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Honehime watched as Sakazuki ran off, just as Shuku had returned. Was there some limit on the number of people allowed in the clearing? She moved over to Shuku when she heard the Mayonaka ask what had happened, and tried to summarize what had actually happened while she had been gone. It wasn't easy, mostly because she wasn't precisely sure herself, several things had happened that she just had no idea about. But she did her best, explaining Mei's return, and the subsequent incident with the strange sphere and Sakazuki's equally strange reaction.
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Lieselotte frowned a little as she watched Sakazuki storm off, disappearing into the woods. She seemed very tense, and that was proven when a loud crash, and equally loud follow up crashing was heard. Looking in the direction the Circe had went, she rushed to follow, and just in time to see the tree Sakazuki had felled falling to the ground. She moved closer, hesitant to make her appearance known, but wanting to make sure Sakazuki didn't do anything too rash or impulsive. So for now, she would just continue to watch, and lend an ear if need be.
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Mei looked a little sad when Sakazuki first protested about the sphere, but then looked even more sad when the Circe stalked off into the woods. Was the ball really that bad? She hadn't wanted to make anyone sad, especially not as much as Sakazuki seemed to be feeling. Should they destroy it, would that make the Circe feel better? She nearly punched herself in the head at not thinking to ask before tossing the ball. Of course she would have had no idea how strong Sakazuki's reaction would have been, but even so! She should have known, should have asked.
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Zenia had just about gotten comfortable, when Sakazuki and then Lieselotte both left the clearing, heading off in another direction from her. Frustrated, she very nearly sighed aloud, but managed to hold it in. Slowly getting up, she prepared to follow, moving stealthily, slowly, silently. Of course, she wouldn't have to for that moment when the tree was struck, she probably could have shouted and nobody would have heard it. She wouldn't, of course, but she had bigger problems to worry about. Such as dodging that incoming tree. It wasn't too close to actually hitting her, but even just close was too close.
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Melona only smirked as the two attacks came her way. Was her opponent really that much of a beginner, or were they just unprepared? Or, like her, were they just playing around? She leaped nimbly backward to avoid both strikes, and then rushed in again, to toss a medium strength punch at Menace, to try to knock her off balance. It wouldn't hurt, at least not really. She was tempted to use one of her special moves to make things more 'interesting', but decided to hold off on it for the time being. There would always be time to do something like that later, after all.
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Alice listened to Airi's words, silently admitting to herself that the scythe wielder was right, that even being Queen she could only do so much to regulate things like that. It didn't mean she would give up, certainly not! But she would at least try to think of another solution. When Airi shifted her posture and asked if she could fight, Alice sighed and shifted her own posture. Spreading her feet a little apart, she readied herself. Even though she hadn't said it, she knew what Airi really meant. "And it happens once more. I suppose you feel it too? The urge to fight, almost like you are-" Her eyes widened at that thought, this slowly growing urge to battle inside of her. The last time she had felt it was against another Queen's Blade contender. Could it be? No, it had to be a coincidence.
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Honehime looked around camp once more, to see if there was anything else she should work on while the others dealt with their own problems. She felt rather isolated, but it didn't bother her too much, she had spent years feeling that way, after all. Oh sure, when someone needed their fortune told they would try to find her and talk to her. But aside from that, everyone always stayed far away, like they were scared of her or something. It was a rather lonely life, but it was the path she had chosen for herself.
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Lieselotte looked up when Kuroshika bounded in and announced his presence, then her head whipped back to look at Sakazuki once more surprised by the venomous tone the Circe used. She was pissed! She took a half step back, but otherwise didn't do much. She had no intention of forcing her presence on Sakazuki, but neither would she let a member of her group go off alone again. That had led to all kinds of trouble before, she didn't want to have to go through all of that again. So for now, she would just watch and wait. She turned to glance at Kuroshika as he responded to Sakazuki's threat, wondering if the two would really try fighting now of all times. Both because Sakazuki's hand seemed injured, and because it hadn't yet been twenty-four hours since she had used that technique from before.
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Mei nodded when Shuku asked if she could take a look at the manual, and dug it out of her pocket where she had unceremoniously stuffed it earlier. It wasn't a huge manual, maybe a hundred pages, with several devoted to pictures, diagrams and more. Mei hadn't been able to follow a lot of what the manual referred to, but Shuku certainly would. And once she had, the reaction would be something to see. For what Mei took to mean special friends was actually something more like sexual playthings. There was much more to it than that, though.
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Zenia was glad that she had stayed where she was, if she had moved forward even a few more feet, Kuroshika might have stumbled upon her hiding spot. As it was, he was too close by far, so she began to slowly creep away, sidling over to another side of the new gathering. The Circe's strength had surprised her, she would definitely have to keep that in mind, if a fight ended up breaking out. She was no slouch herself, but a fight misdirected was a fight avoided, and that just made things so much easier. Which made her job easier, and that was a good thing.
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Melona smirked down at Menace from her position straddling the Imhotep, and raised a fist as if she was going to bring it crashing down in a punch on the near defenseless young woman. But before she had a chance to follow through, she had to hang on as Menace began bucking and writhing, almost making her feel like a cowgirl riding a bucking bronco. At the same time, Menace's hands shot up to grab her hair. Her hair, which took the form of hands to cover her chest. She let out a gasp of shock when those hands were pulled away, revealing her chest to the audacious Imhotep. She grinned cheekily at Menace, and returned the favor, flipping up the young woman's brass coverings.
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Alice frowned a little, she knew there was no way out of it at this point. Even if the two of them were to just up and walk away from the fight, the idea would be there, waiting, growing in strength until finally they would have to fight for real. Better instead to have a quick, minor skirmish now, maybe get it out of their system, and then try to move on with their plans if at all possible. So when Airi asked is she accepted her challenge, Alice only nodded solemnly, before going into an offensive stance. She wished that she would have remembered her weapons, but they were unavailable at the moment, which meant she would largely have to rely on her tail whip.
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Seisan walked into the Academy, and the first thing she did was blush. She say another girl with her shirt almost completely off, show her bust and all that went with it. She couldn't help but to stare, so she closed her eyes and walked past all the commotion. She sat down at a desk and opened the book in front of her. She took out a piece of paper and started to write down what was important to her in her studies. She silently peeked over her book to see the fight, but again returned to her studies. There wasn't a teacher in the room, but Seisan wanted to graduate as fast as she could so she could go train in her clan to become even stronger.

Seisan coughed, and waved her hand in front of her face trying to get rid of the cloud of smoke. "Why does there have to be smoke? Why not a flash?" Seisan said, but for some reason she sounded, different. She sounded, like a man. "YATTA!" Seisan squealed, but in a rough, manly voice. She ran over to a mirror and looked into it. "Yes, yes!" She had completely transformed into Iruko-sensei, even with the scar. She was so happy, she jumped into the air, raising her arms and pulling in her legs. Then suddenly, she was enveloped in another cloud of smoke, transforming back into her old self.

Seisan looked with bright eyes at the pictures in the book. There were people creating literal clones of themselves out of nothing. She smiled in wonderment and awe at the pictures, and copied them down as best she could, along with detail instructions on how to stand, what amount of chakra you should use, and what should be going through your mind. "How does someone remember all of this?!" Seisan said, writing down step after step. "This would kill someone if they didn't take notes, like me." Seisan smiled at her pleasant complement of herself, and kept writing. She looked to her left, through a window, and saw some Genin practicing their clan techniques. Oh, how Seisan wanted to become a real shinobi.