Positive reviews so far, so it's good to go for the next chapter, where we actually get to see Louise and her world for the first time!
A few notes from me though: I left out a digit in the prologue, so it should be 8500 yen, not 850. I read the subtitles wrong :P Also, that isn't Touma at the end, contrary to popular belief. Anyway, here's chapter two, so read, review, and subscribe!
- Ketchum Kid
EDIT: Okay, you learn something new every day. Now that it is established to me that Misaka can speak French...half of this chapter is blown to bits. I admittedly haven't read most of the New Testament Volumes, so I honestly did not know about that. To clear up some of the confusion, I've added a few lines. It may not make enough sense, but when a lot of people are speaking the same foreign language, isn't it hard for you to translate it?
Ketchum Kid Presents
A Familiar of Zero/A Certain Scientific Railgun Crossover
A Certain Scientific Familiar
Chapter 1: Level 5 to Level Commoner
Misaka found herself flying through a black void. As far as she could tell, it went on to no end, completely enveloping the area she was in.
"This must be the work of some high-level esper," the electromaster said to herself. "Although I've never heard of an ability like this before. Maybe it's a level four…" Before she could continue her thought, a voice rang out through the darkness.
"I, Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière, in the name of the great Five Pentagon Powers, following my fate, I summon a Familiar," the voice said. Misaka was surprised.
"Huh? Is somebody here?" she wondered. Then, she tensed up, electricity sparking from her body. "Maybe it's the person who brought me here…"
"My servant that existed somewhere in this vast universe," the voice continued. "My divine, beautiful, wise, powerful servant, heed my call; I wish from very bottom of my heart and add to my guidance and appear before me!" At those words, a bright light appeared before Misaka, growing in size until it was larger than she was. Then, it appeared to Misaka that the portal was either moving towards her, or she was moving towards it. In the darkness, she couldn't tell.
"Aw crap!" she exclaimed. "I don't want to stay here, but I don't want to go into a random portal again!" She did not have a choice in the matter, as she soon found herself going through the portal.
It took a long time, at least in her mind, to wake up and be outside of the portal. She was staring up into the blue sky. She felt the soft brushing of grass on her back, and the gentle push of a breeze blew over her face.
'That's odd,' she thought. 'I thought I was walking through Academy City, and then I was sucked into this portal…' Her eyes suddenly went wide open. 'The portal!' She sat up, and looked around. Gone were the tall buildings and crowded sidewalks of Academy City. There were still tall structures, but they were in the form of a grey stone wall, and a few grey stone turrets in the distance to all sides of her. There were still crowds, but these crowds were of much smaller and uniform stature. The people, who all appeared to be students of high-school age, wore variations on the same outfit. The guys wore a white collared shirt, dark blue pants, and a blue cape, while girls wore a white collared shirt, a blue skirt with long blue tights, and a blue cape. Behind the crowd, Misaka could see that there were some animals, but was unable to make out any specifics.
"What is this?" the brunette wondered. "That's not a uniform Familiar to Academy City. Maybe it's a field trip?" It was then Misaka noticed the girl standing in front of her. She had long, wavy hip-length pink hair, with large, Western-like pink eyes. Looking at her, the girl was a few centimeters shorter than Misaka, and came up to her forehead. In her right hand was a thin wooden stick.
"Qui êtes-vous?" the girl asked. Misaka was confused. She did not know what language that this girl was speaking.
"…Huh…?" she asked, confused.
"Mon nom est Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière," the girl said, motioning her hand to herself. Then, she pointed a finger at Misaka. "Qui êtes-vous?" The hand gestures indicated to Misaka that this girl, Louise, was trying to know who she was. Admittedly, the language sounded similar, but not quite, French, a language Misaka had learned at Tokiwadai; however, that would not be sufficient for communication, since some words did not properly translate. Since there was a language barrier, hand gestures were to be the bridge for this exchange.
"B...Bonjour...mon nom est Makoto Misaka," the Railgun answered, doing the same hand gestures. "I am a Level 5 Esper from Tokawadi Academy in Academy City."
"Où êtes-vous, civil?" Louise asked. Misaka tilted her head, not comprehending the question.
"Louise, qu'est-ce que vous pensez appeler un roturier avec 'Summon Servant'?" someone called from the crowd. This aroused a mocking laughter, its target being the Louise girl. The pinkette turned towards the voice.
"J...J'ai fait une petite erreur!" Louise shouted at the person.
"Qu'est-ce que l'erreur que tu racontes?" another person called out. "Rien d'inhabituel s'est passé!"
"Bien sûr!" a girl shouted in laughter. "Après tout, elle est Louise la Zero!" The laughter arose again. With all these words being thrown around, Misaka was finding it nearly impossible to translate, but the brunette began to understand the situation. With a moniker of 'Zero,' it appeared that Louise was inept at something in this society that was considered to be commonplace. Because of this, she was ostracized and made fun up. Whatever Louise had done that related to Misaka, she had failed as well.
It reminded her of Saten's situation as a Level 0, and the stereotype that is associated with it.
It disgusted her.
"Enough!" she yelled, as she stood up off the ground. The crowd stopped laughing, and focused onto her. "I know you probably do not understand me, but there is no right for you to make fun of Louise just because she can't succeed. Everyone has a failure at some point in their lives, but they can work on such failures, and eventually pass them. Even those that start out at Level 0 can become a Level 5 with hard work!" There was stunned silence for a few moments. However, the laughter soon returned. "Huh?"
"Comment appropriée!" a person in the crowd shouted. "Le Zero convoque un citoyen ordinaire qui a la même morsure comme elle le fait!" Misaka frowned, her anger rising to dangerous levels.
"Maybe this calls for something more in their language…" she muttered. "Or maybe something understood in many languages..." Louise was about to say something to Misaka, but she stopped short of speaking. The pinkette watched as a spark of electricity shot from the brunette's hair, dissipating into the air.
"Quelle le…" she said, in a soft, stunned voice. At that moment, a middle-aged man, wearing a long black robe and carrying a large wooden staff, appeared out of the crowd.
"Louise, ont plus de contrôle sur les actions de votre familier," he said. Louise and Misaka both calmed down as the man came towards them, and the laughter died down.
'This must be a professor here,' thought Misaka. 'Or at least, a chaperon.' Louise turned to the professor.
"Oh, M. Colbert! Je vais essayer d'appeler à nouveau, s'il vous plaît!" The professor – whose last name was apparently Colbert – shook his head.
"Je ne peux pas permettre que, Miss Vallière," he replied. Louise looked shocked.
"P-pourquoi pas?" she asked.
"Il est strictement interdit," the black robed man explained. "Quand vous êtes promu à un étudiant en deuxième année, vous aurez besoin d'un appel familier, qui est ce que vous venez de faire. Votre spécialité élémentaire est décidé par le familier qui vous appelle. Elle vous permet de procéder à des cours appropriés pour cet élément. Vous ne pouvez pas changer le familier une fois que vous avez appelé parce que le 'Springtime Familiar Summoning' un rite sacré. Que vous le vouliez ou non, vous n'avez pas le choix, mais de le prendre."
'I barely understand anything about this conversation,' Misaka thought, placing her hand on her head in frustration. 'Although I do understand the word Summoning. Hasn't a certain someone said something about that before…?'
"Mais ... je ne l'ai jamais avoir entendu un familier! Ordinaire comme!" Louise shouted at Colbert. "Et une fille pas moins!" The laughter in the crowd resumed, and did not stop, even after a glare at the audience by Louise. Colbert held his staff up, and said something to quiet the other students.
"C'est une tradition, Miss Vallière,"he continued. "Je ne peux pas tolérer aucune exception." He pointed at Misaka. "C'est peut-être un citoyen ordinaire, mais tant qu'elle a été appelée par vous, il devrait être votre familier. Jamais dans l'histoire l'homme a appelé l'homme comme un familier, mais le 'Springtime Familiar Summoning' a préséance sur toute règle. En otherwords, il n'y a pas d'autre solution, elle est d'être votre familier." Louise's face fell.
"Vous plaisantez ..." she muttered. The pinkette turned to face Misaka, gaining the Electromaster's full attention. "hé."
"Hmn?" Misaka replied.
"Vous devez vous considérer comme chanceux," Louise told her. "Normalement, vous iriez toute votre vie sans un noble de faire cela pour vous." The pinkette closed her eyes, and took out a brown wooden stick from her pocket. "Mon nom est Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière. Pentagone des Cinq pouvoirs élémentaires, bénis cette humble être et lui faire mon familier." She chanted this over and over several times, and then touched Misaka's forehead with the stick. The Electromaster was partially amused, and partially confused.
"What's going on?" she wondered aloud. "This is like some sort of magical fairy tale acting." Louise frowned
"Restez encore," the pinkette told her. She then placed both of her hands on Misaka's shoulders, and drew close. Warning bells went off in the brunette's mind, and early memories of her time rooming with Kuroko flooded back to the forefront.
"H…hey!" she yelped, turning red in the face. "I-I'm not into that stuff…a-a-and you just met-!" She tried to struggle away.
"Ah, je vous ai dit de rester encore!" Lousie shouted in frustration. She grabbed Misaka's face, and drew it level to hers. The sudden jerk startled Misaka, and let her guard down.
Watching Louise close her eyes, Misaka was forced into a kiss with the girl.
Louise blushed as the kiss was held out for several seconds. She finally released the kiss. "C'est fait." The pinkette opened her eyes, and looked at Misaka. "Eh?" The brunette was red as a tomato, and her anger levels rose to a new high.
"Not again…" she muttered, clenching her fist. "First I was tricked by Kuroko, and n-now by this idiot?!"
"Ce n'était pas comme je voulais t'embrasser, idiot!" Louise said to her, hints of annoyance in her voice. To this, Misaka brought her fist down on the pinkette's head. "Ow!"
"And another thing, don't call me an idiot, 'idiot!'" the Electromaster continued. "I was the one who was involuntarily kissed, not you!" Despite the laughter at Louise and the fighting between the two involved parties, Colbert was applauding.
"Félicitations, Louise!" the man said happily. "Vous avez échoué de nombreux sorts de base de nombreuses fois, mais vous avez réussi à réussir à la fois 'Summon Servant' et 'Contract Servant' dans un essai!" Misaka picked up on more key words.
"'Servant?' 'Contract?'" The brunette was worried about being associated with words that, when used with her name, would make Kuroko howl in excitement. "Hey, what is all this about?" However, Louise was yelling at someone in the crowd, and Colbert was hopelessly trying to mediate the conflict. "I've got a bad feeling about this…" As she said this, her right hand began to burn up. "Aaah!" Misaka grabbed her hand, and began gritting her teeth. "What are you people doing to me?!" Louise turned around, seeming to only slightly care for her.
"Il sera bientôt terminé, attendez," she said. "Les Runes familiers sont inscrits." As she said this, the burning sensation on Misaka's hand stopped. Misaka looked at her right hand, and found that there was now a written description on her hand.
"Hmmm ... Ce sont des runes très inhabituelles," Colbert said, looking intently at Misaka. The brunette jumped back. Everything was just too much for her at the moment. She looked around at the students, all dressed in the same outfits. Finally getting a good look at the animals that were around them, Misaka noticed several strange creatures that were accompanying some of the students, including a red lizard that was breathing fire and a blue dragon-like creature. These were things that Misaka had never seen before.
"Alright, answer me now!" she ordered. "Who are you people, and where am I? How far is it to Academy City? Who do you answer to?..." These questions went unanswered, as neither side could understand the other. Louise was getting a headache from it.
"Mon Dieu, il ne cesse de faire du bruit!" she shouted, clutching her head.
"Peut-être que vous utilisez la dernière le silence le sort taugh pour vous?" Colbert asked, looking at Louise.
"Bonne idée!"she replied. She brought her wooden stick out again, and pointed it at Misaka, who was still asking questions. "Voyons voir... Ansul, Bel, An; Par mes mots, être ordonné de garder le silence!"
"…and furthermore, are you enemies of Judge-!"
!BOOM! Misaka became engulfed in an explosion, with thick black smoke surrounding her. "KEH! KOUGH!" The smoke quickly dissipated, and Misaka glared once again at Louise. "What's the big idea, idiot? First you kiss me, and now you blow me up?!" Louise and Colbert both blinked.
"Huh?" Louise said, staring at Misaka.
"I didn't want to hurt you because I cannot speak the same language as you do, but you're giving me no choice!" She got in a fighting stance.
"I can understand you," Louise said to Misaka, speaking perfectly in the same language as the brunette. Misaka was about to reach into her pocket for an arcade token, but stopped mid-action.
"Hold on," she said, in surprise. "Did you say 'I can understand you'?" Louise nodded.
"It changed into a Translation Spell?" Colbert wondered in surprise.
"Say something," Louise asked, although it was more of a command than a request.
"If you know Japanese, why didn't you speak in Japanese in the beginning?" Misaka asked. Louise tilted her head in confusion.
"What is 'Japonese'?" she wondered. The pinkette then groaned. "It was supposed to be a Silence Spell, and I messed up again." The crowd chuckled again.
"Still, at least now we can communicate with your Familiar now," Colbert stated, "so we have a positive result." The strangely-clad man turned to Misaka. "Young lady, what is your name?"
"Me?" the brunette answered. "I am Misaka Mikoto, of Tokiwadi Girl's Academy." Colbert's face was that of confusion.
"Tokiwadai?" he repeated. "I've never heard of it before. What country is it located in?"
"The City-State of Academy City, which is located in Japan," the Railgun stated.
"Never heard of it," Louise said. "It must be in some backwoods area like Germania."
"As much as I'd like to retort back at that, I can say I've never heard of that location in my country before," a dark-skinned woman shouted from the crowd. Confirming this was Misaka's confused look on her face.
"Germania? Don't you mean Germany?" she said. "And doesn't this qualify as backwoods? You're out in the middle of nowhere." Colbert furrowed his brow. It seemed that there were some differences between the world views of Misaka and those of everyone else in the area.
"Hmmm…" he pondered. "I think I need to speak with Headmaster Osmond about this. In the meantime, everyone, please return to your dormitories for the rest of the day. Normal classes will start tomorrow." Colbert walked away from the two girls, and towards the central building of the school grounds. Louise looked at Misaka.
"You, Commoner. Follow me," she said. Louise began walking away from the now-dispersing crowd of students.
"H-Hey!" Misaka exclaimed, calling out to the pinkette. "Don't you owe me an explanation as to where I am and such?" Louise stopped, and turned back to the brunette.
"It's going to be evening soon," she told her. "You don't want to sleep outside in the cold, do you?" Misaka frowned. Going with Louise – presumably to her room – was not that desirable. However, sleeping out in the cold without any provisions was more terrifying to the Railgun.
"Alright," she said reluctantly. "But I need an explanation for everything that's going on once we're inside!" The brunette followed her newfound acquaintance towards one of the towers. Just then, a flurry of shadows passed overhead. Misaka looked up at the sky, and was astonished to see that it was the entirety of the crowd, flying overhead with nothing to suggest that it would be possible. "Woah!"
"A Commoner like you is perfect as her familiar!" one of them shouted, as she noticed Misaka's gaze.
"You'd better join Zero in her walk back!" a boy added, and the two laughed. Within seconds, the shadows of the crowd have disappeared, leaving behind for Misaka another contradiction. In the sky, she could see the faint outline of not one, but two moons.
"That can't be right…" she murmured. She then thought for a moment. 'Strange language, these 'Spells,' Strange outfits, and now multiple moons. Could it be that that portal was not an esper's power, but a form of magic, like what that idiot and that nun deal with on an everyday occurrence?' The people who had flown away, likely mages, the foreign words that they were using, and the strange creatures and objects surrounding them began to connect together in her mind. 'And not only that, but is this not Earth at all, but some completely different world?'
"Are you coming, Commoner?" Louise called out. "Or do you want to sleep outside like all of the other Familiars?"
"Ah, hold on!" the brunette stated, and hurried off after her into the tower.
The Headmaster of the academy was an old man, clad with a long black robe and long white hair that covered his face with a flowing mustache and beard. At a nearby desk, a woman, his secretary, was signing papers with a white quill pen. She wore a dark blue hoodless woman's robe and a mahogany colored cape. Her green hair was tied up into a mid-length ponytail with a yellow band.
Headmaster Osmond let out a loud sigh of relief, and looked outside towards the setting sun. "Looks like we're off to another safe start this year, Miss Longueville. Why, even the third-born of the Vallière Family did not completely obliterate everyone in the Summon Servant Ritual, and actually seems to have summoned a Familiar quite successfully." He took out a white pipe, and took a smoke out of it. "As Headmaster of the Tristainian Academy of Magic, I can wish for nothing less; therefore, I am hap-oh?" His pipe began levitating out of his hand, and floated to the desk of his secretary. "Oh dear…" Osmond stood up from his desk, and turned to his secretary's desk.
"Taking care of your health is part of the job of a secretary, Old Osmond," said Longueville, barely even looking up from her task. Osmond picked up his wooden staff, and walked over to her desk.
"Are you really going to take away one of my few pleasures that I have in my aging years, Miss Longueville?" he pleaded. Longueville sighed.
"If you want to have more years to enjoy such pleasures, you should cut back on your tobacco usage," Longueville warned. Osmond walked behind the secretary, and placed his hand on her backside. "Please stop touching my hip. And don't act like you have dementia, since you've tried that already." Osmond quickly removed his hand, and looked away bashfully.
"A-Ah, I was just making sure you'd be ready for when you get married!" the old headmaster admitted. "You don't think that a guy would like you if your waist is too big, do you?" Longueville coughed, knocking her glasses off of her face.
"Do you want me to report you to the royal palace?!" she said to him, picking her glasses off the desk and placing them back on her face. "I can get you on harassment, you know." Osmond sweatdropped.
"Ah, I'm sorry, Longueville," Osmond stated. "A moment of weakness, is all." Longueville rolled her eyes.
"Sure it was," she said. At that moment, the door opened. Professor Colbert walked in.
"Pardon my intrusion, Old Osmond," he stated, "but I wanted to give an update on the Summon Servant ceremony for the second-year students." Osmond walked back to his desk, and sat down.
"Yes, I heard it was a success," he said. "Even the third daughter of the Vallière family summoned a Familiar." Hearing the Vallière name caused Colbert to frown.
"Actually, that is why I came here," the professor told Osmond. "Miss Vallière's Familiar is a Commoner girl." Both Osmond and Longueville gasped slightly.
"A girl?" Osmond repeated.
"I can't think of a previous case where someone had summoned a Commoner as a Familiar," Longueville stated. Osmond frowned.
"Miss Longueville, I must apologize, but I must ask you to step outside for a moment," he asked her. "I must have a private word with Professor Colbert regarding this matter." Longueville bowed her head.
"I understand," she stated. The young woman walked out of the headmaster's office, closing the door behind her as she did.
"Is something the matter, sir?" Colbert asked. Osmond stood up, and walked over to a bookshelf. He took out an old, dusty book, which probably had not been read in a very long time.
"It is true what Miss Longueville said," Osmond stated. "There is no case of a peasant being summoned by a noble during the Summon Servant ritual, but that is only in recent history. There has been a case of this happening before, and it is one almost everyone should be Familiar with." He flipped through the pages of the book, until he was about halfway through it. "Ah, here it is. Tell me, do the runes in this drawing look Familiar to you?" Osmond showed the book to Colbert. In the top left corner of the page was a rune carving. Colbert gasped.
"That…that looks very similar to the rune carvings on Miss Vallière's Familiar!" he exclaimed. "But Sir, how could you…" Osmond looked at Colbert, with a serious look on his face.
"These are supposedly the rune carvings of the Founder Brimir's Familiar, Sasha," Osmond stated. "Sasha, as you know, was an elf, and as a humanoid creature, is not normally summoned under the four common elements of magic." Osmond placed the book back on the shelf. "That Familiar of hers…not only is it special, but having her alone makes Miss Vallière among a legendary few mages in our history. What we are now dealing with, Mr. Colbert, is something that is not to be discussed outside of this room, and that is to be discussed with myself only. I fear the balance of the world has suddenly fallen onto the shoulders of this Academy, and onto those two girls."
"They're so big…" Misaka stated. Louise huffed.
"Kirche's big mounds?" she said coldly. Misaka looked at the pinkette with a curious looks.
"What are you talking about?" she asked. "And who's this Kirche?"
"Nothing," Louise answered. "Just a person who you're very likely to meet soon." Misaka shrugged, and turned back, looking out the window in Louise's room towards the twin moons that were outside. In the night sky, both moons were clearly visible. The larger moon had a blue-green glow, while the smaller moon had a red glow reminiscent to a harvest moon.
"I was talking about your two moons," the brunette explained. "They're not like the one moon that we have back home." Since the two had returned from the Academy Grounds, Misaka had explained her predicament to her unwilling partner, including the differences between their worlds. Louise was finding it hard to believe that what the brunette was saying was factual.
"Is that true?" Louise asked. "You only have one moon?" Misaka nodded.
"And it's much smaller than the two moons that you have," she explained. Louise rubbed her temples. Misaka's explanation of Earth had completely worn her out.
"I don't believe it," the pinkette said.
"Hey, neither can I," the brunette countered. "One minute I was walking out of an alleyway onto the street, and the next, I was sucked into a portal and found myself here." Louise did not seem to take notice at this statement.
"Next you're going to tell me that there's no magic where you come from, Commoner," she said in passing.
"Hey, who's a Commoner?" Misaka asked, raising her voice. "You don't get into Tokiwadi Academy by being common!"
"Well, you are a Familiar, after all," Louise explained. "There's no way a noble would become bound to another noble like myself." Misaka gritted her teeth, but said nothing. "Look, do you really not know about this world?"
"Of course not," the brunette answered. "Why else would I be so…so utterly confounded when all of you flew away like you had some sort of ability that allowed it?" Louise groaned.
"I wish I could send you back," she admitted. "Really, I would love to just put you back where you came from, and summon a proper Familiar. However, that's impossible now." Misaka seemed to lose her breath.
"What do you mean?" she asked.
"You've been bound to me under contract as my Familiar," Lousie explained. "It doesn't matter if you come from the countryside or a completely different world like you claim to be from; once the bond is established, it can't be undone until death." Misaka looked at her right hand, and looked at the writing that had been burned into her skin. "Those runes are proof of her contract."
"You've gotta be kidding me…" the brunette groaned, burying her hands in her face. "What about my friends…my family…?" Her thoughts turned to everyone she knew in Academy City. Kuroko, Saten, Uriharu, the Misaka Sisters, Mitsuko, Misaki, even a certain boy and his religious sidekick…were they all beyond her reach? Was she no longer able to see them again…ever?
No. She would find a way back. They would find a way to get to her. If there was anything her past experiences had told her, it was that the impossible was always a possibility. Her friends would be looking for her, and she would be looking for them. It would just have to be a little while.
She turned to look at Louise. "Well, looks like I'll be your Familiar for the time being." The pinkette frowned.
"Come again?" she asked. "It should be, 'Is there something you wish to address, master?'" She raised her finger as she said this, trying to assert dominance over her taller familiar.
"I didn't know there was a code of conduct with Familiars," Misaka stated.
"Well there is," the student said, "so listen well. First, a Familiar grants its master enhancements in vision and hearing. What you can see, I can see…except for some reason, I can't see anything. It doesn't seem to work with you."
"Not that it matters," Misaka said nonchalantly. "What else is there?"
"A Familiar will retrieve items such as reagents that its master desires," Louise stated. She noticed that Misaka had a blank expression on her face. "...You don't know what those are, do you?"
"Not a clue," she answered.
"It's like sulfur or moss," the pinkette explained. "They're used as catalysts for spells. But considering that I'm hopeless at magic, and you don't know what to look for, that's out of the question too. Finally…" Her voice began to grow in irritation. "…a Familiar is supposed to protect its master from any and all enemies! It is a duty of the highest importance, and yet even with a pitchfork you wouldn't be able to win a fight against a raven!"
"Hey, I'm not as useless as you think!" Misaka retorted. "I can -!" She paused, looking at her hand. 'Wait, I don't think that it would be best to tell Louise about my electromaster abilities yet. If this world knows about them, it may cause trouble for these people. For now, it's better if fewer people knew about my abilities for the time being.'
"You can what?" Louise asked. "What were you going to say?"
"Oh, ah, I can…I can play the violin! And I have experience as a maid!" Misaka put on a big grin, which Louise only facefaulted at.
"In other words, you're a lowly human," the noble groaned. "You have no magical powers whatsoever, so even the simplest of magical beasts would take you down." Misaka gritted her teeth in frustration. "Therefore, I will only give you simple tasks I know you can perform with the upmost perfection; laundry, cleaning, and other miscellaneous tasks."
"And why can't you do it yourself?!" Misaka asked, surprised that these otherwise menial tasks were being placed onto her. "Can't you just throw them into a washing machine or something?"
"What's one of those?" Louise asked. She then began to yawn. "Ah, all this talking has made me sleepy." The pinkette pointed to the ground, where a pile of straw was pressed up against the wall. "Your bed is there."
"I'm not a cat or dog, you know," the brunette said back.
"There's only one bed," Louise explained. "And you can't sleep anywhere else." She threw the brunette a blanket. "Be lucky that I'm being this generous to you." Misaka was becoming more and more irritated with every sentence that Louise spouted out.
"Are all of you nobles this…?" She trailed as Louise began taking her blouse off in full view of Misaka. The Railgun began to blush wildly. "W-W-Why are you taking off your clothes?!"
"I'm going to bed, so I'm changing into my nightgown," Louise said, with no hint of concern. "Why?" As the pinkette took off her blouse, Misaka turned around.
"D-Do it in private! Not where I can watch you!" the brunette blurted out. "Don't you have some modesty?!" Louise shrugged.
"It's not awkward at all," she stated. "You're my Familiar, so even if you were a guy, I wouldn't have to worry about anything. But I guess I'll grant you this exception once." Louise turned around, facing away from Misaka, and continued changing into her nightwear.
"Really, this girl is pissing me off…!" muttered Misaka. Electricity began to course through her hair, crackling as it became visible for a moment. Louise finished putting her blouse on, and heard the electricity. She was facing away from Misaka, however, so she could not see the electricity.
"Biri-Biri?" Louise wondered, repeating the sound that she heard. "What's that noise?" It was like a switch was thrown in Misaka's head. The brunette snapped, and faced Louise, who still had yet to turn around.
"Don't you call me 'Biri-Biri' too!-!" the brunette shouted. The Railgun unleashed an electrical blast onto Louise. Caught off-guard, the pinkette was not able to brace herself for the blast.
"GYAAAHH!-!" she cried. The blast was too much for her to handle, and the pinkette lost consciousness, slumping to the ground. She was still breathing, but she was out cold.
"Ah, whoops…" Misaka was suddenly regretting what she had done. "This probably isn't going to go over well with her when she comes too…" Outside in the hallway, a few sets of footsteps stopped at the door.
"Louise? Are you alright?" a feminine voice asked. Misaka nearly jumped in surprise.
"Ah, s-she's alright!" the Railgun called out. "She…she just stubbed her toe! There's nothing to worry about!" After a few seconds, the footsteps returned, this time getting softer as they went away from the door. Misaka sighed. "Phew, that was close…."
Thus ended Misaka Mikoto's first night as a Familiar in a strange and magical place, where science seemed to be the exception, and not the norm.
To be Continued...