Chapter 13
"So this is that island?" Pavel was encouraged when he left the train, "Wow, it's really amazing!"
"That's true." Oleg smiled too watching at the mountains, which were in front of him, but in front of the mountains was a forest, "Quite magnificent sight."
"Told you, you'll like it." Sakura clapped their shoulder with a wide smile, "Don't' worry about your luggage, it'll be bring to you rooms." she chuckled and went t ahead, "Come on boys and girl break in pairs and follow us, the time is late, so you won't have anything special today." Sakura said, "You'll have some free time and then sleeping."
"Okay!" the students were happy that they will have some time, which they could spend only for themselves.
"But tomorrow you'll have severe trainings." Oleg added with a serious voice, and the students moaned at this statement.
The students broke in pairs, the friends did the same, Maki with Aki, Ren was with Mai, Pavel looked for someone to join with how the sleeve of his jacket was suddenly gabbed slightly. He turned his head and saw Masami. Pavel nodded with a smile and all in pairs followed the teachers, Pavel and Masami were the last in chain so they decided to spend some free time in talking.
"Do you like the sight of the place?" she asked him.
"Yeah, it's really an interesting place." Pavel said, "I'd like to watch everything here."
"I hope you'll do that." Masami nodded, "By the way, do you have something like that in Russia?" Masami asked him with a slightly noticeable interest.
"Yeah, we have several resorts like that, but I was only in a northern one." Pavel sighed, "Don't know why, but my class was lucky only with that one."
"It must terrible for you to be in northern places?" Masami looked at him.
"No, not at all." Pavel disagreed with his partner, "I just wanted to see a shore of some sea, but not only to ski or skate, I don't mean I don't like it, but it's became too boring for me to do it there."
"I see." Masami didn't expect an answer like that, "And… what about our training? Will we start it tomorrow?"
"If you don't mind we could start them today." he looked at her eyes, "I can see you want to continue it." he smile to her.
"I don't mind at all." Masami predictably answered, "What we'll train then, mentor?" she looked at him.
Pavel laughed hearing the word mentor, "You became a little livelier." Pavel said to her, "You know, it suits you much better than being gloomy like a cloud." Masami only became red after these words, "If you want we can train physical aspect today, it's important too, but I remember we should do it with wooden weapons, you should get used to the weapon."
'Understood. And when we start to practice with metal weapon?" she asked him.
"Well, difficult to say." Pavel pondered, "Honestly, I don't know, but I think when you get used to holding of the weapon, we'll come to ordinary weapons." Pavel replied, "But now it's much better to use wooden ones."
"You know, you could become a good teacher in the future." she said to him.
"Do you really think so?" Pavel ask her.
"You worry about others, you try to help them, these features are important for good teachers." Masami replied him.
"Well, I have a dream to become a mentor one day." Pavel combed his hair, "But, I really didn't know someone will say something like that."
"Why?" Masami asked him, "I thought Oleg-sensei, and Vlasova-sensei, should support you in that too."
"They do." Pavel nodded, "But the rest…" he mumbled, "They don't see me as a teacher, honestly I did it my aim to shut the others."
"Do you have some problems with your teacher in Russia?" Masami didn't understand his answer perfectly.
"Something like that." Pavel mumbled, "After all these two were the only teacher, who interested me with their subjects, Maria Sergeievna was the first one, and after her Oleg Semenovich did the same. I don't know why, but I like them really fast, while they were the less favorite teachers in my place."
"And what about your friends? Have they supported you in your dream?"
"Someone yes, someone no." Pavel replied, "Most of them thought I'm just kidding, after all, I'm not much serious for being teacher."
"So what?" Masami didn't know why he hesitated, "Look at Igawa and Hirata-sensei. They are not serious and strict with students, but all of us like them for that, they're not bade teachers at all, so you can become a good teacher too." she inspired him.
"Thank you a lot." Pavel smiled, "I'll try not to fail you." he said encouraging himself too.
Their way wasn't long and then they finally reached some facility in the middle of the forest, right in a foothill of mountains, it seemed like several buildings which were on a pretty big distance from each other. In the middle was a building that was a place where the visitors supposed to live and have some entertainments, like visiting gym, swimming pool and other places, the place on the right was a training facility with a sport ground outside for those, who wanted to have practice out-of-doors. And as Pavel and Oleg were told there also was a hot spring in the mountains, not far from the main facility.
"The traditional stile seems really interesting." Oleg examined the buildings, which were built in traditional Japanese style.
"The hot spring in the mountains is separated." Chikeko explained him, "So if you want you can there if you want, I'll show you where it is." she grabbed his hand.
This move was noticed by Sakura's eyes.
"By the way, if you want to have a rest there also good resting complex, so if you want I can show it." Sakura said him.
"Just say you want to play with him your computer games." Chikeko frowned hearing Sakura's offer.
"Maybe I want discuss with his something special?" Sakura glared at Chikeko.
"What it could be?" Chikeko didn't let Oleg go, "If you want discuss something then I could join you too in it."
"Calm down you two." Oleg wasn't glad that the two teachers gave a bad example of attitude.
"It seems Oleg-sensei has two rivals for his heart!" someone shouted out of th chain and everyone laughed.
"You know how to charm cute women, sensei!" some girl added this time.
Hearing that Chikeko and Sakura let him go. Chikeko put on a semblance of a strict teacher, before that she had coughed at her fist.
"Well you can be free for now at eleven o'clock you're to go to sleep. You have four hours for today." Chikeko said and the students went to different sides.
Ren and Mai went to the training facility with some students, Maki along with Aki decided to go for a walk and have something delicious after that, Pavel and Masami left alone in the middle of the yard. Chikeko went to prepare everything for tomorrow Sakura and Oleg came to the two, who didn't decide where to go first.
"You did really well today, Masami." Sakura clapped the girl by her shoulder, "You were really impressive today."
"Talking to your classmates will give you a good start in our idea." Oleg nodded, "I hope you'll continue in the same way."
"By the way, what are you going to do now?" Sakura asked the students.
"We decided to have some practice; after all it's our main task now." Pavel replied to her.
"If you want I can bring you to the place." Sakura chuckled, at his eager to train Masami, "I know everything here."
"No need, sensei." Masami replied quickly, "I know everything here too, so we will find everything ourselves."
"Okay, then don't go to bed too late." Sakura chuckled and went with Oleg to the main building.
Masami pointed to the training facility and both of them headed to the place, which was the direction of Ren and Mai.
"Are you sure this part of the island is less protected?" Walter asked the person in white and purple suit, who was wearing a mask that hid her face completely.
"Yes this place always was blind in this island, so it's a good place for us to settle." the woman said gazing the surroundings.
"I hope you're telling the truth." Walter said, "You know what will happen if you lie to me." the masked woman nodded, her long white hair were waiving with the air.
"You two." Walter turned around at the seaside, "She will be your leader for that mission, she will explain you everything, if something goes wrong…" he turned back to the woman, "Crush this crystal and it'll open the portal, I think I won't have much time to distract to you too." then Walter covered himself with his tunic and disappeared.
There were three persons on the shore of the sea now, on was the masked woman with white and purple suit. There was a long katana on her back. There other two were a skeleton in the hat of a pirate captain and a zombie with a tricorn. Both of them had sabers on their belts. The zombie's eyes were closed with some cloth. Both of them had pirate outfit, which consisted of jackets, pants and boots, the zombie also had a shirt, while the skeleton's jacket was buttoned.
"We are to find some special Taimanin for Master." the woman said, "We can be detected in such forms you know what to do." the woman looked at the skeleton, "Only you can be good in the infiltration to enemy's territory." the skeleton nodded, "I'll protect this area and you go and find someone for transforming."
Zombie mumbled something and wanted to do something incomprehensible, but the skeleton stopped him, they turned around and when by the shore of the island.
'It was really long when I saw this place last time." the woman thought, "Nothing changed."
The zombie and the skeleton were walking pretty fast for their state. Only wind and noise of the sea were their companions. They were checking everything perfectly in their way, like was ordered. Suddenly they noticed some movement in the far. There was something on the rock, not far from the shore, skeleton nodded at the silhouette, and the zombie followed him. It was interesting that the zombie didn't see anything, but still he understood everything, what happened around him.
The silhouette got up and turned to the two dead persons. It was a quite beautiful lady in Taimanin suit, who was watching at the sky, she quickly exposed her weapon, which was a long katana and asked the duo.
"Didn't know there supposed to be such creatures." she looked at them with serious eyes, "Who are you guys? Some kind of training?"
The dead duo replied nothing; the skeleton exposed the saber and rushed at the Taimanin. The woman clashed her katana with the saber; interesting thing was that the saber was as firm as the katana.
"I've never seen such a weapon." she mumbled, "Who are you? You're not from the island."
The skeleton did another strike, but it wasn't successful as the woman protected herself again. The fight was fair as the zombie didn't interfere into their fight, letting the skeleton to fight alone. The woman fought very skillfully, but she understood that if the zombie would interfere she won't handle them together.
'I must go and warn the rest, these two are definitely are not from here at all.' she pondered, she jumped out of the zombie and then with a graceful turn she prepared to run to the main corps, how suddenly her legs were stuck to something, "What?!" she watched down and saw how her legs stuck in the sand, "But how?" she turned her body and saw how the zombie squatted and was holding his hand on the sand, "Sand ability?"
Then the skeleton came to the woman, when he was in front of her something was released out of its mouth, something that reminded a tongue, but it was much larger and reminded a tentacle or something like that.
"Don't even dare…" the poor lady wasn't able to finish as the tongue sneaked into her mouth, exploring the insides very attentively.
The woman started to gasp, when the tongue finally left her mouth. She breathed heavily trying to restore her breathing; she raised her head and next shocked her a lot. The skeleton started to change the bones started to cover with flesh and the eyes which were burning with blue flames, started to become more like human's ones.
"No way, you're a doppelganger?" the woman looked at the former skeleton.
"I like to call myself a king of illusions." the woman that was a skeleton a while ago chuckled licking the lips of the captured woman, "Your body is quite interesting, she kneaded breasts and her lower precious, moaning at the same time, "I even sense everything in this for, I didn't lose my skills after all these years." the former skeleton looked at the zombie and said, "Get rid of her, we don't want her to expose us, don't we?" the zombie chuckled at then the sand buried the poor woman, she tried to call for a help, but was unable to do that, "Well I'll go and check everything here, you stay here, if something wrong, I'll return." the zombie nodded and the lady quickly started to jump from one rock onto another one getting up on the upper part of the island.
Masami and Pavel quickly found needed place, under Masami guidance the way for them was really fast. They quickly changed to their ninja outfit, which was brought to the training facility. They decided to have training not with others. Pavel knew Ren wouldn't train with wooden weapons so he decided to spend his free time with Masami. They took the weapons, the girl with brownish hair took a wooden spear and for the boy's luck he could find a wooden European sword it didn't look like his one, but still was quite similar in the shape and length.
"At least something." Pavel smiled as he started to swing with his sword, "A little heavy." he frowned.
"Is it a problem?" Masami looked at him with interest.
"I wouldn't say that it's a problem." Pavel pondered, "Mine is a little lighter, so I can use in one hand if it's needed, but it'll be difficult to do that with this one." he tried to do some lunges holding it in one hand, "Yeah, I won't be able to do that."
"Maybe we should look for something more comfortable?" Masami didn't want Pavel to be in a bad position.
"No, this one is fine." Pavel smiled to her, "After all in common it's like my sword, so there's nothing to worry about."
"I see."
They stood in front of each other in a medium room, which was a room for sparring. Pavel watched at Masami, and he noticed something peculiar in her, her face was more decisive this time. Her stance was more firm than before with a real metal weapon.
'I should do this before.' Pavel nodded, 'Let's see how strong she is now.' he quickly dashed to her and prepared to strike her, but Masami quickly blocked his lunge, "Not bad." Pavel praised the girl.
Masami did a strike too, but Pavel blocked it, and then started to attack the girl, with his wooden sword. Masami parried all the attack quickly and gracefully, Pavel found interesting differ between her and Ren. Ren was wilder than Masami; she was unpredictable like a flame, while Masami was more graceful like water. Her moves were smooth, but still unpredictable as she knew how to strike. For Pavel it was problematic as he didn't know that she was that good.
'So she is really scared to be wounded with blade.' Pavel thought, but then Masami aimed at his legs with her spear.
The spear hurt the floor and she quickly moved it right making Pavel fall onto the floor.
"Wow, you're really amazing." Pavel said as he got up, "It's like I'm studying how to fight rather than you preparing for the treatment." he chuckled.
"You fought well too." Masami helped him to get up, "I'm honest."
"Thanks for praising." Pavel scratched the back of his head, "Again?" Pavel asked her, Masami only nodded.
The sparring continued. This time Pavel was more careful, so it was difficult to Masami to make some trap for the boy, Pavel tried his best in order not to fail to the girl as he wanted to seem a good mentor for her. Masami felt it she only smiled to that nd continued to attack him and then block from his attacks. After some period of time they decided to have a break as both of them were pretty tired.
Pavel quickly brought two bottle of water and gave one to the girl.
"You were really impressive." Pavel said after doing some sips out of the bottle, "I think I wouldn't be able to defeat you in real battle."
"No, you're really would defeat me." Masami replied to him wiping sweat from her forehead, "You didn't do any mistake during the sparring."
"Thank you for not remembering the beginning." Pavel chuckled, as he did some fatal mistake in the first part of their training.
"How do you think will I be able to fight with you all someday?" Masami asked him again, "In real missions?"
"Of course you will!" Pavel looked at her, "All what we're doing is just a repetition to that. We just need some time and then you'll definitely join the rest." then he turned to the door, which was closed, "By the way, you did really well in the train. For such a short period you could become friends with your classmates."
"I wouldn't call it making friends." Masami sighed.
"You're mistaking here. You really did, Aki, Maki, Mai and Ren are not bad at all, and if you continue to talk with them they'll definitely accept you in their circle. So you should stick to them."
"Why you not mention yourself?" Masaki asked him, "I thought you're their friend, didn't you?"
"I'm here only for some unknown period of time." Pavel sadly smiled, "I can be returned back to Russia any time, so I don't think it right to put me in that list."
"I see." Masami was upset of these words, "And if you could, would you stay here?"
"Honestly, I liked this place quite a lot, so it'll be too sad for me to leave all my friends." He raised his head, "That trio, Tatsurou, Rinko even Yukikaze and you." he turned to Masami, "Can I call you my friend?"
"Yes, I think." she started to twist her strand of hair, "Can I ask you, it's a little personal so you cannot answer if you don't want."
"What is it?" he asked her when he removed his lips of the spout of the bottle.
"Do you like Ikenami?" Masami asked him pressing her legs towards her quite magnificent bust.
"Huh?!" Pavel exclaimed, his check became red, "What…? Why such unexpected ideas?!"
"Well, only blind wouldn't notice that." Masami slightly smiled, "There are even some gossips about you two."
"What?! Damn them." Pavel mumbled, "Well, something like that." Pavel confessed, "I liked her before coming to the academy."
"As I remember she saw you on a mission several days before your coming, I remember that scene."
"Yeah, but I saw her a little earlier." Pavel said, "It was before that night, when we were on a patrol with Oleg Semenovich. She was fighting with some other Taimanin with a bow and wind abilities."
"Yabashiri." Masami remembered such a person.
"Perhaps." Pavel lied, he remembered the book, which he had that night, "And I don't know why, but I like her then."
"I see." Masami replied, "And why you were frown in the morning? Have something happened?"
"You noticed it too." Pavel was surprise of such awareness of the girl, "Well, the problem is that my family along with my friend is going to visit me." Pavel sighed.
"But that's good, so why so gloomy face?"
"Because I'll be pranked. My brother and my friend have girlfriends and they will continue their stupid jokes over me, but with that work, when I'm going to get a girlfriend?" he sighed heavily.
"Well, if you want I can pretend to be your girlfriend." Masami suddenly said.
"What?"
"You're helping me with my problem, and didn't give up when I said you to stop bothering me. You even asked Vlasova-sensei to join us in that. So it's the least I can do for you."
"Really?!" Pavel looked at Masami with shocked eyes, "Thank you a lot!" Pavel grabbed her hands in his making her a little shocked, "You help me really a lot! When we are back to the village, I'll buy you whatever you want at Inageya." Masami only chuckled at this.
"But why didn't you ask me about that?" she looked at him with interested eyes.
"I've thought, but I really didn't want to bother you with that trifle." Pavel replied to her, "And I didn't know would someone agree for that, Ren wouldn't agree, Maki is dating Aki, and Mai, I know not that much about her. Maki also told that Rinko wouldn't agree for that. So I haven't got a big number of the ones, whom I can ask to do that for me."
"Understood." Masami replied, "One more practice or you would go to the hot spring now?"
"I don't mind of one more time." Pavel took purchase onto his sword, "And then to the hot spring."
Masami got up too and prepared herself for another combat.
"Finally we have some time for ourselves." Maki was holding Aki's arm in hers, "Last time we hadn't much of free time for ourselves."
"Yeah, that's really true." Aki nodded, "We barely could go out to the park or Inageya."
"Man, I can't forget when we were seen by Pavel and Ren." Maki grunted, "I still don't belive that it was just a mere coincidence."
"Do you still remember that?" Pavel looked at her with a smile, "I still can't belive that Pavel didn't try anything to confess to Ren."
"You boys are always indecisive in love questions." Maki chuckled, "The girl always do everything first."
"Hey! I wasn't indecisive. I just didn't know how to confess to you." Aki's cheeks became red.
Aki and Maki were walking by the island park, it was lit with streetlamps, lots of beautiful trees and bushes were decorated it. They were walking pretty slowly, like they wanted to enjoy every moment of their walk. There were a little people here right now and it made them happy, that no one will see them.
"Guess what." Maki suddenly chuckled, attracting the attention of her boyfriend.
"What?"
"Pavel asked me today, about someone, to pretend himself as his girlfriend." Maki said with a chuckle.
"Really?" Aki chuckled too, "What did he ask?"
"His relatives are going to visit him, and he doesn't want to be seemed as a single person, so he asked me, who would agree for that." Maki continued her telling, "He asked me about Rinko, Mai and even Ren."
"I still can't understand, why doesn't he confess to her?" Aki raised his eyes to the stars, "I think Ren wouldn't reject him now."
"What do you mean, now?" Maki emphasized the last word.
"And you tell you all do everything." Aki smiled to Maki, "Ren was cold to Pavel in the beginning, did you forget? But now her coldness turned in friendly relations, they even go to Inageya and work from the academy together; she even started to train with him a little more."
"Do you want to say that our Ren is interested in him?" Maki asked her boyfriend.
"Frankly speaking, I don't know, but the fact is still the fact. I don't think Ren would reject him coldly or irately. She always looked for a reliable boyfriend, who would think about relations seriously, maybe she thinks about Pavel in that way, and tries to find a way to him?"
"Perhaps you're right." Maki replied, "She always was a serious girl, and mere things of other couples didn't interest her. Maybe we should push our Ren to confession?"
"What do you mean?" Aki didn't understand.
"Ren will think a lot about it, why we won't help her to make right decision? I could say her something about Pavel, then you would do the same."
"She will lecture you again." Aki smiled combing her hair, "You really never study your mistakes."
"But admit you like that in me." Maki looked at him.
"Yeah, sometimes." Aki smiled.
"Sorry, kiddos." they heard a voice behind them, they turned around and saw a pretty cute woman, who had long green hair, her outfit was pretty revealing, like all Taimanin had, but hers one was too revealing all her stomach, and the lower part of breast were exposed. Her legs were covered with tight pants, and on her stomach were two straps, "Could you please tell me, where re the hot spring? I'm quite new here, so I didn't get used to it well."
"Oh it's over there." Maki pointed to the direction they came from, but behind the main building, straight in the mountains."
"Thank you a lot for your help." the woman licked her lips, and narrowed to Aki, "You're quite a handsome boy, aren't you? Maybe you would like to accompany me?"
"Sorry, but he is already busy." Maki stood between red Aki, who tried to remove his eyes from the woman to the girl, and the green haired woman.
"That's pity." the woman replied, but the grinned, "If you're interested my invitation is firm." then turned went to the location Maki showed to her.
"What a strange woman." Aki thought as she left their sight.
"A pain in the ass, I would say." Maki grunted, "No one dares to steal you from me." Maki squeezed his hand as tight as she only could.
"Don't worry; I'll never let other girl to stand between us." Aki ensured her, the he felt how his hand started to pain, "Maki, it's painful you know." Maki weakened her grip, "Let's have something to eat, maybe something sweet?"
"Let's." her mood changed.
"Phew, it's really good to have some rest after all." Sakura landed with a wallop onto a comfortable and soft sofa, "There's nothing better for the best moment to forget about work, these lunatics, seals NOMAD and other staff."
"I must agree with you." Chikeko sat onto the sofa opposite Sakura, "We are to enjoy this weekend, because since Monday we're to start our work again."
"I don't want!" Sakura moaned, "Just want to lie in a bed and read manga."
"I don't understand, being a sister of Asagi, but in front of her, you're such a child." Chikeko said, "How only she can handle with you."
"You're here girls?" Oleg entered the room, "Havening fun, while I'm working?"
"Kinda." Sakura chuckled, "Did prepare everything for the kids?"
"Yes, the places are reserved." Oleg nodded, "Now, they can go and rest if they want." he sat onto the sofa, where Chikeko was sitting, as Sakura's one was occupied completely.
"So, everything is ready for tomorrow? Nothing changed?" Chikeko asked him with interest, "You'll have a battle with Sakura along with Ren against her and Pavel, won't you?"
"Yes, the plan is the same." Oleg nodded.
"And what about Masami? Will she have practice too? We didn't discuss that." Sakura rolled to her side and watched a t Oleg.
"I thought about that." Oleg nodded, "But still didn't think anything good. I thought let her to fight Pavel, but with a real weapon it'll be not safe for her."
"You're right." Sakura sighed, "She can't do that with the rest, maybe she could have a practice with someone from us?"
"What do you mean?" Chikeko raised her eyebrow.
"For example she can fight someone from, us we'll be only protecting ourselves letting her to attack. That'll help her little, to join to the process of the training, don't you think so?"
"Not a bad idea." Oleg put his finger onto his chin, "And who it'll be?"
"How about me?" Chikeko offered her candidacy, "You'll have a lot of work for tomorrow, so I'll be able to fight her." Oleg and Sakura nodded at this thought.
Now there was pause, no one knew how to continue the talk. Sakura and Chikeko didn't want to spill out something what could compromise Oleg. So Oleg decided to disturb the silence.
"Girls, how about to go to the hot spring? You told that this place is really good, so why not to have a good time with usefulness."
"You're right." Chikeko chuckled, "We're to be well prepared for the upcoming trainings, so let's have a good relaxation."
"Yeah, let's." Sakura got up from the sofa and followed her colleagues.
"Finally you're here." Asagi said as the door of her office was opened and she saw Murasaki in a company of Shizuru, "Have you rested well after that mission?"
"Yes, thank you for that." Murasaki nodded, "We decided to give you full report on what had happened in that damn factory."
"Yes, and about the help of 'Red Division'." Shizuru added to Murasaki's words.
"I'm listening." Asagi pointed to the women to sit wherever they want, "I've read your report, so I know the picture, was this machine really destroyed?"
"Yes, we could destroy it with a large effort." Shizuru replied, "There's no doubt in it. However Sasaki… He was buried in the ruins of the factory so he won't be able to take the responsibility for that."
"I see." Asagi sighed, "Could you know for whom this robot was created? Don't tell me for 'The Third Law'." Asagi's voice seemed pleading and tired she even rubbed her temple fossas.
"Honestly, we don't know." Murasaki replied, "There was information on that. But still if the division interfered, we can't exclude this variant too."
"Which members helped you?" Asagi asked Murasaki.
"Two of them were the ones, who helped us in Sapporo, but there were other two who were new for us, I remember that the woman's nickname was Haze."
"And the other's man was Massimo." Shizuru added after Murasaki did a pause.
"I have a question." Murasaki asked Asagi, "That Haze, I've seen her somewhere, but I don't remember where it was." Asagi smiled at these words.
"We had only one clash with 'Red Division', have you forgotten about it?"
"Wait, the one when we worked with Kuro, Shiranui and Yasuhiro?" Murasaki widened her eyes, Asagi nodded, "That's why she was familiar! If only I knew, I would arrest her then." Murasaki grunted also squeezing her fists.
"As if they would allow you to do that." Shizuru chuckled.
"Right now, we don't have such aim." Asagi said to Murasaki attracting her attention, "They can be valuable in fight 'The Third Law', the problem of Russian government is that they can't work here as they want, since they're bound with arrangements, but these mercenaries can do whatever whenever they want." Asagi did a brief pause, "So we can hope that our interests will last for long, until these criminals won't be taken down."
"Not a bad idea." Shizuru pondered, "The enemy of my enemy is friends, smarty." she chuckled.
"But what if the division will join the law someday?" Murasaki asked Asagi, "We can't trust them too much."
"We don't trust them." Asagi replied, "We just cooperate with them in some ways, nothing more."
"Well, if you think that's good then I'm relieved." Murasaki looked at Asagi with a sigh of relief, "Were there any news about these bastards?"
"Yes, they have captured Tatsurou and Yukikaze." Asagi leaned onto her chair, her face became frown and serious.
"What?!" the women exclaimed, "But how is that possible?!"
"I don't know. But when they were on a mission with Chikeko and Pavel, they were attacked, these two could barely escape the place, but those two were captured by the Pegasus." Murasaki frowned.
"Does Akiyama know about that?"
"Yes, I've already told her about that." Asagi sighed, "I hope she won't do anything reckless, I wouldn't wish to anyone to be on her place." Asagi put her hands in a lock, "And the rescuing squad hasn't found any of their trial yet, as if they merely disappeared."
"That really is messy." Shizuru mumbled, "I even know what to think about that."
"The problem is that they hid for now, and didn't show themselves, we found them not long ago fighting NOMAD, but they could escape."
"Did they work on these seals?" Murasaki asked Asagi.
"I don't know, we weren't able to fight them, as they have escaped before we could do anything." Asagi replied, 'Almost forgot to ask Murasaki about that occasion.' then she turned to Shizuru, "Well, Shizuru, you may be free I have something to discuss with Murasaki personally."
"Understood." Shizuru smiled leaving two old friends alone.
Murasaki was wondered what Asagi wanted to talk about with her in a privet way. Her cheeks became slightly red, but still she could hold herself.
"Has something serious happened?" Murasaki asked the leader of the Taimanin.
"I wanted to know something, long ago, you had a mission with Miyata, Naomi and Kamiko. I and Shiranui were behind to protect you." Asagi started to explain, "You encountered a strange person, as I remember he used ice, didn't he?"
Murasaki tried to remember what Asagi was talking about, but then her eyes widened as if she remembered something significant.
"Yes, it was in autumn." Murasaki nodded, "This one could create ice weapons, and animals too as I remember. But what is it? Did it appear again?"
"No, nothing to worry about." Asagi smiled to Murasaki, of this smile Murasaki melted.
"I see." she said being red, "How are these Russians? Don't they bother others?"
"No, right now Oleg's class is on a vacation along with Chikeko and Sakura." Asagi replied.
"I hope they won't twiddle their thumbs, knowing Sakura she can allow that." Murasaki grunted.
"You're acting too sharp towards her." Asagi chuckled, "Since Oleg is with them, he won't be kind with them and Chikeko will also be a good support for them."
"I hope you're right." Murasaki sighed, "I would like to see how the physical education of my former students becomes low."
"Don't worry, it won't." Asagi smiled again, "Well I think I'm done for today, how about to go and have something to eat? Since Sakura is not at home I should cook anything."
"I don't mind." Murasaki replied lively.
Then both of them left the office in order to get something to eat in some restaurant.
'So, this person really could be a demon lord too.' Asagi thought, 'Well, I'll think it later, enough thoughts for today.'
"Mistress Celine, where are we going now?" Stephanie asked her helper with interest in her voice.
"Must check… some place…" Celine exhaled a cold stream out of her mouth, "Order of Walter."
"I see." Celine replied, "Where are you to go?"
"Sense it." Celine only replied, "Your guide now… is me…"
"Understood." Stephanie nodded and followed her mistress.
Celine and Stephanie were walking through crowded streets of Tokyo Kingdom. They were in a pretty big hurry; likewise Celine was late for something important. Stephanie was calm as she didn't want to bother her savior from her thoughts. Stephanie only watched to different sides, she saw how lots of demons and humans watched at her with lecherous eyes; however she wasn't scared as she was protected by a really strong person.
"Not talking… happened something?" Celine asked Stephanie.
"Ah! No, I just don't want to interrupt you." the straw haired woman replied to the armored woman, "You're in a hurry and…" she wasn't able to finish her statement, because of Celine.
"Don't bother me… Feel quite… peacefully, when you talk…" Celine replied not watching at Stephanie.
"Really?" the woman was surprised of what she'd heard, "I didn't know that." She became slightly red of this praise, "I wanted to know, for how long you know this guy Walter."
"Since birth…" Celine replied, "Were created together…"
"I see." the girl replied, "But you seem different from him, you're warm hearted and kind, but he is absolutely another, I don't know, how to explain that, but I think he is really a dangerous and terrible person."
"Correct." Celine nodded, "Different… but bind… Walter lord of death, I'm lord of ice."
"You passed lots of dangers and troubles together side by side, didn't you?" Stephanie asked again.
"Not exactly…" Celine replied, "Always acted separately… each of us… did that…" Celine finished her sentences mystically.
"But why? All together you could capture that world, what made you to do that?" Stephanie asked her savior.
"The first one… has disappeared… the first of the second line… didn't take the leaders role… also was defeated… the rest are defeated too."
"I see, sorry for asking." Stephanie felt uncomfortable asking that, "I didn't want to disappoint you."
"Not your fault… mistake of ours… but, all of them were… idiots." each statement was difficult for Celine to pronounce, however little by little she could do I a little faster.
"You don't think about them as your comrades or family, perhaps?" Stephanie looked at Celine's face, which was covered with the mask.
"No. All were the generals of others… served to different…" Celine only replied and suddenly stopped.
"What is it?" the woman asked her teammate.
"There." Celine did a turn and focused on something; Stephanie understood it and didn't bother Celine.
Suddenly Celine grabbed Stephanie in her hands and jumped from one building to another one, until they reached the rooftop of some tall skyscraper.
"What is it?" Celine was asked with a trembled voice of the girl.
"The position is not ready yet." Celine watched at the night sky, "The moon… in the other location." then she looked at Stephanie, "Told… wanted to help me… remember?" Stephanie nodded, "Will be my general…" Celine continued, "When the position is right… the ritual will turn you into the general…"
"So, I'll be able to fight side by side with you?" Stephanie asked Celine with excited voice.
"Yes… you'll become a warrior… like Taimanin…" Celine said, "My power... will in you…"
"What do you mean?" the lass didn't understand.
"Ice." Celine replied, "Will use it." Celine looked at the sky again, "The moon is near to that star…" Celine pointed at the bright star, which was seen well, "The time will come."
"And when it comes to that star?" Stephanie was eager to know that.
"Soon…" Celine replied, "Inform you."
"Phew, so good to have some rest!" Aki said sitting into hot water putting his towel onto his head, "Interesting where is Pavel?" he asked another boy, who was sitting next to him.
"I don't know, the last time I've seen him, he was with Masami."
"With Masami?" Aki was surprised hearing that.
"I can't understand, how he could become friends with her." Kimura joined them, "In no time she started to talk with him, while we couldn't speak with us at least for five minutes."
"Sometimes it's easy for someone to open his mind and heart to someone, whom the person doesn't know." some boy replied at the statement of Kimura.
"Ha, maybe you're right." Kimura chuckled, "And what do you think about it?" he asked Aki then.
"Me?" Aki wasn't ready he would be asked.
"Yeah, you're his friend after all." the boy pouted at Aki's side, "And at the same time, he started to get well with Ren."
"Yeah, I've noticed that too." the boy who was speaking about heart and mind joined again, "She didn't like him in the beginning, but in two months they became friends too."
"Well, this should be asked to Ren." Aki didn't know how to answer correctly.
"Come on." Kimura chuckled again, "I know you know the answer."
"Yeah, tell." someone was eager to know the answer for that question.
"That's because I know how to communicate with people." they heard a voice behind them, they turned around and saw Pavel, who was standing in the towel in front of them.
"Hey, we didn't mean anything bad or…" Kimura was excited of seemed the object of their talking.
"Yeah, we just…" the boy that spoke about the heart and mind didn't finish his statement.
"Don't worry, it's alright." Pavel chuckled and entered the water he took of his towel, and dived into the hot water, only his head was dry, "Man, so good to warm sometimes." Pavel stretched his limbs.
"So, will you tell us?" another boy asked Pavel, "How could you make Masami and Ren your friends?"
"Well, with Ren everything is simple. True friendship is always understood in battle, we past several of them together and started to get used to each other little by little."
"Only battles?" Kimura came to him, "I thought, you had some kind of crush on her."
"Who said that?" Pavel looked at Kimura; he tried to hold himself in order not to become red.
"Come on; don't play dumb, we all see how you try to attract her attention." Kimura continued, "Do you really think we are that blind not to see that."
"Just tell you like her." someone hit him at his back with a chuckle.
"Well, I don't think about her in that way." Pavel replied being pondered, he knew he won't be able to remove to another theme so he decided to answer this one vague, "I mean, yes, she is beautiful, cute and everything in the same way…"
"Ren cute?" Kimura chuckled, "Didn't know that."
"Maybe you'll tell at her face?" Aki looked at Kimura, who quickly calm down after that idea.
"I would like to live long." Kimura only replied with a smile at his notion.
"I don't know, will it be good to make any relations with girl on this place." Pavel sadly smiled, "I'm a foreigner and my government might not like it."
"The government can declare whom you should love." the boy who wasn't far from Pavel replied.
"Our gornement thinks vice versa." Pavel smiled, "We are allowed to make relations only with other hunters, but not with simple people. I also don't think it'll allow us to start relations with Taimanin, because we can change the place of our life and we are an important resource for the country."
"Your politicians are real bastards." Kimura replied hearing that, "Even ours are not that strict."
"But in some ways they're right." Pavel replied, "If we start relations with ordinary people, we have risks to put them in danger from criminal organizations and traitor of the government. That's why we're not allowed to do that."
"Well." someone decided to stop the talk about this sad theme, "And what about Masami? How did you become friends with her?"
"It's a secret." Pavel replied, "After all I should tell you that right now."
"Hey, what does that should mean?" Kimura didn't like the answer.
Maki, Ren and Mai, were going to the female part of the hot spring. Mai and Ren were after their training, they were pretty sweaty, and Maki on the other hand felt herself not tired, as she was walking after the walk with Aki. Maki asked her friends about their training and who was there. Ren answered the questions Maki asked, but still Ren was a little tired to answer them.
"By the way could you have some free time with Aki?" Ren suddenly asked her.
"Yup." Maki nodded with a chuckle, "Just the two of us, it was so sweet to go in the park with him."
"And what were you doing?" Ren asked Maki with an interested voice.
"Just walking and talking nothing more." Ren heard an answer, "But then a woman came to us and wanted to drag Aki somewhere." Maki mumbled.
"A woman?" Mai asked Maki.
"Yeah." the brownish haired girl nodded, "She was a lecherous one, but still her appearance and attire were quite lecherous."
"Perhaps another Taimanin." Ren replied with a chuckle, "Your Aki is really a faithful boy."
"By the way, Ren." Maki suddenly looked with puzzlement at her friend, "I wanted to know one thing, what would you do if Pavel would confess to you?"
"Why such a strange question?" Ren looked at Maki as she was asked this strange question.
"I mean, you became friendlier to him, and even have practice with him and do something together with him, what if he would offer you to start dating?" Maki detailed her question.
"Honestly, I don't know." Ren pondered, "I even don't know how to answer him. First I thought he is a big pain in the ass, he was annoying, reckless, and even provoking, but now, I see him as a different person. If not him, I wouldn't go to the mission on protecting our ministers. He protected me when Igawa-sensei started to lecture me, because of my own recklessness, and even protected me during my fight with Mystic."
"That strong guy from the new organization?" Mai asked Ren.
"Yes." she nodded, "When he almost kicked my butt, Pavel was there to protect me, but then they escaped, as if this attack was just some show or something like that."
"So? What will you do if Pavel asks you to go out, will you agree?" Maki was eager to know the answer.
"I don't know, at the same time he is a foreigner so I don't think it'll be good to start any kind of these relations with him he can return to Russia any time, and continue to talk on distance? No, thanks."
"And what if he would stay here?" Maki asked again.
"Maybe, I would…"
"You would what?" they heard a voice on their right; they turned their heads and saw Masami herself.
"Nothing." Ren replied to her, "Nice to see you're talking to others again." Ikenami smiled to Masami.
Masami replied nothing, she felt herself uncomfortable hearing this question. Maki grabbed Masami's hand and led the girl along with them to the hot spring.
After some time their took off their clothes took towels and covered their precious places, then they went to the water, almost all girls from the class were here, including Chikeko and Sakura, who were surrounded with their students.
"Hey girls, we are teachers so don't be so familiar with us!" Chikeko commanded.
"I can't belive it sensei's ones are smaller, but she is even cuter than me." one girl lowered her head.
"Come and what about me?" Sakura exposed her impressive breasts.
"Sakura-sensei is much more attractive." the same girl seemed destroyed.
"Come on, don't hang the jib, you're quite sexy too." the other girl with ruby hair inspired the previous one.
"You've trained pretty long." Sakura saw Ren and the company, "Never rest Ren-chan, don't you?"
"Prefer to use free time with use." Ren entered the water, "And what about you sensei? Read manga?"
"No." Sakura chuckled, "Thought how to torment you a little tomorrow."
"By the way, sensei." Maki looked at Chikeko, "Do you feel something to Oleg-sensei?"
"What?!" Chikeko exclaimed, "Why such questions Sato?!"
"Come on sensei, we are all girls here, you can tell us." the girl that had been upset recently cheered up.
"After all you're the only one who spends a lot of time with him." Chikeko was told said, by another student.
"Now he has another woman, who is always around him." the girl that cheered the upset one chuckled, "He seems pretty close with Vlasova-sensei, how do you think what binds them?"
"Maybe their childhood friends or dated each other in the past?" one girl asked the question.
"Maybe they are good comrades? If they did a lot of missions they must be like that."
"Girls, how do you think who is stricter? Yatsu-sensei or Vlasova-sensei?" Maki asked the female part.
"They both are the same." there was an answer, "I can't understand how we'll have both equal persons at one time."
"I hope they won't do anything special for us together." the other female student flinched.
"Some teachers must be strict, only that makes them good and strong in their subject." Ren protected the mentioned teachers.
"Hey, Ren you seem over protective towards Russian guys, did you like them or something?"
"No, I just think about them as comrades nothing more." Ren replied watching at the girl who asked her.
Sakura didn't like the way the students were talking about Maria. Sakura knew the past of her and Oleg, and felt really bad hearing such words about them. However, she decided not to tell about it to the students.
'Interesting, what Oleg is doing now? Is he having good time with boys?' Sakura thought with a smile on her face.
"Hey Masami." Someone suddenly asked, "You got well with these Russians too, what made you to do that?"
"Something…" Masami mumbled.
"Something what?" the girl with ruby hair asked her.
"Come on, tell us."
"Girls!" Chikeko got up, "If Andou doesn't want to answer your questioning then leave her."
All girls moaned as Masami had a good protector next to her. They knew if Chikeko in that kind of state, it would be bad to argue with her.
Shiranui was walking along the well-lit corridors of some pretty rich hall. She was shaking from one side to another one, one hand was on her forehead and another one was lowered.
"Still resisting?" Shiranui asked herself out loud, "Damn, I thought you should be shut for eternity…" she rubbed her forehead, "If not you, I would grab Yukikaze and Tatsurou and bring them to Master along with these new scums." Shiranui continued her walking, lots of doors were on her sides, but she continued to walk straight, as if she knew where she had to go, "I'll give you a lesson to interfere in battles, I was to kind towards you, but now I'll kick your ass much stronger than before."
Shiranui's way wasn't far she suddenly stopped and turned to the left; she put her hand onto the handle and turned it opening. The door was easily opened, the door she entered led her to a pretty spacy room, which reminded a kitchen, it had a big table in the middle, several chairs around the table, and not far from it was a counter for cooking along with a cooker. Next to it was standing a woman in a white sweater without sleeves, the person had short brownish hair, and a black ribbon in the hair, which reminded rabbit's ears. She seemed cooking something.
"Who dared you to interfere into the battle?" Shiranui asked the woman with risen voice, Shiranui's voice was full angry and fierce.
"I didn't." the woman merely replied, her voice on the other hand seemed trembling.
"As if I didn't feel that." Shiranui banged with the door and slowly headed to the cook, "I know everything what you do, and I felt how you made me to miss the strike." Shiranui came to the woman, and put her hand onto her shoulder, "Because you are me!" Shiranui turned the woman to her, and in front of her was standing another Shiranui.
"As I told you, I remember our deal and didn't interfere in your battle with… Yukikaze." the voice of Shiranui who was in a sweater trembled when she was speaking the name of the tanned girl.
"Then why I felt something strange in my head?" Shiranui in the Taimanin uniform asked another one with rage in her voice, "Don't tell me I just seemed to see that."
Shiranui in the sweater only watched at the other Shiranui. She didn't reply as if she thought some good answer. The woman in the Taimanin attire grabbed the collar of the sweater, but the other woman quickly hit the hand of the Taimanin.
"No matter what, but I won't let you hurt my daughter." the woman with the sweater replied to the other one.
"So it was you." Shiranui in the battle attire chuckled, "I won't be kind with you like I was before."
"If I don't get you first." Shiranui in the sweater responded, her attire quickly changed to her battle one and a spear appeared in her hand, now there were two identical women, who were similar in everything.
Shiranui who quickly changed her clothes, jumped away from the woman and then quickly dashed to the other one. Shiranui that entered the room grinned and blocked the lunge of the other one, then pushed her and attacked.
The battle became overly energetic neither Shiranui wanted to lose and gave everything to win. The room changed to the empty space with water under their feet. Both of them used water techniques, but no one used clones, likewise it was the battle to know who is stronger and they wanted to deal something personal.
"After I'll deal with you, I'll make Yukikaze along with Rinko and Tatsurou Kuroi's slaves, who will do his every whim." one Shiranui exclaimed.
"You'll do that only over my dead body!" another Shiranui exclaimed, 'I'll do everything to protect you all, no matter what it'll cost.' she thought after dodging another lunge. Then one Shiranui decided to make a series of attack, but the other one dodged and parried them all, as if she knew where the first one would strike.
"I won't give up." One Shiranui tried to catch her breath, "I'll take you down."
"I would like to see that." the other one grinned sadistically.
Shiranui that seemed tired jumped and was about to strike her opponent with the blade of her spear, when the second Shiranui did a graceful dodging, and with the back side of her spear hit the first Shiranui at her stomach.
"Shit!" the first one hissed, but then a strong hit at her arm and stomached made her fall onto the water.
"It seems you're tired a little, aren't you?" one of Shiranui chuckled and pressed her leg against the laying Shiranui's breast, making her to breather heavier, "Trust me, soon Yukikaze will join us, and feel the pleasure Master Kuroi gave us."
Shiranui, who was standing, stretched out her hand and the water started to materialize into something. After a little it took the shape and appearance of Yukikaze, Tatsurou and Rinko, several demons appeared behind them. Next moment, they were attacked be the demons, the battle was intensive, but the Taimanin failed, and were beaten to a pulp.
"No…" the lying Shiranui was lying under the other one.
Yukikaze was gotten up by her hair and then some ork hit her at her stomach. Rinko was standing on her kneels in front of a group demons, which were waiting the command to start the fun. The standing Shiranui snapped with her finger and Rinko started to be tortured by the demons. Rinko sucked their cocks intensively, while Yukikaze was forced to sit onto the dick of some other demon. The both girls were crying and trying to break free, but everything was vain. A copy of Shiranui appeared behind Tatsurou, who was watching at his girlfriend and sister helplessly. Shiranui put her hand into his bulge and started to rub it, the moans and gasps Tatsurou did entertained the woman, so she continued to play with the boy.
"I can't wait to see that picture comes true." Shiranui that was standing licked her lips.
Shiranui that was laying could remove the leg from her breast. Then she jumped onto her legs and grabbed her spear. She tried to attack the grinning Shiranui, but the woman only dodged all the lunges.
"You became lamer, what happened? Don't you want to save your precious daughter, I mean our."
"Damn bitch! Take that!" Shiranui exclaimed and did a large swing, but then a lunge The attacked Shiranui squatted and then hit the other Shiranui at her chin, making her fall onto the water again.
The winning Shiranui came to the losing one and grabbed her hair, and made her raise her head to see what was going with Yukikaze.
"Just admit that you're nothing but a trash." the winning said, "You can't defeat me, what can you do to save your daughter? Useless trash, who once was a powerful Taimanin."
"I… wont'… give up…" Shiranui tried to respond gritting her teeth, but then her nipple was squeezed what made her exclaim in unexpectedness, "You can't even imagine how I like to beat and humiliate you."
"Scum…" Shiranui in the woman's grip bit her lip.
"I'll make you regret for disobeying me and Master Kuroi." she inserted several fingers into Shiranui's mouth and continued to play with her nipple, then she overturned her and inserted her fingers into her lower preciousness, making her to moan and breath gasping, "I can't wait when Yukikaze will join me in the bed with Master."
"Yuki… will never do that… she will save…" Shiranui tried to fight back, but received a slap at her cheek.
"Even if she is in a group with some skillful hunters won't make her stronger, I'll find a moment, when she is alone." the winning Shiranui chuckled.
She inserted her fingers in the butt of Shiranui and continued to play with her showing her the picture how her dearest and closest were torturing in front of her eyes.
'I'm sorry, Yuki.' Shiranui who was losing thought, 'Mommy failed you, she is not the strongest Taimanin. I'm just a defeated woman, nothing more.' tears started to form in her eyes.
"I hope you're ready for more fun." the torturer chuckled, "We're not ready yet, I'll make sure you'll teach your lesson now."
"Now, please not again!" the laying Shiranui cried out, "Spare me, I beg you!"
Several demons appeared around the falling demons and started to beat the poor woman and the torture her with lots of different ways, still making her to watch at her daughter and her friends, who were tortured too. Yukikaze was watching at Shiranui, who was tortured eyes with pleading eyes, as if she asked help from her mother.
'Yukikaze… I'm sorry.' Shiranui looked at her daughter, how was just an illusion, 'I couldn't… keep the promise.' then Shiranui continued to be tortured, but more severely.