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Seisan read the beginning of the chapter, which was substantially longer than the first two. "This looks like it's going to be harder than the others" Seisan thought to herself. "But I'll do this! I'll do it even if I fail a hundred times!" Seisan had convinced herself that she would never give up, if only to become stronger and protect her sister from harm. Seisan started to furiously scribble on her notes, the fight still not escalating, and Iruka-sensei not even bothering to show up. Suddenly, the door flew open, and Iruka-sensei came strolling in the room, holding his hand in front of a large yawn. Apparently the lazy instructor slept in, or forgot he had new students today.

Seisan peeked through one eye, and noticed Iruka rubbing his eyes, ready to view the classroom clearly. Seisan gasped, he would noticed the girls shirt, even though she didn't care. Seisan remembered in her notes that you could substitute people, so she closed her eyes again, and disappeared in a cloud of smoke, as did the girl with the torn off shirt. They traded places just as Iruka was finishing rubbing his eyes. Seisan was waving off some smoke, smiling with a bead of sweat falling down the side of her brow. "H-hello, Iruka-sensei" Seisan said, trying to cover up her appearing there.

Having finished the note and performed a few stretches to limber herself up, Honehime felt ready to go. She took one more, or was it last, look around camp and strode off into the woods. They hadn't gotten very far from the Academy during the day before, it shouldn't take all that long to get there. And she did have some money, hopefully enough to acquire everything they would need for an extended stay in the great outdoors. Normally, she would prefer to rough it, to live off the land and be self sufficient, but in a group this size, that methodology could only go so far. So she would compromise, at least somewhat. There would still be some things they would have to rely on the wilderness to provide.
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Shaking her head in frustration at Sakazuki's antics, she wondered if it was a natural ability of the Circe's, or one she had trained for. Surely being that annoying wasn't a naturally occurring ability, was it? She moved back once more, to once again get out of the line of fire. She didn't know much of the capabilities of either of the soon to be fighters, so she wasn't sure exactly how explosive this fight might be. She had the feeling it would be a very intense battle, though. Sakazuki seemed ready to go with hand to hand combat, she wondered if Kuroshika would be the same. And then the battle was on. Her eyes widened as she watched the fight, she had been right, it was starting off very intensely. At this rate, who knew how it would end. At the very least, she'd step in to stop things if they got too serious.
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The overly busty cow girl only looked at Shuku curiously as the older woman buried her face in her hand. Did she say something stupid again? Mei tried not to, but it happened every so often, enough that she had come to recognize at least some of the signs of others' irritation with her. The irritation itself, not so much. But the signs, those she could occasionally spot. She returned to the matter at hand and tried to make sense of what Shuku had said. She repeated it, just to make sure she had heard right. "So, 'those special friends are used for Mei Ting, Mei, Mei Ting'? But what's 'Ting' mean?" Of course, her name just had to sound like the first half of the word, didn't it?
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Zenia had remained in her previous position even when Lieselotte had moved forward, which was very fortunate. If she would have crept forward, Lieselotte's prompt return would have revealed her hiding spot. Not that that would have necessarily been bad, just more complicated. She could tell the other two were just about ready to start fighting, and was preparing herself to make her own attack of opportunity when the other two were well enmeshed in their own battle. Then, they would be much less likely to notice her, much less likely to raise an alarm or anything else that would make her job so much more difficult.
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Melona smirked triumphantly, but didn't release her opponent. She reduced the strength of her assault, though, from a forceful fondling to something more akin to an almost pleasant massaging tickle. Her mass continued to melt and cover more and more of Menace, now covering her nearly completely from waist to neck and shoulders. Her mass was opaque enough that at least some of Menace's modesty would be salvaged, although the position of the two was still a pretty good attention grabber. Melona wasn't worried, she took other people's forms all the time, if this one was inconvenienced, she would simply take another. Perhaps she would even take Menace's form again, and go out and do something really embarrassing!
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Alice could see that Airi intended to meet her straight on, she had even let her weapon fall to the wayside. A fierce grin lit up the young girl's face as she darted forward, waiting until the instant just before they would have collided to turn her charge into a somersault, hopefully rolling right under Airi, right between the maid's lace covered legs. She would regain her feet quickly, and then try to turn around and attack the maid with a fierce snap kick to the back of a leg, if at all possible. Or, if Airi reacted faster than she expected, she would simply have to try to improvise something else, and hope that that narrow window of opportunity would not cost her dearly.
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Honehime moved at a brisk pace through the forest, stopping every once in a while to look at a twittering bird, or to move around a tree in her way. She seemed to be taking her time, but she was actually moving at a decent marching pace. She didn't want to keep the others waiting for too long, after all. she should be able to get back to the Academy within three hours, and from there, hopefully it wouldn't take much work to find a place to get some supplies. she didn't remember seeing any stores, but there had to be some.
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Lieselotte continued to watch as the battle seemed to get even more energetic. Kuroshika pulled out a move involving armor plating his arm, complete with spikes and hooks, very nice. Sakazuki was pulling off moves that seemed almost unreal, or at least moderately painful without vast amounts of stretching beforehand. The Akasun had no idea how the Circe was doing it, but it, too, was pretty impressive. Why she hadn't used those moves against her, she didn't know. Hopefully not because Saka was taking it easy on her!
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Mei beamed with pride as she was told she had gotten it right, but then her expression changed to confusion once more when Shuku bowed to her and pleaded to not have to show her what Ting was. Why was showing what Ting was bad? Was it dangerous? No, wait! An epiphany of sorts struck her, as she finally came to what had to be the one, true answer! It made perfect sense! "I know, Tings are shoes!" Why else would the busty Mayonaka not want to show her, but be trying to look at her feet? With a chest that large, it was very hard to even see her feet, let alone slip off her shoes! Mei knew that much from first hand experience! She had solved the mystery!
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Zenia moved a little further back into the brush, becoming interested in the fight. She could relate to a fight like this, just simply trading blows, exactly what a Taijutsu fighter like her would be doing. Well, maybe not exactly, she thought, as she patted her violin case. But aside from choice of weapons, the fight could very well go along these lines. So why not study them for a moment, maybe learn something, or at least prepare for if she ever had to fight them later on. A fist tightened as she clenched it from excitement, this was a good battle!
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Melona gave one last triumphant smirk as she stared down at her captie. She could tell Menace was trying hard not to give her the satisfaction of crying out, she could feel it as the young woman shook and shivered. She rapidly increased her assault, now virtually all of her body rapidly flowing to fully encompass Menace. It wouldn't interfere with the Imhotep breathing or anything, but the feelings would be very distracting. distracting enough to let her try to manipulate her body! If she had the chance, she'd move Menace's body into a standing position. And that would be only the start!
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Alice let a grin spread across her face in satisfaction after her kick had connected. But a moment later, that grin vanished, as she had to lunge wildly to the side to dodge the scythe. It seemed Airi had picked it up once more. As she lunged, she gave a shake of the hips that on an older woman would be very fetching. Of course to certain types, it was even more captivating on someone of her size. But that was not the purpose, the purpose was to lash out with her tail whip, in a whip crack attack to try to snag Airi's scythe, and possibly pull it out of her grip before she could attack again. She flinched in mid-strike, though, as she felt the blade of the scythe still snag her. Not a deep cut, but a very painful one, on her forearm.
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