Hi I am Benji Himura this is my new fanfic. I apologize for any spell or grammar error English is not my first language so try to understand.

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Signed: Benji Himura

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Author notes: This story happens in the Tenchi Muyo Universe/TV universe, therefore is different from my other Tenchi story.

"Text" Talked sentences.

'Text' Thoughts.

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(Text) Talked sentences in a foreign language as English when everyone else speaks Japanese.

: Text: Messages show in an electronic screen or written.

Text: something important being recalled, flashbacks, scenes being replayed.

Text: a detail found in a location, scene, person, recording and images that originally wasn't there.

Tenchi Muyo Universe: The Dawn of the Queen

Chapter zero: Introductions

Earth three years and eight months before the events of the chapter one

An above the average tall girl with hip long dark brown hair wearing a black and white school uniform looks at a taller man with shoulder long black hair and lightly tanned skin. "Join the cosplay club." She said in a firm tone. "Not interested." The man replied in an unemotional tone. "Come on Benji you like anime and manga why not joining us?" the girl questioned.

"I am not interested Yuko." Benji answered in the same tone, he is wearing black trousers and a white button up shirt and black shoes, a normal male school uniform. "I don't want expend my money in clothes that I won't wear often."

"You expend money on manga and anime." Yuko replied pointing at the thick manga book on his right hand. "There is a huge price and usefulness difference in them." Benji sot back seriously. "This is part of my collection, so it will go to my shelves and I will read it many times, why I should expend thousands of yens in clothing that I will wear a handful of times?"

"Because is fun." Yuko replied pulling a small photo album from her black skirt pocket. "Just look at those guys having fun with their fun cosplays; you can be one of them." "I don't want to dress up like that." Benji deadpanned. "Okay you don't have to dress up like a magical girl, dress like a male hero. Your favorite character. Come on Benji we need more members or the club will be closed for shortage of members!" Yuko pleaded with her eyes simmering with tears.

"You have three members." Benji shot back. "Just the president, the vice-president and the treasurer of the club that is me!" Yuko squealed. "We used to have more members before the seniors graduation last month. You owe me for aiding you when you fought those thugs to protect Tessa-chan and Hina-chan."

"I didn't need your help." Benji replied. "And you said that you were glad to help." "That was then when the club wasn't on the verge of death!" Yuko exclaimed. "We join." A beautiful voice of a blonde girl with knee long hair tied with a blue ribbon on a simple bow says interrupting the discussion. "And Tessa will also join."

"If isn't too much of a bother I also want to join." Tessa a girl with waist long blonde hair tressed in a single thick tress said in a low meek voice nervously holding on her skirt's hem. "See we both want to join." The other blonde girl said winking one of her blue eyes.

"You are great Hina-chan, Tessa-chan! So much better than this blockhead!" Yuko cheerfully exclaimed holding both girls hands. "Benji-kun isn't a blockhead." Tessa meekly defended the raven haired young man, looking at him with her green eyes.

"And since you two are still under his wings he has to join or he will be doing nothing after hours." Yuko commented happily. "I got three new members at the cost of two."

Benji sighs and wonders if he would be badly punished in throwing a seventeen years old maiden in front of the incoming traffic. "I know that we will have a good time Benji-kun." Tessa said with a shy smile. "Just because you say so Tessa." Benji replied smiling back, he couldn't be angry with the younger of the two Minami sisters.

Both girls are from mixed heritage and because of that they are often targeted by other students, in the day of their transfer Benji was assigned as their guardian for also being of mixed heritage and being a foreigner. Benji complained but protected those two girls.

Hina the eldest is beautiful, elegant and sophisticated; her voice was beautiful, sexy and entrancing often she was compared to a Siren in both her gorgeous appearance and beautiful voice.

Tessa the younger is also very beautiful but in a different way than her sister, Tessa was shy when Hina was bold, demure when Hina was outgoing, charming and slightly clumsy Tessa just gives out an aura of needing to be protected and being frail contrasting with her rather large stamina and mental strength.

Both girls are wearing the same uniform as Yuko, black pleated skirt with a white high collar button up shirt, a white blouse with a sailor styled black collar and cuffs, with a black bow on chest of the blouse, ankle high black shoes and white socks with two thin black stripes on the hem covering their calves.

Yuko was friends of Benji since he joined the school, his open distaste to math related subjects and often reading during those classes made him be marked as a bad student for not caring about the those classes even having a healthy amount of knowledge on them. Yuko was attracted by the open daring way that Benji would read a book or manga during class when not interested, and his superior smile when he proved the teachers wrong by answering something that no one else knew the answer even answering a complex problem using basic math instead of the advanced equation that they were supposed to use, he answered before even the best students and his results were right impressing the math teacher, that teacher said that he was smart but just didn't cared about the subject; the physics teacher openly despised him and was the one that Benji loved to prove that he knew more than he let know.

Benji openly stated is non-caring about several subjects that he found uninteresting and unneeded on his life, he had some interest in applied chemistry, not everyone know how to make gunpowder by heart, but he couldn't or didn't wanted to learn the whole theory of elements.

Juggling good grades, make up on some classes and tests Benji managed to have an average grade to pass the next grades, the line of flunking him would only make both him and the school suffer needlessly also seemed to influence the teachers that disliked him, often pairing him with good students so the black sheep could at least move away from their hands.

Yuko as the treasurer of the cosplay club also took interest on Benji's hobbies as reading manga and hearing to many anime theme songs on his MP4 player. Hina and Tessa took some interest on them too mostly be connivance with Benji than real initiative.

"So how the club works?" Hina asked to Yuko. "We mark anime and cosplaying events on the calendar and fix our costumes to them, often helping the others with their costumes, some times we make a group cosplay of an anime or game cast, other times we do pair cosplaying as the main male and female characters of a anime or game." Yuko answered. "We also discuss our favorite characters and series, trade songs and other stuff."

"Sounds interesting." Tessa commented with a smile. "We will be going in an event in two months so we have plenty of time to get our costumes." Yuko said with large smile. "After we get you three enlisted on our club I will show you all the best and cheapest stores to get the material for the costumes."

The two blondes nod agreeing and Benji remains in silence knowing that he will have to go too, even more than six months had passed since the two Minami sisters transferred to the school they are still targeted by other students by their hair and eye color, even by students of other school, especially boys; Benji would be their bodyguard preventing scandals with the school's name and the school would overlook his behavior and bad grades.

Benji did came to like the two sisters and protected them out of friendship after a couple weeks being near them all the time, the two sisters learned about his predicament and accepted it since the school could lie about his behavior and grades to get him expelled if he refused to guard them, and they know that even being forced on the beginning Benji was now their friend and helped them out of his will.

The morning bell rang announcing the beginning of the morning classes, the students move to their seats, Tessa and Hina sit in the chair in front and on the left of his chair that is against the right wall of the classroom the third chair from the front row; Yuko desk is on the opposite side of the classroom but in the front row.

The petite English teacher enters on the classroom and looks at the students, it was Benji's favorite class and it was a know fact that the teacher adored Benji, he was the only student that aced all her tests; because of that he is considered the English teacher's pet, Hina and Tessa also do well in the English test but not as well as Benji, they didn't live in English speaking country for long, but by being Benji's protégés both girls were in a smaller way the English teacher's pet too.

The classes moves peacefully and the lunch bell rang letting the students know about the break. Tessa and Hina move to Benji. "Let's go to the garden near of the tea ceremony club." Hina said pulling Benji to his feet. "I have to buy my lunch." Benji replied to the rather forceful blonde.

"Not today." Hina chimed beautifully. "Tessa fixed you lunch too." Tessa blushes and shows to Benji a larger lunch box neatly wrapped in a blue bandanna contrasting with the pink wrapping of her own lunch and the peach colored one of Hina's lunchbox. "A bandanna?" Benji asked playfully. "It was the only thing big enough for your box." Tessa answered embarrassed blushing even more, Benji loved teasing the green eyed girl.

"Less blushing and more walking, we just have half an hour of lunch." Hina said pushing Tessa to move. Benji follows the two sisters while Yuko runs to the cafeteria to fight for her lunch with the other students.

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Two weeks passed and Benji is reading a book in the cosplay clubroom. Hina, Tessa, Yuko and Tsukasa the club president are trying their costumes, Benji had long decided in what to wear and found the shops to get what he needs, even ordering some particular items for it.

"Why you are going of priestess when you are a crusader?" Hina protested looking a Yuko's clothes; she is dressed as a priestess of Ragnarok Online. "Because it would be too expensive to make the crusader's costume." Yuko replied while Tsukasa is adjusting the outfit on Yuko's slender figure. "Besides you are a mage and Tessa-chan is an acolyte it is all right."

"Just because we don't play as much as you two." Hina protested adjusting her clothes. "Tessa-chan is a cute aco." Yuko commented. "It fits her perfectly." "Thank you." Tessa replied blushing clutching her costume's skirt. "Why my clothes are so skimpy?" Hina asked running her hands on her exposed stomach. "Because those are the clothes of your class, trust me higher your job lesser clothes you get." Yuko commented.

"True enough." Benji commented casually, it was true with most of the feminine characters of Ragnarok. "So what you will wearing?" Tsukasa asked to Benji. "I am a sin." Benji replied. "He is a level ninety seven dual dagger sin." Yuko added. "And he isn't playing on my server all that long."

"So you will be an assassin that is so cool." Tsukasa squealed. "Assassins are so cool and dashing." "Put dashing on that, he has three doppels in his main knife, he doesn't even need to use pots to get max attack speed." Yuko muttered. "He is a fucking machinegun."

Benji shrugs and resumes reading. "Tsukasa-sempai what costume you will using?" Tessa asked. "I am going as a magical girl." Tsukasa replied cheerfully. "I am not a big fan of Ragnarok. But I might go of monk, depends of my mood in the week prior to the event."

"And the vice-president?" Hina questioned, he was always absent of the meetings. "He said something about make up so I am not really sure but he really shows with a very good costume." Tsukasa answered. "Last time he went of demon of a game even with horns and green skin."

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"Reviewing the plan, we will leave Iga Ueno and go to Osaka for the event; we should arrive there in less than one hour." Tsukasa said to her club members. "I will be going with the Minami sisters and the vice president on the car of the sisters' mother, Benji and the treasurer will be going on his bike."

"Fine." Benji said now in his black, red and blue assassin clothes. "Fine by me." Yuko replied. "That is the spirit." Tsukasa exclaimed cheerfully wearing a Ragnarok monk clothes. "Group up let me take a picture." An older woman with light brown hair wearing a simple skirt suit tells to the group. "The ugly looking one doesn't have to be on it."

The boy can protest because the layers of makeup and masks over his mouth. Hina, Yuko and Tsukasa chuckle at Mizuki's words, but quickly pose around Benji making it look like a Ragnarok party going to an adventure. Yuko pulls a thick book and poses, Hina poses with her winged staff, Tessa holds her mace and Tsukasa gets on a fighting stance with her brass knuckles. Benji sighs and puts on his assassin mask and draws two long knives and gets on the traditional assassin fighting stance.

"Looking good!" Mizuki chimed and walking to the group. "Now a finishing touch." She added pulling some cat ear bows and placing on the group. "Black for Benji-kun, blonde to Hina-chan and Tessa-chan, brow to Yuko-chan and red to Tsukasa-chan! So cute!"

"We are a neko party?" Tsukasa teased playfully. "Yup." Mizuki replied snapping pictures of the group posing. "It looks good!" Benji poses in silence saving his comments to himself. "Let's get a solo sin and priestess picture." Tsukasa said moving Hina and Tessa from the group. "We all know that sins always protect their priestesses."

Mizuki chuckles while Tsukasa is adjusting the couple for the picture, she can't deny that is looking good.

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"I hate you!" Yuko spat glaring at Benji. "Why you gained the Excalibur and I have to get this lousy Cross Staff?" "Because it matches your clothes." Benji teased adjusting the sheathed sword on his back using a sling that he bough on the event. "Come on Yuko the staff is also cool." Tsukasa said trying to calm down the brown haired girl.

"I am a sader! I use swords not staves!" Yuko exclaimed angrily. "That sword should be mine!" "You were the one who said that he could get the prize that he wanted if you two won the pair cosplay event." Hina replied in a flat tone, she wasn't happy that she wasn't the one that one that won the prize with Benji. "He picked the sword, besides even the judge handed him the sword because assassins can equip swords priestesses can't."

"It isn't fair! I just came as priestess because it would be too expensive to come as sader!" Yuko whined. "So what we do next?" Benji asked to Tsukasa. "We can check few stands, we still have half an hour before the event closes for the day and we continue tomorrow." Tsukasa answered. "Well I am going to visit that stand that caught my eye earlier." Benji commented. "I meet you gals on the parking area." The girls nod agreeing.

Later Benji is placing all the items that he bough on the event on his backpack so they can leave. Mizuki is organizing the girls and their own shopping bags on the trunk. "We will use the same arrangement tomorrow." Tsukasa said to the group. "Actually we can't come tomorrow." Hina said in an apologetic tone. "Is our mother birthday and our father already planned something for us."

"It is alright." Tsukasa replied with a smile. "Family is very important, the vice-president and I will take a bus to get here." "I will be using the sinner here as horse again." Yuko added pointing to Benji. "You can join us if you want to Benji." Tessa said in a low voice.

"Thank you Tessa-chan but I don't want to intrude, it is a family time and I am sure that Mizuki will kill me when I learn her age." Benji replied with a smile. "I appreciate the offer." "And he is right he wouldn't survive after I blow the candles." Mizuki commented playfully. "But you aren't a stranger Benji-kun, thank your for your consideration."

"At least we are done with the important cosplaying events." Tsukasa commented. "You two come in the costumes because this is a field trip of the cosplay club." Benji sighs and nods agreeing.

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"I still don't get it why you are so nervous about this." Yuko said to Benji while putting on her helmet. "I just don't want to get close of Okayama; my gut is telling me that is a bad idea." Benji replied strapping his sword and Yuko's staff on his bike's frame. "It is just something that didn't agree with you." Yuko said sitting on the back of the seat. "It is a great place and has the best barbecue that you will ever taste, now hop in soldier and drive me to the food!" Benji sighs and puts his helmet and rides on his BMW, at least Yuko is the one paying for the meal.

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"Sir I am getting a faint reading of Juraian blood moving towards the main direction of the coordinates where we extracted the princesses Aeka and Sasami." A young soldier tells to the older officer. "Bring it here, whatever it is will be taken under Yosho's orders, noble or not is Juraian and shouldn't be here."

"Yes sir!" the soldier exclaimed moving back to his position. Benji breaks when the flash of light started and thanks the skies for using a shaded visor on his helmet. "SHIT!" Benji exclaimed seeing the knights around his still moving motorcycle, not wanting to stop and find what is wrong Benji hits the gas and speeds up forcing the soldiers to jump out of the way to not be run over.

"I told you that was a bad idea!" Benji shouted on his helmet. "What is going on?!" Yuko yelled holding even tighter on his waist. "No idea but I won't stay around to find out!" Benji shouted back speeding in the direction of a hall. "ROOTS!" Yuko warned pointing to a group of moving roots that are treading themselves to block their path.

Benji makes a tight turn and halts the bike near of the roots; the soldiers start to circle them. "Yuko you have an idea of how pilot my bike, right?" Benji asked in English. "Faint idea!" she shouted in Japanese. "Good I will buy some time and you push the bike to the entrance of the hall, I will cover you so you can move the roots out of the way." Benji replied in English. Yuko nods and they dismount the motorcycle.

"You are insane." Yuko said to Benji while holding the two handles. "I got that line often." Benji replied pulling the sword and slinging it on his back. "The good thing is that they don't seem to understand a word of English." "They seem to understand Japanese." Yuko commented slowly pushing the bike to the hall while moving in the same speed as Benji.

"I got that from their clothes." Benji said seeing the semblance of the soldiers' clothes to the Japanese kimonos. Two soldiers charge at Benji and Yuko, Benji blocks the attack of the faster one with one of his long knives on his left hand and slashes the soldier's throat with his right hand knife.

The attack of the second knight impacts on Benji's shoulder and the spaulders of his costume blocked the attack, moving the staff off target sliding to the right of the soldier until it smashes on the floor; Benji uses that opening and slashes with his right hand cutting the neck of the second soldier.

The others charge at them and Benji and Yuko run to the hallway. Thanks to their large numbers and long weapons the soldiers can't fight back properly and end hitting and troubling each other as they funnel to enter on the hall. Benji fights with the trio that managed to enter without trouble thanking the number of them and their weapons for making things harder for the soldiers and easier for him, Benji doesn't have to worry on hitting a companion since Yuko is deeper on the hall.

The compact mass of enraged soldiers forgot all their training and discipline at the sight of the death of five of their companions, pushing and forcing the way inside the hall Benji can reap the soldiers with ease, using the numerical advantage of his enemies against them.

Yuko is amazed with the quick thought but very effective strategy that Benji created in that situation, she is shocked with the sight of Benji killing the soldiers but they attacked first. Benji sheathes his knives and draws the sword, the longer and heavier blade makes easier to Benji break staves and cut bones than the two knives.

"Let's go!" Yuko shouted when she got enough distance from the mass of soldiers. Benji runs to Yuko and hands the sword to her while ridding the bike, the brown haired girl holds on his waist with her left arm and holds the hilt of the sword tightly with her right hand as she rides behind him. Benji speeds away using the confusion of the enemy to flee.

"Slow down!" Yuko shouted as Benji drives on the halls in a neck breaking speed. "No way!" Benji shouted back making an insanely sharp turn to avoid smashing against a wall. After a short while he slows a little while searching a way out of that place, after a quick turn Benji and Yuko are holding their weapons on mid-slash against a young man with black hair and a odd rail tail holding a wood sword and a old man with long gray hair also holding a wood sword, both swordsmen are holding their swords centimeters away from the cosplay clad duo that is holding their weapons also centimeters away from them.

"Truce old man?" Benji asked looking at Katsuhito's eyes. "I am not one of them and clearly you aren't either." "Truce young one." Katsuhito answered in the same unemotional and level tone as Benji. "I can clearly see that you two somehow got caught on something that isn't related to you at all. Then we join forces to escape of this place."

"Agreed." Benji replied sheathing his knives, Yuko looks confused at the exchange but follows Benji's lead and puts the sword down. "I take care of that." Washu said pointing to the bike that Benji and Yuko are still riding. "Don't worry it won't damage it." Benji nods and they dismount of it and Washu makes the bike shrink to the size of a miniature and hands to Nobuyuki.

"I really didn't need to see that." Benji said in a sad tone looking at his prized BMW R1200C. "We can't stay here." Katsuhito says to Benji. "Lead the way old man." Benji replied, Katsuhito nodded and they resume running.

"We will rescue three of us." Katsuhito explained while the group runs. "As soon we get them we will get out of here." "Sorry but we can't return you two now, when you two were brought here you were marked." Washu added from the back. "Returning now would lead to capture again."

"I figured that much." Benji replied at Washu's words. "Then for the better or worse our fate is mingled." "It seems so." Katsuhito said seriously. "Why you are taking this so naturally?" Yuko asked to Benji, actually thankful that she isn't wearing high heels. "I said that I had a bad feeling about Okayama." Benji replied taking the sword from Yuko. "You stay in the back with that mustached man; I have six layers of silk, two of leather, a chain mail and my spaulders to protect me, you are only wearing a layer of fabric."

Yuko stays in silence but obey, she had teased Benji for using real metal on the armor but now in this emergency that extra lengths on the realism of his costume saved their lives, she saw him taking many blows on his torso that were held by his costume.

Meeting another group of soldiers Benji, Katsuhito and Tenchi attack them. "You need more training young one." Katsuhito commented while Benji is removing his sword from a wall after stabbing too hard a soldier. "My grandson and I took six soldiers each and you only took care of three."

"Sorry for not being a superhuman sword freak and my sword barely have an edge." Benji shot back after removing his sword from the wood wall. "This is just a replica that should be only decorative." "Then how you cut with it?" Tenchi asked surprised. "Using lots of strength." Benji answered as they run. Katsuhito nods understanding. "Thought those knives are razor sharp." Katsuhito commented with a grin. "Not something used in a decorative manner." "I knew that those weren't fakes!" Yuko exclaimed in a victorious tone. "Fine the knives are real and sharp, but I haven't used them wrongly or to hurt anyone until now." Benji replied annoyed.

"That is wise." Katsuhito commented. "We are here." Washu said pointing to the shouting Aeka and Ryoko from the cell. "We aren't the only ones." Benji exclaimed pointing at the other side of the hall from where many soldiers are running on their direction. "Time to leave!" Washu shouted throwing Ryu-oki on the air.

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"Next time I will hear your gut." Yuko whined slumping down in the floor of Ryu-oki after seeing the Earth getting smaller and smaller from the monitor. "All that I wanted was some nice barbecue."

"Mind in turning my bike back to the normal?" Benji asked to Washu, at the very least he wanted to comfort of his prized possession. Washu nods in silence and does so; Benji pushes the bike to a distant corner and motions to Yuko moves closer. Benji sits on the floor after placing the rest of the bike down and sits on the floor with his back against the motorcycle.

Yuko sits next to him and leans against his body, silently requesting his support and asking for comfort. Benji takes his coat and covers Yuko from bellow her chin, fully covering her body. The members of the Masaki household stay in silence, they can't give them any words of comfort; the two of them were total strangers that were caught in the middle of their confusion.

Tenchi is still trying to digest the whole incident, Aeka is complaining about what happened; Sasami is nested against Nobuyuki trying to sleep. Katsuhito is in silence meditating in another corner. Washu is typing something on her computer while Ryoko pilots the ship.

After a while Benji carefully stands up, Yuko is sleeping wrapped on his coat and leaning against the motorcycle. "What happens now?" Benji asked after moving to the others and speaking in a low voice to not disturb Yuko or Sasami.

"We will go to find out what happened." Tenchi said in a serious tone, also keeping his voice low. "As long you don't get me or Yuko in worse troubles we will tag along too." Benji replied. "This isn't something related to us." "Actually it is related to your lady friend." Washu said in a serious tone preventing Tenchi from exclaiming about responsibility and duty, it wasn't Benji's responsibility or duty fight for any of them, he doesn't even know them.

"Your lady friend has a small amount of Juraian blood on her veins, very small, but enough to tell that she had at least one Juraian ancestor." Washu continued noticing that Benji was paying attention. "In a smaller way your friend is related to the race of the two princesses that are being hunt."

"Still isn't our fight, as you said is a very small amount and no one really know her." Benji replied angrily. "We will be going with you to see what the hell happened but don't expect us to be all friendly just because we are in the same boat. We want to survive and get back home in one piece."

"No one will ask you more than your cooperation when needed." Katsuhito said moving to Benji. "You are right; this fight isn't yours or hers. You are a total stranger to us as we are to you, we can't ask you more than trying to endure this with us and if possible be our friend."

"Grandpa!" Tenchi exclaimed in shock. "Tenchi there are people here that are sleeping." Katsuhito said in a firm tone. "We fought at the side of this man as companions against a common enemy and that is exactly what we are, companions against a common enemy; we could even be smaller enemies that are working together to eliminate a more powerful common enemy. If you push too hard it will make things bad for everyone here."

Tenchi stays in silence and looks at his grandfather. "I am Katsuhito Masaki." Katsuhito said standing a hand to Benji. "I am Benji Himura." Benji replied taking the offered hand and shaking it. "I will be honest with you Masaki-dono I am not interested on this problem or fighting this enemy, if needed I will be a final line of defense for those who can't fight, so please do not ask anything more than that in a fight."

"I appreciate you honesty." Katsuhito said in a polite tone. "No one will ask you anything more than that in battle; however outside the battlefield I ask for your cooperation and manners in living together with us." "I would have given those even with out asking." Benji replied. "Then allow me to introduce you to my family." Katsuhito said turning to the others.

"This young man is my grandson Tenchi." Katsuhito said showing Tenchi to Benji. "The young woman with red hair is Washu, one of the most brilliant minds of the universe." Washu waves politely, Tenchi bows lightly out of formality.

"Hi." Benji said to the duo. "The young maiden sleeping is Sasami, she a princess of Jurai, the man sleeping that Sasami is using as pillow is my son-in-law Nobuyuki." Katsuhito continued. "The fair maiden with dark purple hair is Aeka; she is also a princess of the Juraian Empire."

"Jou-sama." Benji said in a polite tone. Aeka glares at him but refrains from voicing her feelings, she makes herself politely bow. "The lovely lady with cyan hair is Ryoko." Katsuhito continued to prevent an incident. "Hi." Ryoko said waving at Benji. "Hi." Benji replied waving back.

"The sleeping girl is Yuko." Benji said pointing to Yuko. "We can have another round of introductions later when everyone is awake." Katsuhito nodded agreeing. "Let me check you." Washu said to Benji, she noticed the slightly damaged fabric where he took blows. "You might have some severe wounds with out even noticing."

Benji nodded agreeing and he takes out the top half of his clothes. "Some nasty bruises." Washu commented seeing the large purple welts on his chest and back. "I was using only a malleable armor; they soften a little contusive attacks." Benji stated in a flat tone while Washu scan his torso. "They lack the defensive properties of rigid armors."

"Still they did a good job." Washu said closing her laptop and handing to Benji a pair of red pills. "You don't have any broken bones or internal bleeding, those pills with ease the pain and lessen the bruises." Benji nodded and takes the pills before putting his clothes back on.

End of the chapter two: