Zero no Tsukaima:Volume15 Chapter5
Chapter 5: Honeymoon
On top of Louise's desk, was an opened diary. Looking at this diary, Louise couldn't help but sigh.
This diary is written by Louise herself. Although events that happened during her memory loss about Saito, the sequence of events had already been imprinted in her mind. Filling it back again wouldn't be a difficult task.
The contents detailed all the hardness Louise and Saito went through together, from the war of Albion all the way to Louise getting hurt by Burtos (布萊特) to protect Saito.
At the same time, the diary included enjoying being teased by Saito, etcetera etcetera. Even though, that pages filled with these were as few as the number of clouds on a clear day, they were still an irreplaceable part of this diary.
Even though I care about Saito so much....., Louise thought gritting her teeth. Yet that guy always sticks with that maid.
"How do you expect me to forgive you!"
Louise raised the diary, then slammed it hard on the desk. Putting her chin on top of the diary, swaying her crossed legs lightly, she closed her eyes.
While feeling the book's hardcover pressing against her face, Louise pondered .....If say, Saito secretly read this diary, what would I think?
It must feel very uncomfortable.....
This is different from the memories flowed in from Saito, isn't it? But then again, he's not reading it intentionally, just taking a glimpse accidentally.
Still, this is.....
Louise's eyes landed on the mirror hanging on the wall. In it was the face of a gloomy girl. Is it because he always sees me like this, Saito tends to get close with other girls?
Louise forcefully squeezed a smile. Maybe a bit too forceful, because after a while, it gave her cramps.
And so, she continued to use the diary as a pillow..... self-consciously stared outside the window.
By this time, the sky was starting to turn to a faint white.
In the morning, Saito came home with a very distressed look.
Turns out Louise didn't get any sleep from being depressed after having no avail searching for Saito for a day. By the time Saito entered the house, she had dark circles around her eyes.
Before Louise had the chance to stand up from her chair and question Saito where he went last night and what he did, Saito had already slipped passed her expressionless, and snuggled into bed.
"Wait a second" Louise tugged her own sleeves with force. Seeing Louise's look, Saito's guilty conscience kicked in and avoided looking her in the eye, fuelling more of Louise's suspicion. "And?"
"And?"
"Yesterday, who were you with?"
Saito answered with difficulty "Ta-Tabitha"
Louise took a deep breath, then raised her hand high.
As suspected!
And they were together for the whole time!
Just the point that Louise spent the last night troubled, she had more than enough reasons to condemn Saito. Should I just slap him here.... Louise thought.
The words Kirche said a few days ago came to mind, Stand in the shoes of others, if you aren't able to see the problems in their point of view, you may unknowingly make them angry
Just like how she needs time alone every now and then, the same goes for Saito. Besides, given the current situation, if you had to meet up with someone in secrecy, it'd take time. Plus, being with Tabitha doesn't necessary means he's having an affair. Perhaps, he had something important to discuss.
I better confirm it first, it's not too late to get angry afterwards....
Trembling all over, Louise slowly put down her hand. "What were you doing with Tabitha"
Saito himself was also distressed. Should he honestly tell Louise everything he discussed with Tabitha last night? Tell her that in the Gallian camps there are people who wish for Tabitha to be Queen and guide them? But if he told Louise directly, the news would spread as quickly as fleeing ants. It's good to keep things quiet right now.
Moreover......, there's this annoying bunch of people from Romalia. Walls have ears. After considering all the dangers Saito decided to play dumb.
"That...., how should I say, we discussed problems related with her future"
Louise pouted and stared at Saito. Looking at those poor dark circles around her eyes, Saito hanged his head apologetically. After enduring the stares from Louise for a moment....
"I get it" And laid down. Saito was stunned. He was expecting her to scream 'What were you doing!!!' and deliver a kick between his legs, flipping the entire hotel upside down. To his surprise Louise actually believed his words......
"W-what"
"Uhh, you're pretty amazing...... I expected that I wouldn't be spared without being beaten all up after this"
"Huh? Do you Want me to do that?"
"No! Absolutely not! Not a chance!"
".....Between you two, what did you talk about"
Saito bit his lips, displaying a serious face. Seeing Saito's expression, it actually confirmed Louise that the things she was worried about did not happen at all. If otherwise, there would be no way Saito could have made an expression like this.
"Are the contents of which you can't tell me?"
"Sorry......."
"Oh, then never mind"
Just like how she doesn't want her diary to be read, but since what's done is done..... Louise might as well believe Saito.
"Then I'm going to sleep. I'm exhausted" As if feeling very relieved, Louise laid down on the bed after finishing her sentence. Saito was still wondering if she's still suspicous, and therefore put his hand on Louise's shoulders while taking a peek at her expressions.
"I'm really sorry. But when the time comes, I'll definitely tell you. I promise. I'm not hiding it from you on purpose"
Louise's cheeks almost instantly turned red. The feeling of being valued, has made Louise excited enough to blush.
However, since she doesn't want her happiness to be seen by Saito, Louise shut her eyes tight and crossed her arms, like angry but at the same time flirting, she said "Shouldn't you have more secrets. Come on, spit it out honestly. You actually did something with her that would have made me really angry" Before Saito had a chance to deny, Louise's thoughts came out already.
To Saito, Louise looked just like a pretty goddess, putting him at a loss of words.
"I-isn't it more like I've never done these things?"
"You liar. You must have absolutely done the same things to her as what you did to me in your fantasies" Trying not to display her pleasure in peacefully enjoying this, Louise blamed him directly.
"I, didn't I already tell you I don't want to?"
"I don't believe you. You're too despicable. You're only a dog with wild fantasies. Just because you look like a person, you think you're a handsome knight? What a joke!"
Inside Saito's head, there is this vague, unexplicaple sense of exitement. His body began to be enveloped by passion of an unknown source.
"You insensitive idiot!"
Saito held down Louise's lower chin, attemping to forcefully plant his lips on. Louise somehow managed to evade with agile and counter with a bite on Saito's shoulders.
"Ow!"
Louise let go with a "fwah", just to begin her scolds again.
"What's with you? Don't tell me, you done the same thing to many girls in your dreams? Now you're trying to do the same thing to me?"
However there was not a sense of harshness, as if mumbling to herself and whining weakly.
As if trying to hide her embarrassment.
"Hmmph, if you were to do it with other girls you would be overjoyed wouldn't you. If it wasn't me everything would be fine. To you, you don't care who it is. Hmn...." Once the two's lips connected, Louise became honest with Saito.
"Idiot, you are so adorable, I would never" As their lips parted, Saito said. With this, Louise's face turned firey red
"I'm not adorable...." Other than this sentence, she could not think of anything else to say.
Saito's mind became blank. In front of this adorable Louise, lots of different things popped into Saito's head. Although these are difficult times, but what comes next..... after everything has settled down, like Guiche said, "buy clothes and jewelry and whatnot"....
"Um, Louise, I, I saved a lot of money"
"I, I know. Are you dumb? Her Highness already told you to take care...."
"Um, after this war ends.... don't we have a lot of things to do?"
"Eh?" Surprised, Louise raised her head.
Guiche mentioned something about purchasing a castle.... needs around 10,000 Ingots (currency). But if it was split with everyone, it should be enough to buy a mansion, those around 2,000 to 3,000 ones by the forests.
"What is this! Don't tell me, you plan to live here permamently?"
"No....sigh, how should I put it. If there was really a method to return, I will still go back after saying goodbyes properly. But, somehow, feels like this world is just like my other home" Saito said, holding Louise, surrounded by her fragrance.
"....really?"
"Heh, if that weren't true, I would have passed that gate a long time ago" Saito insisted with force in his voice.
"Then.... if we were to buy a house, that..." Saito words cut short from embarrassment.
"Wh-what..."
Marra... just as the word was about to come out, Saito stopped. It was still too early to talk about these things. "Live, live together. Even though we are living together already... at the dormitory, wouldn't it be better if we had more space. We should start considering things afterwards"
At this moment, Louise was about to be drowned from being filled with joy. When she heard Saito suggest living together in the future, she felt as if she was flying in the clouds. The thought of this bright future, none of the hardness endured mattered anymore.
"....fur"
"Fur?"
"It would be great if the furniture were the beautiful ones"
"I understand. Nm. Then let's use just those"
"The furniture shop in Tristain has good taste Subsequently, Louise began to plan every minor detal, such as how white walls would be better, how there should be a pond in the gardens, how how many horses should be raised and so on.
"Wait, as for maids, we won't need any"
"....Speaking of which, will your father and mother agree with the two of us being together?" Saito asked worriedly.
"That's alright. After all I'm not a child anymore. Once I've decided, they won't say anything. More importantly..."
"Hmm?"
"It wouldn't matter if it weren't a mansion. Even if it were a small clean cottage I wouldn't mind"
"Why is that?"
"B-because...., if so we will be able to stay closer to each other" The Louise saying this shyly could not be more adorable.
"Louise....., you, you are so cute..... See, if you try even you can do it"
"What are you saying, I'm not cute at all"
"Very, very cute. Exactly like Lemon-chan"
"Am-am not, besides, what is Lemon-chan"
"Such smooth skin, just like Lemon-chan" Saito was completely obsessed, muttering all this while kissing on Louise's neck. All the grey matter in his brain turned completely into cotton, Saito had no idea what he was saying anymore.
"Stop it.... I don't like Saito doing these kind of things..... Wait, ah, don't...."
"Waah, isn't this more Lemon-chan than Lemon-chan. Th-this is perfectly Lemon-chan"
"Awww....although I, I don't really understand, is it really like Lemon-chan?"
"It is. Anyway, try saying 'Lemon-chan is embarrassed'" This was a line that popped up randomly from a Saito hyped up to a degree too large to measure in lightyears, but Louise was already very, that. Whatever came into her ears automatically turned into romantic lines. Or rather, at this stage, Louise doesn't care about what is going to happen anymore. In some sense, she herself was even more passionate than what Saito is already.
"Le-Lemon-chan is embarrassed"
Finally. Along with her reddened cheeks, dreamy eyes, half closed lips, Louise said it, pushing Saito to the very edge.
"Moe! Lemon-chan is incredibly cute! Very adorable! Hurry! Take it all off! These clothes are really in the way, covering up all your attractiveness." Just as Saito blurted out lines even a dirty director wouldn't say while putting his fingers onto Louise's bedclothes..... from the other side of the wall, came knockings from a neighbour.
"Ah!" Louise and Saito froze hugging each other. The knocks on the wall came again. Louise and Saito stared into each other.
"Wh-what is it?" Feeling weak all over, Malicorne's voice could be heard from the other side of the wall.
"This is news brought to you by the wisps of the wind"
The two realised that Malicorne seemed to be staying next door. Actually, all Tristain students were living in the same dormitory.
"Oh, yes....?"
"The walls are thin in this dormitory you know. Even Mr. wisp himself was shocked. Nevertheless, whether it's your crusade, or the walls being too thin, or the pride of an aristocrat, or shame, none of these matter to me. You should be considerate of your neighbours. Otherwise, I would have no choice but to blow you all out with wind magic."
The couple looked at each other and buried their head in embarrassment.
"Moremover"
"Yes?"
"It's nothing like Lemon-chan"
Louise's face turn purple in an instant and started yelling "It's not my fault! It's Saito, Saito told me to say it!"
"Lemon-chan is embarrassed"
"Stop it!"
After Saito have rapidly calmed down did he realise that what he said seemed a bit inappropriate. Like what Malicorne said, all the Lemon-chan never existed to begin with.
"Lemon-chan is embarrassed" Malicorne continued to imitate sarcastically. With that kind of tone, Louise began to become furious.
"I said stop it!"
"Lemon-chan is so embarrassed"
"I said stop iiiittttt!" Louise bellowed while gripping tightly on her wand, starting to chant spells.
"Explosion" sent the wall and Malicorne, who was direcly behind it, flying. Saito gaped at the giantantic hole and sighed.
Malicorne stood up from the debris, blood still dripping from his forehead, yet still he cheered happily. "Ha! Now we're roommates! No more weird stuff for you!"
Saito lightly bumped Louise's forehead and said "What were you thinking! You destroyed the entire wall! Now we won't even have time to ourselves."
"Shut up! It was you who told me to say iiiiittttttt!"
Sent flying by Louise's second explosion spell, Saito smashed onto the wall on the other side, which gave way to allow Saito enter the next room.
Sleeping in the bed in what used to be that room, Tiffania stared wide-eyed at the Saito flying into her room.
"Wha, what? What happened!?"
Tiffania's bedclothes was merely a thin cloth wrapped around her body. When sleeping, she always wore more spacious and comfortable, traditional elven clothes. It was only because she had to travel with the Romalian army did she store it away.
Just like how Saito saw Sandra, in his "dreams", was dressed reveallingly by wrapping herself in a long cloth, this made Saito turn red. This is completely against the rules, using only a thin cloth to shield such big breasts.
"Me-melon-chan...." Saito uncontrollably reached out his hand.
Tiffania shrinked away from him by twirling out of his reach.
"Why am I Lemon-chan while Tiffania is Melon-channnnnnn!" Mixed emotions of shame and anger, Louise pounced on Saito and stomped all over his back. Still uncertain of the events going on around her, Tiffania buried her head in fear.
While despising the gasping Saito, Louise sat down softly and looked at the newly formed 4-people bedroom, then sighed.
Because of Louise throwing tantrums all over the bed, Saito was ultimately forced to sleep in the corridors. Still better than being bitten everytime he tried to get in. Yawning tiredly, Saito decided to come down to the bar for an early breakfast.
Everyone was there eating. The just-awoken Tiffania already changed into a new set of clothes and was taing tiny bites of some bread. Probably due to Malicorne's announcement, seeing Saito come in, the Ondine Water Spirit knights began to giggle with suspicious intentions.
"Morning, Lemon-chan"
Saito sat down exhausted, supporting his head with his arm.
"Lemon-chan, are you planning to strike today as well?" Guiche nudged Saito softly with his elbow.
"We're only 3,000 Ingots short from a castle! A castle, Lemon-chan!" Reinard whooped with glee.
"Stop calling me Lemon-chan!" Saito complained with an apparantly annoyed face.
Because after hearing Tabitha's message, there mood to fight wasn't really there. Although this is some stupid duels across a river right now, under the peaceful environment brew all sorts of conspiracies.
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