As the sun shone brightly on Austri Plaza, Saito was trembling in excitement at the work of art in front of him. The product of both halves of Gandalfr... It was truly a work of art! Saito just couldn't contain himself.
"Hah... Shiver my palpitation's beat. Throb, my heart of homesickness. Shiver more and more, bless my genius... The angel said, said it here... I'm glad I'm alive!"
Saito yanked some of the grass from the ground, yelling loudly, "I'M THE GREAAAATEST!" He then pointed to the girl in front of him. "Siesta is also the GREAAAATEST!"
With a confused look on his face, Kai slightly nudged Siesta. "Weird guy."
Siesta nodded. Saito was acting extremely strange. "B-But, these clothes..."
Saito jumped straight at her. "W-What is it?! Is something wrong? Did Kai mess up?!"
Kai's jaw dropped. "Screw you man! I tried my best!"
Siesta shook her head. "N-No... I mean, this is a military uniform, right? Even if I wear this, it won't look good..."
"Don't say something so stupid!" Saito seemed really intimidating like that.
"I-In this WORLD! That is absolutely an outfit for the military! BUUUUT! In my WORLD! Girls our age wear that and go to school!"
Pinching the bridge of his nose, Kai muttered, "I can't deal with this guy..." He soon flew off.
Saito screamed out, "It's called a sailor uniform in my world!"
Last night, Saito had come to her and showed off the sailor uniform with a stiff expression. When Saito told her that he'd modify the outfit for her, she had thought that he had lost his mind.
Still, Siesta felt overjoyed that Saito bought clothes for her.
"At first, I thought Saito went crazy, but..." Siesta nodded and turned around to face Saito seriously. "What should I do to please you even more?"
Saito, once more, looked at Siesta from top to bottom. The top half was almost exactly the same as other sailor uniforms, but he had the area around the stomach shortened. Below that, was the skirt. He shouldn't have done it, but he stole one from Louise, and forced Kai to modify it to fit Siesta perfectly. Though, he had also forced Kai to make it shorter than what it should have been. Onto the next thing, the socks. He had carefully chosen deep blue socks based on his own preferences. Finally, the shoes... They were the high-laced boots that Siesta always wore.
Everything about this outfit was carefully coordinated by Saito's genius and Kai's odd techniques.
"Tell me! Saito! What should I do to get closer to your home?"
Saito thought long and hard. It was as if smoke was pouring out of his ears from how hard he was thinking.
Then, he could hear the voice of his heart. There's only one thing.
Right. It can only be that... Only that...
While looking down, Saito squeezed out, "Spin around."
"Eh?"
"Round and round, turn around. Then after that, say 'Sorry to keep you waiting!' cheerfully."
Siesta backed up a little. Saito was started to act like the men that her mother told her not to get close to... Still, Siesta wanted to please him.
"Y-Yes..." Siesta nodded and spun around. Her scarf and skirt lightly flew up into the air.
"S-Sorry to keep you waiting..."
"WRONG!"
"Eek!"
"At the end, you raise a finger and go 'ne'. Cheerfully. One more time."
Nodding, Siesta did what Saito had requested.
Seeing that, Saito started to shed tears. "Thank you for y-your bravery."
Siesta, is this okay? Is it truly right? The more composed part of Siesta started to question things, but she shut that part of her mind off.
Everyone has hobbies and preferences that they don't tell others. Saito is no exception. That's all! Siesta smiled brightly.
"What should I do next?"
"Um, next is..."
Saito crossed his arms, and started to wonder what exactly he should do next when two boys awkwardly walked over to them.
It was Guiche and Malicorne. An unusual duo. It seemed the two had been staring at Siesta from some distance.
"That is... what? What are those clothes?!"
For some reason, Guiche was furious while looking like he was going to cry. Malicorne, too, pointed to Siesta while trembling.
"O-Outrageous! Absolutely outrageous! Isn't that right?! Guiche!"
"Aah, this! I've never seen such an outrageous outfit before! It-it-it!"
"It directly attacks the br-br-brain!"
The two's eyes glittered, almost in a daze, and stared at Siesta. Ahn, the headache is just getting worse. Siesta felt miserable, but those two were nobles. Because she had to, Siesta forcibly smiled.
That smile and sailor uniform seemed to have completely damaged Malicorne and Guiche, since they started to draw near her. Siesta, sensing danger, said "Well, I'm going back to work!" and ran away.
"How lovely..." Guiche murmured in a dreaming tone as he watched her run off.
"Absolutely..." Malicorne also murmured, spellbound.
"What did you come here for?!"
When Saito yelled, the two finally came back to their senses. Then, Guiche gripped Saito's shoulders.
"H-Hey, you. Where did you buy that outfit?"
"What do you plan to do with that information?"
Guiche said with an embarrassed smile, "Th-there is a person I want to give the outfit to as a present."
"The Princess?"
"Idiot! Too much! That's too much! Her Majesty the Princess is now Her Majesty the Queen! Aah, she has gone to a high place where I cannot reach... It was better when she was a princess, but now as the queen..."
What high place? You never had a chance since the beginning. Saito decided to keep quiet.
"There, I finally remembered. That person who was always beside me, constantly looking at me with her lovely eyes... That beautiful blonde hair. That sweet, perfume-like smile..."
Ah, his Ex.
"Monmon?"
"Not Monmon! It's Montmorency!"
"I see. You want to be close to her again. You know, you really don't have any integrity."
"I don't want you to lecture me. Now then, tell me. Where is that outfit sold?"
"Hmph. Like you could ever understand art." Saito spat out. He didn't want someone like Guiche dishonoring his birthplace's memories.
"It can't be helped. I will not only report today's events but also ask Louise as well."
Those were most certainly magic words. If she found out about the skirt... He'd be dead on the spot.
"I still have two more. Use them as you please."
"But still, just what is that outfit? I think I've seen that somewhere before... Don't sailors wear these clothes? For, hmm, a girl to wear it and give off such charms! How mysterious."
Folding his arms together, Saito puffed up his chest with pride.
"Of course. It had some of my personal modifications!"
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In the nearby courtyard of Vestri, Kai was jumping around all over the place while throwing punches. His eyes were closed as he focused hard on exactly how he was attacking the air.
After kicking hard enough to cause a small vacuum in the air, Kai jumped back and cupped his hands. Of course, he didn't charge up an attack, but he mimicked the movements as if he were truly attacking someone.
Rushing forward, Kai began to throw numerous jabs and kicks at the imaginary foe in front of him. After finishing the small assault, he opened his eyes and looked at his fists with a dissatisfied look.
You don't need me to tell you, do you?
Nah, I got it... My body isn't responding to what I want to do as fast as I want it to.
And do you understand how to fix it?
Practice. I need to have it at a point where it's practically muscle memory.
That's right.
Before Kai could raise his fists to continue, he felt a few people. Turning around, he saw Saito, along with Guiche and Malicorne. Odd grouping.
"Yo, what's up Saito?" Walking toward the group, Kai noticed a few details. Malicorne and Guiche were shuffling around a little awkwardly. In front of them, Saito had his hands behind his back.
"We need some of your expertise." Saito pulled his hands from his back, showing off the sailor uniforms.
Seeing the uniforms, Kai let out a groan. "You owe me one."
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That night...
Montmorency, prideful of her long, curly golden hair and vivid blue eyes, was mixing a potion in her room. Leaning on a chair, she was engrossed in mixing a secret potion inside a pot with a wooden spoon.
Montmorency the "Fragrance", a mage of the water element, had a hobby of... in its simplest name, potion making. And just like her second name suggested, her specialty was perfume making. The perfumes she made were known for the uniquely lovely fragrance they emitted, and she was extremely popular with the ladies and town girls.
Tonight, Montmorency was tirelessly creating a certain potion
It wasn't just any potion. It was quite forbidden. By law, it was forbidden to be created or used, and the punishment was quite some time in prison.
Montmorency sold the perfumes she made in the town and slowly saved up money. And then, today, she used all the money that she had saved up and obtained the recipe for the forbidden potion, as well as the high-priced secret medicine needed for the mixing, at a dark magic store. Ambitions crushed her morals. Getting fed up over making normal potions, Montmorency felt like creating something forbidden despite knowing that an enormous fine would be imposed on her if she was discovered.
Along with the mashed-up fragrant wood, dragon sulfur, and mandragora, at last, to pour in the essential secret medicine... the liquid that she had paid a large amount of money to obtain, she grabbed the small bottle beside her.
Just a small quantity... For just this little amount of liquid stored in the perfume bottle, Montmorency used up pretty much all of the money she had saved up. 700 in ecu gold coins. That amount would let a commoner live comfortably for about six years.
When she tilted the small bottle to the pot, being careful not to spill anything...
Someone knocked on the door, causing Montmorency to leap up.
"At a time like this...? W-Who could it possibly be?"
She placed the ingredients and utensils that were on the desk inside the drawer. After that, she headed towards the door while combing her hair upwards.
"Who is it?"
"It's me! Guiche! Your eternal servant! Open this door for me!"
"Eternal servant my arse," Montmorency muttered. She knew about his unfaithful nature quite well. When they walked together in the town, he would get distracted and look restlessly around at the beautiful women. When they drank wine at a bar, he would make a move on the waitress whenever she left her seat for a bit. Finally, he would forget about a date promise and go pick flowers for a girl somewhere else. It was quite annoying to hear him say 'eternal'.
Montmorency spoke in an irritated voice.
"Why are you here? I already broke up with you."
"I don't think like that at all. But if you think that way, then it is my fault... After all, see, I love beautiful things. In other words, I am a servant to beauty... As you already know, art... That's right, art! I'm too weak against beautiful things..."
You love art? For someone with bad taste, you sure can say things. She thought. The color of the shirt he wore for dates was gingira violet, and she got a headache the time he came wearing a red and green scarf.
"But I've made sure that I will no longer accept any art except you. After all, you seem to be the most art-like. Um, like your blond hair."
Are you an idiot?
"Go away. I am busy."
When Montmorency said that coldly, silence fell for a while. After that, Guiche's crying could be heard throughout the entire corridor.
"I understand... Being told like that, I can only perish on this spot. If I'm hated by you, who I love, so badly, then there is no worth at all in life."
"Do what you want."
Men like Guiche couldn't die just because they were rejected. Montmorency kept up her indifferent attitude.
"Now then, I want to, at least... on the door of the room you live in, I will carve proof that I have lived... that I have loved you."
"Wh-what are you doing?! Stop that!"
The sound of something hard could be heard scratching on the door.
"The man who sacrificed himself for love, Guiche de Gramont. Destroyed by eternal love, he dies here... There."
"Don't do that! Geez!"
Montmorency opened the door. Guiche was standing there with a full smile on his face.
"Montmorency! I love you! I really love you! I love you! I love you!"
And then, he embraced her tightly. Montmorency was enthralled for a moment. Guiche continuously said, "I love you". It was because of his lack of vocabulary, but no matter how many times he said that she didn't feel bad.
Then, Guiche handed the bundle he was holding to Montmorency.
"...What is this?"
"Open it up. It is a present for you."
Montmorency opened up the bundle. It was the sailor uniform. Saito had made Kai resize one of the uniforms to fit Montmorency. Before Kai could say he couldn't because he didn't know Montmorency's size, Guiche was quick to the rescue. Guiche always memorized the sizes of the girls he got along with.
"What a strange outfit..."
Montmorency raised her eyebrows.
"How about you wear it? It will definitely fit you. Your purity will be amplified manyfold. Come on. Hurry. What, I'm facing in another direction."
Facing backward, Guiche started to bite his nails restlessly. Seeing the inevitable, Montmorency quickly put on the entire uniform. She noticed that the skirt was a little off, as if it was someone else's that had been redone to fit her.
"I'm done."
Turning around, Guiche's face brightened energetically.
"Aah, Montmorency~ You really are pure... My cute Montmorency~..."
While muttering that, Guiche tried to kiss her. Right away, Montmorency put her hand on his face to keep him away.
"Monmon..." Guiche's happy grin turned to a sad frown.
"Don't misunderstand. I opened the door to my room, but I didn't open this door. I haven't decided to make up with you yet. Also, who are you calling Monmon?"
With just that, Guiche was happy. There was still some hope left.
"My Montmorency~! You feel like considering it, I see!"
"If you understand, then leave! I was in the middle of something!"
Saying "Yes, yes, of course I'll leave. If you say so, I'll leave any time." Guiche left the room hopping.
Montmorency looked at herself in the mirror.
"What is this... There's no way I could wear something so embarrassingly short!"
Unintentionally, her face reddened. Though looking carefully, this outfit was quite cute. Guiche had purposely prepared this outfit for her sake.
Umumumu...
Well, yeah, being told "I love you" like that, she was in a pretty good mood. They were going out originally, so she didn't hate him.
"What to do? Forgive him?"
But, she remembered the way Guiche cheated on her in the past.
Even if I go out with him again, won't everything just repeat all over again? She was fed up with getting worried over his cheating.
What should I do? While she was thinking that, she remembered the potion she had been mixing. She opened the drawer. She saw the secret medicine inside the perfume bottle that she had hidden a moment ago.
Montmorency tilted her head and started to ponder.
It would be a good time... I can test the effectiveness...
I'll test how strong it is when it's completed.
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The next day everyone's attention was on Montmorency. Why? Because she had that sailor uniform on as she walked in.
Most of the male students had a reaction. That outfit on her... It had a sense of tidiness that the boys had never seen before. They were completely entranced by Montmorency. The girls around the class quickly felt jealous and envious.
Montmorency had gained everyone's attention, so she was in a good mood. With a hand on her hip, Montmorency headed to her seat.
Louise was also staring at Montmorency, but more in confusion than anything. Isn't that the sailor outfit that Saito bought?
She looked at Saito who seemed to be shivering for some reason. "Hey, aren't those the clothes you bought? Why is Montmorency wearing it?"
"Ah... Well, you know, Guiche told me to give it to him..."
That's right, Guiche and Montmorency were going out not too long ago. "But, why did you give it to Guiche?"
Saito started to shiver even more. "B-because he said he wanted it..."
Something was up. Louise turned to her other side, and Kai was also shivering. Just what was going on?
Glaring at Saito, Louise asked, "Are you hiding something from me?"
Both of her familiars froze suddenly.
"Eh? I'm not hiding anything! Come on..." Saito felt a cold sweat trickle down his shirt. He didn't think Montmorency would wear it to class!
"Saito... if she finds out that that's her skirt..." Kai's voice invaded Saito's mind.
"I know, we'll both be dead men."
"I knew I shouldn't've helped you!"
"It's not my fault!"
"We'll be turned to ash, and scattered in the winds! We will die if she finds out!" Kai seemed to have genuine fear.
Hearing his fear, Saito started to shiver more violently. "Stop shivering! We seem more suspicious!" Even though Saito told Kai to stop, the two of them kept shivering more and more.
Turning to Kai now, Louise glared at him. "Hey. What are you two hiding? I won't forgive you if you lie to me."
"I-I-I wouldn't hide a thing!"
It was too suspicious, but before Louise could interrogate him further, the teacher showed up and the lesson began. When class ended, Louise tried to catch Saito, but he had already run off to the kitchen. Fortunately for her, Kai was lagging behind.
"I... have to go feed my... duck..." Kai quickly disappeared.
"When did he get a duck?" Louise muttered with a frown. She had a really bad feeling about whatever was going on.
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Looking for either one of her familiars, Louise was walking around the school. They had both hidden themselves quite well.
Going toward the fire tower, she peeked inside Colbert's laboratory. Though she wanted to call it a plain old shack. When Colbert had free time, Kai usually spent his time in there.
But, Kai wasn't there. Colbert, by himself, was doing something to the Zero Fighter that was left in front of his shack.
Louise asked, "Mister Colbert, have you seen Kai or Saito?"
He shook his head, "Saito hasn't been here for a few days now, and I haven't seen Kai since class."
Louise looked at the Zero Fighter and was astonished. The engine had been completely removed from the body, and had been completely disassembled. Along with the engine, there were various other parts that used to be the guns on the side of the plane.
"Oh, this! I got interested in the structure... I didn't get permission from Saito, but I only lightly disassembled it. It's complicated, but theoretically, it isn't much different than what I've used before. Along with that, with what Kai had been telling me, I think there is a way to improve the weapons..." Seeing Louise's uninterested face, Colbert calmed himself down. "Ha... Well then, pardon me."
Louise bowed her head, and ran off once again.
"Miss Vallière! If you see Saito again, tell him that I put a new weapon onto the Dragon's Raiment!"
The next place Louise visited was the wind tower. In the magic academy, towers were arranged into a pentagram with the main tower in the center. The tower of wind was one of them. It was mostly only used for lessons.
Louise witnessed the suspicious shadow of a person disappearing through the door into the tower. Whitish clothing... a large collar.
Clearly, it was the sailor outfit worn by Montmorency just a while ago.
Who is it? They looked too big to be Montmorency. Louise secretly followed the person.
Opening the door to the tower of wind, she ran straight down the corridor that had semicircular rooms arranged to the left and right.
Slowly pushing the door open, she heard the sound of footsteps steadily climbing up the staircase.
After Louise held her breath on the first floor for a while, she pursued the person. She heard the sound of a door opening and closing on the second floor.
To keep herself from making sounds from her footsteps, Louise cautiously came up to the door. There, Louise leaned her body closely to it. This should be the warehouse. Just what does this person plan on doing?
Louise pushed back her pink hair and placed her ear on the door. She heard a strange voice from inside.
"Haah, Nn, Haahaa..."
That kind of voice... Since it was small, she couldn't quite place who that voice belonged to, but one thing was for sure.
It was a guy's.
At a place like this, calling out someone wearing those garments... A person who can make those voices...
Louise thought up a terrible delusion inside her mind.
"Haa! Cu-cu, cute..."
Cute? At that moment, something flipped inside Louise's head.
Baang! She opened the door and pounced into the room.
"What are you doing?!"
"Hiiiiii!"
The person there turned around. The person was wearing the sailor outfit, and what's more, was wearing a skirt below. Sure enough, it was the fat Malicorne.
"Ma-Ma, Malicorne?"
"Louise!" Malicorne tried to run and escape, but he wasn't used to the skirt, so his feet got tangled in it and he fell over.
"Ah! Nna! Ah! Fua! AAH!"
Malicorne shouted while writhing on the floor. With the look of an ogre, Louise trampled on Malicorne's back. In the warehouse was an old mirror. The "Liar's Mirror". It was a mirror that reflected ugly things beautifully and beautiful things unattractively, but for various reasons, it almost got broken, so it was shut here. It seemed Malicorne was finding self-satisfaction in reflecting himself in the mirror. What a pervert.
"I'm sorry! I just couldn't help myself! That familiar of yours just made this too comfortable and cute!"
The air around Louise started to chill. "Explain. Now."
"Ack! That Saito gave this sailor top to me, and Kai made sure it fit me! He even grabbed one of your skirts and modified it for me! He did it for the others too! Guiche's Montmorency, and that maid girl!"
The air froze. Before Malicorne could speak again, Louise started to crush his head with her foot. "Silence."
"Ah! Louise! Ah! Being stepped on by a girl like you... I feel alive! Let me repent for my sins!"
Feeling anger welling up inside her, Louise trampled Malicorne until he passed out. "Yeah, there's something wrong with you."
Still, that didn't lower her anger in the slightest. "T-T-That pervert familiar... Taking his master's skirt... And using on other girls..." Her fists clenched to tight little balls. "Even though he kissed me..."
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"Achoo!" Kai let out a mighty sneeze and shook his head.
"Bless you." Derflinger's voice came from Kai's back.
"Thanks." Kai had come up with a brilliant strategy earlier. To avoid Louise, he'd go to the one place that she would never check first... Her very own room! It was genius! Before she got back, he'd grab Derflinger so he wouldn't snitch, and go to Vestri Court to train again. By the time it was night, she'd forget about the whole thing!
Kai drew Derflinger and started swinging all around the place. Sure, he could just focus on fighting unarmed, but Derflinger was a major asset and friend. If he forced his body to learn how to fight with a sword as well, he'd just be that much better in a fight.
He had been at it for quite some time by this point.
Hey, Kai.
Kai swung Derflinger quite fast.
What's up?
You may want to put a pause on this.
Why?
Your master is about to blow you up.
Huh?
Feeling a pressure in the air, Kai opened his eyes, and saw that Louise was pointing her wand straight at him. She was muttering an incantation.
"Louise, what the hell are you doing?!"
"Val Ic Sol."
Kai shakily raised Derf toward her. That pressure in the air was intense.
"Partner, give up," Derflinger whispered in a bored manner.
"Vo-vo-void isn't anything! Bring it!"
There was a pressure in the air. Kai felt like he was suffocating.
Louise swung her wand down halfway through her chanting. BOOM! The area in front of Kai exploded.
Being swallowed by the flash, Kai was blown backward and hit the ground hard.
After hitting the ground, Kai knew he would be in a world of hurt if he stayed much longer. He stood up and ran away.
Louise looked at him and shouted, "Come back here! I'll make sure it won't hurt when I kill you!"
"NO THANK YOU!"
Some sort of ancient fear took over Kai's mind. He desperately ran and Louise chased after him.
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Guiche was trying his very best in Montmorency's room to woo her.
About how Montmorency's appearance was like a rose, like a wild rose, a white rose, how her eyes were like blue roses, anyways, he used roses and complimented her, and then he praised her by comparing her to the water spirit.
Montmorency, being no exception among the Tristain nobles, was proud and conceited, so she did not hate flattery. However, her back was turned to Guiche, and she, acting, looked out the window wearily. It was the 'Compliment me more' sign.
Seeing this, Guiche searched his head even more and unleashed words to attract her affection.
"In front of you, wouldn't the spirit of water run away? See, this hair... It is like a golden grassland. It's a sea of glittering stars. Aah, any female besides you can no longer enter my eye."
Guiche kept going on and on, and he spit enough lines out to make a drama.
I guess that should be enough. Slowly, facing backward, she gently held out her left hand to Guiche. 'Aah' Guiche let out a moan of wonder and kissed her hand.
"Aah, my Montmorency~..."
Guiche tried to bring his lips near hers, but it was stopped by her finger.
"Before that, let us drink some wine. Since you went through the trouble of bringing it here."
"O-Of course!"
On the top of the table, a vase with flowers in it, a bottle of wine, and two ceramic glasses were placed.
Guiche had come to Montmorency's room carrying those in hand.
Guiche hurriedly poured the wine into the glass. Doing so, Montmorency suddenly pointed out the window.
"Oh? A naked princess is flying in the sky."
"Eh? Where? Where?!"
Guiche's eyes widened and stared outside the window. Really?! 'Any female besides you can no longer enter my eye' it seems like that was a lie! It seems I really have to use this. While thinking that, Montmorency secretly poured the contents of the small bottle she had hidden in her sleeves into Guiche's wine cup. The transparent fluid dissolved into the wine.
Montmorency smiled sweetly.
"Just a lie. Well, let us toast."
"Come on now, don't startle me like that..." The moment Guiche said that, the door opened with a bam, and a whirlwind flew in.
Guiche was sent flying and tumbled onto the floor. It was Kai.
"Haa, haa, haa..."
"Why are you here?!"
"Hide me!" While saying that Kai jumped into Montmorency's bed.
"Hey! Leave! You!" Guiche was a bit upset that Kai ruined his 'date'.
"Wait, what are you doing?! Entering someone's room as you please..."
When Montmorency crossed her arms and shouted at Kai, a second whirlwind flew into the room. Montmorency was sent flying and hit her nose on the floor.
"Louise!" Guiche yelled. Louise seemed to lose herself in anger.
"Wh-wh-what are you two doing?!"
"Shut up! Where's Kai?!"
Being pressured by Louise's threatening attitude, Guiche and Montmorency exchanged glances and pointed to the bed. There was a big bulge in the blanket, shivering slightly.
In a low voice, Louise ordered towards the bed, "Kai, come out."
A frightened voice came out of the bed.
"Kai isn't here."
Louise picked up the wine glass from the table.
Montmorency went 'Ah!' in a quiet voice, but it was too late. Louise drank it all in one gulp.
"Buhah! I got thirsty from the running. Everything is all your fault. Fine, I'll go to you."
Louise pulled away the bed's blanket.
Kai was there trembling with a nervous smile.
"Prepare yourself... Nna?"
The moment she looked at him and said that, Louise's emotions changed.
The moment she saw Kai just now, her feelings toward Kai jumped straight up. Until then, well, she vaguely liked him. She wouldn't accept it herself, but she liked him. That was why she was so angry...
At this moment, she loved with no hamper at all. That emotion was so big, that even Louise herself was bewildered. Without thinking, Louise covered her cheeks with her hands.
Oh my... I liked him this much?
I loved him... this much?
Tears streamed down Louise's eyes. Her feelings of sadness were bigger than anger. She liked him so much, so why didn't Kai look at her? It was so sad, Louise started to sob.
"Louise?"
Kai looked at Louise worriedly. Her attitude had flip-flopped. Kai stood up. Guiche was also watching Louise, who had suddenly started crying, with a surprised look.
Montmorency was holding her head. The drug she had intended Guiche to drink had been drunk by Louise.
"Hey, Louise..."
Louise looked up at Kai and clung to his chest.
"Idiot!"
"Eh?"
"Idiot, idiot! Why? Why?"
Louise started hitting Kai's chest.
"Louise, you... What... Why what?"
Even though she was angry up till now, her attitude was completely different. Kai panicked.
"Why won't you look at me?! That's so mean! Uwee~~~n!"
Louise buried her face in Kai's chest and wept.