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All the students start coughing due to all the dust in the air from the impact. To clear the air the blue haired girl with the staff casts a wind spell blowing away the dust which allows everyone to see what crashed into the ground. Everyone just stares at the thing that lies in the crater which appears to be a human. Finally, one student speaks up and shouts "A human?!". As everyone gets closer they see that it is completely dressed in black with metal armor with a hood covering its face and a sword attached to its left side. Some students start talking among themselves "It looks like Louise the Zero summoned a human", "Doesn't look like there is anything special about it just a normal human". Louise's eye starts to twitch as she sees that she summoned a human and questions whether, or not it is divine and powerful.
Louise stands over it, and ask "Who are you?".
The human gets up and looks around seeing that he was surrounded by kids who judging by their uniforms were students. Then Louise asks him who is he again. He looks at her not knowing what she said as he doesn't understand the language she is speaking. She then goes on to ask him if he understands what she is saying and where is he from.
Then Kirche walks up saying "Nothing less from someone who boasted so much about how great a familiar she was going to summon and ends up summoning a human" and begins to laugh at Louise.
"I just made a mistake is all!" Louise says back at Kirche. "Nothing less was expected from Louise the Zero" one student says and the rest of the students start to laugh as well.
As all this is going on, the human just looks between Louise and the other students noticing that they are laughing at her due to the fact by how upset she looks. He thinks to himself 'It looks like these the other students are laughing at the pink haired girl due to the fact, that she summoned me, but why would they be laughing at her', he looks around at all the other students noticing that they all have familiars. 'So, it appears that today, was the day that all these students were performing their familiar summoning ritual, and while everyone else summoned some kind of creature the pink haired girl only managed to summon me, and the other students think that she just summoned a regular weak human as a familiar so they think that she is a bad mage. By the way she is reacting to the other students especially the red head, she probably bragged about how she was going to summon a powerful familiar, oh how right that pink haired girl doesn't know she is. Reminds me of when I was a student centuries ago', he internally chuckles.
Louise calls out to the professor and he turns to looks at her. "Yes, what is it?" he says. "Can I try summoning again?" she asks.
"Sorry, but I can't allow that as this summoning ritual is a sacred one that decides a mage's entire life. Trying a second time would be blasphemes against the ritual itself! And whether you like it or not, this human has been chosen as your familiar" relies the professor.
Louise sighs and walks over to the human. "But I've never heard of anyone using a human as a familiar before!" Louise says and all the students start laughing again. The professor just tells her that there will be no exceptions and to hurry up and complete the ritual or she would be expelled.
She sighs and goes up to the human crouching down and speaking "My name is Louise Francoise Le Blanc de La Valliere. Pentagon that rules the five powers, bless this individual, and make it my familiar!", upon finishing what needs to be said she leans forward to kiss it.
As she leans forward to kiss him, 'Well this is unexpected, they use a kiss here to seal the contract with their familiars' was the last thing he thinks right before her lips met his. After the kiss, Louise takes a step back and the human suddenly feels heat coming from his left hand which quickly increases in intensity then blacks out. During the time the runes were being burned into the humans left hand the professor is intrigued by the runes that appears having never seen them before.
After regaining consciousness, the human looks around at his surroundings noticing that he is no longer outside, but in a room and that it is now night by looking out the window. Then he hears a voice. "So, you've finally awaken. I've thought about it for long enough. But I've given up and will have you as my familiar" she says even though the human can't understand her. After saying what she has to say, Louise walks over to her wardrobe opening it and begins to change.
As she is busy taking off her clothes the human thinks to himself 'If she didn't think of me as her familiar right now, but as another human male she would not be changing so calmly in front of me' and the next thing he knows he has the clothes she was just wearing tossed in his face. He pulls the clothes off his face and looks at her. She looks at him telling him to wash those clothes she just threw at him and that even if it can't understand her that it should be able to figure out what she wants it to do.
The human just looks at her for a min and Louise just says "You don't even understand your master's orders? If it can't even understand an order, he's worse than a dog".
The human looks again at the clothes then back to her and says to her "If you really think I'm going to be washing your clothes you have another thing coming. Cause there is no way in hell I'm washing your clothes so do it yourself princess", and all Louise hears as he is talking is an annoying chirping noise. She covers her ears as he talks unable to deal with the annoying chirping and pulls out her wand and casts a silencing spell only for the spell to back fire and explode knocking the human onto its back as well destroying the clothes she gave him to wash.
The human immediately gets back up and shouts at her "What the hell was that for, you trying to kill me or something" and Louise's eyes widen and she says back to him "I understand! I understood what you just said!".
The human looks at her in surprise and says "Was that supposed to be a translation spell? If it was, it was a pretty lousy one at that if it blows up every time it gets used".
Louise blushes in embarrassment and shouts at him "It was supposed to be a silencing spell".
"Could have fooled me with how the spell was cast" says the human.
Louise sighs mumbling about how that was another failure to add to her list of failed spells. Then she asks, "What's your name?".
"My name is Jinkuro" the human answers then proceeded to ask her why she summoned him and she says that she summoned him to be her familiar. "Summon me as a familiar huh, well that's a first for me. Never been summoned as a familiar before" he says and chuckles. Then he asks what is her name.
"My name is Louise de Valliere" she answers. He goes on to ask her some more questions like where he currently is. "You are in the Academy of Magic in the kingdom of Tristein, on the continent of Halkeginia" she tells him.
"From what I've seen so far, you are a student at this academy" he says.
"Yes I am, and I won't be allowing a familiar to you to call me "you"" she says and thinks to herself 'Why couldn't I have summoned something cool like a dragon or a griffon, but no I had to summon a stupid weak human'.
"So that's how it's going to be. You think that just because I'm now your familiar that you won't treat me like a decent human being. I don't have to stand here and listen to you, good luck being without a familiar" he says and gets up and leaves the room at a and walks over to the stairs down the hall and heads down. Upon reaching the floor below he heads towards the next set of stairs passing by two students a boy and a girl the guy saying sweet things to the girl as the girl just listens to what he has to say entranced by him.
After passing the two Jinkuro heads down the second set of stairs leading to the ground. Moments later Louise is seen running down the stairs that he had just come from. As Louise is panting regaining her breath from running down the stairs Guiche speaks out to her "Louise, your familiar just passed by" and she responds by telling Guiche to catch him because he ran off. Guiche agrees to help her.
Once Jinkuro reaches the ground floor he passes by another pair of students on his way to the exit. Another boy and girl who immediately notice him as he passes by and the guy asks the girl "Isn't that the human that Louise the Zero summoned".
"Yes, the human familiar" she responds. Jinkuro ignores them as well walking out of the exit into the open night and manages to get several feet away from the entrance before he feels his feet leave the ground and sees that he is now floating several feet above the ground.
He thinks about what to do as Guiche who is levitating him, moves him around through the air like a ragdoll while Kirche has walked out and laughs at Louise upon seeing what is happening. Jinkuro just sighs as he decides against countering Guiche thinking that right now wouldn't be the best time to show that he could beat them with magic, but instead wait for an opportunity to show how outclassed they are.
After getting back to her room, Louise places a collar around Jinkuro's neck and attaches a chain from it to the wall. "Now you can't run away" she says and proceeds to change and tosses her clothes at him and puts on her nightgown. "You will wash my clothes" she says.
"And how am I supposed to do that stuck in this room" he says back.
"Should have thought about that before you decided to run" Louise replies then she snaps her fingers turning out the lights in her room and gets into bed and falls asleep. Jinkuro goes and sits on the bed of hay that is supposed to be his bed. Then he opens his palm aiming at the pile of her clothes and uses magic to clean her clothes and levitating the now clean clothes onto her bed. He chuckles to himself and thinks 'Luckily I've got magic so I don't have hand wash her clothes' then he leans his head back against the wall and falls asleep.
The next morning, as Louise awakens she sees that Jinkuro is already awake and tosses her clothes at him and tells him to dress her. Jinkuro just looks at her with a blank stare and says to her "You're a big girl, dress yourself".
"Nobles that have servants never have to dress themselves" she responds.
"Nobles, never did like most nobles, always acting all high and mighty, plus what makes you think I'll do what you say" he says.
"I see, guess you won't be needing to eat since you won't obey" she replies. Jinkuro weighs his options in his head and finally decides to help her get dressed lest she starts whining. After getting her dressed, she goes to unlock the collar so he can follow, but then notices something off about the lock on the collar. Jinkuro sees that she has noticed the lock has been tampered with and he smirks at her.
"I picked the lock last night and could have easily run off" he says pulling the lock off and removing the collar heading out the door, leaving a surprised Louise standing there.
Upon reaching the dining hall whispers can be heard as students talk about Louise and Jinkuro. After Louise sits down, Jinkuro proceeds to do the same and sit at the chair next to her, but is stopped by a hand from Louise and she points at the ground to a plate with a small loaf of bread. "That is going to be your breakfast, as only nobles can sit at the table and you are only a familiar" she says to him which irritates him to no end at being treated like an animal even though he was a human just like her. While Louise is busy eating her breakfast, Jinkuro uses a spell which opens a small portal to his little pocket dimension where he stores things, and pulls out some fruit he stored there. As he eats the fruit, he thinks to himself 'Good thing I always had food stored in there'. After breakfast is over, Jinkuro follows Louise out of the breakfast hall.
Once they are outside, Jinkuro sees all the other students from Louise's class sitting at tables set up outside chatting, drinking tea and eating snacks. He looks to Louise and asks her why everyone is outside. "All second-year students have the day off today. This day off is supposed to allow us all to communicate with all our freshly summoned familiar" she answers him. Then they both hear a noise from behind and they see Kirche crouching next to her salamander familiar petting it.
"It is said that familiars under contract are supposed to faithfully obey every order given by their master and also never run away" Kirche says to Louise with a smirk on her face. "This is human makes the perfect familiar for you cause it's just like you Louise the Zero, it's nothing special" she says and laughs walking away from Louise and Jinkuro with her salamander. Then Louise looks to Jinkuro shouting at him to stop standing there and bring her some tea.
As Jinkuro is walking to go get some tea a floating single eyed creature floats in front of his face startling him, causing him to back pedal and bump into a maid making her drop the piece of cake she was carrying. "Oh, my apologies miss, I wasn't looking where I was going" he says to her.
"Oh no it's alright" she responds. Then he reaches to pick up the piece of cake while she is also trying to pick it up at the same time which causes both their hands to touch, and right away the maid pulls her hand back blushing at the contact. "Excuse me" she says and stands back up while he picks up the cake and places it on the plate she is carrying. "Say, could you be the one that became Miss. Valliere's familiar?" she asks him.
He raises an eyebrow at her question "Oh, you know about me?" he says.
"Of course, it's all over the rumor mill that a human has been summoned as a familiar" she replies.
"Oh I'm sorry I didn't catch your name" he says.
"My name is Siesta, and I have the honor of serving here" she answers to him.
"A pleasure to meet a beautiful maid such as yourself Siesta, my name is Jinkuro" he says to her causing a blush to show up on her face from the compliment.
"A pleasure to meet you too Jinkuro" she says to him.
Then a voice is heard calling out to Siesta. "Hey, Isn't the cake ready?" Guiche calls out to Siesta.
"Coming right up!" Siesta says back.
Just as Siesta is about to walk over to Guiche with the piece of cake Jinkuro takes the plate from her hands. "Leave it to me I'll give the cake to him" he says to Siesta with a smirk. He walks over to Guiche remembering him being the ass that was throwing him around with his magic. He thinks to himself as he is walking over 'This piece of cake should be good enough for that snobbish noble'.
Once he reaches the table he places down the cake and Guiche asks him to go grab some more tea as he continues to talk to the girl sitting with him at the table. Instead of grabbing more tea Jinkuro decides to eavesdrop on their conversation. Upon hearing the girl say to the Guiche about how there are rumors that he is seeing a first-year student and seeing Guiche tense up and deny such rumors and saying that he only has eyes for her, Jinkuro speaks up inserting himself into the conversation saying the same line he heard Guiche say to the girl he was with last night. Guiche turns right away staring at Jinkuro wide eyed hearing him repeat what he said to the girl last night.
Jinkuro then says "So I'm guessing that first years have brown capes and you second years have black capes. So that girl that you were flirting with last night was a first year correct?". Jinkuro just smiles at the nervous look on Guiche's face as the girl talking to Guiche asks him what Jinkuro was talking about. Guiche stands up from his seat and shouts at Jinkuro to hurry up and go back to his own business as a waiter. "I ain't no waiter" says Jinkuro and he proceeds to walk away before Guiche can say anything. As he is walking away, he passes the girl he saw last night with Guiche noticing that she is looking around for someone, taking a guess that she was most likely looking for Guiche, he points out where Guiche is to her and she thanks him and heads over to where he is.
As the girl is heading towards Guiche's table, Guiche immediately tries to pull Montmorency away to somewhere else to avoid the confrontation that would surely happen if he didn't get away from here. But before he is able to, Guiche hears the girl call out to him saying how she brought the homemade souffle that he told her last night to bring to the tea party. "You did say you wanted some right Guiche" Jinkuro shouts to him with a smirk. Right away Montmorency starts asking Guiche what is going on and what is this about with Guiche saying that it was all just a big misunderstanding. As the drama unfolds even more, students all start to gather around wondering what is going on.
Jinkuro then says some more "What part of this could possibly be a misunderstanding? It's your fault for two-timing". After hearing that Guiche was two-timing with the both of them, Montmorency and the girl both slap Guiche and walk away with all the students and Jinkuro laughing at him. "Serves you right for two-timing. You got what you deserved" Jinkuro says to him.
Guiche then gets up. "It seems that you do not know how to pay respect to nobility" he says to Jinkuro.
"What could there be to respect for a two-timing jerk like you" Jinkuro says back.
"Since you have no respect for nobility, it looks like I'll have to teach you some with a duel" says Guiche.
"A duel?" asks Jinkuro.
"Yes, that is correct. And since you are just a human and a familiar no less. You have mocked me as well as made two ladies cry, I will not stand for it" says Guiche.
"Cry? They were mad as hell" says Jinkuro as he laughs at Guiche along with the rest of the students.
"Prepare yourself, I will be awaiting at Vestori Square!" says Guiche and he walks away.
Once Guiche is gone, Louise walks right up to Jinkuro and shouts at him "What are you doing?!".
"What?" says Jinkuro.
Louise proceeds to drag him as she continues shouting at him "What do you mean, what? You accepted a duel without permission?!".
"Where are you taking me?" Jinkuro asks her.
"I'm taking you to go apologize to Guiche. Right now, he still might forgive you what you said and did" she answers back.
He then rips his arm out of her grip and says to her "Like hell I will. That two-timing ass had it coming".
"You just don't get it do you. A regular weak person can't win against nobles. You'll be lucky to get away with just minor wounds!" she says to him. Then Jinkuro turns and looks at one of the students and asks them where Vestori Square is and the student points in the direction of where it is. Louise then shouts at the student who answered "Malicorne!". Jinkuro thanks the student and heads in the direction the student pointed in with Louise hot on his heels to stop him.
Meanwhile in the headmaster's office, professor Colbert is talking with Osmond with Miss. Longueville standing there listening. "No previous case exists of a human familiar" says Osmond.
"That is not the problem at hand though. I didn't recognize the rune that appeared on him, so I looked it up and this is what I found" says Colbert as he opens a book he has with him showing Osmond the picture of the rune that resembled the one that appeared on Jinkuro's hand. Osmond's eyes go wide at seeing the picture and tells Miss. Longueville to leave the room, which she does, but she sneaks a quick peek at the image of the rune as she passes Colbert on the way out.
Meanwhile in Vestori Square, all the students have gathered in a circle around Guiche and Jinkuro to witness the duel between the two. "I praise you for actually showing up and not running off" says Guiche.
"Why the hell would I run away from the chance to embarrass you even further" says Jinkuro which angers Guiche.
Then Louise runs out from the crowd of students up to Guiche. "That's enough Guiche! Duels are forbidden!" says Louise.
"Duels are only forbidden if it is between to nobles. Obviously, I'm a noble, but your human familiar is not which means that this duel is not forbidden" says Guiche.
"That's because nothing like this has happened before" says Louise.
Seeing the expression on her face Guiche smirks "Could it be that you have feelings for this human" he says to her.
Louise right away blushes and starts shouting at him "What?! Knock it off! Nobody would just sit there and watch as their familiar gets beaten to a tattered heap!". After hearing Louise say that, Jinkuro thinks to himself 'Does she really have that little faith in me. Well I shouldn't be surprised considering she doesn't know what I am truly capable of'.
"Anyways, no matter what you say, I will not cancel this duel as it has already started" says Guiche and he flicks the rose in his hand causing a rose petal to float forward and hit the ground summoning a Valkyrie looking golem. "I am named Guiche the brass. Therefore, this brass golem, a Valkyrie, will be your opponent" Guiche says to Jinkuro.
Jinkuro just laughs. "This is going to be a quick duel if that is the best you can do" says Jinkuro right before Guiche has his valkyrie charge forward. Jinkuro sees the valkyrie heading straight for him but doesn't bother to dodge and decides to take the attack head on. The valkyrie punches him in the chest pushing him back a little and a metallic clang is heard where the valkyrie punched him.
Louise immediately runs up to Jinkuro after seeing him get hit by the valkyrie. "Don't you see, a regular person can't win against a noble mage" she says to him.
Jinkuro just smirks at her and says, "I barely even felt thanks to this armor I'm wearing" and she looks down at the armor he is wearing, surprised that it isn't even damaged at all. "So, sit back and enjoy the show" he says to her and she walks to stand with all the students again. Guiche was smirking the whole time until he saw that the punch from his valkyrie didn't even hurt Jinkuro. "Was that it? It didn't even leave a dent in my armor" says Jinkuro. Guiche becomes irritated and has valkyrie attack again this time with its spear. Jinkuro dodges it with ease "Too slow" he says and he draws his sword cutting the valkyrie and its spear in half.
After slicing the valkyrie in half, Jinkuro notices that the runes on his left hand are glowing as he holds his sword. 'Interesting' he thinks. "Is that all you got Guiche. Cause from what I see, your valkyries aren't that good" says Jinkuro with a smirk.
Guiche then summons six more valkyries. "Let's see how you handle six valkyries" Guiche says.
Jinkuro then chuckles and says, "I think I've let this farce go on long enough". Placing his sword back into its sheath.
"What are you talking about" says Guiche.
"Let me show you just how out classed you are compared to me" says Jinkuro and he holds out his hand aiming at the ground in front of him forming a magic circle on the ground with all kinds of symbols on it. Guiche, Louise and all the other students go wide eyed and gasp upon seeing the magic circle, surprised that Louise's familiar is actually able to use magic. "Come forth and serve me in battle, Leviathan, Brynhildr, and Fafnir!" shouts Jinkuro and the magic circle glows brighter.
Back in the headmaster's office, "This is a familiar's rune that exists only in legend. Furthermore, considering that he was summoned by the third daughter of the Valliere family. This has something to do with the one corner of the lost Pentagon" says Osmond.
"It can't be" says Colbert.
"Whatever the truth is behind this, you must not tell anyone about this!" Osmond says to Colbert.
"I understand that" Colbert says back.
As the magic circle glowed brighter, everyone could see something rising out of the magic circle. The magic circle soon disappears and in its place, are two knights, and a Valkyrie. The two knights are two times bigger than Guiche's valkyries, while Jinkuro's valkyrie is a little bigger than the brass valkyries. The armor of the knights looks like a dragon and is colored black and purple. In the knights left hand is a large sword forged from dragon fangs, and its shield is made from the scales of a dragon. The armor Brynhildr wears is silver with runes etched into it providing extra protection. While the sword and shield she wields are made of the same material as the knights, they are shaped differently, and lighter allowing better mobility. As the knights and valkyrie stand up, they speak to Jinkuro. "Master, it has been a long time" they say to Jinkuro, then look back at the valkyries in front of him.
"Indeed it has my old friends, I have summoned you three to do battle and show this mage just how out classed he is compared to me" Jinkuro says them. They nod and charge at Guiche's valkyries. Guiche has his valkyrie's attack, but one by one, they are all cut down by the combined might of Leviathan, Fafnir, and Brynhildr.
As this is all happening, all the students watch in surprise and amazement still trying to get over the fact that Louise's familiar Jinkuro is able to use magic and also summoned three beings to fight for him. The one who is most surprised is Louise, as she thought that her familiar was just some regular human, but how wrong she had been. Louise isn't the only one who was really surprised.
Guiche soon realizes he has no valkyries left and tries to summon more, but before he is able to he sees the point of Brynhildr's sword in his face and he falls back onto his ass. "I yield" Guiche says, and Brynhildr walks back over to where Jinkuro is.
"Good job you three" Jinkuro says to him.
"Your welcome master, a pleasure to serve you as always" they say, with Leviathan and Fafnir vanishing back to where they were summoned leaving only Brynhildr standing in front of Jinkuro.
Brynhildr walks up to Jinkuro. Knowing what she wants, Jinkuro just smiles and pulls her into a hug. Brynhildr sheds a few tears and says "It's been so long since you last called for me and my sisters that we thought you had forgotten about us".
"I know, I know, I promise to visit you and your sisters when I can, okay?" says Jinkuro.
Brynhildr nods. "Good girl, now stop crying and go back to your sisters, I'll visit soon" says Jinkuro. Brynhildr smiles and disappears back to where she was summoned from.
Jinkuro then turns to look at Guiche and says "Do you see now how out classed you were. Even in the beginning you didn't have a chance. I could have just cut down every valkyrie you summoned with my sword, but I chose not to. And the look on your face seeing me summon the two knights and a real valkyrie was priceless" Jinkuro laughs. He then turns and looks at Louise "Still think that you summoned a bad familiar Louise" he says to her walking up to her with a smirk on his face.
"No" she says with a smile, extremely happy to know that the familiar she had ended up summoning was truly powerful like she had asked for.
