Down a Peg

Louise wandered around the floating city, off to attend to a chore that Alban had assigned her. It was nothing too strenuous; new arc canisters that were recently produced by a small-time company owned by an honest couple. Three months had passed since she opened her eyes to the new world that Alban had called Earth. She had found it ironic that while another name for the planet is 'Dirt' they didn't step on it; they were living above the clouds.

When she asked about the reasoning for the name Alban just shrugged, she told her that some man that lived a thousand or so years ago called it that because he was standing on it. Knowing that the answer wasn't complete and that it just tickled Louise's inner scholar she continued to press for questions only for Alban to say:

"I don't know why they called it Earth at the time… all the information about it has been lost through time. Even when we use technology to bring them back, they were just lost again due to the appearance of the Ravagers,"

Ravagers

Just the name alone brought some sort of menacing atmosphere, she wanted to ask about it only for the doors to cut her off as the golem she had now met named, Bench called her for a chore. Thus, why she is here now. She looked around to see the city still as busy as ever. Reaching in the pocket of her new pants – one that Alban had generously bought for her, she picked up a small disc device that whirred to life before projecting a three-dimensional map. A red dot was at the centre that was continuously blinking telling her exact position.

"Mr. & Mrs Cetans," she said.

A pop up showed up that displayed the words 'please wait'. A second later a red line now traced outwards of the red dot which she followed. As she was flying to her location she noticed that ahead of her a crowd had gathered. Curious she closed the distance. As she got closer more and more voice started to enter her ears.

"Move along!"

The crowd parted and allowed the one that's been garnering attention to move. With the crowd now spread out she finally spotted the one who's been gathering the crowd's attention; Red streaks of hair fell from her head down to her neck, a face marred by gunfire and sand, her body was nothing but full of metal parts with the only thing that kept her humanity was her face. Remove the gunpowder and sand Louise would've considered the woman to be beautiful.

She floated away from the crowd and towards the direction, she came from, tilted her head in confusion as she wondered where she was going only to be cut off when she heard pained groaning. Turning back, she saw something that passed the crowd; suspended by some force field was a man with black hair. To her horror she spotted the reason for his agony; both of his robotic arms were gone, one looked like it was torn by brute strength and the other was cleanly sliced off. Unfortunately for Louise, it wasn't over. His leg was completely bisected with sparks coming out, the other looked like it was warped, like it was subjected to a large amount of heat making it melt.

The pained man moved passed her as her eyes continued to trace it, wondering to herself what just happened.

Eleonore sat on a stool with a frown as she observed the interaction between her sister and the Bench. They have been going at it for a while now, talking about Louise's combat abilities and other terms that flew over her head due to not even hearing that such a word had existed. While both talked, she looked around to see some unusual materials that she doesn't recognize. Standing up she decided to wander around and have a look at the pod bot's workshop.

Walking towards a wooden table she found some iron ingots and a few other metals stacked neatly, beside the stack of metals were matte grey materials that she found out to be metals but she didn't know of what quality, they were all melted and formed in shapes that she could not understand for the life of her. Seeing that there is of no significance to the wooden table she proceeded to look around some more.

This time she stopped right in front of a full set of metallic body parts, she knew these parts were once Louise's as she could recognize the large charcoal black that spread from the chest of the torso, courtesy of what Bench had called 'energy discharge'. Looking at it now she had to ponder, what made Louise give away her humanity? They had been with her for a while now and she had not once mentioned the place where she turned herself into some sort of golem.

Her curiosity was cut off when she heard Bench shouted 'impressive'. Deciding to ask the questions later she decided to see what the fuss was all about. When she sees the two, she became confused as there seemed to be nothing that had changed. She decided to ask her curiosity as to what Bench got worked up about to which the pod bot had given off a few high-pitched beeps that sounded like he was eager to show it to her.

"Alright, do you see this?" Bench said as he held up a bundle of arrows inside a field.

Eleonore nodded as she watched with mild interest as Bench placed it closer to Louise's abdomen region. Her mild interest turned into shock she sees that Louise's abdomen opened up, similar to how one would spread dirt with nothing but their hands, the open section of Louise took the arrows in and 'swallowed' the bundle without so much of a resistance.

She was about to give a comment about what's so fascinating in eating arrows were it not for the fact that Louise's arms suddenly shifted, the nanites moved under the will of their master. When they were done what replaced her hands were now two large barrels, though when Eleonore looked closer, she noticed that there was a point inside the barrel. Louise seemed to have noticed her elder's unsaid question and aimed her barrel-hands towards her old torso before shooting it.

A 'fwip' sound resounded in the warehouse followed by a loud clang that seemed to have originated at her old torso. It didn't take long for Eleonore to put two and two together when she had finally realized that Louise was using the arrows that she had swallowed earlier into ammunition for her… 'hand cannons'?

She looked at Louise whose grin was getting wider by the second.

"Siesta!"

The aforementioned maid stood up from her seat inside the busy kitchen and walked towards the head chef, Marteau. The man was nothing short of a living presentation of a bear… that is if the bear is more friendly than ferocious. He wore a chef's coat along with the hat to finish the getup, he had a fixed face and eyes that can tell who you are with just one glance, it was to be expected as he did work in the academy far longer than any of the staff that Siesta had met, alongside with the head maid.

He's taller than most people who are in the academy with the only exceptions being the old headmaster, Old Osmond, and the flame mage teacher, Jean Colbert. The man's muscular arms were something not to laugh about, if Siesta were to wage, it wouldn't be far fetched if her boss was somehow an ex-knight.

She stopped thinking about those thoughts as she approached him. The man was shouting at a few younger chefs – telling them what to make and what was ready to be served. She walked over the wooden counter of the kitchen only to be given a plate of strawberry shortcake. Without any questions, she gave a nod before taking the shortcake and walked off.

"Siesta, take that to that one boy who keeps flirting with girls,"

"You mean, Master Guiche?"

Marteau waved his hand dismissively, "yeah, yeah, him, go,"

If a new staff member were to hear the way he speaks to nobles they would've told him not to say their names in such a manner. But if it were a veteran staff member, they would've just ignored such action and went back to doing their respective duties, it was obvious that the head chef did not have any sympathy towards nobles. And to be frank, if Siesta were given the rare chance of having spoken what she thinks of nobles she would probably say the same thing. Of course, such chances are just wishful thinking.

Stepping out of the kitchen she made her way towards the courtyard where the second-year students are having their tea time. Looking over the tables she searched for the blonde noble. Finding her quarry, she approached him. The boy was sitting in front of another noble… Mistress Montmorency if she remembered. The boy was holding his signature rose in a carefree way as she fed the other blonde with ringlets compliment after compliment. Siesta wanted to roll her eyes as she watched the 'drama' that was happening right in front of her.

"Master Guiche,"

Guiche seemed to have shown slight displeasure because of the interruption. He addressed the perpetrator only for his eyes to shift from slight annoyance back to flirty eyes. "Yes, maid?"

Siesta felt the urge to throw up as she was practically getting looked over by a boy who seemed more eager to get in between her legs. Of course, the girl that was with him was oblivious to what was happening as she continued to pet her new familiar: a frog. She resisted the urge to vomit as she continued to serve the boy in front of him.

"Here is the strawberry shortcake that you have ordered," she said as she took the dessert and served it to the noble.

While the maid was bending down to serve the dessert, Guiche managed to sneak a glance at her ample cleavage that was proudly on display for him. If it wasn't for the fact that the maid was a commoner, it was obvious that he would be head over heels for her… just like every other girl that he had ever met since he enrolled in the academy. The 'mountainous' view that was given to him was taken away quickly as the maid stood up and waited for her next orders.

"Will that be all, Master Guiche?" she asked.

He voice was very nice to hear. He could listen to that voice for hours and he wouldn't get tired of it. Sadly, the life of a Grammont is always moving. He waved his hand dismissively, without any other words, the maid gave a curt bow before walking off to serve another noble… much to her dismay.

A series of high-pitched beeps echoed inside the warehouse that housed Bench, Louise, Cattleya and Eleonore. The cause for Bench's sudden excitement could be described by the pink-haired girl that was standing right in front of them; Louise stood up in amazement as she admired the new capabilities of her Ravager body. The Ravager that she fought stood at a frightening height of 8 feet. That was also including the fact that its body has consisted of nothing but nanomachines.

According to Bench, the number of nanomachines that the Ravager housed was five times than the number of blood cells a normal healthy human being can produce, this was crazy because according to Bench the average amount of red blood cells that a healthy human can produce is around twenty to thirty trillion blood cells.

And the nanomachines that make up her body is five times more than that amount

Suffice to say, in the event that a very strong attack was to hit her, she had more than enough to repair the damages… add the insane factor that the Ravager core that is housed in her body could produce more of those. Aside from those absurd numbers another factor why Bench was happy was the abilities that Louise's body can perform.

They have already established that she can become a moving artillery weapon, she can absorb anything and use it as a ranged weapon. A boulder? She can make a gigantic cannon to compensate for it. A spear? She can make a ballista that can put the Romans' mightiest artillery to shame. Seeing that she can do these, Bench became more curious as to what her new body can do.

Its capabilities are nothing short of extraordinary. And that was coming from a floating pod bot!

Using her core, she managed to create a magnetic current around her body, using this she took nanomachines away from her body and formed six barrels that floated behind her, looking over her shoulders. Both Cattleya and Eleonore looked at the floating black barrels with slight curiosity. Eleonore crossed her arms as she asked the question that was lingering between both elder sisters.

"What are those supposed to be?"

One of the barrels floated towards Louise's arms, it lost if magnetic flow and fell on her arms. Despite it being made of nothing but nanomachines it managed to retain its original shape. She showed the object to both of her sisters and began to explain.

"This is an Ion Beam Cannon, it creates intense heat which is then shot out at great speeds, this creates a beam of plasma which can instantly melt any type of metal,"

Eleonore raised an eyebrow at that, Louise saw this gesture and of course wanted to prove her wrong. She willed one of the floating blasters to aim down a set of steel armour that was just sitting on an armour stand. A bright yellow beam began to glow inside of the blaster before shooting a bright beam of yellow light that connected from the barrel towards the steel armour. Once the beam had died down Cattleya and Eleonore gave shocked looks. The former had a hand on her mouth while the latter had her jaws slightly open.

The steel armour's chest plate was warped, the plasma beam ha penetrated through the supposed strongest metal in Halkeginia. The rims around the holes of the armour had melted circumference which still glowed a hot orange. Satisfied with the results, Louse guided the barrel back, it floated back behind her.

"Fascinating," Bench said as he floated closer to Louise. More specifically the barrels that were floating behind her. "Where did you get such an idea? I only know of Ion Blasters, so I'm wondering on where you got such an inspiration,"

Louise gave the pod bot a grin before placing both of her arms around her waist, "I already knew the gist of how Ion Blasters work. So, I thought 'why not make an Ion Blaster that can give out a continuous beam?' I've been looking everywhere around Bans for the perfect parts. While I have made the body and its functions, I had one problem," she said as she raised a single finger.

Bench gave a series of beeps, "Energy output,"

Louise nodded, "Ion Blasters alone already consume lots of power in it of themselves, you always have to keep spare Arc batteries and those things are already expensive, so I looked for a new power source. Cyber Cores,"

There was a brief silence inside the warehouse. The two elder sisters looked at each other in confusion – hoping to find the answer that both of them never had. The silence was broken when Bench gave off loud beeps while giving a voice of realization. Upon seeing the pod bot's reaction, Louise gave an apologetic smile.

"You were the one that was taking the all of Cyber Cores!" He said while pointing the non-existent finger.

Louise scratched the back of her head, "Oh yeah… I forgot about that,"

Bench stared at the cyborg girl for a second before giving a mechanical sigh, "whatever, it already happened," he said before looking at her again, "so I assume that you use the Ion Blaster through your new core?"

Louise nodded enthusiastically, "you're right, but you know the catch?" she gave a pause almost expecting an answer from the pod bot, her patience ran short, unfortunately, "I'm not even tired, my systems are telling me that everything is still in normal condition!"

Bench seemed to have stopped in mid-air, the processors inside his system worked on overdrive at the revelation that was just given to him. "T-that's impossible, all cores have a limit… hell, even the core that keeps Bans afloat has a core that can only last for ten millennia!"

Upon hearing that statement come out of Bench, both sisters did a double take as they looked at the pod bot with slight shock. "T-t-ten millennia!?"

Bench looked back at both of the sisters, there was this unusual air around the pod bot. It almost felt like arrogance… or was it pride. "You bet! Created by Doctor Irwin Flashlight, during the year 3021… it's always an honour to meet such a man. Sadly, he passed away after he built the L.H.C.,"

"The L.H.C.?" Eleonore asked.

"How do you not kno-"Bench aggressively said before getting nudged by Louise… though it was more of a push for the pod bot since it was 3 tonnes that were pushing him away. He was about to continue his personal opinion about the existence of magic but he didn't when he saw the already reddening face of Eleonore, "The L.H.C. was a massive core,"

He said before he dropped a small disc from a small compartment in the middle of his cylindrical body. The disc floated towards the centre of the small square that the assembled people had formed. It glowed a bright yellow before displaying a spherical object; the sphere was separated into four quadrants with each of them being blocked by a barrier made by an unknown metal. In the centre of the sphere was another sphere but smaller.

"It was built as a last resort after the discovery of the existence of Ravagers. Supposedly, it was enough to power five solar systems simultaneously, for a millennium" Bench explained.

Cattleya raised an eyebrow at the new term. Fortunately, instead of asking the pod bot she turned to ask her little sister. Louise gave a nod and asked Bench to halt his explanation – much to his disappointment. Once a brief explanation as to what a solar system is it left both of the elder sisters shell-shocked. Of course, such a revelation is nothing without scepticism.

"I don't believe you… to think that there are other worlds out there… surrounding our… I find that hard to believe," Eleonore said though her voice was less confident than it was before.

"And if someone told me the same thing years ago, I wouldn't believe it as well," Louise said. "But solar systems exist, and they are far older and humans and cyborgs alike… but for the sake of understanding the L.H.C. you have to believe that they exist,"

Eleonore hesitated at the thought of such revelation but in the end, she decided to believe such an outlandish tale. Accepting her approval Bench continued on with his tale. "-as I was saying before I was rudely cut off," he said before turning his attention to Eleonore, the blonde-haired sister simply rolled her eyes. "The L.H.C. is capable of powering five solar systems simultaneously, but if it were to power something as small as a floating city when compared to five solar systems, then it is to be expected that the lifetime of the L.H.C. would end up longer,"

"And this floating city… is it something similar to Albion?" Cattleya asked.

Louise gave a short chuckle, "something like Albion… but greater, you see Bans – the floating city – is literally just that: a floating city there is no ground, its citizens move around the city using jet packs or if you're a cyborg like me," she said as she placed a palm on her chest, "you can just fly to where you need to,"

"And who is the ruler of this floating city?" Eleonore asked with intrigue.

The one who answered her question this time was Bench "A group called: The Council. They are the ones who make the calls on how the city functions. Most of the time they let the city do its own thing. During events like say a Ravager attack, they take on the reins, they call out what to do and to the city and its citizens must follow it without question,"

Cattleya smiled, "Well I must say; The Council seems to be a powerful group of mages if they can defend a floating city on their own,"

At that point the whole warehouse was silent. None spoke a word as Louise and Bench gave Cattleya a look as if she had grown three heads all of a sudden. "They were not mages," Louise slowly said.

Then this time it was the two elder sister's turn to look at the other pair in confusion. "But I thought they were the ones who make the decisions. They should be mages since they are leading a floating city," Eleonore said.

Louise shook her head, "None of them are mages… hell, I'm friends with one of the Council members and occupy three seats in The Room and to him and everyone in The Room the word 'magic' is nothing but 'science that cannot be explained'."

Eleonore shook her head as she tried to get a hold of what her little sister is trying to tell her, "Little sister… are you telling us, that this floating city that you're talking about is led by commoners?"

Louise was about to answer her question but all of a sudden, a faint voice of a student made itself known in the warehouse, "Hey, did you hear?"

"Yeah, a maid is going to get fired because she made two students cry,"

"Who's issuing this?"

"The one whose father is a general, Guiche de Grammont,"

"That student? Oh, this will be interesting indeed,"

The pair of voices died down and at that moment Louise moved, she power-walked her way towards the door. Her sisters asked where she was going but she didn't answer. From what she remembered, despite spending eight years in Bans, she could faintly remember the personalities of her old classmates. While there were some whom she does remember clearly there were also some she didn't want to remember but due to circumstances, she couldn't simply forget them.

Guiche de Grammont was one of them. Of course, the obvious reason as to why she still remembers him is because he is one of her tormenters back when she was still a naïve girl who thinks being a noble is everything. She also remembers that the soldier boy was nothing but a playboy who wanted nothing more than to enter the skirts of women.

Approaching the courtyard where her mechanical heart sank as she took in the view. The maid, which she remembered to be the one she shook hands with was on her knees begging with running tears to be brought back into the job. The ones who were listening to her begging were the headmaster, secretary and of course the boy himself, Guiche – Louise had to keep herself from bursting out from laughter as she noticed red hand prints on Guiche's face.

"Please, Headmaster Osmond, I need this job," she begged.

"I'm sorry, but rules are rules,"

"I haven't broken any of them!"

"Liar! You hurt the feelings of two beautiful women right in front of my eyes… I have no other choice but to fire you from this academy so that you may never attempt such a thing again," Guiche declared, more out of bravado than anything else.

"Please, Master Grammont, I didn't know that that potion belonged to Madame Montmorency. It fell out of your pocket so I had assumed that it was yours,"

Both the secretary and headmaster looked to the boy with a questioning look. A bead of sweat fell from the boy's forehead but fortunately, he managed to come back with a suitable retort. "There you go again, lying and right in front of the headmaster no less! I still don't know how you have managed to keep your work here without getting fired on the first day. For your disobedience, you must be punished!"

With his intentions clear to everyone that was watching, he opened his palm and brought it down.

"Wha-"

He looked behind him to find that his hand was stopped by another hand, though unlike the normal human hands the one that was holding on his was black. Tracing the arm, he soon found out that the one who was holding his hand was none other than the talentless Louise the Zero. The pink-haired girl was wearing an upset look on her face as she looked at the blonde boy.

"I think she has learned her lesson, Guiche," she said with a tone of finality.

"Why are you doing this Valliere? Don't you see, that she's a liar?" Guiche said.

Louise looked at the maid whom she finally realized it was the same maid that she had shaken hands with the other day; Siesta. The look of desperation in her eyes was boring down on the pink-haired cyborg. After a pause of just staring at her, she looked back to Guiche.

"I know liars when I see one," she said.

Guiche smirked and Siesta's look became even more desperate. "If you know, then you'll unhand me this instant so that I can deliver rightful justi-"

"I'm talking about you, dipshit,"

Guiche sputtered while stepping back now that Louise had let his hand go. "W-what are you implying, Valliere!"

Louise gave a shrug, "It is as I say, you're a liar,"

Guiche paused for a second before standing up straight and wore a smug smile on his face, "And where is your proof, Zero?" Louise gave out a snort, much to Guiche's amusement. He frowned as she continued to giggle, "what's the matter?"

"I have all the proof I need," Louise said. Guiche gave her a confused look to which she answered by pointing her own cheeks then nodding towards him. After that she looked at the two assembled adults; the headmaster and the secretary, "Which one would you believe; a playboy who has been caught red-handed by two women who were cheating on her or a maid who was simply doing her job?"

After she asked this question, she noticed that there was a group of students that had already gathered in the curiosity of what is happening. While Louise looked around at the gathering crowd, Headmaster Osmond turned to Guiche.

"Master Guiche, is what I am hearing true? That you have been mingling with the opposite gender in this academy?"

"H-Headmaster… why would I do such a thing?!" the blonde boy said as a bead of sweat slid down the side of his face, "Louise is spouting lies!"

The old man gave the general's boy a deadpanned look the nervous posture, darting eyes and sweaty forehead. Yeah, he was not born yesterday, "Yet you have two have red handprints of your face… or are you suggesting that it was a male of your age who slapped you?"

The gathered crowd laughed at the headmaster's words, meanwhile Guiche placed a hand on his face and hissed when it stung. His face was starting to look like the marks that were on his cheeks as the gathered group of students laughed at his misfortune. Some of them are even calling him out; telling him that he deserves what he did and that he should've seen it coming when he decided to go on his 'nightly adventures'.

The ageing headmaster gave out a tired sigh, "Master Guiche, I know that you are already a responsible you noble, but it embarrasses me much so as you to remind you that this place is an academy. This is a place where you learn how to use your magic and learn how to properly use the privileges that have been given to you. This is not the place where you socialise and mingle with others for the sake of love… I'm sure you will be able to pursue such an adventure when you are older."

At that point, the stifles of chuckles and giggles became full-blown laughter. Osmond frowned at the academy's students' behaviour and decided to fix it. He planted his cane on the ground which generated a small earthquake – not enough to destroy the academy but enough to get the students' attention. When they finally did quiet down, he glared at all of them making all who locked on his gaze flinch or shrink.

"All of you are supposed to be gentlemen and ladies and yet all of you behave like five years old! Don't laugh at your fellow peers' error, don't think that we don't know what all of you have been doing. My teachers and I have only been lenient to your generation because we know that when you grow up such small delights like this will rarely ever happen when you finally grow old,"

At that the whole gathered group quieted down, some looking down and others were looking to the side. Either they were showing actual guilt or mocked-guilt, the old headmaster didn't know. But at least he hoped that his message managed to get to almost everyone. After scolding the students, he turned his gaze to Guiche.

"Master Guiche, I simply cannot fire a staff member of this academy for the sole reason of 'hurting two beautiful maidens' when you're the main reason that they are hurt. This type of misconduct cannot be accepted in this academy so I hope that you will fix this… can I be assured that you are responsible enough to do that?"

"Y-yes headmaster,"

The old man gave a nod before bidding Siesta stand up and put her packed bags back to the servant's dormitory. Siesta still too shell-shocked about what had just happened required Louise to knock her out of her shocked state. Quickly standing she grabbed both of her packed bags and walked towards the servant's dormitory, not before giving a quick glance at Louise.

Once all of that drama was finally gone both the headmaster and secretary left the grounds and back to their respective offices. After a moment of silence, the gathered group finally started to thin out. Louise for her part also decided to leave and continue researching about her new body with Bench. Meanwhile, Guiche never moved from his spot, his eyes filled with rage as he repeated the scene of him getting humiliated by none other than Louise the Zero over and over again.

He finally snapped his head to the left when he felt something touch his leg. Looking down he spotted his summoned familiar. He tried to give his familiar a smile but all that came out was a frown. Deciding that comforting his familiar is useless he looked around the area where he stood. There were still some students mingling around though they were there because they want to rather than to watch him and his embarrassing state. Dismissing them he locked eyes with the back of Louise Valliere. Anger boiled inside of the blonde as he directed all of his reasoning down to the depths of the void. Standing up he took a deep breath before he called out the pink haired cyborg's name.

Louise turned around and raised an eyebrow, Guiche gave off a short smirk, "I challenge you to a duel,"

"Mr Grammont!"

Guiche froze from his spot and looked behind to see Professor Colbert stomping his way towards him. "Believe that one of the academy's rules state that duels between mages are forbidden! You have just been scolded by the headmaster, I hope you have not forgotten that immediately," he said after giving him a slight glare.

"B-but-!"

"No 'buts' Mr Grammont, go back to classes. Break time is over," he said sternly making it clear.

Guiche wanted to raise another point but the glare that he received from his professor froze him, the glare reminded him of his father; cold and firm. All anger in his body lost itself as he was frozen in slight fear at the professor's eyes. Forget about how he managed to instil such feeling inside of him if he didn't do what he wanted he was more liable to a punishment much worse than public embarrassment!

Without any other words, he gave a hesitant bow before making his way towards the tower where they were conducting classes. Before he could enter the double doors, he gave a subtle scowled look at Louise.

Only to freeze in fear when his sky-blue eyes locked with her red eyes. His mind tried to tell him that what he was seeing was nothing but an illusion, yet the other part of his head told him that what he saw was the real deal. Louise's head was tilted to the side, a manic grin on her face, the lines on her body glowed a dull crimson. He quickly turned back and proceeded to walk towards the classroom. Albeit, with more gusto.

Meanwhile, Louise turned around and made her way back to the warehouse. She manipulated the nanomachines to cover a part of her mouth as the manic grin was still there.

"Fuck, almost cause a massacre there," she thought. "I need to keep myself in check,"

A/N: *MASSIVE SIGH OF RELIEF* It is finally done! And boy was this chapter a long one. Probably the longest one that I have written in a long time! What are your thoughts about this chapter? Things like Louise's Ion Cannons (A cookie for the one who can guess where I got the reference from. I'll give you a hint: it's a movie!) How about Siesta's inner thoughts about nobles, was it in line of her character or it wasn't. Also more information about Bans!

For those who are complaining about why I didn't do the 'obligatory Guiche fight'… let's face it, after reading the 'Recalibration' chapter, did you really think Guiche would have a chance in fighting her? I hope their stare down with each other was more than enough though.

Enough of this, let us get right into the reviews!

Guest: I really want to assure you that yes, I will still continue 'Blue Taijitu' but I'm also scared that I might not follow through. I have been very busy with other projects like the 'Jumper' series, 'Slaying Runs in the Family', 'Zero' and other fanfictions that are also experiencing the same with 'Blue Taijitu'. And for that, I am officially declaring that 'The Blue Taijitu' will in be in hiatus. Terribly sorry.

Lucian Naruto: Don't worry, I haven't forgotten about her. I just want to make a decent foothold for Cyborg Louise. The latest you'll probably see her is during the Familiar Competition.

Touhoufanatic: Thank you for reading and I hope I won't disappoint!

Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, as always, constructive criticism is appreciated and with that I bid you all adieu.

Peace~