Ordinary Group Owner: "That's just how some tsunderes are."
Ordinary Group Owner: "At least Louise is the pretty kind, so quite a few people have a higher tolerance for her. If she were ugly, then 'tsundere' wouldn't be the word for it."
Ordinary Group Owner: "Compared to that, the familiar-contracting ritual is obviously even more outrageous. It actually requires a kiss."
Ordinary Group Owner: "Saito the Dog is at least human, but you can't exactly find humanoid forms among the other familiars."
When she had watched it before, the perspective had been Louise's and Saito Hiraga's, and the two of them had been the ones kissing, so she had not thought much else of it. But looking at it now, the familiars summoned by others were not humanoid.
If their ritual for forming a contract with their familiars also involved kissing, then...
It would be fine if the familiar was cute. Plenty of people kissed cats and dogs in real life, so there was not much difference. But if the familiar was not that cute, or was even as ugly as a Goblin-like monster, then it would be an absolute nightmare.
Louise of the Zero: "Stop talking."
Louise's face turned pale as the image of herself summoning some other non-humanoid familiar involuntarily surfaced in her mind.
Sure enough, she could not accept that at all.
Thinking about it that way, summoning Saito Hiraga had actually been the best outcome. It was a little embarrassing, but at least Saito Hiraga was human, and he possessed considerable talent. Because of the Memory Copy, she already knew something about him and was not unfamiliar with him. Besides, the two of them were future husband and wife.
Yes, the familiar she summoned had to be Saito Hiraga! A trace of determination showed in Louise's