Robotics Club

Robotics Club (, Robotto-bu) is a school story in Lost Judgment focused on the eponymous club of Seiryo High School. Its associated stats are Focus and Teamwork, and its associated minigame is Robotics.
==Characters==
*Takayuki Yagami
*Kyoko Amasawa
*Kotoko Itokura
*Doumu Okitegawa
*Tetsuro Kurumazaki
*Dento Sakura
*Shion Takamori
*Yukari Akuta
*Makoto Tsukumo
==Tasks==
*Talk to Amasawa at the MRC
*Pop into the Robotics Club
*Talk to the Robotics Club Members
*Report on the Robotics Club to Amasawa
*Continue Investigating the Robotics Club
*Ask for Itokura's assistance at the MRC
*Find Itokura on the Roof
*Continue the Robotics Club Investigation
*Find Sakura and Itokura at the Cafeteria
*Continue the Robotics Club Investigation
*Head to the RE Robot Rally Preliminaries
*Continue the Robotics Club Investigation
*Find Sakura and the Others at the Cafeteria
*Continue the Robotics Club Investigation
*Head to Round One of the RE Robo Rally
*Continue the Robotics Club Investigation
*Talk to Amasawa at the MRC
*Continue the Robotics Club Investigation
*Report to the Robotics Club on Kurumazaki-kun
*Talk to Itokura
*Return to the Club Room and Follow Up
*Head to Round Two of the RE Robo Rally
*Continue the Robotics Club Investigation
*Check on the Robotics Club
*Continue the Robotics Club Investigation
*Look in the Robotics Club Cabinet
*Meet Up with Kurumazaki at the Cafeteria.
*Head to the Neo Keihin Gang Hideout
*Take Out the Neo Keihin Punks
*Return to the Robotics Club
*Prepare for the Finals
*Compete in the RE Robo Rally Finals
**Requirement: "Jack in the Bot" chassis equipped to Deus
*Meet Up with Tsukumo at the MRC
==Plot==
The Seiryo Robotics Club participates in a business-sponsored tournament called the RE Robo Rally, where robotics enthusiasts compete for a cash prize. Participants include robotics clubs, college students, and adult teams. Seiryo High always lost in the preliminaries, but they have massively improved after Okitegawa transferred and became the new club president. A string of thefts in Isezaki Ijincho with a total of several million yen committed by a robot with a part only available to the Seiryo High Robotics Club places them under suspicion. Yagami is to infiltrate the club as by approaching them as an outside counsellor, approved by Yuzo Okuda due to friction between the club and its advisor Akuta.
Yagami does not receive a warm greeting and has trouble getting the members to open up to him. The members leave for a scrimmage against West Mitsuya High, and when they arrive, Takamori is notified that their guest operator Mizuaki injured his finger and is unable to participate. Yagami offers to operate and Okitegawa weighs his options: Sakura lack the skill, Kurumazaki lacks finesse, and Takamori lacks emotion management; he accepts Yagami's offer and they breifly take time to show him the controls. Yagami wins and Okitegawa is impressed, asking him to be their operator for the tournament.
Back at the MRC, Yagami intends to tell Amasawa about his finding when he discovers Itokura's programming talent. When he returns to the club, Sakura reports he is still unable to fix the bug. Meanwhile, Okitegawa opens up customization and part development of the robots to Yagami. When Yagami exits the room, he encounters Akuta and the two sit down for a conversation. She explains the friction is a result of her opposing the idea of them participating in the RE Robo Rally, and the unpaid overtime she was forced to work due to Okitegawa's work ethic. 
During a scrimmage, the bug Sakura was tasked to solve takes effect and the robot stops accepting inputs. After Sakura continues to fail to fix the bug, Yagami asks Itokura to help him, but her seeing Kento Amasawa present causes her to leave. Kento explains that he was part of the school cultural festival committee and Itokura's tyrannical leadership caused the members to stop attending meetings until Itokura was the only one left and was not able to bring himself to apologize. Yagami asks two students where she went, and they state she is on the roof, where she is seen often likely due to feeling embarrassment from the festival incident.
Yagami meets Itokura on the roof and expresses her displeasure with seeing Kento and unwillingness to return to the MRC. Yagami suggests she join the Robotics Club, and though she is reluctant due to Kurumazaki being there, she still prefers him over Kento. Yagami encourages her to continue experiencing high school life, and she decides to agree. She arrives in the club and Sakura recognizes her from a program she wrote in her first year. Itokura buys a reference book for him when Yagami takes the two with him to the cafeteria for a chat. Sakura tells him of the Robotics Club's lax nature prior to Okitegawa's arrival, though Itokura notes her disagreement with his top-down approach. He also tells him of Takamori initially being slated to be president, and Okitegawa holding Kurumazaki in high regards for his efficiency.
Ahead of the preliminaries, Okitegawa appoints Yagami as their team leader. The team has a small bonding moment over talking bad about Akuta. Seiryo High emerges victorious over Jonan Technical School, advancing to the main tournament, and everyone celebrates their achievement aside from Okitegawa, who warns them to not become overconfident as their real goal is to win the tournament, surprising them all as they are the underdogs.
Okitegawa calls for a strategy meeting, but he is the only one who voices any ideas and gives the other members sets of instructions. Yagami calls for a brainstorming session and tells Okitegawa to not deny any ideas. Takamori suggests projectile weapons, but Okitegawa is initially against it due to impracticality, though Itokura's suggestion of making it fire quickly or cover a broad range makes him reconsider. The club's mood become more positive after everyone gets to voice their opinion. After a scrimmage, Okitegawa is more open to other opinions and Yagami in trying to get Kurumazaki to open up when he receives a text from Amasawa stating she has more info on the robot thief. Itokura reluctantly joins Yagami in the MRC room.
Amasawa states she has a picture of the robot, which has been upgraded from its previous heists. Itokura notes the Robotics Club is not at a level where they can install countermeasures such as caltrops and smokescreens. Yagami receives the picture to ask Sakura about it with Itokura. Sakura states he saw the blueprints for a robot like that when he checked the Robotics Club's locked cabinet, making Yagami suspect they may have sold the blueprints to another party; Okitegawa is the only one with access to the cabinet.
Akuta enters the room, telling them that she suspects the club has a blueprint for the thieving robot, but Okitegawa states he does not know about it. Akuta states she has not informed the police yet, and will not do so provided they disband the club and discard the blueprints. Yagami tell her she is threatening the club to tamper with evidence, and Itokura letting her know of Yagami being a former lawyer makes her back down and leave, saying that robots are toys on her way out. The club is now more determined to win the tournament to prove Akuta wrong.
They head to the preliminaries and win against Meiga College. After their victory, they are greeted by the Touto College of Science Robotics Club, the three-time reigning champions. Itokura notes Sakura's improvement in programming when Yagami is informed by Amasawa that she received new information. She tells Yagami that an investigation of her own revealed that the shopping district Okitegawa had secured a sponsorship from had actually ended the sponsorship two months prior, after receiving a request for an increased budget. She suspects the thefts had been securing funding for the club. She also learned that Okitegawa had reached the finals in a robot contest at his previous high school, but had to leave after his parent's divorce led to him transferring schools.
Seiryo's next opponent, the Sasaki Technical College Second Robotics Club, received the judges' prize the previous tournament, but are not as big a threat as the reigning champions, whom they will face in the finals. They change their robots and strategy after every match, but Okitegawa analyzed their patterns and predicts two possible strategies they will use, but they are polar opposites due to one focusing entirely on offense and the other on defense. He states that they will observe a scrimmage they will participate in right before the finals to see what strategy they will use, and develop two machines to prepare for both. While working, Okitegawa brings them Staminan, but Yagami instead treats them to ramen at Meng Wu. While there, Sakura cries tears of joy at finally being able to eat with people he can call friends after having to eat lunch alone, and Itokura hands him a handkerchief.
After working past school hours for a few days, tension in the club starts to increase, but Kurumazaki is still enjoying himself. During a late session, Okitegawa notices an intricate design which he had not requested, which Kurumazaki admits is the reason he has fallen behind. Sakura states Kurumazaki got the idea after the two were discussing robot designs, but Kurumazaki states he felt Okitegawa's strategy would not help them win. Okitegawa simply tells him to get back to work. He then proceeds to take on everyone's extra workloads. He later receives news that the delivery for the robot parts is being delayed, meaning they may not be able to complete their machines in time.
Kurumazaki continues to work on his design, earning a reprimanding from Okitegawa, however, Kurumazaki brings everyone's attention by loudly opposing Okitegawa, then storming off. Yagami takes Kurumazaki to the roof for a chat, and Kurumazaki states he is considering quitting the club due to his inability to express himself. Yagami discourages him from doing something rash, and he returns to the club room. Okitegawa tries to convince the others to continue without him, but Itokura, frustrated with him, leaves. Okitegawa tries to convince her to stay sue to Sakura's inexperience, but she is undeterred. Takamori follows suit, and Yagami leaves to speak with Itokura at the MRC. Amasawa gives them space to speak.
Itokura states Okitegawa's self-centeredness and narcissism angers her. Yagami notes this is similar to the cultural festival committee incident she was part of, and notes how she has grown since then. She states she plans to keep her distance, as it will teach Okitegawa an important lesson. Okitegawa notes he and Sakura have to continue by themselves. They win the second round, but a robot malfunctions after the match. Back at campus, Akuta informs Okitegawa she is placing the club on temporary hiatus due to learning his supposed sponsor was not sponsoring them, as well as the discovery of the bolt on the robot and the resignations of three members who stated they could no longer tolerate him. She asks Okitegawa to resign as well and he will not be held responsible. Okitegawa collapses and Sakura cries for their loss. Yagami asks him to leave temporarily to have some space.
Okitegawa tells Yagami he was receiving funding from his father, who is the CEO of an IT enterprise, but lied about its source because he was frustrated with having to rely on someone who had cost him an opportunity to win a competition. He asks what he should do, and Yagami tells him to apologize to everyone and be more willing to listen to them because that is what he is lacking as a leader. Yagami calls Kurumazaki to the rooftop, where Okitegawa apologizes to him and asks to hear his ideas. Kurumazaki states that to alleviate the pressure of not knowing which of two strategies will be used, he decided to create a two-in-one transforming robot to be prepares for both strategies using a purge mechanism to cast off the armor of the defensive build. Okitegawa notes there is no rule against a transforming machine. He then begs Kurumazaki to return, which he does.
Now aware of where he lacks as a leader, Okitegawa leaves to apologize to Itokura and Takamori by himself. When Yagami returns to the club room, all the members have returned as well. They approach Akuta to have her reconsider disbanding the club with Okitegawa telling her the truth, but she declines. Okitegawa gets on his hands and knees to beg her to reconsider, causing onlookers to think a teacher is forcing a student onto the floor. Akuta decides to reconsider with all the attention coming her way.
After a day of work, Okitegawa allows them to head home early thanks to room being opened up in everyone's schedules and notes the club's increased motivation, which Yagami suspects is because they like how Okitegawa has changed. Okitegawa then gives Yagami the key to the locked cabinet, and states he figured Amasawa asked him to investigate the club. He also states he was keeping the leash loose as proving the members innocent would only work in their favor, and asks him to clear their names.
Yagami calls Amasawa to the room and they open the cabinet to see the blueprints for a bread-eating race robot, which matches the design of the thief-bot. She notes the maker of the blueprints would not need to see them, and sees Kurumazaki had created them. Yagami asks to meet Kurumazaki at the cafeteria, where he and Amasawa ask him for more information. Kurumazaki quickly confesses to being the one who gave the design to the Neo Keihin Gang and did not need the key to the cabinet due to having memorized the blueprints. He states he uploaded robot designs rejected by Okitegawa onto his website, then got an email from the Professor shortly after launching it introducing him to businessmen who would fund his ideas, which Yagami and Amasawa suspect were the Neo Keihin Gang. He was introduced to technicians who would build the robots in an old building, then eventually he was informed of the thief-bot and realized he was tricked and was later forced to comply due to becoming an accomplice. Though initially concerned about safety, Kurumazaki tells him the hideout is located in a building at the end of East Tsurukame Highway.
At the building, Yagami sees it is abandoned and unlocks the door to the room Kurumazaki told him about. He sees the thief-bot and a laptop, and takes both, but is then assaulted outside by Neo Keihin Gang members. Yagami defeats them and warns them to stay away, then gives the laptop to Tsukumo. When Yagami returns to the club room, he learns Kurumazaki confessed to the other members. Okitegawa admits he is partly at fault due to being a selfish leader and apologizes to Kurumazaki. Kurumazaki states how happy he was to see the robot built, but accepts the proposal to disassemble and store it to avoid incriminating the club. Okitagawa locks the parts in the cabinet and assures the robot is not dead because its idea lives on in Kurumazaki.
Kurumazaki's transforming robot is complete and Okitegawa anticipates Touto College using the annihilation strategy from the scrimmage's result. Okitegawa gives his team a rousing speech before the match starts. Seiryo High wins the match with Tsukumo watching in the audience. Okitegawa sheds tears and thanks his teammates for their part in being victorious. At the club, they look at their trophy when Yagami is contacted by Tsukumo, who tells him he has finished analyzing the laptop. Tsukumo is asked to come to Seiyo, and he becomes excited at the prospect of meeting Amasawa.
Tsukumo arrives and says he has heard much about Amasawa from Yagami, being the girl who spotted their hidden camera. Out of respect, he addresses her as Amasawa-joshi. He states the security on the Professor's website was impossible to breach, and the laptop was being used to communicate with the professor via email, but the mails were scripted to delete after some time, making them impossible to recover, however, memos of the emails were left. One memo instructs them to lead Kurumazaki down a path of delinquency, and notes seven other students have also been contacted. Amasawa and Yagami are now aware that the Professor, who is using an initial "M," specifically targeted eight student to lure into delinquency.
==Trivia==
* When Yagami is talking to Itokura on the roof, one of her lines is written as "The one barely speaks?", neglecting a "who".
Category:Lost Judgment School Stories