>>21713146

Insulting your past self - the one eradicated from existence by your sudden bout of amnesia - seemed to be a really sore spot that you couldn't resist poking. A nerve you couldn't resist hitting. A button you not only pressed, but punched right into its seating, after you caught a fleeting glimpse of the rage that had once been in her. A rage seemingly extinguished long, long ago.

You're not stupid, of course. You're not that cocksure. You know that there's a very real chance of this little training session turning into a full-on brawl. In a place like this, with this kind of weaponry...it's easy enough to get carried away. One of you may not be able to walk away from this. One of you would have to be carried away in a zip-up bag.

But somehow that's alright with you. Just like the near-complete amnesia, you're perfectly at peace with the concept.

...Maybe, just maybe, you do have a problem.

One that will be addressed as soon as you put this cackling russian in her place.

You glance downwards at your gauntlets. You still can't believe how two small, nearly-insignificant bangles could change into something...so monstrously brutal. Your arms, nearly up to your shoulder, has been replaced with hulking metallic hands, each one nearly the size of a small car. Each finger the length of a grown man's arm, as thick around as a steel construction beam. Each hand painted in a smooth, slightly matte black, chipped away at the edges to reveal the gold underneath.

You have the sneaking suspicion, too, that the subtle rattling you hear with every movement you make sounds remarkably like a large box of brass cartridges being shaken about.

[1/2]

>>21713154

"S-Sempai?" Midori's voice calls from behind you, and you turn slightly to see the green-haired girl step onto the training canvas. "You...you're going to fight Miss Valnikov again, aren't you? With those golden weapons?"

You nod. That's the idea.

"Isn't...isn't that dangerous?" The Callidus looks at you, then at Kharn, then back again to you. "I mean, um, I was hoping Miss Kharn would instruct you instead, but to actually fight using two of them..."

How do you respond?

MAGICAL
MOON
MINUTES

>>21713159
"Yes. Very dangerous.
You should probably leave."

>>21713159
>[x] How do you respond?
"I appreciate your concern, but I'm pretty sure both me and the comrade here can take a bit of beating. The worse you take in training, the easier it all gets on field."

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>>21713159

"Thank you for your concern."

Don't think anything else really needs to be said

>>21713159
"This is probably going to get worse before it gets better, but thanks anywayt"

Also, are these awesome punchy gauntlets shooty as well? SWEET

>>21713159
Explain that probably... we're not going to be okay.

>>21713159
That is a good point come to think of it
I don't think Kharn is too keen on that idea and I don't want to forfeit the bout since we made that bet

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"No pain, no gain."

>>21713159

"Fighting looks like a good way of learning how to use these weapons, now can you start the next round. Please?"

Fight strategy: From the picture of our weapons, I guess that we do have a greater reach then Kharn. We need to use that to our advantage.

Hahaha we're so fucked

>>21713312

You know, Kharn might go "Its my time to betray" and attack us while we are talking to Midori

>>21713309
Just grab her, keep her at the arms distance (har har) and hope that golden weapon can't chew through golden weapon (or we are in for makeshift limb amputation).

>>21713159
"Best way to learn is under fire."

>>21713159

with how we fucked up the general mood, i think telling her to stay well away from us during the match is the most logical thing to do.

>>21713159
"It´s fun."

I, for one, expect a truly epic massacre out of this fight.
http://youtu.be/Ci0IM0uJvAQ

>>21713309

I should had added talk while keeping on eye on Kharn.

>>21713355
Nah. 'With your life, but no more than that.'
I believe that this would qualify.

>>21713555

Trust her with your life "life", huh? What about "memories" then?

>>21713203

"...No, Matsuda-sempai. I'm...I'm staying." Midori says firmly, although the slight tremor in her voice betrays just how much she wants to do the opposite. "I'm staying, so that...I'll be here whenever sempai needs me." She nods at you, a hard expression set on her face, completely at odds at her slightly-quivering hands holding her smartphone to her chest.

You could almost see her fighting against her body's natural impulses, to run away from danger rather than stick around and become a potential victim. Trying to stifle the reflex of flight.

You don't exactly blame her. You're not exactly a pretty sight, with armored hands seemingly more fit for the hulking monstrosity that had barred your way from Misaka's room. Kharn isn't quite the picture of total safety and comfort, either - her bladed limbs already a jarringly striking element on her person, and the chainaxes aren't helping any.

Still, it's...nice, you suppose, that she's sticking around. You give her a smile that you hope looked sincere enough, and asked her if she could, one more time, start the round.

"Of course, sempai." Midori returns your smile. "You can count on me."

You thank her, and face Kharn once more. Flexing your hands inside the gauntlets - or at least, you think they're inside - and you feel an almost euphoric tingle of electricity going up the tips of your fingers, up to your shoulders, and then down your spine. The massive hands bunching once more into fists.

"We are ready, then?" Kharn snaps, but before you could reply, she looks up towards the ceiling. Shouting out what sounds like a command in Russian into the empty, chilly air of the training room.

[1/2]

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>>21713612

Immediately, the rack of golden weapons folds up once more into the ceiling, along with the other racks of weaponry. Leaving a bare, metal-grilled training room, plates of scarred metal covering the walls. Metal that had seen better days, sporting furrows and scars, from clawed hands and chainaxes.

"Duel extremis. Live weapons Setting." A young female voice, sounding remarkably like the girl you made to cry, echoes inside the room.

"Much better." Kharn smiles again, the curling of her lips now completely devoid of warmth. "Now, Chiaki Matsuda. Let us begin your education."

If she'd stop yapping her trap, then maybe the schooling could begin.

"R-Ready...!" Midori raises her hand, looking at you uncertainly, then back at Kharn. "Set...! G--"

Midori never finishes her signal. She is too busy screaming and jumping back, trying to put as much distance between you and her. Desperately trying to get back to safety.

Kharn decided to cheat, this time.

And you watch as she brings the bigger chainaxe - the one with the name GOREFATHER carved into the gold of its blade, barely visible from the crusted blood - down at you in a double-handed overhead cleave.

[]Block.
[]Dodge.
[]Counter.

>>21713627
PUNCH!
We have giant fists so we giant punch counter!

>>21713627
BLOCK with BLOCKHANDS

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>>21713633
I agree.

[x]PUNCH

>>21713627
>[x]Block.

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>>21713627
[x]Block

then
[x]Distract her.
"Hey Kharn, I am aware of my tongue."

>>21713627
If the thing can shoot, do It as Kharn's belly is open.

That means, counter

>>21713627
Cross counter her. We are the Murderpuncher!

>>21713627
[x] PUNCH

>>21713627

[]Counter.

those fists have MASS and should not be easily cut, she is also swinging double handed which makes her that little bit more vulnerable.

>>21713627
[X] Block
[X] Counter

MURDERPUUUUNCH

>>21713627
>[X] Block

>>21713627
Using tvtropes conventions Do you know that SWQ has got a page?. Kharn is a lightning bruiser (hits hard and fast). We can't hope to top her speed.

>[x]Block and try to force her back

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>>21713675
>Do you know that SWQ has got a page?

Gentlemen. Remember: we have two hands.
[X] Parry with one hand, even as we begin to
-[X] Dodge the inevitable attack from the other axe, attempting to preempt it with a
--[X] Counter.

Block then counter.

>>21713691
Yes some if us have noticed
We wish it wasn't true

>>21713691
>tvtropes

The hell, man?

>>21713649
I like this

>>21713675

No it doesn't. It has a LINK to the archives on the Strike Witches trope page.

>>21713627
We have no god to punch, so Kharn will have to do.
[x] Counter

>>21713703
Because internet.

>>21713627

>[x]Counter.

She's fast and probably pretty strong, but our huge fists probably grant us a lot of strength and can take a beating. She can probably dodge our huge punches, but she might be hard pressed to avoid area-of-effect attacks.

We could try to catch her in a shockwave by slamming our palms together. If it's strong enough, she'll be knocked off balance and possibly concussed.

>>21713627
[x]Slap
We owe her one.

>>21713640 >>21713644 >>21713649 >>21713672

You stand your ground. You decide to block.

You chuckle inwardly to yourself, just before your grind your heels into the ground, bracing for impact.

Despite you having no way to compare, you're sure that fighting Kharn is probably the worst decision you've ever made.

The first blow strikes with the force of a full battleship broadside, and it seemed - from the way the entire room quaked around the both of you - with an impact of the same volume. The deactivated chainaxe, monstrous in proportion and collossally oversized, crashes against your crossed gauntlets, both weapons banging together and locking fast. Sparks spray from the elbow joints of your augmented arms - the muscle-mimicking servos of the gauntlets overloading, shorting out, and then immediately repairing themselves in dutiful efficiency.

But you did it. You blocked the first blow. Sure, your arms feel like they've been just broken, healed over, and then re-broken again - but you did it. You survived something that probably would have cleaved the robot from earlier into half, and would have reduced you into a sticky red smear on the canvas.

"Impressive, comrade," Kharn says simply, conversationally. As if she was merely talking to you over a meal, instead of being the other end of a sparking weapon lock that you're straining to keep level. "No one has ever done that, blocking my opening attack." A smile. "No one still alive, in any case."

She really likes to hear herself talk, doesn't she?

[]Break away from the stalemate, get back some breathing room. Play defensively.
[]Press into the stalemate, try to get her off-balance, and then strike.
[]Flesh of the Fallen Angels.

>>21714113
>[]Flesh of the Fallen Angels.
Fuck it.

>>21714113
>[x]Flesh of the Fallen Angels.
That

>>21714113
[x] Press into the stalemate, try to get her off-balance, and then strike.

Kharn's used to being the attacker. Let's try not to let her play to her strength.

>>21714113
Press in! Giant gloves demand giant punchings be had!

>>21714113

[x]Slap Kharn

"That's for earlier."

>>21714113
>[x]Press into the stalemate, try to get her off-balance, and then strike.

>>21714113
FoFA time.
"Noooo, Murderface, the operation went fine!"
"Yeeees Murderface, voices are perfectly fine!"
Fuck you, Kharn

>>21714113

[]Press into the stalemate, try to get her off-balance, and then strike.

i hope we can move these fists at a decent speed, otherwise this will hurt.

>>21714113
>[x]Flesh of the Fallen Angels.

Do it. Pls.
Just this once.

[x]Press into the stalemate, try to get her off-balance, and then strike.

>>21714113
>keep block, punch with other hand

Is anyone else trying to channel STR for this?

Rolled 3

>>21714113
>[x]Press into the stalemate, try to get her off-balance, and then strike.

>>21714113

While I would really like to
>[]Flesh of the Fallen Angels
I feel like I'd be alone in that choice so let's play this err, as humanly as possible?

>[X]Break away from the stalemate, get back some breathing room. Play defensively.

>>21714157
Not as alone as you would think

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>>21714113

It's time.

>>21714113
>[x]FLESH OF THE FALLEN ANGELS

>>21714122
>>21714130
>>21714139
>>21714148

Would you look at that.
I'm >>21714157, changing my vote to

>[X]Flesh of the Fallen Angels

>>21714113

I am sure that Kharn is stronger then us, she will gain the advantage in a prolonged stalemate. However keeping the stalemate means that both her hands are occupied.

>[x]Press into the stalemate, try to get her off-balance, and then strike.

>>21714122
>>21714130
>>21714139
>>21714148
>>21714169
>>21714176
>>21714179

The Flesh of fallen Angels, The Flesh of Fallen Angels Everywhere.

>>21714113
>[X] Flesh of Fallen Angels

Let's meet pinky, see if this operation worked, regain memories, and rape Kharn all at once.

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>>21714113
[X] Flesh of Fallen Angels.

Bangle-chan wants to make us happy~

[X] Feint breaking away in the direction of her non-dominant arm, then surprise her by taking the offensive.

I suddenly feel excited.

Imagine Chiaki standing over the ruins of the base. Dead bodies everywhere. Dying Kharn asks why.
"You were right, Kharn bets really get me going"

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This is going to end terribly and I am going to love every second of it.

>all that flesh of fallen angels
Fucking anons. No sense of right or wrong.

>>21714113
Any chance we can
[X] Press to one side, reach out with MURDER GAUNTLET to grab the haft of Gorefather and try to wrench it away or off to the side for an opening?

My second vote is for FoFA.

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>>21714113
FLESH OF FALLEN ANGELS.

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>>21714113
>>21714113
[x]Press into the stalemate, try to get her off-balance, and then strike.

+

>>21713649
>[x]Distract her.
>"Hey Kharn, I am aware of my tongue."

Both of those combined.

>>21714251
So... you're saying you'd know from personal experience?

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>>21714214

Bangle-chan: FoFA mode. Hugtimes!

>>21714113
[X]Flesh of the Fallen Angels.

It is time.

>captcha: golden affnstra
This was meant to be.

i am slightly concerned about these turn of events.

>but i am not complaining

>>21714280
I believe It's this >>21714139
Mixed with the fact that we miss some serious action and the accepting the bet even though we never had much chance in a fair fight

FoFA time, pansies. Faust needs some fist-based love.

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>>21714122
>>21714130
>>21714148
>>21714169
>>21714176
>>21714179
>>21714198
>>21714214
>>21714261
>>21714274

Hoooo boy...

>>21714322
The time has come, chummer.

Everyone wants to kill Midori

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>>21714334
I know, once again we go down chucklefuck-lane..

>>21714113
>[]Flesh of the Fallen Angels.
Our choices are irrelevant so may as well fuck around.

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>>21714350

And for such an occasion, http://youtu.be/Ci0IM0uJvAQ
The final decision we all took is THE FLESH. OF FALLING ANGELS!

Uhm, by the way... Do you guys remember that flashback when everything went to hell, here in Siberia? Yeah.

I wonder what Deculture is feeling right now on his end.

>>21714367
>>21714334
>>21714322
Well, nothing might happen because of the operatio- ah who am I kidding we're so fucked

>>21714392
He probably already drew a picture, knowing that we would choose to go Flesh of Fallen Angels.

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>>21714304
Fist Pinky to show we love her, anon? How lewd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5KMrX5soVg

Time to devour it all.

>>21714395
I just WANT TO KNOW what it tastes like

>>21714367
Don't you start.

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>>21714407
Like Blueberries.
Misery tastes like blueberries by default.

It's okay. Chiaki will go crazy, but it will probably be controlled crazy thanks to the operation. The only way Midori will die is from overstimulation in the face of Chiaki's awakened berserker lust.

>>21714443
Sorry, it's been a while since I ed, so I had to fix it.

>>21714113
[x]Press into the stalemate, try to get her off-balance, and then strike.

Please, not Flesh of fallen angels time!

>>21714456
Damn it, that didn't go as I intended, either. Ah, fuck it.

>>21714467
It is
most likely
too late, now

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>>21714448

This sounds like a plan.

- Fight Kharn first.
- Screw Midori after that, to flush out all the Adrenaline.

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>>21714482
>Midori's face when

>>21714474
Oh god why....
Why are we doing this to ourselves and everyone we love?

>>21714113
Well damn. Now I want to see flesh of fallen angels. Bring it on, Deculture.

Screw it.
FoFA time, let's do it.
Changing my vote.

>>21714498

Well, its sort of Decultures fault for making INSTANT GAME OVER BUTTON appear so many times that we can't resist pressing it.

> [x] touch fluffy tail
FoFA!

>>21714516
Curse you, human nature!
Cuuuurse you!

>>21714516
inb4 Deculture's post with pressing into stalemate

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>All that FotFA

[X] Flesh of the Fallen Angels

>>21714498
Don't be a square, touch fluffy tail.

>>21714448
>Best End
Too bad Deculture is probably going to kill someone. Operation didn't do shit, surprise surprise.

>>21714545
No. You stop that.
It's not even funny.

>>21714527
>>21714550
>touch fluffy tail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nyHPIcbn88

>>21714560
>Deculture killing someone
>Not us

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>>21714542
>>21714516

Stimpy = Poor Murderface
History Eraser Button = FLESH OF THE FALLEN ANGELS
Ass-waving Guy = The people in this Thread.

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The flesh of fallen angels button.

>>21714448
>>21714482
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRbhNQUZYh0

MY LOVE FOR YOU IS LIKE A TRUCK

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So many people against FoFA.
Butthurt much? Should've voted sooner, faggots.

>>21714656
We did and then retard squadron decided to show up in force

>>21714656
I voted third.

If things go shit-shaped, no bitching about it later, you understand?

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>>21714656
Get out.

>>21714656
I'm a FoFAfag, and even I think you're a faggot. I just want to see how the operation affected Chiaki.

>>21714656
Yo
Get the fuck out, warmongler.

We don't like your kind

>>21714682
I got pissed at how people was so upset about their favorite choice not going to be chosen.
I'll shut the fuck up and lurk. Sorry about that.

>>21714721
We got pissed because the choice was "lulz let's fucking kill everyone and ruin everything" and when it does happen you will all cry about what happened

>>21714732
We know what we voted for.
It was fair, proposed by Deculture option.

Thinking that we werent' aware of possible tragedy is naive and stupid.
We made a gamble. Now sit down and watch

>>21714732
>crying
>about a quest
>words in a thread
>crying

I think you're projecting.
http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=BJVXnOsXZMQ
Everybody just chill the fuck out.

[x] FoFA

The operation worked and nothing happens and kharn kicks our ass.

>>21714771

http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=BJVXnOsXZMQ

what the hell am i looking at here?

>Mami in the bushes

>>21714771
No I am going off past experience with the people in this quest who will bitch the moment something goes wrong and then it will devolve into the next five threads being just crying about the decision

>>21714786

Only her head is in the bushes, mang.

You're looking at the Jimmy-unrustler. Listen until you feel better.

>Riverisde" merspit
Ew.

>>21714788
This isn't waifu wars. Stop being drama queen

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>>21714771
>>21714771

I like this better
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il1DLfs4mEQ&feature=related

>>21714788
...Like what you're doing now?

Think it's time for a Decu summoning.

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>>21714122
>>21714130
>>21714148
>>21714169
>>21714176
>>21714179
>>21714198
>>21714214
>>21714261
>>21714274

You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!

>>21714816
Not really because once this does blow up in our face I am just going to say I told you so and get on with things

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>>21714816
How about we play a game in the meantime?!
>http://dagobah.net/flash/Mami_Head.swf

>Deculture sipping tea while the thread goes nuts.png

maybe it will blow up maybe it wont.

>>21714849

i get an average of around 5.38 seconds

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>>21714849
Do I get a prize or something?

>>21714827
Kyuubey should not look bangable dammit.

>>21714877
But why?

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>>21714827

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>>21714849
2.06

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>>21714827
>>21714881

>>21714849
1.16 was the best I could.
Also, dat freaking music.

>>21714877
>>21714881
i get in a thread finally, only to find some nutters went with flesh of fallen angels. if charlie's gonna dance the foxtrot i ain't standing around wearing a dress. if things are going bad i am going to try and make it painless as possible. misery loves company.

chose at least one

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>>21714889
BE PURGED BY MY RIGHTEOUS FURY, YOU THRICE-DAMNED INSUFFERABLE FOWL.

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>>21714906

>>21714545
Nah, Flesh had an early lead. First response, even!

>>21714916
sorry, your answer must be in the form of a question. the correct answer is, "why would you post such a thing?"

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>>21714955

>>21714113
>[X]Press into the stalemate, try to get her off-balance, and then strike.
I guess I get to be the voice of reason

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>>21714967

>>21714980

A bit late for that mate.
I guess that Deculture is writing a long bad end right now.

>>21714985
i hope we have a recent save point

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>>21714981
>implying I wasn't trying to initiate friendly, inter-image banter

I guess we're too incompatible for that

>>21714990
IF we bad end, we'll find out.

>>21714985
>>21714990
I'm hoping for >>21714448, personally.

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FoFA killed Decu IRL.

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>>21714827
>>21714877
>Kyuubey should not look bangable dammit.

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>>21715011
I think that most people are hoping for some Midorilust.

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>>21715019

>>21715021
I just want to see what happens.

So, watch the world burn, I guess.

>>21715019
Much better. I can hate that without wanting to fuck it.

>>21715013
No, it's just
>AFK, going FoFA. BrB

>>21715049
I guess I'll see him on the news, then.

>>21715045
My friends are /b/tards, I get to watch the world burn everyday of the week.

>>21715019
I didn't know coobie was into Golf Wang.

>>21714122 >>21714130 >>21714322

With a snarled oath, you push forward against the stalemate - and it's with a terrific noise of crashing metal that you shove Kharn back, a moment before she could add her second weapon into the fray. More sparks fly as she skids back, the blade-tips of her feet tearing up the canvas underfoot, grinding into the metal underneath.

The stalemate broken, the distance between you restored, it's then that you let out the breath you've been holding. Feeling your abused lungs crackle as you pull in air, pinpricks of pain following the onrush of oxygen.

Only a few seconds in and you're already tired? Sure, it's Kharn, but you have really let yourself go.


No more cigarettes, you murmur inwardly between gasps, your eyes locked at your opponent, Kharn watching you almost gleefully. No more cigarettes if you survive this. Definitely.

"More, more!" Kharn cackles as she begins to circles you, both clawed fists clutching a chainaxe each, the one bearing Gorefather rolling its wrist in slow, taunting arcs. "Come on, Chiaki Matsuda, or whatever you are calling yourself now! Ah, I was such a fool to give you that name - I should have saved it for someone else much more deserving, much more worthy." She shakes her head. "I did not know that the one I gave it to would change into so weak, so infirm. A shame. A regrettable shame."

You never liked Murderface anyway...!

Kharn telegraphs her next attack with another harsh, keening laugh - you have the suspicion that she doesn't care at all about that, she's going to hit you no matter what - and you grit your teeth as you charge right into it, right into the killing arc of the two chainaxes being brought about into another overhead cleave. Yet another test of strength, another strike that you have to block successfully, otherwise it would go very badly for you.

[1/2]

>>21715097

This time you catch them. Your armored hands crashing, palms first, into the rows of deactivated chainteeth looking to chew flesh, to rip through bone. You're dimly aware of a curious pricking sensation where your actual palms should be - it's an itch more than anything - and you wonder if it's the feedback of having the paint, as well as some fragments of gold, now being shorn away from your gauntlets.

Before you could contemplate that, however, Kharn tears both blades from your grasp, creating more sparks as the weapons rake across each other once more - and it's then that she lays about with the chainaxes, chopping, bludgeoning, striking you from all sides with a fury and speed that could only be described as demonic. Focusing what will you have left - what little strength you could gather - you desperately try to block each one, smashing aside what you could and simply allowing what you couldn't to crash into the gauntlets themselves. Creating more furrows in the black paint, revealing that much more gold.

One blow sneaks past your defenses, and you gasp as you feel the teeth crunch into your shoulder, just before the entire weight behind the chainaxe - and the chainaxe itself, at that - forces you down into one knee. Both your gauntlets slamming into the now torn-up canvas, palms first, preventing you from the indignity of ending up facedown into the floor. The scent of your own blood teasing your nostrils, along with the sticky heat of a laceration at your side.

You grit your teeth and look up at Kharn, who is smiling terribly.

"Do you know how a chainaxe works, comrade?" Your opponent whispers to you, her voice smooth as silk. "It is a very simple weapon. The motor, of course, is at the head. Necessary wiring, encased in trunking, goes down inside the shaft of the handle, attaching the power source to the motor - as well as the activation rune here, where my thumb is."

[2/3]

>>21715103

A moment, and you force yourself not to gasp as she leans just a bit more on the axe, forcing the teeth deeper into your flesh.

"I only need to turn it on, and you will not have a shoulder anymore. Or an arm." Kharn smiles. "It will not happen, of course. If you concede." A moment. "I am sure it will be very hard for you to continue fighting with just one arm, as admirably as you have fought with two."

You open your mouth to snarl at her when you hear a sudden click, followed by the crunching of gears.

The world goes completely black, before suddenly being replaced with a strange setting - a bloody, corpse-littered ballroom.

Kharn is gone, mysteriously enough. So are your giant robot hands, and the wound on your right shoulder. Well, you can still feel the sting of it, but it's not there anymore.

You've the strangest suspicion that you've been here before. Add to that, you feel that you're responsible for the entire thing.

A young woman wearing a black leather jacket - her face obscured with the hood itself, her legs clad in white thigh-high stockings and black maryjanes - stands in the edge of your vision. You don't remember her being there.

Her eyes, completely black except for the firey orange pupils, seems to glow from the shadow her hood casts upon her features.

"Thank you for choosing me," She murmurs, her voice muffled by the strange collar of her jacket's hood. "I thought you were going to choose the girl with the eyepatch. I...I don't like her much, to be honest."

[3/4]

>>21715111

What girl with the eyepatch...? What is she talking about? Where are you, anyway?

"You're in my memory," The girl replies. "I'm not too sure which one. I...I don't remember much, after I died." She cocks her head to the side, curiously. "Add to that, I don't think you're supposed to be here. This is the first time I've talked to anyone else." A moment of silence. "...You're using the bracelets, aren't you? Are...are you fighting another one of the Blessed Lady's Chosen?"

How do you respond?

>>21715117
"Yes."

>>21715117
Don't know.

>>21715117
"I think so. Name of Kharn, she's got a pair of fuck-off huge chain axes. And who's this 'Blessed Lady' any way?"

>>21715117
Tell her that rather than any specific person we seem to fight with destiny itself.

And right now, we need help.

>>21715117

What's a "Blessed Lady"? What's a "Chosen"?

>>21715145
this, and "why does she chose people to fight?"

This is interesting. I mean, Chiaki is probably murdering the fuck out of everything in the real world right now. But it's still interesting.

>>21715117
"Guess so. Memory's a bit...nonexistent.

What's your name?"

>>21715117
"You seemed to be the nicest one. By the way, I'm in a bit of predicament.
I don't know much, but I really, REALLY need some help"

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>>21715117
[x] Attack her
Punch, kick, bite, claw at her, whatever it is we have availible at the moment. One does NOT interrupt our FotFA-Time and walks away from it!

>>21715117
"I don't know. What's this? Who are you?"

>>21715117

Can .. can we just give her an akward hug?

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>>21715205
..We don`t even know her!

>>21715194
Pls no

>>21715117
"Who? What? Explain please?"

>>21715117

"I suppose. How did you get chosen?"

>>21715117

Yes, I'm using the bracelets. Not sure about the "chosen" or "Blessed lady" part of your question, but I'm fighting. What's going on? Are you a ghost?

Are...

Are the golden weapons witch-contracted magical girls?

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>>21715205
how about a snuggle?

>>21715243
What do you mean by that? They're regular megucas, but Pinky does "contract" them by giving them the golden weapons.

Doesn't explain Mumi, though.

[x]Just sparring

>>21715117
I guess... But who is that Blessed Lady?

>>21715243
That could explain how non-lichbians like Kilgore are able to use them

>time gets frozen second before the painful arm loss
>girl appears
>ask her technical questions like we're in the middle of investigation
>disregard the time-stop of inknown origin
>disregard the arm situation
ALWAYS PROFESSIONAL

>>21715117

Stagger a bit, feel your arm hastily. Odd, wasn't there a large lacerating wound there a moment ago? Give the girl a quick glance and a hesitant reply of "Who's... that? And who're you? What... is this place?" Idly wonder if Kharn laces her axes with LSD.

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>>21715117
I think I'm about to lose my arm. Can you prevent that? Or give any other assistance? And WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?!

>>21715275
This is why WE, among everyone, have been chosen for next Warmaster.

No but really, in a situation like this, our obvious choice is to panic. But since Chiaki isn't that kind of girl, a more serious, controlled panic takes place. That being, a sandstorm of questions and puzzled looks at everything and everyone.

I wonder how's the real Chiaki doing in the real world?

>>21715261
>>21715243

Potential spoilers:

If we assume that witches are still the "grown-up" form of magical girls, then Pinky could simply be guiding their growth into another phase. Like some sort of weird meguca genetic engineering of sorts. But instead of turning into witches, they either turn into horrible abominations (like the meguca-Ahriman... or some other yet-unknown form.

>>21715261
I don't mean the bearers. I mean the weapons themselves.
>>21715327
Kind of reminds me of Bleach, actually.

>>21715315
>But since Chiaki isn't that kind of girl,
It's kinda stunning how despite the overwhelming events you keep thinking about lewd things...

>>21715117
If that means someone with one of those weird gold weapons, then yes.

>>21715345
I don't think now is really the time to compliment the girl on her looks.

>>21715327
What happened to Ahriman seems to be more of a result of the weird ritual where they sacrifice a hundred friends and allies.

>>21715261
The weapons absorb the soul of whoever was originally given them upon their death it seems

The weapons exert their influence over the wielders while they use them

This girl was lonely and introverted so she makes the wielders outgoing and attract people / lovers

The katana has Kirika and all her hatred and bloodlust

The axes have Kharn's lust for battle and desire to cut things

I expect the deagle contains parts of Homura's broken psyche stuck in them somewhere

Mami's guns will probably do the same, hopefully they teach the wielded to make panckes

>>21715386
>Make pancakes

...We need to make Mami go FoFA. All the pancakes, whenever we want! Just think of it!

>>21715413
birth of a supervillain.jpg

>>21715117
"I'm sparring with someone who has another of those golden weapons.
"Kharn mentioned a Blessed Lady; who is she?"

Which weapon is the girl with the eyepatch?

>>21715271
>lichbians

>>21715426
Probably Kirika in the katana.

>>21715495
But Kirika didn't wear an eyepatch.
Unless that's something that changed about her when she got sucked into the katana.

Considering that the Bangle-Girl thought we were going to choose the Deagle, and the Deagle was the second choice, maybe Chiaki's fragments in the gun wears an eyepatch?

>>21715495

but we didn't even try to approach the sword, Kyoko is the only one with an eye patch and doesn't have a (Pinky) golden weapon.

what if the weapon personalities don't look like the wielders?

>>21715561

Kirika magical girl costume does in fact have an eyepatch.

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>>21715561
I had to do some checking, but as >>21715596 says, Kirika's costume includes an eyepatch.

>>21715596

hmm, you are right. maybe she was referring to the time when we used the sword on the bears and Midori?

>sword fighting
>eye patch costume
>that makes very little sense

>>21715585
The sword spoke to us, bro. It's what made us hesitate in taking one of the Gold weapons.

>>21715656

It's a magical costume. I'm sure it doesn't impair her peripheral vision.

Because magical.

>>21715685

In fact, it's very possible that the eyepatch is good for her vision.

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>>21715596
you, she looks like a lovable psychopath

>>21715719
Not a psycho. Just loveable.
I regret, to this day, having Kirika and Erebus killed. Specially the latter.

>>21715752
Oh, I didn't realize there was anyone else on the Ere-bus! I agree, it's a damn shame.

Not so much Kirika, though. She crazy.

>>21715752
Erebus seemed like an unlikable bitch to me.

Kirika however, had potential to become the greatest rival sidekick of all times.
Like Double K, except both K's are trying to kill each other.
and ultimately, develop the weirdest friendship

>>21715772
It was highly implied in the the manga that she was bullied.

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>>21715124 >>21715145 >>21715240

You're not too sure what a Blessed Lady's Chosen is, but yes, you respond that you are using the bracelets. Not very effectively, you add, considering that you were a button press away from having your arm violently seperated from the rest of your body. You've seen what chainsaws can do to flesh if wielded competently. Taking a chainaxe to the shoulder would not be pretty.

"Well, um, a Chosen of the Blessed Lady is given a Golden Weapon. ...At least, that's what she told me, herself, when she gave me the bracelets." Even with the lower half of her face obscured, you could tell that she's quite flustered. "I...I don't know if there are golden chainaxes, but I suppose it's possible..."

You don't have a lot of time, so you ask her if she could help you at all, with your situation.

"I...I think so." The girl nods, and you hear the smile in her voice. "Yes, I think I can do that. You look the type to be able to take it, anyway. It's just a matter of not getting carried away."

Of course. You're not worried about that. You're the last person to worry about getting carried away.

The mysterious girl nods, before peering at you close for a moment, before drawing back. "Black with purple. That's...that's pretty. I like it." She shakes her head. "It'll be a shame about your glasses, though."

She takes both your hands in her gloved own, and the world around you disappears again - snapping you back right where you left off. As if nothing ever happened. Making you doubt that the entire encounter earlier had just been something of a hallucination, brought about by fatigue and shock and pain.

+That's rude,+ chimes a voice in your head. The girl, from earlier. +I'm still here.+

[1/2]

>>21715776

It seems like Kirika began to go off the deep end once Mami started caring for Girl-A and Murderface. She didn't seem that much of a jackass during the Mami flashback, although perhaps arrogant and somewhat off-putting.

>>21715794
ADD ANOTHER GIRL TO THE WAIFU PILE

>>21715789
That makes her sympathetic, but not less crazy. Bitch stabbed Mami, in this case, who had been nothing but Mami to her.

>>21715794

That's comforting. Now you're hearing voices in your head. Yeah, procedure didn't work.

Fantastic.

+Procedure? What...oh. Oh my. That's...what you had done? I...+

Little help would be nice. Really nice, right about now.

+Y-yes! Yes, help!+

"I am waiting for you to concede, comrade," Kharn replies, in an almost bored tone. "Quickly, before I fall asleep and accidentally hit activation rune--"

She is cut off by your glasses clattering to the floor's ruined canvas, just as you look back up at her.

A purple flame sparking into existence in front of your left eye. Clouding your vision there in flickers of violet.

+The Blood God's Daughter,+ The girl gasps inside your mind, her voice flush with breathless admiration. +I didn't think I'd actually have a chance to fight her. I mean, I always wanted to, but I never had the chance...+

It's then that the breathy voice in your mind gains an edge.

+ Let's see just how tough the bitch actually is. +

A whir of servos - the heady sound of heavy-duty machinery being forced to move faster, much faster than it's supposed to - and both your gauntleted hands spring up from the floor, one grasping the haft of the chainaxe and lifting it off your lacerated shoulder. The other pulling back, and then hurtling forward in a blistering straight.

The effect is akin to taking a sledgehammer to a golf ball. You almost feel sorry.

Punching Kharn clear across the room - to the point that she slams right into the wall, before crumpling into a groaning heap - should not have felt that good.

[2/3]

>>21715807

She's dead, Jim.

>>21715812

The two chainaxes clatter heavily to the floor's metal grating, each impact a thunderous report.

+ Not so much, then. Figured. +

You stand up - or rather, feel yourself do so - and it's then that you step forward.

Crunching your glasses underneath your first step towards your downed opponent.

[]Press your assault. Payback time, bitch.
[]Allow Kharn to get up before attacking. Let's do this the right way.

>>21715826
[x] Allow Kharn to get up before attacking. Let's do this the right way.

>>21715822
that will stop us....how?

at least its another girl for midori to imitate

>>21715812
>A purple flame sparking into existence in front of your left eye. Clouding your vision there in flickers of violet.
I am laughing.
So
hard

>>21715826
>[]Allow Kharn to get up before attacking. Let's do this the right way.
WE FIGHT HONARUBRY

>>21715826
We have GIANT METAL HANDS. Just go hold Kharn down until she calls uncle.

>>21715822
Why should that stop us?

>>21715826
[x]Wait, but snark at her about how bored you are in the meantime.

>>21715826
>[x]Press your assault. Payback time, bitch.
No brakes on Strength bus.

Kharn would the same

>>21715812
>[X]Allow Kharn to get up before attacking. Let's do this the right way.

FoFA is not as bad as I wanted it to be.

>>21715826
[x]Allow Kharn to get up before attacking. Let's do this the right way.
Gotta get them bragging rights.

>>21715826

[]Allow Kharn to get up before attacking. Let's do this the right way.

we cheated and got smacked, she cheated and now she got smacked as well.

lets settle this fairly for a change

>>21715826
Thanks Gauntlet-chan

>>21715797
No she went off the deep end once she got the sword

She was ok during the Mami flashback because she didn't yet have it

>>21715859
It's probably only because of the Procedure.
OR, Kirika is a psychotic bitch with a much stronger will, and can suppress us easier than this girl.

>>21715826
>[]Allow Kharn to get up before attacking. Let's do this the right way.
We were rude earlier, let's be a little more courteous now.

"Well, she was a bit... unprepared."

>>21715869

Well.

She was okISH.

She was still an Eversor. They do tend to be a bit rip and tear.

>>21715873
I think the nature of the Golden Katana combined with Kirika's kind of severe nature gave her all kinds of bloodthirst crazies that Gauntletan doesn't have.

Procedure probably didn't hurt any.

>>21715826

[X]Allow Kharn to get up before attacking. Let's do this the right way.
+
"So, time for round three, I guess?"

>>21715826
Let her get up
Say that it is now 1-2

>>21715826

"Say Uncle Kharn or you get the Murderface Experience."

>>21715826

[x] Allow Kharn to get back up before attacking.

>>21715873
Well, notStrength seems to be calm, nice, and not fucking insane.
Also she seems to want to help us. Who knows what she could do if that changed.

>>21715886
Yeah she was full rip and tear enough to make Kharn wet but she wasnt the psychopathic bitch that we had Misaka turn into jelly

Admittedly it sounds like she was already someone we didn't like along with and neither did Sayaka or Kyouko but she was a good friend to Mami before she went FoFA and I am guessing she was a good friend to pinky with their long talks and Oriko even after going FoFA

>>21715826
Take a second to fix our shoulder while we wait for Kharn to stand back up.

No reason to leave a wound open for her to be able to aggravate.

>>21715929

Good point, but does she even remember she can do that? I mean, sure, she healed her eyes by using her soul gem, but healing the shoulder wound right now would probably require Sayaka-like regen, no?

>>21715812

See? She totally deserves a hug!

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>You are now aware that if we had taken the Deagle instead like we should have, we would have probably met Chiaki "Murderface" Matsuda instead and gotten our memories back.

I hope you bling bling people are happy.

>>21715976
She seems like she needs a hug

>>21715984
I'm pretty doubtful that would have happened quite so cleanly.

>>21715984
We probably would have gotten a horrible jumble of murderfaces that left us even more confused

We have time to play with the gun later anyway

>>21715984

Quite happy. notSTR turned out to be a pretty good choice and now that Chiaki knows what happens, she might be willing to try out the other weapons later and maybe get her memories back.