Chapter 29 – We're back!
Two days after the unfortunate training accident, Toshiro woke up at the usual time, at the usual place.
He looked to the side and saw that Yoshika's face was turning towards him.
"Almost in perfect sync…" Toshiro said.
"Heheh… One day we will do it perfectly!"
"Yeah, one day… Speaking of which, damn, was yesterday boring…"
"Yeaaaaaah… Literally nothing of the abnormal happened… Nothing… Nobody got a Final Art, nobody got injured, no Neuroi attacked…"
"It sounds as if you want something bad to happen… I don't recognize you, Yoshika."
"I seem to take from you, heh… But I know you also prefer when it's peaceful and quiet…"
"It seems that too much of that will drive anyone insane… Hmmm…"
"What are you pondering about?"
"Kye promised me something when we get to Frankfurt. Kye?"
Kye poofed herself behind Yoshika.
"Wah!" she tumbled slightly as Kye embraced her from behind. "No you don't!"
"Awwww, Yoshika… Give me some warmth…"
"Oh okay…" Yoshika turned around and embraced Kye. "Better?"
"Heh, yes. So what Toshiro said is true, and I see it's the perfect time to follow up on my promise. What I wanted to do is allow you two to go back to that world."
"Oh, a trip there? How would that work?" Yoshika worked.
"First, Toshiro, rip open a rift, I'm lazy…"
"Lazy shmazy…" Toshiro mumbled and summoned Oblivion Lost. "Here it goes…" He said and lazily sliced the air beside him.
"Kaylie, get over here!" Kye shouted.
Toshiro only blinked and Kaylie stumbled through the rift right on to Toshiro.
"Oh hi, in for more?" he asked with a smirk.
"You'd wish! And in front of Mom, sheesh… No decency at all…"
"Hey, we're friends around here," Toshiro shrugged.
"So watcha want, Mom?" Kaylie asked.
"The reunion is starting soon, get our two friends there."
"Ah, okay. I was wondering if you were inviting Toshiro, but Yoshika too? Hah, this will be a barrel of laughs!"
"So what clothes should we take?" Yoshika asked.
"Take your miko outfit, and Toshiro should go light, it will be the fifth of August, and our meeting place is Rome."
"Warm weather, weee!" Yoshika cheered.
"Kye, could you in all your laziness lift your finger and clothe us?"
"Mmmmm… Okay…" she said, and without even lifting one finger, Toshiro had his short-sleeved uniform on, and Yoshika was sporting her miko outfit.
"Kaylie, you're still on me…" Toshiro noticed.
"And you can't do squat about it, heheh…"
"Sadly, no…" Toshiro sighed. "But your dear mommy can, right?"
"Kaylie, get off Toshiro you little tease."
"Yeaaaaah…" she moaned and stood on the floor. "So, are we going already?"
"Same rules apply as before?" he asked.
"Yeah, I'll get you two back at the same time you departed."
"Not planning another simulation, I hope?" Toshiro asked.
"Gods forbid. Oh wait, they can't, hahaha! No but seriously, that would be too much. Maybe some other time…"
"If I'm in shape, I'll surely join."
"I can make you in shape..." she smiled mysteriously.
"Yeah, no. Whatever now… Kaylie, onwards."
"Just take my hand, Toshiro. And Yoshika, you grab his. You don't want to get lost in time, right?"
"That would be… bad… I guess," Yoshika said.
"Don't worry, I wouldn't let you," Kaylie smiled.
Toshiro took her hand, grabbed Yoshika, and the crossed through the rift.
After a few seconds of complete darkness, they found themselves in some kind of enormous chapel.
"Woaaaaaah…" both Yoshika and Toshiro gasped in wonder.
"The Basilica of St. Peter. You'll meet up with some of the girls in front of it," Kaylie explained.
"Not going with us?"
"Please, Toshiro, walking is so ungodly…"
"Speaking of gods, there what's the situation with divine entities here? Kinda forgot to ask…"
"Mom and the rest are the only gods here, Toshiro. Of course only a particle of a fraction of people know about them, but the rest just can believe whatever they want, just like in your world. But in your world, you know how stuff works behind the scenes."
"Yeah, sure… Kye is sure benevolent not to overthrow Kyeism on the world, heheh…"
"Ah pfff… Toshiro, please…" Kaylie had to contain her laughter.
"Yeah, I know Kye wouldn't do such shit… Well then, come on, Yoshika; time to meet those girls in person."
"Okay," she said silently.
"Why so quiet?"
"This is a church after all…"
"Ah… Okay, let's go."
Kaylie disappeared and they went on through the whole basilica to the exit.
"Master, can I tag along?" Livy asked as she appeared at their side, dressed appropriately to the weather and country.
"Sure you can, nothing against it, right, Yoshika?"
"Of course you can tag along, Livy," Yoshika smiled.
Once they went into the sun, they saw two familiar faces watching them.
I wonder if we were announced.
"Oh, Toshiro!" Francesca cheered. "There you are!" she ran up to the two, while Shirley slowly walked behind her.
"Hi, Franny. I'm back."
"Back? Wait a second… You're the Original Toshiro!"
"Yup. And this is my Yoshika here. Still at the tender age of sixteen."
"Sixteen!" Francesca cheered but frowned quickly. "Awwww… But Yoshika's boobs were small back then…"
"And who told you my Yoshika isn't better?"
A ferocious glint sparked in Francesca's eyes. Toshiro grabbed her by the back of her neck and lifted her up.
"Hell no," he said.
"But Toshirooooooooo…"
"Okay, Toshiro, let her…" Yoshika sighed. "Let's get this over with."
Toshiro loosened his grip with a sour face and Francesca immediately started groping Yoshika, who put on a straight face.
"Hoho… My my… What quality breasts… I wish I could grab 'em naked…"
"Have some decency, girl, we're in the damn Vatican," Shirley said from behind her. "Hi, Toshiro. Nice to meet the original after these four months. And you changed a bit."
"Stuff happened," Toshiro shrugged.
"Does Yoshika have her magic?" Shirley asked.
"Yeah, strong like fuck. She even has a new sword, and the whole 501st has jets now."
"Hoho, nice! I wonder where the other you went…"
"How are they by the way?"
"Ask them yourself, they'll be at the reunion. To which we should go already by the way."
"Where is it?"
"Castel Sant'Angelo" Shirley said with a thick Liberian accent.
"Somebody must have pulled some strings to organize a party there…"
"Damn well…" Shirley sighed. "Francesca, come on already, leave Yoshika be."
"Not that I'm complaining…" Yoshika shrugged. "It's pleasant. This Francesca's groping is a bit more delicate and finesse than the one I know… And do my eyes deceive me, or did you grow a nice pair, Francesca?"
"Yup!" she cheered. "I finally have some titties of my own, heehee…"
"Oh come on already, or we'll be late…" Shirley moaned. "Assuming you're for the reunion, right, Toshiro?"
"Yeah."
"This will be fun…" Shirley smirked, but then she raised an eyebrow and asked, "Toshiro, is that Livy hiding behind you all the time?"
"Hiding?" Toshiro looked around, and saw that Livy was just behind him, grabbing the edge of his uniform. "Livy…"
"Master, I'm a bit anxious because… I'm a bit socially inept, you can probably deduce why…"
"You're not using your powers, and you weren't exactly exposed to a large number of people in your life?"
"Yes…" she said in an apologetic tone.
Shirley rushed towards Livy, and dragged her from behind Toshiro's back. "Come on, Livy, there's nothing to worry about. You'll be meeting old friends, and that's all!"
"Friends?" Livy asked surprised.
"Sure, damn you! Come on; let's go to the meeting spot already!"
Livy smiled and said, "Okay," but then she looked at Toshiro and squirmed around a bit.
"Yes, I permit it…" Toshiro sighed. "Come on, Franny, lead the way!"
"Okay!"
They went on to through the streets of Rome. It was a blast from the past for Toshiro and Yoshika, as they saw the same streets they chased Francesca through.
After a quarter of an hour of slow strolling, they arrived before the gate. A bit surprisingly, Minna was the gatekeeper.
Ah look, she tilts her head as if she's thinking "Huh, where did they come from?" Now, she's looking behind her as if she's thinking "But they just arrived…" Now, enlightenment pops up on her face as if she's thinking "Ah, that must be it!"
They approached Minna, and Toshiro said, "I saw you pondering quite vividly. You probably know what's going on right now, do you?"
"I must admit, I thought quite… expressively. Welcome back, Toshiro. And… Hey, nice to meet you, Yoshika. Oh, and Livy too? Now, this makes a nice bundle!"
"Heheh, pleasure to meet you too, Minna. Those few years did you good to be honest."
"Um… Well…" Minna blushed. "You look nice too…" she ogled her chest region. "Too good…"
"Eheheh…" Yoshika laughed dryly.
"So, are there three spare seats for party crashers like us?"
"Sure! Come on in already, you're the last to arrive."
"How's the composition of the guests, by the way?"
"This time we went with the original composition from 1944 plus Kye and Yoshika's… eheheh, you'll see," Minna made a sly smile.
Yoshika's eheheh? Nah, it can't be… Not so fast…
Minna opened the gate, let them in, and closed it behind them.
"Please, straight up the stairs all the way," she said.
The scaled the antique stairs and wound up in a big circular room. An enormous table was almost bending down from the amount of food and drinks present, and all the members of this worlds 501st were present. And they eyed the newcomers carefully, and then they looked at the white haired big log in a uniform aside of a brown haired girl in a white sailor uniform with a dark blue swimsuit underneath.
"Seeing double?" Toshiro said with a cheeky smile. "Come on all of you, I don't bite."
The girls still hesitated, but Toshiro Deuce and Yoshika approached them.
"Well, hello there, mademoiselle!" Toshiro Deuce said to Yoshika and kissed her hand. "How the hell did you grow so fast?"
"I don't know…" Yoshika shrugged.
"Get your paws of my Yoshika, twerp! You have your own!" Toshiro took his clones hand and something caught his eye. "Wait a second…"
"Heehee…" this worlds Yoshika giggled. "Let me reintroduce myself… Yoshika Miyafuji-Edelweiss, lovely re-wedded wife of this here guy, currently on our honeymoon."
Both the original Toshiro's jaw and his Yoshika's jaw dropped hard. The other pair embraced themselves and Toshiro Deuce said, "We really were on the same wavelength since the day you've left us, original Bro. We took three months to adjust the itsy-bitsy details, such as Yoshika's name after we get married."
"I would gladly give up my family name but…"
"But I deeply persuaded both of them not to do so," Kye approached. "You know, the Miyafuji name carries a lot of weight in this world."
"I guess…" Toshiro said. "And I have a fleeting sensation that the option of "Toshiro Miyafuji" was considered, huh?"
"Indeed," Kye said. "That was my first proposition, but I was just kidding…"
"Well, no shit…" Toshiro Deuce mumbled.
A devilish smile popped up on Toshiro's face and he asked, "Say, Clone Bro, has the seed been sowed?"
The Yoshika's tilted their heads, but Kye flicked his forehead and said, "You really are the worst…"
He could see Toshiro Deuce making a meaningful wink to him.
Mah man!
"Clone Bro, what changed since you went home?" Toshiro Deuce asked.
"A lot. But I would like to tell it to the rest, not to repeat myself. And I guess you have been learning the techniques of this world, right?" Toshiro asked.
"Of course! But I won't show you anything, since I know that you would be jealous."
"I am jealous just by thinking what you have in store… You had four damn months to train…"
"Well, I didn't spend all the time training. Since this world is now a peaceful one, I decided to start using my noggin for the good of mankind."
"So you're now a scientist?"
"Yup. I fulfilled your dream of having a wife and becoming a scientist in a peaceful world."
"How does it feel?"
"Fucking grandiose. I can finally kick back and enjoy Yoshika, even if she's a bit different from what I, that's you, fell in love with."
"Now, I'm fucking jealous…"
"Heh… Don't worry, I bet you'll be winning your war soon."
"Let's go to the rest already," Kye said. "They are a bit confused."
The seven of them approached the rest. Coincidentally, both Toshiros and Yoshikas were standing beside each other. Toshiro saw the eyes of the girls darting between the pairs quickly.
"Okay, so what do you want first? A summary of what happened in the two months and a half-month I was in my world? Or maybe you want to gawk at my Yoshika a bit?"
"More or less the same Yoshika we also had in 45…" Trude said. "But damn, her chest sure has inflated in comparison…"
"Why do all people notice my boobs first, geez…" Yoshika mumbled angrily and summoned Aimaru. "See, I have a sword!"
"Oh!" Mio shouted. "How good is it?"
"What was the comparison again, Toshiro? As good as Aganaimaru, which in turn is as durable as Jouten I believe."
"What?!" Mio shouted.
Mio closed in on Yoshika and looked at her blade closely.
"That's that celestial thing you're capable of, flowing inside the blade… Toshiro, some changes in your arsenal?"
"Yup," he said and summoned Aganaimaru over his head.
After he lowered it, Mio inspected it too and said, "Damn, now this is something…"
"You know what's something?" Toshiro asked. "Livy, how about it?"
"Oh, what do you have in mind, Master?"
"Oh, hi Livy!" Erica cheered.
"Hello…" Livy waved her hand slightly.
"Still a bit on the shy side?" Kye asked her.
"Yes…"
"And you're even holding back your powers… Wow, now that's something I doubt I would do…"
"I would, Mistress Kye," Jouten appeared suddenly, and approached Livy. "How are you doing, Livy?"
"I'm doing well," Livy smiled and patted the small blonde girl on the head. "Oh, pardon, it was an accident."
"I bear no grudge…" Jouten said with a mysterious smile.
"Toshiro, I remember your parting with Livy in this world was a bit… emotional…" This worlds Yoshika said. "How is it going now?"
"Hmmm… Should we tell them?" Toshiro asked Livy and his Yoshika.
"What happens here, stays here," Yoshika grinned.
"I'm always behind your decisions, Master," Livy nodded.
"Well then… We're semi-officially a lover's triangle," Toshiro said proudly.
A deep silence fell in the room, and after a few seconds, the whole 501st shouted, "WHAAAAAT?!"
"You heard it," Toshiro said. "The three of us are together, albeit the only one that knows about Livy in my world is Minna."
"What a credit of trust…" Minna mumbled.
"Wait, so the three of you… Together?" Mio asked with red cheeks.
"Yes," Yoshika smiled brightly. "Livy is just too cute… I know it sounds and looks rather weird, but Toshiro and I thought this through, and the pros outweighed the cons. It's a mutually beneficial relationship."
"Damn you're talking smart…" Shirley ogled her. "Something really must have happened…"
"Something happened," Yoshika winked.
"Hey, but what about a spar with me?" Mio asked Toshiro suddenly.
"You know I'm at my normal power level, right?"
"I still have a bone to pick with you…"
Toshiro suddenly snorted.
"Hey, what was that about?"
"Oh Mio… If I ever wish my own death, I'll tell you what I just thought… Heh…"
"You… You perv you! What the fuck did you do to your worlds Mio?!"
"I would emphasize the world fuck greatly…"
"Why I oughta!" Mio rushed at Toshiro with her bare hands but Toshiro Deuce just stopped her with one hand.
"Stop already, Mio. That Mio and you are separate entities. If Toshiro wishes to fuck her, and she consents, why should you even bother?"
"But!"
"He's right, Mio. I hope you're not going to be so strict around your kid, right?" Minna asked.
"I won't let a man touch her until he takes responsibility!" Mio yelled.
"Toshiro's, maybe you should gangbang Mio, huh? She probably forgot how it is to have a man in her…" Kye mused.
"No," the two Yoshika's said calmly while Mio's face paled.
"Saved by the bell, Mio," Shirley grinned.
Mio puffed her cheeks and turned around.
"Okay everybody, let's start the feast now. Toshiro, you can the rest what happened in the meanwhile, okay?" Kye said.
"Sure, Kye."
During the grand feast, Toshiro and Yoshika told everyone what happened up to this day, of course omitting some details.
"So Yoshika regained her magic without using Kye's technique? Brilliant…" Minna said.
"Amor vincit Omnia, I guess…" this worlds Yoshika giggled.
"But Kye was a sly devil giving you those blessings of hers…" Eila said.
"And totally not telling us about them…" Toshiro mumbled. "By the way… Eila, Sanya, I will have something to discuss with the both of you later."
"Okay," Sanya said.
That was fast. I guess she's also the one to wear the pants here, heheh…
"So your worlds Karlsland is slowly being liberated by the 501st?" Trude asked.
"Yeah. We're going to destroy a hive over Prague in a few days, probably. Then, I think, the doors to the hive over Berlin will be wide open."
"I wish you luck, Toshiro!" Erica shouted.
"Yeah, thanks."
"You have an interesting unit composition by the way. And ranks…" Minna smirked.
"I ripped a page out of mortal Kye's book…" Toshiro shrugged.
"But those Final Arts sure are intriguing…" Erica said. "I guess each world has its quirks…"
"Nowhere near Ultimates I'm afraid… I guess beggars can't be choosers though. Now only Lynne, Francesca, and Minna don't have theirs…"
"Ouch, that sucks," Toshiro Deuce said. "But hey, you still are blatantly overpowered when compared to the rest, right? You can protect your girls easily."
"Yeah, but what if the Neuroi start adapting at an accelerated rate? What if Class Sevens replace the usual mooks and so forth? That's why I need my power. Not to be overpowered in comparison to Witches, but to be sufficiently strong versus the Neuroi."
"Heehee…" Yoshika giggled. "Maybe I could hear what happened to you all during this time?"
"Oh right, now you share Toshiro's memories," Lynne said. "Well…"
And the girls started telling all the things that happened during Toshiro's absence.
"Wooow… Not bad for a time of peace and prosperity, heehee… And I'm sooooooooooooo… soooooooooooooooooooo jealous of you two!" Yoshika looked at her counterpart and Toshiro Deuce.
"I yearned for true love all this time, and Toshiro was a true godsend. Or goddess-send, heehee… Now, I am a complete woman…" she said and hugged Toshiro Deuce's arm. "And now Ayame finally has a proper dad…"
Toshiro's Yoshika's lower lip started to tremble, but Toshiro saw it in time and hugged her tightly.
"Don't worry, Yoshika... We'll marry; have kids, a house, a car, a dog, and three cats…" he said softly while patting her head. "Just wait a bit…"
"Okay…" she said quietly.
"I'm sorry, Yoshika. I've been inconsiderate…" the other Yoshika apologized. "I guess you are a bit more complicated than me at the same time, just like both Toshiro's said. I didn't need men in my life during the war with the Neuroi. Aunt Kye and the rest made me too busy to bother about them and love altogether. But seeing you aside of Toshiro… You flourish under his wings. He's a catalyst stimulating your growth…"
"No, no… That was just my maternal instinct going a bit overdrive… I'm really happy for you two and I hope for a similar outcome in my life."
"Now that we've eaten," Kye said suddenly. "Point two of our reunion. We'll be visiting a well know place for all of you."
"Is it in Rome?" Lynne asked.
"Nope."
"Is it in Romagna?" Perrine asked.
"Yup."
"All of us?" Toshiro asked. "Then I think I know where we're going."
"Do you? First letter of the name of the place please."
"P."
"Well, we have a winner. We'll be going to Pescara."
"Yay, old base!" Francesca cheered.
"You think that will work?" Toshiro asked.
"It's now a cultural heritage site," Kye said. "Only we and officials have access there. For the next 24 hours, we have exclusive access."
"So we're staying overnight?" Yoshika asked.
"Yes."
"Heehee…"
Both Toshiro's looked at each other and laughed creepily.
"I don't like that laugh one bit…" Trude said.
"Two Toshiro's in one place is a danger to all womanhood…" Mio mumbled. "But at least one of them is now on a leash, heheh…"
"Oh, Clone Bro; did your Yoshika put a damper on you?" Toshiro asked.
"Sorry, Progenitor Bro, no more humping other gals after the wedding," he spread his arms. "And I doubt your Yoshika will let you do differently."
"We'll see…" Yoshika said with a sly smile. "So how do we get to Pescara? Do you have those fancy suits?"
"Done," she said nonchalantly, and everyone was suddenly wearing one.
"Oooh, nice…"
"You'll all get your clothes returned upon arrival," Kye said. "Yoshika, I guess Toshiro's memories should be enough to pilot the SFS?"
"Well, I'll just hold hands with him in the first few minutes."
"Heh, few minutes will be all we need, heheh…" Shirley laughed.
"Oh right, I forgot, heh… But who will clean up?"
The table, plates and everything suddenly disappeared.
"Yeah, this is annoying…" Yoshika mumbled.
They all exited to the roof of the castle and ascended into the air.
"Weeee! This is so cool!" Yoshika squealed. "So fast, and no cumbersome Striker on my legs!"
"Fucking shame it's impossible to manufacture these in our world… But I will make something… Just give me some time…"
Sanya and Eila flew to the two, and the former asked, "Toshiro, you wanted something?"
"Ah, yes… Let's… Detach a bit from the group…"
"Okay, as you wish."
The four flared up a kilometer, and Toshiro asked, "Do the two remember that Kye changed me into a woman a few times?"
"Heh, yeah," Eila said with a smirk on her face.
"So… Uhh… I have experience many things in my life, and I wanted to try out one more…"
"What is it?" Sanya asked innocently.
"I want to have some girl on girl action," Toshiro said boldly. "I thought about you two since… well, you two are on the other side of the fence so to speak…"
"Oh my…" Sanya said and blushed. "And what about Yoshika?"
"I never told you she's bi?"
"What…" Eila said with her mouth opened. "Holy shit… Sanyaaaa!" she started shaking her life partner violently.
"Yes, Eila, yes… Okay, we can do a foursome in Pescara, if Kye turns you into a woman. Because, you know… We have rather… bad experiences with men…"
"Hit and run…" Toshiro sighed. "Okay, I'll negotiate with Kye once we get there.
"I don't have anything to say in this matter?" Yoshika asked.
"Come on, I know you'd like to have a go with Sanya, but you're too reluctant to bother Eila and her."
"Yeah… Heh… Although the two started doing it recently, I don't want to butt in… And it's remarkable the you two actually agreed…"
"You see… I always wanted to do it with Yoshika…" Eila said with a red face. "And since you are technically Yoshika, and younger…"
"And I wear the pants in this relationship, so I have the deciding vote on everything," Sanya said proudly. "And Yoshika?"
"Yes?"
"We're more mature than when I was fifteen, heehee…"
Yoshika immediately started staring at the chests of the two, who were underlined perfectly by the suits.
"Damn… In person you look even better than in Toshiro's memories… If only the girls knew how they would grow…"
"Right?" Toshiro mused. "I guess Franny is in for a surprise once puberty hits. But let's drop that topic and return to the rest."
The four returned to the rest and in a few minutes, they saw the characteristic angel topped castle.
"Nothing changed from the outside," Toshiro noted.
"And nothing changed on the inside," Kye said. "For today, we've got the bath running, the beds made, and all that hubbub. Courtesy of me," she winked.
"Yeaaaaah…"
They landed in the hangar. It was like Toshiro first saw it, without Strikers and any other equipment. Suddenly, all their clothes changed back to normal.
"Yup, literally nothing changed here," Toshiro said. "Comparing to my world of course."
"This worlds similarity to yours up until August '45 is very big, Toshiro. You'll be surprised how things like to be in sync between worlds."
"Oh really? Then let's look further, okay?"
"Up the stairs you go then. Take your Yoshika and go if you want. Everyone is free to move around the base."
"Well then, come on, dearest."
"Kay!" Yoshika cheered.
"What about…" Toshiro Deuce was trying to say something, but his Yoshika elbowed him slightly. "Okay…"
Toshiro and Yoshika went up the stairs. The first thing they tried was the escalator.
"Broken," he said. "Similarity discovered."
Then they went up the stairs. Toshiro grabbed the door handle on the first door to the right.
"Locked."
"Another thing similar."
Then he went to the next door, and this one opened. He saw and empty room but he entered and looked at the floor carefully.
"See these parallel lines here, Yoshika?"
"Yes."
"They have the same spacing as the filing cabinets we've used."
"So this was the archive?"
"Most likely."
"This is getting interesting…"
They exited the room and Toshiro purposefully omitted the central door, going for the next one.
"The room looks the same in its bare stare. Want to look for clues, Yoshika?"
"Sure!"
She scoured around the floor and walls and said, "This also must have been the office!"
"Good job, my little detective."
"Heehee…"
They went to the next room, and a part of a cable, cut off just by the ceiling told him what this room was.
"They made it a bit differently, but this still was the radar room."
"So now back to room where our love nest was?"
"Heh…"
They opened the door, but already they saw something was different. They scaled the stairs, and they saw that the wall just by them wasn't present, as well as the rest of the walls. They found themselves in a bare room with a multitude of holes in the walls.
"So this is how it looks like bare… I guess I have to thank Adi once we meet again…"
"Yes, this is totally different…"
"No Toshiro, no need for a fancy bedroom," Kye said as she poofed herself before them. "But! I'll give you your love nest back for the night; since it seems you've took up Kaylie's proposition from back then."
"So no buts or ifs?"
"This should be a fun event, so you, Yoshika, and everyone's favorite lesbos will have their fun. I'll make you Toshiko when the time comes."
"Well, thanks for not being some stuck up chaperone…"
"All the girls are OLDER than you, Toshiro, without exception. Even adding all the time you haven't aged. They have their own brains to decide what is best for them. And since nothing can happen in the outcome of some good old vagina mashing, what is there too protest?"
"This is one of those rare occasions that I'm glad you can read me like an open book."
"And to answer your next question, yes, I've set up the roster of this reunion like this especially for you. One reunion in the old group is nothing lost… Especially since there's still yaaaaay much reunions left until everyone from the 501st leaves this mortal coil."
"And what after that?"
"Don't you worry, I'll give them a nice eternity to live in. And their kids, and their grandchildren, and their grand-grandchildren and so forth will continue on the tradition."
Toshiro and Yoshika sighed deeply.
"Don't worry, you two. I promise that it will end very soon."
"Of course no details, huh?"
"I can give you a hint, that after Operation Bohemia, you'll know an estimate yourself."
"Still better than nothing… Okay, Yoshika, let's go and look for more similarities!"
"Yes!"
They went down the stairs on ground level. Livy was waiting for them.
"So, how much similar to your world, Master?"
"The place where my room was is a bit windy, and the cable to the radar dish was installed differently, but I guess the rest of the rooms were used for the same purpose," Toshiro said.
"That's rather nice," Livy smiled. "I'll accompany you two, in case Mio still wants your head."
"I guess I shouldn't have teased her…"
"Oh you shouldn't, Master…" Livy shook her head. "But I will save you!"
"Oh thank you, my dear lady savior!"
"Come on…" Yoshika muttered, snickering a bit before.
Thus, they scoured the dorm building.
"Well, shit. Basically no diff." Toshiro said.
"Master, now that you've done your job, why don't you take a dip in the sea? The water isVERY warm."
"Yoshika?"
"Oh… But I don't have a bikini…"
And just like that, Yoshika's body was now clad in a sexy bikini with a low hanging bottom and a triangle-cup top. Toshiro felt a familiar weight on his chest and sighed. "Livy…"
"Master, please forgive me, but I'd rather do this to you, than somebody else…"
"Ah, you're excused then…"
"Oh! Toshiko, heehee…" Yoshika giggled.
"I must still repent for the sins of Nobunaga and Keiko…" he sighed again. "Hey, I'm as tall as I am as a man! And my voice is a tad deeper…"
"I know your tastes, Master," Livy giggled. "You look like an amazon now…"
"Just good that you didn't remove my right tit…"
"Heheh, you don't have to use a bow in the jungle, Master," she winked.
"But… If my overall bodily dimensions increased then…" Toshiko looked down. "Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet Amaterasu! It's like I have my muscles from my male body, only streamlined for a female body! And the tiiiiiiits…"
"I had to make your growth proportional after all, Master."
"Are these… 34F's?"
"On the spot, Master."
"Bueheheheh… Now I can compete with Shirley…"
"Hey, Toshiko, lemme feel 'em!" Yoshika cheered.
Toshiko shrugged and lifted bent over slightly. Yoshika started kneading the enormous breasts of Toshiko with a gleeful face.
"Boing, boing, boing… Squish, squish, squish…" she bumbled in glee.
"Oh gods…"
"What is it, Toshiko? Am I too rough?"
"No, you're just right. But guess what'll happen when Franny sees me…"
"Oh… Heh… But I guess you have to endure…"
"I guess…" Toshiko sighed yet again. "Okay, stop molesting me already. Going with us, Livy?"
Livy snapped her fingers, and suddenly she was wearing a black bikini, made out of only a triangular part in the bottom, and two thin stripes going upwards, barely covering the nipples on her ample breasts, and tied behind her neck.
"Holy shit…" Toshiko gasped. "How does that even work?"
"Magic, Master," Livy giggled.
"Suddenly you're not shy…" Yoshika muttered.
"We're all friends on the beach, and since the cloned Master is technically Master, plus he's married, so I don't have to shield myself from his lustful gaze."
Livy turned around and went forward, revealing her almost bare bottom, wiggling around slightly as she was walking.
"I'd have to hunch over if I were a man…" Toshiko mumbled to herself.
The three went out of the door and on to the beach, where all of the girls were already either tanning or swimming.
Preemptively, Toshiko summoned Aganaimaru and split it in two. Suddenly, he saw movement on the edge of his field of vision and he shielded himself with the swords. Francesca stopped a few centimeters before the blades, very surprised.
"Unfair!"
"Hey, I can't give you my tits on a silver platter! Earn the right to grab them!"
Francesca tried to circle Toshiko in each way possible, but it was hopeless. She finally sat on the sand, and puffed her cheeks.
"No fair…"
""Life isn't fair, kiddo,"" Toshiko smirked remembering that quote.
"I'm older than you!"
He dispelled his swords and lied down flat on the sand.
"Have at it, I'd rather you do it with my full consent and consciousness."
She didn't need an invitation as he sat on Toshiko's belly and started fondling her breasts.
"Woaaaaaah! Seriously, these are Shirley grade boobs!"
"But I guess Shirley always wins, right?"
"Heheh, Shirley's boobs will be always the best!"
"Talk about impartiality…" Toshiko mumbled.
Once the boob lusty Romagnan finished, Toshiro and Yoshika went for a dip, while Livy was shocking the girls around with her lewd swimsuit.
"Yuki… Do you think that treasure is still there?"
"Arr? Ya mean them gold dubloons, matey?"
"I just slapped my face mentally with a mental palm…"
"Just go and find out…"
"Hello you two."
"Kye for fucks sake! Not here too!?"
"Heehee… Toshiro, let that treasure lie. I'll tell your clone to pull it out of the water at an appropriate time, kay?"
"Sure, sure… Say, how's my clone going financially?"
"Don't worry, he meets ends."
Toshiko and Yoshika were tanning afterwards, watching as Toshiro Deuce was showing off in the water in a race against Trude and Mio.
At least they aren't doing emergency landing training…
Just a few minutes later, Trude stood on the beach with Erica at her side. She took a wide swing with both her arms, and clapped them together, generating an enormous shockwave, and a great wave on the water, but at the same time, she was thrown back in the air.
Woah shit!
He diluted time and appeared just behind her, catching her midair.
"Oh?" Trude looked around. "Ah, it's my gender-bending otherworldly could-be cousin."
"And what does my brawny otherworldly would-be cousin think she's doing?"
"I'm trying to perfect my Donnerschlag technique, but the recoil, ugh…" she sighed resigned.
"Recoil… Hmm…" Toshiko pondered as she returned Trude back to the blondes side. "Erica, did you try to help Trudy?"
"Of course I tried, a quintillion times already, damn it! But no, "I want to do this alone" blah blah…"
"Five at most..." Trude mumbled as she jumped off Toshiko's arms.
"Okay then," Toshiko clapped her hands together. "What's the principle behind that?"
"I clap my hands together using my inherent magic, and amp it using my magic aura."
"Hmmm… A shockwave ergo an explosion…" Toshiko said and spawned two sets containing both a notepad and a pencil, one of which he threw to Erica.
"What's this about, Broski?" Erica asked.
"Hypothesis – a fully controlled Donnerschlag that can be achieved without much effort. Time – five minutes. After that, we swap notes and do a brainstorm."
"Fine by me, Bro. But I think Trudy is kinda against it."
"It's fine…" she sighed. "If you two can do it together, than I have nothing to complain about," she smiled warmly.
"Los, Erica!" Toshiko shouted.
Five minutes later the two swapped their notes, and Toshiko said, "My, my, you're good at this, Erica. Do you have some degree?"
"Nah, why bother… Maybe if I went to college with you… Dude, I have your clone now! Trudy, I'm going to college!"
"Truly, the Apocalypse is upon us…" she muttered.
"You're not too shabby yourself, Bro," Erica continued. "Okay, let's debate…"
It took them ten minutes of fierce debating, and one minute of a covert whispering session with Livy, but Toshiko finally stood proudly before Trude saying, "I can demonstrate now!"
"Whaaaaaaaaat?! You don't even know the technique itself!"
"Pfff, that's a brute force technique if any…" Toshiko snorted. "Good that Livy bumped my power to your levels, so this will be a piece of cake…"
Toshiko walked up to the beachhead, and clad herself with a thin veil of monochromatic energy. She did a few exercised to loosen up her arms, and then, without warning, she struck her hands together.
The resulting shockwave generated a tsunami-esque wave, and at the same time, Toshiko almost disappeared a sand clod that was thrown up.
When the sand fell down, Toshiko asked, "How was it, Trudy?"
"Tell me how you did it!"
"Erica, please."
"This is very simple, Trudy," Erica took over. "Newton's 3rd law of motion – to every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. Action A is the shockwave, action B is the recoil. Toshiko adds action C – a magic force exempted of that law. In the same moment as she clapped her hands, she created an opposite directed shockwave – a counter phase, using her inherent strength magic, generated from the muscles of her whole body being flexed during the palm strike."
"Can you draw that out for me?" Trude asked.
"Sure," Toshiko smiled.
Five minutes later, Trude stood at the beachhead with a determined face. She enveloped herself in her Magic Aura, and struck her hands together, once again disturbing the water this time, and throwing up a cloud of sand.
"Success!" Erica cheered and ran up to her friend. "You did it!"
"Wow… Thanks, Erica. And thank you, Toshiro," she smiled. "Now I can pass this technique on."
"No problem, Trude. But you know, give credit where it's due, heh…"
After some more beach worthy shenanigans, everyone was called for a barbeque at sun dawn. Toshiro regained his manliness for the period, and he helped Shirley and his clone in preparing the meat. And of course, Toshiro couldn't resist teasing Mio.
"Hey, Mio, want some of my meat?" he asked.
Mio was literally shaking on her whole body, but she replied through clenched teeth, "No… Thank you…"
Awww… I was not assaulted, how terrible…
"Hey, Toshiro's, you're cooking is nice…" Minna noticed.
"I learned this and that on my own," Toshiro Deuce said.
"I have the combined knowledge of me myself and Yoshika. This couldn't have gone wrong. Say, Clone Bro, who does the cooking in the Miyafuji-Edelweiss household?"
"We both do it," this worlds Yoshika said. "Toshiro is a very apt cook, heehee…"
"You sly devil you…" Toshiro said.
"Say, how about we have a drinking contest?" Kye proposed, holding a bottle labeled only with the numbers "192"
"No, fuck you!" Toshiro Deuce, Trude, Shirley, Mio, and Minna replied angrily.
"Bueheheheh…" Kye laughed. "I was kidding. Shame you can't enjoy a little buzz now, huh, Toshiro?"
"Kinda…"
After the barbeque, they all went to the bath.
"Hell no!" Mio yelled as Toshiro was trying to enter.
"Hey, the girls in my world don't give a fuck anymore."
"But I do! Shoo!"
Yet again, Toshiro's chest weighed him down a bit. He smirked and said, "You were saying?"
Mio made a sour face and said, "Do anything indecent and I'll cut your tits off…"
"Okay, boss."
"Aaaah…" Toshiko sighed in pleasure. "Nothing like a hot bath after a day full of adventures… Oh, and the bath is the same as in my world. The next thing I'll know is that a guy named Vincenzo made it."
"Really, Toshiko?" Minna asked. "Did he have a cousin running a pizza parlor?"
"Yeah!"
"Damn, what a coincidence…"
"I guess 99.9% of our worlds is the same," Toshiko shrugged. "But it's that one-tenth of a percent that makes it totally different for all of us… I really wish I was born in this world… Maybe the situation with my parents would be different… Maybe I wouldn't even be a wizard? But then, maybe I wouldn't even meet Yoshika… All the possibilities that created my timeline and my universe must have had a meaning…" Toshiko sighed and looked around. "What, too deep for a bath talk?"
"You may be a perv, but you're an honest and smart perv," Mio said. "You experience more shit than some of us with others combined, and I commend your efforts in your world. But that doesn't mean you should bang the other me every other week!"
"Read my lips, Mio. F-R-E-E W-I-L-L."
Mio just slumped down and said, "Fine, I understand… I'll be honest, your worlds Mio is probably as love depraved as I was at her time. I just didn't know it…"
"My Mio is starting to comprehend it slowly, don't worry. I guess every Mio has a heart of gold, but it's hidden under a layer of titanium, heheh…"
"Even titanium can crack…." Toshiko's Yoshika giggled, making Mio blush.
"Speaking of which, did you know in this world, I'm a Miyafuji, too?"
"Huh?"
"Yeah it goes back a few generations, but Yoshika and I have a common great something grandparent."
"Hurrrrgh… I swear, this world…"
The girls around him giggled.
After the bath, Toshiko and Yoshika went to their room. It was just like Toshiro had it in Romagna.
"So, we're waiting for the girls now?"
"Yeah, Toshiko. But be prepared, I won't go easy on you."
"Pff… I'll take anything…"
After a few minutes, Eila and Sanya walked in in their nightgowns.
"Ready?" Toshiko asked.
"HHhhhhh… Hhhhhh…" Eila was breathing heavily with her cheeks red.
"I guess that means ready…" Toshiko mumbled, and the event began.
In the morning, Toshiro had his male body back.
Wow, damn… I didn't know that the female body was THAT sensitive… And Eila reaaaaaaaaaaaaaally went loose on Yoshika… Wow, it's still dark outside, but the sun is slowly going up… I have an idea…
Toshiro slid out of his bed covertly and jumped down on the runway, dressed only in his briefs. After a quick run, he found himself on the beach, where the person he thought he would find was standing on the beachhead, with her back towards him, wearing only her trademark swimsuit, and a sword on her back.
"Now I have to remind YOU – you're not the Toshiro you were during the sim," Mio said.
"How about a good morning first?"
"Good morning," she replied lifelessly. "Your double didn't manage to best me yet, and I doubt you can right now."
"How about this, Mio – I ask Livy whether she will increase my base power to your level, and then we finally duke it out?"
"Oh?" she finally turned around. "That would be cheating, but for the sake of an equal fight, it would be necessary… Hmmm… You know what? Get that blonde lover of yours!"
"You rang?" Livy appeared with a smile. "Master, are you sure you want this?"
"Of course! My male pride is demanding an offering!"
"Heehee… Okay, but I will be here in case you two go too far."
"Fine with me," Mio shrugged.
Livy walked up to Toshiro and kissed him on the forehead. Toshiro could feel an immense surge of power coursing through him.
"Now this is what I call power, heheh…"
"Since you're technically the one challenging me, I get to set down the rules," Mio said. "No time diluting, that's all."
"And beside that everything goes?" Toshiro asked.
"Everything," she grinned fiercely. "Well, I won't use Free Flight, just to even things out."
"How generous…" Toshiro muttered. "Livy, come."
He stuck his hand forward and Livy first disappeared and reappeared in her sword form in his right hand.
"Ready when you are, Mio."
"I waited almost half a year for this!" she shouted while drawing her sword and lunging forward at the same time.
Toshiro didn't miss the cue and crossed her draw cut with an underhand parry. The immense force of the blades clashing threw up the sand around them, and both of them jumped back.
"Yes, this is it!" Mio shouted. "Finally I can battle somebody else that has the balls to fight with me!"
Toshiro made a pelvic thrust and said, "Come and get 'em!"
At an instant, Mio shouted "Reppuzan!" while cutting horizontally. Toshiro had to dive under the attack, but at the same time replied with a Reppuzan of his own, and propelled himself forward with his left hand. Mio deflected the attack with a backhand slash, and she managed to block Toshiro's vicious overhead strike.
"Impressive, Toshiro! You haven't lost your edge for an inch!" Mio said and kicked him in the stomach.
He managed to pull up his Sacred Flame to mitigate any damage, but the force of the impact pushed him back anyway.
"Reppu Zoukyou!" Mio shouted and her blade glowed blue.
"This again?" Toshiro asked. "We're getting serious then!"
The flame around Toshiro changed its shape and formed a samurai armor. Mio rushed forward and started a flurry of blows, and Toshiro had to block every one of them in succession. After the fifth one, a horizontal right-to-left slash, Toshiro summoned Aganaimaru to his left hand and tried left-to-right cut, but Mio managed to duck under it and jump back.
"I totally forgot about that cleaver of yours!" Mio shouted. "This means that I have to get serious too…"
She raised her eye patch and shouted, "Obliterate!"
Shit!
Toshiro managed to dodge the attack by creating a metal pole in the sand and jumping off it to the side. As he looked back, he saw that it was destroyed after the attack hit it.
Mio looked disappointed, and Livy, appearing briefly said, "No need to destroy the beach, when Master dodged it anyway."
So she wants to be serious…
He landed on his feet and said, "Hey, Mio, you know what I did to the Mio of my world?"
"I bet it was something vile!"
"Hah! As punishment for defying my orders, she had to take it in the ass!"
"T-Take what?!"
"We're adults here, Mio," Toshiro grinned.
Mio's face distorted into a furious visage and she yelled, "Now you managed to piss me off!"
Her sword started glowing immensely, and Toshiro also started preparing an attack of his own.
"Zen Reppuzan!" Mio yelled furiously and flung a gigantic wave of magic towards him.
At the same moment, she started swinging her sword; Toshiro enabled his Celestial Aura and pumped his sword with an additional portion of energy.
"Zen Reppuzan!" he shouted and an even bigger attack flew towards Mio, leaving a faint monochromatic trail.
Both of the attacks went off into the sea, where they exploded, but before that happened, the two clashed swords again once more.
"You fiend! How dare you sully her!" Mio yelled.
"Oh, look whose angry now!" Toshiro replied and this time it was he who kicked Mio.
She flew back several meters, and Toshiro dispelled his swords. He focused all his energy in his hands, and clapped them together. An enormous, barely visible, shockwave travelled towards Mio, but she stood her ground. However, a few seconds later, she bent herself in half and tried to regurgitate, but didn't have anything to do that with.
"What… What the fuck did you do to me…?" she asked.
"I used Trudy's attack and improved it by using an amplitude that would upset your gastric system," Toshiro explained. "Courtesy of my Celestial Order magic."
"Urrrrggghhh… And you think that will stop me!" she stood straight up with her sword ready.
"You're forcing my hand, Mio… I have a power advantage over you."
"I still have the experience!"
"It's good that Livy is here…" Toshiro sighed and cracked his fingers. "Final round, Mio!"
"Come!"
"I wish you worded that better," Toshiro grinned and summoned both his swords.
"You fucking unbearable perv!" she yelled as she pointed her sword towards him.
Toshiro did something unorthodox as he threw both of his sword up in the air. Using his Tekkaku Hebigan, he ascertained that for a split second, Mio followed the swords upwards, and then he struck.
"I'm ten years too old for that trick!" she said as she saw Toshiro rush at her with enormous speed.
"Irellevant!" Toshiro shouted and just as she made a slash at him, she dove under her and shouted, "Dou!"
As his open palm thrust towards her chest, suddenly, Livy appeared stopping it, and grabbing Mio's right hand too, which was only a centimeter apart of Toshiro's left shoulder.
"What the fuck?!" both of them yelled.
"A fucking déjà vu!" Mio roared.
"Livy, explain this shit, or I will get mad," Toshiro, bent in half under Mio said.
"The ban on using the Kyoukujitsuken against people was issued by Ami on a purpose, Master," Livy said calmly. "Even the opening attack is devastating for a human body."
"I'm using my Magic Aura, it wouldn't be as powerful, would it?" Mio asked.
"Master Toshiro has an edge thanks to his celestial powers. If push came to shove, the attack would hit, and your sword would bounce off."
"Well, I kinda anticipated that," Mio replied with a roguish smile.
Toshiro squirmed out from under Mio and asked, "You knew I was stronger, right?"
"You don't win battles by difference in power alone, Toshiro," Mio said calmly. "Experience also matters, and I thought I would have an upper hand. Well, I think I underestimated your ambitions, heh… You won fair and square."
"I won? Isn't this a draw?" Toshiro turned to Livy.
"Indeed, Master, you have won. If I haven't intervened, Mio would fall unconscious after your blow."
"I see…" Toshiro muttered. "Ehhh… I kind of went overboard, Mio…"
"That, and your damn rambling about sex…" Mio rolled her eyes.
"No, seriously, Mio, take your husband, and tell him to drill you so hard you won't be able to walk the next morning."
Mio blushed heavily and said, "And you think that will help with something?"
"It will take the edge off," he shrugged. "My Mio likes having sex, and she's even done it with Yoshika, Minna, Adi, and even Shirley, heheh…"
"Wait, what?! You had four women in your bed at the same time?!"
"Yeah, and they all behaved nicely, heheh…"
"Ugh…" Mio muttered. "Me and Yoshika… Nah, that's impossible for at least one reason…"
"Yeah, so I heard," Toshiro smiled.
"But Adolfine? Well, that's kind of nice… She did motivate me like hell during the Fuso Sea Incident…"
"Oh you two talked about it next morning," Toshiro snickered. "So, returning back to our fight, how was it?"
"I wish your clone would be so damn strong, I would have another fine training partner," Mio smiled. "He isn't quite what I want…"
"Why so? Too weak for ya?"
"A warrior grows by fighting those stronger than him, stays sharp by battling his equals, and teaches those who are weaker than him," Mio said proudly and extended her hand. "You have taught me a valuable lesson today. To another battle, Original Toshiro."
"I think I want this draw to pass into history," Toshiro winked and shook her hand.
"Hey, hey, I want a rematch of a rematch, and then you can have the rematch to that rematch of that rematch!" Mio laughed in her usual manner. "Ah, of course if Miss Rainbows allows it."
"Oh, there's a possiblity," Kye's voice rang in the air and she appeared with all the girls by her side. "Nice battle you had here."
"You could have battled two damn hours later!" Trude yelled.
"Yeah…" the sleepy Erica said.
"You were watching all the time?!" Mio shouted with a red face.
"And we heard eeeeveeerryyything…" Eila snickered.
"You really pricked your worlds Mio in the rump?" this worlds Yoshika asked.
"I was there…" Toshiro's Yoshika sighed.
"Dude, score!" Toshiro Deuce pumped his fist and looked at his Yoshika.
"NO!" she shouted with a crimson face.
Shirley laughed and said, "Hey, Yoshika, it's not that bad!"
Everyone looked at her, to which she responded, "What? I'm a Liberian! The land of the free and all of that!"
"Ho boy…" Perrine sighed. "Oh, Toshiro, by the way?"
"Hmm?"
"You could have at least wear some swim trunks…" she muttered, blushing slightly.
"Oh what, are you a prude or what?" Toshiro asked. "Kye can always turn me back into Toshiko if my package pokes you in the eyes so much…"
Toshiro felt that suddenly something appeared on his legs and he saw a pair of swim trunks, and at the same time he felt as most of his strength left him.
"Master, I'd prefer you as a man," Livy smiled. "And I had to remove my blessing from you already."
"Ehh…" he sighed, making all of them laugh.
After all the laughs, Yoshika and Toshiro decided to return to their world. Following a series of more or less emotional goodbyes, Kaylie dropped them off in their bedroom.
"I guess we should make breakfast, huh?" Yoshika asked.
"Pretty much," Toshiro sighed and slumped down on the bed.
"Hey, what's wrong?" Yoshika asked. "Are you still tired after your spar?"
"Physically barely, but mentally… Ugh... I hate to attack women, even if it's a friendly spar. And she's also a witch and a human..."
"You mean that thing that upset her stomach, right? That barely did any harm…"
"Yes, but… That made me think. Yoshika, what if I became a genocidal maniac, and nothing of the supernatural or otherworldly would be there to stop me?"
Yoshika raise and eyebrow and asked, "Nobody from the other 501st?"
"Nope."
"Not Kye?"
"Nu-uh."
"Not even me?" Livy asked.
"Nyet."
"Or the gods here?" Yoshika asked.
"Nein."
"What about me?"
"I could neutralize you in a split second, Yuki, don't tempt me," Toshiro answered with a crooked smile.
"That would mean that…" Yoshika pondered for a few seconds. "Oh my… You would be unstoppable…"
"Yes, that's the same conclusion I reached," Toshiro nodded. "But aside me, imagine if witches started turning rogue, either collaborating with the Neuroi or just executing some power trip? A single witch is worth at least a thousand normal soldiers. I pray that I won't live until the day when witches will have to fight against their kin, either because they were ordered, or for the reasons I mentioned before…"
"Who would need the Neuroi if that happened…" Yoshika mumbled. "Toshiro, keep that in mind if we win the war. That's an important topic to discuss in a multi-national congregation once the Neuroi, who, oh irony, bond all humanity, disappear from this planet. Now that you dropped the topic, I too am afraid that something like on Alternate Earth could happen; only now, the conflict would be pulled through by girls in Strikers."
"Oh Master, Mistress, please don't be so gloom," Livy smiled slightly. "If the Neuroi will be defeated, you will ponder about it then, okay?"
The two looked at Livy and smiled towards each other.
"Livy's right, Yoshika. Right now, we have a stable war going on, and only when that ends, a new future will open up."
"Yeah, heh… There is no sense in plotting an uncertain future. Thanks, Livy."
"Always there for you, Mistress."
"Let's go and make that breakfast," Toshiro said.
The two went down to the kitchen annex and started preparing breakfast. Lynne came in, and started looking at them carefully.
"Yoshika… Is that… A tan?"
"Oh, heehee… Yes."
"Where did you get that?"
"It's a long story… I'll save it for breakfast," Toshiro said with a satisfied smile.
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