Chapter 15: Sparring

Poll Results:

Fujimai - 23

Kuroka - 29

Shirone (Koneko) - 17

Kuroka and Shirone - 19

All three - 75

I think the winner is obvious and prolly was when I made the poll.

2nd Poll results: Cleria Belial

Yes - 51

No - 10

I was a little surprised at this one. I didn't expect so many people to want Cleria in the harem but welp you do. So all three nekomatas will be in the harem, I just gotta figure out how I want to do that but lets do another poll again. This will be about Kuroka and Shirone's father. Again, just like my comment otherwise your vote doesn't count.

Original Father.

Valerian.

Finally, I chose the picture for lyra, which was the one posted by Tora_ryu. I'm not using Esdeath cuz I plan to add Esdeath herself so yeah.

" " = Dialogue.

' ' = Inner Thoughts/commands.

{ } = System response.

[ ] = Telepathy message.

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The tour around the city was nicer than I expected, and I got to know Fujimai better. She was 22 years old and had started training under Magari six years ago, though she was, admittedly, pretty weak compared to the rest of us. She was at peak mid-class. It was still pretty good, considering Magari was only at ultimate class, and she had lived much longer than Fujimai.

Other than learning more about her, the town was pretty lackluster, though considering the time period it isn't entirely surprising. She only really showed us the market and some restaurants that were open. So after about an hour and a half we already returned to Nurarihyon's residence, and Magari was ready to spar.

I was excited, this was the first time I'd had a spar outside of my mother, sister or fiancées. While I did enjoy sparing against them, its will be nice to fight against someone else for once.

Walking in we saw Magari sitting across from Nurarihyon in a shorter, looser robe, which is more for combat, providing better mobility. "Ready Magari-san?" I asked as we walked in.

"Yes Valerian-san, let's start now." She replied. I nodded and we walked out behind his house to a large training area, which was really just an open patch of land. We stood across from each other, "How do you want to do this? Physical only, Magic only or anything goes?" I ask her.

"Anything goes." She responded, to which I nodded in response.

I get into a stance, getting ready to dash at Magari and she did the same, though she was in a defensive posture. Though she said anything goes, I planned on only fighting physically for a while. Inari got bored and yelled, "Start!"

Both Magari and I look at her in amusement before looking back at each other. I decide to move first, launching at her. I appear in front of her and her eyes widen in surprise, and I throw a left jab at her abdomen, to test her reaction speed. She swings her right arm to her left, deflecting my jab, though she fails to black the punch coming from my right fist towards her side, launching her back a few feet but she stays standing nonetheless.

I don't give her time to recover and launch at her again, pulling a wooden sword out of my pocket dimension, slashing at her with it. She was able to recover in time however, jumping back, summoning a Kasha wheel and throwing it at me.

I jump to the side, dodging the wheel and start running at her again. She launched Ki balls at me, so I ran towards her while dodging, and slashing at the ones that I wasn't entirely able to dodge. I reached her side again, and she covered herself in Touki, countering my slash with a series of punches. Unlike my girls, she was still very experienced in hand to hand combat, not giving me any openings to punish, so I stuck to blocking and dodging her punches, though after blocking a second punch, my sword shattered from the force of her punch. I tossed the remnants of the sword at her and punched towards her head, forcing her to block with her elbow.

I send a knee towards her abdomen which she blocked with her knee. I swept her foot from under her before she could stabilize herself, making another sword with my matter manipulation mid swing, stopping it in front of her throat.

I smile at her and pull back, stepping away from her. "Guess this is my win Magari-san." She gets up and sighs, "I admittedly underestimated you. I knew you were strong, but I didn't think you'd be very experienced fighting. I was wrong, lets go again."

I nod, "I'm going to be using magic this time, I really only used it to make a new sword last time."

Without giving her time to reply, I summon hundreds of hundreds of obsidian spears infused with both time and space magic. The time magic speeds them up substantially while the space magic makes them teleport in front of the target. The two of them mixed makes them almost impossible to dodge.

I send them at her, and they immediately disappear and reappear completely surrounding her, already getting ready to strike her. She already covered her body in touki, and also summons a shield around herself. The spears struck the shield and after about half of them collided with it, it crashed and another quarter shattered it. The rest of them quickly slammed into her, though due to her touki, she didn't get more than a few scratches. I quickly followed it, getting next to her just as the spears finished and cast my time aura around me, slowing down time as much as I could. With her moving slower, I once again summoned a new sword throwing a strong punch at her diaphragm. She was able to see it, but due to my time aura, she wasn't able to successfully block it. Knocking the wind out of her, I brought my sword to her throat again, and cancelled my time aura.

"I won again, Magari-san." I said with a smile.

She looked at me for a second before speaking up, "You have great affinity with time and space... I didn't stand a chance. I hate to say this, but I don't think anyone in our faction will be able to give you a good fighting chance if you use your magic. If you don't then its possible that Nurarihyon could give you a good fight."

I shrug, "Its alright. I did want a good fight, but its fine. I'll just keep training more."

Nurarihyon shook his head, "You should really take a break, with how strong you are at your age, I can guess you do nothing but train."

I shrugged, "Yeah maybe, but I do have a reason." He shook his head, "Well, whatever your reason, why don't you rest for the day. From what you said, you have been traveling for a few days. Fujimai will show you to a room."

I nodded and we followed Fujimai out of the room. While walking, I could see her tails swaying back and forth quickly and she kept taking glances at me. I sighed and asked, "What's up Fujimai-san?"

She slowed down and stood next to me, linking her arm around my elbow. "I'm just impressed with how strong you are Valerian-san. Magari-sama is one of the strongest and oldest Youkai in Japan, and certainly out of the Nekomata. Maybe we could go to lunch tomorrow, provided Inari-sama doesn't mind."

Inari shrugged, "I couldn't care less, though I'm not the one you have to worry about."

I chuckled, "Sure, I'd like to have lunch tomorrow." Hearing me, Fujimai's tails swayed even faster than before and she had a smile. She stopped and opened a door near us, "This is your room Valerian-san. Inari-sama yours is the one next to it if you want your own room."

Inari scoffed and walked into my room. I gave Fujimai a wry smile, "Goodnight Fujimai-san."

She bowed and replied, "Goodnight Valerian-san."

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Short chapter, I'm beyond exhausted, so it might be a really bad chapter.