The Protagonist Syst 58 A Side Trip Or Two

58 A Side Trip Or Two

It was surprisingly easy for

to have an appointnt with a girl that was raised in a monastery for her entire life. You would think that they would have so kind of restrictions for a nun eting a man she didn't know, like supervision of an older nun or having it in a public place like the rectory or the confessional.

They did none of that and led

to a private eting room and Josette was brought to

soon after. It was almost funny how much she looked like Tabitha, aka Princess Charlotte, and I had to fight my strong urge to run across the room to hug and cuddle the cutie. She seed to notice my struggle and blushed slightly.

I waited for the priest to leave before I spoke. “My na is Saito Bell Issei Hyudou Cranel Hiraga and I only have two questions for you.”

Josette gave

that tilted head look. “Do I know who I am and do I want to leave here.”

“You're just as smart as your sister... and you're right about the first question. ” I said and couldn't fight my instincts anymore. I walked across the room and wrapped my arms around her. “The second question is do you want

to help you.”

Josette blushed fully as I cuddled her and she looked up into my eyes. “Wh-what are you doing?”

“Checking your answers.” I said and made her a temporary party mber and saw the conditions she had. Compulsions and magical vow bindings practically glowed around her when I cast the comprehensive diagnostic spell that I used on Hephaestus to diagnose her curse.

I spent 500 Karma points to clear her conditions and changed her Void affinity to Water with Ice specialty, just like Tabitha. Josette gasped as my magic changed her and her body glowed. It took several seconds for it to work and I watched her eyes behind her glasses as she realized what had been happening to her for years.

The brainwashing was as clear as day to her now and her cute face showed anger as her magic flowed through her at a strength that surprised her.

“Let

go, Saito. I need my hands free for this.” Josette ordered .

“As you command, princess.” I said and let her go as I stepped back.

Josette pulled a miniature staff out of her pocket and it grew to full size. She gathered a lot of power to herself, almost too much, then she did sothing amazing. She tapped the floor with the end of it and wave of magic flowed out of her as everything was encased in ice and frozen solid. I followed it using a detection spell and after 200 feet, I couldn't tell you what was happening.

“Saito, if you would be so kind.” Josette said and motioned to the frozen wall.

I gave her a smile and drew my sword. “I would be honored, princess.”

Josette watched as I charged my mythril sword with Holy Lightning and her eyes widened.

“You might want to close your eyes for this part.” I said and took a fighting pose, then I dashed to the wall and slamd my sword into the wall.

*BBBBZZZOOOOOWWWW!* *WHI-CRASH!*

The entire ice-frozen monastery was engulfed with Holy Lightning and then shattered like glass. Josette uncovered her eyes and she looked around at the piles and piles of ice shards no bigger than a finger. She looked at , at my sword, and at all of the open space around us where a monastery used to be that was filled with corrupted holy people.

“Thank you for letting

do that, your highness.” I said and sheathed my sword. Removing and entire corrupted order of priests and fake holy people gave

a huge Karma point bonus. I held a hand out to the princess and she took it with a happy smile. I waved at the shocked dragon waiting in the field across the road to let Sylphid know that we were okay. “Your chariot awaits.”

Josette nodded and let

escort her across the icy landscape and then across the road to the dragon. It sniffed at her and nodded, then knelt to allow her to climb on. I patted the dragon's side and walked back across the distance to a spot I had detected with my magic. I used Fire to lt away the ice shards and then opened up the stairwell.

Josette and Sylphid watched as I descended underground. I cast a silence spell on the entrance and then I drew my sword again. I had a few more holy people to remove from this world and so more treasure to plunder. It wasn't like the church was going to need it after today.

*

Tabitha was having a wonderful ti reconnecting with her mother and telling her all of the things she had accomplished for the kingdom over the years, the latest being enrolled in the magic academy and settling the water spirit that was flooding the countryside.

The door to the room opened and both she and her mother gasped at the sight. The nurse fainted.

“Mother. Sister.” Josette said and strode into the room as if she owned it.

“My baby.” Their mother said and opened her arms.

The three female family mbers embraced and more tears were shed. The sharing of life stories continued with the new addition and the three of them didn't notice that a certain armored young man had already left and bribed the dragon for another ride.

*

Two and a half hours later, Sylphid landed near the village of Tarbes and I slid off of her back. It was easy to find the hidden garage where Siesta's family had stored their family's chanical dragon. Sylphid watched with curiosity as I opened the large hangar doors and revealed the Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter plane. Sylphid made a scoff sound at it, probably because it didn't look like a dragon.

It was used by the Japanese Navy on aircraft carriers and they had an extrely long flight range of 1,600 miles and could fly for 8 to 12 hours if you were economical with the fuel. The plane was in pristine condition, despite the family not having any similar technology to work from.

Siesta's great-grandfather must have drilled its maintenance into his children's heads for them to take care of the plane so well. Luckily, it was mostly chanical inside with no significant electronics, besides the radio, and that wouldn't work here without the requisite radio towers anyway.

“I need to build a special trunk for this thing to fit.” I said and Sylphid barked a laugh. “Yeah, you laugh now...” I trailed off and took off my backpack to get to work. It was going to be a really weird trunk with such a wide opening, just because I didn't want to possibly damage the thing by compressing it through a smaller opening.

Half an hour of enchanting work and stretching a single trunk to the width of the wingspan, I felt comfortable enough to set it behind the plane and opened it, then unlocked the brakes and removed the blocks by the wheels. I pushed the plane backwards and it slid into the expanded space easily.

I set the blocks back and locked the brakes once more, cast cushioning charms on everything, and closed the trunk. To Sylphid's shock, I put the really long trunk into my backpack and put it on.

“I'm ready to head back.” I said and the dragon stared at

like I had two heads. I did not make the joke that I did have two heads and sotis thought with the other one. It was too easy.

Sylphid accepted another bribe and we were on our way.

When we returned to the palace in Gallia, no one noticed we had left. It made

laugh and I sat with so of the excited staff as they ate in the small dining room. I had changed out of my armor and wore my commoner clothes, so no one noticed that I wasn't supposed to be there. I finished eating and left the room, changed my clothes to beco a noble again, and went to the wing of the castle where the duchess was.

I wasn't surprised to hear them arguing about who was going to ascend to the throne with their uncle dead. The duchess couldn't, because her husband would have to be alive for her to claim to be queen. That ant it went to the eldest daughter, Tabitha aka Princess Charlotte. She didn't want to beco queen with her life finally getting back to normal and didn't want to give that up.

Josette said she would beco queen on her behalf and pretend to be her, since she had no life anyway and giving up nothing wouldn't bother her. Their mother sighed and tried to convince them that there was no way that they could fool the entire kingdom that the younger daughter was the elder one, especially since Josette wasn't supposed to exist.

“Then change their nas.” I suggested and all three won turned to stare at . “If Princess Charlotte is set to beco Queen of Gallia, then we switch Charlotte's and Josette's nas and Josette can beco Charlotte and Tabitha can keep using her fake na at school. No one will ever know the difference.”

“That... that's brilliant.” Tabitha said and gave

a pointed look. “Where were those brains before?”

I chuckled. “They're there, just well hidden.”

Josette and their mother smiled.

“How do you suggest we accomplish this feat?” Their mother asked. “Just signing docunts won't work.”

I walked over and put a hand on Tabitha's shoulder and then Josette's. “I'll take care of it with my magic.” I said and did a quick na switch with them as temporary party mbers.

Both girls sucked in sharp breaths and then exchanged surprised looks. A mont later, they both leaned in and kissed my cheeks before they spoke at the sa ti. “Thank you, Saito.”

I couldn't stop my erection from showing and that made the two girls giggle softly.

“I cannot believe... how did you do that?” The duchess whispered.

“Magic.” Tabitha and her sister said at the sa ti.

“With that done, we really need to get back to the academy.” I said and motioned to the door.

Tabitha nodded and hugged her mother, hugged her sister, and took my hand. We left two very happy people behind as we exited the castle and t up with Sylphid again. We climbed onto her back and we began the long flight back to Tristain.

“Louise is going to be angry at you for being away from her for two days.” Tabitha said over the rush of wind around us.

I laughed and she glanced back at . “I'm not stupid enough to do that. She's in an enchanted sleep and won't even realize that any ti has passed or that I've been gone.”

Tabitha looked shocked for a mont, then she smiled a happy smile and nodded. We flew to the first rest stop and Sylphid relaxed and pretended to take a nap. I knew this because she had those half-lidded eyes staring at .

When I turned towards Tabitha with a smile and opened my mouth to ask if Sylphid always pretended to sleep, I was tackled to the ground and kissed passionately. After several minutes, we were about half undressed and my reasoning ca back with a rush.

I broke the kiss and caught her roaming hands before she opened my pants. “Tabitha, what are you doing?”

Tabitha gave

a knowing smirk and reached into the side of her bag and pulled out a mistress contract. She had prepared it for Josette, because as the second princess, she wasn't allowed to ascend to the throne. Since she was now nad Josette, she had signed it and it was legally binding. My mouth dropped open as my party updated and I gained a third mistress and a party mber.

Tabitha tossed the paper aside and tackled

again. “Don't disappoint , Saito.”

I didn't, as her screams of pleasure proved. It was always the quiet ones that made the most noise.

Syphid certainly had an eyeful as we went at it and she learned a lot more about human anatomy than she ever thought she would.

*

Louise woke up after the best sleep she had ever slept. She rolled over onto her side and snuggled into her favorite cuddle pillow that did the most wonderful things with his tongue and his fingers. In fact, she felt quite a bit better than she had when she went to sleep... and also a little horny.

Her hand went down to what was becoming her favorite plaything and she found it was soft. She sighed with disappointnt and let it go. It wasn't as fun to steal monts like that if he wasn't already hard. Who would have thought it would keep shooting if you kept playing with it, even with him asleep? It was like a never-ending fountain!

“Good morning, sleeping beauty.” Saito whispered.

“Eh.” Louise said and sighed again. “Morning.”

Saito chuckled. “Soone's grumpy they can't play today.”

Louise sat up and looked down at him, her eyes roaming over his muscles and she couldn't stop herself from regretting that she couldn't sign a mistress contract to get by his marriage vows and her own chastity clause with her family. With her betrothal to Wendes ended, she was put up on the market once more and would have to start eting potential suitors.

“We should keep to the agreent we made going to the capital.” Saito reminded her and she nodded with a sigh. “It's not so bad to stay friends, is it?”

“No.” Louise said and climbed out of bed. “Bath ti?”

Saito agreed and they went to the bath and took one together. Just relaxing and letting the world pass them by was the best. They spent twenty minutes just sitting there in the water and not talking or doing anything.

When they were done, they dried off and helped each other dress, then left to go eat breakfast. The place was nearly empty with nearly everyone gone ho for the break. Tabitha, her best friend Kirche, the blond boy Guiche, and his betrothed Montmorency, were the only ones at their year table.

“Good morning, fellow moochers.” Saito greeted them with a wave.

The tall redhead looked scandalized and Tabitha smiled. Guiche barked a laugh and Montmorency hit his arm.

“He ans we're staying at the school and giving the remaining cooking staff sothing to do.” Louise corrected him.

“That's what I said.” Saito said and walked around the table to give Tabitha a kiss on the lips.

Kirche gasped and stared at them, as did Guiche and Montmorency. Louise was too shocked by the blatant act that she didn't know how to react.

“Mistress.” Tabitha said as an explanation and they nodded in understanding.

Louise felt sad about that, mostly because she couldn't accept it, even if she was the third sister in her own family. Her status was much too high for her to throw all of that prestige away.

“Oh, there are the other two. Excuse

for a minute.” Saito said and walked off towards the head table. The other teachers and remaining students were stunned when he gave deep kisses to both Professor Chevreuse and Professor Cybil.

The two won let out soft laughs and motioned for him to go back to Louise's table. He bowed slightly to them to make them blush and went back over to Louise, whom gave him a blank stare.

“I need to talk to Mister Colbert and probably Headmaster Osmand after breakfast about sothing.” Saito said and sat down beside Louise.

“About what?” Guiche asked as he smiled and his eyes sparkled.

“You're getting quick with that glamour spell. I didn't see your wand move.” Saito complinted.

“Thank you.” Guiche said, proudly.

“I found one of the legendary tal dragons and need a miner to acquire tal to try and replicate it.” Saito said and complete silence fell around him. “What is it?” He asked and paused his eating.

“You can't be serious!” Louise exclaid. “There's a reason it's legendary!”

Saito chuckled. “I know. I saw it and I have to say it's a pri example of chanical engineering. All the parts should be easily reproducible, thanks to transfiguration, and even people with no real knowledge of how it works can maintain it.”

The others just stared at him and didn't speak.

“I need to look at the bullets for the machine guns and see if they can be reproduced with the local gunpowder. If they can, the only thing needed is for people to learn how to fly it.”

“You don't fly a dragon. You tell it where to go and it flies.” Tabitha said.

Saito gave her a warm smile. “This dragon doesn't have a brain and is fully chanical. Levers, switches, pedals, the whole works. Soone has to control everything.”

“How do they do that?” Kirche asked.

“With practice.” Saito said and started eating again.