( Yuuki's POV )
Atago: master, we found you~
A few Zero attacks came from behind me to give me support and then I heard Atago's always kind voice and when I turned around I saw her and Takao flying towards me, I put on a smile of relief as my reinforcements arrived because I wasn't sure if my barriers would withstand another three-on-one battle And I still had to wait a while before I could use my asura mode again.
Atago: Oh, it seems we're the first to meet with our master.
Takao: Sorry for the delay.
Yuuki: You arrived at the perfect time.
With my reinforcements here now this was going to be a one on one battle on three fronts and I chose Claire as my opponent, I activated my IS light armor and while I was gliding over the water I was shooting at Claire with my magnum pistols, She of course started evasive maneuvers and we exchanged shots, Atago went against Hikari and her initial tactic was to fire Ceros from a distance, preventing Hikari from getting too close to counterattack, Takao drew her sword and she and Hilde engaged each other in a honest sword fight.
Even though Takao was facing Hilde I tried to keep an eye on her, I knew she wasn't going down that easily and when I was half distracted suddenly Claire's drones appeared next to me, I quickly used some aerial maneuvers to dodge and at the same time I was ascending away from the lake and when I reached a good height I turned off my thrusters and used my gravity control to fall quickly, The drones flew past me and immediately tried to correct their trajectory but I destroyed them with a scatter shot from my broken butterfly.
Claire continued shooting as I fell but when I was about to hit the surface of the lake I reactivated my thrusters to maximum power and a curtain of water was created because of that near crash, Claire shot through the curtain of water but I flew in an arc to dodge, Claire kept shooting and her missed shots were creating tall pillars of water and after five shots I made a sharp turn and went straight towards Claire, she only had a moment to adjust her aim and I was going too fast to dodge so it looked like it was going to be a sure hit for her but the moment she pulled the trigger I deactivated my IS armor, I slid through the water and tilted my body making the attack pass right over me, from that angle I pointed one of my pistols up and as I passed by Claire I fired to destroy her rifle, then using my tails I stood up straight and fired another Glintstone bullet at close range.
Claire activated a folding shield that took most of the damage but she was pushed back a good distance, when she recovered she threw her broken shield and broken weapon aside and she took out her secondary weapon, a powerful Gatling laser.
I put on a smile remembering those days when she could barely keep up with my training with Erica and Liliana, then I activated my IS in its standard form, I flew towards Claire and the barrels of her gun began to spin releasing a burst of lasers, my bone tails and the tails of my IS moved at high speed to deflect Claire's attacks, I put away one of my pistols and grabbed the colossal sword that was locked hanging from the shoulder pad of my IS, with two fast swings I released a cross blade of energy near the ground, Claire flew up to dodge but I had anticipated that and teleported above her and fired again.
Claire put her weapon to block and that also ended up destroyed without wasting time she took out an energy sword and took a swing at me and I counterattacked with my sword, the power of my swing sent her on a collision course with the lake, but she didn't stop fighting even though she was so close to defeat, she pulled out an assault rifle with explosive ammunition but I used my tails to block, and while that was happening I changed the ammo in my hand cannon, these were bullets with a black glass tip and when I fired a black comet came out of the barrel and fell on Claire creating a huge pillar of water that reached the sky.
I thought that was the end of Claire and I was left floating on the lake, I was going to look back at Hilde but at that moment I felt grave danger, I descended rapidly and a giant blade of energy cut open the pillar of water and passed through the place where I was.
The Claire who came out of the water pillar was overflowing with energy, her IS had been repaired, and she had some modifications, this is the same thing I saw in Ichika's unit, a 1st shift, although the difference in power before and after was much greater this time but that was because her IS was running on a triple core.
In her new unit Claire unleashed her drones again and instead of shooting straight at me, they extended an energy sword and began to spin so quickly that all I could see were energy discs that flew towards me and as they were approaching, some energy blades flew towards me, I used my colossal sword to break all those attacks and absorb their energy at the same time, my strategy was to fire a fully charged blast from my sword at close range and as I flew towards Claire she pointed her new laser rifle at me and I felt grave danger again.
Energy cannons materialized on Claire's shoulders and hips and she charged five devastating attacks and it was obvious that she wasn't going to risk me getting out of her sights so I changed my approach, I summoned two Thanatos coffins and they began to charge powerful energy beams, I pointed my pistol and sword at Claire and finally I bit my lip to draw blood and charge a [Gran Rey Cero], We fired our attacks at the same time and it was clear that I was the most powerful but Claire wasn't finished.
Claire: [Critical lens]
Five magical circulations appeared in the path of Claire's lasers and when they passed by them the lasers doubled in size and It was no longer easy to determine who was going to come out on top, when our attacks collided, sparks of energy flew around and after a few moments of clashing, an explosion occurred, From there two of the lasers came out towards me and damaged one of my IS's thrusters and the lower part of my armor, that became unusable so I disabled my IS and waited to see what condition Claire was in.