A little while later found Sae sitting by Keitaro's bed side fully engrossed in her book again. She had just started on a passage on Akuma or spirits of people which are offered as payments to the devil. Sae was brought out of her revelry by a thought that suddenly occurred to her. She remembered a time when Takakura-sempai, the head and founder of the Magic User's Club, had used the club's secret magic to mend someone's broken bones and make the person all better. Sae slid a glance to Keitaro, who was still unconscious and then she looked around the room for any sign of other people. There was nobody, Tsunade having left to get dinner.
Sae rummaged around in her bag for a moment and then produced her wand and a small piece of chalk. Her want, like the wands of everyone in the Magic Users Club, was made of wood and was capped by a design that resembled a duck. Again, glancing around to make sure there was no one around, Sae drew a transmutation circle on the floor with the chalk and, standing in the center of this she began to repeat the magic words with her wand pointed towards the unconscious Keitaro.
For several minutes nothing happened and Sae began, as she often did when doing magic, to get discouraged. She closed her eyes and focused hard on the words, on the spell that would cause awakening. Suddenly her wand began to glow gave a shock, for which she was unready and Sae reeled a little in surprise. The wand slipped from her hand and still glowing flew through the air landing on the open book Sae had left on the bed-side table. The book shuttered and then fell off the table.
Sae, rubbing her hand ruefully stepped out of the transmutation circle and picked up the book and her wand. She had just turned to head back to the transmutation circle when she bumped into something large and soft that had appeared silently behind her. Looking up, Sae saw that the soft object was a large bulging belly covered by a brown over coat.
"Oh, I'm sorry I didn't hear…" Sae started to apologize, quickly hiding her wand behind her back. Then she was able to get a better look at her visitor and she fell silent in wonder.
The figure before her was rather short and fat, but was clearly not human. For starters, its skin was a light blue, but the most impressive feature of the new visitor was the huge grinning mouth that smiled genially to her. Two long bat-like ears poked out from under a very tall top hat with vines and small pumpkins around the band. The stranger was wearing a long brown coat that closed in front with three enormous buttons. Black pants led down to curled shoes, tiny glasses with friendly looking eye lashes were perched on the nose hiding the eyes and the stranger carried a parasol like umbrella that had a pumpkin on the handle. As Sae was trying to process the appearance of her unexpected visitor, the figure stepped forward and, taking Sae's hand in his, shook it heartily.
"Hello there. 3" The stranger said in a high sing song voice. "Thank you very much for awakening me, my dear. I am the Millennium Earl, 3 the time traveling alchemist and I have been sealed in that book for so long. As thanks for freeing me I want to give you a present."
Upon saying this, the millennium earl produced a small box wrapped in bright paper with a ridiculously large ribbon on it from the inside of his coat and presented it to Sae, who took it dumbfounded.
"Go on. 3 Open it." The millennium earl said sidling closer to Sae still grinning cheerfully.
Sae carefully opened the box as if half expecting it to explode, however all that was in the box was a folded piece of paper which read.
"I. O. U. This is a receipt that allows the carrier safety from any and all mischief I may perform.
The Millennium Earl 3"
"Mischief?" Sae asked, "What do you mean mischief?"
But as she looked around Sae saw that she was all alone in the room except for the now sleeping Keitaro. The Millennium Earl had disappeared.