Hello, readers! I apologize for the wait, I've been spending a lot of time playing a game recently and have been neglecting my writing...I apologize for that!

In other news, now that things are beginning to deviate noticeably from the canon, I am starting to really need people to help me out. As someone who, like David, has only seen the anime, I have had trouble with LN-only points, so I'd appreciate if anyone who has read them would help provide differences, and advice on how to integrate the differences into the plot. I'm sure I've missed some things and I will no doubt continue missing others, but I want to include as much as possible (Hopefully nothing is so major that it could break the things I have planned for the endgame arcs).

Special thanks to MasterxMaster and Knorles for your help in earlier chapters, and to Gnao El Nart, I've already planned on some of your ideas (a water pump would certainly make Siesta's life easier)!


"Irukukwu." David repeated, and Tabitha nodded.

"Correct. Another question. What do you know of Charlotte de Orleans?"

She spoke in a completely natural voice as she mentioned her real name, and Kirche blinked.

"Isn't she-" she was about to say, before Tabitha held a hand up, cutting the tanned girl off and looking at her from the side.

"Let David answer. Don't give him any hints." she said, and Kirche blinked, before nodding, falling silent and looking down at Flame, who was looking curiously at her.

Tabitha turned her gaze back to David, and nodded, motioning him to speak.

David sighed. "How honest do you want me to be?" he asked, glancing at Kirche. "Do you want her to know?"

"I was going to tell her about Charlotte anyway, this is killing two birds." she replied, and David nodded.

"I'm probably off in my information, but I know her mother took a poison meant for her and lost her sanity." he said. "And that Charlotte changed her name because of it."

Tabitha nodded. "Then that means you are aware of where she is now."

"Yeah. Sitting right in front of me." he replied, in a completely flat voice, as if it was obvious, to which Kirche gasped in surprise.

"Wait...what?!" she asked, looking between him and the small girl. "Tabitha, you're…"

Tabitha looked at her. "I am surprised you didn't figure it out by now, after I told you I am a Chevalier de Gallia." she said, tilting her head. "You are an intelligent person, Kirche. I had thought I'd given you enough hints for you to connect the dots."

"..." Kirche sighed, crossing her arms and closing her eyes, her head tilting down in thought. "Hmm…" she said, and David could practically see the gears turning in her head. "Founder, you're right…How didn't I think of that before?!" she said, her eyes lighting up in realization as she stared at her friend.

Tabitha's mouth curled up in a small smile, before she turned back to the Gandalfr. "As for you...You know quite a lot about me already, don't you?" she asked. "I wasn't planning on telling you before, but...I've suspected this for a while, but you have some sort of predictive power, don't you? I have never heard of such a spell, but I don't know what else could explain your foresight."

David flinched. There it was, she'd flat-out said it now. She knew about his movements.

I can't let her know about Familiar of Zero, who knows what chaos would come from telling her about that...Think, David, think!

He blinked. The answer was right there, it wasn't even very far-fetched to assume...A lucky break, clearly.

"I don't really know anything about prediction…" he said. "You're forgetting something, though."

Tabitha blinked. "What did I forget?" she asked, and he grinned.

"You gave me all the information I need to answer your questions with what you were saying." he replied. "Take Sylphid, for example. I knew her real name, yes, but remember that rhythm dragons have the same, if not higher, intellect as many humans do. I don't know if she told you directly, but she told me...sort of." He laughed, an intentionally sheepish-sounding laugh to add to his story. "I asked her once if that was her name, and she made those cooing sounds she usually makes, but I noticed that she has different inflections and such when she talks like that...So it sounded like she was saying that word. I asked her if she had said that, and she nodded to me, so I started using it."

A whole lot of bullcrap, but Tabitha seemed to accept the answer. David breathed a sigh of relief.

Hopefully Tabitha's acceptance of his answer meant that Sylphid hadn't told her anything using her human form. He hadn't even thought of it until just now, but with her transformation, she could easily communicate with a human, even if she couldn't in her true form…

"And what is your explanation to knowing my identity?" she asked, and in response, David simply looked at her with as doubtful an expression as he could muster.

"It was kind of obvious, you referenced a completely unrelated name to the conversation and then gave a lot of hints that you were talking about yourself...I doubt many people wouldn't figure you out if they were paying attention."

Tabitha smiled. "You're a strange person." she said. "And before you say it, I know that's hypocritical of me to say."

Kirche, already completely lost in the conversation, groaned. "How long until we get there, anyway? My back hurts…"

Tabitha and David broke their gazes and looked at her.

"We will be there soon. We just passed the gate. We are within the estate now."

David whistled as he looked out the window. "Big place, it's like the old 1800s mansions of my world…" he said, getting a strange look from his two companions.