Just a small idea I came up with one day. If you want to go further, you can try. I'll still update it but it'll be whenever I'm in the mood.
"Saito… Saito?"
No reaction. Her fear was coming true.
"Saito… Open your eyes!"
Still none. His heartbeat was gone and warmth was leaving.
"You told me you'll die! Don't you dare die!"
She knew it was necessary to do it so that they could defeat the ultimate enemy. Putting their lives on the line at the end was a risky move and they took it. Now… they are paying the price.
"I won't forgive you if you die! So wake up. I'll do anything… anything for you… so please…"
Saito Hiraga didn't react to it… Saito Hiraga, Gandalfr, the familiar of Zero…
Was dead.
The sound of explosion filled her ears as she slowly left the darkness. Her eyes adjusted to the light of the world, mostly because she was regaining consciousness.
Louise blinked once, twice. She recognized the place as it was the familiar summoning ground. Based on the smoke, she knew it was the very moment she summoned…
"Saito…" She looked at the group, landing her eyes on the Japanese boy.
Her future lover and familiar… one who lost his life a decade ago.
'So the experiment was a success…' Louise thought to herself as she ignored the commotion. Those chatter were just empty noises to her at this point. The decades of her life had been arduous that those teenagers were just… children.
Naive, stupid, and childish.
'But it's the wrong time period…' She mentally sighed before silently chanting, continuing to ignore the chatterings in the background. She was glad that she learned how to put all of her attention into one thing and completely ignore everything to learn time travel.
Who knew fiction, otherworld science, and magic could combine into a legitimate time travel spell.
"Time gate."
Nothing happened, none of her willpower was drained nor a minute reaction happened. She mentally cursed at herself for not putting more time into researching the new spell.
'Whatever, I can work with this.'
"Professor Colbert." She turned her icy gaze to the older man, who visibly tensed upon her addressing him. She ignored him, just like how she ignored all her 'friends'. "Can you cast a translation spell on him?"
The man recovered quickly before complying with her and casted a translation spell on Saito. The boy, in panic, began asking many questions.
"Jeez, can this plebeian be silent?" One of her 'classmates' complained and immediately earned an intense glare from Louise. Said classmates silence themselves out of instinctual fear.
She turned to Saito before tentatively reaching out her hand to him. He noticed her presence and had a noticeable blush on his face. She doesn't know why, but she could feel her lips curved into a kind smile before allowing her voice to leave for the first time.
"I apologize for scaring you, otherworlder. But allow me to introduce you to my world once we have finished our affairs."
Saito Hiraga sat on the wooden chair that belonged to the girl named Louise. He wondered why she was treating him with so much kindness that it was weird.
Not that he didn't like it, but they only met for a few minutes and she showed so much kindness to him and treating him like a VIP was odd. No one would treat a stranger, especially an alien, with so much care.
'Whatever, I'll just follow the ride like always.'
Now he was processing the fact that he was in another world thanks to the magic known as 'Summon Servant', a combination of a scrying spell and a spell known as 'World Gate'. She was supposed to summon a familiar for herself so it could serve her in any of her magical endeavors and also to prove she was a legitimate mage.
He doesn't fully understand it but he understood the fundamentals of it.
But now, there was an issue. She had no intention of kidnapping a random human and turned them into her, in her words, 'magic slave' thus had not established a contract with him. As of now, she has given him the choice between staying in this world and serving her, leaving his old life, or she can use 'World Gate' to send the boy back and let him live his life.
Not that he minded to serve the cute girl, but he felt that the latter choice was definitely the better choice.
'And she keeps making points about how bad it is to stay in this world…' He noticed in her explanation of the benefits and demerits of staying in this world, she would extensively talk about how the nobility were foolish and corrupted, how war was a frequent occurrence, and that almost anything in this world can take his life.
To say she was harsh in criticizing her own world was an understatement. It was as if she was desperately asking him to return to his own world. But he still has to ask a few questions.
"Hey, you said that making a contract with me would legitimize your status as a mage right? What happens if I leave?"
"Then I would be considered a disgrace and, if I am lucky, be married off to a powerful noble to produce a stronger heir. Otherwise, I would be disowned by my family." She said simply before shrugging her shoulders. "Not that I cared anyway. These kinds of things are just… empty in this world. I can just go with what my mother did and serve in the military to earn my own nobility."
"But that would mean…" He couldn't speak out the last words as small fear gripped his heart, making him hesitate in leaving this world.
"Like I said. I don't care. Titles are empty; Actions are the true merits. If the right hand doesn't know what the left hand does, then so be it."
He didn't understand what she meant in the end, but he was convinced that she was trying to push him towards leaving the world.
"Alright then… I guess this is your roundabout way to say that I should leave this world." The girl paused for a moment before nodding. With a sigh, she shook her head and a sad smile plastered on her face.
"Apologies. I was just… feeling guilty for snatching you from your world… your family… your life."
He could understand that. For a small and cute girl, she definitely was showing she was not like many nobles that she described. A youthful little girl like her, he was mildly surprised by the maturity she exudes.
"Then when can we leave?"
Tabitha could only watch Louise, the Void Mage candidate, desperately casting a spell known as 'World Gate.' Her fellow audience, Guiche and Kirche, would only watch in worry as the girl grew desperate.
"H-hey, if you can't do it we can-" The boy she summoned, out of worry, tried to stop her but was immediately met with a blazing glare and sneer. It got the boy scared enough to take a step back from her.
She chanted again before finishing off with 'World Gate' again. The seventh failure, she counted.
"What kind of spell is World Gate anyway?" Kirche commented with a bored expression. "I don't think it exists so it shouldn't work."
Tabitha would agree, if not for the possibility that it was a Void element spell. The way Louise chanted and the confidence she once showed told her that the existence of such spells was indeed true.
But what made it impossible?
Louise bit her fingernail, trying to think of the problem on why the spell wouldn't work before snapping her finger. She turned to Guiche and pointed her wand at him. "Guiche, make a knife sharp enough to cut my skin! I'll blow you up otherwise."
Guiche, surprised by her demand, quickly turned back into her smug persona and tried to ridicule the girl.
Until a small explosion happened near his feet, which left with singed grass. They looked at her cold expression and understood how serious she was. The blond obeyed and made a knife with his magic before giving her.
She cut her palm before drenching her finger with her own blood and drew a magic circle. It's size made it capable of containing a human. The girl walked into the circle and chanted once more.
"World Gate!" She swung her wand with more power than before and, for a moment, no reaction was seen. Just as disappointment was about to set in, the circle glowed before an unexpected result happened.
A large explosion occurred and blew Louise's body, causing her to scream in pain. Everyone went into a frenzy trying to pull her away from the circle and bring her to safety. Tabitha calmly, but with a hurried pace, to get a water mage while the remaining attendants tend to Louise.
"What was that?" Tabitha mumbled to herself.
Louise was frustrated at herself. Another failure. Another fuck up.
She admitted that the signs of something was wrong when World Gate didn't activate on the second try. Her willpower was not drained at all thus she knew there was something blocking.
'Damn Void and the Rite of Awakening!' She nearly slammed her fist on the bed before flinching. Her body was still in pain after the backlash she received for forcing World Gate to activate.
"Hey, you okay?" Saito approached her with a worried expression. Ah how she wished she could remove that expression, but instead replace it with a smile. He deserved smiles instead of any negative expression.
So, for the sake of her precious Saito, she gave a brave smile. "Yes, I am well despite being in pain."
His worried expression persisted, but she could tell he was slightly relieved. "Anyway, you should've listened to me when I told you to wait for next time."
"And let you lose your life in the process?" She quickly clamped her mouth and cursed herself, reprimanding herself to say those words. This was her first time loop and she's screwing things up already.
The boy quickly shook his head in panic. "W-what I mean is maybe today you're tired from summoning me, so maybe you should rest then try again when you're at your best."
'At my best,' she scoffed mentally. She could tell her previous life's pool of willpower had combined with this time's, effectively increasing the pool by 75 percent. If anything, she can cast country level Explosion a few times before running out of fumes.
Then again, this was her beloved Saito. The perverted, loyal dog that will always put others well being before himself. He didn't earn his lordship title by not being a compassionate man.
'Unlike me…' Her mind wandered to Anna before stopping it. It was too late anyway when Her Highness gave up on trying.
"Fine… but mark my words…" She turned to Saito with a determined expression. "By the Founder and my family name of Valliere, I will bring you back to your world one day lest death break my promise to you."
'And do my best… to make sure you will not die anymore…' She promised.