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Legendary Witches 3: Cross World Battle

Chapter 7: A Capable Spar


-April 6th, 1953-

"Wake up, Toshiro. You're about to have a guest."

"Toshiro!" the familiar voice of Kaylie cheered loudly upon opening his door.

"Too late."

"Mmmruughh..." Toshiro moaned as he opened his eyes and leaned up. "What time is it?"

"Zero six hundred," Kaylie responded before Yuki.

"Hey, I was gonna tell him!" Yuki said through Toshiro.

"Time is kind of my thing, yo. So, Yukishiro, you two should get ready and come down to the main building. We're starting training today, and a few people want a piece of you."

"They want a piece of me?" Toshiro asked. "Any of them hot?"

"Well, Minna and I are the only girls that want to have a round, so two."

"Well, then come on in, close the door, strip 'em down, and let's go!"

She giggled. "Jeez, you got it bad. I don't even have to probe your mind to know you want to add "having sex with a god" to your repertoire."

"I can want what I want. I have to have some ambitions, right?"

"Hehe, well the only way you can get that from me is if Layla agrees to it, too."

Toshiro sprang up out of bed when he heard that. "You're shitting me."

"Maybe I am, maybe I'm serious," she sang. "One way to find out!"

"Huh..."

"Get dressed and come to the main building. Everyone should be there within the next fifteen minutes."

"Okay."

"Oh, and if you do pursue Layla and me, you'll want to wait to cash in until Mom returns us to our godly positions. Trust me, it's worth it."

"Is that so? You sound like you speak from experience."

Kaylie walked over to Toshiro and seductively leaned over him, sliding her hands over his arms and putting her breasts within an inch of his face before leaning down to meet his eyes. "It wouldn't be the first time Layla and I double teamed a man." She vanished.

Did I just get teased into a threesome with goddesses? Twin sister goddesses at that...

Toshiro got up and got dressed, electing to leave his medals behind since they'd possibly get in the way during an intense sparring match. He took a look at himself in the mirror. "All set."

As he approached his door, he got a bright idea.

Since nobody else seems to like using the proper method of leaving a building...

He walked over to the window, opened it and jumped out.

...Why should I?

He landed and started toward the main building, but soon thought of something.

Wait... Didn't she say last night that her Mom wouldn't let me do anything "vile" to her...? Is she playing with me, or did she just say that to... Hmm. No wonder those two are called the "Trouble Twins". Haha, this just got interesting, but I have to play it safe or my balls won't be blue just from the lack of sex...


Toshiro entered the base's main building and wondered the hallway looking for the room he was supposed to go to.

"Grumble grumble, the redhead didn't tell me which room," he mumbled as he continued through the building, checking each room as he went. He found a kitchen, dining room, communications room, and a rather large room with several tables across from the kitchen and dining room, but he found no people.

He didn't find anyone until he came upon a staircase.

"Hey, you must be that Toshiro fella I've heard about," a wizard said. Toshiro took a quick look and figured him to be about eighteen. The guy jumped down the stairs and offered his hand for a shake. "The name's Jaden Ventus."

"Yeah, I'm Toshiro. Kaylie told me everyone was meeting here somewhere, but you're the only one here."

"Everyone's upstairs already," Jaden said. "C'mon, mate. I'll show ya where."

Mate? He a Brit or what? Or maybe from down under...

"Lead the way."

Toshiro followed Jaden up the stairs and down two hallways before they stopped in front of a door.

"Here we are," Jaden said.

The door was partially open. As Toshiro reached for the doorknob, Jaden held up his hand. He pointed at the top of the door, where a small part of the bottom of a bucket could be seen.

"It's water."

"It's water," Jaden whispered.

"You and Yuki just said the same thing at the same time," Toshiro said. He grinned as an idea sprouted in his mind. "I got this."

He summoned Aganaimaru, activated his Sacred Flame, and pushed the door open. With time slowed by one hundred fold, the bucket barely moved before Toshiro sliced it in two. He resumed the flow of time and just walked through the door while each half of the bucket fell on either side of him and the water vaporized as it touched his Sacred Flame.

"Who's the wise guy?" he asked with a maniacal grin while maintaining Sacred Flame and resting Aganaimaru over his shoulder.

"That was a slick move, mate," Jaden said.

Toshiro walked into the room and glanced around at the audience of witches and wizards sitting at the benches at the right side of the room. Each bench was raised slightly higher than the one in front.

"Eeek!" he heard a female voice.

"Yuki, which one was that?"

"Two rows up, fifth from the left."

Toshiro immediately found the one he was looking for, but somebody else took credit for the prank.

"Damn it, Jaden, you weren't supposed to give it away!" a girl slightly resembling Shirley shouted.

"Now I couldn't just let you go and prank the guy that soon."

"I ought to make you run laps around the base for giving it away."

"You think I'd do it."

"You would if I ordered you to."

"Oh I would, would I?"

"Both of you can it." a blonde haired young woman said with clear authority in her voice.

The two straightened up instantly and spoke in unison. "Yes ma'am, General Hartmann."

"General Hartmann? I must be hallucinating..."

"No, you heard them right," the girl said as she walked toward Toshiro. He saw a glaive taller than her strapped to her back. "I am Major General Isabel Hartmann, Head Commander of the 511th Joint Fighter Wing, the Vast Witches."

"Head Commander? What makes that different from a plain old Commander?"

"Lion, Val, Yusu, front and center."

The giant Toshiro remembered from the previous day, along with a young man of a height similar to his own and a Fuso girl that bore a striking resemblance to Yoshika, stood up from their respective seats and made their way to the floor.

"Who are you?" Bell asked.

"Colonel Valterri Iilvari Virtanen, Commander of the 511th European Sect."

"Colonel Lionhardt Barkhorn, Commander of the 511th Liberion Sect."

"Colonel Yoshika Miyafuji II, Commander of the 511th Fuso Sect. Please call me "Yusu" so as to not mix up my great grandmother and myself."

"Brigadier General Toshiro Lucas von Edelweiss," Toshiro responded. "Why are there three sectors in the 511th?"

"The 511th has thirty two members," Kye answered. "It's split into three separate groups, each with its own Commander and Battle Commander. As such, it needs an overall Commander, of which Bell fills the role."

"Makes sense."

"All of you take your seats," Kye said.

With nowhere open, Toshiro opted to just lean against the wall with the lot from the Light Kingdom.

"We'll be training until zero eight hundred, after which breakfast will be served in the mess hall. After that we'll be training until twelve hundred, breaking for two hours, and then training until sixteen hundred. Optional training can be done afterward for as long as you wish. Night witches will be training on a different schedule, but since they are still in bed, I'm not going over that."

Toshiro glanced around the room and found that Sanya and Eila were missing. He did notice that Hanna Rudel, who wasn't present at the base in Berlin, was now present.

"Today's training schedule is the following. Early morning is sparring, late morning is jogging, and afternoon is Ultimates, which we'll all group up for that. I need to see how much everyone has advanced. The time schedule will be the same each day until our little fake war begins. After that, the training schedules will be adjusted as necessary. The activities of each day's training will be different as to not develop training habits. Any questions for today's training?"

"Yeah, me," Toshiro said. "A certain redhead told me that some of you wanted a piece of me. If that's right, I'd like to know who."

"Other than Minna and Kaylie, Lion and Fried also requested spars with you yesterday after you blacked out. Mio, Ayaka, and Katsu requested spars with you as well, but I denied them."

"Why for?"

"You're not strong enough to have a proper spar with Mio or Ayaka, and Katsu... Well, I'll just slap the same reason on for her as well. You're pretty much outclassed by all of your sparring partners, but the ones I approved will be able to hold back enough for a proper spar. Mio, Ayaka, and Katsu don't know the meaning of the word "restraint"."

"I feel like a fish out of water in your world."

"You'll feel much better when you get your power up. If you show me good results this morning, I might be able to convince my goddess counterpart to move it up."

Toshiro raised his fist. "Count on it. I'll show you a hell of a show."

"Prove it," Kye said. "Everyone! We're moving to the field to the north." Kye turned around and blasted a hole in the wall with a beam of light magic.

The fuck...?

She shrugged. "It'll get fixed."

"Did you just read my mind?"

"Didn't have to." She jumped through the hole, followed by the mass of witches and wizards.


Just as everyone arrived in the field, Kye gestured at Toshiro, Minna, Fried, Lion, and Kaylie and lead them to the hangar.

"What's up mortal Mom?" Kaylie asked, causing Kye to shoot her an annoyed glance.

"You know I have a physic link with the other me, right? We're not exactly separate beings."

Not separate beings? One person being two people at once... Gods...

Toshiro mentally sighed.

"Yeah, I know."

"Each of you put on your SFS. You'll find them in your lockers. There's gender specific rooms in the back of the hangar for you to change in if you are uncomfortable doing so in front of the opposite sex. Don't lollygag." Kye left the group of five.

Before Toshiro even could turn around, Kaylie walked by him with her SFS already on. "That was fast."

"Time magic, Buddy Bro. I hear you're familiar with it."

Toshiro diluted time and quickly found his locker. He changed into his SFS, which instantly changed color to match his tastes. The majority of it turned black, but the belt, rims of his sleeves and collar, and his gloves turned dark red.

After resuming the flow of time, Toshiro noticed the colors on Kaylie's SFS, being a normal shade of red where his was black and white where his was dark red.

"Well, that was interesting to watch," Kaylie said with a mischievous grin.

"You watched me change with time slowed down."

"Goddess of Time and Space, remember? I kind of specialize in it. Even while I'm a mortal, no mortal can rival me in it."

"Yeah, yeah, damn gods..."

Minna, Lion, and Fried just sighed, changed, and followed the two back outside and stood in a line in front of Kye.

"Who wants to go first?" she asked.

Minna stepped forward. "I will."

"Alright, everyone else, stand back."

Minna and Toshiro stood roughly five meters apart, facing each other.

"All set?"

Trude tossed Minna's glaive over to her. "Set."

Toshiro summoned Aganaimaru. "Set."

"You may begin."


Minna gripped her glaive, flared her Magic Aura to life, and ran up toward Toshiro. Toshiro responded by activating Sacred Flame, diluting time, and running toward her, but as he tried to grab her, she still managed to dodge and counter, albeit slowed down slightly.

"I diluted time by a hundred! How did you dodge me?" Toshiro asked as he resumed the flow of time.

"I used my aura power to temporarily copy time magic from Kaylie. I can't dilute time as much since I'm not experienced with it, but with my Detection Aura enhancing both my Area Analysis and my physical abilities, I can somewhat manage."

Toshiro smirked. "Can you manage this?" He diluted time again and turned invisible, but as soon as he tried to approach Minna from the side, he found the blunt end of her glaive ramming him in the chest, which ended both his invisibility and time dilution.

Minna returned his smirk.

"That smarts. I should have figured you could detect me with your magic."

"Come on, enough with the time magic!" Trude called at them, annoyed. "We want to actually see the fight!"

Toshiro sighed and looked toward Minna. "Looks like we're having a good old fashioned fight."

Minna spun her glaive in circles and twisted around, ending with her holding the glaive face down, just inches from the ground, parallel with her arm. She raised her left hand up and gestured at Toshiro to come at her.

Toshiro gripped his sword and sprang forward with incredible speed, aided only by using his super strength magic to propel himself from the ground.

"Reppuzan!" Toshiro yelled as he swung his sword toward Minna.

"Zauberschlag." Minna countered with a similar technique.

Their two magic discharges collided and exploded, throwing both backwards a fair distance. Each reacted quickly and ran back up to each other, engaging in a fierce melee duel.

Toshiro sliced and diced, but Minna blocked every blow and countered by throwing him off balance with her glaive. Toshiro recovered just in time to block a broadside attack from Minna's glaive, but he had to erect a shield to block the next attack.

"Todesschlag!" Minna empowered her glaive with magic and aimed a pummel with the blunt end of her glaive at Toshiro's chest. His shield and Sacred Flame absorbed most of the damage, but he was still flung backwards into the air.

Without even thinking, Toshiro recovered and floated in midair for only a second before launching a more powerful attack. "Shin Reppuzan!"

"Großer Zauberschlag!" Minna countered with the Karlslander version of his attack, though Minna put more power into hers and overpowered his, but Toshiro protected himself from the remaining damage by launched a normal Reppuzan at Minna's blast, which was weakened by his first attack, canceling out the remainder.

Minna didn't miss a beat and had already flown up above Toshiro and tried to kick him to the ground, but he merely grabbed her leg and tossed her downward.

She responded by firing a beam of magic upwards from her glaive. "Zauberstrahl!"

She just keeps pulling techniques out of a magic bag or something. Shit, this world doesn't play around...

Toshiro split the beam with his sword and launched a series of Rending Gales, following up with a Reppuzan down toward Minna.

Minna blocked the Rending Gales by swatting them away with her glaive, but she just held the glaive up and let the Reppuzan hit it. "Gegenschlag!" She absorbed the Reppuzan, added her own power to it, held her glaive up again, and fired the blast of magic back toward Toshiro.

Suddenly, a SFS magic platform appeared under Toshiro's feet, allowing him to kick off toward the side to avoid the incoming blast with less than a second to spare. Noticing that Minna was breathing slightly harder than normal, he took the opportunity to fly down toward her while pouring magic into his blade.

He extended his sword forward and attempted a stabbing variant of the Reppuzan. Minna countered with a near identical technique, but before their attacks collided, Rei appeared in between them with both her swords and effortlessly blocked them both, suffering no damage herself.

"What the fuck?!" both shouted at her at once.

"You two were getting out of hand," Rei said.

Kye walked up to them and explained, "That last collision would have seriously injured both of you, and even if it hadn't, neither of you were going to ease up. Even with the fact that Yoshika could easily patch up both of you, this is a sparring match, not a death match."

"I got caught up in the fun," Minna said. "Sorry."

Kye turned to Toshiro. "Despite that, I am impressed. You pushed Minna to use that many techniques. Even if she was holding back at first, she slowly started letting go a bit more as the fight progressed. You didn't manage to get her to use her full strength, but she raise the bar a fair bit."

"Thanks."

"Although, it looks like we have to postpone the rest of the spars until you recover. You expended a lot of your magic energy in that fight, as did Minna. Neither of you could properly participate in another spar right away."

"Neither of us could probably do a pushup... So, what now?"

"I wouldn't say you spent that much… anyway, just watch everyone else for now and rest up until breakfast. We'll have the rest of your spars after."

"I thought we were jogging."

"After that, everyone will want to see you in action again, especially Lion and Fried. Those two are grinning like a couple birthday boys." Kye glanced over her shoulder, as did Toshiro.

"Haha."

Kye turned back to the mass of people. "Start training. You'll get more of this show after breakfast."

Everyone sighed and went about their training.