Reaping What You Sow

Sunlight slowly creeped in Louise's room; its rays of light slowly crawled its way up to the pink haired girl's closed eyes. Opening her eyes, the first thing that she saw was the dimly lit ceiling. She turned her body to the right to see the clock only to see a sleeping Alban. Her sleep muddled mind tried to process the question of why her girlfriend was here as fast as it could. Then it clicked.

Yesterday, she and Alban celebrated New Years, watched the fantastic firework show that was prepared by the Enforcers. Once the show was done, they both kissed under the moonlight, which was romantic in her opinion but she isn't going to admit that to her. After that it was all a blur, they raced back to the repair workshop, went in her room and-

"Louise, I know you're already awake! Get over here and help me with the coming patients!"

Alban mumbled a complaint before shifting her body so that he back faces Louise. This prompted their shared blanket to move away from Louise revealing something that took her a moment to realise. It finally clicked in, her face lit up a bright red and glared at her girlfriend for showing her a night that's surely to be remembered. She jumped off the bed and rushed towards her wardrobe to get a fresh set of clothes.

Adorning a pink shirt with a design of a lithe man wearing a singlet and pants, standing on a stage as waves of crowds showered him as if he was some kind of god. The words 'Queen' was written at the bottom. Her bottom half was the usual grey pants. She was about to close her wardrobe when she catches a glimpse of something that was black and white.

It was her old academy uniform, beside it was her wand, the same one that brought her so much suffering during her time as a student. That's when it clicked in her mind, she's been gone for a long already, if by some crazy miracle that she ever returns to the academy, would she be accepted as she is right now? Her family had probably given up on searching her and opted for believing a bitter sweet lie that she'd died somewhere in the forest after running away from her failure.

After all, she did pack her belongings the day before the Familiar Summoning. She told her past self that if she were to fail this exam, she wasn't going to face any of her peers and family. She decided that she was going to keep what remained of her little dignity by running away than becoming some housewife to her fiancé, Jean-Jacques Wardes. Usually the mention of that name would bring her stomach butterflies but now… she felt weird. He was a man who doubled her current age. Having a relationship with Alban felt more comfortable than with him.

"If you're not out in three seconds I'm going to play the recording of what both of you did last night!" Bench yelled.

"Eh?"

"Three,"

Louise's mind caught up, he was recording what Alban and here were doing last night!? Forget about the fact the Bench recorded them, there were patients waiting downstairs and they were going to hear this recording. Louise mad a mad dash towards her door

"Two,"

She inputted the code for her door locks as quickly as she could.

"One,"

The sound of the locks unhinging felt like an eternity, her face red with both anger and embarrassment that was soon to come. Seeing the smallest of gap from the sliding door she tried to slip in between. Alas, try as she might, she was just a little late.

"Ahhn… L-Louise… I… I-I'm going to c-"

"SHUT UP!"

As soon as the she was given the chance, she jumped at Bench was just standing right in front of the door. Louise's body collided with the pod-bot. Louise's door was facing the stairs that led down so it was with no surprise that after they collide with each other both her and Bench tumbled down the stairs.

"Ow," Louise drawn out.

"Good morning to you too, Louise," Bench said as if rolling down a set of stairs was an everyday occurrence.

"…Fuck …you…, Bench"

He was tired

He was weak

His body was yelling at him to just give up.

Despite all of these detriments, he persevered. He needed to save his master, that man with white hair was going to do something wrong to her but with his current self? No. He needed someone who was strong, someone powerful. Wasn't there someone that her master has been obsessing for a while now? Yes, that woman… the woman with black clothing. Perhaps she could save her. He didn't have much time. Every second spent thinking about what horrendous things that man was going to do to her master, the more those thoughts will become reality.

He gave out a weak trill. Hoping against hope that someone with be close by to hear him. His ringing ears caught the sound of a door opening. He saw a woman with blonde hair and looked similar to the woman he needed. Perhaps they're related? He trilled again but sadly; his voice wasn't heard. The blonde woman continued walking and made her way towards a familiar warehouse that was a couple of meters in front of him.

It was that woman's house! All he needed to do was make his way to the warehouse, ask for help and finally save her master! Task easier said than done when your entire body is battered, bruised and bleeding. Now was not the time to give up. He has to reach that warehouse and cry for help. With all of his remaining strength, Flame limped his way towards Louise's warehouse.

"Is it going to be alright?" asked Louise.

"He, Louise, it's a he," Henrietta corrected. "Yes, he'll be fine… who could do such a thing though?"

Louise looked at Eleonore, "Is it our thief?"

Eleonore shook her head, "No… from the recording that you've shown us two days back, the thief went down while they were still on a wall… the wall is made of limestone. While highly resistant to magic, it can still be manipulated. No, these wounds were caused by a wind mage,"

The resident cyborg tilted her head in question. Eleonore rolled her eyes and started to point out how the wounds were sliced cleanly.

"But then how did he get these bruises?"

"I don't know…," Eleonore looked closer, "It looks like he was hit with something very hard… or he fell in a high place,"

Louise placed a hand under chin and thought. "Are familiars allowed to fight in the academy?"

Eleonore shook her head. "Familiars are not allowed to fight since they were an extension of their master. Fighting would bring a bad image to the master hence why it is not permitted but that doesn't mean that this is strictly enforced. During my time here, there were plenty of familiars who were extremely territorial and are aggressive when provoked. Perhaps this familiar may have angered another familiar?"

Henrietta nodded as she was almost done with healing the wounded Flame. "That is true but from what I've seen while I was making my way here, most of the familiars that were summoned were more docile with the exception being the blue dragon that I saw,"

"I've seen that dragon and I can confirm that it is surprisingly docile. Hell, it was friends with him," Louise gestured to the fire salamander.

So that leaves the people inside the warehouse one last choice. Flame fell from a high place, if it were a trick that's supposed to be used for the festival then they can assume that is must've gone wrong and Kirche should be on her way to retrieve him. Unfortunately, after an entire five minutes of waiting, Kirche never showed up which brought up some more questions.

He came to with a start. Where was he? From the looks of it, he was inside of a wooden house. How did he get here? This was no time to worry, his master is still in trouble and he's sitting here wondering how he got here. It stood up finally realising that his body didn't ache anymore. He checked himself out. No cuts or bruises!

"I'm going back to my room… also Louise, we're not done talking,"

"Ugh… fine, we'll talk in your room,"

Voices?

He crawled his way around a corner and what he saw elated him. There, standing just a few meters away from him was the woman that he needed to help him! He didn't have much time. With a worried look on his face he gave out a distressed trill gaining all of their attention. Once their attention was on him, he made a mad dash towards the exit.

"Wait little one, you're still hu-!" the voice of Henrietta became lower and lower as he ran farther and farther.

He had to make sure that they were following him. He looked behind him and to his luck, all of them were standing outside of the warehouse. They all looked perplexed and the one who healed him was giving him a worried gaze. He gave out a loud trill and spun around from his spot. That should be enough indication. He started to crawl up to the closed door that led to the girl's dorm and started scratching on the door. He continued to scrape the door while making some sad trilling sounds.

He heard footsteps behind him. Heavy footsteps. He looked up to see a black hand twisting the door knob and opening it. He was elated, he then proceeded to bite the woman on her leg. Thinking that he was going to bite flesh, he winced when he clamped down and felt metal. Forget about how this woman has metal leg. He tugged and tugged telling her to follow him.

"Do you want me to follow you, boy?"

Flame removed his jaws and nodded profusely at her question. Seeing Flame's reaction, the woman was a little shocked but that shock turned to curiosity as she told him to lead the way. Behind her, the remaining three women trailed behind.

'Hold on master, I'm going to save you!'

Kirche's heartbeat was rising as she was backed into a corner. In front of her, three teenagers she recognizes grinned with malicious intent, with a hint of uncontrolled lust. This all happened when she invited the person she's currently with, Stix, in her room. Unknown to her at the time, both Vestro and another boy she barely remembered managed to sneak in the girls' dormitory, lock pick her door and prepared for this surprise visit.

"I did warn you Kirche, I told you that you will regret this," Vestro said with a dark smirk.

Had this been like any other day, she would've thrown all of them away using her in depth knowledge of flame magic. Sadly, it wasn't one of those days, just as she entered the room, both Vestro and the other boy jumped at her with Vestro taking her wand and the boy taking Flame. Her familiar fought valiantly but it wasn't meant to be as Vestro casted multiple wind spells that severely wounded her. She begged him to stop told him that she would do anything just to not hurt her familiar. Upon hearing that, Vestro stopped.

"T-Take off your clothes," he said.

Begrudgingly, she did. Her cheeks heated up; embarrassment clear in her eyes but she didn't want them to give them the satisfaction of her looking weak. She glared at them in defiance. This seemed to tick Vestro and as a last straw.

"Marion, throw her familiar out the window,"

"NO!"

She slept in the fourth floor of the dorms. A fall from that height could prove fatal even for someone with hard scales. Nevertheless, she watched with horror as her beloved salamander was thrown away like a piece of rotten pastry out of her window. She tried to reach out and save him but she was pushed down by Stix. Tears now flowing freely as Vestro looked down at her with sadistic glee. She had a thousand-yard stare at the window, still trying to process the fact that Flame, her beloved familiar, was gone.

"Just to say this, Kirche, this was all your fault,"

Her fault? How can it be her fault? She hadn't done anything to wrong these boys.

"You just had to embarrass me in front of everyone. Slandering my name! Telling lies about how none of my stories were true! To top it off, come next day and I see you already attempting to enter Stix's pants!"

What's wrong with flirting? It's the best way to give out lo-

"And now… you're going to see what happens when you cross with me,"

The boy she couldn't recognize jumped at her, she tried to scream for help but all that came out was a muffled shriek. Confusion and fear overcame her as a piece of cloth was placed in her mouth. The tried fighting back but it seems like the boy she didn't recognize was far stronger than her. She then felt hand touch her knees. Out of pure instinct, she closed the gap of her knees but the hands gave prevented that from happening and thus her legs were fully spread as she revealed herself to all the three boys.

She wanted to die. Death was a far more enticing option than this.

She gasped when she felt something rub her womanhood. She didn't want this, she just wanted this to be over. Through her blurred and teary vision, she met Vestro's eyes. Eyes full of lust.

The tip entered and she screamed as hard as she could.

Halfway, it was starting to hurt.

Is she really going to lose her virginity to a rapist?

CRASH

"KIRCHE!"

She didn't know what to say. Of course, the sight of her past self's enemy being raped in front of her was something that she would not wish upon her worst enemy, what's worse is the fact that Henrietta watched with her own two eyes what was happening. As soon as her eyes locked on to the kid with the white hair, her core glowed a deep red. Rage flooded her eyes as time slowed to a crawl.

Each footstep she created spiderwebs in the concrete floor. Once she was within arms-reach she grabbed the scruff of the first boy's uniform and threw him at the wall. He fell down in an unconscious heap. The next boy, had more time to react and was pulling out his wand. That won't do, she immediately backhanded him. Highly dense nanomachines collided with his head, knocking him out in an instant.

Finally, the last boy who had just gotten off of Kirche fired off a wind spell which hit her square in the chest. Due to the fact that she weighed 3.43 tonnes meant that she didn't even budge at the attack. Vestro gave Louise a shocked look and started casting a new spell only for him to shut up when a Louise's hand extended and grabbed him by the throat.

She didn't hear anything. All that mattered is that this rapist deserves to die. She felt someone grab on to her shoulder but she didn't pay attention. Her grip became tighter and tighter. His struggling became more and more apparent. She felt someone grab on to her choking hand but she didn't care. This bastard has to pay.

His struggling started to weaken fear still driven in his eyes as he gazes at her blood red irises.

Snap

The room was silent. Vestro's neck was tilted in an impossible angle. Her grip loosened and the boy fell down like a sack of potatoes. Senses finally returned as she looked at the room. Shocked faces were everywhere. Even from the entrance, she could see Henrietta and Eleonore cover their mouth in shock. Agnès on the other hand, was standing in between her and the princess, a loaded flintlock aimed at her head.

She looked to her right to see Kirche looking at her with a new sense of horror. Why were they cautious of her? The boy that almost raped the Kirche was dead. She killed him so that it would stop.

She killed him

Killed

Realization finally dawned on her as she immediately covered her mouth. She looked for an exit and found it in the form of an open window. Her back shifted into thrusters and without any other words said, she flew away.

She understood now.

She finally understood why they were all looking at her like she was some kind of maniac.

That's because she is one

The wide smile that reached both of her ears were proof of that.

A/N: Well, looks like I finished this ahead of schedule. Before all of you go ham on me for making a dark chapter today allow me to explain the reason why.

First off, let's talk about Kirche. We all know her as a flirty woman based off of the anime. She wanted nothing more than to enter the pants of every boy in the school. It was from here, we all portrayed her as a 'slut'. My opinion about her changed though when a reader talked to me about Kirche and her reason for being flirty. She was born in Germania, she had a mother, father and a lot of brothers and sister. These brothers and sisters of hers are not even related by blood. So of course, you could already see how the parents will show favouritism.

Kirche received the short end and didn't receive much love from her parents, hence she didn't really understand the concept of 'love'. Another thing that the reader pointed out to me, since Kirche was naturally good looking, that was used to gain favour to a man that's triple her age. She was engaged, to a man that she didn't know. In short, she was just a pawn.

She didn't like this and decided to run away. Skip a few months, probably years and she found herself at Tristain Magical Academy. This time though, she used her good looks to woo the boys there. All of that attention was now at her, this is her first time receiving this kind of attention so of course, she wanted more of it. This was her only understanding of love. She had confused lust with love.

Now how does this tie in with the current chapter? We also know that Kirche loses interest to boys if there is a more interesting, more good-looking boy, Saito being an example. Not all rejected boys will accept rejection easily, Vestro was a testament to that. Nobles are too uptight and too high up on their horse to accept such a level of embarrassment. Eventually, one of the boys she dumps will snap and will be forced to do something extreme.

Finally, Louise's mental condition. I'm just going to keep it short. She lived in a place that's eat or be eaten for 8 years. A world where danger is almost always around the corner, surely days will go by slower. She's bound to lose some sanity due to the atrocities that she's forced to commit.

Also, I did hint that she was a mentally unstable when Guiche challenged her to a duel.

With that being said and done, time to read the reviews!

Lucian Naruto: Thank you! Honestly, in the anime, Eleonore is one of the unexplored characters. It wasn't really explained too much in depth as to why she was so harsh to Louise. What I'm doing to her is breaking her down and rebuilding her into something more likeable.

Guest: I am not telling you to sympathize with Eleonore, all I'm saying is that, Eleonore's reason for her personality isn't really explained well in the anime. All I remember was her being harsh to Louise. Hell, I didn't even know that she was a teacher in some unspoken school until Lucian Naruto told the she does! All I am saying is, keep an open mind. The fact that you consider Karin as also a person who caused Louise torment isn't a good sign. She maybe harsh to Louise but that's all she knows.

Remember, before she had Eleonore, Cattleya and Louise she was a knight. A highly decorated one at that. She was battle hardened and that's all she knew and that's all she taught. She finds it difficult to say 'I love you' to her children as she was never taught to say that in the military. Know this though, despite the fact that she may appear cold on the outside, she's still a mother at heart. Maternal affection will still take hold when she sees her daughters in trouble.

Guest: Yes, lesbians. The Church won't agree to this but… who can stop Louise eh?

Oh boy! This one's a long one. I hope all of you enjoy this chapter. As always, constructive criticism is accepted even more so now than ever since I'm not using any grammar helping applications. With that being said I bid you all adieu.

Peace~