is complete.
As of July 10th, action review for Aegis One consolidated. Board advises Aegis One be nominated as Investigation Officer for report subject Unknown-01. Nomination confirmed, Aegis One will be placed under supervision of instructor Kaori Murakumo as per confirmation of experience dealing with the report subject Unknown-01 “Minerva”.
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Che… Fancy asking me to write a report just because he keeps appearing when I’m on duty.” grumbles Kaori as she browses through her own report, realizing that it has added more work to her pile. Several pages of the report have printed pictures of the Minerva in combat along with sticky notes complacently scribbled in pen with words like “beam guns” and “beam saber” to label the powered armor’s visible in-built weaponry.
She closes the report with a grunt and another file on her desk catches her attention.
Unlike the previous report file, this one is colored navy blue with the Academy’s symbol imprinted in the middle at the bottom of the cover and has a “Student Progress File” printed in white at the center of the cover. Kaori flips the file open and begins to browse through the few sheets of what appears to be an application form written with a decent, average handwriting.The student’s name partially-blocked with only the surname visible.
‘Katami… huh?’
As she reads through the written form, her eyes stopped at the student’s residence, briefly raising her brows and growing a small smile as though she just realized something interesting.
‘Heh… What are the odds…?’