Chapter 11 – Rampant tomfoolery

Only a minute later, everyone was present before the hangar, except for the still sleeping night witches.

"Okay ladies, there's a sizable force of Neuroi coming our way from eastern Karlsland. Shirley and I will be the recon and spearhead of the attack, while you all fly as fast as possible behind us. Do what you do best. Minna, you'll be commanding the girls."

"Verstanden," Minna said.

"Shit, I wish I could watch the battle…" Mio muttered.

"I can take you on my back, Miss Sakamoto," Yoshika proposed.

"You're a far too valuable combat asset to lug me around, Miyafuji."

"Then what about me?!" Perrine asked passionately.

"Are you sure?"

"Of course!"

"Then so be it, Perrine," Mio smiled. "I guess you're staying behind, Adolfine."

"I'll keep watch over our base and the sleeping beauties, they may or may not be useful," she replied.

"So we have all bases covered," Toshiro said, "To arms!"

Shirley and Toshiro were flying at over Mach Two towards Mönchengladbach at an altitude of five thousand meters.

"I'm getting anxious, Toshiro," Shirley said. "This is my first battle in my new baby!"

"I feel you, Shirley. But don't overestimate it, or there might be trouble."

"Trouble is my third middle name!" she said proudly.

"The second one would be Speed?"

"Bah!" the redhead laughed.

A moment later, Toshiro fired up his Tekkaku Hebigan and he wasn't all that surprised seeing a massive force coming at them.

"Shirley, there's at least a hundred of them, including a carrier, hiding in the cloud cover a kilometer above and twenty before us."

"Wait, what?! You can see so far THROUGH clouds?!"

"Nice trick, huh? Okay, stop right now, we have to wait for the rest, I won't risk charging forward with only you as backup."

"Well thanks…" she muttered.

Toshiro patted her on the head and said, "It's about myself, I'm not ragging because I have you by my side."

"Ah, then you're forgiven," she stuck out her tongue. "But are you sure we can hold on until the rest arrive?"

"I don't see Neuroi that can be labeled other than "subsonic," so don't worry; we have a bit of time."

"I'd kinda be a bit safer if you had taken one of those big cannons…"

"Trust me, those are basically obsolete for me now," he smiled. "Wait until those fuckers get in range."

"Well if you say so… Let's see…" she started toying around with her gun.

Three minutes later, the Neuroi started emerging from the clouds, and the girls were already visible behind the two.

"Shirley, fall back to the rest, I'm going to kill the biggest one first."

"Dude, I hope you know what you're doing…"

"Trust me, I'm a doctor."

"No you aren't!"

"Heh…"

Shirley flew back to the rest quickly, and Toshiro received a message from Minna.

"Toshiro, what are you planning?"

"I'll destroy the carrier so we won't have to deal with hundreds of small fries. Try to hold up until then."

"Are you positive you want to do this alone?"

"I'll manage, Minna. Toshiro over and out!" he shouted and summoned the Flame of Kōjin, cladding his whole body with a white hot, flaming samurai armor.

Not wasting a second, he enabled the afterburner and flew straight towards the enemy formation. The Neuroi noticed him immediately and started firing at him. Toshiro dodged the beams instinctively, and he didn't even bother to pull up a shield at one time, just to test what a beam to the head would do to him.

"Wow, Yuki…"

"You may have lost the power you had, but your reflexes are there. Plus, your little spark is really working nicely as armor, heheh… Elevate this, Toshiro!"

"All in due time, my favorite snake!"

The enemy masses tightened before him, so he did the next obvious thing.

"Jötunnswille!" he shouted and a pair of obsidian like gauntlets appeared on his hands.

He burst through the few medium size enemies that stood in his way without losing a particle of his momentum, and then he saw his prize, which already started spawning hundreds of small, rocket sized Neuroi.

"Like I fucking let you!" he shouted and exploded with monochromatic energy.

Toshiro held his hand up high and summoned Oblivion Lost. He turned on his Tekkaku Hebigan and started calibrating his vision, to finally see his target – an enormous core, right in the middle of the enormous carrier.

"Livy, if I do this, how much energy will I have left?"

"Plenty, Master. As the young'uns say – let it rip!"

"I'm still amazed I only needed my Celestial Aura to be able to do this reliably…"

Toshiro pumped the sword full of energy, making it double in size. When he was finally ready, he shouted, "Tenkai Reppuzan!" and swung the enormous blade. The resulting half-crescent attack traveled at supersonic speed, complete with a boom, and tore its way through the outside of the enormous Neuroi and right into the core.

The carrier Neuroi started crumbling into flakes, as well as all the hundreds of drones it produced.

"If I didn't see it, I wouldn't believe it…" Mio gasped through comms.

"How are you all holding up?" Toshiro asked and turned around.

"The girls are managing perfectly, Toshiro. If you want, you can join…"

"I dunno… Minna?"

"We can do it, Toshiro," she replied. "But Yoshika probably wants you at her side."

"I do not!" Yoshika protested. "Oh… Maybe I do…"

"Be honest with yourself, Yoshika," Minna chimed.

"Okay, Toshiro, come on, let's destroy the enemy together!" she shouted.

Toshiro diluted time by ten thousand times and zipped towards Yoshika in an almost timeless world. He could see that Shirley was using her immense speed to kite the enemies towards the Karlslander Trio, which ripped the enemies apart with totally four MG42's. Francesca was orbiting around them accompanied by Siegfriede and Georgina, all shooting and fending for themselves with their backs turned to each other. Hanna and Lynne were hovering beside the Mio carrying Perrine, shooting off their enormous rifles from a distance Toshiro roughly estimated to three kilometers.

And there was Yoshika, who was surrounded by the enemies, but before Toshiro could get palpitations, he saw that most of the Neuroi had cuts across their bodies, some of which even started dissolving already.

Toshiro took the initiative, and while still diluting time, he cut up those enemies out of Yoshika's immediate reach, and those who posed an immediate threat. Once he resumed the original time flow, he stuck with his back to Yoshika's and asked, "Having fun, Sweetie?"

"Like never, Toshiro! I feel like I'm alive!" she replied ecstatically. "Oh, your aura feels warm… I thought space was cold?"

"The vacuum surrounding our planet is, but not the Celestal Power," he winked. "Minna, estimated Neuroi count left."

"Give me a second," she replied. "Its… fifty small and ten mediums! If we keep this up, we'll be home in fifteen minutes!"

"We can be there sooner, if you let me go all out," Toshiro proposed.

"No way!" Trude protested. "I'm having fun, and we have everything under control!"

"Have it your way…" he sighed. "Yoshika, want to bag some more baddies? I think I still see some stragglers."

"Of course! You go to Mio, okay? Let her see up close how you look now, heehee…"

"Roger that!"

Yoshika split off from him, and Toshiro buzzed straight through some single enemies back to where the three witches defended Mio.

"Hello there, my dear snipers," Toshiro said and was greeted with a bang from Hanna's Solothurn.

"Incredible…" both Perrine and Mio gasped amazed.

"You look like a star system, Toshiro!" Mio laughed.

Perrine hesitantly touched him, but she smiled when she noticed he's warm and actually touchable.

"What if I was caustic?" Toshiro asked.

"You wouldn't let Yoshika touch you," Perrine replied proudly.

"Touché, mademoiselle," Toshiro bowed slightly. "Nice Dienstglas, Mio."

"I found it on the table in the hangar," she shrugged. "Whose is it?"

"Minna's, so you don't have to break a sweat," he smiled.

"The redhead told me you spotted the Neuroi from twenty kilometers through a cloud cover. Damn, now that's something!"

"If not for the clouds, I could spot the Neuroi from at least sixty kilometers, but I can only recognize details from thirty. But enough of that, let's look how…" Toshiro turned around, seeing only a few Neuroi left. "…the girls are mopping them up… Sheesh…"

"Mine!" Hanna yelled and fired off her rifle.

The 20 mm AP l'spur round soared across the battlefield in its phosphorous glory, hitting a medium sized Neuroi straight in its concealed core, destroying it on spot.

A valorous and wild cheer of all the girls marked the end of the engagement, and Minna asked, "Toshiro, are we returning to base?"

"Wait a second, Minna…" Toshiro said and tried to communicate with somebody on the open channel. "Hey, scout from near Mönchengladbach, where are you?"

"I'm hiding, sir!"

"You can get out now, the Neuroi have been vanquished, courtesy of the 501st and the 4th NJG1."

"Thank you! Thank you, everyone who participated in the battle!"

"No problem. Over and out," Toshiro said with a smile. "Now, we can go back."

"Units, back to base!" Minna commanded.

"Roger!" the girls cheered.

Yoshika boomed towards Toshiro and she clung to his right arm asking, "Are you proud of me, Honey?"

"Of course I am, Sweetlips," Toshiro poked her on the nose. "How many?"

"Thirty-three, all using my sword!" Yoshika said proudly.

"My girl!" he kissed her on the forehead.

"Ahahahaha!" she giggled wildly.

"Bro, I bagged twenty!" Erica shouted.

"Twenty-one!" Trude added.

"Fifteen," Minna shrugged.

"Only five, but I assisted that trio!" Shirley noted.

"Six!" Georgina cheered.

"Seven!" Siegfriede added.

"Eight!" Francesca followed suit.

"Ten," Lynne said humbly.

"Twelve…" Hanna mumbled with a disappointed look.

"Zero…" Perrine sighed. "But I was protecting the Major!"

"Lieutenant-Colonel, Perrine," Mio corrected her, patting the Gallian on the head.

"Ooooooh…" Perrine swooned with a red face.

"Livy, schätzchen, were you counting?"

"Of course I was, Master! One big one, three mediums, ten smalls, and five hundred fifty one drones. If you waited fifteen seconds longer, that would have been a thousand."

"Shit…"

"Can I brag too?" Toshiro asked innocently.

"I already know the count, Toshiro," Minna smirked. "I'll be sure to put in the correct number in the report, heehee…"

"So you want to write it? Splending, Atta girl!"

"We have to take turns," she smiled. "As I said, let's go back."

The girls rummaged around the hangar, stowing away their equipment. Adolfine appeared seemingly out of nowhere and asked, "You couldn't have done it faster, Toshiro?"

"Adolfine, please… The girls needs some action too. If I just obliterated the Neuroi singlehandedly, what would that be?"

"A snoozefest," the passing Trude said.

"See, my subordinates support me," Adolfine giggled.

"Yeah, that's beyond discussion…" Toshiro smirked. "I'll take my girls and debrief them, you do the same with your witches. Then we'll compile a report together."

"I'll be doing the report today," Minna butted in. "Toshiro can rest."

"Crud… Oh well, whatever now, come then, Minna."

"Siegfriede, Hanna, Yoshika, and Trude come with me to the office, the rest of you are free."

"Roger!" the girls shouted in unison.

"Ah, you have a knack to commanding," Adolfine smiled.

"It's all about consequence and practice," Minna smiled back. "Too bad you were holed up in Neue Karlsland for most of the time."

"Yeah, duh… But that's the fate of a witch," she shrugged.

"Who wants to take a bath?" Toshiro asked.

Everyone that wasn't assigned to do something shouted, "Me!"

"Bawww…" Yoshika sulked.

"You'll have enough private baths with Toshiro in your life, Miyafuji," Mio said.

"Yes ma'am…"

Toshiro leaned back in the bath, surrounded by the girls.

"Yoshika is the MVP of the battle, and she has to give a report instead of basking in her momentary glory…"

"Hey, Bro, you bagged more Neuroi!" Erica protested. "You're the real MVP!"

"Yes, don't diminish yourself just because you're superior to us in many ways, Toshiro," Mio added. "Miyafuji was second, and It's commendable. I'll have to praise her officially."

"Praise Yoshika officially? Damn raccoon dog…" Perrine muttered.

"Ah, right, Perrine!" Mio shouted. "Thanks for carrying me for the whole battle so I could witness everything with my own eyes, hahaha!"

Perrine's face lit up and she hid almost entirely under the water's surface.

"Looking through a pair of binoculars made you so tired you had to take a bath, Mio?" Toshiro asked.

"No, but it's the team spirit that counts!"

"That's our Sakamoto…" Shirley sighed. "Void of magic, but still feisty as ever!"

"I'll fight the Neuroi until I'm bedridden permanently, hahaha!"

"D-Don't say such things, Miss Sakamoto!" Perrine shouted, emerging from the water.

"Still only a consolation prize…" Francesca sighed, with the better-built girls nodding affirmatively.

"Y-Y-You perverted cat! You're flat as a washboard yourself!"

"I'm only thirteen," Francesca pulled down her right eyelid and stuck out her tongue.

Perrine regained her composure and said, "A lady doesn't need big breasts to attract men…"

"But they sure help," Shirley shot a covert glance at Toshiro.

You were the one that jumped on my dick, Miss Drunken Sex…

"If that was the case, Yoshika would still be a virgin," Toshiro said nonchalantly.

"Um, sir… If I may ask…" Shizuka started quietly. "What… uh… captivated you in Miss Yoshika?"

"Now that's a good one, Shizuka," Toshiro said as the girls all focused on him. "The moment I saw those big brown eyes, I knew something will happen. We grew on each other slowly during the trip to Britannia – she was a shy girl looking for her father, I was a world-scale unique phenomenon, a potential prodigy. When a Neuroi attacked our ship, she wanted me to protect her, and I agreed. During our stay at Britannia, she started opening up more and more, when she finally, watch out, asked me whether I would be her boyfriend."

"Whaaaaaaaat? Sir, you were the approached, not the one asking?"

"Yup," Toshiro smiled. "I couldn't reject her, not after she mustered the courage to ask me such a question. This meant that she felt something for me, and to be honest, I never had a girlfriend. This was a good choice… She lusted for somebody who would protect her, and who would embrace her in tough times... Someone who would be with her… And I wanted her, somebody who would be at my side for better or worse… Ehhh, I went a bit sappy right now…"

"Beautiful…" the teary Shizuka said.

"Hattori, trim down the waterworks, it's unbecoming of a warrior to cry," Mio said.

"31st July 1945, Mio," Toshiro said, making Mio blush slightly.

"What happened then?" Shizuka asked.

"A great warrior wept at her fate…" Toshiro said melancholically.

"I see…" Shizuka looked at Mio. "Then I will hold my tears back…"

"But only for stupid reasons, Hattori," Mio reprimanded her. "If you have to, you have to."

"Yes ma'am!"

As everyone slowly started moving away from the bath, Toshiro also decided to vacate it, leaving some of the girls alone. He went up the stairs, and only on the second floor, he bumped into Yoshika.

"Yoshika? Did you finish giving your report just now?"

"The report giving ended after five minutes, Minna gave us all tea and cookies."

"Ha! Now this is unexpected!"

"She said I'm the MVP of the battle, so I deserve the treatment, heehee…"

"It seems she's on the same page as me on that issue…" Toshiro muttered.

"Hmm? What's that, Toshiro?"

"Ah, nothing. Well anyway, what do you want to do now?"

"The night patrol should be up now; I want to make them something to eat!"

"Ah, I might as well follow you,"

"And help?" Yoshika chimed.

"And help," he smiled and ruffled up her bicolor hair.

Much to their surprise, they didn't find the four from the night patrol in the dining hall.

"They must still be sleeping," Yoshika concluded.

"Probably y…" Toshiro stopped as there was a noise coming from the kitchen annex.

"Hmm…" Yoshika furled her eyebrows.

"We have thieves," Toshiro snickered. "Let's see…"

The two crept up to the kitchen annex, and just as they peeked around deeper into it, they saw that the storage room door was opened.

"Eila, don't be such a klutz," Sanya's voice was heard.

"Sorry…" Eila's voice answered in turn.

"And what do we have here?" Yoshika asked as she peered inside.

"Wah!" Eila and Heidemarie shouted, almost dropping what they were carrying, while Karla was only looking at them with a smile.

"Oh, good morning, Toshiro," Sanya said without missing a bit. "And you, Yoshika."

"Hi," Yoshika said. "What are you scheming?"

"We saw nobody around, so we decided to make something to eat on our own," the Orussian replied honestly.

"You could have used the PA system…" Toshiro sighed. "It's there for a reason."

"But using that for such trivial matters is kind of childish," Karla said.

"You might be right. So, Yoshika, will we make some grub for this quartet?"

"Of course!" she cheered.

Toshiro waited until the girls started eating, and he said, "Girls, I have something or some things to show to you."

"I hope it's not something pervy…" Eila muttered.

Toshiro looked at Yoshika with a wild grin, and she replied, "If you have to…"

He waved his hands quickly, and he whipped out a thirty centimeter, anatomically correct stone dildo.

"Now this is what you call being hard as a rock."

Sanya and Heidemarie blushed heavily, but Eila opened her jaw so wide that the piece of food she was chewing fell out on the table.

"You seem unfazed, Karla," Toshiro noted.

"It's just a stone penis, Toshiro," she shrugged. "I saw yours in the heh… flesh so to speak, nothing will move me. Well, I'm curious how you did that though."

"I have a new power revolving around matter manipulation, but not limited to it."

"I see…" Karla nodded. "Hey, can you please throw me that?"

"Sure, just don't use it now," he smirked.

Karla grabbed the item and waved it before Eila. The Suomi froze in place and didn't utter a syllable, just looked at Sanya with scared eyes.

"Karla, p-p-p-p-please stop waving that t-thing around!" Sanya shouted.

"What, you afraid of an inanimate object? Pfff…" Karla sighed and threw it back to Toshiro.

Toshiro stuck it behind his belt, and said, "Okay, ladies, now something less sexually provocative."

He flared up with his Flame of Kōjin, and now Eila livened up a bit after her brief period of stupor.

"You look like them… what were they called…" Eila tried to find a word desperately.

"Samurai," Heidemarie said with sparling eyes. "So schön (so beautiful)…"

"You think that's beautiful, Heidi?" Yoshika asked. "Wait for more, heheh…"

"Indeed," Toshiro smirked, and switched his aura to the Celestial Aura, enveloping himself in a veil of black and white energy, with stars of both colors sparkling inside of it.

"Prikrasne…" Sanya gasped. "Toshiro, does that do something besides looking stunning?"

"Of course, Sanya," he smiled. "It amplifies my power, but I don't want to bore you to death with the numbers."

"There was a battle, by the way," Yoshika said, "If you want, I can tell you about it."

"Nobody hurt?" Sanya asked.

"No, no…" Yoshika waved her hand. "Not with me on the job!"

"So, please, go on, Yoshika," Hanna said.

"And that's it," Yoshika ended her story.

"Ah, I wish we have gone to battle…" Karla said with a sour face. "But we listened to Heidi, and went back to our beds."

"You were backup, but fortunately you weren't needed," Toshiro shrugged. "There will be no consequences for you, Heidi."

"Thank you, Toshiro," she smiled. "I promise I'll make better judgments in the future."

"Adolfine was probably waiting with a two-by-four to wake you all up in case you were really needed," he smirked.

"Our new commander is really… nice…" Karla said, weighing her words. "She's a General, but she's behaving like… I dunno…"

"Like a good aunt?"

"Yes… Most likely yes…"

"Don't fail her, and she'll continue to be your friend, Karla."

"Permission to be ask something personal," Karla asked.

"I'll bite, fire away."

"Did you perhaps have sex with her?" Karla asked.

Toshiro now raised an eyebrow, while Heidemarie and Sanya spat the tea they were drinking simultaneously. Eila looked terrified at Karla, and Yoshika shot an amazed glance at Toshiro that meant, "I wonder how you'll get out of this pickle, heheh…""

She's strangely polite, just like Siegfriede… Hmm… I'll ask around when I have the time… And fucks to spare.

"One month of solitary," Toshiro said with a straight face.

"Sorry…" Karla mumbled.

"No, but seriously, I was living with her for a few days. I won't deny it – she is a beautiful woman with a godly body, but Yoshika is the woman of my life."

"Lies, lies!"

"Shut up…"

"Master can't just tell them he already has a trophy count uncountable with one hand, can he?"

"I suppose he can't… But it would be fun to see the girls' reaction, heheh…"

"Don't worry, Yuki, I will come clear with my sexual adventures, just not now."

"Nice to know that, Toshiro," Yoshika giggled.

"There you have it, Karla. And seriously, don't try to reverse the question on her, because she might react much more harshly than me."

"A year of solitary?" Karla asked.

"Nah, she'd probably rape you…" he shrugged.

"I'm strangely okay with that…" Karla muttered.

"Walking on both sides of the fence?" Sanya asked amazed.

"I never had a man or a woman, so I don't know," she replied honestly.

"Okay, whatever, the month of solitary was a joke, the rape was a, rather poor, but still a joke," Toshiro clarified. "Now you four are full, and we have to clean up after you. Shoo, find yourselves something to do."

"Do you perhaps know where Siegfriede is then?" Karla asked.

"She's still in the bath, or she's wherever you can find her at this hour."

"Good to know," Karla smiled.

Toshiro stood up, and then the enormous stone organ dropped on the floor, making a lot of noise.

"Ah, this thing…" he sighed as he picked it up. "Garbage time…"

"Toshiro…" Yoshika mumbled quietly.

"Yes?"

"I'm glad you're not that big…"

"This would rip you in half, and I know it," he smiled

"That would rip all of us gathered in half…" Sanya muttered.

"Master, how about…"

"Hold that thought, Livy, okay?"

"Roger, Master."

Toshiro spent the whole afternoon either alone, or fooling around with Yoshika. When it came to supper, Shirley asked him something.

"Toshiro, how complicated can the stuff you make be?"

"Right now? I wouldn't bet on replicating complicated electronics, but I can recall a gun from my memory."

"You know… Uh… Err…" Shirley started tumbling her index fingers. "I kinda broke my gun…"

"You kinda broke your gun," Toshiro repeated. "How?"

"You won't believe it, but I managed to bend the barrel…"

Toshiro looked at her with a raised eyebrow, but he also saw that Trude started getting nervous.

"Will I notice a fist shaped dent on the barrel?" he asked.

Shirley looked at Trude, who now almost panicked.

"How... What…" Trude wondered.

"It's almost as if you were there, Toshiro," Erica said. "Shirley managed to piss off Trudy she threw a punch at her, but Shirley had her gun ready, and she managed to block the punch."

"And the barrel went shwoop…" Shirley mumbled.

"Ugh, I suppose I can repair it…" Toshiro sighed. "We'll go after supper, kay?"

"I'm sorry…" both the perpetrators said with sullen voices.

"How reckless can you be…" Mio sighed. "You would be running laps until your legs would fall out of your asses if I was the commander here."

"But you aren't," Shirley rebuked with a wry grin.

"I still am your superior though, Yeager," Mio said with a straight face.

"And I am yours, Mio," Minna said with her usual smile. "Don't kill the mood, okay?"

"They should be punished somehow."

"Toshiro, what say you?"

"Trude is going around in her dirndl all day tomorrow, and Shirley will be wearing potato sack."

"What?!" the two almost shouted.

"I can make you scrub the toilets…" he shrugged. "Pick your poison, ladies."

"Sack…" Shirley muttered.

"Dirndl…" Trude followed suit.

"Heh, I'll see that funky dress again, heheheh…" Erica chuckled.

Toshiro followed Shirley and Trude into the hangar. Shirley pulled her M2 with a heavily bent barrel out of her Launch Unit and passed it on to Toshiro, looking like a beat puppy.

"Seriously, I can see Trudy's knuckles…" he muttered. "Okay Shirley, what would you do if there were a Neuroi attack?"

"I'd use the Jackson?" she asked with disarming honesty.

"Ehh… Whatever…" he sighed and created a barrel for the weapon. "Trudy, you replace it."

"Okay…"

"Can't you just replace it on the weapon?" Shirley asked, but Trude smacked her on the back of the head.

"It's also a part of the punishment…" she said.

"Don't worry, you two – you'll get to spend time together alone," he winked.

"Thanks…" both of them mumbled.

"By the way, Trude – what pissed you off so hard that you wanted to punch Shirley?"

"I told her that you wouldn't bang her even if she wasn't the same species as you…" Shirley mumbled.

"Hey, that's authentically mean!" Toshiro said loudly. "You insulted her as a woman, Shirley."

"I already apologized…"

"Good for you. How do you feel about it, Trude?"

"I-If you accepted me as I am… Maybe then… Even though you're my cousin…"

"Aren't you going a bit too far, Trudy?" Shirley asked. "That's incestuous."

"Incestuous or not, it seems Trude loves me on many levels," Toshiro smiled. "I'm happy."

"Thanks…" Trude said red like a lobster.

"I've met a pair of cousins, and they really love each other. At first I was absolutely against it but… They love each other and… I think the one wearing the pants under the skirt told me that love is primordial. That really is something to think about…" Toshiro said warmly. "Good night, you two."

Toshiro turned around and walked away, and just as he passed the hangar, he heard Minna's voice saying, "You'll never be too strict for the girls, never ever…"

"Why should I be?" he asked, seeing her emerging from the shadows. "They know how they erred, and their wrongdoings have been repaired. I don't need to lash out on them. And of course they will be punished tomorrow, so… Meh…" he shrugged.

"I suppose you are the commander this unit needs," Minna smiled. "By the way, who was so open minded to be with her cousin?"

"A redhead," Toshiro smirked. "Everyone knows that they are the most temperamental."

"Not that you know it firsthand, huuuh?" Minna chimed.

"I really don't know what you're talking about…" Toshiro turned his head away, but Minna landed a kiss on his cheek.

"Good night, Toshiro. You deserved it."

"Well, thanks…" he mumbled slightly abash, looking as she slowly walked away from him.

"Coming back to the main building, Toshiro?" she asked.

"Yeah, I'll be going."

Toshiro opened the door to his room, and saw Yoshika reading a book on their bed. He closed the door behind him, and lied down beside her.

"Oh, you're here?" Yoshika asked.

"I could probably start taking your clothes of and you wouldn't notice."

"Heheh… You know, reading books is fun."

"Bah… So, should I let you read some more, or did my appearance poke some other interests of yours?"

Yoshika giggled and replied, "I won't lie, I'm a bit turned on… And… Wait a second…" she paused and started sniffing, bringing out her familiar features. "Toshiro, Minna was a bit too close to you, was she?"

"Heh… Let's say she planted an unsolicited goodnight kiss, heheh…"

"Well, that's kind of cute," Yoshika smiled. "But I am feeling a bit jealous…"

"Jealous that Minna will take me away from you? Please, Yoshika… Even in another universe, I loved the Yoshika from there, despite having a wide array of possible targets."

"Well, you did hump that Neuroi girl…" Yoshika puffed her cheeks. "I want you to pound me like you pounded her!"

"I seriously hope you can imagine the consequences…"

"My regenerative powers improved, Toshiro, I won't be bedridden like that time in Romagna I wanted you to fuck me like a tiger."

"Well then… But what about our neighbors? It can get noisy?"

"I may have a solution, Master," Livy appeared out of nowhere, startling Yoshika. "Pardon, Mistress."

"Mmm… What idea again?"

"Soundproofing and, heheh… vibrationproofing the room for the time of your wild ride."

"You can do that for us?" Yoshika asked.

"If my Master wants so, I can."

"Then I want it," Toshiro nodded. "But Livy, come closer…"

"But Master…" she blushed.

"Come on, I have to thank you somehow…"

"Okay…"

Toshiro landed a smooch on her forehead and said, "Thanks, Livy."

"I-I'll be going now…" she said quietly and disappeared.

"She was awfully shy… What did you do to her that I don't know about?" Yoshika asked.

"Maybe she's at a loss which Master to serve…"

""No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other," Yoshika quoted. "I would be at a loss too."

"It's not entirely like that…" Livy appeared with a teary face, kneeling before them in a seiza position.

"Oh Livy, what's the matter?" Toshiro asked sympathetically, with his hand going towards her.

Livy pounced at him and embraced him tightly shouting, "I love you!"

Toshiro was absolutely surprised by that, with Yoshika being stunned by that exposition too.

"You mean you love me like a friend?" Toshiro asked carefully.

"No… I love you like an adult woman loves an adult man…" Livy sobbed.

"Oh my…" Yoshika gasped. "Now this is unexpected…"

"But Livy, you're the… hmmm… possession of the Allgod, you can't just love me," Toshiro said uncertain.

"My Master let me be used in all entirety, and he did mean it literally… Through all the years I watched you, my feelings toward you grew, Master… They exploded during the simulation, but… I withheld that memory from you…"

"You what?" he asked.

"We had sex, Master… Twice… I suppressed this memory in you because… Because I don't want to wedge myself between you and the Mistress…" she looked at Yoshika. "You two are destined for each other, and trying to play second fiddle would be unforgivable…"

"What do you think, Yoshika?

"Technically Livy was first…" she said quietly. "You two had sex… Toshiro, do you love Livy?"

"I… I… I really don't know… She's there for me, but at the same time she isn't… She says we got closer during the simulation, but I don't remember anything about that…" he looked at the sullen blonde. "Livy, I like you as a friend, but… I don't feel anything deeper towards you, even if you've told me I have a chance with you…"

"I understand…" Livy replied sorrowfully and disappeared.

Toshiro looked at Yoshika, who had an uneasy expression on her face.

"I feel bad for the poor girl…" she said. "She just wants some warmth…"

"I know but… I love you, Yoshika, and only you. The other girls can't take precedence before you."

"Still… Toshiro, maybe we should try something new?"

"Something new? Wait, you don't mean…"

"Bigamy. Nobody would even know, and Livy would finally have somebody to love at her side, even if it would be for a limited amount of time each day."

"And you're proposing this just like that? Out of your good heart? Selflessly?"

"Not quite," she smirked. "I want to tap her godly rump as payback. And think about it, Toshiro – you could have sex with Livy when I'm sailing the Red Sea…"

"How the fuck did I end up with a girl so considerate she's willing to share her pre-marital bed with some random person?"

"She's not a random person, Toshiro. She helped, is helping, and will help you through life. Why not repay her for that kindness, selfless or selfish?"

"Damn… Livy, I have to talk with you."

Livy appeared in her previous position, but her face was now tense, and her eyes were sparking with curiosity.

"Livy, adhering to the rules that govern my memory loss, restore everything about the two of us that happened during the simulation. I want to know you better," he smiled.

"Yes!" Livy cheered and snapped her fingers.

Toshiro's mind was suddenly filled with vivid albeit badly cut up memories. He involuntarily blushed when he saw them having sex, and when the flashback ended he said, "Okay, Livy. The choice is yours – you can take up Yoshika's offer, or you can go back to being yourself from before your little outburst."

"Y-You would really do this for me, Mistress?"

"Yes, Livy. Without you, Toshiro would be dead a multitude of times, and I wouldn't have any man to warm my bed."

Now Livy pounced at Yoshika, embracing her tightly and shouting, "Thank you! Thank you!"

"Now, easy…" Yoshika patted her on the back. "Let's take baby steps for now. Today, you will be sleeping with us, Livy. Just sleeping. I want to know if I can consciously handle a mistress in my bed."

"I'll behave, Mistress!"

"Heh…" Yoshika snickered. "And you, Toshiro, don't try anything lewd, Livy is on probation tonight, and we can't just hump around her, right?"

"I suppose…" Toshiro said and threw a small pebble he just created at the light switch. "Good night you two."

"Ah, where should I sleep?" Livy asked.

"Between us, for now," Yoshika replied. "And remember – I'm sleeping naked so…"

"I understand!" Livy said loudly and Toshiro could see that the outlines of her clothes disappeared.

Oh shit…

He lied down, with Livy and Yoshika following suit.

"G-Good night, Master, Mistress."

"Good night, Livy," the two said in unison.

"Night, Yoshika."

"Night, Toshiro. Remember, no funny business."

"Not even some groping?"

"M-Master, not so fast… I know of your sexual and physical preferences for women, but… This is too fast…"

"Okay, okay… Sleep tight…"

He turned to his right side, facing Livy. Yoshika grabbed her from her side, and soon they all went to sleep.

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