Wu can never forget those damn crimson eyes, and as she burned her fiery gaze onto his body, Wu almost wanted to turn tail and run.

Lera followed Wu out of the tent, and the three shared a brief awkward silence.

"I have...so many questions." Wu said, rubbing his eyes before gesturing towards Fatera, "WHERE ARE YOUR CLOTHES!"

"What clothes...?" Fatera looked down at her exposed upper body before she shrugged and her busts jiggled with the movement, "Ah. Yeah, when I train hard, my tank tops usually get destroyed. And I always train hard."

Wu tried hard not to look, but he is only a mortal man. Lera moaned jealously before she kicked Wu in the legs and forcibly spun him away from Fatera. Then she took the piece of towel covering the fruits from the basket and tossed it towards Fatera, "Put...put this on!"

"Nah, I just realized something." Fatera placed her hands over her hips and puffed her breasts even further out in front as the towel rebounded off the apex of her mountains and flopped onto the ground, "That loss we suffered was because I wasn't strong enough to carry ya to a victory!"

"Why did you make it sound like such an intellectual breakthrough though?" Wu scratched his head while looking away when suddenly, Fatera dashed through the gap in between Lera and Wu before standing right in front of him, her wide hips bumping Lera aside casually. Then, she leaned forward and let her little twins dangle as her golden brown finger found its way towards Wu's nose.

Everything started to spin inside Wu's head, and he doesn't know where to put his eyes anymore.

"I will train ya, and ya will train me! Then, we will win the Winter Wars!" Fatera said as her bust gently pressed into Wu's body, making both Wu and Lera freak out on the spot, "You looked like you have become stronger? Let's spar then!"

"How did you expect me to train you though..." Wu asked as Lera dragged him back before selflessly positioning her body in front of him, "Well actually, I will train you if you put some clothes on!"

"But my tank top is ripped!" Fatera said innocently as she waved her hands back and forth, giving Wu the fullest fan service experience. Wu pointed to the piles of light armor sets in his lab, and Lera went ahead and fetched one for Fatera while making sure Wu isn't peeking.

With the cold hard interior of the armor pressed against the most sensitive parts of her mountain tops, Fatera started feeling a little strange inside, but the supportive chest straps of the armor set actually came in handy this time despite Wu never needing to use it personally.

"Ok." Fatera shrugged, ripping away the bottom half of the armor and letting her belly button and tight stomach region breathe, "Let's train now! The Winter Wars are only a month away!"

"Ok...but why me...?" Wu asked, fixing up his iron man suit before he can finally look Fatera in the eye, though the vivid image of her beautiful body was still lingering in his mind, "I don't really know what I can offer you at this stage..."

"Don't lie to me." Fatera said, pointing a finger forward, "I have been meaning to ask this. What the hell was your gauntlet?!"

Wu and Lera shared a strange glance before Wu continued.

"Why do you ask?" Wu followed as Fatera laughed and shook her head.

"So this is how it's gonna ba...How 'bout a bet." Fatera said, "I will fight ya two with one hand, and if I win, ya tell me where the hell ya got the gauntlet, and if ya win, ya can make me do whatever. I heard boys like things a certain way, so I can do it for ya if ya want."

"ABSOLUTELY NOT!" Lera shouted, throwing her hands up and drawing Fatera's attention, "If we win, you just...tell me why you are interested in him and why you are taking him from me!"

"DEAL!" Fatera shouted, stuffing her right arm into her armor piece and grabbing her own left breast as she leaped into the air, "Wu! I am only going to use my left hand! Get ready! It's not even my favorite hand!"

"I DIDN'T AGREE TO ANY OF THIS?!" Wu threw up his hands in protest, but both Fatera and Lera ignored him.

What's with all of this recklessness from the girls around him?!

Wu sighed and swiftly activated all of the Casts within his iron man suit. As the individual pieces of miniaturized Casts came to life, powered by the embedded gemstone of his One-Shotter, Wu surged forward, reinforcing each of his steps with not only the strengthening Casts but also surges of the wave itself.

Clearly, this counteracted his greatest advantage, but since Lera hasn't prepared her Cast arrays yet...so he will just have to probe Fatera's powers with whatever he's got initially. Wu thought as his foot planted down hard on the ground before a network of Casts that spanned the entirety of the forest nearby glowed and hummed lightly according to Lera's will.

Wu held his breath briefly before he turned towards Lera who smirked back at him.

OF COURSE!

Wu chuckled down low and shook his head. Then, as darkness swallowed everything whole and blocked out Fatera's vision, Wu swiftly shut off all of his Casts and rolled softly onto the ground to break the momentum and noise he made at landing. Then, he snuck around the back and prepared to take down Fatera from behind.

Sounds dirty, but you gotta do what you gotta do.

Wu and Lera had been separated for weeks at this point, and the last time they fought together must have been the day of the entrance exam. However, the flow of battle field as if they can still read each other's mind, with Wu looking towards Lera and Lera looking back at him with exchanges of quick glances.

Understanding each other's intentions perfecrtly, they fought as a coherent two-person unit just like how the Varous's Twin Generals trained them. Now, as they tackled the absolute monster that is Fatera, their teamwork is now put to test.

"Ya know trickeries aren't gonna take me down!" Fatera declared before she pressed her teeth together and breathed out through the tiny gap, letting out a loud Wave-enhanced hiss that pushed back against the darkness conjured up by Lera. Then, she picked her feet up before forming her wave-boots around her feet and stomped it hard on the ground.

The earth quaked uncontrollably as the layers of soil started rolling away in all directions. However, Lera's Cast arrays are no longer affected by physical attacks of this sort. As massive vines formed in thin air and wrapped tightly around Fatera's body, Wu emerged from the darkness and fired a crater-making shot right in the face of Fatera.

"Heya!" Wu greeted before the massive orb exploded right in Fatera's face, slamming her body into the ground and creating a massive crater before Lera surged forward and buried her deeper with Vines pulling her straight down.

"We have gotten far stronger!" Lera said, when Fatera freed herself of the bind and rocketed herself from the hole in the ground. She launched herself high into the air before she formed a pair of massive red Wave-gloves and clapped them together.

"CLAPPY CLAP!" Fatera shouted, a massive shockwave of air shooting down towards the ground like a cannon. It immediately blew apart Lera's Sweeping Darkness, exposing her location in the middle of the Cast Array as Fatera prepared to slam down back towards them.

That was when Wu turned on the jets, and he threw himself into the air, approaching Fatera's diving body from below with both hands glowing bright white.

"Oh?! Ya wanted to clash with me?!" Fatera raised her brown eyebrows as her crimson eye left behind a red streak in the air. Then, she also held both fists back with the red Wave gloves beside him, "That's ballsy! I like it!"

"Complement after you lose!" Wu shouted, "Maximum Wave power...DOUBLE UP!"

As their fist clashed, Wu doubled the output from the One-Shotter and fired two crater-making shots at the same time off his wrists straight into Fatera's gloves.

The orbs exploded upon impact, bathing Wu and Fatera in a whirlwind of heat and flames as Fatera's gloves was shattered in an instant, and she punched straight into the concentrated Wave that's surging out and cleansing every inch of her skin. She felt a burning sensation as her skin started charring. However, from the sense of impact she felt from the two orbs, she knew they are not enough to take her down.

Pressing her arms forward, Fatera dived headfirst through the blast before suddenly realizing that Wu's no longer in front of her.

That coward actually flew around Fatera's body through the explosions as her Wave-sensing abilities became overwhelmed by the blast themselves. Then, as Wu stomped his feet into Fatera's back, he let out another Crater-making shot straight down, accelerating her fall before she was slammed face-first into the ground with a boom loud enough that the entire artificial island felt it.

"WU!" Lera shouted, propelling herself into the air with a set of Vines after granting herself lightening. Then, she let out a sigh of relief when Wu slowly dropped through the air, decelerating periodically with slow outputs of the Wave underneath his feet.

"Damn...flying slow is hard..." Wu said, dropping onto the ground alongside Lera, "Like riding a bike. It's much easier once you get going..."

"Right..." Lera smiled before she reached out and touched Wu's arm. That was when she was burned by how hot the individual pieces were, "Is your suit okay?"

"Hot on the outside, chilly on the inside." Wu smiled before taking off his helmet. That was suddenly when the ground around them suddenly rocked slightly as Fatera's hands suddenly showed up around their ankles before pulling the two of them straight down into the earth.

"SHIT!" Lera cursed as Wu screamed in fright. Then, Fatera jumped from a hole she dug with her entire body covered in mud and the light armor nowhere to befound, "What the hell?!"

"Haha! I win!" Fatera cheered and threw her hands into the air before she squatted down and pulled Wu and Lera back from their individual holes like a farmer harvesting carrots, "I swam straight to y'all from underground, bet ya didn't see that coming!"

"Of course not..." Lera scratched off the mud on her body and glared at Fatera, "It's not like there is an underground river under our feet..."

"Who the fuck swims through soil?!" Wu threw up his hands and tossed out the mud stuck in between his pieces of Cast at Fatera. Thankfully, all of the tiny bubble bubble activated in time and prevented the worst of the damages, "Fine...You win."

"Of course I do! Like away" Fatera laughed with a pose of dominance with her hands on her hips. That was when Lera realized that she's naked again.

Knowing that there is no way Wu can focus like this, Lera took Fatera back to the Ville college for a shower and a change of clothes as Wu took a shower using the stream water he saved up from nearby. Then, after all three are cleaned up, at last, they were finally ready to talk.

Wu popped the central compartment of what remained of the One-Shotter out from his suit of armor when Fatera and Lera both marched into his tent. Immediately, the tent is filled with a pleasant scent from the girls.

"Here." Fatera said, tossing a piece of fruit towards Wu as he caught it without needing to look, "Ita said she missed ya a lot and wished you will come to visit more often."

"But isn't his identity Cast made invalid?" Lera asked as Wu sat down on the ground in front of them.

"Well...I could technically sneak around without any issue, and that's because of how I am..." Wu said, pointing towards the One-Shotter in front, "Fatera, you wanted to know the story, so here's the story."