As the tail end of Louise de la Valierre's spell rang around the courtyard a large explosion went up...
Left behind by the explosion was a slight girl, wearing a strange garb, a black dresslike cloth under a smaller red dresslike cloth which had only one sleeve, the sleeve rested halfway down her upper arm. Finally, she had green hair, and a hole in her chest... WAIT... a hole in her chest! Her Familiar could not be dead... right... right...
And then her Familiar's eyes opened. That was scary...
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Where... am I? Shichika has not killed me yet... why am I not still in the temple? This... is cruel. The strange girl thought... opening her eyes and lifting herself up, she had no worry regarding the wound left by Akitou Bitou, it would not bleed. Instead, she looked about... and saw a multitude of weeds... and perhaps a reason to continue living.
"How, did I get here?" Yasuri Nanami asked of the group of weeds with a potential purpose and one potentially worthwhile foe, her voice back to the placid tone she had spoken with back on the island, instead of the almost psychotic tone she had adopted after leaving the isle.
Her potential purpose answered her, "I summoned you."
"Ah, is that right? Do you need a Sword?" Nanami's quiet tones made her question seem... scary.
"I summoned you as my Familiar." her maybe Owner said.
"Familiar?" with a quizzical tilt to her head Nanami asked, "What is a Familiar?"
Her maybe Owner answered, "A Protector and Companion."
"Ah... I am just a Sword... I wonder if I can protect... I have only ever killed up to now after all... sa... maybe this is good, or maybe this is bad. I don't really mind either way." her still calm tone made her statement seem even more chilling, as if killing did not matter in the slightest. Her tiny body and clearly frail constitution just made it all the more terrifying.
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What is with this Familiar... why isn't the hole in her chest bleeding? No, more importantly, what does she mean when she calls herself a Sword? Louise had never encountered someone so completely at ease with the concept of killing, as if human life was worthless, still, she had to complete the contract.
And so she tried to... but her Familiar to be was completely avoiding every attempt to kiss her... and then she asked, "Is a kiss how your people seal contracts? I suppose I should tell you, I am not a Companion... the only way for me to Protect is to kill every threat. Do you want a Sword?" her tone still utterly placid... still, there was warning in it.
"Yes." and with that her Familiar stopped trying to avoid the kiss... and initiated one of her own. "Then, this is the contract, I am your Sword, and you are my Owner. And that is all that matters."
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