Majisuka Gakuen 00/Episode 06

Bonfire History (ボンファイアー・ヒストリー) is the sixth episode of Majisuka Gakuen 00.
== Characters ==
*Team Infinity
**Starry (Shino Hoshina)
**Hime (Kimura Mei)
**Mary (Ashley Snow)
**River (Hoshikawa Rei)
**Chokoku (Akimoto Sayaka)
**Sado (Shinoda Mariko)
**Tactic (Yokoyama Yui)
**Love (Takayama Ai)
**Mai (Hoshimiya Aoi)
**Smile (Hikami Yumeko)
**Shade (Ito Hotaru)
**Inno (Kashita Miyagi)
== Summary ==
In the early evening, a fire burns on the large grass field behind the academy. The school is completely empty, with the expectation of the fire. It's a bonfire. Tactic, wearing casual clothes is sitting on a log while roasting a marshmallow. Inno sits down next to her. She wears casual clothes as well. Hime soon arrives, also wearing casual clothes.
"Good evening." Tactic greets her.
"So, what is this?" Hime, annoyed, demands to know.
"A tradition." Inno hums.
"What do you mean?"
"Every year, the members of Team Infinity meet up for a bonfire." Tactic explains. "Sit down, the other's will eventually come too."
Hime shivers. "It's cold." She complains.
"Do you want my hoodie?" Inno offers and points towards the blue jeans hoodie.
Tactic chuckles. "You haven't been wearing this one for ages."
"I couldn't find it." Inno replies and hands it to Hime.
Chokoku and Sado are arriving next, together.
"Evening." Sado greets the other girls.
Hime shortly looks up and mumbles a comment about their style; she disapproves. She returns to her smartphone and Instagram. Not to long after, Shadow and Smile arrive, followed by Mai and Love. River and Mary arrive not too long afterwards - everyone is getting comments about their style from Hime and cheerful greetings from Inno.
Starry is the last to arrive in a rush. "I'm sorry." She apologises out of breath. "I had to.." She takes a deep breath. "get my siblings to bed. Sorry."
"Don't worry." River replies with a smile.
The girls sit down and start chatting while roasting marshmallows. Starry remains silent and looks around, remembering what she knows about each member until now. "River." She focuses on her. "An A-Grade student who is strict and our teacher for combat. She has grown close to Mary. Mary, a K-Grade student with, I guess, a bit too much confidence. She is usually around River but claims to be Infinity's #2 which I personally doubt." She thinks. "That's more likely to be one of the third years. Maybe Chokoku-san or Sado-san?" She looks to them. "Those two used to be part of the Students Council when they were B-Graders. But when Tactic-san overtook Infinity and the top, the group dissolved and they joined Team Infinity. Both are experienced fighters who, however, would prefer a certain amount of peace." She thinks.
She takes a marshmallow while continuing. "Inno-san is Tactic's older sister, but a total loser on the battle field, even worse than me. She is friendly to everyone though. Her sister, Tactic, is the strongest fighter in school and really awesome. She is calm yet strong and quite clever. I don't really know why, but she's been doing lots of paperwork recently." She looks to Smile and Shadow. "Smile-san and Shadow-san are friends and relatively average students. Mai-san isn't interested in fighting unless her pride is hurt. She wants to become an idol, and I think that she knows D.'s Note-san. Hime-chan is in the same year as I am, but I don't know much about her. She is a bit arrogant, I guess, and looks rich." She sighs. 
"So, about last week." Tactic sits up. "From what I got, Mary and River were attacked by Saitama and Ishikawa." The two nod. "Smile and Shadow got to fight Toberu, Coco and Ladybug." Another nod. "Mai and Love faced UFO and Note, right? Sado, Chokoku? What about you two?"
"We made sure that we all pass the midterms." Sado laughs. "So yeah, we didn't get to fight but to do paperwork. Can't you convince White to finally join us and do it for us?"
"You have been doing some paper work recently too, haven't you?"
Tactic nods. "Something personal though. Don't worry about it." She nods. "And - Hime? What did happen to you on that day?"
"I had to leave early." Hime declares. "Personal, too."
"Inno?" Mary asks sarcastically. "Lemme guess. Cloud watching?"
"It can be very interesting!" Inno defends herself.
"What did you do, Tactic? And Starry-chan?" River asks.
"Paperwork, until I was interrupted by Shinji." Surprise on the side of the third years. "I am not so sure what she wanted, but she didn't get it. She started to beat up some other students - don't ask me who - when I heard Starry being attacked by Grumpy and Wolf. I left Shinji."
"Where?" Chokoku asks.
"Nearby the HQ."
"Did you lock it?"
Tactic sighs. "You are aware of the fact that there is literally nothing valuable in the HQ, aren't you?" 
"Pardon me? My bag costs more than you will earn in your whole life!" Hime exclaims.
"Sure." Tactic shrugs it off.
"What about your "personal stuff"?" River asks suspicious.
"Doubt that she cares about my stat list for a video game." Tactic laughs. "Or my chess notes. She doesn't even know how to play."
That settles the topic.
Chokoku takes out her guitar to play a bit while the girls fall into casual chatter; even Hime joins them. They share their supper, albeit Tactic seems to be lost in thoughts. She is playing around with a chess figure in her hand; a queen.
The conversation finds their way to how the girls joined Team Infinity. River joined the team per coincidence.
"When I joined, Team Infinity wasn't top yet - that was the Students Council, led by Blue Rose-senpai. I met Maji-senpai, who was most likely stronger than Blue Rose-senpai." River explains. "She's really strong. I wonder where she is…"
"She graduated." Sato remarks.
"You don't say." River says. "But when I joined, she was really strange around. She and Rose-senpai were always somewhat rivals and friends, but they were really weird from time to time."
"You mean that rumour?" Chokoku laughs. "It's wrong. Team Infinity became top after Tactic-chan joined." Tactic chuckles. 
"Rumour?" Starry echoes. 
"Yeah. In the beginning of our first year here, people were saying that among the first years was the kid of a Yakuza. That girl's supposed to have beaten Maji and Blue Rose on her first day, in a 2 on 1."
While the girls are talking, Hime starts to noticeably whiten. She is frightened.
"Which, obviously, is false." River adds. "The Students Council remained in power until Blue Rose-senpai left."
"Yeah. If it wasn't for Rose, we would have been somewhere else though. Back then, she really was the only strong one." Chokoku says. "River was the only Infinity member in B-grade back then, were you?"
River nodded. "Yeah. I expected the K-grade members to take over when Maji-senpai graduated, but then, Tactic came in the end of April."
"And pulled me in." Inno chuckles.
"However you got through B-grade." River remarks.
"Luck."
"Sure."
"So, you two were in the Students Council in B-grade?" Starry asks Chokoku and Sado.
"Yeah." Sado nods. "When Rose-senpai left and Tactic came, the SC was overpowered though. Like, seriously. There were no new B-graders and Chokoku and me decided to join you guys. The last A-grade year didn't revive it either."
"What about D?" Hime asks with her casual, vain voice. "You didn't mention 'em."
Tactic sighs. "Until something last year, they were, well, not important."
"What happened?"
"Things." Tactic avoids her.
"Shinji happened." Mary explains. "That girl's almost as strong as Tactic - or me."
"Sure." Hime laughs upon Mary's words who ignores them. Others seem to not think so either.
"Shinji did… stuff. First, she refused to fight at all. Then she joined teams, just to destroy them from the inside." Love remembers. "She is the reason why Tiara-san doesn't fight anymore."
"Tiara-san?" Starry asks.
"D's old leader. She has a serious leg injury. Can't do sports either." Chokoku explains. "Shinji's fault."
"After doing so, she joined Team Infinity." River bits on her lip and glares to Tactic. "Because someone thought it to be a good idea to add that psycho to the team."
Tactic sighs. "River, I have apologised for that mistake more than once. Let it go already."
"When D's new leader - God knows who that is - offered her the job as co-leader, she betrayed the Team." Mary finishes.
"New leader? Who?"
"No one knows." Mai sighs. "The common belief is that it's someone who isn't at school and uses Shinji or so as communication medium."
"I doubt that it's Shinji." Tactic remarks.
"Who else thought?" River asks suspiciously.
"Dunno. But the way Shinji's been lately, I think that she isn't told everything."
"What do you mean? Did you leave something out?" Chokoku asks, leaning back.
"She ditched her minons last time we met. Why do that if she doesn't want to keep something quiet? She likes ordering them around."
"She certainly does." Smile agrees.
Awkward silence falls, until Hime sighs. "Okay, seriously. What's with you and Shinji, Tactic?" She asks.
"…Pardon?"
"It's obvious that you're avoiding something, and that's honestly annoying. Ever heard of transparency? Team leading work uses that."
Tactic sighs. "That's-"
"They're - were - childhood friends." Inno speaks up.
SIlence falls again.
"You were… wait, seriously?" River speaks up first. Everyone is startled.
"Yeah. They were quite close as well." Inno cheerfully says.
She starts telling a few childhood stories of Tactic and Shinji; Tactic certainly does not approve. While everyone wants to know more about it, she does not participle in the conversation. Tactic simply leans back, checks her phone for a moment before closing it and looking to the starry sky.
"What was with this note…?" Tactic thinks. "Why'd she tell me?" She looks to the group that, by now, is quite amused by Inno's stories. "Unless she really isn't told anything at D.." The group embarks into laugher, and Tactic chuckles.
"At least Inno knows how to keep them from asking the bad questions."
"How do you even know that?" Starry asks in between laughing.
"Tactic's my little sister."
"Huh?"
"Yes, I am." Tactic replies. "Inno's my older sister."
"Oh, I didn't know…" Starry apologises.
"How could you have? They don’t look that similar." River reminds her. "Albeit, did you really do XXX?"
Tactic sighs.
Once the girls went through everything that happened during the week, Chokoku decides to play a bit on her guitar. While she plays a bit music, the girls start their own conversations that have little to do with school. 
"Hey, Hime-chan? Starry-chan?" Chokoku stops playing for a moment. "I have been wondering, are you two related?"
Starry blinks. "Hime-san and me? No, not at all."
"Why would I ever be related to such a peasant?" Hime falls into her arrogant character.
"Oh, you just look quite similar. You both have about the same hair length and wavy hair, and if one'd be wearing contacts and dyed her hair, you almost could be twins!" She laughs.
"Never." Hime coldly claims.
Chokoku notices Hime's passive aggression and drops the topic, returning to playing on her guitar with a shrug.
Hime looks to Starry, slightly sad. She sighs and rises.
"Alright, I will not allow this to happen like this. I will order food; anyone want something? I'll pay." She announces. Under her breathe, she adds. "I doubt that you can afford that…"
"Can you afford that?" Tactic asks worried. "We are eleven and-" Hime winks her away.
"I have more than enough money; most likely more than what you'll earn in your life."
"Sure…" Chokoku nods. "Well, as long as I get Pizza…"
The group orders pizza, much to Hime's dislike who'd prefer other kinds of food but gets along well. While they are eating, Hime notices someone standing in the distance; a man in a black suit with sun glasses. She sighs and checks her phone; a message by someone was sent, asking her to return home.
Hime announces that she has to leave, and eventually, all other girls leave for their respective homes, and only Tactic and Inno remain. A flashback appears.
A hooded person wearing no school uniform steps into the office of the Students Council where the previous president during the first year of the current A-grade students, Blue Rose, a then A-grade student and Maji, the leader of Team Infinity from the same year, talk.
Maji isn't surprised, nor is Blue Rose. "Then the rumours are true? But you are… you weren't even…"
"One of the first year students truly is a-" Maji can't finish because the hooded person attacks both of them. The fight, despite Maji and Blue Rose's prestige and majority doesn't last long, and soon the hooded person has taken out both of them. 
"What do you want?" Maji demands to know; respect fills her voice.
"The top and Team Infinity." Blue Rose realises. "The Council is declining, and the top is soon going to be taken by Infinity. Now was…"
"… two in one." Maji realises. Blue Rose, obviously afraid, takes a key from her necklace. "It was only a question of time… after we heard about you." She throws it to the hooded person who catches it with ease. "The child of a former Yakuza who had once lead the local clan until disappearing."
The key slips into the pocket of the blue hoodie. The hooded person chuckles before turning around and heading out. The flashback ends.
"That day, was it?" Inno remembers. "It was fun to see everyone reactions when it was made public that the top and leader of Infinity had changed." She chuckles before hugging Tactic from behind. "Our family never loses in the end, don't we?"
Tactic remains focused. "I just hope that will count for this battle too."
"Are you sure that Shinji didn't get the paper?"
"If so, it won't tell her anything, she doesn't know."
"But how much we know." Inno reminds her, now out of her airhead character.
Tactic blinks before she quietly curses. "You might be right." She rises. "I just hope that Shinji is still the same and didn't follow any orders from Diabolic when she came."
The two watch the bonfire die out.
"In for some practise?" Tactic jokily asks her sister.
==Trivia==
* The episode refers a bit to Bonfire Love Story's lyrics.
Category:Majisuka Gakuen 00