Chapter 8


Louise and Saito received a letter and they are summoned to Henrietta's palace for a little appointment with her.

As they arrived at the luxurious throne room, Louise bowed her head and had her hand crossed against her chest in respect, while Saito glumly just looked on. He waited for the two girls to socialize. Henrietta stood up from her throne and walk towards them.

"Congratulations, Louise de la valliere," Henrietta greeted.

"Thank you, your Majesty," Louise said while bowing, "Being granted the title of Chevalier is a great honor for such as me.

"You deserve the title for what you've done. It's amazing that you were able to capture the thief who was harassing our citizens. And thank you, Saito."

Saito nodded back with an empty look in reply. Louise opened one eye as she saw this.

She hissed, "Saito!"

He ignored her. Henrietta smiled, and then said, "Please vow to take care of my precious friend."

"You musn't, Princess!" Louise cried in shock, "You musn't let your hand touch such a familiar as this one!"

Saito frowned and thought, "How long is she going to keep up this familiar bullshit?"

"Protecting you is the same thing as vowing to me," Henrietta explained, "When one vows to do something, there has to be a reward."

Louise hesitated, but she relented. Saito stood there confused while Henrietta had her hand up.

"Should I supposed to kiss her hand?" Saito whispered to Louise.

"What do you think?" she hissed.

"Hmphf..."

Saito got on one knee and took his hand to hold Henrietta's. Then, he kissed it. Henrietta blushed. Saito got back to standing up normally and bowed. He didn't want to do this, but he realized a few days ago since he meet her for a first time.

"Well… with that out of the way, I actually have a favor to ask you both…" Henrietta said.

"Please! Anything! If you tell me to kill myself, I will jump out of the window with my familiar this instant!" Louise cried.

Saito thought while dropping a nervous sweat, "Holy Cow… That princess got herself a true worshipper…"

"I would like the two of you to live in a town for a short time…" Henrietta began.

"Huh?"

Then she took out a scroll from a nightstand and handed it to Louise.

"This is an identity scroll printed by us."

Louise looked at it for a while, and then asked, "You want us to spy on the town?"

Henrietta explained the mission, "I've heard that some aristocrats are oppressing the plebeians. I want to make sure if it's true. So, I would like the two of you to investigate this matter secretly. It's a very hard task but…"

Saito frowned as he thought, "Hm…Great... More shit to handle."

"I'm at your service, your Highness! I shall fulfill your request even if it costs me my life!" she exclaimed.

Louise twirled around as she said this and dragged Saito close to her. Then, she bowed while she's trying tried to hit on Saito's back to bow to her, but he caught her hand and didn't need to bow he told her that he wasn't part of this country...Later they left the royal palace.

Town

"Thank you!" called the sales clerk as Louis and Saito left the store.

Louis was in newer clothes in a simple dress with a beret on her head.

"Hmm...It's bland..." she glumly commented the clothing.

Saito reminded her, "Well, you're the one who said that we should dress up like the commoners."

She looked at him then said, "But… a little flashier would still do?"

Saito shook his head.

"At a secret investigation like this, you need to stay inconspicuous. So, you're good enough in those clothes," Saito explained drawing from his experience.

"Hmm…" hummed Louise in understanding.

The two walked on the rock-covered road in the bustling city.

"So, what's next?" Saito asked her.

"A horse."

It later turns out that it's too expensive, so they left with Louise fuming.

"I can't believe a horse costs 400 new gold! Getting one will make us broke!" she grumbled.

It also turns out they can't even sleep in a five star hotel for nobles since it costs 200 new gold…

"Let's head to a cheap hotel."

"No! I can't sleep in such a cheap room!"

Saito shrugged and asked, "Well, what are you going to do? Sleep outside? I bet you've never taken care of yourself, huh?"

Louise frowned and said, "Fine! I'll manage by myself!"

"Huh? What do you mean?" he said

Louise quickened the pace to get away from him. Saito tried to follow, but Louis told him, "Don't follow me! I'll be back!"

"Hey! Louise!"

But, she disappeared among the crowd.

"Tch," Saito thought distastefully, "I guess I got no choice…"

Later...He sat down angrily on the edge of a fountain and waited…

"YOU'VE LOST ALL THE WHOLE MONEY AT THE DAMN FUCKING CASINO?" Saito screamed at her when she came back.

"What do you want me to do? They told me that I could make more there!" she argued back.

"Holy Cow… You've gotta be shittin' me… There's a Serious limit going on here and how clueless you can be …" Saito groaned.

"Be quiet! I'm already thinking about what I should do next!" she snapped.

Saito sit down, makes a palm on his and said, "Well, we've gotta go ask more from the Princess in any case…"

"This task was given to us personally by her Majesty! I'm sure she went through a lot to give us this much," Louise explained angrily.

Saito frowned and said, "And you said that we needed a horse and didn't want to spend a few nights in a cheap hotel."

"But, I need them…"

Saito palmed his face again in exasperation while groaning.

"Well in either case, we need to find a place to sleep at…"

"Tres bien!"

"What?"

Louise and Saito turned to see some sort of gay muscular man with big lips wearing shorts and a shirt that doesn't cover his stomach.

"What a cute face! You seem like you're in a lot of trouble. Bon jour! Bon-! As you see, I'm not a suspicious person at all!" the gay man said.

Saito and Louis dropped a sweat. They both turned to leave.

"Ah! Wait! Don't you want to sleep in an inn?"

This got Saito's attention. He turned around to listen and look at him.

"My name is Scarron! I run an inn just down the road. Would you like me to lend you guys a room?" offered Scarron.

Saito dropped a sweat and didn't want to go for homosexuals though he did tolerate their existence… But, what choice did they have? Since Louise pretty much dumped the money in the casino like taking a dump like in a garbage.

"Uh… sure…"

"Saito!"

"Shut up, Louise," Saito hissed back, "Whose fault do you think it is that we're in this serious situation?"

"B-U-T! Under one condition…"

At The Charming Fairy Inn

As Louise was introduced to the staff of the Charming Fairy Inn, Saito deduced she was mad as he glanced her expression while taking out the trash.

"Serves her right…" Saito thought.

"Hey newbie! Help me wash the dishes!" the girl at the washing sink called Saito, "We're opening!"

"Ah, ok! Sorry!"

Saito ran over to the sink and helped the girl clean the dishes. He noticed the girl looking at him with a suspicious look.

"What is it?"

"Nothing, my name is Jessica. And you are?" Jessica said and asked.

"Saito," he introduced himself.

"Saito? What a strange name," she commented.

"Hmm…" hummed Saito in affirmation while cleaning the dishes and keeping his eyes on them.

"Well, in any case, nice to meet you, Saito. If you've got any questions about work, ask me." Jessica told him while dropping a sweat at his lack of response.

"Sure…"

Work started and it turns out Louise wasn't exactly work material… as her noble heritage was manifested through her behavior. The two were in their appointed rooms after work was over…

"Y-You have to be kidding me! W-Why does a Duke's daughter… h-have to…" Louise cried as they were inside.

Saito was inspecting Derflinger; frowned and told her, "Well, it's your fault for wasting all that money in the casino… Besides, we're getting food, a place to sleep, and even getting paid."

"Sleep where? You mean this haunted house-like attic?" she cried.

"Whatever. You want to sleep outside?...Be my guest."

Saito took a couple of blankets and sat down with his back to the floor. The blanket covered his entire body except for his head. The swords were kept close to him.

"A lot of shit happened today… I want to sleep," he murmured drowsily.

"How can you adapt so easily?" she asked crossly.

"I'm used to it. I used to move around a lot," he tiredly explained while remembering his missions back in his world.

Louise gave up as she saw Saito close his eyes to sleep. She moved the blanket over her small body for warmth and tried to sleep. But, she couldn't. Louise turned her head over to her familiar and thought, "Seriously. He doesn't even feel anything when his master is wearing that? Why won't he—"

There was a screech. Louise sat up on her bed and saw three bats hanging upside down on the ceiling. The bats flew and harassed her a little by fluttering their wings at her. Louise sprang out of the bed in fear. The bats flew back to the ceiling. She was scared to sleep on the bed. Then, she blushed, took a blanket from the bed and sat next to him to cuddle for warmth to sleep near his side.

"Why do I have to suffer…?" Louise thought with watery eyes.

The next day, Louise and Saito were already working in their respective areas. Saito usually kept to himself as he continued to wash the dishes despite the Jessica's attempts to start up conversations. Unfortunately for Louise it seemed that she was told to watch and observe the ways how her other co-workers work as her pride as a noble got in the way to give customer service.

"Huh? You're Scarron's daughter?" Saito somewhat exclaimed in a loud voice indicating Jessica succeeded.

He stopped washing the dish he was holding and was still holding onto it despite the slippery water.

"That's right," Jessica clarified, "I'm also in charge of this shop."

She had to leave and go do some other work.

"Damn…" he thought to himself, "How did he produced her?"

Jessica returned and started to talk more about her father with Saito. Louise glanced at their interaction and became enraged as she saw the well-endowed bust Jessica had.

"Breast! He actually cares about breasts?" she raged...(Actually he's not looking only at her breasts, He's looking at the dishes that they were needed to be cleaned.)

The enraged girl took hold of a liquor bottle and threw it at his head. Saito caught the flying bottle and put it to the side. Jessica cried out in surprise while Louise gaped at him. But, the prideful girl snarled at him while Saito continued to wash more dishes.

The next few days was the last day for information gathering for Henrietta's sake.

"Today's the last day… At this rate, not only will I not be first…" Louise muttered and then sighed hopelessly.

A fat and an Ugly noble with a tuft of hair entered the inn along with several men in decorated uniforms who acted as his escorts.

"Hello. Hello. Sir Turenne. Welcome to the Inn!" Scarron greeted the man nervously.

The noble commented impudently, "Looks like you're making good money, here."

"No, no, you just came at a busy day!" Scarron replied, "Usually it's very quiet and lacking exuberance."

Turenne interrupted, "I'm here as a customer today! I don't need to hear your excuses!"

The inn was silent as death as the waitresses and customers stared at Turenne.

"Unfortunately, the seats are all filled now…" Scarron told him nervously with a nervous sweat coming down his forehead.

"It doesn't look like it to me," Turenne said as he snapped his fingers.

His escorts took out their wands that prompted the customers to clear out all at once. Turenne smirked and then sat at a table.

"I guess the lack of exuberance is true," he sneered.

Then he noticed none of the waitresses were not coming to him.

"Hey! No one's going to attend to the Queen's revenue agent?" Turenne angrily asked.

Saito asked Jessica, "Who's the ugly fatass?"

"He's Turenne," Jessica explained as she peeked from the kitchen, "one of the revenue agents in charge of this area. We get heavily taxed if we disobey them, so anyone working has to listen to them. He touches all he wants and doesn't leave a tip… No one would attend to him."

"Huh? Louise?" Saito noticed the pinkette walking towards Turenne with a tray.

She pretended to be happy and tried her best to give better customer service than before.

"You're very handsome, sir!" she lied with a fake smile.

Turenne looked at her lack of bust and then rudely said, "This place is letting guys work here?"

"G-guys?" Louise was surprised at his rudeness as she still tried to be courteous to him.

"Oh, she actually has a flat chest. Here, let me see how big it actually is!"

"CUT THE CRAP!" Louise roared while kicking Turenne in the face.

Scarron and the waitresses cried in horror at the action, "Kyaaaaaa! Gyaaaaaah!"

"Oh shit!" Jessica cursed and then looked back to see Saito.

But he disappeared.

"You bitch!"

"You insolent bitch!"

"How dare a commoner do that!"

"Please forgive her. She's still new here," Scarron tried to save Louise.

"Shut up!" Turenne cried as he flipped over a table in anger, "How dare you!"

Saito appeared in a flash between the revenue agent and Louise.

"Saito!"

"Hey that's enough, Fatass." Saito warned.

"To kick a noble's face…" Turenne raged.

"Who gives a serious shit here?"

"W-What? Arrest these people! I'll hang them!"

The escorts brought out wands and swords to get Saito, but he was already at work.

He roundhouse-kicked a mage closest to him.

"Gwooagh!"

"You bastard!" cried a swordsman escort as he swung his sword at Saito.

Saito caught it with his gloved hand and then threw him at the mages.

"Gwaaagh!"

Thump!

The mages and swordsman were out of commission before a spell chant could be uttered.

"Bastard!" cried two swordsmen this time.

They swung their swords at him on the left and right separately.

"Saito!" Louise cried.

In return, the Elementalist dodged the and gave a hard punch from the right and the swordsman fly though the window, and the second attack came from behind and dodged back, engulfed his flame on his right feet and gave him a hard fire kick.

"Doragonfaiyākikku"! (Dragon's Fire Kick)

Bam!

"Gowaaaah!"

Crash!

And sent him out flying off through the roof from the inn, And Turenne's swordsmen were already knocked out.

"W-What y-you can use magic!" cried Turenne.

Boom!

"Gowaaaaaaghhh!" cried the revenue agent and Saito as they were thrown away from an explosion.

Saito ducked and covered his head out of reflex as he landed. He looked up to see Louise on top of a table with a wand drawn in her hand.

"Isn't a washboard too much?" she growled, "Of all the people, I was attending to you, so why do I deserve those words?"

"W-what you're a noble too!" Turenne was shocked.

"My name is worth more than you deserve to hear! Disappear from this place before you regret it!"

Turenne scowled angrily, "Hmph! You must be a ruined noble! Who do you think—"

Louise took out the identification scroll Henrietta gave her.

"Aargh!" Turenne cried in shock as he saw the Royal Seal.

"Who's a ruined noble, now?" she taunted.

The revenue agent bowed before and pleaded, "H-have this and please forget this matter!"

He took out a large bag filled with gold coffers.

"We beg you!"

Louise ordered him, "Listen! Forget everything you saw and heard here."

"Understood! In the name of the Queen, I will never mention anything about it!" Turenne swore in fear.

Then he ran off with his escorts screaming bloody hell in fear. As they left one of the waitresses told Louise with respect, "You're amazing, Louise-chan!"

"You got rid of that pervert!" cried another.

The waitresses started flocking towards her and Louise blushed at the attention. Saito came up to her and glumly reminded her, "Fool, You shouldn't be using magic…"

"But…"

"This shop doesn't care about the employees' background," Scarron said, "So; I didn't see or hear anything! Right, everyone?"

"Yes, of course not!" chimed the waitresses.

"I guess you're number one," Jessica said while holding onto the gold bag Turenne left behind, "We don't need to count."

"But this is something they just left behind!" Louise retorted.

"They left it behind, so it's a tip! So, the winner of the Tip Race is Louise!"

The waitresses cheered and clapped as Louise blushed.

"Well… We'll have to leave…" Saito muttered as he was lying on the bed, "Even though if they say it's ok…"

Then he noticed rummaging at the closet as he lifted his head to see.

"Hey, do you need help with that?"

"No! Don't look!" Louise cried.

Saito shrugged and then saw Louise step out to see her in a black sexy bustier.

"H-hey… Isn't that… The Charming Fairy Dress?"

"I only borrowed it only because they let me! I-I mean… it's… a waste…" she stammered.

Saito grinned like a cat and then said, "It looks good on you."

"Really!"

Saito nodded and then flopped his head back down onto the bed to head back to sleep.

"Once you've finished the laundry, clean the room!" Louise ordered Saito once they were back in the Academy.

It was pretty much summer break in the school.

"Alright, alright…" Saito told her nonchalantly as he carried the basket full of dirty clothes.

Saito left the dorms and was well on his way to wash the clothes.

"What are you saying? You got it all wrong!" Guiche's voice exclaimed.

Saito turned his head to see Montmorency and Guiche arguing.

"I've heard that excuse too many times! Listen Guiche. I could care less about you! I'm only dating you because you begged me to!"

Saito ignored their lover's squabble as he quickly moved down the field towards the washing station.

"That guy seriously needs to get his act really straight," Saito thought to himself.

He finally arrived at the washing station and quickly cleaned the clothes Louise ordered him to clean. After reporting back, he finally had some little free time.

Saito stretched his neck by moving it in a 360 degree circle. He brought Derflinger instead to fulfill his promise.

"Well partner," Derflinger said, "I guess you're the type of guy who keeps promises!"

Saito shrugged, "Well I have some free time, so why not?"

He looked around for a good place to train and decided the green field ahead of him was good enough. Taking his place at the middle of the field, he unsheathed Derflinger

He took hold of Derflinger and tried to think of how much he would weigh to him right now.

"Hmm…" Saito thought, "He's around the weight of a Gallian broadsword…"

He swung around Derflinger a little to survey the weight and other qualities a bit more.

Derflinger's make was very good despite the rust. Saito decided he would clean that after practice. He took Derflinger and held a basic chudan no kamae at an invisible opponent.

Derflinger could feel the intensity Saito was giving off and started to see what kind of opponent Saito summoned from his imagination.

Swish!

Saito swung at the torso which was easily dodged. He threw in an onslaught of slashes, stabs, and kicks at his imaginary opponent.

Woosh! Swish! Woosh! Woosh! Swish! Woosh!

It was no use each attack Saito threw was blocked or dodged. The opponent jumped back which Saito jumped as well, but it fell short from a distance. However, Saito kicked his heels together to reach the necessary distance. Now his opponent was surprised and Saito had the advantage.

Swish! Woosh! Woosh!

His opponent wasn't dodging anymore, only blocking. And now the final attack he uses his powerfull magical energy and connected it to derflinger and now the Blade is engulfed in Blue fire and closed his eyes.

Tokubetsuna ken no majikku no tekunikku: (Special Sword Magic Technique)

As his eyes opened a flash came out and sent the invisible opponent a final strike.

"Hi no surasshu!" (Fire Slash!)

BOOM!

It connected! Now Saito envisioned his opponent is already burning. The mortally injured man then fell down to the grass and disappeared from Saito's mind.

"Huff… Huff…"

Saito was panting and sweat dribbled down his bare chest, back, and neck.

"That was great, partner!" Derflinger praised him, "Who's your opponent? What's your sword style? And what Magic do you have?"

Saito panted heavily to catch his breath. As he did, his mouth moved to answer Derflinger's question.

"Well…. He was someone I once fought back during a rescue mission from my world…" Saito explained to him, "My sword style is called Tenshin Muto Ryu. It's one of the oldest existent styles back in my country… And My Magic was is know as Special Fire Magic...It is the one of the strongest magic I've ever learned and I have a special technique that I can even eat fire when I was weakened..." Derflinger was Silent "You eat fire?"

"Well of course...You know, it's my first time using a sword of your type, Derf."

Derflinger was quite surprised, "But it looked like you barely had any trouble though!"

Saito tried to answer Derflinger, "Well… I did use something similar though…"

He remembered the Gallian broadsword he was forced to use during his Training field back in the Greenleaf Academy.

"Really? I guess that explains why you're kinda used to me then," Derf said, "Am I better than the others?"

Saito shrugged, "Well… You're a little heavier and too wide to hide… But… You have better length and grip though…"

Derflinger was pleased, "Well, that's good enough for me then!"

"Saito-san?" asked a familiar voice.

Saito turned around to see Siesta with wide eyes in surprise after looking his amazing sword skills and his powerfull magic.

"Yes?"

He was waiting for her to explain why she was here for or something. But, she was fixed on his fighting style and his magic.

"Siesta?"

Siesta snapped out of it.

"Ah! Sorry! What are you doing out here? "Siesta asked quickly from surprise.

"Training. I thought I could get used to this one."

He held up Derflinger for her to see.

"Ah! Isn't that the sword Miss Valliere bought for you?"

Saito grimaced, "Yeah, but I didn't really need another one though back then… Then again I guess it was a good thing since I might need something heavier."

"Damn straight it was a good thing, partner!" Derflinger cried proudly.

"waaah! It talked!" Siesta cried in shock.

Saito explained to her that it was ok and that Derflinger was a Sentient Sword from magic. Derflinger did get a kick from surprising Siesta like that though…

Louise needed Saito for another chore. She headed outside of the dorms to find him.

"Where could he be?" she fumed as she didn't like the idea of coming to find him.

When she found him talking with Siesta, her breaking point broke as usual.

"That dog!" she snarled to herself as she headed back to the dorms, "He's my familiar! How can he be this lustful? Wait a minute! Why am I slinking away! Argh! This is so annoying!"

Louise found Guiche and Montmorency toasting to each other with wine. She went up to them as she was still fuming.

"Louise?" Montmorency greeted and asked at the same time, "What have you been doing?"

"Leave me alone!" she snapped and took the wine from Guiche, "I'm drinking this!"

"Oh no!" Montmorency thought.

She tried to stop her, but it was too late. Louise gulped down the wine with a gusto and slammed it back on the table with a, "Thanks."

She headed back to the dorms.

"I'm back!" Saito glumly announced as he entered Louise's dorm a little later.

Louise frowned, "You sure took your time!"

Saito shrugged, "It's been a while since I practiced by myself. It's a bit refreshing."

"It sure was refreshing… wasn't it?" Louise sarcastically asked.

"What do you mean?"

"You think you can fool your master's eyes…" Louise told him and then her face turned red.

"What are you ta—"Saito asked her and then noticed her red face, "Hey, are you ok? You're face is all red. Were you drinking alcohol?"

"I don't care about the face…" Louise murmured through droopy eyes.

She started to feel strange.

"Hey, Louise, are you alright?"

"Saito… Saito…" she murmured while trying to grab for him with her little hands.

"What is it?"

"Saito!" she cried as she hung on to his chest.

"Huh?"

"Idiot, idiot, idiot! Saito, you idiot!" she cried while hitting his chest lightly with her little fists.

"Why did you leave me alone to spend time with her? You big idiot!" she cried as she hugged his neck.

"What the Heck is wrong with this girl!"

"I love you so much!"

Then she cried on his shoulder as he hung his jaw from confusion and shock. Then Saito heard a knock on the door.

"Uwaaaaaaah!"

Knock Knock!

"Yes? It's open!"

The door opened to reveal Montmorency. She saw Louise and then groaned, "I knew it…"

"You knew what?"

Few seconds Later...

Saito: WHAT?


End of chapter 8