A Kaiser in Modern Mid-Childa

[Epsilon]

The day had started out normally for Schach Nouera. Waking up, engaging in morning prayers, breakfast and then morning combat practice with the younger Sisters. But it had taken a strange turn when Carim had called her into the office and dropped some bombshell news in that the Church currently was housing another Kaiser: the last known member of the bloodline, Olivie Segbrecht.

‘Another Kaiser…’ The thought had been unreal to the nun.

There were two reasons she had been informed. One was that another trusted character can help support the Kaiser while she transitions to living in this time frame and help keep the cover story going. As for the second reason…

“I seem to recall that when the younger Kaiser had wandered off on her own in the complex about two years ago, you had immediately assumed the worst and confronted her with Windenschaft. Now imagine what would happen if you were to repeat that same action with our other guest.”

Yes, she could certainly see the Director’s point. A confrontation like that would only lead to a trip to the intensive care ward and blow this latest secret wide out into the open which is something that is not desired at this point.

Schach had wanted to know what Olivie was like since it was obvious that Carim had met the Kaiser previously. Otherwise, she would not have been sharing this information. But that question had to wait since both women had to attend to their morning duties.

The nun had managed to stay focused enough not to let the news distract her from her usual routine. She still was able to go through her combat and etiquette lesson plans. And she was still sharp enough to detect misbehaving students and discipline them. By late afternoon, she had already sent Sein to potato peeling duty again and confiscated a DSAA Inter-Middle Registration package that Chantez had managed to sneak in. ‘Honestly, that girl…’

“ASTEION, FIGHTTOO~!”

It wasn’t difficult for Schach to pick up that shrill cry from the lounge up ahead. Obviously, someone was neglecting their duties to watch one of those Belkan fantasy drama programs on television. Putting her best stern look on, she stepped into the room and got close to the individual seated on the couch to administer a verbal scolding. “What do you think you’re do-”

She had been cut off quickly as the blonde haired female seated on the couch suddenly turned around with total excitement in those green eyes. “Come, sit down and watch this with me! We’re getting close to the best part where Tio has to outsmart Greven to save his friends!”

“Shouldn’t you be focusing on your chores?”

“I know but as soon as I got a glimpse of this program with Asteion, I couldn’t help it!”

“I don’t believe that I have seen you around before. Are you new?” Perhaps that explained the lady’s poor etiquette.

“That’s right! My name’s Elina Higgins.”

The name sounded familiar and it took the nun a moment to remember the alias that the Director said was being used. “Elina… Higgins? Then you must be…!”

“Ah, so you know about that little secret,” said the other woman as her left eye briefly turned red to reveal its true colour. Before Schach could move back to properly greet the Kaiser with a low bow, her hand was held in a firm grip. “Now, remember that I’m supposed to be someone else here so there will be none of that. Do you understand?”

“Er, yes.”

A sunny smile appeared on Olivie’s face before the disguise spell went over her left eye again. “We can talk a bit later after I finish this program. Is that okay with you?”

Once again, the same response came from Schach. “Er, yes.”

“Good!”

The program came to an end after another ten minutes. Ten minutes in which Schach felt quite awkward. It wasn’t just the fact that she was sitting right beside the last Saint King. It was also because said King was a total fan of the Asteion stories and clearly demonstrated that fanaticism.

‘There’s no way the last Saint King could be this childish!’ This was the mantra that Schach kept repeating in her head to maintain her grip on the Saint King’s image that she had held for many years.

“That was fun!” Olivie leaned back on the couch. “So what did you think of that episode?”

“Uh…” She really wasn’t sure how to respond since she really didn’t pay attention to the show.

“What is that?” Without warning, the blonde woman’s hands stole away the papers that Schach had been carrying earlier.

“Ah! That is…!” She totally forgot to throw out Chantez’s registration package from the DSAA. “That’s just a registration package for a combat tournament. It’s called the Inter-Middle and it’s very well known around here for younger mages between 10 to 19 years of age to demonstrate their skills.”

“So this Inter-Middle Tournament is what you people use to assess combat talent these days?” asked Olivie as she continued flipping through the pamphlet. Even though she couldn’t read a word of it, some of the photos showed different young girls engaging each other in magical combat.

“Yes, it is.”

She paused for a moment as her eyes took on an odd gleam. “You know, I can probably pass for someone around 19 years of age.”

“What?! You cannot be serious about entering the Inter-Middle! It’s not a tournament for seasoned warriors!”

“But come on!” whined Olivie. “All those exotic and new fighting styles are out there just waiting to cross fists with me!”

“And going out there in public using your combat style and magical powers would defeat the entire purpose of trying to keep you concealed for the time being! We have to abide by the Director’s decision on that!” Schach was really hoping the other woman would see reason.

“It really is too bad. Then again, it wouldn’t be appropriate if we older folk interrupted the fun of the younger ones.”

Thank goodness for small miracles. “That’s true. The younger mages should be the ones to get this valuable experience.”

“In that case, perhaps I should get Touma to participate. It will be a good way for him to get a true taste of battle and I can get involved as a coach or something!” She noticed the clock’s display. “And he should even be coming back from school any minute! I’ll go ask him now and get started on filing these papers!”

“Huh?! Wait…!” This isn’t the outcome that Schach had envisioned for this particular conversation.

“Thank you very much!” Off Olivie went, giddy as a school girl to get her son registered for the tournament.

And once again, Schach was forced to go back to her mental mantra to keep her sanity.

‘There’s no way the last Saint King could be this childish!’

 

[Rising Dragon]

Okay, as surprising as an update to Kaiser Mom is, I do have to ask: what're you gonna do about the new information we've received about Olivie? Mainly the whole "missing her arms" thing?

 

[Epsilon]

The original Vivid script had her receiving artificial arms from the Jeremiah so instead, her artificial arms can come from Myrrdin, the Court Magus in training (small minor OC mentioned much earlier in the story). And unlike the other artificial arms, the ones from Myrrdin actually have a strong resemblance to her normal skin colour and give off the vibe that she never had that handicap in the first place.

 

[Rising Dragon]

Works for me. I suppose it'll get mentioned at some point? Would make for a hilarious scene in which Vivio enters the room only to find the progenitor of her DNA missing her arms.

 

[ragnarok1337]

Okay, Epsilon. We get it. Olivie is utterly broken and cannot be beaten by any means, no matter how hard anyone tries. Let's move on, already. You don't have to keep shoving it in our faces. Is there anything else to this story other than showing how broken the Sankt Kaiser is? Because the last near-dozen updates have been nothing but that.

 

[Rising Dragon]

... there was nothing about Olivie being broken in the latest chapter.

 

[lhklan]

Yeah. And the updates before that shows how other reacts to the news of Olivie survival and how to verify her story.

 

[ragnarok1337]

Yes, that's how it started. Then it went straight into battles and curbstomping territory. My point still stands.

 

[Rising Dragon]

Dude, the last six updates didn't involve Olivie in a battle at all.

 

[Nanya]

Yes, that's how it started. Then it went straight into battles and curbstomping territory. My point still stands.

Um, yeah, I'm calling B.S. unless you can prove where, in the past few updates, that Olivie was curbstomping people after the image of the King of Hearts that was posted.

 

[lhklan]

Yes, that's how it started. Then it went straight into battles and curbstomping territory. My point still stands.

Uh, no. Let's check:

Last update: Scach with her thoughts on Olivie and how childish the latter is

Next to last update: Yuuno pondering on how to verify Olivie's claim and run into Victoria and Edgar

Next-next to last update: Hayate and Yuuno meet in a cafe, Yuuno had a nerdgasm at the possibility of Time Travel

Before that: Einhart's appearance

Before that: Carim

Before that: The group discuss things

Yeah, I don't see where you're coming from.

 

[Gx Hero]

I was wondering is Olivie going to meet Ixpellia, or be introduced to hayate's 'hobbie'

this story is so much fun to read with a lot of promise.

 

[Epsilon]

Touma stood in front of a mirror to see his new look. His attire for his upper half of his body consisted of a white dress shirt and a black vest covering most of his upper torso except for the arms. A pair of grey dress pants and black dress shoes made up the rest of the outfit and he also had a pair of black fingerless gloves.

“Fufufu… my special little man is looking very sharp here!” He felt his mother’s arms rest on his shoulders, admiring the work that she had put into creating this barrier jacket for the boy. “Vivio-chan, what do you think?”

“Umu! Onii-chan looks cool!” Vivio gave her own sign of approval complete with the thumbs up gesture.

“So this is my Knight Clothing? I guess this explains a few things that I was seeing for the past few weeks.”

“Like what?”

“Like your recent slip ups in Mid-Childan language class. Seriously, how do you get ‘I do you school buses’ from ‘I come to school by train’?” asked the boy in a curious tone.

“Ahaha…” Olivie decided to switch the subject before Vivio start asking more on that particular language faux pas. “I made sure that this outfit maximizes mobility and speed for your movements so you should do fine at the preliminaries.”

“It really took two weeks to design this?” Touma knew that there was more to it.

“Well, I did end up designing two sets of Knight Armour before realizing that those would not be appropriate for the upcoming tournament.” She turned back to take out two rolled up scrolls and unravelled them for her son to see.

The first one had a white cape along with predominantly black coloured armour over a black bodysuit. The black helmet had a V shaped green surface along with a horn at the top. “Oi… that would have made me look like some dark magician or something.”

“That’s true and I was certain the cape would have gotten in the way of combat so I scrapped the Exodus armour design.” Her eyes moved over to the other picture of a silver spandex suit with chest armour, silver gauntlets and a silver helmet complete with a large green surface to cover the facial features. “The Silberkrähe armour is a far leaner design but I think it’s borrowing too many aspects of that other super hero show that’s on nowadays and I didn’t want to give that odd of an impression.”

“Uh huh… and that’s how you came to the conclusion that an outfit resembling a school uniform works,” said Touma.

“You should see what some of the other contestants are wearing,” replied his mother. Seriously, what’s with that girl in that DSAA pamphlet wearing only a strip of cloth made out of thick cotton underneath that big jacket of hers? Whatever happened to decency when it came to protective wear for mages and knights?

“Mom, you didn’t answer my question earlier about whether all this really took two weeks to put together. Because I know that designing a barrier jacket and putting it together isn’t exactly something that hard to do.”

“That’s true,” nodded Olivie before she produced a small box from her dress pocket and handed it to the boy. “I had quite a bit of help from the Church in building the device when you said that you wanted to continue combat training relying mainly on your fists instead of some other weapon like a sword or a staff.”

“So that’s onii-chan’s device?!” Vivio looked pretty excited. “Take it out and show us!”

Touma opened the box and drew out a shining ruby which was sculpted like a dragon’s scale. “If it was just built, then I need to do a Master Confirmation Rite.”

Olivie nodded. “That’s right. You will have to give it a proper name too.”

“I do have one in mind. After all, the rules said I would need a device so I thought up of a few names.” With that said the boy held out the scale in his right hand before initiating the ritual and conjuring up a Belkan Triangle beneath his feet. “Confirming master: Touma Avenir. Your formal name shall be Drachenklaue, nick name Ddraig.”

“Roger.”

Immediately, the scale changed shape to fit over his right hand, wrist and part of his arm to form a red armoured gauntlet with golden spikes on the side and a green gem on top of the hand. This caused Vivio’s mismatched eyes to widen in excitement. “Cool!”

“This has been a bit overdue but congratulations on reaching the age of adulthood,” said Olivie before embracing her son. “And ‘Dragon’s Claw’ is a very appropriate name for it. Good to know that you’re getting more comfortable with learning Belkan.”

She moved back to give the boy some space to examine Drachenklaue. “I wonder if I can pull off your Shining Finger move with this device.”

“Who knows? You’ll just have to train hard and try that technique when you feel ready.”

He paused a bit before noticing a very interesting component on his device tucked away closer to the wrist section. “And is that a cartridge system there?”

“I had it built in there so in any future extreme emergencies, you can have access to a little extra power. Obviously, this system will remain locked down until I am convinced that you have physically and mentally matured enough to use such power wisely.” Olivie then gave a sunny smile. “I did add one more special feature to your device. Drachenklaue, level one please.“

The green gem glowed once before Touma felt his whole body become heavier and his magical energy drain away. “W-what is this?”

“A little something to drain your physical and magical stamina. By bearing this load, this will help to increase your growth! Ah, I wish I had something like this when I was your age but back in my day, we only had the AMF condition training in the Cradle and had to wear external weights.”

“How long is this supposed to last for?” grunted Touma.

Olivie snapped back to reality upon hearing that question. “As long as I see fit. Once you get comfortable with your current level, I’ll continue to increase the load. So how about we go outside and start today’s training?”

“Maybe you should start with Vivio first today instead of me. I just need a bit of time to get used to this new feeling.”

“Is that alright with you, Vivio?” asked the older woman.

“Sure, let’s go!”

 

[Filraen]

... and I was thinking "why there isn't a Kaiser Mom thread in TFF?"

Anyway, the news of a mana drain system for Thoma, specifically designed to increase magical reserves, is going make some reactions from Nanoha & co. And Vivio already knows it so it isn't going to be secret (not that Olivie knows about Nanoha's accident).

I don't know where you want to go with your story but this should be addressed at some point.

 

[Epsilon]

Nanoha never really got concerned when Vivio and her friends used those special magic bracers for Inter Middle training in ViVid so I don't think that point needs to get mentioned quickly. Perhaps in a casual conversation down the road.

 

[Justin_Brett]

inb4 Kid!Curren in the intermiddle somehow.

 

[Filraen]

Nanoha never really got concerned when Vivio and her friends used those special magic bracers for Inter Middle training in ViVid so I don't think that point needs to get mentioned quickly. Perhaps in a casual conversation down the road.

I don't know about ViVid's bracers. Are they permanent? I remember Yuuno mentioning Nanoha's was pretty brutal.

Otherwise, I don't mind if it's mentioned only as a casual conversation but it shouldn't be ignored.

 

[Epsilon]

Nanoha never really got concerned when Vivio and her friends used those special magic bracers for Inter Middle training in ViVid so I don't think that point needs to get mentioned quickly. Perhaps in a casual conversation down the road.

I don't know about ViVid's bracers. Are they permanent? I remember Yuuno mentioning Nanoha's was pretty brutal.

Otherwise, I don't mind if it's mentioned only as a casual conversation but it shouldn't be ignored.

It's mentioned in ViVid Chapter 20. Heck, when Vivio sat down for dinner with her mother and mentioned it, Nanoha remarked how she did something similar as well with Raising Heart doing all the work.

 

[Rising Dragon]

... you gave Boosted Gear to Thoma? ._.

 

[Epsilon]

... you gave Boosted Gear to Thoma? ._.

Well, it's an Actor Allusion homage. I won't duplicate all the Boosted Gear brokenness from High School DXD.

 

[Rising Dragon]

Oh I figured you wouldn't. Just... seeing a Gundam homage in a Nanoha story is one thing, but a DxD homage in Nanoha is quite unexpected.

 

[Kireen]

Oh I figured you wouldn't. Just... seeing a Gundam homage in a Nanoha story is one thing, but a DxD homage in Nanoha is quite unexpected.

Well, Issei could be considered a honorary Gundam considering that the author himself said that the mutated queen promotion is based on the Freedom.

Spoiler

And not counting when he cabe back from death fused with Ophis and Big Red, when he was pretty much a giant robot.

But it would be hilarious if Thoma managed to learn Dress Break and Bilingual, he would become a nightmare for pretty much the rest of the partecipant of the DSSA tournament.

 

[Andarion]

But it would be hilarious if Thoma managed to learn Dress Break and Bilingual, he would become a nightmare for pretty much the rest of the partecipant of the DSSA tournament.

Wait... DxD protag is called Thoma? You can always slap an Imagine Breaker on him then... or... Oh Gods... can you imagine what ToAru's Touma could do to all those poor poor female opponents clad in barrier jackets XD ?

The Title would be
"Touma-kun Adventures on Mid-Childa. The Tale of Fanservice and Misfortune!"

 

[Kireen]

But it would be hilarious if Thoma managed to learn Dress Break and Bilingual, he would become a nightmare for pretty much the rest of the partecipant of the DSSA tournament.

Wait... DxD protag is called Thoma? You can always slap an Imagine Breaker on him then... or... Oh Gods... can you imagine what ToAru's Touma could do to all those poor poor female opponents clad in barrier jackets XD ?

The Title would be
"Touma-kun Adventures on Mid-Childa. The Tale of Fanservice and Misfortune!"

No, the MC of DxD is called Issei, but has the same VA of Thoma from Gears of Destiny.

And the two abilities I mentioned allows Issei to strip every girl he touches (even breaking magical chains) and to speak with boobs.

 

[Andarion]

No, the MC of DxD is called Issei, but has the same VA of Thoma from Gears of Destiny.

And the two abilities I mentioned allows Issei to strip every girl he touches (even breaking magical chains) and to speak with boobs.

Any of those granted by the Boob Fairy? (heard of her) and yeah those would be awesome powers to have, especially during a magical tournament against lots of girls XD