The Tigers of Chi-Ha-Tan ReRise Volume 3: The Tigresses Trial

To A Team Of Oddballs

Aboard the Zuikaku School carrier, another beautiful day was passing over it and its community. There was an air of excitement for its residents as their small academy of Oarai had revived their long-lost Sensha-do team, which once was a prominent team 20 years ago. For many elderly aboard this school carrier, the memories of past glory for the Oarai Girls Academy were still in their minds, and seeing their proud academy in their first year returning back in spectacular fashion, only made those memories burn brighter.

This resurgence in their Sensha-do Club had also brought with them two upset victories as well. The first was over West Kureouji Grona Academy, with their more heavily armor tank force that didn't faze the vastly outmatch Oarai girls, who made use of their new perks to wear them down to nothing. The next upset had come in the victory over Koala Forest High School, who as well were surprised Oarai's unorthodox tactics that won them the day once again.

Oarai's port town in Ibaraki Prefecture, was in a buzz as well about their team's recent successes, even throwing a huge party for them when they made port after their win against Koala, which was said to have gone long into the night. Yet this team's goals were to push to the top, and win the national tournament, and bring the Victory Flag home for their port town and their school carieer.

Yet the dark truth for this need for the top, was kept secret from the tankery members still.

Walking down the hall to the student council room, at Ooarai's academy school ground, was Yukari Akiyama, who had a kick in her step, as she made her way to a meeting with her student council president over some exciting news. Yet Yukari was already excited for something else, was it because of their team's recent success, she was so ecstatic at the moment? That would be a part of it, but it was who she was going to face now that had her in a very good mood.

"Miss Akiyama, you seem very happy today," Kisa Naegi a first-year student, as well as Yukari's loader aboard the Panzer 4, who had large brown eyes, with long blonde hair that was tied with a large white ribbon that sway while she walk, wearing the Oarai's sailoir school uniform like Yukari.

"Oh, please were friends alright, just call me by Yukari," the Oarai commander said to her junior happily.

Kisa stop in her tracks wide eye at her commander and first-ever friend."Oh man, Miss Akiyama wants me to call her by her first name, what an honor!"

Yukari just smile at her first year, then began to recall meeting her and her friends and began the journey for Yukari that had changed her life for the better.

She still remembers the first day of her thrill after learning of the restarting of the Sensha-do program at Oarai, Yukari was beyond excited to finally have her chance to do tankery. Even though she absolutely love the sport, she had never competed in any matches, all her life she just watch from afar as the ladies of Sensha-do left her breathless watching their fierce matches that were always breathtaking.

Now, this was her chance to finally compete in said sport, though she had no skills whatsoever to speak of. She remember going to the tank garage with the other initial random members of the student body, only to find out that they have only one Panzer 4 in the entire force. A shock for sure, but Anzu Kadotani, their student body president sent them out on a hunt to find more tanks she thought were around the school. Yukari still to this day, didn't know how the tanks were just left randomly all over the place.

It was during this hunt, Yukari met her first friends ever in Hana Isuzu, Saori Takebe, and Mako Reizei who had been strung along by Saori saying this course would help her credits since she was late to school all the time, much to the dismay of the sleepy girl. The last member of the group was Kisa Naegi who was all by herself as the other members left to search for tanks, but Yukari instantly brought her into her group and was surprised by the first year's equal love for tanks that match Yukari's. The pair became close in only a few seconds of talking about the pros and cons of the Panzer 4.