[Ready Thyself]

Ordell was left standing in the mostly vacant field of green grass near one of the school buildings almost completely alone, were it not for the presence of three very beautiful and attractive girls of various statures rushing to his side. Sadly, they were not there to get on their knees or bend over for him.

"YOU IDIOT!"

-SMACK-

"Ouch." Ordell's half-assed yelp didn't convince anyone he felt anything when Louise had kicked him to the side of his leg.

"Why did you do that?! You can't just pick a fight with a noble!" Louise was very distressed about the whole situation, she was even a little pale.

The look in the loli's eye told Ordell now was not the time for jokes, but he couldn't help it. It was in his nature to alleviate a difficult and mentally draining situation with a smile and a good laugh. After all, laughter is the cure for the soul. So he looked at his master for five seconds before lightly laughing. Naturally, Louise was not happy with this response.

But before she could yell at her disobedient familiar any further, her words pleasantly trailed off the moment Ordell's mouth had impacted with his master's own pair of lips. The girl was rightfully shocked, and so were the other two girls. Nobody expected Ordell to bend down and capture his bratty master's soft lips in a tender liplock.

Siesta blushed and brought a hand to her mouth, "Oh my..."

"...Nice~" and Kirche gave a very Kirche-like tidbit, licking her lips at the end.

Louise's brain ceased all thinking for a moment, trying to comprehend what the hell Ordell was doing before it finally caught up. However, by that time, Ordell had already pulled away from the kiss.

"Forgive me, master, but I don't think I'm going to stop doing that any time soon~" the pink-haired girl reddened noticeably as Ordell seductively licked his lips before chuckling and standing back up to his full height.

"Hey, when do I get a kiss~?" Louise turned briefly to glare at the Germanian busty woman who only chuckled at the petite girl's jealousy.

Ordell chuckled lightly and sent Kirche a quick wink while Louise wasn't looking, not his most majestic moment, for sure, but it worked well enough. The short but adorable master had to turn her attention back to her familiar before he scurried away again and did something that would undoubtedly land both of them in trouble.

Louise stared as Ordell had once again decided to ignore her warnings, for the second time today, and turned in the general direction where he saw people gathering, "I assume that's the... whatever that place was called again?"

"Yup, that's it alright, Vestori Square in all its bland glory," Ordell snorted lightly at Kirche's unimpressed remark about the place being literally a walking distance away from where they currently were as well as being no different.

Really, the intellectual prowess of Guiche will never stop impressing Ordell for years to come as his master graduates from this... academy. Saying "pristine" is a little too generous so early on, after all, they need to keep their students on a better leash.

"Well," Ordell looked at Siesta and gave her one last wink before walking towards the destination of his fated duel, "Wish me luck~"

The girl's face exploded in embarrassment while Louise's exploded in envy, Kirche only chuckled at the man's antics. Two days and he already has the whole academy's attention as well as three very attractive women going for him. If there was any reason not to fall for Ordell, Kirche was not seeing it. He even comes with a pair of handlebars for when he fucks her suspended in the air by her waist! The guy has everything!

But Louise had no time to be jealous now, as much as she wanted to. She was slowly starting to get really annoyed at her familiar for so blatantly flirting with other women, but she was also sort of thankful and a little bit proud that he chose to pursue a relationship with her instead of anyone else.

Her figure leaves much to be desired in her opinion. Small, lithe body viewed as unfit for bearing children and therefore mostly unattractive to the opposite sex. Even if her thighs were top tier, she lacked in the features that Kirche and Siesta excelled in.

Ordell had charmed Louise, that was much obvious. And she valued his love greatly, even if he was a little bit too much to handle sometimes. So, she wanted to protect him. Protecting her reputation came second, but actually keeping the one success she made alive and well took priority.

Somehow, somewhere deep down, Louise had not a shred of doubt that her familiar was strong. He at least appeared to be a noble race, whatever that might be. He's handsome, and she felt his body a little well this morning, he's not skinny by a large margin. Still, Louise could not afford Ordell to seriously injure or hurt Guiche. He was the son of a military general and committing an attack on someone like that was not a good idea for all parties involved. It could spark a civil war for Brimir's sake!

"Wait! Please! You can't hurt Guiche! If you do, we'll all be in trouble!"

Ordell rose an eyebrow at Louise's desperation, the other two, way bustier women following closely behind them. Louise wanted to protect her family from the humiliation and subsequent actions of Guiche's father who was bound to not sit idly after his son was publicly shamed.

"Master, don't make me kiss you again."

Louise grew flustered but managed to overcome the embarrassment with anger, "STOP IT! If you do anything drastic Guiche's father is bound to take action against not just you but also me! Whatever you do reflects on me, and whatever I do reflects on you! That's what it means to be a master and a familiar!"

But much to Louise's chagrin, Ordell's smirk only grew at her words, "Ah, that's very sweet of you master. But don't worry. I'm not going to hurt him... much. And should his father take action against your family..."

Ordell suddenly stopped walking and gave Louise a very... worrisome look. His eyes grew vacant, and his smile gained a sinister backdrop to it. The quite terrifying look did not fail to send a shiver down Louise's spine.

"...I will end their bloodline."

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"If you'd want me to, of course, hahaha!"

The tense atmosphere pretty much disappeared as Ordell laughed off his previously ominous behaviour and quickly strutted towards the group of students surrounding Guiche, leaving Louise, Siesta and Kirche in his dust.

Louise was quite speechless, but Kirche sure wasn't.

"...Damn... that guy knows how to make me shiver in every way possible~"

"Dammit Zerbst!"

But Siesta hadn't said anything, only looked at Ordell's back as he made his way to his opponent, unbothered by the fact that he will be facing a noble. The maid couldn't help but wish that she had at least an ounce of his confidence, maybe then things would be better... no, they most likely wouldn't. She's a commoner, not some manner of a magical beast like Ordell. Yet, her heart cannot stop its accelerating rhythm.

'...Don't lose.'

Almost as if hearing Siesta's thoughts, the red-horned male gave his future three women a thumbs up without looking back and disappeared through the crowd...

"Well, you didn't waste any time getting here, did you?"

Ordell shrugged in response to Guiche's bad excuse of intimidation and coercion. The blonde may have a silver tongue that could probably swoon a few lonely girls, but he was a far cry from anything that Ordell had yet to fear.

Except for spiders. Fuck spiders.

"Well, unlike you I can actually manage the company of multiple women, at the same time too," and just to drive his point home, Ordell shrugged and winked randomly into the crowd as he spotted the three beauties he previously left behind finally making their way to the front row.

A vein popped on Guiche's neck as his eye twitched, clearly the man does not like it when his manhood is being insulted. Compensating much? Hiding something perhaps? Who knows~? But you, dear Reader just might... another time.

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"Well then... shall we play?"