Guess what. CHICKEN BUTT!

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Hehehehe. Looks like that joke was as useful as Aqua from Konosuba. Offended? Go over and hang out with Seiko and Sayori! Did I trigger you yet? If not then you are pretty thick skinned. Unlike Alphonse who doesn't have skin at all (Until the end of the show).

Anyway, enough of that offensive crap, we are here to get some quality story read! Let's thank our new followers! Yes! We have more than one this time! PARTY ROCK WITH THAT ROCK WHO IS HANGING OUT WITH THE ROCK! START!

Chapter 22: Yuudai's Reunion With The Zero

"I wasn't aware that my power reaches to telling me all the controls to Zero! I am an expert pilot now!" Yuudai exclaims sitting in the pilot seat. He is currently checking to make sure everything is functional.

"What is that?" A feminine voice asks sternly.

Yuudai starts grinning. "Well look what the cat dragged in." He says in an amused voice turning to her. His grin then wavers. "And it seems the cat chewed you up too." Yuudai states looking over her very untidy figure.

"Answer me!" She growls out.

Yuudai rolls his eyes. "This is Zero. The zero fighter jet." He tells her. "Zero is just the nickname I gave it."

Louise widens her eyes at the nickname. "Get off that thing." She orders.

"Why? It's the closest thing that I can call a true lover!" Yuudai jokes caressing the side of the jet. Louise freezes up in cold and unwavering surprise. Yuudai just starts laughing out loud. "I'm just joking Blanc!" He says jumping down. Hearing him say that nickname sends a waves of happiness through to her very soul.

'That name…I missed it so much.' Louise thinks smiling on the inside. "Where were you?" She asks ignoring her happiness.

"I was out trying to find treasure, but only found a bunch of monsters to kill." Yuudai answers.

"Now then…" Louise starts. "What gave you the idea that you could leave your master for so long?"

Yuudai's eyes trail down to his hands that still are bruised up from punching the statue. "The moment you fired me I was lost. I was angry. So I left with Kirche, Guiche and Siesta." He explains. Louise grows red from anger. "However, ever since leaving…I felt as thought I had a hole in my soul."

"What do you mean?" Louise asks calming down from that anger.

"It means…I'm sorry for everything I said to you. I'm sorry we departed on such bad terms." Yuudai tells her then looks to the ground.

Louise's eyes widen in surprise. She wasn't expecting such an apology from her free spirited familiar. She crosses her arms with a small blush. "I-I guess I'm s-sorry for what I said too."

"Just curious, why were you upset? That misunderstanding can't be all that upset you." Yuudai says looking back at her.

"I was…uh…that's all in the past! Let's just forget it!" She quickly replies adding a nervous laugh at the end.

"Well now that we are on good terms I guess I can leave without any regrets." Yuudai says to himself causing Louise to pale.

"Leave? You can't leave again!" Louise tells Yuudai.

"Why not? I know I said sorry, but that's all I wanted to say before leaving." Yuudai says. "Unless you would like to rehire me." He says offhandedly.

Louise deadpans at him. "You're really going to make me say it, aren't you?" She asks.

"Oh most definitely." Yuudai answers with a grin leaning against the jet.

"Come back or else!" Louise yells. Yuudai just starts laughing. "What's so funny?!"

"It's just that it is so like you to asks a simple question in a loud offensive voice." Yuudai replies. "But sure. I guess I can give it another shot."

"Really? I honestly thought Yuudai would still be upset with her." Kirche says from a little ways away with a broom in hand. She and Guiche were tasked with cleaning while Yuudai didn't have to do anything considering his status is familiar. Nothing else. Not that he would have done anything even if he was a student here.

"I thought Louise would kill him before before he got the chance to say anything." Guiche adds his own two sense.

"I thought you were supposed to be cleaning." Kirche states looking at him.

"Touché Zerbst. Touché."

Later In Louise's Room

"I knew you were in bad shape, but I didn't think you'd stay holed up in your room the entire time I was gone." Yuudai says looking around her messy room. He looks to his window spot, but there wasn't anything within a five foot radius of the window sill. As if she kept that specific spot clean.

"You're not going asks about my absence of my classes?" Louise asks surprised that isn't the first topic brought up.

"Eh. Self wallowing requires you being alone, so I didn't see the need to bring it up." Yuudai replies sitting down on his window sill seat.

"I was not self wallowing!" She retorts wearing Yuudai's jacket. Yuudai deadpans. "Whatever."

"Why are you wearing my jacket?" He asks.

"Cold."

"I personally things it feels nice." Yuudai says. "But it doesn't matter I guess. I should probably stop wearing it so often." Louise takes a peek at him out the corner of her eyes. "You can keep it for now, I guess. At least until I decide otherwise."

"I didn't say you can sleep there." Louise states.

"Then where am I supposed to sleep?" Yuudai asks raising his eyebrow. She points to her side on the bed. "So she did miss me." He whispers feeling a smile on his lips. "Sure, why not?" He says walking to her bed and laying down. The moment his head hit the pillow he was out like a light.

Louise isn't as sleepy though. She waits ten minutes in silence then sits up in bed. Yuudai's sleeping form once again in her presence is an immense fortune to her, but she notices how he is a bit more rough around the edges from not being able to wash up as often. The memory of the night they danced the night away flashes through her mind bring her to smile.

'Maybe...just one kiss can't hurt.' She thinks leaning towards him. She then places a light kiss on his lips quickly backing up afterwards. She watches him, but he is still dead asleep. She reaches her hand to her lips wondering how she was able to do it without his knowledge. 'It wasn't like my dream when he was awake in it, but it was better than never getting one.'

Three Days Later

"Hmm. I wonder if I can somehow get a mage to add some kind of infinite bullet spell or something. Maybe toughen the thing up so it doesn't get blown of the sky so easily." Yuudai mutters inspecting Zero (the jet).

"Yuudai! Yuudai! I did it!" The voice of Colbert yells out across the field.

Yuudai turns around to look at the running man. "Run Forest, run!" Yuudai yells to him stifling a laugh.

Colbert slows down finally reaching the teen. He looks at him with a raised eyebrow. "What?"

"Oh it's nothing. Just an old phrase from a place called America in my world." Yuudai answers kind of wishing that he would have understood the joke.

"Anyway, I finished the concoction! I-" Colbert stops talking as Yuudai puts up a pleading hand.

"I may be smart, but please don't get into the specifics of it all." He requests with a small smile.

Colbert coughs into his hand. "Of course. Well I managed to finally to construct the proper formula to create an oil that is more friendly to the environment than the gasoline that you initially requested." The teacher explains leaving Yuudai with a big smile.

"Great! I'm one step closer to figuring out how Sasaki Takeo got to this world!" The teen exclaims.

"Who is Sasaki Takeo?" Colbert asks handing over the gasoline.

"Well he was a fairly high rank of the navy in my world. He came to this world about seventy seven years ago." Yuudai replies filling the tank. "Or so I would assume."

"Why do you think that is when he came here?" The teacher asks.

Yuudai finishes filling the tank with the little amount of gasoline and starts checking Zero over one more time. "Let's just say that the time these were in use was quite a long time ago and if I had to guess then I would guess along that time period."

"I see."

Yuudai hops in Zero and prepares himself as the information of how to fly it floods through his mind. "Hey Colbert, mind spinning the propeller?" Yuudai asks. Colbert nods using some wind magic to spin the the propeller. The human familiar starts up all the proper steps to start is up and hears the whir of the engine. He grins. He proceeds to shut Zero down and jump out. "Seems like we have a working plane!"

"That is perfect! How much do we need for it to actually fly?" Colbert asks.

"Well we will need five barrels to have a full tank." Yuudai answers casually.

"Seriously?!" Colbert exclaims before collecting himself. "I came this far, so I might as well go all the way!"

"That's the spirit!" Yuudai tells him. "Good luck." As soon as Colbert returned to his lab Yuudai sighs. "Not much else to do now." He says to himself.

"Why do I feel I am only here for plot convenience?" Derflinger questions from the ground.

"Well I personally think you are a good friend, so that would mean that you're not just for plot convenience." Yuudai tells the sword.

"Great. I'm not only for plot convenience, but I'm also here as emotional support." Derflinger says sarcastically.

Yuudai laughs at that. "Hey, if that is what you want to think then you're not completely wrong." Yuudai says.

"Why don't I get emotional support?!" The sword cries out.

"Probably because you haven't told me your past so that I can actually support you." Yuudai replies looking at the sword.

"Never!"

"Well there's why you don't get any." Yuudai cracks his back then decides to lay on the ground.

A couple hours pass and Yuudai has fell asleep on the grass. "Hey Yuudai!" Louise calls out seeing him on the ground. He doesn't respond, so she walks over to him finding him sleeping.

She starts to get upset until she hears him talking in his sleep. "Don't you dare touch them…" He orders sleepily.

"Touch who?" Louise wonders out loud growing curious.

"Those cookies are mine." He finishes making Louise facepalm herself.

'I have a crush on this guy?' She questions herself. She kicks him the black haired teen in his side waking Yuudai up immediately jumping to his feet while holding his side.

"What was that for?!" "What was that for?!" The teen demands glaring at her.

"It's time for dinner." Louise states ignoring his demand with a smug look. For some reason she got some kind of amusement from kicking him (heads out of the gutter!).

"Oh. Is that all?" Yuudai asks adopting a much calmer look. "Sorry, but I don't plan on stealing any food tonight. But I have an update on this hunk of metal." He smirks crossing his arms. "Thanks to an awesome guy I know, I started the engine!"

"Oh I'm so glad you started the so called engine. What does that do?" She asks upset at his direct dismissal of dinner.

"It allows Zero to fly!" Yuudai answers spreading out his arms as if it was some kind of grand opening for something important.

"Besides my skepticism on that, why in the world would you need to fly?" She questions.

Yuudai puts his hands in his pockets as he lets his arms drop. "The plan is to head east." Yuudai replies. "Simply knowing that an navy ensign was transported here for no apparent reason is unsettling, so I plan on investigating to see if I can prevent something like that from ever happening again."

"You want to go east? You mean you want to go to Roba Aru Kariie?" She asks with wide eyes.

"If that is where it takes me then you better believe that is where I will go." Yuudai tells her. "You are welcome to tag along if you want, but I can't promise it'll be safe. After all, we did kind of piss Viscount off and I am pretty sure he is with all of those new Albion officials." He says sighing at the fact he now has to be on high alert anywhere he goes.

"But Princess Henrietta's wedding is in five days and I haven't thought up anything good for the edict I am supposed to say." Louise says looking to the ground.

"That's true. I won't miss Henrietta's wedding. She is too nice of a girl to just miss her wedding." Yuudai reasons to himself. "Well I could help out with the edict, but I might not be any help."

Louise gives a small smile. "Thanks."

"No problem Blanc!" He replies walking beside her to her room. "By the way I will get my payback for the rude awakening earlier."

"Bring it on dog." She says smirking. He smirks right back at her.

End

And we got another chapter done! I am on fire! May not be in record time like I have been doing, but I am speeding along quite well.

So did you all enjoy this? I hope so because once it gets to the wedding part I might have to cite the actual novel a bit more so that it is actually a real wedding and not a massacre of jumbled crap. I mean I did well with that strategy so far, but that is not the point.

I don't think I have much else to say, so thanks for reading, following, favoriting, reviewing and have a great day/night/morning!