BEWARE OF DOG (Blue Archive)

[Kyosuke Asatte]

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Next Stop is: Kivotos
And Always Remember to Touch On Your Card At The Start Of Your Journey
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It was all my fault.







These things, and everything they culminated in.





It had to come to this for me to realize…



They were right all along.



I know it is shameless of me…

But as one to another,
I must ask for your help.



Those choices you made…



Now knowing what they led to, I wonder if you'll be able to choose a different path?











No.

I know you definitely will be able to change that dark fate.









That is the responsibility I'm entrusting you with.







With that reason...



Return to this world once more.​

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"Mmm… Banana milk… Better than Strawberry Milk…"

Splash.

"Not now… I still have more to eat…"

Sploosh. Splish. Sploosh. Splish. Sploosh. Splish. Sploosh. Splish.

"Please… I can't possibly eat more…"

Arona's eyes fluttered open, her eyes floating across the classroom to the sound of continuous splashing as she slowly peered out the window...

"A-Ah!?"

Arona peered out the window at the flooded horizon of the virtual world. In the distance, a small black-clothed figure was splashing around frantically.

With a sigh, the AI silently reached out a hand, picking up the figure with a strange, firm force and forcibly dragging her back into the flooded classroom before unceremoniously depositing her soaked form onto the floor.

"You shouldn't go out there! It's nothing but hundreds of kilometers of virtual sea!"

"Exactly, I can swim for hours without fear of drowning." the silver-haired woman hacked up water, seeming oddly proud of herself, "It's certainly convenient the water appears to be breathable."

Arona sighed, passing her a towel, "The Shittim Chest isn't a swimming pool! It's meant to be a tool to assist… Sensei?"

"Oh. That would be me." the woman quickly accepted the towel, drying herself off before digging into her bag and taking a sip from her water bottle, "Hello."

"Um… How did you… get in?"

"Beats me. I just took up that tablet and then I was here. I figured I was stuck here forever so after setting up a base camp I decided to try to see if I could swim back to Kivotos from here." Sensei explained, pointing over to a pile of desks that had been assembled into a makeshift shelter, complete with a miniature campfire burning merrily away atop it, "Of course, I then remembered I couldn't swim but I couldn't drown anyway, so I decided to start training by swimming laps around the classroom."

Arona stared incredulously.

"By the way, do you have any fishing rods? I haven't seen any Iwak out there yet but I think I haven't dove deep enough-"

"Sensei…" Arona took a deep breath, "There's a door."

"Nn?"

"You can just walk out the door over there. You're not trapped here forever."

"Oh." Sensei stared silently, "...I see."

"Well… In any case… How did you get here…?"

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Approximately 2 Hours Ago...

"Um… I'm the new Sensei." the haloed woman explained, clearing her throat somewhat awkwardly, "A...Apparently."

Rin stared, bewildered, at the tall woman before her.

"That… A fellow student, a Sensei? No, that doesn't make any… No, I suppose that it would, since only another one of us would have the uniquely special perspective of happenings in Kivotos… But…"

"I wish I knew what the missing GSC President was thinking myself." the silver-haired woman shook her head, her canine ears pressing down hard on the top of her head, "But… Nn, I can't be Sensei! Not after everything I… Everything…"

A cracked tablet, the warmth of the handgun still in her hands.

"...We'll have time to worry about this later. For the time being… The Sanctum Tower…"

"It is…? Nn. I see..." she snapped into a sharp salute, "I'll go get it. The others in the lobby should be willing to help, right?"

"You catch on fast."

The woman nodded once more with a quick final, "Nn."

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The bullets ricocheted off her body. Sensei glanced down quickly, noting her new coat was somehow unscathed from the shots.

Nice. She never had an article of clothing this fancy and durable before.

That being said.

"As soon as we reach the sanctum, I'm changing out of this suit." she grumbled to Yuuka as the two ducked behind a car to reload, "I can't fight well like this."

"You seem to be handling yourself pretty well to begin with though. You must be a pretty experienced student."

She remembered the shock on her face as she burst through the storm of gunfire, swinging up her weapon as the light of explosions ripped apart her opponents, before-

"S-Sensei!?"

Sensei blinked, realizing she had pulled a grenade out and was hooking a finger around the pin.

"Ah. Right. Sorry. It's just… I think I remember something like this happening before."

"I'm sorry, what?"

"I'll explain later." Sensei tossed the grenade out, ducking as the explosion threw aside several screaming opponents.

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"I think there's a non zero chance I might have traveled back in time."

Yuuka blinked as the two of them took shelter from the roar of the tank outside of the bombed out convenience store, "Back in… time?"

"Nn. I remember hearing about these events years ago." Sensei peered up from the mess of scattered material on the floor, "It was all over Kivotube. The Sanctum Tower was under attack by one of the Seven Prisoners. Then a group, led by… Sensei… arrived and liberated it."

"Sensei… But you're Sensei."

"And there was none before me… That's the thing that's troubling me." Sensei paused, bringing up her cracked phone, flipping through it, "I don't see any mention of a past Sensei here at all, let alone an attack on the Sanctum Tower prior to this one. It's like all this is happening for the first time."

"…I think I would have noticed if this happened before." Yuuka muttered, peering out over the counter before ducking back down with a yelp as bullets flew through and embedded themselves in the wall behind the two, "I would doubt the whole time travel angle, but the circumstances of your arrival out of nowhere..."

"Exactly. Not to mention, the fact you're still alive when in 'my time', you…" Sensei hesitated, having pulled open a bottle of gasoline, "…Ah! Abydos! I need to get to Abydos as soon as I can to change fate…!"

"Abydos? The desert… You're from there, I presume?"

"Nn. I should return. The others would be concerned if I was gone for so long… If the others are even still there…" she shook her head, downing the rest of the energy drink bottle before filling it with gas, stuffing a soaked rag into the top and lighting it, "Good questions for later. Hup!"

The plastic bottle bounced off the top of the tank before tumbling into the crew hatch on top.

Several loud screams followed, followed by a sudden eruption of flame from the vehicle.

Yuuka's jaw fell open, Sensei nodding proudly.

"Isn't that a bit too much!?"

"Probably."

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"Wakamo's in there. Let me deal with her alone."

"A-Are you sure? Maybe you'd want to take-" Rin began to ask, only for Yuuka to nod confidently by Sensei's side.

"Don't worry. I'll be fine. I'm reasonably confident she won't harm a Sensei." the silver-haired woman proudly puffed out her chest before strolling into Sanctum Tower.

Several minutes later, a massive explosion erupted from within, blowing out a window on the top floor, followed by two girls tumbling out, slamming into the streets before the tower.

They promptly rose to their feet, running and slapping each other rapidly with their rifles. Sensei was screaming incoherently about how Wakamo was, quote, 'a fake and a fraud'.

Concerningly, she seemed to be also giving her pointers on breaking and entering.

"At least wait until the building is populated before you start robbing it! The staff have a better idea of where all the loot is so it's faster than searching alone!"

"You know nothing about finesse, darling! I'm an agent of chaos! Your overthought burglaries don't even come close to the things I can achieve!"

"It's called pulling a heist!" Sensei exploded, "At least do it optimally!"

With that roar, Sensei swung her rifle around, knocking Wakamo back into the building through a window with an oddly baseball-bat like sound before lunging after her with a bark.

Rin let out a sigh, face-palming.

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The two girls lay atop the completely destroyed floor of the SCHALE lobby, bullet holed furniture lying silent around them as they gasped for breath.

Two hours of continuous fighting had not done them much good.

"...Good talk, Sensei." Wakamo finally croaked out, pulling off her mask to breathe easier, "I think I… I think I have a slightly better idea of what you're… into…"

"Nn." Sensei responded, herself also gasping for air, "I'll keep in touch…"

"H...Hai."

"Nn."

The two exchanged Momotalk contacts, before Wakamo silently and bashfully slipped quickly out the back door.

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"...But then suddenly I found myself getting pulled out of the water and then I was here." Sensei took another breath, pausing, scooping up some water from the floor in her hands, drinking it, then continuing, "Then you asked me to explain what was happening. So I said-"

"I… I think I get the idea." Arona's head was starting to spin, "And you come from… the future, you say?"

"A dark one, yes. Where all has fallen and there is none but terror and despair." She seemed troubled by this, but shook her head, "It appears I have been sent back to this time to avert that future."

She paused.

"Which to be honest is awfully ironic considering where I came from." she finished, before glancing down at the energy bar in her hands and taking a bite, "Mmn. Thanks for the food."

"You have been explaining everything to me for the past hour. You'd get really hungry if you didn't eat. I really didn't need to know all that at once, you know." Arona shook her head, "I've reactivated the Sanctum Tower and redistributed power while we were talking by the way. We have access permissions to all of Kivotos now, and management has been provided to the GSC."

"And let me guess…"

"Yes, I put in a backdoor for us. Way ahead of you." Arona shrugged, "I'm used to it. Everyone keeps telling me to do that. You'd think it was part of the original story all along but…"

"Nn. It's useful, but I have yet to see it actually get used in any of those stories." Sensei calmly pulled out some sports tape, wrapping it over the cracks in the fourth wall, "If that's everything, I must take my leave. Abydos awaits."

"O-Oh, wait! Before you go, can you place your finger against mine? I almost forgot, we need to confirm your identity."

Sensei blinked, looking up at the pointer finger held before her, before silently nodding. She pulled off a glove, raising her own finger and holding it against Arona's.

"It's like making a promise, isn't it?"

"...Perhaps so. Maybe it's something like… I promise to keep everyone safe… or something standard like that."

"I know you will. There has to be a reason you were sent back. There has to-"

Arona's eyes widened silently, and she blinked.

"Uh oh."

"...What?"

"Sensei. Your fingerprints and scans… match that of a registered student. If you're registered to this device… Then she will be too."

"That's fine. I know who I am. A student of Abydos, in the academy city Kivotos. I bear this burden so-"

"No! You don't get it! What I mean to say is…"

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Earlier.

This was… new.

The icy wasteland, the chill of the handgun in her hands. The warmth of the dying fire she had curled around. It was as distant as a fading dream now.

Now, she sat alone in the train as it traveled through central Kivotos. Alone.

The woman blinked, looking around confused.

Wasn't there a dead body sitting across from her...? Wasn't this place… razed to the ground?

Yet, it looked as bustling as it was before…

The woman stretched slightly, before realizing what she was wearing. Her black flowing dress poked out from under a smart grey business suit. Pinned onto the front lapel of the jacket was…

"Oh. Oh no." she uncharacteristically snatched up the name tag, studying it quickly, sniffing it, then slapping her face in an attempt to wake up from this nightmare.

And yet… The reality before her didn't change.

"T-This can't be happening. I'm not- I can't be-!?" the soon-to-be Sensei gaped.

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Sunookami Shiroko slowed down, her jaw slowly falling open.

Next to her, on a modified black mountain bike, the taller woman slowed similarly, mirroring her actions. Reaching up, she lowered her shades, revealing an identical pair of mismatched blue eyes, similarly widened in shock.

Even her halo, cracked apart as it was, had the same shape.

But her nametag… her outfit…!?

Their mouths slowly fell open, gears rotating in their heads.

"You've got to be kidding me." both Shiroko spoke at the same time.

 

[Kyosuke Asatte]

OMAKE - Volume S: Where All Shirokos Collide

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"Shiroko! Attack!"

"Yes, it was I who killed Sensei!"

"But I killed Sensei!"

"As long as you exist in this world, I am your future!"

"No, I am!"

"Iwak."

"Not so fast! I am here too!"

"Wait, where did- Sensei!?"

The Shirokos awkwardly stood, staring at each other.

"Um… I'll go first." Sensei Shiroko – not the other Sensei Shiroko – explained, "I'm Shiroko who went back in time to fix the future and became Sensei."

"So therefore, I must be your future self." the other Sensei Shiroko rubbed her chin, doodling on a whiteboard, "And that means that my Shiroko over there must be the future version of your Shiroko."

"Good. We got that sorted out."

"Nn. Yes. Things would have gotten messy."

Past Shiroko But Small pointed, "I'm concerned about why there's two more small ones over there wearing a swimsuit and biking gear."

"Iwak." the fifth Shiroko held up a pufferfish, the sixth giving an awkward wave.

"We really need to start getting nametags."

"Nn."

"Nn."

"Nn."

"Nn."

"Nn."

"Iwak."

Shiroko Terror, Shiroko, Other Shiroko Terror, Other Other Shiroko Terror, Biking Shiroko and Iwak Shiroko would eventually all agree this entire fight was stupid and leave to rob a bank. The Shiroko Gang would become known as the most fearsome bank robbers in all of Kivotos. Eventually they would have to fight another Shiroko Gang from another universe, known as the Shiroko Terror Gang before absorbing them into their group. But then yet another Shiroko gang appeared, and another, and another until Kivotos had a percentage of the population comprised entirely of alternate versions of Shiroko-

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Yurizono Seia sat up screaming in a cold sweat, before clutching at her chest, glancing around her room.

"No more cheese for me." she muttered quickly, before lying back down in bed.

 

[Kyosuke Asatte]

...This feels oddly familiar at this point.

Welcome back, again, again, to BEWARE OF DOG! I don't really have much to say about this other than I can't help but feel like this is a Skyrim situation where I'm porting this to literally everywhere.

Over the next few days, I'll port over the other chapters of this story bit by bit.

Nn Counter: 15
Global Nn Counter: 15

 

[KuletXCore]

Reposting my MBAIBA omake here, inspired by the "Volume S" Omake.

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MX Blade: "Sensei... We're supposed to have a Kivotos-wide 'end of the world party' for you with the final chapter of the main storyline!"
Kuroko-sensei: "Nn, is that so? At least your Shiroko's doing better, not unlike me."
MX Blade: "At least we now have a name and a face for the enigmatic Sensei. Just, don't go licking feet for no reason, okay? You're gonna be a playable student soon and I don't want to fuck this up."

Spoiler: Kuroko-sensei "Official" Merch

Some time later...
MX Blade: "If Kuroko is the sensei, then... Who's gonna be Phrenapates–Oh shit, we'll have two more Kurokos... OH FUCK! MY BRAIN!!!"

Events of Volume F happen, with small Shiroko and Kuroko aiming at another Kuroko and an armored Kuroko...
Shiroko: "Blue Archive never told me about an additional Shiroko..."
Kuroko-sensei: "Nn, my arrival has complicated things."
Kuroko (Phren TL): "I'm going to end this world as you know it..."
Phren!Shiroko: "Nn."
Hoshino: "Uhee, there's too many Shirokos~"
Neru: "Thank you for teaching me, Phren-sensei... But I need to defeat you because it will mean that I'm stronger than ShirokoKawaii..."