*Starting Scene*

The main building's first floor has yet to lose the constant croaking released from every amphibian presently residing there while unexpectedly commencing to hop all over the place like a swarm of bees with only a few not doing so since those are the ones continuously clinging onto the Asian-looking Saints Organization affiliate, who demonstrates some of the excitement he previously tried to restrain, and simply watches the bouncing frogs as his arms are folded together.

As that transpires, although they're very disgusted at the thought of coming into contact with the slimy animals, Ilya and Yuki react pretty well to the frogs' random leaping via hurriedly resting their back against the other's. Having done that, the white-haired dame says without looking at Yuki while facing toward the room's left side with both hands firmly gripping onto the gold staff that's now parallel to her person due to Ilya stretching her arms forward, "Seems we'll have to rid ourselves of all these frogs first, Yuki."

Yuki points the Ice Wand toward the area she's directed via both hands and sternly retorts. "Gladly! I freaking hate frogs! Frozen Shard Flurry!" The tip of Yuki's wand glows blue prior to sending out countless, diamond-shaped, spikes of ice at the amphibians as they made an attempt to jump onto the female Spellcaster, and with barely any effort, impale into their body despite being such small targets while harshly dropping to the floor, dead.

Seeing that after turning her head to the left, Ilya happily nods while keeping the gold staff stationed ahead of herself. "Way to go! I didn't know you were so precise with your spells!" She veers her focus to the slimy animals again, which had just began attacking her, and fervently yells as she's elevating her weapon above her head, "Now's my turn!" Ilya powerfully plants the bottom of her staff upon the floor while mildly bent forward with the gem on the top brightly shining. "Burst Stream!" Several pillars of gold light then shoot out of the terrain, destroying a large part of the room's left section, and completely consume every amphibian in their wake while leaving no real possibility of survival.

Yuki witnesses the spectacle occurring behind her thanks to navigating her head to the right with her arms lowered and is plagued by total bewilderment as she plainly comments, "Damn, Miss Know-It-All... Talk about overkill. They're only frogs."

Ilya immediately snaps her attention back to Yuki while gingerly lifting the gold staff off the floor so she can rest its upper half on her right shoulder as the blue gem continues radiating intense light with the blasts Ilya had initiated continuing their massive devastation. "Oh, like what you did is any better!"

Yuki earnestly nods with a cool attitude. "Actually, it is. I merely stab each one with a single shard because, I repeat, they're only frogs." The pink-haired adolescent removes her left hand from the Ice Wand to aim its index finger towards the deceased frogs. "See?"

Taking notice that what Yuki's saying is the truth via a brief glance, Ilya resets her gaze onto the corset-wearing girl and responds in a defensive tone. "Killing is still killing! Sugarcoating it won't change that fact!"

Yuki gawks at Ilya with skepticism brimming. "Really? Then what happened to that whole KILLING IS WRONG routine of yours? Because if I'm not mistaken, you just admitted that you killed something just now. What? Does that mean animals don't count in your righteous facade?"

Minor shame appears on Ilya's face as she deviates her vision from Yuki by steering her head toward the blasts of energy while observing their gradually dissipation. "It isn't a facade. I really don't like people dying, but when it comes to animals, I'm obviously willing to end their life if I'm threatened. I guess that makes me no different from Dante's callous way of killing his enemies."

Yuki demonstrates a hint of sympathy, keeps her eyes glued on Ilya and thinks, "I didn't mean it like that. I was only specifying that there's an exception to your righteousness." The princess diverts her concentration to stare at the floor while thinking in a depressive manner, "Jumping to the conclusion that you're the same as Dante is going a bit too far. If anyone is like Dante in terms of callous killing, Yui's the perfect candidate..."

During Ilya and Yuki's conversation, the Asian-looking gentleman saw the defeat of his frogs while giving off an unfazed behavior, maintaining his arms entwined, until lackadaisically remarking with his eyes locked on the pair as he speaks in a fast way to prevent either from realizing his concealed feeling of neglect. "It's amazing how casually you two are talking! Almost as if you entirely forgot that I'm here! Of course, that's impossible considering how marvelous I am! Remember how kind I was to make my appearance when I could of stayed hidden?! That would have been really inconvenient! You remember, right?! There's no chance you both could have forgotten such an important thing, could you?! Hey, are you even listening to what I'm saying?!"

Ilya and Yuki bring their attention to the red-eyed man with neither changing their body's position as they exhibit a faint amount of confusion while asking in unison, "Say what now?"

The tan-skinned male slouches after switching his focus to the left, overcome by immense disappointment, while murmuring to himself with sadness in his voice, "They WEREN'T listening... But how...? Even if I, Toad, am not their type or something, they should at least acknowledge my presence considering we'll be fighting each other..." He places his left hand over the temporal region belonging to that same side with his head partially slanted in that direction as anxiety takes shape. "I don't understand... I just don't, for the life of me, understand... I always feel so insignificant and weak... I don't like it one bit!" Toad starts to develop some anger during the last part of that sentence and zooms onto the two teenagers before making his head upright while putting his hand down. "I won't tolerate that from my enemies!"

Yuki raises her right eyebrow and continues being quite confused as she softly questions while sustaining her concentration on Toad. "Do you know what's he going on about, Miss Know-It-All?"

Ilya shrugs her shoulders, displaying an unsure personality in the process, while peering at Yuki out of the corner of her eyes thanks to changing the resting place of the gold staff to her left shoulder and rebuttals in a similar volume. "Not really, although it seems like he has some personal issues that he's been wanting to express for a long time."

Yuki's eyes narrow due to experiencing a decent sum of displeasure as the wand-wielding beauty's body slumps a tad prior to sarcastically saying, "Wonderful." She makes eye contact with Ilya by lightly turning sideways, which involves the minuscule division of their individual back's touching, and states in an agitated manner without raising her voice much, "That means we'll be an outlet for his rage!"

Ilya temporarily keeps her eyes locked onto Yuki's until reverting her attention to Toad with tenacity slowly surfacing. "Don't let that deter you, Yuki! One way or the other, we'll beat him and go after Dante! He could even go into a God form because of his anger, but that won't stop us!"

Yuki smiles with delight overflowing while commenting in a moderately passionate tone, "No need to tell me that!" The pink-haired girl fully faces Toad as her vision stays on Ilya. "Though, I'm happy the usual you is so fast in coming back! Would have been a real pain if I had to carry you through this whole fight!"

Ilya gently laughs, having moved her body enough to completely confront Toad again, as her attitude remains the same and removes the gold staff from her shoulder to extend it to the side via her left hand while planting her right hand on her hip. "As if you could ever dream of carrying me in any sense of that phrase! Truthfully, I'm a bit worried that you'll get in my way if we aren't fighting back to back!"

Yuki giggles and points the Ice Wand at Toad with both hands still gripping it. "Funny! I was thinking the exact thing about you, so to prevent that from happening, I'll take the lead with one of my strongest spells! Grand Frozen Shard!" The ice-material weapon promptly launches a gigantic spike that rapidly hurls toward Toad, temporally making Yuki's arms recoil backwards because of the backlash effect it has when utilized.

Toad sees the icicle hastily advance at him for a split second and then coldly utters, "Frog Shield."

With that said, numerous frogs, which are either near Toad's sides or in front of him, jump into the air while all releasing a fearless croak and swiftly join together to form a large ball of amphibians as they blot the Grand Frozen Shard's trajectory. This results in an instantaneous collision between the spell and the frogs, causing Yuki's attack to be halted while deeply submerged within the gathering of tiny animals before falling to the sturdy floor as the Grand Frozen Shard completely breaks apart on impact. At the same time, the frogs that survived the crash with the spell and floor hurriedly spread out while the ones who weren't fortunate enough to elude death lie motionless, each having their tongue sticking out, as their tiny body has become petrified or bloodied due to getting pierced by the Grand Frozen Shard.

The sight of that greatly astonishes Yuki as she pulls her head back a tad with her arm still stretched forth. "He blocked it with the frogs?!"

Ilya quickly aims her staff's gem at Toad with seriousness emitting while taking her right hand off her hip to grasp the gold weapon from below where her left hand's located. "Yeah, but I'm sure he can't use them to block this! Burst Stream!" The hazel-eyed Spellcaster shortly draws her staff over her head for a second time and slams its end against the floor to cast her spell like earlier.

Right when the section of the floor that Toad's standing on commences to radiate the intense gold color Ilya's attacks are known for, many frogs immediately react to its mere presence, including the slimy animals that had fled from the area the Grand Frozen Shard fell, and don't even hesitate to leap toward the yukata-wearing man with another united croak resounding from them. After that, Toad's plagued by the single Burst Stream without any sign of his being for several moments as Ilya and Yuki are patiently waiting to verify if that's sufficient to defeat the green-haired person.

While some time had passed since the implementing of Ilya's spell, Yuki decides to release her left hand's hold on the Ice Wand as both of her extended limbs drop to her sides and whispers to her headband-endowed companion with her eyes analyzing the gold blast, "Is it my imagination or did he not even try to dodge that?"

Ilya shakes her head after adjusting her grip on the gold staff so she can have it horizontally leveled with the front part of her waist as the weapon's gem is now stationed toward her left and has the two rings circling it like always. "No, I saw that too." The light-skinned chick glances at the remaining amphibians that are endlessly hopping around, however, are choosing not to make any sort of effort toward Ilya nor Yuki while generating a fair quantity of suspicion. "But what's really leaving me uneasy is how willing these frogs are in protecting him, even at the cost of their lives."

Yuki faintly commandeers her focus to Ilya with curiosity starting to envelop the blue-eyed dame. "Maybe he trained them."

Ilya's eyes widen out of amazement while looking back at the Burst Stream as it almost fully dies down and thinks, "Trained them?! Frogs aren't the easiest animals to train, so to be able to do that..."

Before Ilya could finish that thought, Toad appears once again thanks to the gold blast having reached its end, however, his entire body's covered by burnt frogs that had sacrificed themselves to protect their master and commence falling off as he cheerfully speaks. "I see that I finally got your attention! And it only took me using my Frog Armor to do it!" The red-eyed individual laughs psychotically with more of his body being revealed until every dead frog clinging to Toad has let go and hit the floor. Following that, Toad gives Ilya and Yuki a diabolic grin while licking his lips with an oddly over-sized tongue, something neither girl expected to be witnessed. He then shifts his concentration to the other frogs that kept jumping around while making an expression of nostalgia and raised his right hand forward to allow one to land in the palm of his hand as it stares straight at the female Spellcasters. "Oh, how I love these little guys."

After saying that, Toad brings his hand next to his right cheek while keeping his gaze on the frog still in his possession and demonstrates a hint of joy in addition to his nostalgia. "They're so neat and dependable. At least in my case, they're dependable. Normally, frogs do their own thing. Just like cats. You could catch them and attempt to tame them, but the moment you let your guard down, they'll hop away as fast as they could. That's why I'm very knowledgeable about opportunists since I've seen my good friends successfully escape my older brothers and baby sister's clutches plenty of times via sneaky maneuvering." The green-haired gentleman switches his attention to his adversaries with no real difference to the way he's acting. "It's the advantage I have as an Animal Tamer for frogs."

Ilya takes a step back with fear dwelling inside her and yells out in meager dismay, "Animal Tamer?! That means you're from the Wilde Family!"

Yuki lightly tilts her head to the right, maintaining her vision on Ilya, as she inquires in a highly interested manner, "What's wrong, Miss Know-It-All? Is fighting against a member of the Wilde Family that dangerous?"

Toad abruptly arrives at Yuki's right side prior to leisurely saying with his right hand continuing to be poised next to his cheek, "Instead of having her answer that question, experience it yourself."

Yuki gasps while overtook by horror until trying to set her sights upon Toad.

In the meantime, with extreme sums of panic noted on her face, Ilya steers herself towards Yuki as her right hand hurriedly departs from the gold staff in the valiant effort to reach the pink-haired princess and desperately shouts, "Yuki, get away from him!"

Toad doesn't even permit the thought of escaping to register into Yuki's mind by suddenly grabbing the neck of the short teen's jacket from behind via his unoccupied hand and carelessly flings her toward the wall that Yuki was facing not long ago after making a sharp, left turn with a fierce grunt.

Yuki screams in despair while sent flying until her back hits the middle of the wall with a loud thud briefly echoing, forcing the young Spellcaster to lose her grasp on the Ice Wand, and grimaces out of agony as she slides down the tough structure's exterior.

Ilya becomes quite distraught due to watching what recently transpired and fervently yells, "Yuki!"

Toad promptly closes his right hand with the frog still in it, pulls his arm back a tad and unexpectedly throws the amphibian at Yuki. Afterwards, by using the momentum he utilized when throwing his frog, the yukata-wearing male swings himself back around to confront Ilya while displaying a menacing look with his right hand barely lowered. "That's the way. It's best you comprehend what you've gotten yourself into. I, Toad, am not a man you should undermine."

Urgency overwhelms Ilya as she attempts to create separation between herself and Toad via taking a few steps backwards while having her right hand grip onto the gold staff yet again. Once she does that, the accessory-wearing beauty directs the weapon's gem at Toad prior to shouting frantically, "Burst!" A concentrated blast shoots out of the staff's gem as it begins consuming the upper part of Toad's being, however at the last instance, misses him because of the thin-face Asian unprecedentedly squatting down like a frog with both hands resting on the floor near each other and is persistently peering up at Ilya.

Concurrently, the blast that had failed to strike its intended target soon collides with the wall ahead, narrowly missing Yuki's head thanks to the princess presently sitting on the floor after her own clash concerning the structure as her eyes are shut. Having experienced a powerful tremor because of Ilya's spell hitting the wall, Yuki tries to regain her wits while gradually opening her eyes with her head slightly down and sees that there's a frog clinging to the top edge of her corset. This is eventually followed by the blue-eyed adolescent letting out a terrified scream that resound throughout the room.

Ilya hastily veers her concentration to Yuki, having allowed a small gasp to escape her lips, as concern emanates.

Then, without warning, Toad opens his mouth while releasing an almost natural croak with his tongue shooting out and immediately wraps around Ilya's neck without the red-eyed gentleman needing to change his composition.

Ilya panics again due to the precarious situation she now finds herself in as the white-haired young lady clenches onto the enlarged tongue via her left hand to try to alleviate its ensnarement on her neck while talking in a strained voice with a lot of annoyance showing. "Disgusting! How are you doing this?!"

Toad contentedly smiles with his tongue still trapping Ilya's neck and replies to her question even though the tanned man's speech has lost some of its ability to be understood well because of his tongue being in the way. "Nice of you to ask!" He unexpectedly leaps high into the air like a frog would, forcing Ilya to do the same a few seconds later, and says with himself completely facing his opponent who stays below the Asian-looking male, "Just let me do something real quick, and if you survive, I'll tell you!" Toad jerks his head to the left while uttering that last part, which causes Ilya to ascend above her odd enemy with no control of her movements at all, and heartlessly swings his head the other way to make his tongue pull the hazel-eyed girl back down to the floor.

During her descension to the formidable floor, Ilya lets out a cry of distress with her head slanted back and eyes set forward while keeping her left hand gripped on the saliva-covered tongue as the right hand refuses to lose its grasp upon the gold staff that's presently parallel to her right side. Not even a second after that, the teenager's driven into the floor head first, creating a cloud of smoke and making numerous debris expel outward as a minuscule shock-wave reverberates in coherence with the loud crashing sound that was simultaneously made.

As that happened, Yuki rips off the frog that caused her a big scare via her right hand, throws it to the side prior to looking toward the accumulation of smoke and is immensely worried at the mass' mere presence with the petite damsel's hand rested on her lap for leverage so she can torque her body forward a little. It then only takes the Ice Spellcaster a split second to see Toad land on the floor about ten meters from the smoke out of the corner of her right eye as Yuki's worry rapidly climbs and yells in fear after placing her complete attention upon the devastated region, "Ilya!"

Hearing Yuki's outburst, Toad chuckles as he's retaken the frog stance with his elongated tongue quickly retracting from the smoke, no longer having a hold on Ilya's neck, and goes inside the green-haired Saints Organization member's mouth while mildly croaking.

Not long after that, the cloud of smoke vanishes, revealing Ilya's upper body being fully buried into the currently torn-up floor, while the accessory-endowed adolescent's legs are dangling up and backwards in a contorted manner with a clear view of Ilya's white underwear, complements of her outfit's inability to maintain them hidden in that position.

Toad turns bright red after seeing Ilya's undergarment, and how they fit her so well despite not able to bare witness of her nicely-sized ass since it's faced away from him, with his jaw instantaneously dropping to an extreme extent.

Yuki narrows her eyes as she's brimming total discontent while thinking, "Alright, I know I should be concerned, but that is SO unbecoming! I just can't!" She then notices Toad's reaction and harshly yells with anger arising, "Don't gawk, you pervert!"

Toad switches his focus to Yuki with his mouth slammed shut, quite startled by his enemy's threatening demand, and makes an attempt to apologize until experiencing a severe stinging sensation. Right after that, the tan-skinned person sticks out his tongue a tad while gazing down at it and witnesses that his tongue has suffered some burns, causing its natural pink color to blacken. This profoundly stuns Toad as he asks to no one in specific with a muffled voice, "How the hell did that happen?!"

Unable to understand Toad's words, Yuki swiftly searches for her wand's whereabouts since she had dropped it earlier, and in less than a few seconds, finds the icy weapon toward her right. After that, the blue-eyed princess regains possession of the Ice Wand via her right hand, promptly gets to her feet, points her weapon at Toad and furiously declares, "I'll make you pay for what you did! Duo Grand Frozen Shard!" Her wand immediately releases a second, enormous, ice spike at Toad with impeccable speed while forcing Yuki against the wall due to its recoil. Following that, as very little time was wasted, another Grand Frozen Shard flies out, once more applying a backlash to Yuki, and travels through the air a couple of meters behind the other.

Toad sucks his tongue back into his mouth before a horde of the surrounding frogs lunge towards him and commence covering his whole body, one after the other, as the Animal Tamer blandly comments, "Obviously, using my Frog Shield won't cut it against two of those big, ice chunks and my Frog Armor might fair better in protecting me..." He abruptly leaps into the air again at the same moment every nearby frog had gathered on his person while keeping his vision locked onto the Duo Grand Shards and confidently states, "But that's not all it's good for!" Toad does a multiple revolution front flip as he curls himself into a ball and hurriedly descends upon the first gigantic shard. Then, like a pinball, rams onto the Grand Frozen Shard with so much power and momentum that it smashes against the floor, exploding into countless pieces, while Toad had ricocheted off the ice-material structure without losing any of his fast spinning motion. After accomplishing that, the frog-covered gentleman flies downward for a second time in the same method just when the other Grand Frozen Shard was below him and makes the large mass join its predecessor within mere seconds.

Yuki can't believe what she recently saw occur before her with the jacket-wearing chick's back resting on the wall behind her as she drops both hands to the height of her lap and weakly mutters, "No way..."

Toad, having ricocheted again, spins for a bit longer until gradually stopping in midair prior to descending back to the floor to effortlessly land his feet upon the area where the Duo Grand Frozen Shards' broken fragments are lying while facing toward Yuki's direction. After doing that, many frogs that are clung to Toad's body begin to fall off him due to them losing their life during the process of the yukata-wearing Spellcaster taking down Yuki's attacks as Toad laughs a bit and tauntingly says, "You sure put a lot of magic in that! So sad that bigger isn't better in this fight! Don't neglect the lesson I was so kind to try to teach you and your smoking hot friend! Frogs are slippery creatures and they can be deadly if used well!"

Yuki gives Toad a discriminating glare while removing her back from the wall yet again and questions in an upset tone, "So is that all they are to you?! Something to be sacrificed whenever you want or even feel like?!"

Toad sneers at Yuki with his head cocked to the left as the remaining frogs that are valiantly holding onto his attire let out faint croaking noises. "Not entirely. I'll admit that I'm quick to allowing them to die if it helps me, but don't misunderstand." The red-eyed man aims his right index finger at the frogs atop his torso. "These are just animals. They aren't humans or Spellcasters, so their value already is less than most living things the instance they were born." Toad scoffs while putting his right hand down and straightening his head. "Some species are barely edible when you think about it, making them a quite useless commodity for eating purposes." His attention diverts to Yuki's body as a devilish grin forms. "Of course, there are certain ones that have great utilization when I want to off an enemy, hence why I mentioned the DEADLY part a minute ago." The Wilde Family member lightly chuckles before motioning his head forward to indirectly suggest Yuki to look down at herself.

Yuki, although skeptical if she should really do as Toad's requesting of her, cautiously peers down and suddenly sees dozens of tiny, green frogs with different-shaped, black spots across their being while slowly travelling on the wand-wielding girl's clothing. This causes Yuki to be very alarmed, having released a stressful cry with her eyes momentarily closed, and then tries to reach for a few of them via her left hand without making the other hand let go of the Ice Wand.

Toad happily smiles prior to thinking in excitement, "She's done for!"

Just when Yuki was going to come into contact with the amphibians, a left hand unexpectedly snatches the pink-haired beauty's wrist in prevention, almost scaring Yuki out of her mind, as she snaps her head up after widely opening her eyes. Right after, the teen sees that it was Ilya who kept her from touching the frogs while overrun by astonishment. "Ilya!"

Toad promptly yells in shock, not really moving from where he's standing, "She's alive?!" He turns his focus to the hole Ilya previously was driven into. "Impossible!"

Ilya ignores both Yuki and Toad's reaction to her appearance as the headband-wearing dame's dress is somewhat dirty because of her collision involving the floor, however, doesn't have any notable damage with her whole body basically unscathed and speaks in a commanding manner as her eyes are set on her comrade's person, "Don't move, Yuki! You don't want to directly make contact with the frogs! They're poisonous! When I was little, my brother taught me about frogs and how the poison dart frogs are the most troubling!"

Yuki's eyes widen out of disbelief and terror. "Are you kidding?!" She lowers her concentration to the slimy animals attached to her apparel, squirms a little and whines. "Ehhh! Get them off!"

Ilya forcefully sustains her grip on Yuki's wrist with frustration brimming. "Jeez! I said not to move! Give me a second!" The hazel-eyed girl points her staff at Yuki's midsection and firmly orders, "Immobilize!"

Once that word was uttered, every frog on Yuki instantaneously gain a white outline upon their body, freezing them in place with no possibility of moving.

Yuki's about to respond to what Ilya just did, however, notices something ahead and frantically shouts, "Ilya, watch out!"

Ilya hurriedly lets go of Yuki's wrist, positions herself in front of the princess with her left hand returning to the now horizontally-poised, gold staff so she can block the oncoming attack via both hands applying all the strength they could and gives off a determined expression.

Quite impressed by Ilya, Toad laughs psychotically as his hands are united with one over the other, both arms presently outstretched forward, while pushing onto his adversary's weapon. "You're full of surprises! I'm guessing you're the stronger of the two of you, right?!" Delight consumes the Asian-looking gentleman. "I like woman who are strong and sexy!" Toad licks his lips for the second time, still owning that strangely, enlarged tongue.

Ilya doesn't falter to the pressure Toad's implementing with an aggravated scowl taking shape and groans a tad. "I won't waste my breath too much on the fact that I'm fighting another pervert, but this gimmick really is testing my patience!"

Yuki chimes in while not really moving since she's wary of the frogs continually hanging to her outfit, "Though I shouldn't be defending him in any way, you did let him see your underwear..."

Ilya immediately looks toward Yuki out of the corner of her left eye, wishing to retain most of her peripheral vision on Toad, and demonstrates a distraught expression. "I did?! When?! Was it when I was buried into the floor?!"

Yuki plainly nods as she unconsciously lowers her left hand that had been hovering over the blue-eyed Spellcaster's abdomen ever since Ilya told her to halt, temporarily forgetting her circumstance. "Uh-huh."

Ilya glares at Toad with her teeth gritted while beginning to be enveloped by a gold outline. "And I assume you didn't even hesitate to take advantage of seeing what I wore underneath, instead of being a proper gentleman and diverting your eyes! Pervert!"

Toad retorts in a flustered method as he keeps pushing his hands onto Ilya's staff. "Don't go trying to flip things around! I'm constantly reminded by my baby sister not to be a perv, so I do everything I can to respect women, but I couldn't help it when your panties were right there in front of my eyes!" The Animal Tamer tightly shuts his eyes with his head partially down and passionately states. "It was begging me to see it! I couldn't ever even CONSIDER denying such a request!"

Yuki vaguely slouches and gives Toad a bland look. "You're one sick, perverted man, you know that?"

Ilya softly growls in an intimidating way, her left eye twitching a lot, while sternly saying with her gaze intensely watching Toad, "Yuki...! It'd be a good idea for you to get far away from me...! I neutralized those frogs on you, so shake them off without touching them and run or you'll die!"

Yuki pauses for a moment, amazed by how Ilya's acting, until nodding again as seriousness emanates. "Sure! I'll leave it you!" The twin-tail female quickly commences shaking her body to get rid of the many frogs ailing her after focusing her eyes downward to be certain that the amphibians are coming off, which they indeed are.

Meanwhile, Ilya inquisitively comments to Toad with her hands struggling to keep the tanned Asian at bay, "Hey, you never told me about how you made your tongue expand like it did." She lightly giggles. "Not that I really care to know. I'm merely biding my time until Yuki's out of the way for me to fully activate my spell."

Toad scoffs while arrogance shows itself on his face and add more pressure to the gold staff. "What makes you think I'll wait for that?!"

Ilya confidently smirks. "Because you want to know why I'm still alive, despite flinging me to the floor with all your might, and why your tongue got burnt."

Frustration rapidly appears on Toad's person as the green-haired man narrow his eyes.

At the same time, Yuki finished freeing herself from the slimy animals plaguing her clothes and dashes to her left, having her head turned toward the right to resume her attention upon Ilya, while wholeheartedly shouting, "You're good to go, Miss Know-It-All!"

Toad's surprised at how fast Yuki got rid of his frogs and foolishly steers his concentration onto the corset-endowed teenager, totally forgetting about Ilya, as he releases a small, displeased grunt.

Noting Toad's lack of focus on her, Ilya's smirk changes into a wide smile before the Velkry Spellcaster mutters, "Burst Explosion." A huge blast promptly generates from Ilya as it easily consumes the majority of the room and a bewildered Toad by its golden ray, who barely was able to get a glimpse of the spell.

Yuki, just escaping the giant explosion's radius, faces toward where her companion was located and silently watches the massive blast being constricted by the room's powerful walls with a hint of worry displayed.

Afterwards, with almost an entire minute passing, the explosion recedes while gradually leaving a large collection of smoke behind as Ilya's voice can currently be heard from within it and passively says, "You can already imagine how I survived the crash earlier. I used a much smaller variation of the spell I just cast to greatly soften the landing. I simply call it BURST like the second blast I sent your way." The white-haired beauty is then revealed as she's no longer encased by the gold outline and was capable of evading any physical damage, however, seems heavily exhausted while still carrying the gold staff via both hands in the same position prior to the Burst Explosion had occurred.

Following that, Toad starts talking with a decent distance between himself and Ilya as he resides in the disintegrating smoke. "You're kindness apparently has no end to it like mine. You could have been cruel and left me wondering, but you answered both of the concerns you previously mentioned without batting an eye. Was that my reward for living through, what I believe, your strongest spell?"

Ilya lowers her extended limbs and profusely pants as she's staring forth. "Reward? Maybe. My strongest spell? Close."

Toad chuckles, his body becoming more and more visible with each passing second, while nonchalantly saying, "Then I guess it's time you witness the answer to that question of yours. I'm all for equality."

Soon after, Ilya's able to see Toad once again, however, with his physical characteristics having greatly changed as there's not even one frog clinging to him anymore while more than half of the room has been dealt critical damage to make its landscape similar to an indoor war zone that recently got nuked. He's now quite bulkier overall, causing his jukata to expand until pressed against Toad's person, while his skin went from being tanned to a distinct light greenish/brown color and is now permeable due to it turning into a Lycra type of skin with his hands gaining webbed fingers. Not only that, the slender face he used to own has somewhat transformed to be like a frog's, except much smaller to keep some of his human qualities, with his eyes presently a mixture of red and green as his combed-back hair has disappeared from sight. As Toad's change is totally revealed, Ilya can't uttered a single remark, having been rendered dumbfounded to an unimaginable point, while staring at the grotesque creature that's ahead.

Toad gives Ilya a creepy grin via his currently frog-like lips, faintly croaks prior to opening his mouth and speaks with confidence oozing out of him, aside the obvious, slimy secretion his being is naturally expelling a bit. "This is my Bestial Merging. I don't really need to explain what it is. The name's self-explanatory."

Ilya rebuttals while not really trying to hide her discontent and dull demeanor as she slightly bends forward. "Looking at you alone is disgusting, so my tolerance for a depth explanation is pretty much nonexistent right now. If I even tried, I'd faint within a minute. I'll just assume that this is the pinnacle of your Animal Tamer ability. You combined with the frogs, huh?"

Toad joyfully nods and then squats down, yet again, like the amphibian he's become. "Yes, but it wasn't solely with the ones on my body." He motions his head to opposite sides of himself. "Check around and tell me what you see."

Ilya doesn't trust Toad since she has no idea what he's capable of in his new state as the staff-wielding young lady briefly glances at her surroundings. Unfortunately, the white-haired girl needed to look again because of her not really taking notice of the reason why Toad wanted her to scan the area and hurriedly finds out while mumbling, "All the frogs are gone... Did they-"

Toad instantly leaps toward Ilya with an impressive amount of agility after fervently yelling to cut his opponent off, "That's right!" He bashes the top of his head against Ilya's midsection, elevating her backwards, and shouts without focusing on the hazel-eyed adolescent, "They're all a part of me at the moment, making me more powerful than ever!"

Yuki takes a couple of steps forward and screams in dismay with her eyes set on her ally, "Ilya!"

Simultaneously, Ilya's left hand lets go of the gold staff while momentarily contorting her body back until swiftly regaining her composure and lands back on the cement terrain with only a meter away from Toad. Having done that, the accessory-wearing Spellcaster positions her left hand to dangle next to her side and aims her staff at Toad with her right hand before the enemy's feet could touch the floor as she valiantly cries, "Burst!"

Another concentrated blast is sent at Toad, but barely avoided by the Asian man via a quick jerk of his body to spin in a rapid, clockwise manner and drops upon the battered floor near his right without being disheartened at all as he re-establishes his frog stance with his vision firmly locked on Ilya. "Peekaboo! I see you!" The amphibious individual laughs psychotically a little while croaking for a third time.

Ilya peers at Toad with tenacity radiating as she widens her stance by placing her left foot back to pivot towards the formerly green-haired gentleman and fiercely says, "Check behind you and tell me what YOU see, bastard!"

Toad hesitated to look due to remembering how he tricked Ilya, however, senses something heading his way while noting that the floor beneath him is unexpectedly colder than it was a moment ago. Choosing for no apparent reason to gaze downward instead of heeding Ilya's warning, the yukata-endowed person witnesses that the damaged terrain has abruptly frozen up to his adversary's feet. This causes Toad to urgently jump skyward as he refused to veer his attention onto what's closing upon him from his backside while croaking in determination.

That having transpired, Yuki's promptly exhibited to be the one who attempted to sneak-up behind Toad with her right arm stretched outward, possessing the Ice Wand within it while both of her boots have been converted into the Frozen Skates so the gorgeous princess could advance much quicker toward her enemy, as Yuki's profoundly awestruck and thinks, "He acted without looking!" She navigates her attention upward to follow Toad's movement while continuing her thought process with disappointment brimming. "And just when I was so close to using Frost to freeze him!"

Ilya grits her teeth out of irritation after joining Yuki in gazing at Toad as she thinks with arms positioned on opposing sides of her person, "Darn, I messed that up! I didn't expect him to actually do something in response to my warning! He must've sensed Yuki, but it's possible that he wouldn't have if I hadn't said anything! It's all my fault!"

While Ilya dwells on her mistake, Toad turns himself to face down toward Yuki as he remains airborne with his ascension ceasing at roughly seventeen meters high, nowhere near the room's ceiling that's presently behind him. Not long after that, the Wilde Family member smirks before completely opening his mouth and shoots his tongue out onto Yuki, almost instantly reaching the short teenager while ensnaring her neck like it did with Ilya.

Yuki, uncertain of whether to be alarmed or mortified by the slimy contact that's occurring, gasps prior to trying to pull herself backwards since she has a good idea of what Toad's plotting, however, doesn't wish to touch the now light brownish-skinned man's tongue via her hands, even if it meant a better chance of freedom thanks to some trauma being instilled upon her.

Toad gleefully remarks with his speech muffled again while staring at Yuki, "I'm sure you won't fair as well as your smoking hot friend did..." He tugs at his tongue by cocking his head backwards, putting a lot of strength into doing so as the transformed Spellcaster has yet begun to descend to the floor, and finishes his sentence without losing any of his happiness. "But it'll be fun to find out how much exactly! I'd gladly bet that death will be the undisputed result!"

Yuki's immediately brought off the floor and into the air after a pitiful look overcame her as she releases a frightened scream.

Ilya briefly watches Yuki ascending toward Toad against the pink-haired girl's will, swiftly adjusting her position to face both her comrade and enemy's direction, while mildly spreading her legs with tenacity hurriedly engulfing the hazel-eyed beauty. "Not if I can help it!" Her entire body regains the gold outline from earlier with both soles of Ilya's footwear hastily gathering the emitted energy, lightly bends her legs and tightens her right hand's grip on the gold staff. "Burst Jump!" A blast from each foot, happening at the same time, quickly launches Ilya skyward with outstanding speed as she extends her left hand forward to grab Yuki when she's within range, which the white-haired girl managed to do in less than three seconds because of how fast she was going, and firmly holds the scared teen's right forearm.

Yuki sets her sights on Ilya by turning her head to the right and is immensely surprised as the Ice Wand remains in her right hand.

Ilya brings Yuki closer to the accessory-wearing female, somewhat disrupting Toad's momentum while finally starting his descension, as she sternly thinks, "This is the second time I drew inspiration from Trace... Okay, I'm just ripping him off, basically." She makes her own right hand plant the top of the staff's gem onto Toad's tongue, retaining her left hand clenching Yuki's forearm, with the two gold rings still dancing around it and passionately says, "However, this spell is 100% mine! Burst!"

Following Ilya's declaration, Toad's tongue is hit by a mighty, gold blast and causes the amphibious man excruciating pain after narrowly being able to focus on his adversaries with momentary panic showing. This swiftly leads to Toad letting out a horrid scream until deciding to remove his tongue from around Yuki's neck and frantically retract it in evasion of any more damage.

Seeing their best opportunity yet, Ilya releases her grasp on Yuki's limb with her vision glued upon Toad as she begins directing her weapon at the Asian individual. "Yuki!"

Yuki sharply nods while also observing Toad, having positioned herself to fully face the Saints Organization affiliate who's still floating above her, and points the Ice Wand forth via both hands. "Already on it! Grand Frozen Shard!" The blue-eyed princess' wand quickly sends an enormous, ice spike upon Toad.

Concurrently, Ilya allows a small grin to form, quite pleased by how fast Yuki was on the uptake, before yelling with every fiber of her being, "Burst!"

Just when the Grand Frozen Shard was a,mere couple of seconds from colliding onto the formerly green-haired man, Toad's caught off guard to witness the giant icicle blow-up into numerous pieces thanks to Ilya's blast penetrating right through it, but still are hurling at the Animal Tamer. Then, taking the total brunt of both the Burst spell and all of the fragments that used to be the Grand Frozen Shard onto his body, the Wilde Family member cries out in agony while flying higher and higher into the air until hitting the ceiling with a gigantic crashing sound reverberating in addition to a large sum of smoke.

In the meantime, Ilya and Yuki are watching where Toad had been rammed onto with a satisfied expression displayed during their continuous drop back to the battered floor.

*Scene Cuts To Black*

To Be Continued...