Chapter Ten: The Heart of The Duet[]
“I’m home.”
Returning back home from school, Saito passed through the doorway of his house. He took off his school jacket and went straight to the living room to turn the television on.
It was an ordinary day.
While he was watching the television, the phone rang.
He picked up the telephone. It was his classmate.
Saito, have you seen the latest TV show?
“Why do you think I did?”
Someone who has as much free time as you ought to have.
A trivial conversation.
Life was trivial every day.
There was nothing that could replace this lovely everyday routine……
Saito decided to browse the internet, so he turned his notebook computer on.
“Hm?”
It didn’t turn on.
There was no power supply.
After trying a few times, Saito found his mother standing behind him. Her hair was rather short and she seemed to have gained some weight lately.
“Mom, I’m hungry. Give me some food.”
“Not yet.”
“What? I want to drink some miso soup.”
For some reason he really wanted to taste it again.
His mother’s miso soup.
Though it was nothing special and had a trivial taste, for Saito it felt like it would be the best meal ever.
“Saito.”
“What?”
“Haven’t you forgotten something?”
“What is it?”
“A thing that you should have done.”
“Homework?”
“Yes homework, but think about it…… There is something else, isn’t there? The promise.”
“Promise?”
“Uh-huh. Haven’t you made an important promise to a friend?”
Promise? What promise would that be? Saito thought.
He could not recall it.
Hurry up, remember…… and while trying to remember, Saito woke up.
On a bed.
Tabitha was sitting nearby, reading a book.
He knew the sight of that bed and of that room. It was Tiffania’s room inside a house in Westwood Village.
He had used to stay in there.
Saito squeezed his eyes shut as he was blinded by bright sunlight pouring through the window.
Somehow…… he was feeling refreshed.
Though his head was still dizzy from the collapse, he felt free……
Noticing that Saito woke up, Tabitha closed her book.
“How?”
“Hm? I feel refreshed…… I wonder if it’s the effect of Tiffania’s spell? It was enough to put me to sleep…… I feel alright I guess. However, it feels a bit strange. As if something is gone.”
Tabitha nodded.
“Where is everyone?”
“They left for home earlier. They took that half-elf girl with them.”
“I see…… what a heartless lot. Disregarding the person under a strange spell, and moreover — leaving him behind.”
Then Tabitha stood up and looked directly at Saito’s face.
“Do you want anything?”
“To drink miso soup.”
Saito said with a sigh. It was a first thing that came to his mind.
“What is that?”
“Well, a dish in my world…… I would like to eat soup.” Saito said, feeling a little embarrassed.
Suddenly - strong feelings hit him.
A torrent of emotions.
What had been stored up until then, the so called "Nostalgia" that was being suppressed, literally started to flow out like a huge waterfall into Saito’s head.
The girl who sat next to him at school.
The best friend with whom he used to play.
Every person he forgot about, their faces floated into his memory.
He remembered the face of the physical education teacher who used to punish him. He missed even those people.
“What’s wrong?”
“.……They’re returning. Returning.”
Saito coughed out.
When he recalled his hometown, he started to cry……
Indeed, the fake motive he had to stay in this world had disappeared.
Since he came to this world, more than one year had passed.
I want to return home.
I want to drink miso soup.
I want to meet my friends.
I want to go to school.
I want to browse the Internet……
What had been hidden deep inside for such a long time…… Saito felt it all break free, with loud cracking sounds.
He recalled Cattleya’s words from before,
“When shocking events happen, a human has the ability to lock their mind.”
And just then, the lock came off.
Saito was crying…… sobbing painfully.
“What’s wrong?”
Tabitha asked him.
Saito looked at the runes on his left hand absent-mindedly.
“The runes look different……”
Derflinger, who was leaning against the bed, answered,
“Because Tiffania erased the fake motive to stay in this world that was within you, it has affected your familiar abilities as well."
“.……Then shouldn’t they have been erased altogether?”
Saito said while watching the faded runes.
“That’s true somewhat. Runes react to your mind’s state. Because you just lost the reason to stay in this world, the turmoil in your mind was reflected on your runes.”
Absent-mindedly, Saito said in a far away voice,
“Hey Derf……”
“What?”
“My…… my feelings for Louise — were they also fake, created by the familiar’s runes?”
Derflinger thought about it for a while
“Well, that’s not for me to know. It’s the way partner’s heart feels.”
“Well, if that’s the case…… then it will be my true choice, I guess.”
“I guess, it will be the true choice.”
Louise and others walked down the road to Rosais.
“Isn’t Rosais 50 leagues away still? Walking such a distance is way too demanding.”
“It can’t be helped. It is because Tabitha decided to stay…… Will she help Saito search for the way back to his home place, far away?”
Louise grew silent and started to quietly bite her lips.
“What is it? I already knew the truth. Saito is a human from another world. Jean told me.”
Kirche stole a glance at Louise.
“However, aren’t you a bit too cold? Leaving behind Saito, whom has no place to go to.”
Reticent Louise, said nothing.
“Say Louise……”
“What?”
“Could you tell me one thing…… you learned how to act like a mature woman by wearing alluring underwear. But why do you tell such lies?”
“I wasn’t lying.”
Kirche placed a hand on top of Louise’s head, and patted gently.
“Honestly, you are just scared.”
“What?”
“You did not want to see…… that Saito’s feelings for you were just some familiar’s delusion. Therefore you could not face it and just ran away.”
“You are wrong.”
“When Tabitha said ‘I’ll stay’ you wanted to stay with her, didn’t you? Why did you leave?
“That’s wrong. The only reason I was reluctant is because I wanted to bring Tiffania to princess-sama quickly, as ordered. So, when Tabitha said she’d stay, I was reluctant to leave her behind.”
“That is an excuse that only you believe.”
“It’s not an excuse.”
“Let’s suppose that Saito’s feelings for you were just some delusion, what will you do?”
“Nothing much. I’ll just search for a way to take him home in any case - that’s what.”
“And what if those are Saito’s true feelings?”
“I-I’ll l-look for a way to take him home.”
“And now you are acting flustered.”
“Not flustered. I am not flustered!”
“You are such an easy to read child. You are deeply in love with Saito, aren’t you?”
“You are wrong! Idiot!”
“Hey Louise, now you are acting cowardly. Even if the feelings of the person that loved you are fake, it is not the same with you…… Just this time you will have to rely on your own charm.”
“.……what?! I am not in love!”
Louise said while pouting.
It is not love. I am not in love with him.
Louise repeated this many times in her mind, trying to persuade herself.
That can’t be so……
Why would I love a guy like him? Certainly, it’s just me feeling jealous about my familiar.
That’s right, I feel those feelings only because he is my familiar.
But though she was repeating it over and over again…… tears were still falling from Louise’s eyes.
But why would I cry so hard then?
I am just a coward – Louise thought.
Even facing enemies was less scary than this.
‘Saito’s feelings for me were just some delusion’ – there was nothing scarier than that.
That’s why I ran away, tail between my legs.
Could it be that Saito’s ‘I love you’ was just another fake motive to stay in this world?
Then, all the moments she and Saito shared…… were nothing but a lie.
To put it simply, all her treasured memories would turn into a lie.
If that were to happen, then I would die – Louise thought.
The most important thing in this world for her…… would turn into nothing.
That’s why she could not face it.
Louise rubbed her eyes.
Guiche, who was walking in the back of the group, mumbled to himself.
“It is saddening somewhat, though I agreed to erase Saito’s ‘false motive to stay in this world’.…… when I think about it may be a bad thing to do.”
This way Saito might lose the balance of his spirit. Though not willing to return is not a healthy thing either, but what happens when he cannot go back?
Then he would not have the usual strength to deal with it.
The ‘fake motive to stay in this world’ would be replaced with ‘looking for the way to go back’.…… And when his familiar’s spirit balance is gone, what extreme measures may Saito take?
However, looking for the various ways may not be bad. But what if they never find a way for Saito to return……
Guiche tried to imagine himself as a familiar.
However, his imagination was blank.
Well, umm, from where did Saito come?
He said that he came from the Rub’ al Khali side.
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Well.
If I was now summoned to Rub’ al Khali……
“Hmmm.”
Guiche cocked his head.
He could not imagine it. Guiche only knew Halkeginia and thus he could not imagine other lands correctly.
“Lets replace bar with a castle then.”
But even so he could not grasp it. He should have taken his lessons more seriously.
Because there is no other way, let’s just imagine the girl I like for now.
Weeell……
First of all, it has to be a girl.
And another girl.
Darn, it has to be a single girl……
Final girl.
Tsk, it’s no good – forget it……
“First thing - she has to be cute, yes.”
Guiche hit his thigh.
What?! If I were summoned to some place by a cute girl I would not return at all!
Guiche, upon realizing the truth, ran to Louise, who was still devastated, to tell her about it.
However, something was touching his shoulder.
"Hmm? Who is it. I’m busy now. Just tell me about it later."
That thing prodded his shoulder again.
"Seriously, who’s touching my shoulder?"
Guiche looked at everyone in front of him.
"Hmm, Louise is here, Kirche too. Even that half-elf girl called Tiffania is here too , then who could it be behind me!"
Guiche clapped his hands together.
It must be Saito! Yeah, that’s right. Eh, you came back? By the way, that Tiffania girl really does have unusually big boobs, just like what you’ve said!
I, Guiche, feel the need to personally check if they are the real deal. Don’t you agree?
“Who are you? Hey, you!”
Then Guiche turned around and let out a loud shriek.
“Giyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”
Following Guiche’s scream, Louise and others turned around.
A dreadful scene played before their eyes.
A huge figure, about 20 mails in height, towered in front of them.
“W-what is that thing?!”
Bathing in the morning sunlight and spreading an ominous atmosphere around, stood a huge fencer figure. It wore a black, shiny armor and a grasped a long sword in its hand.
After a few moments, it smoothly lifted that enormous sword up and slashed it down into the ground.
A huge cloud of dust sent Louise and others into a coughing fit.
“It’s been a long time, Void user.”
Louise knew that voice. She heard that voice in Albion, during the ball……
Gallia’s Familiar of Void.
The mysterious woman who followed Louise……
“It’s you! Myoznitnirn!”
“Oh, you remember me? I’m honored.”
Startled, she looked up at the head of the figure - that was where the voice came from. Was she there? Or was she in a different place?
Perhaps the latter.
The Myoznitnirn was the Familiar of Void, master of dolls. She wouldn’t be fighting herself.
“What do you want?”
“I came to express my gratitude. After all, the other day, you stole our princess so well.”
“What princess?! You imprisoned her and tried to break her will!”
“Break will? Oh, and you are different? Breaking your familiar’s will is not that different. Look what nice effects it had on Alviss.”
Louise set up the wand and uttered an incantation.
But…… there was still no ‘Void’.
Meanwhile, Guiche gathered himself, and recited a spell as well.
Seven bronze armored maidens appeared.
“Valkyries! Attack him!”
The seven bronze maidens of war aimed their short spears at the huge fencer figure.
Yet…… the short spears snapped.
“Hey…… do you seriously think that such puny golems could hurt Jörmungand?”
The huge golem called Jörmungand lifted its foot with ease.
And he smashed the seven valkyries like insects. Next, Kirche recited her fire magic.
A huge fireball hit the Jörmungand, but even that couldn’t leave a scratch on the armor. The thick armor was impenetrable.
“Useless. It’s a mistake to think that you can hurt the Jörmungand with elemental magic.”
Jörmungand took a step forward. Was there a person inside? It was walking too smoothly for a golem.
Surprisingly, despite its huge body, one could hardly hear the footsteps. It was prowling like a cat.
“How can this golem……”
“Golem? How rude. The Jörmungand is not some golem!”
Jörmungand lifted the sword and smashed it hard against the ground next to Louise and others.
The earth shook from the impact.
“Kiyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”
Louise and her friends fell on the ground.
Jörmungand’s arm penetrated the cloud of dust, gripped Louise, and lifted her up.
“Hn……”
Freezing fear gripped Louise’s heart.
“Sai-”
She almost called out Saito’s name.
But…… she choked the name down before it left her lips.
I have no right to call his name.
I won’t hide behind the fake heart.
Louise courageously stared at the Jörmungand.
“Hm?”
Worried, Saito could see a gigantic knight figure with his left eye. His left eye vision was shaky. He could see Guiche and others from high above.
He could see through Louise’s eyes.
This ability activated itself only when his master was in danger……
“Really…… what mess did she get into this time?”
Seeing the somehow frightening knight figure raging about, Saito spoke in a nonchalant voice.
Derflinger, who was leant against the bed side, called out to Saito.
“Is it about the young lass?”
“Yeah. I can see it with my left eye.”
“Same way. Though I will say it clearly – if you don’t love her, don’t go. The undecided Gandálfr is just a burden. It would be useless to go. If you are not sure – don’t get involved.”
Saito took a deep breath.
“While you were at it, you could have erased my familiar’s ability as well.”
“What for?”
“So then we wouldn’t need to go anywhere.”
Derflinger clattered while laughing.
“Chigeegee.”
Saito stood up, taking Derflinger with him.
“Let’s go, Tabitha.”
“Partner, do you love that young lass?”
Saito said in clear voice.
“It’s useless. She’s so unlovable. That girl is selfish, stupid and haughty…… Moreover, lately she’s been really needy to be complimented by me. When I think about it – she is completely unlovable. She’s always angry. And we do nothing but argue most of the time. It’s so annoying.”
“Then why are you going to save her?”
“.…… because whenever I look at this girl, my heart beats like crazy. From the first sight my whole life has been cursed. If I had known her character this wouldn’t have happened. Yeah, I would have lead a untroubled life then…… eh?”
Shocked, Saito looked at Tabitha.
“Now, did you just smile?”
“Imagining things.”
“Hey, you smiled! Hey!”
Sylphid appeared by the window. Tabitha quickly mounted it. Holding Derflinger in his hand, Saito perched on Sylphid as well.
“Hold tight. We’ll fly fast.”
Tabitha said in a casual voice.
Louise struggled violently, held by Jörmungand.
“Let go! Let me go!”
“You say to let you go, but we just met.”
Louise was brought closer to Jörmungand’s face. Within the old-fashioned fencer’s helmet was burning a pale light surrounded by the darkness. It seemed to be completely hollow.
Jörmungand looked like the one-eyed demon from the southern lands. Louise trembled.
“Hey hey, This fellow has Ancient and Void, two magic elements mixed in it. What you are you getting scared for?”
“Why did you make such a monster?”
“Well. Maybe it’s because you are a mage that you do not understand. Familiars cannot judge a thing. Familiars act upon their master’s orders. Nothing more than that.“
“You are wrong!”
Louise shouted.
“Even a familiar is a living being! It’s not something that just follows its master’s orders blindly! That would be just a golem!”
“A mage’s words mean nothing. Even you treated your own familiar that way!”
“I was different! We were a team! Anyways, you are a coward! Stop hiding yourself and come out! Stop using puppets to do your fights! What is your goal!? Tell me!”
“What a troublesome lass! Just use your ‘Void’ already!”
With these words Louise realized.
What does she want me to use ‘Void’ for? Of course, now I cannot use it anyway.
But…… for some unknown reason, she wants me to use ‘Void’, I guess I could use it to my benefit and avoid being crushed.
“Sorry, but I cannot meet your expectations. I will aim my wand only when my opponent is a noble. I won’t use my spells on a shady character like you.”
“Say what?!”
Jörmungand squeezed hard. Louise’s face contorted with pain.
“Louise!”
Looking down she saw Kirche, Guiche, Tiffania, and the kids anxiously looking upwards.
“Run away!”
Louise shouted.
“But, but……!”
“Don’t worry about me! Take Tiffania and the children and run away! Please!”
Kirche nodded and urged Tiffania and the children to come with her.
Yet……
“I won’t let you go!”
Holding Louise in its hand, Jörmungand jumped up. Louise was surprised by the lightness that did not suit such a gigantic figure. It seemed like prowling was not the only thing it could do.
That thing was like a human, just much larger! Jörmungand landed in front of Kirche and the others, blocking their path.
“Don’t disregard me thinking that you can run away. Next time you try to escape, I will simply crush you without mercy.”
“Even the children?!”
“Yeah. If you are together I will have no choice but to crush you all, right? Maybe it would be better to separate?”
Louise trembled after hearing such words. She slowly started to sing.
“Seems like you are going to cast ‘Void’ after all.”
“W-what are you saying! I won’t cast! Didn’t I tell you! Only if a noble opponent……”
“Such a boring lie. You had plenty of chances to cast it. Yet you did not, you waste. You are so useless.”
Jörmungand threw Louise to the ground.
In an instant Kirche cast the ‘Levitation’, but the softening was marginal. Jörmungand’s power blocked the elemental spell.
Although her fall was slowed down a bit, Louise still slammed hard against the ground. Her body was in intense pain.
She could not breath! She could not move!
“Well then, I will trample you. Say your prayers, ant.”
Jörmungand raised its foot. Louise closed her eyes shut.
‘Zun’ – a sound echoed…… and the cloud of dust lifted again.
Feeling no ground underneath her, Louise opened her eyes.
Louise was riding Sylphid’s back, who had rescued the girl in the nick of time before she was crushed underneath Jörmungand’s foot.
“What’s the meaning of thi-?”
She asked in a surprised voice turning around. And saw Saito sitting there.
Louise’s eyes opened wide and she shouted.
“W-what are you doing here?! I didn’t call for you!”
Then she turned to Tabitha.
“Tabitha! Didn’t you say you’d help Saito find a way for him to return home?!”
“I was told to help you instead.”
‘Tsun’ – Louise crossed her hands and declared.
“.……Really, Tiffania’s magic is so ineffective! Otherwise why would this idiot be coming this way!?”
“Its effective. Very effective. Honestly, it put me into a half slumber. What about this world? Does it have Internet? Impossible. Is there a burger bar? Not a chance! Yeah, getting drunk is the only thing of note in here. What a shame. And it’s all your fault, Louise the Zero-san!”
“Eh?”
“Hush, really that’s too much…… Now, I would still rather be here. Whaat, void? Whaat, fake memory? I recall it now thanks to you. I recalled what had been lost for a year. Look, aren’t these tears? They’re because I cannot find a way back!”
Saito pointed at his puffy eyes.
Louise turned her face away.
“T-that’s not good. I’ll find a way to take you back! Mo, and stop talking trash about my world!”
“Yeah, thanks to you I cleared the mist off my eyes. Really, there are still things left for me to do in this world. Whether it is the Void or Holy Land – I will find a way myself. I will go back. Yeah, I will return!”
“Stupid! Stupidstupidstupid! Then go fast! I will not be alone!”
“Yes. Such an angry thing you are, but look, hey, there is Kirche, Guiche, and Tiffania. Princess-sama and Siesta. Even Tabitha’s mother. Do not think the world revolves around you alone. I only came here to help my friends!”
“Wha-?”
“I want to help this world the best I can! I understood that! Because, before being Gandálfr, I am a human first! Because I am Hiraga Saito!”
Blood rushed into Louise’s head. For some reason, her pride took the best of her.
“Me? What about me then!? I do not have a place in there!? What? Did you only say you love me because you are a familiar? Saitooo!”
Saito shouted, beyond angry.
“Listen you! How long can I keep telling ‘I love you’ to a girl who does not return my feelings?! I should be getting a medal for this!”
“Eh?”
“What’s so good about you? No one would take notice of you - you are haughty like hell, you kick around when you sleep, you do not wear panties, one only can say ‘I love you’ to you out of pity for the bust-handicapped girl, really. There’s nothing else to praise you for. When I ignore you, you try to provoke me calling it a familiar’s ‘reward’, but when I misunderstand and drool about it, you put me down with insults. Your head is as much of a zero as your chest is, idiot. Realize the reality, peach-haired fool.”
“That, t-this……don’t say that…… are you saying such terrible things because of turmoil? Because I did act bad, I will forgive you this time, but usually I would kill you three times for such words, understand?”
“Shut up! Therefore my love for you is just sympathy for a pathetic girl, as well as an unwilling familiar’s attachment. I won’t follow you around. Hereafter, I’ll be on my own.”
“Looking forward to that! Very cruel! Cruel! Too cruel!”
Louise shouted, shaking her head.
“Oi! I need some help there!”
Guiche’s voice came from below. Looking down, they saw him in the hand of Jörmungand, groaning in pain. Meanwhile, Kirche and Tiffania were taking the chance and getting the children out of there.
“Seems like you turned into bait, didn’t you, commanding officer. Let’s save the praises. Wait!”
With a cry, Saito jumped off Sylphid.
At the same time he slashed the sword down at the hand that was holding Guiche.
However, with a loud sound, Saito’s sword was repelled.
“Cut!”
The next moment, Jörmungand’s hand lifted above Saito, as if trying to smash an annoying mosquito. Saito kicked off the Jörmungand’s hand and managed to avoid the formidable palm.
“Ku!”
Doing a somersault, Saito landed on the ground. At the same time, Jörmungand’s feet moved at an incredible speed, trying to step on Saito.
Rolling to the side, Saito avoided the foot.
“What’s this?! What kind of golem is this?! It’s way too fast!”
The speed was fundamentally different compared to the time he fought Fouquet’s golem.
If Fouquet’s golem was a turtle, then this Jörmungand was a cat.
Of course, not just a cat. Steel arms and legs, and a gigantic figure…… It all combined into a human-like dexterity.
With just the right timing, Saito jumped back.
Jörmungand pulled out the sword from its waist.
“It even has a weapon like that?!”
Holding its big sword, Jörmungand swung downwards, aiming at Saito.
Saito dodged to the side, but it seemed to have read his movements completely.
Jörmungand lifted its left hand over the right shoulder - there were three small throwing knives hidden between its skillful fingers.
However, even if they were called throwing knives, they were the size of a big sword.
Something that could cut humans into pieces!
Though Saito managed to avoid the first two, he had to parry off the third with his sword.
Not giving him a break, Jörmungand lowered his sword.
A frightening speed.
Somehow Saito managed to dodge the four weapon attack and hit Jörmungand’s foot.
However…… only an empty sound echoed from the place where the sword hit.
“Derf , cut him!”
“This fellow is using ‘Counter’.”
“That’s what elves use!”
Saito recalled the battle at Alhambra castle.
Then…… only Louise’s ‘Dispel’ could penetrate this armor!
“So because of the big amount of ‘Counter’ used, it is impossible to penetrate the armor.”
“You say too many useless things!”
Dodging to the side from the fist, Saito shouted.
Feeling uneasy, Louise was watching Saito’s fight from Tabitha’s Sylphid.
Saito’s sword was not damaging Jörmungand in the slightest!
“What to do…… Saito will lose at this rate……”
Tabitha turned to Louise.
“Void.”
“I can’t use it!”
“Why?”
“Not enough willpower!”
“Gather it.”
“Without sleeping I cannot restore it!”
After thinking about it for a while…… Tabitha suddenly made Sylphid dive down towards Saito. Then she recited ‘Levitation’ and caught him up in the air.
“What?! Are you running away?! But even if you try to run away, as quick as this thing is, it will catch us in no time! Besides there are children too!” Saito shouted, suddenly being interrupted during the fight.
“You cannot win just by yourself.”
“No, it isn’t true!”
“Silence.”
Tabitha said as if trying to focus.
“Yes?”
Then Tabitha informed Saito, loud enough so that Louise would hear that too.
“Let us continue from where we left off.”
“Ha? Continue what?! Even though I don’t understand, right now it is no-ghm!”
Saito could not finish the sentence.
Because……
Tabitha’s lips pressed tightly against his.
“Mh……nmh……”
Saito’s eyes widened from the shock of the sudden kiss.
Moreover Tabitha, in a bold act that didn’t suit her reserved personality, entwined her tongue with his. To show it Louise, Tabitha sucked loudly on Saito’s tongue.
Louise blankly stared at the spectacle before her, as if not able to understand it.
Her mind could not follow the sudden event.
However…… when Tabitha’s lips touched Saito’s, it certainly was a kiss.
Louise’s shoulders started to tremble like during an earthquake.
“Y-youuu…… s-s-s-such thing……”
Then Tabitha’s hand slowly embraced Saito’s neck and pulled him tight against her. Her tiny body pressed hard against Saito.
Louise’s mind recalled Tabitha’s words.
“Moreover, c-c-c-continuing from where y-you left oooooooooooooooooooooooooooff?!”
In other words, they were doing such things behind Louise’s back.
Louise’s pink hair stood up, her eyes set aflame. Her body was filled with a violent burning anger.
Since her anger rose to the utmost limit, a great willpower was generated and Louise’s body was wrapped in an aura of magic.
After confirming that the heat haze of magic was rising from Louise’s body, Tabitha quickly separated herself from Saito.
“Now.”
Louise turned to them and started chanting a spell.
Is Naudiz Wunjo Jera……
Derflinger shouted.
“That’s not a Dispel! It cannot penetrate the armor! Explosion will be repelled!”
The runes that Louise started to chant were the ones for ‘Explosion’.
Because this was the spell that Louise was the most familiar with.
Eoh Thorn Feoh Járnsaxa
Is the anger the source of my power?
While uttering an incantation, Louise thought.
For a long time I…… had lived with so much anger stored in me?
Ós Thorn Uruz Ru Rad
With anger…… blossomed other feelings.
Peordh Yr Sowilo Kaun Othila
She was too scared to admit them.
Louise, who completed the spell, turned to them.
After finishing the cantrip, not having a place to go, the magic began to run through her body. The magic was in her shoulders, arms, palms, fingers, in the tip of her wand…… Louise shot the explosion.
White light appeared at one spot of Jörmungand’s armor.
“Uo……”
Saito groaned.
Tabitha’s eyes also opened wide watching the light.
Light kept on growing until it swallowed the whole Jörmungand.
At the same time, Jörmungand’s armor kept on swelling like a balloon…… then an earth shattering explosion rang.
Jörmungand, as if stuffed with dynamite from the inside, exploded. Remains of armor scattered all over the place.
When the last parts of Jörmungand came smoking down, Kirche and the others ran out from hiding.
“Saito! Louise! You are not burnt, are you?”
“No way! You were great! To beat such a monster!”
“That’s good…… I thought we were going to die so soon after leaving the village!”
Guiche, Kirche, and Tiffania took Saito’s hand and jumped with joy. Children ran up and encircled them.
After a while, when the first wave of joy passed…… Kirche and Guiche looked at Saito with serious expressions on their faces.
“.……sorry, but did you want to take part in this? Though you helped a lot in defeating this big thing……”
Saito answered in a really tired voice.
“Nonsense. Never apologize again. I did what I wanted to do.”
Kirche and Guiche smiled.
“Kiyaa! It was miserable! And clumsy!”
“But as expected from Saito!”
“Now you are making fun of me……”
Among this friendly chatter, there was a sole girl whose shoulders were trembling.
It was Louise.
With small steps she approached Saito and, interrupting his joyful talk with Guiche, pulled his ear.
“W-what is it?!”
Louise smiled. However, her lips were trembling.
“What was that about?”
“Eh?”
Louise’s eyes blazed up brightly.
“Continuing from where you left off?”
Saito panicked.
“Idiot! That was just Tabitha’s clever trick.”
“Well. I understand it. The dog acts like a dog. But what interests me are those emotional, ugly things you said. Yes, surely it came from you rather than a familiar……”
Eyes burning like demons, like a bird of prey carrying its victim to the nest, Louise dragged Saito to the bushes.
Saito’s screams echoed long in the vast, blue sky of Albion.
Meanwhile, hiding itself from the party, a shadow collected Jörmungand’s armor.
It was Myoznitnirn. She held a piece of the torn armor like a valuable treasure.
“The armor endured such an explosion…… I wonder what else one can do with elf magic? Indeed, it may be very interesting.”
She said to herself.
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Epilogue[]
On board of the ship traveling from Rosais to Tristain, Saito was having a nightmare while lying in the cabin’s bed.
He had received more damage from the fight with Jörmungand than Louise.
“Ugh, ugh” - although he was having a nightmare, somehow Saito was feeling refreshed. He had now somewhat straightened up his feelings on the things he had to do.
Thinking about this and that, Saito was gazing at the ceiling……
*Knock knock*
Someone knocked against the door.
“Who is it?”
“It’s me.” Answered Louise’s voice.
“.……it’s open.” He said in an ill-tempered voice, and with an awkward expression on her face, Louise stepped in.
“Excuse me. Just in case, I came to check. Are you alright?”
“You…… hit me more than enough already.”
Louise pouted and said in a sulky tone.
“Y-you were the one who was wrong. You said you love me only as a familiar. I-it was a lie wasn’t it? Truly. You love me, right?”
She sounded almost desperate.
Saito glared at Louise and said.
“Such a thing can be said to anyone. As a noble.”
“S-still, you love me?”
“I don’t dislike you.”
“So you like me?”
“Isn’t that the opposite? Aren’t you the one who likes me?”
“N-n-n-n-n-n-no way!”
Blushing Louise, whirled her hands fast.
“So, were you not this jealous because you love me? And you even amassed your willpower so quickly because you were angry I was kissed. It’s so obvious.”
“Uuuuuh” Louise let out a half-sobbing groan and nodded.
“.……Really. It might be so.”
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“.……Huh?” Surprised, Saito stared at Louise. Seeing him like this, Louise once again gave a triumphant ‘nya’ smile.
“No way. The dog is drooling again.”
“Y-you cheated!”
“And you got all ‘dokidoki’ from that. Idiot.”
Saito turned to the other side to hide his embarrassment and said.
“Really…… I’ll just gradually find a way to return home. And then I will definitely drink miso soup.”
“What is miso soup?”
“My country’s soup.”
Then Louise gently said.
“I too would like to drink soup from Saito’s country.”
Saito’s cheek turned redder than from a kiss.
Louise became embarrassed as well and turned the other way.
“It may be very difficult, however…… for the moment, the way things are, I would like for you to continue helping us.”
Though she said it calmly, Louise was burning with emotion on the inside.
Surely after all this, Saito will deny such a pledge with curses.
‘Why should I do such a thing?’
Why doesn’t Saito say such words.
That time…… he saved her from Fouquet’s golem.
And that day, he came to Louise’s rescue again……
That’s why behind his snappish words, Louise felt Saito’s love. And then, when he went through Tiffania’s spell…… It wasn’t a familiar’s affection, but genuine love.
However, why do I still doubt? That it isn’t given by a familiar magic? Why can’t I get rid of this fear? ……
because I am still not confident in myself.
Because I am not confident, I refuse to accept my feelings and doubt Saito’s words. Therefore, all I can say are such things – while thinking so, Louise shyly said.
“I-I am being manipulated too.”
“Eh?”
“I hold affection for my familiar as well. That’s why I felt such burning jealousy, even though I did not want to. Really.”
Louise placed her palms on both of Saito’s cheeks and suddenly brought her lips close to his.
“Eh? Eeh? Nmh……”
Two pair of lips slowly melted with each other.
Gently tracing Saito’s lips with her own, Louise thought absent mindedly while kissing.
When I used Void, why was I so angry?
Was it because…… Saito did that with another girl? Apparently, it recharged real fast. What an annoying willpower – Louise thought.
Besides I got angry from the bottom of my heart.
It was hateful, it was painful…… however, there was nothing I could do……
Louise’s lips kissed the corner of his mouth before pressing themselves hard against his lips again.
After continuing kissing him wildly for a while…… Louise suddenly pulled her lips away from his, catching her breath.
“Poor me - I have been manipulated by the Void to feel an attraction towards my familiar. I am such a poor girl.”
After saying those words, Louise leaned in and passionately recaptured his lips again.
While kissing her lips repeatedly…… Saito understood that Louise’s words were a lie.
It was painfully obvious.
Louise’s kisses were increasingly feverish and hot.
Hot because her feelings for Saito were spoken out loud.
The moment he saw the lower half of the Albion continent covered by a white cloud from their ship, Saito mused.
Was…… Tiffania’s magic really effective against me?
Originally this ‘Fake motive’ might have been nothing more than, in Cattleya’s words, ‘the locked mind’.
Well, when he thought about it, it may have been just showing off Saito’s natural optimism.
Something that even your own heart is not aware off.
However, he knew one thing for sure.
Looking at Louise always made his heart beat fast. Even Tiffania’s magic could not change that – it still remained the same.
Saito recalled a dream he saw in Tiffania’s house.
That time, Saito’s mother had asked him.
“Haven’t you forgotten something?”
After all, the meaning of a man’s existence, was to protect the girl that made his heart beat hard.
Even at the cost of his life.
That was all that there was to it.
That was what Saito thought, inside the ship drifting further away from Albion, and continuing to exchange passionate kisses with Louise.
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Prologue[]
Magic academy, Alviss dining hall.
It was customary for young nobles studying in the Tristain Magic Academy, to eat all three meals there.
A week had passed since the day Henrietta requested Tiffania to be brought from Albion.
Today, as like any other, Saito’s group ate their breakfast at the table for third years as usual.
The three long dining tables were placed in parallel to each other, as seen from the entrance. The one on the far left was for the third years, while the middle one was for the second years, and the right was for the first years.
"She’s really popular, you know."
Saito mumbled lightly as he stopped cutting meat with the knife. A light, ignorant voice replied,
“What? Popular?”
Guiche, who was sitting in front of him, asked back with his eyes wide open. Around Saito and Guiche, was the usual gang of the Knight Corps of the Water Spirit. Already drunk in broad daylight, all of them turned their eyes to look in the direction Saito and Guiche were looking.
In that direction was the figure of a dazzling fairy with golden hair and a slender, charming body. However, her facial expression suggested that she was quite bewildered.
It was Tiffania.
With Henrietta acting as mediator, even though she was late by a month, Tiffania was enlisted as a first year and immediately became the topic of discussion for everyone.
Not to mention, the result of the mixing of elf and Albion royal blood made her beautiful face more dazzling than fine art.
Of course, both of her bloodlines were concealed. The few who knew her true colors were Henrietta, Principal Osman, Saito, and Louise. Plus Tabitha, Kirche, and Guiche. Outside this circle, no one knew about her secrets.
Of the two secrets Tiffania concealed, one could be figured out just by seeing her. So in order to conceal that, she wore a hat to cover her ears.
Normally, she would be forbidden from participating in class dressed like that. But with the ostensible reason that “her body is extremely weak to the sun’s rays,” Tiffania had been permitted to wear a hat indoors. “If sunlight reached her fragile skin from the window, she would be sunburned,” was the reason Henrietta, as Tiffania’s guardian, came up with in front of Principal Osman, the teaching staff, and the students.
Normally, nobody would have believed this reason.
However, Tiffania’s skin was so pale that no other noble girl in the school, even those who hated going out under the sun, could be compared to her. Everyone who saw her skin believed that she could not stand the sunlight.
She was a being as ethereal as the faint glow of the blue moon. A figure that betrayed any ethereality she had, her reason for coming here from Albion, and what she has gone through as a noble.
With those three characteristics, an unknown fascinating aura seemed to be emanating from her. Tiffania was surrounded by male students who had completely fallen for her.
Surrounding Tiffania, who was wearing the Academy Uniform, were around ten male students, like ants around a sugar block and were ogling her.
“She is popular, to be more precise, highly popular.”
Guiche muttered while absentmindedly opening his mouth and gazing at Tiffania.
“Those guys, what could be in their minds? Their actions seem more like those of servants towards a princess.”
Reynal replied while lifting his glasses. He sat to Guiche’s right, bearing the same duty as a member of Knight Corps of the Water Spirit.
I see, it’s just like Reynal said.
Not only the brownish capes of 1st years, but dark blue capes of second years, and dark mantles of 3rd years could be seen around.
Immediately after Tiffania took a sip of her tea, they would pour it full. Immediately after she took a bite of her meal, they would give theirs to her. Immediately after Tiffania stretched to take a portion of something, they would deliver it to her, cut and served. Something like that.
Tiffania was troubled. No less than ten people of waiter-like attitude simultaneously offered their services to this golden haired beauty, competing bluntly by showing each one’s special talents. It was a complicated situation where one couldn’t say a word carelessly, so the stalemate continued.
The crowded male students’ eyes were focused at several visual points: her transparent white skin, her outrageously beautiful face, and one other point that was moving right then.
When that part moved, Guiche’s feelings overflowed.
“You know, since the return from the Albion trip, I’ve always been thinking deeply. There’s only one conclusion that can be made.”
Just left of Guiche was Malicorne, whose lips’ outer edges were rising, beginning a nihilist smile.
“Now then, I, the Windward shall listen to your conclusion, Guiche.”
Like a class debate, full of confidence in his opinion and with an excellently polished voice, Guiche replied.
“Very well, the result of my conclusions. The two hemispherical objects on Miss Tiffania’s chest are, in fact, magical weapons that can make half of the world’s population mad over it.”
“So, half of world population meaning……”
“You are a man, aren’t you?”
Malicorne, placing a finger on his chin, thought deeply. A few moments later, he seriously opened his mouth.
“Weapon. In other words, you mean lust for sex?”
“No doubt, it is lust for sex.”
Saito, who was watching the two’s foolishness, also nodded as if agreeing “it is reasonable.”
“You are a genius, Guiche.”
“Even so, this is just a half-assed conclusion. My hypothesis still needs to be proven.”
Guiche swallowed a whole wine cup with a gulp.
“Now, come!”
*Bang* Guiche stood. Malicorne too made a grand gesture and rose. With a ’We are now granted an audience with her Majesty’ kind of act. The two began arranging their appearance.
The two fools nodded to show their readiness, and slowly approached the table for the 1st year students.
Reynal asked Saito.
“Those two, what could be in their minds?”
“Intoxicated with stupidity. Leave them for the time being!”
All the members of the Knight Corps of the Water Spirit watched Guiche and Malicorne with worried faces.
Like drunken men, the two pushed through the 1st year students that were swarming around Tiffania. Not one of the first years were brave enough to resist Guiche and Malicorne, who were not only third years, but also part of the defense squad. The formation scattered, the path to Tiffania was open.
Guiche and Malicorne walked the path leading straight to the breasts.
Guiche stood beside Tiffania. Filled with nervousness and furthermore feeling inferior, she bowed deeply.
The next instant, “that” happened.
Without saying a word, Guiche’s hand reached to the two ragingly magical weapons. He reached the breast. Feeling distortion, Tiffania’s expression sharpened. At that instant, the dining hall’s atmosphere froze.
“That idiot.”
Saito stood up.
But in the next few seconds, Guiche’s body was wrapped in a huge waterspout that suddenly materialized like an underwater flower. In the middle of the waterspout, Guiche’s body wriggled. Further behind, as usual, Montmorentcy stood expressionlessly swinging her wand.
*Zerrt*. The air inside the dining hall froze. Synchronizing the waterspout with the movements of her wand, she took it outside.
By the time they reached a corner, unseen by the crowd in the dining hall, the sound of the waterspout bursting open could be heard. Soon after, Guiche’s yells echoed through the air.
“Wait, I just wanted to make sure, because I saw that thing my scientific curiosity grew, bigger, and bigger, and bigger until the point I couldn’t resist it! I! Uaa! Whuarrgl!”
Saito heard the sound of a huge torrent assaulting Guiche.
The sounds of raging water continued, after a while, the hall turned silent.
Saito helped himself to the food while sighing. Reynal whispered to Saito,
“Incomprehensible, isn’t it?”
“I think it’s normal for them, getting drunk and going crazy…… touching anything in front of them until they feel satisfied.”
“That’s not what I mean, I’m talking about you.”
“Me?”
Saito looked blankly staring at Reynal.
“Usually, you would accompany them.”
“About making sure whether Tiffania breasts were real or not? Only an idiot would go to that extent. Don’t put me in the same class as them.”
Reynal fixed his glasses, staring at Saito.
"Certainly, there is a possibility you were being shy, if we’re feigning ignorance to your drunkenness’ extent. In the middle of the day when there’s something out of the ordinary, wouldn’t you want to make sure, like your hands were itching and you were being uncomfortable in your seat so you attempted to fix your waist, something like that?"
Reynal’s analysis was sharp.
“Even though you’re like that, what’s wrong? With that attitude of yours……”
“Whatever, just eat, it’s going to get cold.”
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Saito put on a calm face and started to eat his food. In the next instant, several girls gathered, surrounding him. The first was the 2nd-year Katie. The rest of them were a flock of first year girls.
“Sir Saito! Would you mind eating this pudding as your dessert?”.
The pudding was made from milk and fruits utilizing cold magic, making it appetizingly cool and delicious. With a clear, composed attitude, Saito nodded “Thank you,” and received the gift.
Each member of Knight Corps of the Water Spirit watched Saito, their faces filled with enviousness.
“Saito-sama, you looked so cool just now.”
“No, no, it’s nothing.”
With a light, affectionate attitude, Saito mimicked Guiche and groped at his feet. But even that appearance created an oblate illusion in the girls’ mind that made them cheer.
“Coool! After all, Sir Saito is really different than Sir Guiche.”
Katie, with cold eyes, threw a glance in Guiche’s direction.
“That’s not it. I’m no different at all. One might say that it’s just them that turned into fools. Ahhahaha.”
As if in trance, the girls continued to stare at Saito.
“Really…… Sir Saito is really a wonderful person.”
“It’s not only that. But also super powerful.”
“That’s right! A person who could somehow stop the Albion army by himself.”
Being fully absorbed, Katie said that.
“If it’s Sir Saito, even those rascal Sky Armored Knight Corps would be beaten completely!.”
“I see, Katie, do you hate those knights from Kreudenhorve house, too?”
A question was asked to that girl, Katie.
“Of course, because that group always follow me whenever I take a stroll to the place I usually go! ‘Do you want to pick a flower?’ What a kind of talk is that!?“
“What a rascal!”
“I agree! That’s a big difference from Sir Saito!”
“Kyaa kyaa” that was the commotion created by the crowd of girls.
Being stared at like that, Saito was thinking,
Composure is important after all.
Not guts, but composure and attitude - he felt like a flower being sucked by a bee.
Ahh, have I ever experienced this breezy mood before?
Siesta cheers “kyaa kyaa,” but…… that’s not too often.
Large numbers of girls yelling “kyaa kyaa.” This sensation, filling one with happiness……
Louise’s magic, “The reason to stay in this world”. When I was under that influence, this kind of reality wouldn’t make me feel joy. The encouragement from the flock of girls were like distant sounds. This could be a hallucination…… But see, I’m a simple minded person……
However it may turn out, I better enjoy it to the fullest for now.
The sound of “kyaa” resounding from the girls’ voices, the sweet endorphins permeating the brain.
While the sounds vibrated ’kyaa kyaa’, Saito snuck a glance at Louise’s table. There, Louise’s face could be seen clearly. She continued to eat breakfast.
However, he knew…… once in a while she peeked his way with glittering eyes. With those same glittering eyes, once in a while Louise boisterously used her fork on her plate.
Saito’s nasal cavity widened, absorbing a lot of the sense of superiority in his chest.
Look, look.
The kitten couldn’t take it much longer.
He whispered those words inside his mind.
Now let’s stop for a moment, why was Saito feeling victorious like this?
What’s with the real intention of “Composure is important” that Saito declared?.
What could be the meaning of the cat-like attitude that Louise presented?
The answer for all of that, laid in the return trip from Albion, because on that ship there existed the root of the misunderstanding.
During the journey from Albion, on that ship that Saito rode…… inside that certain cabin, he pressed against Louise’s lips.
Transmitting his feelings to Louise, it was a hot kiss.
Even that small heat was straining, they were exchanging a kiss with each other, naturally of course Saito’s hand reached to Louise. He only did it because he felt that Louise was also filled with passion.
That was Saito’s judgment.
But instead, when Louise was laid down looking embarrassed…… she turned down Saito’s reaching hand. And with a silent, vanishing tone muttered something.
“.……so, I don’t want to.”
Saito was hurt by that rejection. He couldn’t believe it, even when she was in that heat, why? This was the inner Saito talking.
“W, wh, why?”
Louise reacted, shouting with anger,
“I won’t repeat a second time.”
Actually, as Louise said that, Kirche slipped in from the adjacent room because of the noise.
“What’s the matter, Louise?”
“No, nothing!”
Somehow, that indecisive situation was ended…… the sweet atmosphere that was drifting along had gone somewhere. Both of them looked at each other before slipping into bed, their faces dyed red.
A moment later, they closed their eyes and fell asleep.
That time, Saito didn’t notice…… that Louise did not actually mean to reject Saito.
It was only the place that was unsuitable.
The words Louise uttered with a quiet voice before they were lost, the first part of the words did not reach Saito’s ears.
“.……so, I don’t want to.”
Before this sentence was another sentence, “Because we’re in a ship”.
“Because we’re in a ship, so, I don’t want to.”
Louise once said that.
It didn’t really mean she was rejecting Saito.
However…… Saito was feeling down already, he did not notice that, on the bed inside that cabin room, Louise’s words were echoed several times, the obscure conclusion eluded him.
Our mutual love should be enough.
Certainly, Louise’s feelings were directed towards me.
But still…… in the end her high pride did not permit it, I’m sure of it.
What am I supposed to do?
In that instant, an idea flashed in Saito’s mind.
He recalled the time when Louise wore the black cat clothes.
I see now, Louise is a cat through and through.
Her large eyes, round and round, made him excited. Her way of flirting with Saito looked exactly like that of a cat.
Now, for a cat…… to tame that animal, what am I supposed to do?
I know.
Cats, when they notice us drawing closer, they run.
And then they clearly disregard us.
That’s totally Louise-like.
Then, what about if we ignored one, what would happen?
When that happens, the cat will first observe the situation…… Even in this case if you continued to ignore it, eventually it will become impatient and draw closer.
In the end, saying ’meow meow’, cuddling its face against me……
This is it, this is it!
In the middle of the bed it was the only conclusion that came to his mind. He nodded.
Heh, no licking, you insolent cheeky pink-haired girl…… who makes fun of me on a whim…… The moment when you cuddle your face against me, Huhuhu, I will catch the scruff of your neck. Huhu, I am looking forward to that moment.
The conclusion was one that was only reasonable to Saito’s misconceived mindset.
For now, let’s utterly ignore Saito and his paranoid misunderstanding. At midnight of the day after her return from Albion, Louise entered the bath looking charming and thoroughly washed her body. After that she proceeded to the altar room and did a long, long confession to Founder Brimir.
Founder Brimir…… before marriage, that’s, how should I say it, the thing that shouldn’t be said, that’s, what’s it called, I mean, the thing I want to do, that’s, please forgive me, but because it’s not that I can’t help it…… that fellow for sure, he would absolutely do that with other girls, I mean, no seriously, helpless against the empty-brained maid, or, once acting strange with the respected princess, or lose himself to the strange breasts of the half-elf woman who’s been here lately or maybe not…… true, not only to the woman that have comparatively nice body, even to the small blue-haired princess of Galia, I mean, it’s not he really has the feelings for that woman, but with the 1000 to 1 chance, it does not matter small or big anymore, just the dangerous elements have increased, in any case that’s the situation, please forgive me. Amen.
After this strange and delusional confession, Louise’s right hand and left foot that moved simultaneously entered the room.
What kind of expression Saito will show I wonder. I wonder if he is nervous, while thinking that she entered the room. However her familiar’s attitude instead was quite calm, he was drinking tea.
Even though I’m greeting this special night with tenseness, his attitude hasn’t changed. On the contrary, with eyes narrowed, “Yo, Louise. Isn’t tonight a bright night”, he said those incomprehensible words.
What’s with that? Louise entered the bed with that thought.
Next, followed by Saito.
Next, followed by the maid.
Unbeknownst to the three persons living in this room, sleeping together like three parallel logs, had already become something normal.
Louise was quite tense, as if being in trance. But, it’s still too soon. Saito himself is not an idiot. Until Siesta falls asleep, I have to act, and after thinking that, she feigned sleep with all of her might.
Soon, Siesta’s sleeping breath could be heard.
Louise’s nervousness had reached its peak. She was quite tense, grasping the blanket tightly, biting it as if wanting it to rip.
Next calmly…… Saito’s hand placed itself on Louise’s shoulder.
Shiver shiver, her whole body was trembling.
“.……Idiot, Si-Siesta is still here, see? Despite that, you’re re-reaching your hand out to your master. What could you be thinking!?”
Beyond doubt, Louise spoke with a small voice. I thought we would go to somewhere private like a warehouse. No, I mean I expected a good, ideal room. However, in this bed just next to Siesta who was sleeping. How could this familiar be so bold!?
She was surprised, but it’s not about Siesta, it’s about the overwhelming sense of superiority in Louise because his hand reached to her. Louise’s heart was overflowing.
Even though it’s just next to Siesta……
Even though the maid was just beside……
Despite this foolish maid was! Beside! here!
That’s right, maid.
How dare you until now…… well whatever…… the victory…… is mine? With this, this is my victory!
But, as I thought to do that in front of the other girl…… somehow……
Haa.
That instant, Saito’s hand slipped into the center of Louise negligee, her moaning voice leaked through her throat. Louise’s mind was filled with white.
Although the maid is here! Even though the maid is here, despite the maid is here…… pyun!
Saito’s hand moved daringly, rolled the negligee and exposed Louise’s thin breasts. Louise’s eyes were closed, her face dyed red. Both her breath and her pulse ran ragged.
At this rate, I can’t think straight much longer.
But I can still think one thing…… the pulse beating fast in my heart, this is the first time I feel it.
Saito still hasn’t said anything from his mouth but, many kinds of imaginative words drifted along in Louise’s mind.
Could it be the orthodox one, “I will treat you gently.”
Or perhaps, “Don’t be afraid?.”
What could it be? Hey you, what will you say at this time? I can’t think. It must be the words he will say to me. “Let’s forget ourselves in this moment.” The embarrassment, just don’t forget the sensation. Ah, I can’t think……
However…… the first words that slipped from Saito mouth were……
“Gu……”
That was leagues out of Louise’s expectation, something that have soared past the fire dragon mountain.
What was just said?
Was that a sleeping breath?
No, that couldn’t be……
“Guu guu.”
His natural sleeping breath could be heard. Louise turned impatient.
Did he fall asleep? Why?
She held Saito’s hand that slipped on her breasts to make sure. No response at all. On the contrary, the hand swiftly fell from the center of her negligee.
“Uhh, uh.”
Louise turned with fearful anger.
In that direction she found Saito’s sleeping face. His face filled with happiness, wasn’t that drool that just dripped from his mouth?
Louise’s face turned blue and at the same time reddened. The other side of her lips were raising. Leaking the sound “ku ku”.
Death sentence.
Normally this would deserve a death sentence.
What should it be?
Despite all the preparations that have been made, despite this cute master just lying beside him. Putting on a sleeping breath is really something.
She got her wand. For the time being let’s convert him to ash. But after that though……
Hhhh. Perhaps he’s really tired……
With the futon covering her, Louise closed her eyes. Quite a sleepless night began.
The next day, Louise was thinking. After all…… doing that just beside the sleeping maid is unpleasant. Feels like being in another person’s room…… that kind of feeling. Of course that applies to nobles, too.
Therefore, Louise, when Saito muttered, “It’s time to sleep,” and then fell to bed, stood awkwardly from the chair.
“W, wa, wa.”
“Wa?”
“Walk, I think I will take walk for sometime!”
“How refined. Tonight is quite cold, you’ll catch a cold”.
Saito laughed, when he uttered that nonsense. Having gone too far to turn back, Louise slipped out wearing her negligee.
She waited for two hours, but Saito didn’t come. When she came back to the room…… he was sleeping and his mouth was opened wide. Today too, let’s turn him to ash. She thought, instinctively holding her wand tightly, but her senses returned to her mind.
Perhaps he is really tired. For sure.
The next day, Louise once again took a stroll. This time she waited for four hours, but Saito still didn’t come. When she returned to the room, Saito was crawling on the bed with a deep sleeping breath.
The same thing happened the next day.
For three consecutive days, Louise stubbornly took a stroll.
After waiting for a long time, Saito really didn’t come. So, to kill time, Louise took a tree branch and sketched a drawing on the ground. The content of the drawing, the thickheaded Saito was kneeling before the wonderful noble Miss Vallière asking for forgiveness.
When the morning came, the drawing had turned into an artistic masterpiece.
Gradually this become a habit, and the next morning Louise took a stroll too.
Still, Saito didn’t come.
Half crying, Louise began to draw some sketch, and the subject of the sketch was the idiot familiar being judged by the noble Miss Vallière herself, and he was swiftly being hanged. When the morning arrived, the sketch had become an epic tale.
This consecutive event, happened for one whole week.
Between these intervals, Louise added to the sketches day by day, Saito in the center of the sketch being whipped twenty two times, being hanged twenty times, being thrown to hell eight times, and being reincarnated four times as an insect to be trampled by Louise.
At this point Louise’s rage reached its absolute peak. Finally, she came to a realization. After that, something cold enveloped her heart.
However, this is just something normal, so she shall not show her anger.
This is something that Louise, with pride tougher than diamond, would not permit.
Suppressing her anger as much as she could, Louise commented to Saito, with a trembling body and contorted face, that he could continue if he could do it.
However since Louise expressed the opposite reaction, Saito remained gleefully ignorant of her anger.
Saito is really thickheaded.
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Story 1: New Student from the White Country (Albion)
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