"My father," Taue proclaimed, eyes narrowing as he glared at the teacher, the lab equipment, the uniform, all of it, "owes me 10,000 yen. I knew this place was some sort of military academy. The government poured how much into Chitoku, again?"

With that out of the way, Shinichiro straightened to his full height.

"I'm with rules-san over there," Taue said, voice dropping in temperature by the second. "Before you introduce us to anything big enough to call our new life, you have an explanation due."