Go see Endgame. Now that we dated this I like to welcome you all back to my Fanfiction. I would like to mention before we start that I am once again looking for a beta. My Beta, ae my sister, caused me to delay this because she didn't have time to look over it. Funny how that worked, but I made sure to release this. Enjoy the story.

We put our horses at a trot through the forest for an hour, exhaustion quickly catching up to me. The horse was having a troubling time keeping all three of us on his back, but the beast seemed to be able to work through the unfortunate burden. Luckily, no one has tried following us when we left the city since we left it in chaos.

"Take a left." My Familiar said as we tried to navigate the forest.

"Do you even know the way Fam-… Kazuma."

"Hey you finally got my name right."

"I am too tired and hungry for this. I simply want to know because we are responsible for the Princess's safety."

"I'll call it a gut feeling. I've never been here before. Oh, I'm feeling like taking a right now."

I clicked my tongue in annoyance as I made a turn to the right. It was like magic as we breached the foliage to reveal a small pond that was isolated from the world. It was fresh water, something my Mother always cheered about when she talked about her travels around Halkegenia.

I brought the horse to a stop, "This seems like a nice place to rest, what does your magic say Kazuma?"

"Hmm, seems pretty good. Nothing is setting off my [Detect Enemy] so we should be set."

With that we dismounted the horse. When my feet touched the ground I could feel my entire lower body burn with the pain of a thousand needles. Though life was pain, I cared more for my Princess then even my own limbs!

My Familiar placed the princess on the ground as I made my way around the horse. I knelled to her side, seeing my precious friend somehow sleeping in peace. The whole came at me and I was falling spectacularly to the ground.

"Kazuma, I have many questions to ask-." I was about to finish my question when a massive grumbling stomach came from me, "Oh biscuits!"

"Oi, don't be blurting out food names when I'm starving!"

I looked over to see him clutching his stomach in the same manner I was. He spoke in a pained tone, "I'm gonna find food."

"Yeah… that would be fantastic."

I watched as my Familiar walked over to the corners in search of some food. While I could help him I was sure my Familiar's seemingly absurd luck would score him food, so I decided to check on Princess's health. First I checked where my Familiar hit her in case the idiot damaged her skull, but there wasn't any blood as I ran my fingers through her hair. Since the ground was too unsightly for my Friend, I moved myself so she could use my lap as a pillow.

As I continued to work I could hear a weapon being drawn. I whipped my head in the direction to see my Familiar stalking towards a bush. What in the world was the idiot doing?

"Kazuma, what in the name of Brimir are you doing?"

He looked at me in confusion the acceptance, "Oh, you're going to tell me fruits and vegetables in this world never attacks you."

"Have you gone mental Familiar?! Why in the name of Brimir would a plant try and kill you?"

"Uhh..." The idiot looked at his blade for a moment before approaching the bush with a little less caution. I could feel his stupidity as he gently slid his sword into the bush like it was going to jump out at him and bite his head off. After that he greedily snatched a large amount of berries from the bush before rushing over to me.

He presented the berries to me, "So you know if these are poisonous?"

"Why would I know that? I'm a Noble not a hunter of game."

A growl came from his stomach before he seemed to give, "I'm going to regret this." And he tossed some berries into his mouth.

I would have normally stopped my Familiar from killing himself over some berries, but I really wanted to know if it was poisonous. He slowly moved his jaw chewing on a good half of the pile while no immediate signs of poison came. Though, there are some poisons that are slow reaction.

I just gave a sigh, if my Familiar was poisoned it might take days before the effects show themselves, but if it's not killing him its not immediately lethal. If he's not immediately poisoned maybe I can eat them and ask the Princess to cleanse my system.

I continued to pet Ann's hair, I would rather not subject her to such a horrid site. I grew a little smile as I saw my Princess looked at peace. My Familiar took a seat on the opposite side of me.

I couldn't bring myself to get rid of his dumb looking smile so I instead sighed, "Familiar, how are you able to use magic?"

He looked surprised I asked before thinking to himself, "I… actually never thought about that."

I looked at him like he was crazy, "H-how have you never thought about how you use magic?"

He shrugged, "I just thought it came with the setting."

"Setting…" Was he treating this all like some maid's book? "Well then Kazuma, I want to ask you something. Those spells you were casting, they were not elemental so, what were they?"

My Familiar scratched the back of his head, "I… don't know what you are talking about. My previous world didn't really bother with what their spells were made of, just how powerful they were."

I mouthed those words, "Previous world… cubesugar."

"Oi, don't discount me being isekied into other worlds so easily! Your the one who dragged me here to began with."

While I knew that my Familiar always gave off a feeling of scum, I honestly could believe him. The Familiar Summoning ritual was something we mages never understood really, so maybe all the things we summon come from another world. Sugar if I know.

It was then a spark lit of lightning crossed my brain, "Well then Familiar, maybe you could teach me the spells you've been using. Maybe I am just unable to cast the spells of this world."

"You sarcastic..." He looked like I just lost my head before looking a bit perplex, "Even if I did want to, I don't know how to do it. I was just shown and then I allocated my points."

"Points? What in Brimir's name do points have to do with magic?"

He simply shrugged, "It's just how my previous world worked. I guess I could show you some of it and you end up being some genius at magic."

"Do it."

He looked at me, taken aback from my sure fire answer. I knew magic theory like the back of my hand as I always tried to cast spells. Yes, theory wasn't very extensive, but I very well wanted to see the look on Kirche's face when I finally casted a spell. If it meant I needed to cheat using my Familiar I will do so by Brimir's sake.

"Alright? Give me your hand." He brought out his hand towards me.

I nodded and put it forward, my Familiar's hand encompassing it, "First, I'll use [Drain Touch]. Uh, I guess just watch and feel it. [Drain Touch]"

My hand started to glow a bright purple as I could feel my very essence being drained. Unlike before when I guess he was putting life into me this felt sickening, disgusting, and unholy. It was unlike any magic I had ever experienced before today. And a moment later it was done and felt much more tired than I did a moment ago.

"Okay, now I'm going to give you energy. [Drain Touch]."

And a moment later I felt the energy move into my being. There was that light feeling I had from when he used it to me before, but that unholy taint still seemed to permeate the spell. This time however I paid attention to how he did it, and my eyes widened.

"Well that's all I can teach you." He collapsed on the ground and yawned of what seemed like exhaustion, "You're first watch as payment."

"First watch? What are you saying Familiar!" That didn't seem to stir him as he started to snore.

I felt like I had much more energy than when he first activated his spell on me. If that spell had a two way method of transmitting life force, the brooch! He gave me his energy so he could sugaring sleep!

While I could glare at his sleeping body, it was just a waste of energy. Instead I brushed my Princess's hair while thinking about the spell.

As I thought of it, the spell seemed to come clearer and clearer in my mind. This spell was known as [Drain Touch], and it seemed to focus on the manipulation of lifeforce. It was not like the healing done by water, as that focused on replacing pieces of one's body with a recreation of flesh. This was in fact true lifeforce as I remembered both my stamina and willpower being drained and received. It was by all accounts that this was not our elemental magic.

'It could be Void.' I laughed at myself before the realization finally hit me. It was not elemental, so why could it not be Void?

For a moment I tensed, stopping my care of Henrietta. Could I… cast it? Would I be able to cast something related to… Void.

I looked down at my best friend sleeping in my lap. The spell required something a target. It required something to give or drain. Would I risk my best friend?

"[Drain Touch]."

It only glowed for a second before I stopped myself, my lethargy coming back from before my Familiar's betrayal. I actually did it, I just casted magic!

"Y-YES! TAKE THAT ZERBST!" I screamed at the top of my lungs.

"l-Louise?" I felt a shuffle on my lap as I saw my Princess's purple eyes looking up at me with a tiredness.

"A-P-Princess Henrietta! Your awake!" I exclaimed, almost throwing her off my lap.

My friend looked at me with a bewildered expression, "Y-yes Louise. Uh, were you saying something?"

I could not help my smile, "I-I casted magic, Y-your Majesty! It did not even blow up on me! I casted good to honest magic just now!"

"Th-that is amazing Louise!" My friend skyrocketed off my lap and grabbed my hands, "We should celebrate! You have been trying for years, what's your element?"

I opened my mouth before closing it, then opened, then closed. My foolish gamble with the Princess's life seemed to involve an assumption that it was`

"V-void. I think I just used void magic."

The Princess of my country broke away from the embrace, leaving her hand on my shoulder, "I should have guessed you were of the Void Mage Louise! What else would be more fitting for my best friend than Void, a mage of Brimir's element!"

Her face widened into a smile, "Oh how I have missed you! When I saw you in the streets with that strange boy I, uh…" Her face blushed a good bit.

"Oh, uh, but, guh," I tried to catch myself, "Princess, why are you not in the castle with the Queen!?"

"Oh, I uh…. Yeah. You see Louise I, uh, you know how my Father died recently. Well the Castle was so depressing and grim and my engagement, and my-"

I stopped her, "You've been engaged! To who!?"

"Oh, uh…" My Princess went timid, "I've been engaged to the King of Germania."

"WHAT! But he's the brute of brutes! Why would you agree to such a marriage?"

"We need the armies and, oh Brimir."

In a quick moment she embraced me in another hug, my shoulder wettening with tears, "Louise how I missed you. Everything has just been, Brimir."

I tried my best to comfort her, padding her back like my mother was suppose to do. I could hear her mumbling in my shoulder, but it was completely incoherent. We stayed like this for a few minutes while we ignored my Familiar's snore.

Princess Henrietta released me from our embrace, her tears now dried from my shoulder, "I am sorry Louise. That was…. unsightly of me."

"It is okay Ann, it is just that life has been hard on the two of us while we were apart."

"Yeah…" Ann said as she turned her head, "Uh, who is that? Did you find a lover?"

I could feel my stomach turn, "Oh sugar no! He is my Familiar, a brute that stinks of scum."

Henrietta's face was that of complete surprise, "You summoned a Human!"

I nodded, "I did. An unruly, temperamental, and extremely willful Familiar who made us skip lunch. If you ask me, Princess Henrietta, you should avoid the Ritual in the slightest chance you summon a being like him."

She nodded cautiously, "I guess… Why do we not catch up more than Louise, how has the Academy been?"

I felt my heart drop at the mention of the academy, "It's been… okay."

I could feel my Princess's eyes narrow, "Louise, it has not has it? Just now you said you casted magic for the first time and you are not even a healthy height for your age. Louise, your circumstances are not one that a person of happiness."

I chuckled a little, "I guess you would see through my little white lie. No, things have not been good. If I had to be honest, that sugaring brute gave me a bit of a relief if I was not starving now. No, my time in the Academy has been horrendous. The biscuits even gave me the moniker, Louise the Sugaring Zero."

Her friend looked down to the ground, "Is that so…."

I grabbed onto my Friends shoulders, "Princess Henrietta, your problems are much more pressing than a simply Noble like me. All this was happening while I was at the Academy. If you need any help with anything I will leave the academy for you."

I could tell Ann was taken aback from my commitment to helping her. To think so many things happened to her, my troubles are minute to hers and the countries. As I have said many times before, I would abandon that good for nothing academy for my Princess and Best Friend.

I watched for a moment as her face morphed from a series of looks. Worry, anxiety, and faintly acceptance, "You see Louise, there was something I've been meaning to ask of you. I… need you to retrieve a letter from Albion. A… love letter."

My eyebrows rose, "You have a lover!?"

She lowered her head, "Yes…. The letter was for Prince Wales, my Lover."

"Oh, I understand…" It was unspoken why the letter needed to be returned. I knew from lessons and experience how politics worked. With a letter like that Henretta's marriage to the Germanian King could come into jeopardy. Even if Triastain denounced it as a fake, spells done by the Royal Family to letters that prove authenticity backfire. If Henrietta's loyalty to the Germanian King is questioned, the entire marriage could be put under by opposing Nobles in both Germania and Tristanian Nobles who were against it.

Though I could feel an ache in my heart as I heard her say those words, 'Lover'.

"Do you want me to retrieve the article Princess Henrietta?"

Her face was stern, "Yes, Louise, I need you to retrieve the letter. From my sources there are only three garrison's that are still loyal to Prince Wales. I need you to find him and either retrieve the note or... destroy it."

I took a knee in front of my Princess, "If this is what you desire Princess Henrietta. I will destroy the entire garrison if I need to."

I could tell she did not like this situation, but it cannot be helped. She is a Noble, a Princess to boot. Sometimes we cannot have happy marriages if it means the safety of our people.

I could hear Henrietta give a relieved sigh, "Enough of that now Louise. I want to continue talking to you like a few moments ago. If you don't mind, we should go to the Castle to retrieve some people to assist you in this endeavor.

My face when peat red in embarrassment, "Oh, uh, Ann, there's a problem I need to mention."

"A problem?"

"You see when my Familiar knocked you out, we were spotted carrying you. Currently me and Kazuma, my Familiar, might be wanted by the Kingdom of Tristain for your kidnapping."

"Eh?" I looked up from my kneeling to see Ann stunned at the revelation, "H-how did you escape the city!?"

I rubbed my neck a little, "As I said before, my Familiar is a willful, stubborn brute. No matter how much I hate him though, he is also skilled fighter, or at least could pass as a Rogue without the charm."

"By Brimir," She looked down at the boy who keeps growing goofy smiles when he sleeps, "Is that true?"

I give a nod, "I am not lying, but I ask if you do not have me wake him. He is irritable."

With that Henrietta gave a stern nod, "Very well, this was all caused by myself, my Louise, I will be sure that you are absolved of your crime."

I give a bow to my Princess, "Thanks Princess Henrietta, I do however fear we cannot go through the front gate of the capital. They will surely kill us thinking we are to ransom you."

The Princess thought to herself, "Well, there are many ways into the Capital, most of them quite random lakes that cover passages like this one we are sitting at." She seemed to think to herself for a moment, "Actually, this pond is one of them."

The Princess brought to bear her wand, tapping the water about few times

"[Taming of Water]."

In the next moment the entire lake seemed to move on its own. It seemed to flee the now emptying reservoir into thebehind the large amount of trees. Laying bare now was a stone structure obviously made by a skilled earth mage.

"This is the main escape route from the castle towards Tristain Academy. You two were quite lucky to set camp here." My Princess shined me a honest smile.

I however had my mouth agape, "The bastard…"

I mumbled a small thanks to my stupid Familiar before nodding, "Then we should head in, Princess. Monsters or a searching party might find us. I'll go and… bring my Familiar."

I heard my Princess's confirmation as I approached the man that radiated a horrid aura, "Familiar, awaken from your slumber!"

He didn't even mumble at my response. The bastard fucking did that trick to me earlier thinking I couldn't even wake him up. This time, Sugaring bastard was right, I could feel my exhaustion from the journey earlier. Even if I gave him stamina, I'd just fall asleep myself. Like I was going to leave the boy alone with Ann!

Since Henrietta was keeping the water away it was up to me to move his form instead. I grabbed onto his arm with a great tug, but I seemed to only move him an inch.

"Uh, Louise do you need any help?"

"Its fine, Princess Henrietta. I just need to approach this a little smarter."

I ignored my Princess's mumbling as I thought to myself. I turned to face the mighty steed we rode here, a small roll of twine at its hip.

"Perfect!"

It took me a minute to ready it. As I moved the Horse forward to tense the rope my Princess approached, "Louise, are you sure this would be the proper way to move him?"

I gave her a smile, "I believe it is adequate to how I have been feeling all day. If only he chose a place to eat none of us would have to sleep in a tunnel. As I know force will not work, this will be adequate for his standing."

With that I brought to horse towards the chamber, the satisfying sounds of my Familiar being dragged by his feet to our destination. I watched as my Princess quickly maneuvering to my front of my and presented her ring to the stone door. With a click it was opened to reveal a tunnel lit by eternal flames.

"Its filled with so many cobwebs." Was the only complaint I voiced.

"Yeah, these were constructed a few centuries ago. I am surprised the [Eternal Flame] torches are still lit."

Either way, I brought the horse into the structure, dragging my Familiar behind him. Once he was inside, I watched the Princess close the door behind us with another click of its stone door. I yawned and brushed off some ground for seat for both me and my Princess.

We took our seats on the stone floor, my heart buzzing a little as we sat together. The Princess shined me a wry smile as you noted just how sugaring depressing this room seemed to be.

"Hey Louise, what was that spell you learned?" My Princess asked innocently.

"It is called [Drain Touch], I think. I would try and show it to you but I need a target…" I quickly looked around the room for something to drain, but I knew Draining my Familiar might kill him and surely I would be kicked in the face if I tried the horse.

"Well could you use it on me? If it does not hurt very much I wouldn't mind." Henrietta said selflessly.

"No, it hurts a lot. Like someone is trying to pull your soul from your body hurts."

"Oh, then I will not be able to witness my Friend's magic. Pity…"

I couldn't hold back a yawn. Before I knew it I was resting on my friend's comfy shoulder. I could feel an arm move my head onto a soft surface while I looked up at the Princess. She gave me a nice smile, "Maybe we should talk later Louise, you seem tired out."

I give her a nod. Since we are now in the safety of this chamber, it is probably good for me to take a rest, "Just be sure to wake me if there is any issue, Princess Henrietta."

I watched her gain a frown, "Before you fall asleep, Louise, even if just once call me by that old nickname of mine."

Who was I to refuse? "Alright… Ann." And I allowed darkness to consume my vision.