The Blue Lions have the bandits cornered in Zanado, The Red Canyon. Unfortunately not everything goes to plan...

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< Third-Person POV >

Junko just got done fishing and was on her way to the kitchen to hand her catches off to the head chef until she heard something coming from the greenhouse. Someone was singing, which interested Junko since she and the others haven’t had the opportunity to have any idol practice ever since they arrived in Fódlan. But by the time she got there a flustered and blushing Annette ran out, causing the Showa Idol to move out of her way. Junko peered in to see Felix watering the plants and got startled by him staring back at her.

“If don’t need anything go away, I’m busy.” he tells Junko as he turns his attention back to his work.

“S-sorry, I’ll leave you be.” she says as she quickly runs to where she was originally heading and gives the head chef her freshly caught fish. She walks back to her room, thinking about what happened between Felix and Annette, and she ends up walking into Bernadetta von Varley.

“Augh!” the two girls cried out as they collided, with spirals in their eyes to show their heads spinning (luckily for Junko not literally).

“Ahh! I’m so sorry! I should have looked where I was going, you probably hate me now! And right as I just joined the class…” Bernie said as she apologized to her new classmate.

Junko, just as nervous as she is, tells her “N-no! I should have been paying more attention, I don’t hate you! I shouldn’t have made such a bad first impression by crashing into you while I was lost in thought!”

“Please don’t blame yourself when it’s my fault for not noticing you! I’m the one who made a bad first impression! Dang it Bernie you’re just so clumsy, stupid, and unfit for marriage!” the purple-haired recluse replies.

“You mustn't use those types of words to describe anyone, much less someone as innocent as you!” Junko responded while flustered. The two of them continue this back-and-forth for about five minutes until they run out of breath. Exhausted, the two of them just went back to their rooms and fell asleep instantly.

JUNKO AND BERNADETTA HAVE ATTAINED SUPPORT LEVEL C

After weeks of training, bonding, and certifications, the Blue Lion House make their way to Zanado, The Red Canyon, where the bandits have been cornered. Kostas, their leader angrily commands his fellow thieves to take down the students, and chaos erupts from there.

“Ack, we’re outnumbered!” Sakura says as she fends off a sword-wielding bandit with her lance.

“Weren’t you trained by Jeralt too? Use that knowledge will you?! Don’t let great lessons go to waste!” Leonie scolds her before she jumps in to help the egghead and knocks out the bandit for her.

“Sorry, and thanks…” Sakura replies to her statement.

“You’re welcome, but we can’t get comfortable, look out!” the orange short-haired girl warns her as an enemy arrow barely misses its target. We move on from Number 1 to Number 5, where a group of enemies surround Ingrid and Yugiri.

“Hey there good-lookin’ heh heh…” one of them says to the courtesan, yet he is quickly cut down by her Killing Edge sword. She continues slicing them down as Ingrid fights off two of them.

“Oh my, those were quite the critical hits.” Yugiri says as she giggles to herself.

“WHOA!” Sylvain shouts from the other side of the area as a blade of Wind and a ball of Fire hit two bandits who were sneaking up from behind him. Mercedes then healed up the bit of damage he got while fighting.

“I owe you girls some cake when we get back!” he tells Lily and Annette who are both excited after hearing that. They high-five each other before getting back into battle-ready positions, continuing to shoot Wind and Fire spells at the enemy. Meanwhile Felix is busy taking down multiple foes at once, not truly finding any challenge among these simple thieves. He’s about to take down one more before Saki knocks the bandit down with a swing of her axe, followed by a big uppercut with an iron gauntlet, similar to a Shoryuken.

“Impressive, but I could have easily taken him out without your help.” the dark-haired swordsman compliments(?) her.

“I know that, I just wanted to propose a competition. Whoever takes out the least of these dumbasses will be stuck doing the winner’s jobs for the month. You in, jerkass?” Saki asks him.

“It would certainly make me less bored fighting these fools, so I accept your offer. Prepare yourself, blondie.” Felix accepts as he takes down one more.

The battle between the Lions and the gang of bandits rages on with everyone in split into to paths. On one side Bernadetta is hiding behind Byleth as he gives orders to his students, Ai is trying to snap Linhardt back to reality after he fainted (he managed to kill a bandit and saw blood leaking out of the body), Dimitri & Dedue lead the charge towards the bandit leader below, Felix & Saki have their little contest, and Ashe attempts to unlock a treasure chest while Junko & Tae take down anyone who gets near him. On the other side, Leonie, Sakura, Yugiri, Ingrid, Lily, Annette, and Mercedes following the other path towards Kostas so that the bandits will have nowhere else to go.

“I’ve got the Large Bullion! Now let’s–AGH!” Ashe is hit in the arm with an axe from a bandit, with blood running down his sleeve. He fought back by shooting an arrow towards him, but the damage was done by the time it killed the attacker. Junko gasped as she quickly headed towards her fellow silver-haired student.

“Oh no… are you alright Ashe?” She said while kneeling down next to him.

He clutched his arm trying to stop the bleeding, “It’s… not looking good for me. Call for Mercedes or Linhardt, before this wound gets infected…”

“Wait, I have a vulnerary, and I’ve been meaning to use this skill for a while now…” she hands him the vulnerary and she focuses for a second while he uses it… green light envelopes Ashe’s arm, sealing up the injury left there.

“The Professor taught you Faith magic?” he asks, clearly surprised.

“I haven’t gotten used to fighting just yet, so I thought learning how to support everyone would be more suitable for me. I’m relieved that the spell did not fail to heal you, I don’t think I could have managed to get you to Mercedes or Linhardt on time.” a sigh of relief comes out of her mouth as the two of them smile before getting back up and joining the others.

At the bottom of the canyon, Tae continued swinging her axe around and managing to hit every enemy around her. Her growls toward the thieves intimidated them enough to cause a few of them to start running off.

“Yeah get ‘em Tae!” Lily cheered as she watched her take down the remaining enemy units. Unexpectedly however, she started dashing towards the leader, Kostas, who was both angry and confused at what was approaching him.

“Stay away from me you berserker brat!” He says as he swings his axe but misses his target. The zombie girl bit down on his right arm, causing him immense pain until he could take no more, he dropped his axe and decked her in the face with a left hook... knocking her head off in the process.

All combatants stopped, horrified at what they had just witnessed. Byleth was shocked, and he prepared to use Divine Pulse to turn back the hands of time. Linhardt, now more awake after seeing this, somewhat knew what was about to happen and kept staring intently at the scene. Mercedes was even starting to pray for who she believed was a dead classmate... until Tae’s head jumps back at Kostas biting his left hand this time. The students and remaining few bandits couldn’t believe what they were seeing, the bandit leader yelled out in pain as he tried to shake Tae off of him. He barely manages to remove her and is about to chop her head in half on the ground, but Ai fires a Curved Shot towards him, hitting his leg. He once again drops his axe as Dimitri runs in and skewered him with his iron lance.

Sakura runs towards Tae and puts her head back onto her body before Dimitri asks, “Just… what in the world is going on?”

END OF CHAPTER 11

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