*In a dream world*
Ugh… where am I this time? It's so dark in this area and I can't see anything clearly around my surroundings. That is… until a certain crack on the ground that I'm standing at this time, reminds me of this very place… this is where the Solar Eclipse Ritual occurs to the chosen Gates a year ago… and I'm also one of them. I don't know who or why did they kidnapped most of us in the first place, but on that day of the Solar Eclipse, I realized that… this is a ritual where Phantoms are created. This is one memory that left a big scar in my mind… and a physical scar on my arms…
As I look around from where I standing in my ghost form, I can see that most of the Gates' eyes were wide open, with a ring of light around their eye pupils, as they were screaming in pain, driven by forced in despair. Immense pain, purple cracks everywhere on our body, continuous screams… that is what most of us felt during that time. Those innocent Gates gives in towards despair and died, their former shells shattered away to give birth to Phantoms in all shapes and sizes. That was pretty much the process that everyone has been facing through, including myself. Even I can't escape this kind of cruel fate as I just watched myself, trying to withstand it.
(Author's Note: In this dream world, the 'he' I'll be using for quite a while would refer to the past Nozomi Saigo. Don't let it confused you with the current one…)
When the time has come for him to be fall into despair, the skin on his arms are cracking up and changes into some sort of red scales of a reptile, his hands are trembling really hard as claws are begin to take its shape on it and with a tail at my butt that whips around wildly, this Phantom was anxious to get out from that body and he was about to fall into my despair. At this time, I swear that he was crying in pain…
"No… I can't…" I saw him tried to talk his way out of this as more cracks appeared on his forehead and neck. He gathered all of his strength that he have left within him, forcing himself to stand up despite experiencing immense pain and stretches his arm towards the sky, more precisely… on the solar eclipse.
"I…" more purple cracks appeared on his face and he was at the brink of death. He tightened his claws towards the solar eclipse, showing it how determined he really is to continue on living and not to fell into despair, just like the others. He's not like them!
"I can't lose to it… I… I MUST SURVIVE!" He shouted those last words with all of his might, accompanied by flashes of flashbacks from my parent's smile on their face and the hope that they passed onto me. Without warning, his whole body suddenly glows radiantly, forcing the Phantom that was inside of him to calm down and those previous cracks all over his body was suddenly disappeared.
When the solar eclipse was over, he realized something after went through all of that… he's still alive. It's truly a miracle that he was able to survive such ritual. But right after all of that, the figure that was right in front of me, fainted face first on the ground, which it is full of rocks. That must have been really hurt for someone to fell onto it. Those scars on my arms where the scales are formed earlier were a permanent one and won't be healing anytime soon.
When I look around some more after the ritual, there was another figure that also survives it as well that was really far away from my current position. That person was Haruto Souma, the man that receives the power to protect the humanity on my world, which is Kamen Rider Wizard. I saw him left the area with a fainted girl that he carries on his arms. I'm just glad that I'm not the only survivor here.
When I watch myself who was coming to from the pain, he was sitting while facing the ocean, still in a dazed and still felt the burning sensation on my arms .At first, he thought that it was just a dream… a bad dream, but if it's a bad dream, why is he at such a deserted and destroyed place? He should've been at home, practicing some magic tricks from my uncle and trying to make an escape while he's at it or even on the bed… snoring.
Just when he was about to fully aware of his surroundings, a Phantom lands right in front of him and grabbed onto his neck as it really lifts him up high. When I got a clear view of the Phantom, and it turns out to be a Frog Phantom, with bulgy eyes and wide mouth, its humanoid green body wears a leather armor that covers the top of its upper body with a spiky wrists and at the lower part of its body, I can see there's spiky knee pads on it and had nothing on its webbed feet.
"Now, fell into despair, Gate!" the Frog Phantom threatens me as its grip is getting stronger by the minute.
He was in the brink of death once again. Having no more energy due to the ritual, he tried to kick it back or even tried to struggle from it, but all of it was in naught. And truth to be told, he was about to pissed his pants right on the spot because he was scared to death and felt defenseless. In this ghostly form, even if I tried to help him by tackling aside the Phantom, kicking its balls, punching its face or trying to pull it away from the frightened guy, it doesn't seem to affect it at all as all of my efforts just went through it and that was it.
When all hope is about to lost and nearly fallen into despair once again, from out of nowhere, a white magic circle was conjured right between him and the Phantom, deflecting it away from him, and the Phantom was nowhere to be seen right after that. What was that, and where did that came from? Who casted it? Trains of questions just kept flowing through my head with a slight panic look on his face… okay, he actually panics A LOT, I admit it!
When he looks around to see the source of the attack was coming from, I can see the person that was saving our lives. He is the mysterious white-robed wizard and wears an orange mask over his all-white clothing on him. Around his waist, he had the WizarDriver on him with a few changes from what I currently have. At the Hand Author, it has a red trim on it instead of gold and a black strap instead of a grey one. At that point, he was speechless to see someone or something (due to the confusion I had at that time, I might even mistaken him for a Phantom as well…) that was walking towards him and just looking down on him, as he still have that confused and feared look on his face.
"You have done well in survive within the despair and does not lose hope." The white wizard explained to him.
"W-who are you? W-what do you want with me?!" he just simply looks upon him and replied with calm words in order to make myself calm from all of the mess that I've had on that day.
"Do not fear, Gate… you have earned the right to become a mage."
"A… mage? B-but, I'm just an average guy… or a magician in training that learns tricks for people's entertainment, as much as I don't want to admit that and not having pure magic!" he tried to explain to him and still puzzled about the whole situation. Next thing he knew, the White Wizard conjured another magic circle next to him and he takes out a driver from the circled before it disappears and handed it to him.
"Eh? What's this piece of work?"
"I sense that your destiny lies elsewhere… and a different task is waiting for you to fulfill…"
"Destiny? Task? What are you saying?"
"Allow me to give you a piece of advice, young mage. You must… turn a person's wish into hope… that is the only path for you to take and to follow." He added before handing me the ring that would make turned into Kamen Rider Wizard, the Flame Ring. And also… there's another ring that he handed it to me. The jewel on it was amber in colour, and on it, there's a picture of a cross and a dragon-look alike wrapping its long body around it. According to the gaming world, this ring must have something to do with reviving stuff…
"You may entrust this ring of hope to your destined one…" he added.
"Destined one?" he pondered for a bit while looking a the ring and before he could ask him again, he was nowhere to be seen, leaving the man all alone at a deserted place. "What's that supposed to mean…?" he asked in a low tone while keeping his attention onto the ring.
After all of that, everything went blurry before I realized… that it was all just a dream.
(The voice is narrated by Loiuse)
The magical rings, the Wizard Rings
(The magic circle appears as the four rings floats out from it.)
They shine on both hands of a certain familiar.
(An image of a hand appears as the Flame rings slides into his left middle finger and the Driver On ring is on his right middle finger.)
As he changes one's fate… into hope.
(The figure, Nozomi Saigo who was hovering right between the magic circle and makes a glance towards the viewers as a quick flash of Wizard can be seen.)
(Cue in Life is SHOW TIME!)
(Maji ka?! Maji de?! Maji da! Show Time~!) The montage starts with Kamen Rider Wizard twirls around a few times with a magic circle on a background and he opens up a magic circle to the sky, letting the Wyvern Phantom soar the sky, above the academy and it spews out flames to make the title appears and the Wyvern flew away from the screen to shift to the next screen.
(Maru de tsuki to taiyou) At the backstage of the magic theatre, Saigo was resting his head on the table as his arms covers his face while his hand grips hard onto his sleeves as a quick montage shows the solar eclipse and the purple cracks on his arms that resembles scales.
(kasanaru toki no shougeki!) Louise was walking all alone at the corridor of the academy as Siesta is serving another student their food as both of them stopped and looks up at the sky to see the solar eclipse is happening.
(Dare datte kiseki wo shinjitemitai) During this time, Saigo was trying to take Louise's hand, but they kept passing though each other and froze in place as the background shatters away into pieces.
(Kitto hitsuyou~ fukaketsu no) Kirche was doing her usual dating with other boys and they passed by Tabitha, who was walking while reading her book on her hands.
(ENAJII~ kokoro tame) Guiche was trying to seduce another girl from the academy, only to realize the furious Montmorency behind him, leaving him sweatdrop.
(Yume to yosou ii ima de uragitte kureru mono~) A quick montage on other characters in order such as Forquet the Crumbling Earth with a huge golem at the background, Old Osmond with the "Staff of Destruction", Jessica and her father, Scarron in a pub, Princess Henrietta with Prince Wales on the background of the lake, Wardes wielding his sword-wand and his air dragon by his side, Cromwell with an evil smile with the Ring of Andavari and it switches to Saigo preparing his henshin stance and placing the Flame Ring onto his belt and his body glows radiantly.
(3! 2! 1! Show Time!) Guiche and Montmorency counts 3 with their fingers, Kirche and Tabitha does the 2 with their finger while Tabitha still reading her book and at 1, Louise casts a spell, which only ends up in explosion.
(Magic time~! trick janai!) Saigo changes into Kamen Rider Wizard and he spins around while showing his Flame Ring on his left hand.
(Mahou wo hero hanpa nee zo [Mahaluto Hallelujah!]) Three PlaMonsters, a golden Kitsune (fox), indigo Roc/Rukh and green Hydra, floats away from Wizard as he cast a spell to make some fireworks behind him.
(Kioku no roots moguri-konde) In a fast forward montage, Kirche tried to hug Wizard in Flame Style but he immediately entered the magic circle and he accidentally splashes the water that he skids onto Montmorency in Water Styles. Another magic circle appears above his head and he immediately jumps high to change into Hurricane Styles as Tabitha was riding her dragon.
(Kibou wo tsukui dasou~) When he passed through the magic circle on the ground, he transformed again into Land Styles, creating a crater that makes Guiche ended up sits on his butt. Louise extends her hand as Saigo manages to grab her hand.
(Show Time!) Professor Colbert, Siesta and Princess Henrietta shouted "Show Time!" with smile on their faces.
(Life is Show Time! tobikkiri no) Saigo rides on his Wyvern, with Louise at his side as both of them soar to the sky.
(Unmei DORAIVU mucha shitemo [Mahaluto Hallelujah!]) He wears the Cross Ring on Louise's finger, where he just smiles at her while she blushes a little bit.
(Kinou, kyou, ashita, mirai) He got pulled back by Kirche as she wanted to hug him, followed by Siesta.
(Subete no namida wo~) Both of them tried to pull him to their side, only to have Louise getting angry with her horse whip on her hands, making him gulp.
(Show Time!) Derflinger appears out of nowhere while shouting "Show Time!"
(Houseki ni kaette yaru ze) All of the shattered pieces are formed back as one and three other Styles are entering his Flame Style.
(Maji ka?! Maji de?! Maji da! Show Time~!) The montage ends with Guiche and Montmorency showing the Land and Water Ring respectively on their finger, Tabitha looks at the screen while showing the Hurricane Ring that she wears, Kirche shows the Flame Ring on her and Louise readied with her wand in her hand and Saito showing the Driver On Ring with a confident smile on their faces.
Disclaimer: I do not own both Kamen Rider Wizard or Familiar of Zero. All credits goes to its respective owners.
Trick No.2: The Showdown and Revealing Day
When I was waking up from my sleep, I was lying down on my "bed", and noticed that my neck is wrapped with a dog chain to keep me in leash so that I won't be able to walk away like what happened last night. I realized that even if I'm able to use the Connect Ring for making an escape for my life, I still won't be able to get back home since this is where I belong at this time.
"Is this… my path of destiny? Like he said? Wow, that took a year to actually making it come true…" I pondered to myself as I remembered the words of wisdom from that white wizard in my dream. When I shift my attention to the sleeping beauty on the bed, I remembered on what I was supposed to do because of the little argument that happened last night.
*Last night's quarrel*
It took a while for me to get my bearings back after making an attempt of trying to escape from this place and returned back to where I came from. That Guiche using a levitation spell to make me stay put onto one place and drops me back to my bed and Louise here have her leash on her hands to keep me under control. I really hope that this was just all an act but no, this is reality and I gotta accept it, whether I like it or not.
Anyways, after all of this mess, I started to explain to her about who I really am, except the part that I'm a Kamen Rider just yet and where exactly that I've come from and she doesn't seem like to understand about it.
"You're from Earth?" Louise asked.
"You got that right! I was on Earth, in my place of Japan and right in Tokyo, doing my own business until I got sucked here like a vacuum cleaner to this place!" I complained to my 'master'.
She crossed her arms and looks at me with her usual angry eyes. "I can't believe a word that you're saying! Hmph, how could there be another world than here?"
"Oh, come on! Can't you tell by the clothes that I'm wearing? It's not the same like the ones that you wearing! Your clothes are mostly on display at the museum or even textbooks as far as I can remember!" I explained a bit to her, which only to lead her to more confusion than ever, much to my chargin… "Look, even I can't believe that I'm stuck in this world, even though that it's great to see magic does exists around here… so, I want you to send me back to where I came from so that I can forget about this place already!"
"Impossible…" she replied with a calm tone.
"Don't just give me such a simple answer!" I complaint at her again, only to get my face covered by her cape. When I removed her cape from my face, I can see that she's… starting to strip right in front of me… ever heard of private space, 'mistress'?
"Listen, no matter where you may have come from, the contract between a master and familiar is absolute." She elaborates to me while taking off her clothes one at a time. Only leaving her undergarments, she threw her school clothes at me, and it only leads me to more confusion.
"What the heck are you doing?!"
"I'm changing my clothes since I'm going to sleep." With a snap of her finger, the candle that was brightening up the room suddenly burns out and to my surprise… she wasn't finished stripping down just yet… if only she wasn't lack of sex appeal, I don't mind seeing her naked…
Crap, the hormones are start kicking in on me… better take control of it before it's too late for me to stop it.
"Oi,oi,oi! Don't take off your clothes when I'm around!" I said that while covering my eyes from the view that I'm seeing right now… fortunately, the dark room doesn't let me see her whole naked body, besides seeing her figure from the moon shines from her window.
"Why is that?"
"Why, you ask?! You don't really care if there's a guy sees you naked?"
Her respond to my question… both of her undergarments are tossed right at me.
"Guys? You're only just a familiar and that's nothing I've to worry about!"
Is that so? When I grabbed her undergarments, I noticed that my hand grabbed one familiar clothing that every girl always wear under their skirt… a pure white underwear… with laces on it. At this point, I might have a nosebleed if I holding it for too long, so I just put it among the pile of her clothes that she threw at me earlier, just to avoid it from happening on me.
After that hectic moment there, she was finally in her sleeping outfit and was getting ready to sleep. So, where does that leaves me?
"So, I want you to wash the clothes for me. I need those clothes for tomorrow."
Say what? "Why do I have to wash your underwear and clothes? Can't you do it by yourself or anything?"
When I think about it, in my place, if there's a guy that grabs hold of a girl's underwear, or even wanted to wash one, he might be branded as a pervert. And same thing goes in the anime world if the main character gets an awkward situation with the female characters and sees her naked as well. But in this world, that kind of rules doesn't seem to applied to me since that she said I'm her familiar and she's just let the flow going normally… wait a minute, does this mean that I'm nothing more than just a mere familiar and not a human here?!
"Wash, huh?" I took a glance at her underwear among that pile of her clothing, "Enjoyable, yet annoying…" after having some weird thoughts, I shook my head in disagreement and thinks back with a clear thought, "No, I should be annoyed about it…"
Time for a counter attack on this girl… drum roll, please! "Hey, I'll never, EVER do your laundry—"
"Who do you think is going to take care of you?" she shots me back with her own words… and caused the drum roll come to a halt.
"You're my familiar. Housekeeping, laundry, errands and other things that I've commanded to you are obviously jobs for you to do. You better have my clothes ready for tomorrow morning…" she then shifts to a better side to get some shut eye. "Don't you worry… as long as you do your job, I'll feed you…" she explains just a little bit more as she yawns.
"What, I'm like a dog to you now?!" I tried to retaliate, but only to hear her asleep peacefully, thus ending our little debate for good. At this point, I can only just sigh in defeat and refocused back onto the pile of clothes on the floor.
"I guess I'll have to go with the flow for now…" I added before I took that pile with me and went out of her room to get my chore started. Brr… I didn't notice until just now that how cold really is this place! The chill at night over here is really cold compared to my place!
One thing I do know is that with the power of Wizard, it makes my job easier to handle these kinds of things. With the assist of Water Styles to clean her clothes with ease without using any detergent on it and Flame Styles to make her clothes dry at a faster rate, her uniform is as good as brand new. And I just realized something from using these rings…
"I think that my powers have downgraded from a tool of Phantom hunting to laundry works… seriously, I wish I could go really for a fight…" I just sighed before going back to her room and took the night off.
*present day (morning)*
Fortunately for me, I already used to wake up early in the morning because back in my place, that'll be the time where Tetzu-san was about to start our magic training. As annoying as it is, it eventually became a habit.
"Right… time to wake the sleeping beauty up…"
I simply stand up, grabbed her freshly washed clothes on the table and pulled the blanket away from her. She was surprised from the actions that I've made earlier with a yawn.
"Huh~? Who are you?" she mumbles for a little bit in her half-asleep mode.
And my way of replying back to her? I simply copied her actions from last night by putting her clothes that was neatly folded back to her.
"*sigh* You said that you want this to be ready by morning, so I just do what you said…" I explained to her as she gets up from her sleep, yawns for a bit and rubs her eyes to get the sleepiness off from her.
"That's right… you're my familiar that I've summoned yesterday, right?" she took her uniform and realized that something was missing. "Where's my underwear?"
"Are you kidding me?! At least get that yourself! There's no way I'll be taking those for you!"
She turns her attention to me and replied, "I'm going to make you skip breakfast…"
She hit the nail right on my head… you have no idea that my limit of patience is at its breaking point.
"It's at the bottom drawer. Go get them for me…" she pointed out to the location as I have no other choice but to obey her command for the sake of breakfast. I tried to use the Connect Ring last night in order to get my usual meal of the day, but when I pulled my hand out, I grabbed… nothing. Other than the bike inside of the magic circle and the fact that I need a material for conjuring my WizarSwordGun from it, there's nothing else I can pulled out from it. I guess this would take some time to get the hang of this place…
"Geez, all of this for a breakfast… it better be something worth it for all of his mess that I've been through…" I mumbled for a bit before taking on of her underwear and tossed it to her.
At this time, while she was getting out from her bed, I grab hold of the chain and signaling her to take it off from me.
"Hey, can you take this thing off already? It's pretty much annoying to walk around with it…" I asked her while she was wearing her underwear.
"No." she replied to me with a nonchalant tone.
"Look, I won't run off again! Especially after being brought to this place already! Besides, where else I can run to since that I'm gonna be stuck here for a while?!" I asked while looking at her, which I immediately look away due to the fact that she's a girl with only her underwear on.
"Oh, be quiet already…" she scolded before throwing her uniform to me.
"Now what?!"
"Put the uniform on me."
Excuse me? You're kidding me, right?
"Why do I have to do this?! Can't you put our own clothes on?"
She keeps her glare at me and began to speak once again, "When they have a servant, aristocrats would NEVER put their clothes on themselves!"
I stand up and began my argument with her, "What aristocrats? Don't be such a—"
"Okay then, no food for you. I won't take off the chain from you either." She intervenes to cut short of my argument and piles me down with more of her threats.
Darn it, she hit the nail RIGHT on the money...
If it wasn't for the contract and the deal that we made, I might explode to her with harsh words, but then again, she might use her magic spell to blow me up… better keep that in mind…
After what it seems like forever to put her clothes on, with the clip of her button of her cape, looks like my duty is done… for now.
"Done… now, like you promised, take off this thing from me… it's really itchy!"
"Fine… stop complaining already…" she takes out the key from her pocket and began to unlock the padlock that was located on my neck.
While she's doing that, I couldn't help it but noticed that when she's quiet, she's pretty cute… I admit that. I can't believe that despite her attitude of being an aristocrat and such, she really does have an innocent look on her face. Why her attitude can't be the same as her appearance? That, I can't tell…
"What?" she asked, breaking my trance of looking at her cute face that turned sour in a split second.
"N-no, it's nothing…"
With the sound of a click, it has finally unlocked and she takes off that collar away from my neck. Now that feels much better as I rubbed my neck a few times and turns my head a few times to hear some cracks coming from my neck to loosen it up.
"We're going already…" she said while walking towards the table to take her wand.
"Eh? Where to?"
"To get breakfast, of course…"
FINALLY, something to eat!
*In a large dining hall*
As of right now, both of us are now entering at the dining area where most mages are chatting with other mages while waiting for their breakfast to be served. Man, look at those foods, most of them are high standards, like the ones they served in a hotel and the smell coming from those foods are enough to make my mouth watering. Seriously though, these guys sure know how to treat a person well.
I couldn't help it but to realize the whole place here is similar to a place where Harry Potter was studying. I may not be a big fan of it, but the flare this place is given is really similar to it. I wonder if this world is based on that movie… or is it the other way around?
"Ah, there they are… the famous runaway familiar and his master…" I heard Kirche whispering to her blonde friend that was next to her. I just simply ignores it as of right now, I'm really need some supply of food in my stomach.
"Damn~, what a feast! Is today is some sort of anniversary or something? Man, this is a feast for breakfast! Even back home isn't serve as this much!"
"Would you pull the seat back already for me? You're so inconsiderate." Louise commanded me, making me snaps out from watching all of those foods served on the table.
"Hai, hai…" I just simply do as she told and when she's sits at her seat, now's my turn to sit next to her… or so I thought.
"What is it now? You know that I didn't eat anything since last night, so—" I tried to asked her, but she only keeps pointing down at the floor. It took me a while to understand what she was to say, until when I look down, I saw a small plate right next to her feet.
"It's a small plate. What's the fuss about it?"
"Only aristocrats sit here. A peasant sits there." She elaborated to me some more of it while still pointing down on the ground…
"Eh?! You're kidding me, right?!" I said in surprise, only to hear some giggles coming from other female mages around me. Darn it, she really treats me like a dog!
The breakfast time has arrived and all of the students are prayed for their blessings of their meal.
"Our great founder of magic Brimir and her Highness, we thank you for this small breakfast."
Tell that to the meal that was right in front of me… it was mine that have a SMALL breakfast and it was nothing more than just a loaf of bread.
That's it. Nothing more, nothing less. But still, a meal is a meal and I better not let it spoiled. Man, I could really use for a BIG doughnut right now, a plain sugar to be precise. I don't know why Haruto like that kind of stuff but once you've tried it for yourself, only THEN you understand how Haruto feels about those doughnuts.
*Outside of the academy*
After having such a simple meal around here, I followed Louise to the front yard as she began to lecture me about this whole familiar thing to me.
"Familiars are usually left outside during the meals. I especially let you stay with me."
"Geez, I'd have been happier to be separated from you!" I complaint again but as usual, she just ignores me with an annoyed look on her face. As I looked around, I noticed that most of the students today are being with their masters… "What's everybody doing?"
She paused for a minute before continuing on with her speech after listening to my question. "Oh, there isn't any class for the second years for today. They're building relationships with their new familiar so that they would gain trusts."
"Oh, I'd love to build that…" I just simply murmured to myself as I still remember the treatment that I received from this lady over here since last night.
"Oh? What do we have here?" a female voice was heard from behind and as I turned around, I see that HUGE lizard was being patted by Kirche.
"Whoa?! Don't surprise me like that with that lizard of yours!" I said in a surprising tone.
"Hm~, is this your first time seeing a salamander?" she asked me. I know that salamanders are small but this is ridiculous! I've never seen the lizard that was a BIG as a Komodo Dragon!
"You better keep that lizard of yours on leash! It's dangerous, y'know?!"
She just replied to me with a smile on her face while continue to rub that salamander's head. "It's fine. A familiar with a contract is obedient to its master. It wouldn't run away from me. Right~, Flame?"
"Nyuk! Nyuk, nyuk!" the salamander replied while waggling its flaming tail as Kirche looks onto Louise with a pleased look, which she annoyed her even further.
"Just mind your own business!" Louise scolded her as Kirche began to stand up and speak to her.
"Hey, maybe you just brought a peasant that you found walking on the streets to begin with?" she began to attack Louise with her words. Truth to be told, Kirche wasn't far off from what she said. I did remember walking around the city after the battle with the Bull Phantom… is she a psychic or something? "You concealed it well with the explosion." She added.
"No! I did the summoning properly! And he appeared from that summoning!" she counters with her words of her own. Louise wasn't too far off with that either. I did put my hand onto that green portal and I paid the price and ended up being here with her. That's what you get when curiosity gets the best of you.
"Well, it's a perfect match for Louise the Zero anyways…" Kirche added with a laugh that where most rich ladies does in the movies before walking to another place with her lizard.
"That woman! What's wrong with her?!" she began to sound a little bit threatening with her fist shuts tightly as veins appeared on her fist.
"Louise the Zero? What is she saying, Louise?"
That is when I just triggered a time bomb in her… oh boy, she's REALLY pissed right now…
"Don't you just stand around here, bring me tea or something?!" she gives me the order in an angry tone before walking off to somewhere.
"You know… if you just add 'please' at the end of it while not in a bad mood, maybe I'll do just that?" I just simply talked to myself. In the end, the only way to calm her down is just doing as what she just said. Who would have thought that a magician in training like me turns into her butler to do her works? I'm sure didn't see this one coming…
While I'm walking aimlessly around the yard, I'm still thinking about how to get back home and at the same time, where the heck am I supposed to get the tea? I already know that Connect Ring wouldn't work here, so that's out of the option. From out of the blue, a bug-eye familiar just appeared and that thing just scared the heck out of me, causing me to bump onto someone behind me as she dropped her tray of food onto the ground.
"Ah, I'm sorry! This thing just scared the heck out of me!" I apologized to the maid that was behind me before the bug-eyed familiar wanders off away to another place.
"Oh no, I'm fine, really." She replied to me with a kind tone. Why can't Louise follow this girl's example?
At closer inspection, I already know that this timid girl wears a maid's clothing but the most striking feature that most students doesn't have or I even noticed since appeared in this place was that she's double black, as in black hair and black eyes, just like me. And let's not forget that she has that… curves and sizes of B-W-H that most men are craving for…
…alright, I better stop acting like a pervert to avoid more misunderstanding as it is and better help out with the little accident that I've done earlier.
As I wanted to pick up the cake that was on the ground, at the same time, she does the same thing as what I was about to do, only to our shock, both of us pulled back our hands from each other and from that time, both of us have this faint blush on our faces.
"I'm sorry…" a kind tone was heard from the maid that I bumped to earlier.
"No, no… it was my bad…" I apologized to her as I picked up the cake on the ground before placing it onto the plate that she had on her hand at this time.
She then noticed the marks at the back of my left hand and started to ask me about it. "Um, excuse me, would you be the familiar of Miss Valliere?"
"Eh? You know about me as well?"
"It's already well-known that a peasant was summoned as a familiar." She replied to me with a smile. These kinds of news aren't like a virus… but it sure spreads like one.
"Hm~… well, I still don't understand much about these aristocrat and peasant stuff anyways…" I said to her while scratching the back of my ear with my hand while thinking about this matter.
"Hm? People who can use magic are aristocrats and everyone else is a peasant, right?" she replied.
"Oh~, I get it now. So that's how it is!" I said while placing my right palm onto my open left hand.
To make things short and easier for me to understand, those who have magic, congratulations! You're an aristrocrat and those who isn't, you're just another regular dude on the block. If that's the case, shouldn't I be treated as one? Oh, wait a minute, these people still didn't knew about the existence of magic that dwells within me, and not to mention the Wyvern Phantom is still sleeping inside of me, waiting for the right time to destroy the shell and appeared in the reality, just to create mayhem. I gotta find the right timing for reveal my true self as a magician… or a wizard, in this case.
"So, you're a mage as well?" I asked the pretty maid that was in front of me as she replied to me with a little shock on her face.
"Absolutely not! My name is Siesta, and I'm just a maid in the campus. I'm a peasant, just like you." She introduced herself to me. She's really a good girl and I guess I should introduce myself to her as well.
"The name's Nozomi Saigo, and I'm currently Louise's familiar… you can call me Saigo." I introduced myself to Siesta.
"Saigo…-san. That's a unique name for you." she compliments me with a smile. I gotta say, she's really cute and being polite to someone like me adds up to some more points in my book. Something tells me that both of us are going to get along just fine.
"Hey!" our little time came to a halt as both of us heard the shout of a certain playboy and as of right now, he's patting his gigantic mole on his lap and right in front of him was the blonde girl that was with Kirche earlier in the dining hall. Her blonde hair was styled into long, Victorian ringlets, with a red hair bow in back, despite wearing the same school clothes like Louise.
According to Siesta-chan, her name is Montmorency Margarita la Fère de Montmorency or Montmorency for short. From the looks of it, she is Guiche's girlfriend… well, until what I saw last night.
"Is my cake ready yet?" the playboy asked Siesta-chan and she was about to go a little bit panic for a bit.
"Yes, right away!" she was about to take a leave… that was until I intervene from her advance.
"Siesta-chan, let me send this food to him personally." I said to her while taking the plate away from her.
"But, that's…"
"Don't worry about it. Consider this an apologetic way for accidentally bumping to you without looking around beforehand …" I said to her with a confident tone. It's time to do a little payback for what he did to me last night. He thought that he had the last laugh after shaking me up at the sky? Think again. "This cake is sure enough for that snobby guy."
While I was walking toward his direction, he was currently right in the middle of his date.
"I've talked with Vendent for a whole night."
"Really? The entire night…" Montmorency said with a sweatdrop on her head with a confused look on her face while she's rubbing her finger at the top of her familiar's head, which it was a frog.
"Yeah, these intelligent eyes, this amazing fur… it really is the familiar reserved for me." He praised himself with those sweet words of his.
"Whenever you're with me, be sure to keep it underground." She reminded him,
And with that, I've delivered the cake that he was asking for. "Here ya' go!"
"Ah, bring me seconds on tea as well." He asked while not paying attention to me but remained his gaze upon her. "Your familiar really resembles you in how cute it is."
There he goes again with his words…
"You flatter me like always." she took it as a compliment.
"I never lie to your eyes…" he said that cheesy word that he used on the girl that he dated last night, but Montmorency began to suspect his recent activities.
"But recently, I heard a rumor that you've start dating a first year." she said it to him, leaving Guiche flinches for a bit as a respond. I can't let this chance go…
"Nonsence! There's never a—"
"—hidden side in my affection for you~, right?" I began to tease him while mimicking his voice. Those words are enough to gain both of their attention before I walk away from them.
"Wh-what are you saying?" he stutters for a bit with the respond that I've said to him earlier. Oh, I'm SO gonna enjoy this little payback. I stopped my pace from where I'm moving and began to attack him word by word.
"Let me see here… correct me if I'm wrong, but the cloak's color is different by the class year, right? Black is for second year and the brown one that I saw last night was a first year. My assumption was right about last night, after all…" I pondered for a bit with a happy tone on my face.
"What is he talking about, Guiche?" Montmorency asked him, leaving him in a panic state in this current situation.
"Get back to your work, pageboy!" he told me as he stood up from his seat.
"Nah, I think you've might mistaken me for a pageboy, yo!" my expression towards him leaves him with a surprised look on his face.
"You're Louise the Zero's familiar…" he pointed out the obvious thing that he knew.
"Well, thanks for last night, man! C'ya!" I continue to walk away from him with a smile on my face. Now, Montmorency began to get more suspicious about him.
"Hey Guiche, what's this about?" she asked him, leaving him dumbfounded by the new information that she's been feed on just now.
"U-uh, remember what I told you? There was a little something about that peasant familiar, that's all…" he tried to sweet talk out of his way from this mess, but I ain't gonna let that happen.
And speaking of which, here comes the girl that he was dating last night, and she is searching for someone and I know just the person that she was looking for. And I must say, I was quite amused to see him panic even more than ever. Time to give him a little bit more of a 'load'.
"Guiche-sama… where is he?" she asked herself while looking around.
"Ah, your Guiche-sama that you've been looking for is right over there." I said while pointing the direction of his current location. This girl was happy to see him as she began to follow him. Let's see if you can get out of this one, playboy…
"K-katie!" he stutters for a bit before he lets go of Montmorency's hand and acts like his usual self. "Hi~"
"I've been searching for you, Guiche-sama." Katie said to him, while Montmorency glares at him as things aren't going to be pretty for him. "I thought I'd bring the soufflé that I was talking about last night for tea-time." She added with full of hope, leaving him more dumbfounded than as it is.
"Ah… well that's…"
"Last night?" Montmerency began to attack him with her words. Oh Guiche, you've got two ticking time bomb, waiting to be exploded at any moment…
"Y-you see…" he tried to explain to her so that he could get out of the mess that he made. Time to pull down the curtain for this guy.
"Lucky you, dude! You said something like, 'I'd love to have a taste of that' last night, right?"
"Y-you?!" will you look at his panic face? That's something to see, other than his usual playboy stuff.
"What? You did say it, after all. I'm just stating the obvious…" I shrugged.
The time is ticking in for double explosion… get your safety helmet on, big shot!
"Guiche, what's the meaning of this?" Montmorency demanded an explanation as he tried to maintain his cool appearance in front of the ladies… and let's not forget to mention that they have caught the attention of the whole student body around that area.
"What have been talking about all this time, peasant?! You've making these ladies get the wrong idea!" he protested on the statement that I've told to him.
"Wrong idea about what, hm? It's your fault for double dating in the first place."
That answer alone was enough to give him a shock of his life. Just a few more seconds before the time bomb explodes…
"Double dating?!" Katie said in surprise.
"So you DID lay your fingers on this first year!" Montmorency argues with him as her rage began to pile up on her.
"P-please, the perfume Montmorency! Please don't let your rose-like face with anger. his is some kind of mistake, and—" He tried to calm her down, only to be realized that he had one more girl that he has to worry about.
"You're horrible! You said I'm the only one!" Katie exclaimed to the panic playboy as things didn't go as he planned.
"A-anyway, both of you calm down…"
The bomb is gonna explode in 3… 2… 1…
"You liar!"
*SLAP!*
All he gets was a double slap at the same cheek by both girls, getting humiliated right in front of the student body and as for me? An eye for an eye for what he did to me and he deserves that slap.
"You got dumped, Guiche! Well, you deserved it after all!" the jolly student pointed out.
The whole student body continues to laugh at him as of right now, Guiche shifts his attention to me. He slowly stands up while ignoring the pain on his cheek.
"Looks like you don't know the manners you should show towards aristocrats…" he began to said in an angry tone.
"Sorry, but from where I came from, those kinds of crap are nothing more than a piece of history on the modern people like me."
"Very well…" he smirked as he pointed out his rose-wand at me. "Familiar, I challenge you to a duel!"
"A duel?" as in… card games? On motorcycles? Card games on motorcycles? Oh wait, medieval times don't have those kinds of things. I can pretty much tell from what he said.
"Exactly, I declare a duel." And this is the part where he began to act tough and use his sweet mouth of his to his advantage… "You're a peasant, and only a familiar. Yet, you insulted me and above all, you've made two ladies cry!"
"Cry? Come on, they were furious on ya' for cheating them in the first place!" I countered his words easily, as more laughs began to fill the air.
"You better be ready for this! I'll wait for you at Vestry field in 30 minutes!" he declared war on me as he made his way out my view. While he's walking away, Louise chimed in and boy, she sure is angry…
"What do you think you're doing?!" she argues with me while dragging my arm.
"What's with you?"
"Don't 'what' me, you idiot! What do you think you're doing accepting a duel?" she continues to scold at me while dragging my arm further.
"What's wrong with that and where the heck are we going?"
"You're going to apologize to Guiche. He might still forgive you."
That statement of hers is one thing that I can't accept as I simply just shrugs her grip on my arm and looked at her for a moment with fire in my eyes. "Nope, it ain't gonna happen."
"Huh?" she said in surprise.
"Why do I have to apologize to him?" I looked away from her, trying to avoid her gaze upon me.
"You don't understand anything, do you? Peasants can't win against aristocrats! You'll be lucky if you get away with only injuries." She tried to persuade me to make an apology to him and prevent this duel from happening, but as usual, I'm quite stubborn at times.
I simply just shook off my hand from her grip while looking at her with a serious look. "That's where you're wrong, Louise. Nothing in this world is impossible to do. Heck, even if the odds are stacked against me, I'll still find my way of winning. And more importantly, I'm even more worried if HE's the one that gone injured, not me…"
"W-what are you saying?!" Louise exclaimed.
"Just believe in me."
"Eh?" she began to calm down but still with the confused look on her face.
"All I want is for you to believe in me. Besides…" the expression on my face turns from being serious to calm, "…you did say that you wanted to have the best familiar of all time, right? I'll show you… that I can turn your wish… into hope." I added while looking at the ring on my right hand, leaves her even more confused.
"So, where's this Vestry field that he mentioned?" I asked the jolly student.
"Ah~, it's over that way. You can't missed it…" he pointed out the location, thus making me happy about it.
"Malicorne!" she blamed him.
"Well, see ya' in half an hour, then… ja naa~" I said to her in a sing-a-long tone before taking my leave but I paused for a moment without looking back. "And Louise… be sure to be there…" and with that, I began to take my leave once again.
"Where are you going?" she asked.
"I got a little errand to do…" I finish off my speech and continued on walking towards Siesta-chan, who seems shocked to see me accepting that challenge with no fear whatsoever.
"This, I've got to see!" Malicorne said with full of excitement on his face.
"Ah mou~! He's a familiar and yet he does whatever he wants!" she blames herself before she ponders for a bit about my words earlier. "Turning my wish… into hope?"
Meanwhile, when I was about to start chatting with Siesta-chan, she was in a panic mode. I can pretty much figure it out what's coming up next...
"S-Saigo-san! No peasants have ever beaten an aristocrat before." Siesta said in concern.
"Nah, don't worry about it. I can take care of myself. Besides… there's a little favor that I want you to do for me…" I said to her with a calm tone, which she just blinked.
*Meanwhile, at the headmaster's tower*
At this time, Professor Colbert, an elderly headmaster dubbed Osmond and Miss Longueville are right in the middle of the meeting of what Colbert explains to him on the current situation.
"Hm… we don't have any previous cases of peasants of becoming familiars before…" Osmond ponders for a bit.
"There's a bigger problem than that, headmaster…" Colbert took out the book that he held onto from the library as he starts to flip the pages on it. "I wasn't familiar with the rune that appeared, and upon researching it… it looks exactly like this…" he said while showing Osmond the page with the said rune on it.
This matter has caught the interest of the headmaster as he began to told Miss Longueville to leave the room as the two men inside the room began to discuss it over the rune.
*Let's head back to the battle area*
Alright, this is it. The showdown between the playboy Guiche and the magician-in-training of the modern world that no one wanted to miss. This is the time where I shall display my true colors… only when I got something that I told Siesta-chan about the little errand I wanted her to do earlier.
Among the crowds, Kirche is also look forward to see the upcoming battle and accompanied her was the bluenette with glasses, wielding a long staff while reading her book.
"He sure is entertaining." Kirche pointed out as her friend just simply turns the page on her book.
"I compliment you for not running away."
"Are you kidding me? I've been itching to lay a hand on someone like you since yesterday!" I said with a confident tone while my fist is tightens up for a fight.
"Wait!" Oh great, here comes the party pooper… even with those convincing words that I've told her, it seems like she doesn't accept it just the way it is. "Guiche, cut it out already! Duels are prohibited!"
"What's prohibited are duels between aristocrats. He's a peasant, so there is no problem about it." He explains to her.
"That's… only because we never had anything like this before…" she hesitates for a bit while trying to cope with the situation and then, he noticed something about her.
"Ah, could it be that your girly heart has been moved by him?" he teased her, changing her expression from being worried to a furious look on her face.
"Who would?! Don't be ridiculous! I just can't bear to watch my familiar get beaten up!" she protested everything that he accused her and the only thing I can think of at this time is just sigh over her actions…
"Whatever you may say, the duel cannot be stopped." Guiche stated as two petals of rose are being thrown onto the ground. One of them began to shines brightly and as the portal opens up from below, slowly, an armor of bronze was conjured out from it.
From what I can see, its helmet has wings on its ears and the face at the front of the armor looks like a dog or a wolf to me… I can't tell. It also got a HUGE shoulder pads and not to mention that this one has the curves and that thing wields a spear on her hand.
"My name is Guiche the Bronze. Therefore a bronze golem Valkyrie will be your opponent." He introduced himself.
And the other petal that was being plucked off from his rose-wand, a short sword was conjured from the petal. The length of the bronze sword has the same length as my arm. At least that he's being a gentleman, knowing that it is bad enough to attack someone who is unarmed.
"Oh, sweet! A short sword! Don't mind if I d—" what comes next is something that was something unexpected…
*POW!*
With that sudden attack, I was grunting in pain, holding my stomach and on my knees. His Valkryie landed a blow on my stomach and it wasn't a good one…
"Damn it… that's a cheap shot!" I simply grumble in pain while looking at his smirking face, which he looks like he was satisfied about it.
"It's natural for an aristocrat, who's a mage, to fight using magic…" Guiche said while sniffing his rose-wand on his hand before his Valkryie does a hard back hand smash onto me, which sends me flying towards Louise. If I didn't put up my arms in defense, I would've suffered a terrible blow to the head and might ended up having a coma.
That attack causes Louise run towards my direction and she began to beg for me to end this battle immediately before things could get worse. "You see, a peasant can never win against a mage!"
"Louise, are you… kidding me? There's no way that I'll back away from that statement alone…" I reminded her as I slowly pull myself up after taking the blow from his toy. "Besides, didn't I tell you to put your hope to me?"
"Saigo… but—"
"Nope, I ain't backing off this time… besides—"
"Saigo-san!" a voice was heard from afar and when I turn around, I see Siesta-chan running towards me and it looks like she brought something that I wanted to have earlier.
"Hold that thought, Louise…" I said to her before Siesta-chan handing a plate to me… and it was a rather large plain sugar doughnut. Just what I need!
While I have my time with the doughnut, some students think that 'Why a familiar eating a doughnut during a duel?' and some of them found it weird. Guiche just simply laughs at my actions and Louise was getting annoyed by it, but who cares? This is doughnut time for me, after all! This thing is like a spinach to Popeye in the old school cartoons that I've used to watch since I was a kid.
"Oh Louise, you really are worthy of your title! Your familiar still have time to eat? Why, you didn't feed him, hm?" Guiche continue to mock at Louise and soon, the whole student body began to laugh at us. Siesta-chan can only be worried for what's going to happen next.
"Thanks for the doughnut, Siesta-chan!" I said with a happy smile while handing it back to Siesta-chan. As the laughs dims down, I shifted my attention back to the playboy and this time… it's MY turn to have some fun. "Okay, where were we?"
I think I've just hit her nerve point of being angry at me… "You idiot! Why did you still wanted to continue on with the fight?!"
"Because he pissed me off…"
"Eh?" she was surprised with my sudden answer.
"Mages, aristocrats or whatever that related to those kinds of things (except myself for being a Wizard), you guys sure are bossy…"
"What are you blabbering about?!" she questioned me sternly as I just simply stands right in front of her, facing the playboy who seems amused by the little quarrel that I had with Louise. No more hiding… it's show time, folks.
"You know… usually, a magician like me can never reveal their secrets to the public… but starting from today—" I made a gesture with my right hand to show him the ring on my middle finger, which consist of Driver On Ring and placed it onto my belt where the palm was located.
= Doraibā On! …Pureezu! =
The belt around my waist began to materialize into a WizarDriver and much to everyone's surprise, including Guiche and Louise herself, the voice that was heard out of nowhere was actually coming from my belt during the recognition of the ring that I've used on it.
"W-what is that?" he stutters for a bit while questioning me about the sudden appearance of my driver.
"Saigo-san…" Siesta began to feel a little bit concerned about me.
"—I guess this would be the perfect time where I should reveal it you that even I can perform something that you guys can do... such as magic." I announced it confidently as murmurs among the student began to get spread amongst them. They've never heard a familiar, a peasant no less; can ever use magic other than aristocrats.
"Saigo? You can learn magic?!" Louise asked in shock after hearing what I've told the whole student body just now.
"And you're a magician?" Siesta began to ask.
"Impossible! A peasant like you knows magic?! Don't make me laugh!" Guiche threatens me with his usual sweet mouth.
"I'm not… I'm just stating the obvious..." I shrugged before switching the lever of the WizarDriver, facing the Hand Author to the left and letting out a usual ringtone, making them surprised as this is the first time they've heard such a thing or some new language that they haven't heard before.
= Shabadoobi Touch to Henshin~, Shabadoobi Touch to Henshin~ =
The ringtone continues on as I placed my ruby Flame Ring onto my left middle finger before flipping the 'goggles' of the ring down. "If you're still curious about it, let me show you what MY real magic can do. Henshin!"
"Henshin?" Louise said, confused by the term I just said.
By placing my left hand onto the Hand Author—
= Fureimu~ ...Pureezu! =
—I simply made a gesture with my left arm to the side and a red magic circle appears next to me and SLOWLY makes its way moving from left to right to begin the transformation.
= HI… HI… HI! HI! HI! =
What comes next shocks the whole students who witnessing my transformation. What was starts off with a regular dude, added by the magic circle appears from out of nowhere and if you add those two up, I am now donned with the familiar armor that I've used to battle with. Everyone around me was speechless to see this kind of stuff. Might as well introduced myself to these guys…
"You're not the only one with such cool title. Back from where I come from, I have numerous titles. Some called me the Bling Rider, some even called me the two-gun salute rider. But, there's one name that makes me famous… and they called me… Kamen Rider Wizard."
"Kamen Rider… WIZARD?" Louise was surprised by the title that I have, especially the last word of the name, which leads to her eyes wide open.
(Insert full song: Last Engage from Kamen Rider Girls)
"Remember this, Guiche the Bronze! Life… is SHOW TIME!" I stated while pointing toward his direction while showing the Flame Ring at my left hand.
After my introduction was made to the public, it was a little bit silent, other than the feel of the wind that flutters my trench coat. After a few moment of silence, the very first thing that I've heard was—
"EH~~?!"
Yep, I just love the sound of that surprise tone in this mid time of crisis I'm in right now.
"A wizard?!"
"Her familiar is a wizard?!"
"And what's with his clothes?! He's different from the one than before!"
"Are those rubies on him? Is he an aristocrat?"
"T-that's impossible! You can't learn magic!" Guiche was stuttered for a bit after witnessing my sudden transformation. It is then he began to let out a slight chuckle from his tone, as if he's denying it on what he just saw earlier. "Y-yeah, that's right! Your appearance was the only thing that was changed! You're still just the same weakling!" Guiche began to calm himself down before ordering his Valkryie to attack towards me with its lance in hand.
The Valkryie began to stab me with it, only to be parried to the side. With such large opening, both of my hands began to burn up as I give it a one-two punch and finished it off with a flaming kick, pushing it back with a hole right at its chest armor. And a few moments later, as I did a back flip by running up on its armor and landed perfectly on the ground, it exploded from my concentrated flames that focused onto the place where I've landed my blow earlier.
"What the—?!" while he was still in shock, I simply flicked my wrist and stand strong from my current position.
"Hey, let me remind you to NEVER judge a book by its cover. And that's just me holding back my true strength." I mocked him, which strikes his nerve as he swings around his rose-wand in order to conjure out 2 more of his toys from the ground.
"It seems like you're getting serious. So am I!"
I quickly take out a ring from my ring holder and wear it onto my right middle finger. Then, I pressed down the lever on the belt to switch the position of the Hand Author to the right before placing my right hand onto it.
= Konekuto …Pureezu! =
With a magic circle appears on my right side, I simply extend my arm into it and I can hear one of the girls scream in surprise as she pointed out that another magic circle appears right above the short sword earlier and saw a hand just popped right out from it. Without hesitation, I grabbed it and quickly pull it out from where it is left standing, and exits the portal to reveal my WizarSwordGun that has been materialized and ready to be used at anytime.
"Much better… let's see how long you'll last with this kind of material…" I said to myself while looking at my weapon, switching it into Sword Mode.
"No way! He can also materialize a weapon?!" Louise said it again with a shocking look on her face. She might think that she had the best familiar among the rest of them all. Even the playboy had a hard time trying to understand this current flow of mine.
Both the Valkyries and I began to clash our weapons at each other. One of them tried to stab me with its lance as the other tried to slash me from different directions. Despite their attempts, I manage to parry both blows at the same time while doing some side flips in mid-air, all thanks to my swordsmanship and acrobatic skills. For some reason that I don't know, these guys aren't actually that hard to beat, compared to the Phantom's grunts that I've to put up with on rare occasions.
With one upper slash onto one of the Valkyrie's armor to leave a big gap on it, the other one tries to strike again downwards but missed by a mile . I sidestepped to let the wounded Valkryie slashed onto its own partner with a cut onto its helmet. With that in mind, I quickly make a quick step to the back and open up the palm on my WizarSwordGun to let out another cool ringtone.
= Come on a slash, shake hands! Come on a slash, shake hands! =
Much to everyone's confusion, they still can't believe the voice was coming out from my weapon. I just simply placed my left hand onto the palm of the sword and shakes hands with it to activate the finisher move.
= Fureimu~ surashu suteraiku! =
After that announcement was made, everyone was surprised to see a few magic circles appeared on my sword as it began to heat things up immediately.
= HI! HI! HI! … HI! HI! HI! =
Once the ringtone has stopped, I immediately ducked down from the double attack coming from both of the Valkyries that lunges their lances forward and use this opening that appears right in front of me by slashing it horizontally, hitting both of them at the same time, followed by a diagonal slash onto them. When both contacts were made, I simply turn around and both of his toys exploded into oblivion. At this point, Guiche was getting impatient as his masterpieces turns into piles of scrap. At the same time, the students began to cheer up for my victory over the battle. But it doesn't seem like it's over just yet.
I slowly turn around to see his angry face and decided to mock him with one thing that I knew best and I've read from certain website that I've used to see.
"U MAD, BRO?" believe me, behind this very mask, I made a troll face out of it.
"I WILL NOT ACCEPT THIS DEFEAT!" the furious Guiche said in anger and swings his rose-wand, to create 6 more of his toys.
"This is bad! If he's getting serious, there's no way Saigo's going to survive…" Louise began to feel concerned about this matter, but hey, look at the upside, she did ask for the BEST familiar and she DID get one.
"Sweet! More toys to wreck down!" I said with a smirk behind my helmet and began to head towards them while switching my weapon to gun mode.
One by one, they dashed towards me with their lance aiming at my heart, but with the speed that I currently have, I manage to parry their lance to the side before shooting a few times on their head and repeated the same process with the others. It may look like some low trick, but anything goes and I won't hold back my skills either.
"Is that all you g—"
*SLASH!*
"OWOWOW!* I winced in pain that I didn't see the incoming attack from his toys that slashes my back with it, thus they have circled around me while pointing their lance at me.
"So, what would it be? I'm still in a good mood for you to apologize to your earlier actions…" Guiche proposed the deal to me with a smirk on his face, thinking that he had me cornered.
What was the answer I was looking for as a reply? Closing the palm on my weapon before re-opens it again.
= Come on a shooting, shake hands! Come on a shooting, shake hands! =
By placing my palm once again on it—
= Fureimu~ shooting suteraiku! =
—I've locked on my weapon for the Shooting Strike and Guiche noticed on my attempt. He ordered all of his Valkryies to stab me at once in six different parts. It was a close shave that I managed to jump high from the last one which it nearly stabbed my toe. It's my turn to retaliate.
= HI! HI! HI! … HI! HI! HI! =
With my weapon on full power, I did a 360 motion in the air, shooting my targets directly on their heads before landing down right at the center.
"Boom, head shot!" that was the last words that I said while resting my gun onto my shoulders before the Valkyries explodes into scraps of bronze as Guiche was still in shock to see his toys went kaboom. "Rest in pieces…"
The next thing I knew, my WizarSwordGun was also losing its durability and turns into scraps of bronze as well, due to the material that it was used couldn't withstand the double strike. Seriously, I really need something that can hold on much longer than just a strike or two…
"Now then… time to pull down the curtain on you…" I declared as I walk towards the frightened Guiche.
"I-I…" he was lost in words while I'm closing our gaps even closer. When he regained his senses and realized HE's the one who is cornered, there's only one thing that he could say, "I give up!"
As I stopped my pace, the next thing I heard is the cheer coming from the mages who witness the whole battle right in front of them. Kirche begin to gain interest on me while Siesta-chan can't believe that I won against an aristocrat and as for Guiche? Well, he's in the slump after his defeat.
"He actually won?!" one of the boys said in surprise.
"What kind of familiar is he?" the girl that was shocked earlier about grabbing the sword earlier ponders for a bit.
"Louise really do have the best familiar after all!" another mage shouted among the crowds.
"An aristocrat… lost to a peasant?" he murmurs to himself.
"Well, so much for fun battle… but at least I can't complain about it…" I said to myself before I de-henshin back to normal.
(End of insert song)
Louise then approaches to me with a serious look on her face, which might lead us to a LONG debate after this mess…
"Saigo… what ARE you?"
"Me? I'm your hope, like I said before, Louise. And I know that you have TONS of questions that you wanted me to answer, but we can do it later…" I replied to her with a smile on my face before taking my leave from the place to head off somewhere where my feet leads me.
I got a funny feeling that there's someone who's been watching me from somewhere but I simply just ignores it as I'm still enjoying my moment of victory.
"This place is really interesting, after all… I might stick around for a while before finding my way back home…" I said to myself while looking at the Cross Ring that I held on my hand. I wonder if I should give this ring to her?