Watashino Tomodachi o kangei shimasu! I typed this in to say, welcome my friends, but apparently it translates to, my friend will do my best. Huh. Google translate for you, am I right?
Anyway, how are you all doing today? I hope you are happier with these consistent updates rather than the nothingness for weeks on end sometimes. Though it'll likely happen again eventually. After all, consistency is not exactly my forte. I'm sure you don't want to hear me blab on and on, so please start reading.
Chapter 34: Annoying People Are Everywhere
"You look pale. What's wrong?" Louise asks her familiar while getting dressed for another day of work.
The two are still in their room that Louise had cleaned a week ago after she won the tip race. She made her and him dinner herself after having Jessica teach her. She tried wear Scarron's family heirloom, a erotic looking maid get up, to entice him since it has a magic on it to make one more attracted to the beholder. It actually made him see her as a beauty without contestants. It wore off once she took it off though.
"I have a feeling something bad is going to happen. Something very embarrassing." Yuudai replies to her peeking out the window.
Louise pales at that. "Your feelings have never been wrong yet." She says looking out the window as well. "What do you think it is going to be?"
Yuudai shrugs still alert. "If I had to guess, it is someone we know. The feeling is similar to times when we would be around them and they do something stupid." He tells her.
Louise shivers, but decides to steel herself. "I bet it's nothing. Let's head down and get to work." She states earning a nod from him. He wordlessly follows her out of the attic room to the workplace.
Once in the inn area, a few of the girl workers greet him and he returns the greeting with his own. This irks Louise, but she knows he wouldn't go around with any of the women here. Other than Jessica, but that is just her personal thoughts telling her that.
"Hey Yuudai." Scarron calls over to him catching his attention. "I want you to be around Louise today. Just to be sure her bill doesn't go up again."
"No problem." Yuudai replies hearing Louise grumble about not needing his watchful gaze always on her.
"Très bien." Scarron says going to finish up preparations for their opening.
"I want to laugh about this, but I feel so off right now." Yuudai mutters realizing the feeling is valid. "Which one will it be though?"
The hours go by quick enough with a few of his regular people noticing his strange mood. They'd ask him and he'd only tell them that it's nothing more than a bad feeling. Considering he was only their regular waiter, they never pressed him for more information. Jessica asked about the mood too, but he said the same thing to her getting the same reaction as the customers. Only difference being that she knows he can take care of himself easily.
Close to mid day, Yuudai is about to let go of the feeling. Until his eyes catch what is walking through the door. Or rather, who is. Kirche, Tabith, Montmorency and Guiche are walking into the one inn that he and Louise are in. The four walk to a clean table after being greeted by Scarron. Seems they think this is nothing more than a regular bar or something.
"As long as Blanc and I are don't reveal ourselves, we'll be fine." Yuudai says to himself. He deadpans at Louise walking to them without looking at who they. "Blanc, you idiot!" Yuudai accidentally shouts covering his mouth and quickly disappearing with his speed elsewhere.
"What did you say!?" Louise angrily retorts turning around at breakneck speed.
"Louise?" Kirche and Guiche ask at the same time.
Louise pales realizing why Yuudai said that. She wants payback against him for ditching her with them though. Louise turns around hiding her face behind a platter to face the quartet.
"What are you doing here Louise?" Kirche asks smirking.
"I'm not this Louise girl." Louise states trying to change her voice.
"I see. Looks like the familiar is flirting with girls again." Kirche comments. Louise's eyes narrow turning around to look for the idiot. "So what are you doing working here Louise?"
Louise sighs. 'I can't believe I fell for that. That idiot never flirts with anyone.' She thinks in her head. "Classified." Louise replies.
"Is that so?" Kirche asks. "Everyone grab her." He tells the other three. Before Louise can react, the four grab her arms and legs. "Tabitha. If you may." She wordlessly nods using her wind make to...tickle her. She starts laughing continuously being interrogated by them. She never lets a word of information slip.
Suddenly she is back on her feet on the floor and the others are laying on the floor unaware of what happened. "Now that I did my daily good deed, I'll be taking my break." Yuudai states having stood next to Louise now walking towards the door to the outside.
"Honey!" Kirche exclaims making a tackle for him. Once again she misses by him sidestepping making her fall on the floor again.
"No breaks today Yuudai!" Scarron tells him getting Yuudai to sigh.
"I blame you woman!" Yuudai accuses Kirche pointing at her.
"If that's the case, come over here mutt. Help serve these customers." Louise tells her trying her best not to smirk too much at his dismay.
He walks over while making sure Kirche doesn't try to jump at him again. She doesn't and decides to get back in her seat. Yuudai looks around the table until his sight lands on Tabitha. Her uncaring eyes are back to reading her book.
"If you're going to keep reading then at least read something like a book that enthralls you rather than creates a mindless doll who can cast spells." Yuudai tells her. Kirche sighs knowing how close he was to summing up her family situation.
"Bring me everything on your menu." Kirche tells them causing both Yuudai and Louise to deadpan at her.
"I don't think you have enough money to order all of that." Louise says having Yuudai nod in agreement.
"Well it's a good thing he's paying for me. Isn't it hun?" Kirche says.
"In what world do you think I'd do that?" He questions giving her a bored look.
"If you don't I'll just have to tell everyone in the academy." She threatens.
"People there still fear me for beating Guiche of all people. The only result you'd get is a, 'really? That's crazy! Let's not talk about this again.'." Yuudai says to her teenage girl voice.
Kirche unbuttons the top of her shirt slowly. "It really is hot here. If only my honey would by everything for me, I'd be ever so grateful." She makes a seductive face for him.
"I wonder if this counts as being molested?" Yuudai asks himself. He turns to Louise giving her enemy an incredulous look. "Does it always feel so invading?" He asks Louise.
"Always." She replies curtly.
"Well then Louise, you'll pay my tab, won't you?" Kirche says realizing it's pointless to try anything on Yuudai. Somehow. If he is to be honest, he had to force himself to ignore her seduction and hold in the nosebleed that follows the rush of blood to his head. "Unless you want everyone to know how the Zero worked at such a commoner filled place."
"Fine!" Louise growls not as uncaring about their social status as Yuudai is. She goes to get all the stuff from the menu leaving Yuudai with the four nobles.
"Hey miss." A noble from a table of noble with from the navaaru regiment of Henrietta's army. He seems to want to talk to Kirche. "We are the officers that belong to the Navaaru regiment. We were stricken by your august beauty and would like to invite you to our dining table."
"Sorry, but I'm having a good time with my friends." She tells the man calmly.
"I will plead you to ignore that. Please bestow a moment of happiness upon us who have nothing but unforgiving battle awaiting us." He persists. She just continues to wave him off sending him back to his table.
"I thought I would never see you turn a guy down." Yuudai says to her. Kirche gives him a closed lip smile.
"Don't you hear them? They talk about others behind their back. That and their being a bit racist." Kirche states getting Yuudai to listen to their comments.
"It's time to throw out some unwanted patrons again." Yuudai says about to turn around and do so.
"As much as I'd love to see my darling defend me, I'll handle this." Kirche tells him.
"Then hurry and do so. I don't exactly like that kind of filth in this inn." Yuudai says to her.
"I thought this was a bar." Guiche whispers to Montmorency.
"I did too." She replies to him.
Kirche stands up and walks over to the group of men. "So have you changed your mind and decided to accompany us?" The man that tried to invite her over asks.
"Yes, not with goblets though." She smoothly pulls out her wand. "With this."
The men immediately fall out of their chair laughing. One of them gains composure quickly though. "Don't even try, young lady. We are nobles and will not point our wands at women."
"Hurry up, Kirche. These guys are nearing the point of an ass kicking from me." Yuudai states crossing his arms. She finds Yuudai looking more comedically angry than actually angry.
"Draw your wands already. Or I'll make you." Kirche orders them. They only continue laughing, so she creates the exact number of fireballs as there are noble men there and incinerate their decorative feathers as a way of forcing them into a duel.
One of them gets up with an embarrassed expression from being showed up in front of everyone. "Miss, this joke has gone a little too far." He states.
"Really? But I'm always serious." Kirche replies. She goes to say more, but the only one brave enough to interfere speaks up.
"We all know it's already happening, so suck it up and get out there to fight!" Yuudai orders them. "I don't want this place trashed since I know the girls and I would lose a big sum of money in replacing things." He points outside.
However, Tabitha stands up catching their attention. "Sit down. I'll handle this in an instant." Tabitha tells her friend.
"This doesn't involve you." Kirche tells her.
"I owe you one." She retorts calmly. Kirche thinks about it then remembers what she is talking about. Regarding when they first met.
"That's quite some time ago." Kirche says. She then sighs knowing full well that it is pointless to argue at this point.
"What's wrong? Got scared? We will forgive you if you apologize now." One of them offers.
"You'll still have to pour drinks for us though." Another one says.
"You'll be lucky if it ends with you just pouring pour drinks." The first soldier states. Shockingly enough, that guy disappears from everyone's vision as well as Yuudai. The soldiers look around confused.
"Looks like he Reaper strikes again." One of the patrons say confusing the soldiers.
"If I was him, I would have too though." Another says.
Yuudai pops up behind Kirche again. "Hurry up and take them outside before that Reaper guy takes the other ones outside first." He tells her. They finally go outside to fight as Louise appears. "I'm heading back to the room. I need to get rid of my new migrain. " Yuudai tells her.
"Alrighty Grim." Louise replies adding an accent to the name as a way to mock it.
Somehow, ever since the day he ran those nobles out, whenever he'd take out trouble makers with his speed to stop a scene, people would call him that. Louise personally thinks Jessica was the one to spread the name around. Whether out of spite or something else, she just doesn't care for the name.
A few hours later, Yuudai comes back downstairs finding Louise, Guiche and Montmorency on a table beaten half to death. He deadpans at the three. The teen turns around to leave.
"Avenge us familiar!" Louise shouts.
"Do it Yuudai!" Guiche adds.
He sighs looking to the door finding an entire army of mages outside the inn and one of them inside. The one he took outside earlier and quickly beat down. The man still looks afraid, but very confident at the same time. Don't know how, but he just is.
"Come on out, boy. I have to thank you properly for-" The man is shut up by once again disappearing as well as Yuudai.
The army looks confused at first until the body of the mage falls in front of them with blood all over him from above. They look up to find Yuudai on a roof with the wind blowing his hair and jacket around. "I'm the hero that this town wants and needs." Yuudai states.
"W-who are you?" One of the army men asks. One of the others smack him in the back of the head.
"Shut up Tim!" The soldier tells him.
"I'm the night and day. I'm...not Batman!" Yuudai announces jumping down starting to beatdown an entire army.
End
That's how you end a chapter! A Batman reference! I have to make sure Yuudai retains some sort of humor and whatnot.
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