Zero no Tsukaima:Side Story Volume1 Story3

3rd Story - Tabitha and the Assassin

"I say Nee-sama, I'm really hungry."

Sylphid started clamouring.

Tabitha remained reading her book. From her pupils that emitted a deep blue glow, there were no signs of emotions, with no way of knowing whether or not she was engrossed in her book. Just it seemed as if she only noticed the book's pages.

Here was 3000m in air, near Gallia and Tristinia's border

Tabitha and Sylphid was, just like usual, flying towards the capital of Gallia, Lutèce.

Discovering a pool, the wind rhyme dragon reckoned there should be fish there.

Showing no regard to her master who was reading a book, Sylphid started talking to herself. Tabitha didn't reply.

"I'm going to land."

Tabitha, of course, didn't reply.

Sylphid started rapidly descending. Under these speeds, Tabitha was momentarily thrown into the air. In the process of descending, Tabitha still maintained her pose perfectly.

She maintained her pose when she was sitting on Sylphid, and fell down this way. In this situation, Tabitha still flipped the pages of his page. Peng! Sylphid made a noise flapping her wings and then continued descending. In a split second she landed next to the pond. The pond seemed to have been used by farmers for irrigation.

Slyphid immediately dipped her head below the surface of the water, and shook her head a few times. By the time she took her head out the water, she already scooped a large amount of fish in her mouth.

Slyphid swallowed the fish with a "kyui-kyui", then licked her face with her tongue. At this moment, she saw Tabitha was about to fall down from above, therefore started chanting a spell.

"Wind, float in the air, form soft, condensed blocks and pull her up again"

This is ancient magic.

Because of this, the air below Tabitha began to sway. Descending at a speed approaching 200 m/s, Tabitha's body immediately sank into the huge block of air, and under the counter force was flung back into the air.

Sylphid began to fly, and in midair bit onto Tabitha's collar, then gradually put Tabitha onto the ground. Tabitha still maintained that pose, sitting down on the floor add flipping the pages of her book.

Sylphid extended her neck and bit the book, taking it away, then swallowed it.

"Nee-sama,"

Sylphid mercilessly glared at Tabitha, who bewilderingly lifted her head and looked at herself. She opened wide her eyes that didn't match her ferocious appearance, faced Tabitha, and said these openening words,

"Today I, no matter what, will lecture you. I, Sylphid, just flung Nee-sama off my back. In these situations, you should get angry and scream shrilly or loudly. You, however, just let yourself fall down without making a sound, just what is the matter? You really aren't energetic, eh." Sylphid raised her front paw, put it on Tabitha's head and twisted it a few times. Tabitha also matched her actions, and simultaneously twisted her head a few times.

"Please say something, okay?"

However, Tabitha didn't relent.

"I say! It's just because you're like this, that you were manipulated by your abominable princess of acousin. Of course I, Slyphid, also understand Nee-sama's circumstances. However! You at least should complain a little! I always stood outside the window and watched Nee-sama being bullied by that idiot princess, and really fell frustrated! At least say something back! Kyui-kyui!"

Sylphid gently bit Tabitha's head a few times, as if she was a petty child. Tabitha's little, small head immediately was engulfed entirely by Slyphid's mouth.