Suichi didn't complain about Reika's silence, although her not answering his question somewhat left him disappointed. Oh well, he was told to ask it, not to get answers. The walk to the cafe took a few minutes. When he got there the Commander had not yet arrived, so he looked at Reika to tell her. "She's not here, yet so lets take a seat and wait for her to get here. She should be soon." He suspected she was getting back from whatever strings she had to pull to get his free time off from school.

Then he moved to an open table and waited for Reika to let go of him so they could sit down comfortably. "While we're here we can get some tea or coffee and maybe even a snack." He then remembered that he hadn't eaten lunch yet. "Err... Lunch."

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Kyoko wasn't surprised about Chou moving to take the high ground, well in this case the sky. She felt quite confident actually about this battle. Something about <Aether> felt easier than her standard CR-Unit. Kyoko understood Chou's reasoning behind her defensive position. Kyoko knew her options were to either draw Chou out, or try and break her defense. She decided to take up the latter option, because she felt pretty confident right now.

She backed off to get some distance and to fly to be level with Chou and activated her secondary weapon. She fired her Auldist and kept firing as she steadily rotated around Chou searching for an opening. Chou's territory held up pretty well to her so far, but Kyoko had pushed her back which meant she had a good advantage. She let go of the trigger for a second before dashing forward to close the distance between them and strike with her No Pain again. She prepared for some sort of retaliation since Chou said they were about the same level, and even with the new equipment there was always a chance.