Chapter 38 – Seeing double
So for the last damn week, we bored our asses off. Everyone was either training or doing whatever they're normally doing. Well, Trudy surprised me on the 13th with a little wish of hers, and damn that escalated quickly… Uh, but that's a story for another time…
The snow lessened down a notch, so I now cleared the runway as twice as infrequently. But the temperature, sheesh… It's minus fifteen Celsius at noon, and during the nights is a skullfuck freezer... But… Heh… The geothermal heating still has a few notches to use, heheh… Really, I would like for something to happen. Maybe even a damn Neuroi attack, because those fuckers haven't moved on their own since the time the Matriarch made her coming out. We literally have to LOOK for a fight! Urrggghh… But at least Yoshika is trying to distract me in bed… But I still don't know who the fuck was that hooded figure, and that Toshiro with the "space" eyes. Hurrrr…
Out of nowhere, as usual, Kye popped up over his head.
"Kye, what the hell was that dream I had on the tenth?"
"What dream?"
"You REALLY don't know what I'm talking about?"
"I really don't know squat, Toshiro. But I do have a theory… Tell me what you've saw?"
"I… I… OH GODS DAMN IT FUCK! I can't tell you!"
"Shite… As I thought…"
"Lemme guess – you won't tell me?"
"No, Toshiro. Now I CAN'T tell you."
"Holy fuck… The apocalypse is near… Kye CAN'T do something... But wait, if you can't, then somebody must be more powerful than you, ergo…"
Toshiro's vision blinked suddenly, and for a second he felt a bit airheaded.
"Hmmm… What were we talking about?"
"I came to give you a small proposition, because I know you're boring your mind away."
"Let's hear it… Everything's better than the current stagnation…"
"Toshiro Deuce and his Yoshika are also a tad bored, and they wanted a re-visit here."
"And of course they're waiting for you to transport them in the next five minutes?"
"Now you're reading my mind, hahaha!"
"Yeah... Okay then, let me just fill in Yoshika and get them here. Will it be a one day visit?"
"Yes, I don't want to bother you unnecessarily."
"How kind…"
Toshiro turned to his right side and started poking Yoshika.
"I'm awake, I'm awake…" she mumbled and tumbled around. "Oh great…"
"Nice to meet you too," Kye giggled.
"We're going to have guests…" Toshiro sighed.
"Who this time?"
"Our counterparts."
"Hmmm… Well, this could be amusing…"
"Actually the word "bother" sparked up in my mind, but… heh… I think there's something I want us both to experience, even if it would be a bit painful, right, Kye?"
"I'm fetching them then."
"Shouldn't we get dressed or something?" Yoshika asked.
"It's basically us, Yoshika…"
"Ah well… Heh…"
A portal appeared, and two people entered the room through it. Yoshika had green dungarees with a pink sweater under them. She also had her hair grown out a bit. Toshiro Deuce in turn had a beige suit, just like a stereotypical Liberian man of the house from the suburbs. Kye in turn vanished.
This worlds Toshiro looked at that worlds Yoshika carefully.
"You sure rounded up a bit during this time…" he said with a wry smile.
She blushed, but soon she furled her eyebrows and shouted, "Now I know what you meant back then!" she turned around to her Toshiro and said, "How could you…"
"He's me, so he should know," Toshiro Deuce shrugged.
"No use hiding it now…" Toshiro mumbled.
"Must… feel… it…" Yoshika said slowly.
"This again?" Yoshika rolled her eyes, but she smiled brightly.
The other Yoshika sat on the side of the bed and undid the top of her dungarees. She pulled up her sweater a bit and unveiled a visibly rounded belly. Yoshika's eyes widened immediately.
"C-Can I really touch it?"
"Yes, other me, heheh…"
Yoshika slowly moved her hand, and placed it on the other Yoshika's belly.
"It's so round… To think you now carry a new life there… Amazing…"
"Not to mention her jigglies have grown…" Toshiro Deuce smirked.
"Oh shush, you perv!" this worlds Yoshika yelled. "Oh, heheh, wrong Toshiro."
"So, Clone Bro, what's cooking in your world?"
"I've started working more intensively with Ursula on some nice projects. And of course I'm diligently training in my free time."
"Just tell me one thing – how would you place yourself in the power ranking of the world, excluding gods, immortals and post-Neuroi?"
"Heh… I'm fairly high, but I won't tell you where exactly I'm positioned…"
"Cripticassery must be a sport in that world… Oh well… Anyway, I've advanced a bit myself, but I'm still lengths away from the power I have had back then…"
"Nice to hear, Progenitor Bro."
"Did Kye tell you the big baddie has emerged?"
"No, not yet it seems…"
"The big baddie?" the other Yoshika asked.
"The Neuroi Matriarch… It seems we'll have our share of Neuroi Queen… But the girls are progressing, and I'm not exactly dwindling thumbs either."
"Hmm… Wah!" the other Yoshika screamed. "Yoshika, your ear is cold!"
"Sorry, I wanted to see if I can hear something from your tummy, heheh…"
"Then go at it…"
After a minute, Toshiro said, "Okay, time to mess with the girls brains a bit… Yoshika, let's get dressed. You two, wait a bit."
With everyone ready, they exited to the corridor.
"Lynne should be down already," Yoshika said. "Prank time?"
"Bah!" Toshiro replied. "Okay, Yoshikas, go first."
"Roger!" the two replied and went through the doors, hand in hand.
"Will I have to hold hands with you?" Toshiro Deuce asked.
"Maybe if you were Toshiko…"
"Heheh…"
They quickly followed the two Yoshikas.
"Hello…" Lynne rubbed her eyes. "Yoshikas? Toshiros? I must be still be asleep…"
"These are our counterparts from the other world," Toshiro explained. "They came for a visit."
"Oh… Now it makes sense… And you are easily discernible… Oh… Are the dungarees because…" Lynne's eyes sparkled and she ran up to the other Yoshika. "Can I?"
"But I won't undress, heehee… And you sure are fast to notice…"
"Mom was pregnant a few times, so it's natural for me to recognize this state, heh… Let's see…" Lynne started looking the other Yoshika from every angle and feeling her up here and there. "Halfway mark?"
"Almost, eighteenth week."
"Heehee… I told you I know this or that about pregnancy…"
"I can help you with breakfast, if you want."
"Two Yoshikas helping me? Woooooooow… I agree!"
The girls went to the kitchen annex, and Toshiro Deuce asked, "And what about us?"
"You're me, what would I do?"
"Wait."
"Ding, ding, ding!"
"Ha!"
They say at the table, and they waited for their prey. The first one was of course Mio.
"Good…" she looked around. "What the fuck…" she muttered.
"Yo," both Toshiros raised their hands.
The Yoshikas whispered between each other and said, "Good Morning, Mio."
"Toshiro, what did I tell you about guests?" Mio asked irritated.
"Not my damn fault they like to pop up unannounced…" he shrugged.
"These sure take the cake… Two Yoshikas I can take, but two of you? Fuck this shit! And I see that Yoshika went a bit loose… Start training again, girl!"
"Heehee… Mio, don't you see a small nuance?" Yoshika asked.
"Errrmmmm… No?"
"She's pregnant."
"Oooooooooooooh…" her eyes shot immediately to the Toshiros. "Uhhh… Wait a second, why are there two Toshiros, actually?"
"I'm a clone," Toshiro Deuce said. "I was retroactively brought into the other worlds after the simulation ended. Before that, well…"
"Well what?"
"He left her," Toshiro said.
"In my world, I'm called The Prodigal Witch," the older Yoshika said. "They made a spectacle out of me and soon, I was more famous than Aunt Kye. One week before I discovered I was pregnant with my first child, he left. He said that he wasn't good enough to keep up. I never heard from him again, even after Ayame was born."
"I guess having such a wife is too much for a frail normal guy."
"I can imagine…" Mio said. "Well okay then… I guess I can tolerate you for today… I hope it's only today?"
"Only today," Toshiro Deuce said.
"Pleasure or business, if I may ask?"
"Pleasure," Toshiro Deuce said. "I'm a bit bored, since the world is so peaceful…"
"Well, to be honest, we're also bored here…" Mio sighed.
"So I've heard. That's why we're here, to light up the mood a bit."
Minna came in after a few seconds. She squinted her eyes, looking carefully. She scratched her chin for a few seconds, shrugged, and came down the stairs.
"Sure didn't take much…" Mio mumbled.
"I really don't bother right now," Minna said and simply sat on her chair. "I wouldn't be surprised if Toshiro brought the Virgin Mary over for coffee…"
"She would probably be the most normal, compared to all the fruitcakes I've met…" Toshiro mumbled. "Oh, Trudy!"
"The apocalypse has begun! Two Toshiros!" the Karlslander shouted from the stairs.
The Toshiros looked at each other, and at the same time, they stood up and shouted, "Then let's have a go!"
Trude disappeared almost as fast as if she was using time dilution. A combined sigh of two Yoshikas and Mio could be heard.
"Now what the hell was that about…?" Erica went into the room with her head turned around.
"Too much is too much…" Toshiro said.
"What?" Erica finally looked into the room. "Woah! I shouldn't have had that Gluhwein yesterday…"
"Come down, you're not drunk or hallucinating," Toshiro Deuce said.
"What, Toshiro now has a twin from another world?"
"Yeah," Toshiro said. "But you didn't bat an eyelid about a second Yoshika."
"I somehow calculated in her coming here…"
"That's the new Erica for you…" he sighed.
"Erica changed so much?" Toshiro Deuce asked.
"She's still the good old Erica half the time," Minna said. "But when it comes to it, she uses her intelligence relentlessly now."
"Well, that's somewhat nice…"
"Say, that Yoshika is a bit… plump…" she whispered. "Are you fattening her up so she has a bigger ass and rack?"
"Bahahahahahaha!" Toshiro Deuce laughed out loud. "Erica, you are simply the best!"
"She's simply pregnant," Toshiro said.
"Oooooooooh… Sure didn't take your time…" she grinned wickedly.
"Two Yoshikas!" Francesca's merry shout was heard from the top of the stairs.
She zipped down the stairs, and proceeded with her usual greeting.
"Ohoohoooo… Nice… Big… But a big saggy… And…" her hands suddenly wandered down. "Aaaaah… Now I know why… Congrats! Whose is it?"
"That white haired perv yonder,"
Francesca looked at the table and shouted, "Wah! Two Toshiros!"
"Don't worry; I dampened the libido of mine a bit, heehee…"
"Whew…" Francesca's sigh of relief sounded loudly.
"I'm telling you, he won't bang you, you're his damn cousin…" Shirley's voice approached the door to the common room, and soon she and Trude hiding behind her entered the room. "Hey, Toshiros, you were just pulling Trudy's leg, right?"
"Of course," they both responded.
"See? And they sometimes say I'm stupid…" Shirley sighed. "Come on, Trude…"
"Okay, okay, I'm going…"
The two descended the stairs and sat at their chairs.
"Now that I look at her… Hey, other Yoshika, how old are you again?" Trude asked.
"Twenty three, Trude."
"So mature, and yet still such a cutie!" Trude started breathing heavily.
Both Yoshikas giggled, and started whispering to each other.
"Heeey, Truuuuuuudyyy..." Yoshika started.
"W-W-What is it?!"
"Oh nothing, I just felt like calling you in such a sweet way…"
"Or maybe it should be like… Truuuudyyleeein?" the other Yoshika chimed in.
Trude leaned back on her chair, with her head far back.
"Eeerrrhhhggggmmm… Bleeeermm… Heeeeeee… Heheheheh…"
Shirley started fanning her with her hands and said, "That was damn mean, you know? But fucking hilarious, heheh…"
"Good mooooorniiing…" Perrine yawned and descended the stairs.
After sitting on her chair, she fixed her eyes first on the Toshiros, and then on the Yoshikas. Still a bit asleep, she took off her glasses, blew on them, and rubbed the lenses. After putting the glasses back on, she looked around again, tilted her head, and said, "Eh?"
"My twin from the other world, and the other worlds Yoshika," Toshiro said.
"Oh, okay. I thought that our Yoshika suddenly got taller, fatter and older…"
"Taller – yes, older – yes, fatter – only because she's pregnant," Toshiro Deuce explained.
"Pregnant? Oh, with who?!"
Toshiro Deuce smirked.
"I see…" Perrine mumbled.
"Hey, I'm not good enough?!" Toshiro Deuce protested.
"It's just weird that in two worlds, two Toshiros have two Yoshikas as lovers."
"Heh, its fate having its course…" Toshiro said. "Maybe "Toshiro plus Yoshika equals love" is a universal constant?"
"Seeing you guys double is already straining my mind…" Perrine mumbled.
"T-T-Two Yoshikas?!" Shizuka shouted confused. "What is this sorcery?!"
"You'd better look here," Toshiro said.
"Wah! Two Toshiros!"
"Who's that again?" Toshiro Deuce asked.
"Hattori, a proper introduction please," Mio commanded.
"Yes, Miss Sakamoto!" she saluted and ran down the stairs. "Master Sergeant Shizuka Hattori!"
"Ah, right, Progenitor Bro told me about you in August," Toshiro Deuce said. "Yoshika, did you have a Shizuka in your world?"
"Things happened a bit differently in our world after the Venezia hive," the older Yoshika began. "The Shizuka Hattori in our world never got the opportunity to join the Strike Witches since I had already recovered my magic power before we left Fuso. She was still a trainee at the time, so she didn't get the opportunity to join up with us like she did in this world. But don't worry, my Mio took care of her after the war," she winked, giving Shizuka a sense of worry and Mio a sense of accomplishment.
"And there's our second addition," Toshiro said as Heidemarie entered.
"Now this is weird…" Heidemarie said. "I'm seeing double… Toshiro, mind explaining?"
"Which one?" both asked.
"Heh… Oh whatever now, I'll just take this situation as granted," she said and sat at her chair.
Eila followed up quickly, and she simply sat on her chair.
"What?" she asked. "So much weird shit is happening around you, that this is rather normal to be honest…"
"Eila, where's Sanya?" the other Yoshika asked.
"She's sleeping off her night patrol. As usual."
"Oh, right… Totally forgot it, heehee…"
"Say, how old are you?"
"Twenty three."
"Damn. You sure look pretty…"
"Heehee… Thank you…"
"But I saw that Sanya is even prettier, don't get me wrong!"
The people surrounding her laughed.
"Yoshikas, when's dinner gonna get ready?" Toshiro asked.
"Only a few minutes, hold your pants up…" Yoshika answered.
"You sure aren't the submissive type… I'm impressed…" the other Yoshika giggled.
"Toshiro needs to know his place, or he'll be a big kid forever."
The other Yoshika looked at Toshiro Deuce with a raised eyebrow and smirk.
"Aaaaaaand there goes my lovely wife…" he sighed, bringing on a few laughs.
"Wife?" Shizuka asked.
Toshiro Deuce raised his right hand, on which a wedding ring glinted.
"Four months."
"Well, you didn't wait with knocking that Yoshika up…" Shirley mumbled.
"I could but… it's actually Yoshika that wanted another child, heheh…"
"I wanted for Ayame to have a sibling, I told you it over nine thousand times…"
"Say, about Ayame…" Toshiro said. "How is she treating you, Clone Bro?"
"Remember, retroactively fitted into that world, so she recognized me as her dad immediately and gave me such a hug and waterworks that I cried myself."
"Daaaaaaaaawwwww… What a cutie…" this worlds Yoshika mused.
Must… Not… Cry… Myself…
"I want food already…" Erica mumbled.
"Okay, okay, it's coming…" Yoshika sighed.
"Yay!"
After chomping down breakfast, Toshiro asked, "So, what do the two of you want to do?"
"Anything goes for me," the other Yoshika said.
"Then why don't you stick with the girls that aren't training? And I'll get my Clone Bro outside?"
"Sure."
"Come on, you cheap knock-off," he grinned.
Once they opened the door outside, Toshiro Deuce said, "Hohooooo… And I thought winter at our place is harsh…"
"Don't bitch around, we saw worse."
"True that. Lead on."
They went on through the snow, to the place the girls usually trained when it was still warmer.
"So, whatcha want, Progenitor Bro?"
"I want a spar with you Clone Bro. Livy is a bit… over the scale..."
"I can imagine… So, are we doing it?" Toshiro Deuce summoned Aganaimaru.
Toshiro called Oblivion Lost and said, "Do I look like the pope?"
"Oblivion Lost… You're not pulling punches, Progenitor Bro!"
He rushed at his clone with his sword ahead of him. Toshiro Deuce blocked him with ease, causing the snow around them to get pushed away violently.
"I see Kye taught you what she did me…"
He quickly summoned his Aganaimaru and tried a wide slice from the left. His clone quickly split his Aganaimaru and blocked the attack.
"Mothafucka… I see you want to play rough, my dear Clone…"
"Only the best for you, dear Progenitor!"
The clone sparked with the Sacred Flame and pushed forward. Toshiro jumped back and also enabled his magic.
"Round two!" Toshiro shouted and lunged towards his clone with the blade sparking blue.
Toshiro Deuce's sword also sparked blue, and when the swords clashed, a blue shockwave cut the tree's in a ten meter radius around them.
"Round three, progenitor bro?" Toshiro Deuce grinned.
They made space between themselves, and enabled their top tier flame magic.
"Let's do this!"
"Toshiro, to the left!"
Both of them looked to the north at the same time. An enormous black object flew towards them and slammed into the ground. When the snow cloud cleared, they saw an enormous, dragon shaped Neuroi. It roared in it's own Neuroi fashion and started charging an attack.
"What impertinence!" Toshiro shouted.
"You thinking what I'm thinking?"
They both took stances.
"Taika…"
Their blades covered themselves in flames.
"…Shin…"
The flames burst and changed color into blue.
"…REPPUZAN!"
The two enormous fiery attacks exploded on contact with the Neuroi and engulfed it in a magic firestorm. After it burned out, they saw nothing but charred ground.
They both high fived, and Toshiro said, "Ugh, I remembered something…"
"What is it?"
"Livy?"
The blonde goddess appeared before them and asked, "Yes, Original Master?"
"Heh… Can I do my two training sessions right now? It's not like I want to wimp out on Clone Bro here, but I wouldn't want to destroy the mood by disappearing in the middle of something fun later on…"
"A good idea, Master. Cloned Master, please forgive us."
"Okay, Livy. I'll do some training alone, heheh…"
"Let's go," Toshiro said and disappeared.
Many hours later, Toshiro appeared in the front of the bath. His clone was waiting for him.
"Fancy a bath after exhausting training?"
"Duh…"
After a quick shower, the two of them slumped down into the warm waters of the bath.
"Maaaaan… Clone Bro, you sure weren't pulling punches back then…"
"It was only for your best… But sheesh, you sure got powerful… You would rape me with a blindfold on your eyes eight months ago…"
"A good sign… I hope it's enough for that Neuroi Whatsherface…"
"We've managed to wade through some shit, don't worry…"
"I guess… I really worry too much lately…"
"No wonder, you have a unit to command…"
"Yeah… Oh, it seems our ladies are coming to us."
"Yup."
They waited a moment, and they heard the door opening. After a minute, the showers started running. A bit later, two Yoshikas appeared. Toshiro lustrated the other Yoshika from top to bottom, making her blush slightly.
"Pregnant, older, but still damn sexy…" he said. "Yoshika, if you'll age like that, I should build a shrine to the gods."
"Heehee… I am hundred percent Asian, right?" she winked.
"Did you have fun, guys?" the other Yoshika asked.
"Of course!" they both responded vividly.
"No broken swords or bones?" Yoshika asked. "Especially you, Toshiro?"
"Nope, both Clone Bro and Livy were gentle, heheheh," Toshiro answered.
"And how did you fare, Yoshika?" Toshiro Deuce asked.
"Spending time with the girls from this world is very nostalgic… But each is a bit different… Trude for example is outright friendly towards both Erica and Shirley, and likewise. Erica herself is using her head for something else than carrying her hair around. The new girls are also nice. Heidi is very polite, but Shizuka… I'll ask bluntly, is she some kind of groupee of Yoshika?"
"She has me in high regard," Yoshika answered. "Oh, and by the way, do you know that there's an official Edelweiss Fan Club?"
"Heheh, yes, my Toshiro told me about it. You sure made a splash, Toshiro."
"Whatever, honestly…" he shrugged.
"But I have to admit that you have done remarkable work with the girls… I really wish you would be born in my world…"
"Knowing my luck, I would be your cousin or something…" Toshiro mumbled. "And this worlds Yoshika would be lonely then…"
"Yes… But… Heheh… Now I have my own Toshiro, in times of peace… Kye gave me the best gift I could possibly dream of…" the other Yoshika clung on to Toshiro Deuce.
"Now, if only Rei would get her man, then everyone would be happy…" Toshiro Deuce sighed.
"Similar situation as Minna, similar treatment needed – time and patience…" Toshiro said. "Or… Say… Clone Bro…"
His clone sighed and said, "I guess I can tell already… I started kneading Rei slowly … And SLOWLY should be emphasized."
"My, my…" the other Yoshika said. "The giant with the golden heart… Heehee… Just don't make her fall in love with you!"
"It would stay in the family, heheheh…"
Both Yoshikas sighed deeply.
The older Yoshika smiled. "If you would have met Rei in early 1951 or sooner, in my world of course, you would realize that she's changed. Her previous life as Princess Rei Akari and her current life as Rei Miyafuji have something in common."
"They both have black hair?" both Toshiros asked with a smirk.
"In less than two months after becoming pregnant, her boyfriend was murdered. Kamiko keeps her sane, but she still carries around a look of depression while she's alone."
"I had no idea…" Toshiro Deuce said.
"She hasn't told many people. Aunt Kye, Grandma Akane, and I are the only ones. Please don't think badly of her because of significant other problems. She experienced the same tragedy twice."
Both Toshiros looked at each other and smiled at the same time, knowing that each other had a plan cooking to help Rei.
They leaned back and enjoyed the rest of the bath in silence. After bathing and some waiting, dinner time came, and afterwards, Toshiro proposed something.
"Let's all go out and play in the snow!"
"Yay!" Francesca cheered.
"So, everyone take on your warm clothes, and let's go!"
"Oh, but…" the other Yoshika said.
"I have spares, don't worry!" Yoshika cheered and dragged her counterpart to her room.
The girls dispersed, and only the Toshiros were left.
"And of course we don't bother with warm clothes, right?"
"Nope. But I must say, that this base is very warm, despite the bone freezing temperature outside…"
"The heating is going on 90% output, so no wonder. But I've gotten forecasts, and the temperatures should stay the same for now."
"Seriously though, I wouldn't imagine staying in the Britannian or Romagnan bases during winter…"
"Knowing myself, you would have to be the wood chucker."
"Heh, yeah… Five AM – get wood. Noon – get wood. 5 PM – get wood."
"Late evening – get wood…" Toshiro said with a mischievous smile.
"Hahahaha!"
"By the way, I have to ask…"
"Oh, don't worry about that. My Yoshika is gaining on your Yoshika quickly. Well, now we have a mandatory pause but…"
"Heh… Heheheh… You know what happened on the evening of the August reunion?" Toshiro asked with a sly face.
"No?"
"Kye turned me into Toshiko, and Sanya and Eila were surprisingly easy to convince…"
"Nooooooo waaaay! You had a foursome with my worlds Sanya and Eila, and your Yoshika?! As a woman?!"
"Ahyup."
"Holy fuck shit…"
Toshiro looked around and whispered, "I also did the redheads…"
"Gods damn it, shit!"
"Guess Yoshika put quite a tight leash on you…"
"It's an agreement with Kye…" he sighed.
"Let me guess… "I let you marry Yoshika, but your dick won't touch anything other than her"?"
"Kye wanted to be absolutely sure that I was hundred percent committed to Yoshika…"
"I don't blame her, but sheesh, I have my honor… If Yoshika said "Nobody else" then I just tie my dick in a knot and that's that, end of topic."
"Heh…"
The girls started swarming in, and once everyone was present, they went outside. Some of the girls made snowmen, some started building, and igloo, the rest just fooled around. An idea sparked in Toshiro's head. He rolled up a handful of snow, and threw it at Eila. She fluidly dodged the icy projectile.
"Miss!" she shouted.
Toshiro slowed down time and threw a snowball again. He resumed the flow of time only a split second before the snowball hit her face.
"You were saying?"
"You cheater you! This means war!" Eila shouted and threw a snowball at Toshiro.
He dodged swiftly, and it hit Trude in her back. She turned around with an angry face, and looked at Eila.
"You… Die!"
Trude immediately rolled up a snowball and threw it with all her might at Eila. She in turn dodged it, but barely. Toshiro Deuce swiftly swatted it away and said, "Hey, Trudy, I know you want to get laid, but there are other ways of getting a boys attention…"
Despite the cold, Trude's face was now red.
"I'll help ya cool off!" Shirley shouted and proceeded with applying snow to Trude's face.
"I'm still here!" Eila yelled and three another one at Toshiro.
He stepped aside and heard a thud. Eila's face paled immediately.
"S-S-Sanya… I… I…"
"Treason…" Sanya mumbled with her face covered in snow.
She started gathering snow with her hands, and with a big mound, she approached Eila.
"S-S-Sorry!"
"Sorry won't cut it…" Sanya said with a cold voice and smeared Eila's face with snow.
"Sowwy…"
Toshiro saw that the rest of the girls started to participate in the unfolding events. His clone looked at him with a fierce stare. Toshiro gave back one of equal magnitude. They went a bit to the side and stood there like two gunslingers on the main street of a town that's name ended with "Gulch."
Toshiro was the first to react. He threw a snowball with immense speed, but Toshiro Deuce managed to dodge it perfectly.
Oh you little…
He prepared himself for the counterattack. Toshiro Deuce obviously wasn't serious, as he performed a half-assed throw. Toshiro quickly diluted time and made a rift. The clone raised an eyebrow, but then, the original Toshiro's head was hit from the side with a snowball.
Waaaaarrrrgh!
Toshiro slowed time as much as he could possibly do and opened another rift.
"Kaylie, what is this tomfoolery?!"
The redhead peered out of the portal and said, "I felt like it, heheh…"
"We had sex together, and this is how you repay me…"
"Hey, hey, you're not the only man in the universe! Or two! But I must admit… Anyway!"
"Help me with that dunce, okay?"
"Sure, sure… Just rip another rift in the snow."
"Kay."
The time flow resumed and Toshiro did as he was asked. The snow around the rift disappeared immediately.
"Now what the hell are you planning…" Toshiro Deuce pondered.
"The Snowballgeddon!"
Suddenly, a rift opened, and snowballs started being shot at Toshiro Deuce with blinding speed. He couldn't dodge even one of them, and he looked like a snowman just after a few seconds.
"Ooooooh… Now you pissed me off…" he said while the snow was melting off of him. "You want to up the ante? I'll up it all right!"
Toshiro Deuce quickly made a snowball and threw it at Toshiro. Just as it left his hand, it went ablaze. On reflex, Toshiro sliced it in half.
"Hohoooo… You're getting mad, clone bro… I like!" he yelled.
Both Toshiro's prepared snowballs overflowing with fire magic in their hands. They threw it at the same time. Out of nowhere, a blur came between them, and the snowballs exploded. Once the smoke cleared, they saw both Yoshikas with their shields raised.
"Will you two numbskulls stop trying to kill yourselves?" Yoshika asked with furled eyebrows.
"I swear, making a pregnant woman strain herself so much…" The other Yoshika mumbled.
"Sorry…" the Toshiros muttered.
"No, you're not getting out of this with a "sorry."" the other Yoshika smirked and flared up her rainbow aura, much to everyone's surprise. "So you want to have a snowball war with fire? I'll play, but I'm upping the ante."
She flung her arms downward toward the snow, and her aura expanded to cover a ten-meter radius. Hundreds of snowballs covered in the rainbow magic floated up and levitated around.
"I think she just said, "I see your Snowballgeddon…"" Toshiro Deuce started.
""…And I raise you a Snowballpocalypse,"" Toshiro finished.
The two tried to run, but were soon barraged with snowballs as if they were fired from a machine gun. They were soon buried in a mound of snow ten meters high.
The other Yoshika walked toward them, with her rainbow magic still active, and swatted the mound of snow away. Surprisingly though, instead of Toshiro, was a translucent ice statue of him, naked, and with a cheeky smile.
"My, I see you're not wasting time for your training…" the other Yoshika muttered. "Toshiro, where are you?"
"You can't see me?" he said, still not visible to anybody.
"I guess I would have to use my Seinarugan… What did you do?"
Toshiro appeared right before her and said, "Simple change of quantum states. I was there, but I wasn't there."
"Simple my fucking ass…" Toshiro Deuce mumbled.
"The Celestial Order can alter the very reality around me," Toshiro smirked. "Haven't you trained to do such things?"
"Uh, actually no… I know how to teleport, but that was… inspiring… I have to ask Joey to teach me."
"If I learned it… Oh wait, that's the other way around,"
The other Yoshika snickered and said, "Kind of."
This worlds Yoshika in turn said, "Anyway you two, go clear the snow off the runway. Slowly."
"Yes ma'am…" Toshiro mumbled.
"You too," the other Yoshika said.
"Okay…" Toshiro Deuce mumbled.
The two went on and slowly melted away the snow, with their hands in their pockets, mumbling fiercely all the way. They took their time, and returned to the building just after it became dark.
"I have to admit, Yoshika sure got feisty…" Toshiro Deuce sighed.
"She does have part of my personality stowed away in her brain, soul or whatever after all…"
When they entered the common room, the first thing they heard was, "Toshiros, go get some firewood!"
"Yes, Yoshikas…" they mumbled and went to the hangar.
While they were walking down the connector, Toshiro Deuce asked, "Say, how much progress did they make in the weaponry department? You never told me that."
"A lot."
He said and they entered the dark hangar. Toshiro flicked the light switch and said, "Let's get the wood first, then you'll get to see all the stuff."
"Yeah, yeah…"
They went into the storage room, and picked up a few bundles of firewood each. After exiting it, the lights were almost at full output.
"Hey, all of the Strikers are jets now?"
"Yuhum. Yoshika recently got one of her own, which can rival the XF-1."
"Nice, nice… You all sure could use the SFS's…"
"Responsible time and universe travel, Clone Bro…" he sighed. "Kye is bending the rules of this universe as if it's hers already…"
"Right? But let's not dawdle, or our ladies will break these logs on our heads, heheh…"
They returned to the common room and saw that everyone was gathered before the fireplace.
"So we're having a nice late afternoon by the fireplace?" Toshiro asked.
"With Gluhwein!" Minna cheered.
"But not for me…" Francesca laughed dryly.
"And I guess no for me?" Shizuka asked.
"I guess we could give you a glass…" Toshiro said. "I just hope you won't have a reaction like Francesca had…"
"Um, what?"
"Her groping urges got out of control…" Toshiro Deuce sighed.
"Only one way to find out!" Shirley shouted.
They waited until the seasoned wine was prepared, and waited for Shizuka to take a sip.
"Mhhhmmm… It tastes… Different…"
"Different good or different bad?" Minna asked.
"Good, good! And it makes me so warm, heehee…"
"Not feeling woozy or anything?" Toshiro asked.
"No, I'm good."
"Hah, at least Mio didn't teach you that, hahahahaha!"
"Teach me what?" Shizuka tilted her head.
"Mio has a rather low tolerance for alcohol…" Minna said with a wry smile.
"Even the greatest of warriors have a weakness!" Mio shouted and puffed her cheeks.
Laughing and cheering, they proceeded with telling stories, jokes and whatnot, all soaked in Gluhwein and some occasional whiskey. All that until the peacefully eaten supper. Which Mio had to skip, since she was hammered like a skunk.
"Well, that was a good day…" Toshiro Deuce said.
"Yes, it was very nice," the other Yoshika said. "We'll be going now, huh, Toshiro?"
"Yes, we should go already," Toshiro Deuce said with a smile. "Good luck, girls!"
After a series of goodbyes and handshakes, the two disappeared in the corridor.
"This day was simply… weird…" Trude mumbled.
"Four cousins at the same time was too much for you?" Toshiro asked with a wry smile.
"Heh… Maybe…"
"Good night you all," Toshiro said. "Coming, Yoshika?"
"Yeah, night y'all!"
"Night!" the girls responded.
They went to their room, undressed and lied down on the bed.
"Toshirooooooo…"
"What?"
"I want a child so badly…"
"Soon… Soon…"
"Mhhhmmm… But say… I always wanted to do that gender swap thingie…"
"Really?"
"Yeah. And you have a bad experience of your first time as a girl, so maybe I could… heal that mental scar of yours?"
"Well… Kye, what say you?"
"I say go for it," her voice sounded in the air, and Toshiro turned into Toshiko.
"Aw, the first version of Toshiko… And…"
He looked at Yoshika, who now had a meter ninety, a biceps the size of a watermelon, and a package bigger than his fist.
"Wow, this feels weird…" Yoshika said with a deep voice.
She slowly slid her hand down her pants, and rummaged the inside.
"Very weird I must say…"
"Hmmm… Well now… If it's weird for you…" Toshiko said, and tackled Yoshika.
Toshiko straddled on Yoshika and said, "I can guide you a bit around the manly body… What say you?"
"I'll bite," Yoshika replied with a wry smile. "But hey, since you have a name as a woman, what would be mine?"
"Hmmm… Yoshiro?"
"Heehee… Bleh, giggling sounds off now… But the name is good!"
"Now, where were we…? Ah, now I'll let you experience firsthand, how fucking great it is to be a man… Come, I'll guide you but… Please be gentle…"
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