So, here is the first chapter of the story.
I don't know what I have to say, so... enjoy
Chapter 1: A new World! I am a Familiar?
Louise Francoise Le Blanc De La Valliere woke up with the sunlight shining on her face right through her window. She stretched and got ready for today, the day of the familiar summoning, the day she proves to all her classmates that she wasn't a zero.
She sighed as she walked to the court where the other second year students were gathered to do their Familiar Summoning ritual supervised by their teacher, Professor Jean Colbert.
"Everyone, this day has finally arrived. Today is the Familiar Summoning Ritual. While this is the first test for you second year students, it is also a sacred ritual where you will finally meet with your familiar. Now let us start this sacred ritual" announced Colbert as he called out the first student to do the summoning.
One by one the students performed their summoning ritual. While most of them summoned normal creatures like cats, dogs, owl, etc. some managed to summon a rarer creature. Like Kirche von Zerbst who summoned a Fire Salamander, and Tabitha who summoned a Wind Dragon.
Louise was finally called out to do her summoning ritual. She stepped forward and prepared her wand. Each and every one of her classmate talked something about her, like "It's Louise the Zero" or "I bet she won't be able to summon anything and just make an explosion". Kirche's taunt even made it worse. She braced herself and gripped her wand tightly.
"My name is Louise Francoise Le Blanc De La Valliere. Pentagon of the five elemental power… heed my summoning and bring forth my familiar!" She shouted as she waved her wand. Green light emitted from the tip of her wand, it keeps getting brighter and brighter. Until suddenly, an explosion occurred.
"Bah! I knew this would happen!" Shouted one of her classmate.
"As expected of Louise the Zero" Another said while trying to clear the smoke.
As everyone looked to see what Louise had summoned, they were all confused. There, in front of them, a green glowing portal appeared, but none came out of it even after a few minutes.
"That's it? Just a portal and nothing? As expected of Louise the Zero" Another one of her classmate laughed with the rest of the other students except Tabitha. Just then, a whirring sound was heard throughout the field, causing the laughter to stop.
"Did you hear that?" One of the student asked, while the others looked around for the source of the sound.
"The portal…" Tabitha said in a barely audible voice. All eyes were now looking curiously to the portal, wondering what was going to come out from it.
Suddenly a white blur came out of the portal, going straight to Louise's direction at an incredibly fast speed. The young mage apprentice just stood there like a statue, unable to move. Just as the blur about to reach Louise, it turned sharply to the right and crashed a few meters behind her.
Everyone was looking at the place where it crashed and saw a human sized white wheel with a man trying to get up beside it. The man managed to get up but immediately holds his right arm in pain, obviously injured from the crash. He then turn around, and after seeing Louise who was now accompanied by Colbert by her side, ran to their direction.
I ran hurriedly to the girl who I was about to ram into just now, ignoring the fact that I broke my right arm and hold the pain as much as I can. She still looked shocked even when the older guy checking on her condition.
"Hey kid! Are you okay?" I asked as I got near them. The girl seems to be recovered from her shock by my voice. But instead of answering my question they both had a questioning look on their face. The man asked something to me, but I don't understand what he was saying. A language barrier it seems.
I then tried to ask them if she's okay by pointing at her, making a gesture of someone in pain and continued by a questioning look. The man seems to understand what I asked so he nodded and do the same gesture as I did but instead pointing at me, specifically at my right arm. Looks like he noticed that I was injured. I put both my pointing finger together and made a gesture to show it looked like something broken.
The man then shouted something to the group of younger persons behind him. A blond female raised her arm and went to us. They talked a little bit and the blond girl then looked to my direction while she raised some kind of stick. What the hell? did she held it like a wand, are they a Harry Potter chuunibyou or something?
The girl waved her wand in front of my broken arm. And much to my surprise, a bright light emitted from it and I felt like my bone was painfully snapped back and sewn. After what felt like an eternity, the pain subsided and I felt like my arm was good as new. I inspect it for a while and then nodded my thanks to her. She muttered something with pride and then left us to go back to the group he came from.
Okay, so not only I got transferred somewhere, but I ended up in a place where magic is real. What next? Two moons in the sky or something. While I was busy recovering from the fact that I just see magic done in front of my eyes, the man tapped my shoulder. He pointed to his wand, then to me, after that he gestured everyone around us and pointed at his lip. A translation spell, huh? That might gave me a better chance communicating with them so I nodded.
He pointed his staff to me, and just like before, a light emitted from the staff and it shot at me. A few seconds later the light died down. I checked myself, it seems nothing has changed.
"So…. Can you understand our language now?" he asked me to make sure if his spell did it work
"Yes, I can. Now that we understand what each other, may I ask where is this and what's going on here? The last thing I knew I was riding through the town and suddenly got here" I asked him a question that was just now I thought about. I was too worried for the pinkette in front of me to think about it.
The bald man cleared his throat before answered "you are in Tristain Academy of Magic, in a nation called Tristain of the Halkeginia Continent. I am Professor Jean Colbert, an instructor at this academy" he paused to let that information sink into me.
"As for what happened, I am currently supervising a Familiar Summoning Ritual performed by my students here" He continued after a few second.
"Familiar Summoning ritual? What the hell is that?" I asked him again, still don't understand what was going on
"The Familiar Summoning ritual is a sacred ritual that is also a required curriculum here at this academy for all the second year students. It is through this ritual that the mages will meet their fated familiar who will help with their magic" He explained.
"So, that means I was summoned here as a familiar? By who if I might ask?" I asked again, confirming my situation. The pink haired girl opened her mouth a little before she closed it again, apparently hesitating between revealing that she was the one who summoned me.
"Yes, it is Miss Valliere here who summoned you here"
"Is there any way to reverse the summon? As in returning me to where I came from before I summoned here" I asked again while crossing my arm in front of my chest.
"I'm afraid that is not possible, this is a sacred ritual, canceling it would be a blasphemy" He answered again with an apologetic look.
"So what happens after a familiar was successfully summoned?"
"Ah, the mage who summoned them were to perform the sealing of a contract to bind the summoned being"
"And how long is this contract supposed to last?"
"I believe it is a live long contract that will expire when either the summoner or the familiar died"
I sighed at that, it looks like I was trapped here for who knows how long. Oh well, the best course of action now would follow with the ritual and find a way to go home while I stay here as her familiar. "Looks like I got no choice but to continue with the contract, huh? let's hurry it up then"
"Yes, Miss Valliere, if you would please" Colbert said to the girl.
"But.." The pinkette started but she was cut off by Colbert.
"While summoning a human is unheard of, this is an important ritual, so I asked that you do it properly" The pink haired girl was about to protest again, but Colbert cut her off again. "Or would you rather be expelled?"
"I understand…" she sighed with defeat. She then walked to my direction and stopped right in front of me, I can hear all the other students laughed while she approached me.
"Kneel down will you!? I can't reach your face!" she shouted to me, obviously irritated. Why would she need to reach my face? Oh well, I don't have any idea how this worked so I do as she said.
"My name is Louise Francoise Le Blanc De La Valliere, pentagon of the five elemental power, bless this humble being and make him my familiar!" she chanted her spell, then she kissed me on the lips.
To say I was shocked was an understatement, I was very surprised that can't even get away from her. Luckily it was a short one, she pulled away as quickly as her lips touched my lips.
"I can't believe I wasted my first kiss on you" she said as she walked away a little bit. And again, I could hear her classmates laughed.
Whatever word I was about to say to her afterwards were cut off as I felt my body heated up. I can even see my skin was all reddened and steam came out of it. Then, all the heat concentrated to my left arm. It was so intense that I felt like my skin was getting peeled. "What the hell is happening?"
"Don't worry, it's just the rune getting etched to your body" She explained calmly.
Suddenly a bright light shone from the upper side of my left wrist. It glowed brightly for a few second until it finally died down. Curious of what just happened, I took off my left glove, revealing a set of runes.
Colbert seems a bit surprised seeing the runes on my wrist. So he approached me and asked "Excuse me, can I see your hand for a second….." he paused, apparently just now remembered that he hadn't asked my name.
"The name's Wahyu Rulyanto, you can just call me Rully though" I told him while I show him my left wrist. He inspected it closely, in fact instead of a professor who found a new research subject, he looked more like a kid who just saw a new toy.
"Thank you, I was curious since a contract rune doesn't usually be so specific"
Just as he was about to talk to his students, my right forearm glowed crimson red. Everyone was now looking at me like I just grew a second head.
"A second rune?" Colbert said assuming that this was another rune being etched to me. "I never heard of this before, a familiar contract should only consist of one rune"
Unlike before, this time the 'rune' was even visible through my glove. It was crimson red in color and shaped like a wing. What the hell….. this is
"A birthmark of Crimson Dragon" I muttered, surprised to see this mark appeared on my forearm. But how? It should only a fictional phenomenon.
"Pardon me… you said Birthmark?" Colbert asked me, curious about what it is since it obviously wasn't a rune.
"It's nothing, just my birthmark, I don't know why It glowed though" I lied to him. He seems to not believe what I said, but let it slid. I got a feeling he would asked about it again someday.
He turned to his students and lectured something before dismissing them. They then flew away from the scene, literally. It was now just me and Louise here, well, not for a very long time though, because she also turn away and told me to follow her. I took my backpack and followed her until we both reached a door, she opened it and come inside.
I was greeted by a classic styled bedroom. Complete with enormous bed, a lot of expensive looking furniture, etc. just as I was admiring the view, Louise walked to a table and sat on a chair beside it.
"AAAAH mou! This supposed to be the day I prove that I wasn't a zero! Why did it became like this?" She shouted while she scratched her hair like a frustrated person would. "Familiar! Make me some tea!"
"I have a name, you know. It wouldn't hurt for you to call me with my name" I shot back at her, obviously stating that I don't want to be called as 'familiar'
"What!? You dare to disobey and talk back to me, your master?"
"While I am indeed aware that I was summoned here by you to serve as your familiar, the very least you can do is to refer to me with my name instead of 'familiar'. I am still a human being, you know"
"Just make some tea already!" she shouted while taking out her wand, looks like she want to hit me with a spell next time I talk back to her. Guess I have no choice then.
"tch! Fine, I'll make some tea. But I request you to refer to me by my name next time" It seems I don't have any choice but to do what she said for now, I gain nothing from arguing with her and to antagonized someone who probably the only one who has answer to all questions in my head now is not a good thing to do.
"Very well, but you better obey me next time"
"Hai hai…"
After the argument we just spent the day drinking some tea while I asked her anything that I didn't understand from Colbert's explanation earlier, what exactly is a familiar, what it do, etc. She was quite cute when she's not angry though. By the time she explained everything it was already night.
She went to her bed and just undress right there without even considering me. Che… looks like she still don't treat me as a human. Right after she changed to her nightgown, she threw her uniform to me.
"Wash it, I want it clean by morning. And also, wake me up when it's morning"
"So when you said that a familiar's duty is to serve their master, it's including laundry…."
"Well, since you're a human familiar, then it is also your duty"
I sighed and turn around to leave her room to find some place to wash this. Right when I was about to open the door, I noticed that my title duel disk wasn't in my backpack.
"Hey, Louise. Did you see my Duel Disk?"
"Duel what!?" she asked back almost shouting, obviously annoyed that I still make her awake.
"Duel Disk, some kind of gauntlet with a big ornament shaped like this" I explained to her while showing what it looks like with my hands.
"I haven't seen anything like that. Maybe you dropped it when you crashed"
She got a point there, guess I have to look for it there. I got out of there to find the place where I can wash these damn clothes while tracing my way back to the yard where I crashed earlier.
"…..A King of dueling tournament has just demoted to a laundry man" I sighed aloud just as I got out of the dorm tower. I looked up to see two moons in the sky, one blue and one pink… or is it magenta, I'm not sure which one.
"Um… excuse me, are you Ms. Valliere's familiar?" A voice of a girl asked me from behind as I was looking at the moons. I turned around to see a maid, she was around Louise's age, black hair and eyes, in fact she looked almost like an average Japanese.
"It looks like words travels at speed of light here, huh? yes, I am her familiar, the name's Wahyu Rulyanto, you can call me Rully, and you are?"
"My name is Siesta, I work here as a maid" She answered with a smile.
"Yeah, I can see that. By the way, do you know where I can wash these? My master asked me to wash it but I don't know where I can wash it"
"Oh, you can wash it at the Servant's quarter. If you want I can wash it for you" She offered. Well, I didn't expect her to be this kind. If only Louise was like her.
"No thanks, just show me where it is, I can wash this by myself" I denied her offer as kindly as I can, it's a good thing she didn't insist on washing it, so she showed me where the Servant's Quarter is. She kept me accompanied while I was washing my master's clothes. We had some chat while I was washing, well, not really a chat though, since I only speak so little, I'm not a very good talker since I was a kid.
"Hey Siesta, can you do me a favor?" I asked her as I hung the last piece of clothes that I just washed to a rope. She looked at me questioningly.
"Of course, what can I do for you?" She replied with another smile, good thing she was a kind person.
"Can you deliver these clothes to my master's room when it dried? I need to do something and it will probably make my hand too dirty to not leave a stain on these clothes" I explained to her, I still need to find my title Duel Disk and check if my bike had any damage or not, and if it does, repair it.
"Just leave it to me, I'll send it to her room when it dried" Again she replied with a smile. After saying our goodbye, I walked to the field where I crashed. My bike's still there, but someone was also there, investigating on it. It was the teacher earlier, Colbert if I'm not mistaken.
"Poking it with your staff won't do anything to it, you know" I said as I walked slowly to his direction. He seems to be a bit startled by my sudden appearance.
"Ah, Mr. Rulyanto. I'm sorry, I just curious about this enormous wheel you brought when you got summoned"
"Just Rully is fine, no need to use any formalities while talking to me. So, what made you curious about my Phoenix Wheel?" I asked him with a little bit of pride when I mentioned my bike's name.
"Phoenix Wheel? I don't know that a phoenix have a wheel"
"JANAAAII!" Goddammit only a few hours after I got here, and already becoming a tsukkomi. "It's not literally a wheel of a Phoenix, it's just a name I gave to it"
"Ahahaha! I'm sorry, I just too excited that I didn't even realized that I asked a ridiculous question" He laughed as he rubbed the back of his head while I just facepalmed. "But, seriously, I have never seen a wheel this big in my live before. And I wonder where the rest of the carriage is"
What? He thought my bike is a wheel from a carriage…. Well considering this place is like a sixteenth century Europe, it's not surprising he would think like that.
"There's no carriage, this wheel is all part of the carriage" I told him while I raise my bike and make it stand. "This is a vehicle from where I came from" I explained again as I check my bike for any damage. Seeing no damage on the frame, I took out the key to check if there was any problem in the engine.
"But how can you ride a single wheel?" Colbert asked me again, he still can't comprehend the idea of riding a single wheel.
"You will see" I told him as I took a seat. As I was about to plug the key, I found no key hole on my bike. "What the hell?"
"What's wrong? Is it damaged?"
"No… I just can't find the key hole where I supposed to plug this ignition key. It was still there when I ride it before I crashed" A said confusedly, not even caring if he don't understand my words. Just then, I found another weird thing. My duel disk is somehow attached to it.
"What? How did this thing got stuck in there" I exclaimed as I tried to pull it out to no avail. As I checked it again, I just realized that there was a button on the bike's frame just below the duel disk.
"Weird, this wasn't supposed to be here" I said as I pressed it. That part of the bike's frame then opened and the bracelet part of the duel disk was inside it, it was in it's opened state. Not knowing what to do, I just insert my arm inside it, and it closed. When I lifted my arm, the duel disk is firmly attached to my arm.
Weird, this is just weird, the duel disk feels heavier. And the monster card zone looked like it was made from a thick glass, not a plastic like it should be. I looked to my right arm where the birthmark appeared before. Then a thought just came into my head 'could my duel disk became a real duel disk and my bike became a D-wheel?'
I pulled a card from my pocket, a Sonic Chick card.
"Here goes nothing!" I exclaimed as I slammed the card into the monster card zone in attack position.
Surprisingly enough, right in front of me a blue portal appeared and a hologram of Sonic Chick came out. I widened my eye for this, my duel disk that was supposed to be just a replica that represent me as the holder of the title of the King, now became a real duel disk.
An excited shout took me out of my thinking. I looked to my left to see Colbert's face lit up like child who just got a present.
"I didn't know you were a noble and have this cute duck as your familiar" he said while he went to get closer to Sonic Chick. Apparently Sonic Chick heard that he just called her a duck, and now started quacking furiously. Weird…. Could it be that this Sonic Chick wasn't a hologram but a spirit instead?
"Ahahah it started to quacking while jumping around. It really is a cute duck" Colbert laughed finding her furious quacking to be cute. Unable to hold her anger, Sonic Chick suddenly jumped and started to peck on Colbert. I quickly stop her before she can hurt him more than that.
"Sorry about that, it seems like she doesn't like to be called a duck" I apologized to him while holding Sonic Chick who quacked as if to confirm my statement. "She's a roadrunner" I added.
"I'm sorry, she just looked like a duck that I mistook her as one. But, seriously, you should've told me earlier that you are a noble"
"To be honest I don't even understand what you guys mean by noble and commoner"
"Huh? what do you mean you don't understand? Those who can use magic are nobles, and the rest are commoners, it's that simple"
"Ah. So that how it is….. well, if it was like that, then I'm not a noble"
"Then, how is it that you can summon this roadrunner here"
Should I tell him? There's no guarantee that he will believe me if I told him that I come from other world. Besides, I'm not really sure about what had happened. You know what, screw it, I'll tell him all I know. Here goes nothing
….
"So basically, you are from another world and this gauntlet you are using used to be a simple championship prize and the summoning ritual changed them into a summoning device to summon a spirit from your cards? This is interesting, I never heard of anything like this before"
Yes, I told him everything, and for some reason he believed me. I guess being an extremely curious person has a role to that.
"Kind of like that. By the way, about what I just told you, don't tell anyone about it okay, keep it a secret between the two of us. You understand, Mr. Cob…. Clob… GAH! Can I just call you Jean? Your last name is a little bit hard to say"
"It's okay, just call me Jean. And I will do my best to keep this between us" he replied with a smile. Then he looked at my bike. "Still, I'm curious to see how this wheel move"
"Ah right, I was about to show you that, am I" I said as I took the Sonic Chick card from my duel disk and put it in my pocket again. And as I expected, Sonic Chick disappeared in a flash. The rest of the night continued with me showing Jean how my bike works and repairing it while showing him my bike's part.
The next day, I woke up with sun ray shone right onto my face. I stretched and got up from the chair where I slept. Yes, I slept on a chair instead of that stack of straw beside my master's bed.
As I looked at the table in front of me, I found my master's clothes neatly folded. Got to thank Siesta if I met her again today. Okay, next is to wake up the sleeping girl. I just pulled her blanket as hard as I can, and she woke up.
"Who?" She asked groggily, then she seems to remember something "Oh, right, you're my familiar"
"It's morning already. Wake up" I told her as I picked up her clothes "here's your clothes, all cleaned"
She seems to inspect my job on cleaning her clothes. "Not bad, now get me my underwear"
"You do understand that you're ordering a man to shuffle through your underwear, right?" I asked her hoping that she would take it for herself, but judging from her expression, it seems to be the opposite.
"Left drawer on the bottom" Yep, she didn't change her mind. With a sigh I went to pick a random underwear and just tossed it to her. "I'll just wait outside until you done changing"
"Where do you think you're going!? I'm not done with my orders yet, dress me!" She shouted to me as I stood up.
"You still have your hands, so you can do it by yourself" I told her coldly like how I usually acted when I was in a match. "And like I said, I'll just wait outside" this time I said it while I reach for the door while putting on my duel disk.
"No noble would dress themselves while a servant is nearby, now dress me!" she shouted again, but this time I paid no mind and just walked to the door. Just as I was about to open it, she took out her wand and shouted "You stupid dog! Stop disobeying me and do what I said, or else"
I picked up a card from my pocket, a Luster Dragon card, and turned around while slamming it to my duel disk. A vortex appeared and a Luster Dragon came out of it, it sat on a table.
"Or what?" I asked her with venom in my voice. "Despite being your familiar, I'm still a human being, thus, I still have my pride and dignity. Picking up your clothes and your underwear is one thing, but for me to undress and change your clothes is a pain in my pride"
"Mark my word, girl. The next time you call me dog, the last thing you'll remember is his jaw chewing on your heart" I told her while pointing at Luster Dragon, then I opened the door while unsummoning Luster Dragon, Leaving the still stunned Louise alone. "like I said before, I'll wait outside"
As I got outside and leaned to the wall beside Louise's room door, I can't help but felt guilty of my action earlier. It's true that she went over the line for treating me less than a human, but I shouldn't scare her like that. I should apologize to her when she done changing.
As if on cue, the door opened and Louise's head came out. "I'm done changing, now come in. We need to talk"
Following her order, I came into her room. She sat at her bed and motioned me to take a seat. I do what she asked and took a seat on the chair I slept on last night. "So what is it you want to talk about?"
"I wanted to apologize. While it's true you're disobeying my order, I understand your reason for it. As such, I won't ask you to do it again" She said still maintaining her prideful look. Oh well, at least she apologized. My turn now
"I also want to apologize, while what I said is true, telling it while scaring you with Luster Dragon is not how it supposed to be done"
"What was that dragon anyway?"
"Let's just say that he was my familiar" I told her while showing the card and my duel disk. "I can summon it anytime by putting this card on my duel disk here"
"So you're a noble?"
"Nope"
"A degraded noble then?"
"Nope, I'm a commoner, about how I got my familiar..." I paused a bit while looking away from her. Just as I was about to say something, my stomach growled. I chuckled, then told her "I'll tell you after we got something to eat"
"Fair enough. Follow me" She said while getting up. She then went to the door and opened it "We're getting our breakfast"
I followed her to the dining room. As I entered it, I was greeted with yet another magnificent room. Louise lead me to a chair and stopped. Looking at her for a moment, I realized that she waited for me to pull her chair, I pulled it and she took a seat.
I watched as they said their prayer before eating. As they done praying I asked Louise about where I can get something to eat. She just pointed at the floor beside her chair. I followed her finger and saw a plate with bread and a glass of milk there. That's my food? You gotta be kidding me
Oh well, it is still better than having nothing, so I drank the milk and picked the bread.
"I'll wait outside until you finish your meal" I told my master as I left the room while eating the bread.
Waiting outside turned out to be so much boring, how long does they take for having breakfast anyway. I pulled out one of my decks and started to shuffle it, it's my habit that I usually do when I got bored. As I was shuffling through it, a single card fell from it. A quick glance before it touch the ground told me that it was one of my synchro monsters. Oops, looks like I forgot to separate my extra deck before I shuffle it.
Seeing a vacant table not far from where I stood, I decided to re-organize my deck there. So I pick up the fallen card and went to the table. As I took a look at the single card that has fallen from the deck, my eyes widened. It's still a synchro monster card, but what surprised me was that this card is a blank card.
Scrambling through my deck, I took out each and every one of my synchro monsters. Armory Arm, A.O.J Catastor, Exploder Dragonwing, Chaos King Archfiend, Red Dragon Archfiend, all of them remains unchanged. Then that means this card must be my Red Nova Dragon. But how…. How did it became a blank card like this while the other cards remains unchanged.
"What are you doing here?" A sudden question by Louise snapped me back from my thinking. It seems she finished her meal already.
"Nothing, just checking on my cards" I told her as I recollect the cards and put them back in my pocket, this time I put the extra deck in a different pocket. "Sit down, like I said earlier, I'll tell you my story. By the way, don't you have any class today?"
"No, all second year students got a day off to spend their time with the newly summoned familiar and deepen their bond" She said as she sat on the chair in front of me. She called a maid and ordered her to make us some tea.
So then, I told her everything I told Jean last night. About me being from another world, about my duel disk that was just a trophy, about my cards, and the origins of the card game, everything. Needless to say, she was speechless. Mainly from the amount of what I told her, and also if she could believe it.
"So you were saying that your cards were just a normal card game based on some kind of play, and your duel something was a trophy for a tournament of said card game, and somehow my summoning magic turned them into a summoning device?"
"Duel disk" I corrected her. "And yes, it was something like that"
"As unbelievable that is, I've already seen you summoned one of them. But, it's still unbelievable" was her respond. Well, I understand her reason to hardly believe it. I can hardly believe it either if someone told me something like that before this happened.
"I need to do something, you wait here until I get back, okay?" Louise said as she got up from her chair and about to leave.
"Where are you going?" I asked her while taking a sip from my glass.
"I-i-It's none of your business! Just stay here and wait!" She shouted while blushing. Ah, now I understand what is that something she needed to do. Oh well, I'll just wait her here.
As I waited for Louise to come back, I saw a familiar form of Siesta carrying a tray of cake. I got up from my seat and called her, she stopped and turned to me.
"Hello Ruly" She greeted me with a smile.
"Yo, Still serving cake and tea, I see. Who's the cake for now if I might ask, is it for my master?"
"Ah no, this one is for Miss Montmorency over there" She answered pointing to a blonde couple with a giant mole on the male's lap and tiny frog on the girl's hand. If I remember correctly, she's the one who healed my arm yesterday. Oh well, might as well help her with this one while saying my thanks to her for that.
"Hey Siesta, mind if I serve this one? Just think of it as my thanks for last night"
"Ah no, you don't need to help me. I'm fine with doing this alone" She denied my offer gently
"No, it's fine really. After all, I have some business with her as well"
"Okay, if you insist then" She sighed as she gave me the tray. So, with that done, I went to their table to serve the cake. As I got to their table, I put the cake on the table gently. Montmorency's boyfriend seems to be talking to her, so I waited until they're done talking to say anything.
"Miss Montmorency, Is it?" I said as they stopped talking, turning their attention to me.
"Yes, and if I'm not mistaken, you're The Zero's familiar" She answered while still caressing her familiar. "What business do you have with me?"
"I would like to thank you for healing my arm yesterday. As my gratitude, I will gladly help you with anything if you need"
"Very well, I don't need anything for the time being, so you may go now"
"Okay then, if you ever need help with anything, just call me. Now I'll excuse myself, good afternoon to you two" I said as I turned around. As I was about to leave, the boy called
"Familiar, tell the maid that we need more tea" He said without ever looking into my direction.
"With pleasure" I answered. I got back to where I sat earlier, along the way I met Siesta and tell her about the blonde's order.
As I was waiting for Louise to return, I hear some commotion from where the couple was before. I turned around to see that the boy was interrogated by Montmorency and another younger girl. A two-timer, huh? oh well, not my business.
"What was that commotion?" A sudden voice of Louise asked. Looks like she just got back when this commotion began. I saw her observing the commotion for a while until she said something. "So, Guiche has finally caught two-timing, huh?"
"It would appear so. Took Montmorency long enough to finally noticed that" A new voice said. I looked to see a busty red-head with darker skin and uniform that clearly showed her cleavage, she was accompanied by a shorter blue haired quiet girl whose eyes never leave her book.
The four of us saw the entire thing happened, Guiche was cornered by both girl asking him the truth, and when they finally realize the truth, they slapped him and ran away. I whistled at this, after all, seeing a two-timer got owned by her girlfriends were just priceless.
However, my enjoyment gone when the boy got up and glared at Siesta. Causing the maid to become more nervous than she was before.
"I hope you're ready to bear the consequences for tarnishing a noble's honor, maid" he began as he caressed his reddened cheek.
"I-it was just an accident, I swear!" Siesta protested anxiously, obviously afraid of the young noble.
"It is because of your action that my and two ladies' honor been wronged. Now, you will make amends for what you have done" Guiche said ignoring his friends who were laughing and stating that it was his own fault.
Having enough of this nonsense, I got up from my chair and flung a card to the boy. It flew and spun around quickly and landed right on the blonde's right eye, pecking it. The boy screamed in pain while his hand covered his pecked eye.
"Who did that!?" he screamed at the top of his lungs, his face reddened in anger.
"I did!" I stated loudly while crossing my arm. Once again acting like a cold guy with superiority complex, just like my in-ring persona. While behind me Louise was shouting at me for interfering Guiche's problem.
"You! You're the Zero's familiar! What do you think you're doing interfering in my problem and hurting my eye!? Don't you know how to act to a noble!?" he shouted angrily to me, still covering his right eye with his hand.
"While I do know how to properly act to a noble, I see no reason to act like so to a piece of dust like you" I stated with a voice louder than before while looking down on him.
"So that's how it is then, it would seems that I need to teach you a lesson for your act. I challenge you to a duel!" The boy said.
I chuckled at his challenge. He just challenged me without even knowing what I can do, such recklessness. Oh right, I forgot that I still acting like a cold, arrogant king, need to continue the act properly. I started laughing with a small voice, then after a few moments I started to laughed loudly.
"You? Challenging me to a duel? Don't make a joke, kid. What makes you think that a piece of dust like you can hold your ground against me, let alone defeating me in a duel?" I said calmly as I stopped laughing. The crowds gasps at what I said.
"It's quite simple really" Guiche said calmly. "I am a noble, while you are a commoner. I have my magic and you have nothing"
"we'll just have to see that for ourselves then"
"It's decided then, meet me at Vestri Court within thirty minutes. I do hope that you won't run away, familiar" He said calmly as he left, some of his colleague following closely behind him.
"What were you thinking?" Louise yelled at me, her face reddened in irritation. "You can't go around an challenge a noble! Come with me now! We'll apologize to Guiche and hope that he accepted it"
"She's right, Rully" Siesta intervened just before I said something. "He is a noble and has his magic, you stood no chance against him"
"Relax will ya" I told both Louise and Siesta. "Louise, you do remember what I told you earlier and what happened today in your room, right?" I asked Louise, to which she nodded.
"Do you really think I could lose from him then?"
"I'm not entirely believed what you told me earlier. It could be a lie to make me impressed and nothing more"
"even after what I summoned in front of you earlier?"
"we-well, let's just say that what you told me were true. We still have to apologize to him, you could kill him if you make him fight that thing!"
"relax, nobody will die today" I said as I went away from them, ignoring Siesta cries of worry.
"Where are you going now?" Louise asked as she followed me from behind
"To your room, I need to change my clothes. After all, a King should look as majestic as he can when he goes to battlefield, right?" I said as I continued to go to Louise's room, leaving two girls confused while the other one just looked like she doesn't care and still reading her book.
Professor Jean Colbert ran hurriedly to the headmaster's office with a book on his hand. He just made a discovery, and it was a discovery regarding the existence of the fifth element itself. He knocked on the door and waited for it to be unlocked.
As the door was unlocked by the old headmaster, Old Osmond, who was sitting behind his desk, while his secretary Ms. Longueville sat behind a table by the door.
"Old Osmond, I found something very interesting while investigating the runes that were appeared on Ms. Valliere's familiar" he said as he opened the book to a certain page and showed it to Osmond. "The runes were very identical to this"
Osmond's eyes widen when he saw this. He glanced at Longueville and said "Ms. Longueville, can you please leave us for a moment. This is a matter of utmost secrecy"
"I understand" she said as she bowed and then went outside.
After making sure that his secretary was out of hearing range, Osmond continued the topic. "This rune supposed to be a rune that only existed on a familiar in legends. For it to appear on Ms. Valliere's familiar… this might have something to do with the lost element"
"Not only that, but after the runes has been etched, there was something else that showed up on him" Colbert said as he took out a sheet of parchment with the drawing of the familiar's birthmark. "He told me that it was his birthmark, but I suspect it is more than that"
"I've never seen anything like that before, he could be saying the truth about that one" The headmaster began after he observed the sketches. "Whatever the truth is, do not let anyone know about this"
"I understand sir"
Just as Colbert was about to pack his things and leave the office, Longueville burst into the room and hurriedly ran to the headmaster's desk.
"There's a duel between Mr. Gramont and Ms. Valliere's familiar in Vestri Court" she reported to both man.
"Duels are forbidden! We have to stop this" Colbert protested as he was about to ran out of the room.
"I'm afraid we can't. While it's true that duels are forbidden, it is only for duels between nobles, there was no rules that stated that duels between noble and commoner are forbidden"
"But….."
"besides…" Osmond began as he casted a spell to a magical mirror, causing it to projects the images and sound of Vestri Court. "we might find out the truth about your discovery with this duel"
Colbert could only agree with his words as was looking at the projection
And cut.
I decided to put the duel on the next chapter, since it's already long enough. so look forward to the next chapter, okay
Update will not be so quick, but I swear I'll update this story. leave your review if you would like, with that all said, see you next time~
