Late Battle of Fang Assassin vs Warrior Priestess
Moments ago, before Tomoe suddenly meets Elina at the hot spring, Shizuka is seen hiding behind a rock peeking over to see the girl telling her guard to leave for she is going to take a bath.
"Hey, she's that warrior Scar fought in his first battle for the Queen's Blade." Shizuka recognized then realize something.
"Oh no, this isn't good. She's going to end up running into Lady Tomoe at the hot spring." Shizuka worried.
"Who are you?" A woman asked from behind.
Shizuka turns around seeing the young woman with light blue hair and light red eyes, tan skin and wearing a maid outfit.
But Shizuka can sense that this is no ordinary maid noticing the dangerous aura around this one and quickly brought out her chained-sickle weapon, preparing herself for a fight that may happen very soon while the maid girl is just staring fiercely at her.
"I got a question you for." Shizuka said.
"You wouldn't be able to tell me how to get to the Queen's Capital, would ya?" Shizuka asked for directions, hoping to avoid a fight.
"The Queen's Capital?" The maid girl repeated the words as her respond.
"That's right, we're in a hurry to get there and this land is so strange to us, we don't know which way we're going." Shizuka chuckled, trying to light the mood a little, but the maid doesn't appear to be amused.
"Your outfit is rather strange, like that of the Hinomoto ninja." The maid girl mentioned shocking Shizuka.
The maid is recalling an order she got from her boss, and it's not that bratty spoiled Elina, but one higher than her and much more.
(Flashback)
The scene shows Aldra looking at the large group of assassins along with Noire Coeur on her right as she had call them here to relay some information she gotten.
"One of the ninjas have switch sides and has started causing trouble. Two of the women have taken advantage of that and reach this continent." Aldra informed with an angry look in her eyes.
"And what have you done?" Aldra asked one of the assassins, freezing her into a crystal stone prison.
"That's a shame, I was starting to think of taking her as my own assassin." Noir Coeur commented.
"Forgive, my love, but sure one of the others will prove their worth to you." Aldra apologized before looking back at the assassins.
"There is something I must verify with these Hinomoto women. Bring them to me." Aldra ordered strongly.
"And be sure not to get too caught up in your work, otherwise you might find yourself in a position you can't escape." Noir Coeur advised.
"That goes for you as well, Irma." Noir Coeur said to the girl now revealing the name Irma.
(Flashback End)
Shizuka grunt as she knew there was something off about this maid, especially with how she knew about her being a ninja from another land.
"Imagine meeting a ninja here of all places." Irma commented.
"You're more than a mere maid, aren't you? You smell the same as me." Shizuka stated.
The moment Shizuka finish that sentence, they jump away from each other and Shizuka threw the chain ball at Irma seemingly hit the mark only to see the maid clothes is all empty much to the ninja woman's shock.
"Damn it…" Shizuka cursed and turned around seeing Irma in her true outfit.
Irma is now wearing a black bow around her head and her dark green armor is revealing with shoulder frills, and a large red scarf with kunai at the ends. A frilly white skirt, with light grey thigh-highs and heels. Breasts sizes: E-cup.
Shizuka can tell this girl is getting a little serious and dash in one direction to get some distances while Irma is chasing her.
Irma jumps high pulling out her sword to stab Shizuka in the back only to find that her sword has stabbed a log instead, then turn around for Shizuka to throw a slash attack onto her left breast making a cut revealing her dark nipple.
Shizuk quickly move her scythe blade to Irma's neck with the tip onto the flesh making Irma unable to move right now.
"You can't win, admit defeat." Shizuka believed she has won.
However, Irma smirks thinking this ninja woman is being so naïve for believing the fight would just end like that and will show her that shining the sunlight off from her sword into Shizuka's eyes causing her to be blinded for a second and smack Shizuka's weapon away from her back.
Shizuka quickly tries to attack though Irma dodges and threw a kunai which the ninja woman reflects it away, but that left her open on the back where Irma slashes her down.
"She got me…" Shizuka groaned in pain before black out.
"(My undercover mission is to uncover intelligence on Count Vance's land, but in this situation, her imperial order takes priority. What a perfect opportunity.)" Irma thought smirked.
"(I'll give this one to Aldra and get closer to her, but there is still Noir Coeur to be concern about.)" Irma thought stated.
"I heard there were two women, where's the other one?" Irma wondered.
(With Tomoe and Elina)
"I'm sorry I must refuse." Tomoe turned down a battle challenge from Elina much to her shock.
"But you're a contestant in the Queen's Blade competition. I demand that you fight me!" Elina demanded.
"The only reason I'm in the competition is to secure the fate of my people. For that cause, I would gladly give my life, but drawing my sword here would serve no purpose." Tomoe explained.
"How are you suggest a battle with me is without meaning!" Elina angered, couldn't believe what she is hearing right now.
"There is no honor in it, because of that I refuse to fight you." Tomoe stated.
"That doesn't make any sense!" Elina yelled.
Meanwhile, Irma is watching the interaction between those two from a higher view on a rock looking at Tomoe.
"That must be her." Irma figured the one in bathrobe talking to Elina must be the other foreign woman.
"Please excuse me, I hope you enjoy your bath." Tomoe bowed respectively and walked away.
"What the… The Hell is wrong with you, you stupid bitch! I demand to know where Leina is right now!" Elina shouted in rage, but Tomoe chose to ignore her.
"(Shizuka, where have you gone?)" Tomoe thought wondered and grew worry for Shizuka as she hasn't come back yet.
Irma sees Tomoe leaving the primitive warm bath and leave the scene.
(With Claudette)
The night sky has taken over and within the castle of the Vance family, Claudette is seen standing within her bedroom still in her armor and looking out the window staring at the full moon as she is deep in thoughts about the battle she had with Leina.
She also remembered about letting Leina go after Scar saved her from that fall and the promise the two sisters made to each other.
"I think it was the first time in my life that I willingly did something for myself, letting my little sister go so she can grow stronger with Scar." Claudette said to herself, feeling happy.
Then she suddenly felt her heart just skipped a beat when she said Scar's name and her cheeks are blushing a little.
"And it looks like that boy struck me too, and it wasn't in battle." Claudette smiled a little with little blushes appearing on her cheeks.
(With Elina)
After cleaning herself up and getting into her tent, Elina tries to go to sleep but couldn't because how it went down back at the hot spring.
"She made me look like a fool! Bitch!" Elina angered while wearing her slightly transparent raspberry color nightgown.
"I'm so infuriated that I can't get myself to sleep." Elina stated.
"Not to mention I never got to learn anything on where Leina is, no doubt she is still traveling with that stupid tall boy." Elina started to imagine Scar and Leina close together naked.
"No! I refuse to lose her to that stupid knight; I'll show that fool I'm a force he shouldn't mess with and perhaps dominate him in bed like animals in mating season!" Elina declared.
Two seconds later, she realizes what she just said causing her face to turn red from the sudden thought of mating with Scar.
"Where did that come from? I don't love men, not at all, especially not to the one who took Leina from me even though he does seem like a man to give me a child—What the fuck was that?!" Elina gasped at herself, very confuse of why she is thinking like this.
Then the sound of her stomach growling caught her attention.
"Oh great, now I'm hungry." Elina embarrassed of this.
(With Irma)
Irma went back to check on Shizuka who is in a tight binding with ropes around her breasts and tightly up on her pussy, but she can see that Shizuka is hanging on strong despite the weird position she's in.
"So, you really are one of the Kouma Ninjas." Irma said removing the gap from her mouth.
"I left them." Shizuka said with a small grin.
"Then you must be the one who change sides and cause all that trouble." Irma stated.
Shizuka was a little confuse of what Irma is talking about until she remembers facing one of her former comrades back in Hinomoto.
(Flashback)
Shizuka is tied up to a tree done by a Kouma Ninja who she was just fighting.
"The only thing we ninjas want is the opportunity to refine the art of killing to perfection. If Hinomoto does fall, we'll simply move on to another country." The Kouma Ninja said.
(Flashback End)
Now everything is starting to make sense to Shizuka as to why the Kouma Ninjas were attacking the Priestess warriors that night, and what assassin this woman is.
"You with the Assassins of the Fangs, aren't you? Why did you use the Kouma Ninjas to attack Hinomoto? A lot of people lost their lives." Shizuka asked with an angry look.
"I'm the one asking the questions here." Irma said as she is not giving the answers away just like that.
"I already know some underworld organizations from the continent that's been trying to contact the ninjas for a long time." Shizuka mentioned.
"Silence!" Irma threw a punch across Shizuka's face, but she wouldn't go down like that.
"Who's behind all this? What's really going on?" Shizuka tried to ask more questions, but that only ends up Irma beating her face up then punch in the stomach knocking her out. And wetting herself too.
Irma can see that she won't talk like this, so she decided to move on to the other target on her hit list.
"Shizuka! Where are you?" Tomoe called out as she has been looking for her for quite some time now.
"Shizuka, are you alright? Please, answer me!" Tomoe tried again, but no response.
"I'm worry, this really isn't like her at all. She's never gone off without telling me first." Tomoe remembered and hoping Shizuka is alright.
"Excuse me." Irma, in her maid disguise, walked up to Tomoe getting her attention.
"Are you Tomoe?" Irma asked, acting innocent to fool her.
"Who are you?" Tomoe asked.
"I know where Shizuka is, follow me." Irma said turning around and started walking.
"Wait, is she alright?" Tomoe asked worry as she follows the maid.
"This way, she's been injured." Irma informed, which is mostly true.
"Injured!" Tomoe worried a little more now.
"She told me to bring you here." Irma said.
Before Tomoe could ask her some more questions, Irma suddenly vanished leaving her maid outfit behind and appeared above to strike with her sword, but Tomoe jumps back to dodge the attack though gasp upon seeing Shizuka unconscious.
"Shizuka!"
Then Irma held the tip of her sword close to the face.
"Are you indeed skilled, Warrior Priestess. Looks like I'll have to resort to using your friend, after all." Irma complimented.
"What's the meaning of this? What have you done to Shizuka?" Tomoe asked feeling a little anger raising.
"Discard your weapon." Irma demanded as she moves the sword to Shizuka's breasts.
"Do it now." Irma glared at Tomoe.
"This is madness, please stop!" Tomoe begged, but Irma didn't and made light cut on Shizuka's left breast causing little blood to come out.
"You don't do things without a reason, do you?" Irma asked sarcastically as she already knew that answer.
"I prefer to do things too. Don't worry, all you have to do is follow my instructions." Irma said.
"What do you want from me?" Shizuka asked.
"You don't need to know that. If you don't do exactly as I tell you, I'll cut off all your limbs and drag you home with me, all that require is you can speak." Irma threatened while moving her sword very close to Shizuka making Tomoe worry more.
Tomoe becomes flooded with thoughts in her head hoping to find a way to save Shizuka from this heartless woman, but she can tell there is no way out of this except for giving into her demands as she would not let Shizuka die like this.
By the time Shizuka finally woke up, Tomoe has thrown away her sword onto the ground.
"Lady Tomoe… Lady Tomoe!" Shizuka shocked of seeing Tomoe throwing her sword away.
"Stripe." Irma said shocking Shizuka.
"I swear, I have no other weapons." Tomoe assured.
"Immediately." Irma demanded as she didn't want to take any chances.
"Don't do it, Lady Tomoe! She's responsible for everyone died in Hinomoto!" Shizuka quickly informed.
"What?!" Tomoe shocked and Irma glares at Shizuka.
"Her people were responsible for getting the Kouma Ninjas to attack!" Shizuka added.
"Shut up!" Irma immediately punched Shizuka on the face again to silence her causing Tomoe to gasp only to get a glare from the assassin.
Seeing no other choice again, Tomoe starts striping down her clothes leaving only her white robe.
"No, Lady Tomoe! You must preserve your body for Scar when you see him again!" Shizuka worried.
"Scar, as in the Black Knight and one of the first males to enter the Queen's Blade tournament. Looks like you have something more than I thought." Irma impressed with this new piece of information.
"No! I do not love Scar that way!" Tomoe denied again with her blushing cheeks telling a different story.
"I don't care about that, now stripe and I mean all the way." Irma demanded again.
Tomeo blushes of embarrassment that she would have to show her nudity in front of this assassin feeling like she has failed her mission as she stripes down her robe.
"Please, Lady Tomoe! Just get to it! If you don't fight her now, then when will you?" Shizuka begged Tomoe to fight back to avenge her honor and the fallen from Hinomoto.
But that is when Tomoe remembers the final words from one of her fellow priestesses.
(Flashback)
Tomoe is holding her fellow priestess warrior who is dying from the sudden attack of their shrine.
"L-Lady Tomoe, you will go to the Queen's Blade tournament and be victorious… For the sake of Hinomoto!" The priestess warrior said in her dying breath.
"Stay with me!" Tomoe begged as she doesn't want to lose her friends.
"M-My only regret… is that I won't be there to see you win and our land will be saved…" The priestess said with tears and finally death claimed her soul leaving Tomoe to cry.
(Flashback End)
"(My friends, all of them, they were all such good friends.)" Tomoe thought started to feel angry raising up from within more.
"You have to fight." Shizuka said.
Tomoe stares at Irma while allowing her naked body to be seen and her face is becoming serious right now which surprises the Assassin of the Fang.
"I've been avoiding pointless conflicts because the mission I have to fulfill is far too important." Tomoe stated.
"But now that I am standing face-to-face with one who is responsible for the slaughter of my friends, it's hard to believe this is a mere coincidence that brought us here. In fact, I'm calling it divine guidance." Tomoe believed.
"(I'm having a really bad feeling about this.)" Irma thought worried.
"Honor demands I challenge you to the Queen's Blade!" Tomoe declared.
"What? The Queen's Blade?!" Irma shocked that she is been challenged to a dual for the tournament right now.
"Lady Tomoe!" Shizuka surprised.
And then a shining white light appeared with Hachiel coming out.
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Looks like we're about to see Tomoe get into a serious fight to save Shizuka and avenge her friends back in the assassin for what happened in Hinomoto, and she won't let herself to soft when going against Irma for the honor of her homeland!
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