A/N: I'm back! Sorry for the long wait but I was working on my other stories and so didn't have time to write this. You should thank that Guest that reviewed for compelling me to update the story. This chapter will cover what went on with Ryuko while Inumuta was out saving Siesta.
"In Japanese, only Inumuta and Ryuko Understand."
Ryuko saw Inumuta rush out the academy gates and was going to stop him but out of the corner of her eye, she saw a group of boys surrounding Cattleya and had to go stop the situation from getting out of hand.
"Oi! You guys, what are you doing to Cattleya!?"
"Oh Ryuko is that you? They weren't doing anything wrong, I just asked them to help me with feeding the familiars."
"Cattleya, please try not to do such things in the future, you have to realize that they are probably only doing it so they have an excuse to ogle at you…"
"Now now Ryuko, I believe in my classmate and I trust that they would never do that."
Ryuko face palmed and decided to just chase away the boys before anything happened.
"You guys, go and run two rounds around the school now."
"For what? Besides, you can't order us around!"
"For harassing a fellow student, and I'm your Discipline Mistress, so if you don't run now, then I guess I will need to reiterate the lesson I gave Guiche…"
The boys needed no further encouragement and immediately started their jog.
"You should be more careful about these things Cattleya, what am I supposed to tell your mother if something happens to you?"
"I'm sorry to trouble you Ryuko, after all you and Inumuta have done for me."
"Just try to keep away from bad compan-"
Ryuko was interrupted by a scream coming from the academy female dorm and left Cattleya to investigate. As Ryuko stepped into the dorm, Montmorency ran past screaming, trying to get away from Guiche. She was beyond pissed at this point and grabbed Guiche's head as he ran past, lifting him off the ground.
"Unhand me you brute! Montmorency, my darling, needs me!"
"What the heck have you been doing Guiche! Do I need to beat another lesson into you?"
Montmorency did not want Guiche beaten and battered again so she decided to confess her crime and find a way to fix it.
"Stop Matoi-sensei! It's not his fault, I made him drink a love potion but it was too potent and he became like this!"
Ryuko looked at Montmorency before kneeing Guiche in the stomach, knocking him out. She tossed the playboy over her shoulder and addressed Montmorency.
"You are coming with me to the headmaster's office."
Montmorency gulped and followed in silence. Ryuko entered the office to see Old Osmond harassing Longueville again to which she just flicked a pebble she had grabbed earlier at his forehead, knocking him out of his perverted trance.
"Ah Ryuko, what brings you to my office today?"
"Montmorency here has used a love potion to drug Guiche, if I remember correctly, that is illegal."
Old Osmond stroked his beard and pondered the situation.
"Montmorency The Fragrance, I should report you to the palace for this, but I shall need you to resolve the issue immediately, Matoi-sensei will be facilitating the process."
"But I need many rare ingredients for an antidote, including a Water Spirit Tear!"
"You are to acquire them at your own expense, unless you would like to be hounded by a love struck Guiche for however long your potion lasts."
"I can't wait a year! Even if I bought all the ingredients, a Water Spirit Tear almost never goes on sale!"
"Then you will get one from the source, your family has had a pact with the Water Spirit for generations so it should be more willing to part with a Tear if you were the one asking. Miss Longueville, please arrange for Montmorency and Guiche to be excused from their classes until the problem is fixed."
Knowing there was no room for argument, Montmorency lowered her head and complied. They exited the room.
"Right, lets set out shall we?"
"We're going now?!"
"Guiche isn't going to be unconscious for much longer…"
"Can't we just tie him up or something?
"There's no guarantee he won't escape and get lost in the woods looking for you."
"Fine we'll bring him along!"
The trip to the lake was long and filled with knocking out Guiche whenever he woke up. When they reached the lake, Montmorency used her familiar to call the Water Spirit. The Water Spirit emerged from the lake and took the form of the human which contacted her.
"Why have you contacted me puny human? Have you come to steal my treasure as well?"
"I would not dare great Water Spirit, I have come for a piece of your body."
"Denied."
"Please great and mighty Water Spirit, I am in dire need of a Tear!"
"No, do not make me repeat myself puny human."
The Water Spirit started to recede back into the lake but stopped when Ryuko called out to it.
"Isn't there any way you will part with it?"
"You are different from the rest… The water flowing within you does not feel natural… What are you, for you are clearly not a human…"
"I am a Life Fiber Hybrid, the last of my kind at that."
"Most interesting. I will give you a piece of my body, but in return I would like to have a sample of the blood within you, simply drip it into the lake"
"That sounds reasonable."
Ryuko pricked her finger and let a drop of blood fall into the lake before the wound healed itself. A portion of the Water Spirit separated from it's body and went into the jar Ryuko brought out. Montmorency took this as a signal to thank the Water Spirit for its mercy before they left.
On the carriage ride back, Ryuko was struggling to knock out Guiche, being knocked unconscious so often had caused him to build up a resistance to it. By the time they were back in the academy, Ryuko had nearly killed him. She handed him over to the water mages for healing while she stood guard outside to make sure he wouldn't suddenly wake up and summon valkyries to force his way out.
Montmorency had sent servants to purchase the other ingredients and so she only needed to prepare the setup for brewing the antidote. It took two hours for the potion to be completed, but once it was, it was immediately brought to the medical lab. Unfortunately, before it could be administered to Guiche, he awoke and escaped to Vestri Court.
"You will not force me to drink that poison! I know it will jeopardize my love for Montmorency! I won't allow it! Defend me my valkyrie!"
Guiche flicked his rose wand and a petal formed to the ground, working as a catalyst to form his golem. He had improved his valkyries since the duel, they now had better armor and were faster. He summoned two more beside the first and commanded them to attack. The one on the left wielded a mace, the one on the right had a sword and the one in the middle held a shield. They charged Ryuko in an attempt to take her down, but their upgrades made little difference and they were sliced apart by her scissors blade.
Ryuko used the opening she created to charge Guiche and bonked him on the head with the hilt of her scissors blade but it did not work and Guiche remained conscious. She was forced to jump away to dodge a slash from the sword he had transmuted and hidden. While the injury wouldn't really have done much, it would still have hurt and she wanted to avoid that if possible.
Guiche went on a slashing frenzy in an attempt to get a hit on Ryuko, forcing her to constantly dodge or parry the strikes. She was starting to get pissed and kneed Guiche after smacking away his sword. He fell to his knees as the pain caused him to blank out, allowing the water mages to administer the antidote.
Guiche awoke after the antidote took effect and went to flirt with Montmorency but as far as Ryuko was concerned, her job was done. She headed up to her room to rest. After some time, Inumuta returned but she was too tired and frustrated to question him on what he had been doing and decided to take a nap.
It was only after her nap that she had cooled off and was refreshed. Ryuko and Inumuta ate their dinner in the room and she inquired on his whereabouts.
"Inumuta, where have you been?"
He straightened as she asked the question, worried that she would overreact if he told the truth. He forced his voice to sound bored and monotonous so as to not give away that he was lying.
"Collecting data."
"I highly doubt that, knowing you, you would have created a cloaked satellite and sent it into orbit to collect data rather than going on foot."
Inumuta diverted power from his less important systems to his processor to think up of an answer quickly.
"I was looking for metal deposits, since we are in a new world, there might be new metals that will not be picked up by satellites so I need to extract and analyse them so I can configure the satellite to detect them."
Well it was partially true, he did look for metals on his way back.
"Fair enough, what was the result?"
"I haven't discovered any new metals nor any known ones, besides a uranium deposit under a mountain, for that matter. Some of the metals that existed back home definitely exist here, so the only logical conclusion I could draw was that the earth mages here can somehow detect the deposits of metals they know and have extracted them already."
"You aren't planning on mining that uranium are you? It could radiate the entire planet considering how radioactive should be since it has been on this planet and untouched for as long as they've existed. They claim that the ritual which summoned us here was eight thousand years old and they've barely advanced whatsoever technologically since then. That deposit could contain a nuclear bomb's worth of radiation!"
"Ryuko you're a genius! I initially only wanted to extract it to see if there were new isotopes of it present on this planet but you've given me an idea! Who knows how mages would mutate when exposed to radiation!"
"Inumuta… No."
"But for science!"
"Ugh, I know you are gonna do it anyway even if we argue till the Life Fibers invade so just make sure to do it to our enemies. Capture them and put them in a containment cube or something, just don't involve me in it."
"Thanks, also, we should go into town tomorrow to gather supplies and get a lay of the land."
"We'd better get lots of sleep then, or rather I should, you'll probably go and work on another one of your secret diabolical plots in the dead of night."
Inumuta shrugged and replied as he left the room.
"It's for the sake of data collection and science, what do you want me to do?"
Ryuko turned off the lamp manually and went to bed again, satisfied with her filling meal.
A/N: If you've enjoyed the chapter please check out my other stories and review or vote on my poll. I will likely be working on two other Fics before coming back to this, possibly more, but I will, so be patient. See you next chapter!