From the manga and anime and an experimental response to a challenge by one 'destroyer'

Hiraga Saito thought his actions against Guiche would only bring him a pleasurable chuckle of satisfaction. Instead, he could hardly hold back his laughter as Guiche de Gramont lay facedown and tasted dirt for the first time in a very long time. All if it caused in due part by him. He'd never felt so good.

"It serves you right, snob." the familiar managed to gasp. The downed mage balled his fists and slowly began recovering, but with an air of hostility around him, Saito noted.

"You there... I hope you're prepared..." Standing up, he patted himself down and made it clear he was beyond aggravated at the familiar. "Such attitude towards a noble, from a commoner like yourself... you are simply asking for trouble."

Saito was prepared to wait for the mage to get to the point, but an increasingly distressed Siesta latched onto his shoulder. "Saito, hurry and apologize! I told you, didnt I? If you seriously anger a noble..."

"There's nothing to apologize about. Its his own fault for deceiving those girls." he assured her as he crossed his arms. Guiche felt his brow twitch and wasted little time in offering the familiar any time to get away from him.

"I shall have to teach you the proper etiquette for addressing a noble, commoner."

"You... you'll get killed."

"...what?"

"You'll get yourself killed!" The maid shouted at him before bolting away and towards the building. The same time he called her name out, Guiche let out an obnoxious laugh, bringing the familiars attention back on him.

"Thats one clever maid." He brushed his hair back. "Of course she would leave, knowing my powers as a mage... but...why are you so foolish! Must be because you're a low-level familiar summoned by that "Louise the Zero"."

The familiar felt his teeth grit violently. "Why you..."

Louise's colorful description of her familiars personality was halted mid-way by one of the academy's maids approaching her well over the speed she'd usually seen them use.

"Ah! I found you! Miss Valliere!"

"I thought the dining hall sounded noisy." the mage commented to herself. "Is something happening?"

"Y...Yes! Its Saito! He's in trouble!"

The young mage slowly took in each letter the maid had given her and blinked a few times before finally giving what first came to mind.

"...Eh! Out of my way!"

The maid hardly managed to clear herself from Louises path as she immediately sprinted towards the schools courtyard. Considering the time that had passed, they would have been there by now. Finally coming up to it, it was to her relief and dread that they were already there. She wasted no time in reaching her familiar.

"What do you think you're doing! I heard all about this!"

He dared only now notice her and worse, he shrugged off her appearance, merely replying, "Yo, master." Guiche stared from afar in amusement at the enveloping scene they were making, in addition to the one underway. It would come to haunt her later if she didn't do anything now.

"Stop going around and doing whatever you want without asking your masters permission!" The mage felt anger boil within her as the summoned familiar merely grunted and turned to Guiche. She raised her voice to gain his attention. "Look! Apologize to Guiche!"

"No. I didn't do anything wrong." he replied honestly. With or without his reasons, he didn't know what he was getting into. With the same tone, she demanded, "I don't care, so hurry up and apologize! There's no way a commoner like you could win against a mage!"

"That wont stop me from trying to find out!" He sharply responded. The mage tried her best to gather the appropriate words to speak, but instead, was disrupted by Guiche, enjoying their show all too much. "My, oh my... Since even your master has personally come to save you, why don't you just apologize to me?"

"What!" He was intimidating her familiar, and it was working. This is bad. "Stop it already! Why are you being so stupid about this!" That made him think. It had to have, he just stopped in his actions. But his resolve hadn't faltered whatsoever. Turning to his master after a moment of silence, he says, "I'll beat this guy... I wont ever let him look down on anyone..."

"Eh...?"

"Then a duel it is!" Guiche happily announced for one and all to hear. Whoops and hollers came from all directions as students finally had something to look forward to today. His fists clenched, the familiar added to the excitement, shouting, "Fine, I accept the challenge!"

The mage had no idea how to proceed. She watched helplessly as Guiche made his way to the open field and only seconds after, Saito followed suit, opposite of him. It wasn't until Montmorency approached her that she panicked for an idea. "Hey, Louise! Order your familiar to stop!"

"I...I was just about to."

"I commend that you didn't run away and instead came here!" Guiche spoke loudly, clearly desiring attention on the duel and more importantly himself. Saito, desiring no such attention or caring little for it, grunted and replied loud enough for the noble to hear. "Like I'd run away. I'm taking that arrogance of yours down a few notches!"

"Hey! Stop it! Knock it off!" Louise would admit that it was rather childish throwing pleas randomly at the challengers, but it was all she knew to do at the moment. Montmorency shook her head and sighed. "Louise."

Ignoring Louise as he'd done from the start, Guiche de Gramont rose his hand in the air and signaled to all students in the courtyard. "Ladies and Gentlemen! I, Guiche de Gramont, and this commoner servant here, will begin our duel!"

Saito, feeling eager already, cupped his knuckles experimentally. "Right then, lets be fair about this. Fists only, shoulders down." He was caught off guard as Guiche merely chuckled in response. "Fists? I will not lower myself to that level."

"What?"

"As you know, I'm a mage." He quipped nonchalantly and twirled a rose in his hand once before making his intentions clear. "Its only natural that I'll be using magic to duel!" Before the familiar had time to react, he'd already made the first move and with an overly excited voice, announced, "Come! Bronze Golem Valkyrie!"

A circle of white spread on the courtyards soil and from it rose a soldier of pure bronze, clutching a bladed staff in its right hand. Guiche smirked as Saito took a single step back in surprise. "What the hell is that?"

"My runic name is "Guiche the Bronze"." the mage commented to the familiar. "Your opponent shall be this valkyrie."

"Thats unfair! Summoning a valkyrie against a commoner!" Louise shouted from the sidelines. The familiar turned to her and shot her an annoyed glance. "You're so loud! Just stay quiet an-"

"Ah! Idiot! Turn around! In front of you!"

"Wha-...hrgh..." The valkyrie's fist made direct contact with the familiars abdomen and before he'd known it, he was off his feet and flying yards away from where he'd once stood. He gasped in pain and covered his stomach as the impact left a lasting ache.

"Saito! Saito!" The mage didn't hesitate to run to the familiars side, but didn't do much else besides kneel beside him, worried touching him may hurt him more. The young man forced himself to sit up but still clutched his stomach in pain. "Now do you understand? A commoner like you has no chance of winning against a mage!" she tried to dissuade him. Instead of listening, he chuckled amidst a grunt, eliciting surprise from the mage.

"That's the first time... you've called me by my name." The mage blinked at his response but wasn't able to fathom much else before he began to rise once more. "Eh? Th-This isn't the time to be saying stuff like that! Stop, don't get up!"

"...y'know Louise, I cant stand that." The young mage stared in silence as he brushed off dirt from his knees. "Are you guys so great that you look down on other people? It pisses me off." As ready as he'd ever be, he looked back down to her and offered a smile. "I'll have to pay him back for trying to make a fool of you too." And before she'd realized it, he was bolting for the bronze valkyrie.

"Hey, wait a minute! You don't have to do that! Saito!"

The valkyrie swung its arm at him but the familiar dodged it in a split-second before balling his own fist and sending it directly for its plated chest. As expected of the valkyrie, its entire body was made of bronze, and thus Saito was moderately surprised when all he felt was nothing but pain in his knuckles and hardly denting its surface. The familiar was sent back violently as the metallic warrior sent its other arm at him and struck him squarely in the ribs with just enough force to persuade him it'd broken something.

Again and again the familiar rose from where he'd lain in pain and Louise only watched in growing worry as each time he would rise more slowly and show even greater pain. It was only after the seventeenth hard thrust to his chest that Saito remained kneeling. She took the opportunity to approach him once more but stopped dead in her tracks as she noticed a trickle of red stain his lips. He was bleeding.

"Are you quite done?" Guiche asks from afar and smugly looking over the shoulder of his valkyrie. "I can forgive you, you know. Just say "I'm sorry, Guiche." Thats all."

"...dont count me out. I'm just catching my breath."

"Dont do it! You cant take another hit like that! You'll-"

"Die?" She stopped. He spat a wad of blood on the ground beside him and grunted as he forced himself to stand. The mages eyes grew wide as she realized there was no stopping him. He wouldn't back down, no matter what. "I don't mind being a familiar... or sleeping on the floor... or if the food here is horrible... I'll can handle it all, easy. Its not like I have a choice." He clenched his fist in preparation for an assault and turned to Louise a final time. "But I wont give in to someone like him... I cant... I 'wont'." And with it, he staggered his way to the valkyrie a final time.

He ignored her cry for him to stop and readied himself for a final attempt. Maybe if he could pass the valkyrie and get Guiche instead he could force him to surrender. But it wouldn't work. His valkyrie would be too fast. If he'd thought of it sooner... no matter.

He swallowed hard only a meter from the bronze warrior and taking a deep breath, gave a cry of frustration and anger as he launched his fist into its hard, still-undented chest for what could have been his final time. Again, no luck. He felt the blood drain from his face. Guiche grinned broadly.

"You lose."

The valkyrie moved to the side and brought its arm back farther than it had gone before, and faster than anyone could have seen it coming, its fist struck the boy familiar hard in the center of his chest, the impact echoing loudly across the courtyard. It was the worst sound anyone had ever heard.

The speed at which his body was shot back was one of great shock as the familiars now-unconscious body was launched from where he had once stood and sent several meters away, his body hitting the ground and rolling without control in a very disturbing manner. Silence filled the courtyard and it lasted for a dreaded dozen seconds before the familiars master finally broke from the crowd and ran to the boys side, shouting, "Saito!"

"He should only be unconscious. Very hurt, but unconscious." Guiche informed the crowd whilst the young mage ran to the familiars side. By the time she had reached his crumpled state, tears were well over forming in her eyes. Her hands hesitated over his body as she glanced at every part of his body to try and fathom the damage. Instead she turned and shouted to anyone in general, her voice cracking, "Get him to the infirmary!"

"As long as he'd learned his lesson." Guiche shrugged innocently before taking a single step forward in an attempt to both gain fame for the victory and his 'compassion'. He stopped however as a strong breeze slowly picked up past him. As it did with the other students. And Louise.

The mage blinked past tear-laden eyes and turned to the airs concentration, finding it centered on her familiar... and his intensely glowing rune. Out of reaction, the mage began to back away and soon the air became intense with a strange magical aura. All students felt it significantly. And to their shock, Saito's left hand balled into the earth.

"S-Still awake I see." Guiche commented as Saito oddly rose his head and rolled it once. "You don't have to say anything, we already know who won. Come now, before I lose my generous mood, lets get you to the infirmary."

"No..." The voice sent chills through each students bodies. Even managing to bring Tabitha's attention to the enveloping scene. And before Guiche could continue his speech of generosity, or Louise could scold him for refusing medical help, the familiar turned to face the boy from Gramont with eyes as white as his runes coloration. "You still have to learn."

"Eh! You want to continue? But... your bo-... no matter." He cleared his throat adamantly and directed his rose on the familiar. "If it is your will, so be it, but let it not be known that Guiche de Gramont was without mercy." With another flick of his rose, another bronze valkyrie rose from the earth and stood at attention.

"Guiche, stop! He cant take anymore!" Louise interrupted, even daring to put herself in the way of the valkyrie. Guiche clicked his tongue in disappointment, quietly hoping he'd be able to beat more discipline into the commoner. Louise kept herself in the way of the challenge as bravely as she could muster but in a second, found herself slowly rising from the ground and being moved from the side. Someone was levitating her away. "H-Hey, stop that! This challenge
mustn't continue! Please!"

"Oh, well thank you." Guiche thanked the silent assistant. In a moments notice, the bronze valkyrie began its march towards Saito. Only meters from him however, it launched itself at him at an incredible speed and in that moment, all knew it would be over. But it wasn't.

A second before it made contact, the boy familiar curved his hand and curled his finger and immediately after, a pure ball of stone rose from the ground and separated into several jagged shards before subsequently striking the valkyrie in all parts of its body. The effect was a disjointed bronze warrior being launched back at its summoner in pieces as fast as it had launched itself at him.

All students in the courtyard stood stunned. Especially one Guiche de Gramont and Louise "Zero" Valliere.

"Magic... did he just use magic?", "What was that?", "Did he use some trick?", "It has to be magic!"

All around them students broke into wild banters of speculation. Guiche ignored all comments and didn't hesitate to summon several other valkyries. "Ah! Get him!"

All of the bronze warriors launched themselves towards the familiar and to the benefit of everyone in the courtyard, the results there the same... if more exciting and frightening.

The first warrior was finished like the last, its body dismantled by jagged pieces of earth from the soil. The second valkyrie was struck by a sharp pillar of earth that shot from the ground and pierced through it diagonally. The third valkyrie had sand erupt onto its body and was then impounded by each grain of it as though it were being crushed. The fourth and final valkyrie met the same fate as the second, though it was struck in the chest before the pillar of rock itself grew an extension that pierced up its bronze neck and violently exploded in a surge of a dozen smaller spikes from its head and helmet.

All students remained hushed as the final valkyrie twitched in its prison of earth and most felt the desire to take a step back as Saito began to step towards Guiche. The mage panicked and began frantically summoning valkyries left and right, but each summoning was interrupted by a jagged fragment of earth striking or impaling each and every one almost immediately after.. He took a step back as Saito finally came threateningly close and tripped in his efforts to remain distant from him. He looked at the familiar helplessly as he stood over him and trembled as he slowly rose a finger to him. Several pillars of earth erupted from around the noble and and exploded with additional extensions of earth until eventually they all surrounded his head in a mask of sharp rocks.

"You lose."

He'd been prepared for something else... but not that. Guiche had enough time to bow his head in defeat and quietly concede to the familiar before small pockets of applause erupted into deafening shrieks and cheers for Saito, the familiar of Louise.

The mage herself, having watched all happen before her eyes, remained frozen in place in a mixture of fear and amazement. And rising pride. This was her familiar? That was his power? Was it even magic? She could hardly fathom any answer as chants of her familiars name and more importantly her own began filling the courtyard. Smiling, she began making her way to her familiar but stopped as she saw his runes light fade away and his body begin to sway. Knowing what may happen, she ran to him and managed to catch him as his body collapsed, instead falling on her.

"Saito! Are you alright!" Her worry switched to surprise as she found him breathing slowly and at a more relaxed pace than before, as though his condition had improved. She placed additional thoughts to the side as she confirmed he was well and simply unconscious. She sighed and eventually smiled at his resting figure before resting her gaze over the rune on his left hand.

He'd started using what powers he had after it had started glowing... Was it related?

She will have to speak with the head master about this incident. But she was already certain he was more than aware of it.