Chương 2: showing off their powers
|The next morning|
Hak wakes up at around 3.30 am, not being able to sleep well with Kirche's well developed body pressed against him and his mind constantly thinking about the unusual situation he is in.
'At least it looks like this world is more peaceful. And the princesses here sure aren't as stuck up.' Hak thinks to himself while looking out of the window, seeing the three moons in the sky and them illuminating the tanned beauty next to him.
Hak's mind begins to drift at seeing the barely dressed girl next to him looking almost like an angel.
Hak decides that to get his mind out of the gutter he should train a bit, so Hak stealthily leaves the redhead's chambers and goes outside to an empty area beneath his new masters chambers and starts to go through katas. After about two hours of his training in the room above him Kirche wakes up.
"Hak?" Kirche asks, looking around the room for the missing familiar but sees him nowhere in her room or her adjacent bathroom.
Kirche gets worried he might have run away or something and opens her window shouting his name outside.
"Good morning." Hak calmly greets her, looking up from below her window.
"Hak, what are you doing out there?" Kirche asks confused.
"I couldn't sleep, so I decided to do some light training." Hak replies, putting the halberd over his shoulder.
"Light training you say, then why is all of the vegetation gone only where you are standing?" Kirche asks doubtfully.
"Sorry?" Hak says, only noticing it now.
"I don't care about some flowers, I just don't want you to overdo it." Kirche tells him while Hak jumps up to her window's ledge, sitting down on it with one leg while the other dangles out of the window.
"Princess, I fought multiple battles in a war, I think I can handle a workout." Hak tells her, amused by her concern.
"Don't call me princess, use my name." Kirche tells him and lets him in.
"As you wish." Hak replies and goes to stand guard at her door when Kirche undresses herself and changes into her clothes.
"You know Hak, today is a day where the students get to know their familiars." Kirche tells him, combing her hair.
"I see." Hak only replies.
"That means you should open up to me OK?" Kirche asks him hopeful.
"I'll try." Hak replies.
"I'm done, let's get something to eat." Kirche tells him and starts to drag Hak to the mess hall.
Once they reach the spacious hall filled with students, chatting and eating Kirche sits down next ro her friend Tabitha and pulls Hak to sit down beside her.
Hak decides against arguing with the headstrong girl and sits down, leaning his halberd against the wall behind him.
"Dig in." Kirche tells him, accepting the plates a servant handed her and puts one down in front of Hak.
Hak starts to eat his meal when he sees Saito sitting under the table with his plate.
"What's that about? Should I not be sitting here?" Hak asks, not wanting to cause Kirche any trouble.
"No, that is just Louise's opinion." Kirche informs him.
"Alright then." Hak says, continuing eating without worry.
After breakfast the students have time to get to know their familiars in the training yard.
Most of the students have an early brunch with their familiars at their side while talking to them or sitting in groups.
"Kirche, I have a question. Are familiars intended to be fighters or is this within the norm?" Hak asks her, pointing at a student getting tickled by a weird looking plant.
"I guess it'd depend on what the mage wants to become." Kirche explains.
"What do you want to become?" Hak asks her.
"I want to be a military mage, I want to be the strongest fire mage." Kirche replies confidently.
"I will help you achieve that goal in any way I can." Hak tells her, getting on a knee in front of her.
"I know you will, now come stand up. I want to see how well we'll work together and for that I need to know what you can to." She tells him and leads him to a training yard with magical dummies that will self-regenerate after a while.
"Alright, here we are. Show me what you can do handsome." She tells him, sitting down on a table to watch him.
Hak unfurls his halberd from its sheathe and gets into a running position. A second later Hak sprits through a few targets, cleaving them in half on his way. He then turns to three targets standing in a row and uses the full length of his weapon to behead the targets. After this he jumps a few meters into a group of more densely grouped targets and lands while striking down his halberd in a loud boom. After this he weaves through the group of dummies, destroying all of them.
Once he finished off all targets, he sees the first ones rebuilding themselves.
"Wow. I have never seen such a display of strength or skill." Kirche tells him, applauding and hugs him happily.
"So my display is adequate?" Hak asks.
"Oh it's far beyond that. Looks like I have won the familiar lottery." Kirche says happily, giving him a kiss on his cheek.
"I'd really appreciate if you'd stop that." Hak says nervously.
"Why, you don't like it?" Kirche questions flirtingly, sliding her skirt up a few centimeters.
"That's not it. But I'm supposed to protect you. I don't want to get mixed up like I did before I came here." Hak explains.
"So we'll take it slow and you just follow my lead. That way there will be no misunderstandings." She tells him.
"I guess." Hak agrees, rubbing his head surprised at Kirche's resilience on this matter.
"I have one question while we're on the topic." Hak says.
"Shoot." Kirche tells him relaxed, leaning back on the table.
"Why are you interested in me, I already promised you my fealty and a gorgeous girl like you surely can do better than a penniless familiar." Hak says.
"I don't care about wealth. I come from a rich family and know that money won't make a person happy.
Then there is the fact that you're the hottest guy I've ever lied eyes on and somehow, I know we belong together. I don't know if it's because of the familiar runes or because of my female instincts, something makes me want to go up to you and kiss you silly most of the time." Kirche explains with a happy grin on her face.
"OK, I just wanted to clear this up beforehand." Hak says stoically while blushing up a storm.
"Haha, now's my turn. Make some room." Kirche says and hops off the table and starts to chant some fire spells, setting a multitude of the dummies aflame and makes another few explode in a shower of flames.
"How was that?" Kirche asks, striking a cute pose for Hak.
"It looked very effective and kind of beautiful." Hak tells her.
"Thank you." Kirche says when they hear a lot of cheering coming from another part of the courtyard.
"What's up with the ruckus?" Kirche asks going to the other field with Hak. On that field Saito just stole the sword from one of Guiche's golems and cuts down the other golems before collapsing from exhaustion.
"He did OK but nowhere near as good as you, what do you think?" Kirche asks her familiar.
"It's strange. The technique was as perfect as it can get but there was no strength behind the attacks and it still was obvious that he has no experience whatsoever." Hak explains.
"Is that unusual?" Kirche inquires.
"I guess, at least it's not something I've seen before." Hak replies.
"Hmm I wonder if the runes on him are the cause of it." Kirche says curiously.
"Well that'd be useless for me." Hak sighs.
"Maybe its different for you, you have different runes after all. Lets go see the professor after he took care of Louise's familiar." Kirche says and links her arm with his, taking a stroll through the garden.
"Tell me about your old life, what was it like?" She asks Hak.
"Well I am an orphan though the general of the sky clan took me in and trained me to replace him at a young age." Hak tells her.
"Sky clan?" She inquires.
"Yeah, there were 5 clans in my country, one for ever, element." Hal explains.
"I see, so what about girlfriends?" Kirche asks, playing with a flower she plucked.
"Never had one, but I think I've already told you that I was fond of the princess, to whom I was like a brother sadly." Hak tells her.
"I see." Kirche says with a smile.
"What about you? Any any partners I should know about?" Hak asks her.
"Well as I assume you already know I had my fair share of male visitors, but that was more to be sure that I haven't lost my influence over men. Nothing romantic really happened, mostly I received gifts and they gawked at my beauty." Kirche tells him.
"So you'd be new to a relationship as well?" Hak asks.
"Yeah you could say that." Kirche sighs.
The two continue to talk for a while before they head to the professor's room to ask him about the runes.
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