Vivio has probably seen these sights dozens and dozens of times every time she took the public transit system to travel between school and her mama’s workplace. The sights of the landmarks that gave the regions of Mid-Childa their unique charm along with the two moons in the sky never ceased to amaze her.
“Now approaching Central Zone One Station.”
The announcement from the train’s speakers caught Otto’s attention. “Our stop is coming soon, Your Majesty.”
“I know. And stop calling me that!”
Once the two made it to their stop, their next destination was to the TSAB Mid-Childan Main Office to meet up with Nanoha, which was only a brief walk from the train station. The time was about right for her to finish up with her classes for the day. But when they reached the designated meeting spot, Nanoha wasn’t there. “Perhaps her classes are taking a bit longer than expected?”
“Can you use telepathy to get to her?”
Otto mildly noted that the young lady’s vocabulary has been improving. As expected from a student going through the magic curriculum at St. Hilde Academy. “She may be in the middle of something. Let’s speak with the receptionist to see if they can track her down.”
“Okay!”
A few moments later, they were at the front desk while the receptionist checked for the current location of Ms. Takamachi. “Let’s see… Captain Takamachi is currently at Combat Training Simulator B.”
“Did she change her classroom location?” asked Otto.
“Actually, no. From what I remember, her class finished a bit earlier than usual. I saw some of her students pass by here on their way to the showers about twenty to thirty minutes ago.”
“So, she probably is helping evaluate someone’s combat performance and simply forgot the time?” That made sense since as far as the Number knew, the Captain had a bit of a bad habit getting so involved in her work that she loses track of time.
“Most likely. I can’t say for sure.”
“Thank you for your help!” chirped Vivio before she followed her escort to the Combat Training Simulator.
‘Hmmm… she’s pretty good.’ It was the only thought Olivie had while moving around the arena to stay one step ahead of the barrage of projectiles fired from her opponent. She wondered if all practitioners of this Mid-Childan magic style were capable of this type of flexibility.
She also noted how those gold floating… thingies seemed to add to the number of shots that were released by that Nanoha (yes, she got that silly name right!). With those around, it meant that her offensive and defensive abilities were enhanced. Getting in wasn’t going to be easy.
And speaking of getting in, her earlier theory of her opponent not being very proficient in close quarters combat was somewhat disproven. That woman used a combination of shielding spells and binds whenever Olivie closed the gap so that she could maintain the distance that she wanted in order to make the most out of her shooting spells. It didn’t take long for the Kaiser to realize that controlling combat space was the idea behind Nanoha’s style.
She had spaced herself carefully in order to be in an ideal position to respond to or punish any entry angle or attack used by Olivie. By shutting down the Kaiser’s offensive options and thinking several steps ahead, she can control the flow of the fight. Her knowledge of Olivie’s style (probably picked up from her observing the earlier battle with Signum) also played a factor in her zoning strategy.
Of course, the effectiveness of such a strategy depended on how well Nanoha could predict Olivie’s moves. The thought of using some other attacks to bait her opponent crossed the Captain’s mind but in the end, she decided to stick with her cautious approach. After all, she didn’t know the full extent of Olivie’s moves and as she was apparently a seasoned warrior who has full mastery over her style, Nanoha knew that this would be far different compared to fighting Vivio in her Kaiser form on the Cradle.
A telepathic call from the Kaiser interrupted her train of thought. “A quick question, Ms. Nanoha…”
‘S-she got my name right!’ A part of her wanted to cry tears of joy that an opponent actually managed to get her name right fairly quickly instead of over several battles like with Vita-chan. “Er, yes… Olivie-san?”
“Would you terribly mind if I put an end to this?” The sudden question was accompanied by a sudden spike in power from the Kaiser’s side along with her rainbow aura coming out in full force.
‘So she’s done playing around?’ Obviously, Nanoha had recognized that Olivie took her time in order to study and understand her opponent’s style before beginning her counterattack. She still had a few aces to play but whether her opponent would allow her to use them is another story. So her best shot… was to hit her before she got a chance to pull off whatever she’s doing. Without wasting a moment, she had Raising Heart load up whatever remaining cartridges that were left in her magazine while the Blaster Bits flew back to her to reinforce the shot. “Blaster Three…!”
“Die du die Ewigkeit durchstreifst, in unserer Seele schlummernde Kraft, Kraft aus der Grenzenlosigkeit, komm und richte!” The rainbow aura that surrounded her body slowly shrunk before a fairly lengthy strand made out of her magical energy formed around her right gauntlet which held on to one end. “Prismatische Stränge...”
“DIIIVINNNE BUSTAAAHHH!!!” The powered up magical shot left the tip of Raising Heart just as Olivie pulled back the strand and swung it forward while the rainbow magical aura extended in both length and width so that it would clash with Nanoha’s attack.
“Seelenspiegelung!!”
“Keh…!” Sweat rolled down Yuuno’s face as he kept up his energy to maintain the simulator’s shielding but the last shockwave of those two spells hitting each other taxed his shields quite a fair bit.
“She can’t be…?” Hayate couldn’t believe her eyes at the sight as the rainbow strands bent backwards so it could catch the magical energy fired by her friend. “She’s catching the Divine Buster?!”
“No… she’s reflecting it!” Subaru saw Nanoha hustle to get out of the way after seeing her own Divine Buster coming back at her.
“Ah, there’s everybody!” They all turned towards the source of the young girl’s voice which came from the entrance into the control room from the outside. While her butler escort greeted Carim with a proper bow, the small girl came up to Hayate, who had not been expecting Vivio here. “Where’s mama?”
Touma was the first to answer, while noting how much that little girl looked like his own mother. “To put it simply… my mom’s totally kicking your mom’s butt.”
“TOUMA!!”
While Nanoha barely got out of the way of that last attack, she noted that the technique Olivie used was similar to what Vivio did on the Cradle. During their battle, her daughter often created magical projections and orbs out of her own aura before firing them at her. Olivie here was on a whole new level.
The Kaiser’s aura manipulation ability allowed her to summon forth that strand that acted as a powerful reflective shield to send Divine Buster right back at her. Who knew what else she could do with it?
“Come forth, my elementals! Kugelblitz and Umpflüger!”
‘She can summon too?!’ While that thought ran through her head, two magical elementals formed right behind the Kaiser. One had a red face appearing inside white magical energy while a brown looking apparition that appeared to be made out of roots and surrounded with green energy made up the other form. With a single gesture, the two of them charged at Nanoha mercilessly.
“Axel Shooter!!” She countered with a barrage of magical shots but her opponent moved, using the rainbow strand as a whip to bat the shots away, sending several of them back at the Blaster Bits and forcing them to dissipate into thin air. As the two elementals approached, Raising Heart went into action, automatically activating a Round Shield.
They slammed hard into it, pushing her a great distance towards one end of the arena before coming to a halt and fading away from the field. From what Nanoha could tell, they only had a limited amount of magical energy and once that ran out, they vanished into nothing.
But that didn’t seem to bother Olivie at all. “Flügellähmung.”
Red binds shot out from the ground, wrapping themselves around the white clad woman before she was forced to land. Once her feet touched the ground, the pink energy wings around her shoes vanished, a sign that her flying spell had been forcefully deactivated. While Nanoha tried to think of a counter, she saw Olivie ahead, using both hands to raise her rainbow strand which had straightened out and extended itself in length like a sword.
She could think of counters later. Right now, she just had to survive this attack. “Multiple Defenser!”
As the multiple shields took their place, the Kaiser swung down with all her might. “Explodierande Diamantfaust!!”
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