It was evening. I was outside, in the campuses park and practicing my fencing skills with my talkative sword. Suddenly, a girl showed up.

'Tabitha?' I exclaimed.

'Why aren't you inside, where everybody is having fun celebrating Fouquet's arrest?' she asked. It struck me that was probably the first time I had seen her talk!

I awkwardly stroked the back of my head. 'Umm... isn't this ball for nobles only?' I asked.

'Principal Osmond decided to make an exception for you,' the bluehead informed me. 'Come in and join us.'

'For real?' my eyes widened.

'Just between us,' Tabitha leant and whispered. 'In the beginning, the headmaster had no such intentions. No matter how much you contributed to that accomplishment, you will always be nothing more than a slave, so, by definition, you can do nothing to deserve such an honor. However, Louise insisted that you should be allowed to participate, that it would be terribly unfair if you received zero reward.'

'LOUISE?' I exclaimed. Wow! Louise, of all people, had done this for me!

'Please, don't tell her I told you that,' Tabitha asked. 'She'll kill me if you do.'

'Okay,' I chuckled and turned to Derflinger. 'Care to wait for me here?' I asked the sword.

'No problem, master,' the weapon answered. 'Go and hit on the hotties.'

I blushed. It seems the personality of a legendary familiar's sword depends on its master's thoughts. And my thoughts are always pretty pervy!

Louises beauty prevailed in the ball hall. She was wearing a white dress that looked like a wedding dress and left her shoulders exposed. Her hair was tied in a super classy ponytail.

As soon as she saw me, she walked over to me, with a seemingly angry expression. I expected that she would beat me up for being late (although it was not entirely my fault, but, knowing Louise, that was what I expected her to do).

Instead, to my huge surprise, she extended her gloved arm. 'May I have the pleasure to dance with you?' she asked with a solemn expression.

'Heh. You know, I'm your familiar, which means you can just order me to...'

'No!' she interrupted me, still with the same expression. 'I want you to want this!'

'Oh,' I was dumbfounded.

Finallly, I smiled, took her hand and she took me to the center of the hall.

We danced for hours, my hands placed on her exposed shoulders. It was the first time I saw Louise relaxed. She was completely different from her bossy self. She might as well be a normal girl from modern Japan, a shy, lovely girl I met at a school prom and fell in love with.

WAIT, did I just say 'fell in love'? But, come to think of it, why not? Since, as it seemed, I had no hope of ever returning to my world, why not accepting it and starting a new life in Halkeginia, building a new harem of girls, with Louise being my official girlfriend? But still, was it possible that I would ever be able to break the caste barrier and live as a normal human, not as a pet? I guessed that greatly depended on Louise as well.

Later, we returned to Louise's dorm room, holding hands. Once more, the pinkhead greatly surprised me and pushed me, forcing my back to the bed.

'Just for tonight,' she declared as she was untying her ponytail and removing her elegant dress, 'we're not master and slave. Just for tonight, we're lovers.'

I gasped. Without realizing it, I had sat up and started undressing as well.

'Consider this a reward for your heroic deeds yesterday,' Louise carried on. 'But, mind you, it's just for tonight. Tomorrow, we will be master and slave once mo...'

'Let's not talk about tomorrow,' I smiled and patted on the mattress, thus motioning her to approach. She did so.

We were now sitting on the bed, facing each other. I was left only with my underpants on and Louise was left only with her silky bra and underpants on.

Tentatively, Louise placed her hands around my neck and joined her lips to mine. I placed my arms around her waist and we fell into bed.

We made out like that for a while, our feet still touching the floor. My arms started moving, exploring her back, her obliques and whatever part of her butt her underwear left exposed.

Louise broke the kiss, lifted my legs and placed them on the bed (while groping and kissing them!), thus making me lie on my back. She got on top of me. Ahh, now that was the Louise I knew, always claiming the upper hand.

I felt her silky palms exploring my chest and belly. Soon, she leant and her lips joined the fun! I closed my eyes and moaned.

As much as I was enjoying her exploring my body, I wanted to explore her body too. Therefore, I caught her by surprise and turned her over, so that I was now on top of her. Louise let out a cry of surprise.

I removed her bra and underpants, gradually, as I was exploring her gorgeous (albeit breastless) body: her neck, her chest, her belly, her arms, her legs. I had missed that body of hers so much! When I reached her feet, I planted kisses on her foot bridge; at that point, I unconsciously whispered 'I love you, my little princess.' Whoops! Premature L bomb! My bad! I hoped that hadn't put her off.

Maybe she hadn't heard my whisper or maybe she didn't mind; in any case, she pulled her foot away from me and reached for my underpants. However, the way I was on my knees at that moment, it wasn't very easy for her to remove it.

'Leave this to me,' I chuckled and started taking off the last piece of garment between us. Meanwhile, Louise leant towards the drawer and took out her reusable condom.

She once more forced my back to the mattress and put the prophylactic on my erect member (BTW, I still hadn't figured out to fasten those medieval thingies on my penis; thank God all my sexual partners until then knew how to do it).

Louise got on top of me. For a while, I fucked her cowgirl style. Then she leant on me and we started making out, keeping up the thrusts. Next, I turned us over and continued in a missionary position, Louise (unconsciously?) tightening her legs' grip around my waist. Later, we were rolling around, miraculously not falling off the bed once! Then sideways! I don't remember how many more times we changed position but, when the time of our simultaneous orgasm had finally come, we were back in a missionary position.

'I LOVE YOU,' Louise screamed as she climaxed.

As soon as I heard those words, I was the happiest man on the planet! 'I LOVE YOU TOO,' I screamed, cumming.

We collapsed next to each other. Louise cuddled, using my chest as a pillow. I chuckled and kissed her pink hair.

'I love you...' she said once more, '...Wardes!'

COME AGAIN?

'Who's Wardes?' I sat up, demanding to know. Louise had fallen asleep!

Although she hadn't answered my question, it was obvious her true love interest was some Wardes guy. Myself, I was just a slave who had just got his reward!

I dropped my upper body, sighing. I was such a fool. How could I ever believe that a noble could love a familiar?