Yuuno wasn’t sure if the planet had longer days or what but he had been sitting in the hot springs long enough to start feeling dizzy. He wasn’t sure if it was because of the heat or if it’s the fact that Material-S and Material-D were sharing the same pool but he did know that it was time to get out of there unless he felt like passing out and drowning. Chancing a glance into the sky, he found that the sun wasn’t even half way through the sky, so it was probably still morning at least.
Seikou watched him, not even trying to hide her interest, as he climbed out of the pool. Her face was slightly red as she looked at his naked body from the back and she mentally cursed for not getting a closer look. Yuuno reached for his towel that was on a nearby branch and wiped his body off before wrapping it around his waist. Then he picked up his clothes to go change behind a large boulder much to Seikou’s disappointment.
“Hmm, it is a good thing he decided to grab towels and wash cloths from the ship,” muttered Yami as she leaned back into the hot spring.
“I’m going to go check on Rai! She’s been gone for quite some time,” announced Yuuno from behind the rock.
“She’s perfectly capable of taking care of herself,” replied Material-S from her spot.
“I know that but I’m just worried, you know?”
There was a slight pause before Material-D snorted. “To worry over someone like Material-L… you really are a soft-hearted servant. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.”
“Heh…” He finally emerged, fully dressed. “I’m going to head out in the direction of that thunder clap. Hopefully, I shouldn’t be too long. In the mean time, can you stay within the area?”
“Understood,” replied the Nanoha replica as she watched Yuuno depart towards the forested area, his footsteps fading away until there was nothing but silence in the air.
That is… until she heard the movements of water behind her. The thing about those movements was that the person was trying to be as quiet as possible and was failing miserably. “Material-D, what were you trying to do?”
As Seikou turned around, she got a view of a horrified Yami who was using her left hand to restrain her right one which was groping for air in an open and closed gesture with the fingers. “Guh…! I… uh…”
It didn’t take her long to put two and two together. “Were you intending to grab my breasts?”
The Hayate replica shook her head wildly in denial. “No! I wasn’t… uh… this isn’t what it looks like!”
“A shame. I was rather disappointed that it didn’t happen,” said Material-S without even batting an eyelid causing the other woman to lose her balance from overextending and plunge into the hot water.
Gasping as she resurfaced, Yami got up close to Seikou and frowned at her as she stopped just short of their bodies touching. “What the hell, Material-S?”
“I… am not sure why. It was just the first thing that came to my mind.” Even the Nanoha replica herself was surprised. Normally she wasn’t so blunt but for some reason, she just couldn’t stop herself from making that comment. She looked up into the sky while tapping her chin. “Perhaps being so close to Yuuno-san while he was naked has influenced me somehow?”
Material-D sighed and her head slumped down. “Unbelievable, to think that you would talk to royalty in such a manner…” ‘And to think that for a brief second, I succumbed to the urge to feel her up like a common pervert!’
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“Rai-chan! Where did you go?” shouted Yuuno as he walked through the forest area. There was something about the atmosphere that rattled him but he couldn’t put a finger on it.
In the distance, he could make out some debris. Judging by how much of the scenery had been destroyed, it must have been one big fight. There was a lot of debris everywhere from shattered rocks to fallen trees.
Dammit, he couldn’t waste his time like this examining the scenery. A friend could be in trouble. “Rai-chan!!”
He was hoping that he would have been glomped on by now with her shouting “Here I am, Yuu-nii!” loudly in his ear. But instead, all he heard was a distorted and disturbing giggle from up ahead. The closer he got, the louder the giggling became in between heavy breathes of air.
After moving his way through, he finally managed to find Material-L who was bleeding in multiple places while her barrier jacket had many tears that exposed her flesh. And speaking of her flesh, that fresh tattoo on her bare left shoulder really stood out to him. Upon closer inspection, it resembled a three-headed dog… Cerberus, if he remembered correctly from reading some of Earth’s ancient myths. By her side was her device, somewhat damaged as well. “Hehehehe… I got… I got my doggy! D-doggy…”
“Rai-chan! Hold still while I heal you!” Yuuno moved in closer but as soon as his hand got close to one of her open wounds, her own hand shot up to grab his wrist in a painful grip.
“But… there’s something else… that I want. What is it that I want? I want… I want…” The way she was speaking in such a dazed tone was seriously getting on his nerves.
“Rai-chan, let me go! You’re…”
“Wait…! I got it! I know what I crave…!”
He never had a chance to figure it out as he got flipped over and landed on his back, knocking the breath out of him. In an instant, Material-L had straddled him and allowed him to see the red eyes that had been hidden by her blue hair bangs. They were the eyes of a berserk predator that had finally caught its prey and was savouring the moment of triumph.
“IT’S YOU, YUU-NII!!”