Louise was desperate, very desperate, it was her last chance at familiar summoning ritual after the first and second attempt failed, it was her last chance to prove that she has magic, to prove that is in fact a noble.
So she started the summoning spell once again, her and gripped her wand tightly, she was afraid of the result and yet still she recited the spell with anticipation in her heart, hoping that succeed in summoning a familiar, a familiar that would lead her to greatness.
BOOM!
An explosion occurred as she finished her spell, covering not only her vision but that of everyone watching. Louise falls to her knee, she has already heard the mocking voice of her classmates, she could already see the disappointed stare of her mother.
Suddenly, a gust of strong wind blew past her and cleared the smoke she caused. Louise wondered if Kirche friend, Tabitha if she remembered correctly was the one to do it. But contrary to her expectation it wasn't anyone she know, flying on top a giant eagle made of gust a tall young man hovering on top of the crater she made.
The young man was tall, it made him stick out compared to her classmates and his outfit did not help either, with a colorful outfit that fit with the image of a nobility covered in a short gold colored robe with strange insignia she does not recognize and a black hair alongside a pair of golden eyes that stare coldly at the spectator, as if looking down on them, this person is definitely not normal.
The man slowly descend to the land below, as the landed the great white bird that carries him dissipates into the wind, leaving the man all by himself. The man look around, observing his surrounding when Professor Colbert approaches him.
Louise was unable to hear their conversation but it ended with them going to the principal office, with the man demonstrating his ability to use magic by making a vehicle made of wind, an ability that she doesn't have.
"I refuse." The man said.
Louise shoulder slumped, her last hope has disappears and yet it was not surprising, why would a capable mage want to be a familiar to a failure like her? The man leave the office, the principal allow him to stay here for a few day but she doubt he want anything to do with her.
"Now Miss Valiere..." The principal call her name. "About the promise with your mother..."
"I know, I pack my stuff." Louise said, Louise know the promise that the principal mentioned, though to her it was more of an ultimatum than promise that if, she can't summon and made a contract with her familiar she would be sent home packing, she may be succeed in summoning but she know her mother won't accept such a half-baked result.
"Now Miss Valiere, we decide to give you one week for you to say goodbye to your friend." The principal stated.
"Thank you Principal." Louise smiled bitterly.
Yuno walked through the school hallway, he was going to the library to see where he exactly ended up. The thing that he gather so far is the fact that he was summoned by the pink haired girl to be her familiar which he refused even though he feel bad seeing the girl crestfallen expression he has the thing that he must do. The moment he spent standing around doing nothing is the moment Asta getting closer to the seat of Wizard King, something that he can't allow.
Arriving at the library that is unsurprisingly filled with book he started looking for the book he needed only to find that he can't read it, this place use a completely different writing system even though their spoken language is similar. He wonder what to do until he spotted a blue haired girl wearing a glasses reading quietly in the corner, maybe he could ask her to teach him the basic or have her read the book for him. Yuno approached the girl.
"Excuse me..."
The girl look at him with neutral expression, neither friendly not hostile. "Can you..."
Louise walked aimlessly ignoring the mocking and the jeer her peer gave her, why should she care? Her life was already over, the only thing left for her is to be married off and that is. She continue to walk until her face smashed into something soft, Louise take a step back.
"Zerbt what do you want?" Louise said bitterly.
In front of her was a smiling Kirche, no doubt about to mock her like usual. "Oh don't be hostile Louise, I just want to congratulate you for succeeding in finally summoning familiar even if you were not be able to make a contract with it. It's a definitely an interesting familiar, a strong looking wind mage that is capable of interesting spell, I heard he call himself a fifth rank magic knight or something? A ranking system from his homeland may-?"
"Oh shut up!" Louise snapped, barely holding back tears. "Yeah! Yeah! I summon a familiar more capable than me! I know! If I was half as strong as my familiar I won't be send back home! I know!" Louise turn around and run.
"Wait Louise!" Kirche try to stop her but she was already gone.
Louise slam the door shut as she jump into the bed and cried into her pillow.
She wonder why she endured all the mocking and laugh when in the end she was proven to be what people call her, a zero. Someone never achieved anything notable in her life; she was the complete opposite of her mother, who achieved a lot of thing at her age, her mother who at her age has become a warrior feared across the land, her mother who secretly joined the army at her age...
A thought suddenly entered her mind, it sound insane... But it was still better than being a zero.
Yuno was surprised that he was able to learn to read this fast, he does not know if the glasses girl teaching is just that good or the language is just that simple, after thanking the girl and reading the book that he needed Yuno left the library and goes into the courtyard.
It was already night, the two moon shining above him, it made him wonder if he is even in his own world anymore, if he isn't in his world anymore then he probably need to use spatial magic to get back home, he wonder how much bizarre and weird ritual Clause will do to try to find him.
"Huh... Hah... Huh... found you!" Yuno turned around to see the pink haired girl that summoned him standing before him, her hair look messy and it looked like she been crying.
"You refuse to be my familiar... No matter what, right?" The girl asked.
"Yes." Yuno answered, no matter how much she begs his answer would still be the same. "There is I promise I need to keep back home, I don't have the time to play servant." Yuno look at her straight in the eyes only to be surprised, her eyes showed a familiar gaze, announcing that she won't give up.
"Then please take me with you!" The girl screamed. "I have summoned you with my power! The familiar summoning spell summon a familiar that is compatible with the summoner! There must be something connecting us! And that something is the key for me Louise de la Valiere to be what I am supposed to be. Please teach me how to be mage that I can be proud of!" The girl, Louise lower her head.
"I can't teach you to be mage." Yuno answered, it was his honest answer after seeing her determination.
...
"However I can teach you how to be a magic knight... If that is what you desire then I can teach you." Yuno smiled.
"Thank you..."
"I am Yuno, a Golden Dawn magic knight of Clover Kingdom, I expect you not to let me down Louise."