(With Arsene and Louise)
Arsene was rather pleased with how his introduction to his pupil and her wicked peers had gone. It wasn't anything over the top or long-lasting in fact, he was sure they didn't have too long before whatever this world's form of bloodhounds starts attempting to sniff them out. That fact would be dealt with in time, at the moment he needed snuff out one of the biggest killers for the rebellious. This was the one thing, that at the moment his summoner herself was facing.
The act of dispelling her oppressive regality meant to feed her feelings of regret and, lead her along ascribed paths. Not to say doing that alone would completely absolve her of the worries in her heart, it was simply the first of multiple steps to free herself from the system that upheld the world's cruelty. He listened in on to her thoughts as she sat against the cold wall of rock in the cave her knees buried in her chest. "H..how could I throw such vulgar words at my peers as bad as they were?" was the first of many thoughts that plagued her mind.
"Was it really right to agree to this contract, I mean I got so caught up in ...in Arsene's words," he wanted to chuckle but, kept quiet taking in her insecurities about her situation. Every question was filled with twisted doubt and, uncertainty. Finally, after hearing enough he shifted to look at her saying "Your unrest while understandable is the very image of weakness to me."
He got a glare in return Louise lowly growling out "I don't care about looking weak at the moment," Arsene retorted accordingly "And yet you accepted my strength and guidance no?" Louise hissed out "Because yo..you pushed me along in your rant, using your words to control me," The persona returned with"Words that you accepted into your heart for you knew they were the truth." Louise came to a weak stand the summoning had side-effects on her it seemed as she lashed out with" You tricked me into using such crass words with such a lowbrow delivery in front of my teachers and peers!" Arsene's left claw met his pocket as he touched his feet onto the solid ground, leaning down and telling her "I offered you the chance to tell thy oppressors your true unrestrained feelings and thou did so without fail."
He raised himself up again before going to say "Thou did as you wanted unrestrained by manufactured reason and meaningless noble vocabulary even if, for only a moment." Louise was about to argue more with the demonic Arsene who only brought a single clawed-finger to her mouth and continued " I will teach you to abandon these constraining advocations, my dear child, after all, you are but a mere fledgling still wriggling to rend her weaker chains off her wings."
Louise was appalled at Arsene, despite every complaint she wanted to make about how he was dealing with well, her and the rant she made it would have been pointless. Instead of how her teachers, parents, and peers more or less demoted her to keep it going, he played along with her countering everything she said with the reality of what had occurred. Somehow if by luck or fate, she had at least summoned what seemed to be the most patient and, oddly poetic creature she could. He seemed to also be quite adamant on making sure she went through with rebelling, whatever he fully meant by that.
"Now ist thou ready for thy's first lesson towards rebellion?" Arsene asked this with a level of concern due to how the day was coming to an end. "Wh..what do you even mean by rebellion, I do not desire to become an insurrectionist to the law if that's what you're implying." Arsene made a small sigh, something told him he would need to pick his words carefully with this girl to make progress and replied: "It is simple dear I plan on guiding you to rebel against the world and its limited expectations of thee."
"Against the..the world?" Arsene nodded the shadow of the hat he wore casting a veil over his mask-like face, it's glowing features piercing the veil of darkness with a red glow "Of course how else to be free," his voice gained a hint of passion while keeping an eerie low tone" than to break the very confines of the masses example,? To shatter the very boundaries of a confined perspective that has clouded thee for so long and realize thou's own potential against all expectations and odds is how."
Louise was still confused at what all this meant and, Arsene could tell that before simplifying it a bit "I mean for you to face everything in this world, your peers, your family, your kings, and gods face them all without fear and instead of conforming to what they wish you to be, follow your own path be your own person, not a puppet for others to dress and play with as they wish." She was caught off guard by this and thought "De..denounce all of that and..follow my own path?"
"Oh Brimir," She said under her breath before going on to ask while putting a hand to her hand against her forehead "Yo..you expect for me to be able to do all of that?" Arsene nodded without a second's thought and replied"In due time of course, for that is the greatest teacher of freedom, time that is," gaining a bit more of a more tone he brought a claw to his chest before continuing" only seconded by me of course hmhm."
Louise really did know how to reply to Arsene this all sounded absolutely insane, no it didn't sound insane it was insane. Her just denounce everything and everyone who made up her past to what end? She understood this whole freedom jive at this point but, now it raised more questions than answers. The first and foremost being "how would she keep living?" it's not like she's ever been on the lamb before or done anything at all to sustain herself beside maybe pouring her own cup of tea once or twice.
Another one was "what about the church?" if she just jumped in willy nilly like that, she would be marked for death under allegations of treason and, blasphemy. Or what about the looming fact that her family would be hunting them like rabid dogs to punish her for her insolence? All of these were drawing her ever closer to a well-deserved panic attack at this point, she had let her own summoned familiar, no Arsene wasn't even that she never made that contract with him, so really she let Arsene literally push her into a corner with no options.
She suddenly felt something glide through her hair gently, she looked at Arsene he was using his left claw to tenderly pet at her head. "Now, now dear little Louise those questions are all things that WILL be dealt within the lesson plans I've devised for you," she shivered as the claw glided down her cheek to being under her chin, tipping her face to look into Arsene's burning eyes "And there is no corner here, if anything YOU have the upper hand, my teachings are invaluable and my power is beyond most others, truly the sky is the limit for you at the moment, all you must do is seize it."
Louise found it was strange how comfortable Arsene felt as he muttered those words to her. He didn't seem to mind the flow of questions that she unleashed, unlike her other teachers who scorned her for "wasting" class time for unneeded information, this barring Colbert who seemed at least somewhat supportive to her. That's when she made a small eep as Arsene lifted her into the air with his arms making her cry out "Wh..what are you!?"
This simply made him chuckle before cutting her off with "A gentleman can't let a lady especially one so young and fragile as you sleep on a cave's cold floor no?" she looked at how he went into a laid back positon letting his wings close around them like a blanket and, she uttered out "I'm not even that tired." Arsene doubted as much with how "eventful" her first day of freedom had been and whispered to her "That is fine young one allow me to assist with that as well," a dull cyan flash appeared around Louise as he murmured "Dormina."
In seconds, the girl had passed out from the status spell making him chuckle at how like a kitten, she snuggled against him due to the warm softness of her clothing. He could tell though that this was going to be one of many nights he would need for planning. Lesson 1 Passed
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Thebeatles211 - Thank you for giving my story a chance and I hope I can keep your support throughout its creation
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Zero no Kami no mu - Thank you for pointing that out I made a change to it so it fits better, and I hoped you enjoyed the second chapter albeit it wasn't as fast acting as the first.
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Babaga he who laughs at anime - Yeah I realized after posting and, felt that it would be troublesome to rewrite it for the fifth time (I was trying really hard to make Arsene sound good). I addressed it slightly in this chapter and I hope that it was satisfactory.