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Chapter 29: An End To Her Love
After an hour had passed, two hooded people arrive. Yuudai saw this happening as they arrived, so he activates his ring's power changing his some of his hair into light blue streaks and his eyes become light blue as well. Using the speed it gives him, he speeds closer behind a tree watching them walk to the edge. The two don't seem bad, but he isn't going to let his guard down like when he was electrocuted by Viscount's clone.
Guiche, having seen him leave, starts chanting a spell. Yuudai decides to leave his sword sheathed for now. He knows he won't need it right away. The moment Guiche's spell laches as a giant hand from the ground, Yuudai jets towards the two at an insane speed. At that point though, one had burned the hand with a fire spell.
Yuudai sees the smaller one start using the spell, but not with the intention of hitting Guiche. Seeing this, he summons his gun and jumps to the side avoiding an air hammer. In no time, six ice arrows was already flying at him. Yuudai shoots three of the arrows while easily dodging the other three.
The last of his black hair is now changed to a very ice-like color with his eyes taking on more of a colder gaze to them. Immediately, a giant fireball is coming at him. He easily jets around it as it explodes from an explosion from Louise.
"Don't you bully Yuudai!" She exclaims as Yuudai reaches the pair.
The teen covers his fist in a sheet of frost and sucker punches the fire user in the gut making the person fall to their knees. In the same flow of motion, Yuudai spins around throwing his leg out to trip their own. It connects making her fall on the person's back. Yuudai stands tall above the two looking with cold eyes.
"So how about explaining why you two are here? Perhaps to harm the water spirit?" He questions knowing that he has run. He looks at the face of the one on their back recognizing her. "So...Tabitha. I guess your partner is Kirche." Tabitha nods in confirmation. He holds his hand out for her. "Sorry about that then. I thought you two were someone else." He says dismissing all his power returning him to his black haired self.
She takes his hand allowing him to pull her up. He then looks at Kirche already shakily standing up. "You know hun, hurting me like that doesn't change the fact I want you so much more." Kirche states pulling her hood down.
Yuudai deadpans at her. "Pervert." He says.
"Kirche? Tabitha?" Guche asks walking towards the trio with the other two in tow.
"It was you all?" Kirche asks surprised.
A little while later, the five teens are sitting around a fire with Tabitha and Kirche roasting some meat. "So let's get straight to the point." Yuudai says preparing questions for the two. "Why are you two attacking the water spirit?"
"Here is a better question, why are you protecting it?" Kirche asks in response his own question.
Louise pulls on Yuudai's jacket sleeve trying to gain his attention. "Quit talking to those other girls Yuudai. Give me your love!" She exclaims surprising Kirche and having Tabitha raise an eyebrow.
"This is why." Yuudai tells her. "So that Blanc can go back to accepting that I merely exist as a friend and familiar." He then looks at Louise. "Go to sleep."
"No!" She retorts making the others laugh. "Unless you give me a kiss." She knows she won this. Or so she thought.
Yuudai turns back to the others comically. "Well looks like Blanc is staying up with us." The others sweat drop.
"Just one!" Louise begs.
"No." He states simply. "I'll gladly give you a hug though." He relents. Before he knew it, she had her arms around him getting comfortable in that position.
"I have to ask, how did you tame her so much?" Kirche asks curious about it all. "Actually, what made you want to?"
Yuudai laughs at the question. "Well I didn't and nothing can." He answers. "The reason for this ties into why I'm here to protect the water spirit. You see, blondy over there decided that payback was a good idea and gave Blanc a love potion. Since I was the first Louise saw, she fell in love with me." He explains.
"The tear." Tabitha says.
Yuudai nods in confirmation. "With it, I can get blondy to fix Blanc a cure for this stupid love potion." He takes some breaths from the cool night air. "In return for the tear, I must stop the attacks on it. Now that I told you, you must tell me why you attack her."
Kirche looks to Tabitha then back to Yuudai. "You see, the water levels have caused damage to the surrounding area. Tabitha's family has suffered losses because of the damage so we have been entrusted to get rid of it." She explains to him. "Otherwise Tabitha's family will be in trouble."
Yuudai sighs. "This is very troublesome." Yuudai mutters to himself. He looks through the many ideas his mind is giving him finally settling on one. "Tell you what, you two must stop the attacks." He tells them.
"Why?" Tabitha asks narrowing her eyes on him. This concerns Kirche since she isn't sure Tabitha liked being bested earlier and now he's telling her to go back empty handed.
"Because when I inform it that I stopped you two, I will demand the name of the others that attacked it." Yuudai replies.
"Others? Are you saying this is because someone else attacked the water spirit?" Kirche asks.
The black haired teen nods. "I know that two teenagers attacking it is going to anger it since it didn't even lash out at me for not showing it the respect one would give to a superior."
"That's true." Kirche says. She turns to her blue haired friend. "Is that alright with you?"
Tabitha nods. "Good. Now that we solved that, I'm going to sleep." Yuudai says laying on his sleeping bag while Louie refuses to let go.
Later In The Day Time
After summoning the water with Robin, it lets a thin strip of water into a vial being held by Guiche. It then looks to Yuudai surprising the others. They thought it would leave, but instead it looks at Yuudai slowly growing a smile on its watery face.
"You have kept part of the deal, human. Now, the final task is to retrieve my treasure that was stolen about thirty months before the moon's crossing." It tells him.
"Approximately two years ago." Montmorency mutters.
Yuudai nods understanding the length of time as well. "That is good with me. What am I going to be retrieving?" He asks.
"The Ring Of Andvari. It had been with me until that point." She answers.
"I think I have heard of it." Montmorency mutters. "A legendary magic item of the water system. It is said to give false life to the deceased."
"That is not incorrect, but death is a concept that I do not understand, therefore I cannot understand your description. The Ring of Andvari does not simply bring false life, it is the embodiment of the ancient "Strength of the Water", it is not simply a magical item." She explains to Montmorency.
Yuudai thinks to himself about the whole Wales situation hearing the false life prospect. He puts that to the back of his mind for later. Right now, he needs names. "So who was dumb enough to steal from you?" He questions.
"One of their names was Cromwell." She replies.
"If I'm not mistaking, that is the new emperor of Albion." Kirche states.
Yuudai smirks hearing that. "So I was right to assume they had something to do with it." Yuudai looks to the spirit with no doubt in his mind. "No worries then, I'll make sure you get the ring back. That's a guarantee."
To the others surprise, the spirit chuckles at him. "I believe you, human. You have until you die to return it." She states returning herself into the lake. Or at least tries.
"Please wait!" Tabitha calls out stopping it. "Before you leave, I wish to know why us humans call you the Spirit Of Oath."
"Mere human, my and your existence are completely dissimilar. I cannot understand your question completely, but I can speculate. My existence in itself is the reason for this name. I do not have a fixed shape, yet I will never change. For uncountable generations I have always been here with the water." She tells Tabitha.
"Because you are eternally unchanging, you will always carry our hopes," Tabitha mutters. 'Who had I made an oath to?' She wonders.
Yuudai sees Montmorency get after Guiche to make her an oath making him think. What oath should he make? "Make an oath to me." Louise tells him.
Yuudai smiles at the girl. "Alright then." He says making her eyes beam with happiness. He turns to the beautiful lake. "In the name of the Spirit Of Oath, I vow that I'll protect all that are dear to me in this world. No matter the cost." He vows.
The spirit smiles once again at Yuudai. "You are quite the human...Yuudai." She states disappearing back into the water.
"No!" Louise exclaims pouting. "You were supposed to vow your love to me!" She states.
"Good luck with that." He states making her start to cry, but Yuudai wraps her in a hug. In that moment, his feelings for the need to protect his new friends had grown. Knowing that this love sick Louise will be gone, it only filled him with joy. He likes normal Louise more since she is so much more fun to pick on. And treats him like a human rather than a poster of a boy band.
Later That Night In Montmorency's Room
"Here it is. Our cure to both our problems." Montmorency announces pouring the liquid into a big cup.
"Thank you Monty. I know it might have hurt your very soul, but I'll leave you alone at last." Yuudai says to the blond girl. He hands the cup to Louise whom is sitting on a chair in Montmorency's room. "Drink this Blanc." He orders.
She sniffs the liquid shaking her head. "No! It doesn't smell any good." She complains.
"That's an understatement." Yuudai mutters waving his hand in front of his nose to get rid of the smell.
"If you kiss me on my lips then I will though." Louise compromises.
Yuudai smirks at the idea. "Fine. I'll kiss your lips if you drink it. However, you must admit to wanting to kiss." Yuudai tells her. He said that because he knows the real Louise would never admit to wanting something like that due to her pride.
Immediately she gulps down the entire cup. She puts the cup down as the potion kicks in. "It might not mean anything, but she'll remember everything that happened even after being put under the potion." Montmorency informs him.
Yuudai turns pales at that. As if an evil spirit had been lifted, Louise returns to her normal casual expression. The familiar and master make eye contact. "So to be clear...Monty spiked it." He accuses.
"Hey!" Montmorency exclaims. Sadly, everyone ignores her.
As Louise sits there, her mind starts registering everything that had happened. All the times that she tried to get his love so openly. This sparked up her embarrassment and anger at herself. Then remembered it was all because he gave her that stupid drink.
"This doesn't look good for me." Yuudai states disappearing out of the room and down the stairs. However, Louise is almost as quick getting down the stairs.
After a few minutes of chasing, she expected him still resist and run, but instead he is just standing in the middle of the Austri Plaza. He slowly walks to a bench and sits down. Yuudai looks at Louise with a gentle look in his eyes.
"It's nice to have you back Blanc. I've missed you so much." He admits making Louise blush a lot. "Please, take a seat next to me. I'm sure you might want to explain some things."
Louise reluctantly walks over and sits next to him. They share a few moments in silence. She looks to Yuudai with surprise in her eyes. 'When was the last time she had seen him so gently? So nice? So...loveable?'
From a hold in the ground nearby, Kirche and Tabitha are watching the two. "I've never seen Yuudai like that before...I love it." Kirche says to herself while Tabitha only nods acknowledging that she heard her.
End
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