Whats this black powder?
and I agree with that any cheating is bad and its time for the main plot to start. And also the feelings are really the main source of void power. Louise getting angry recharges her MP and saito being happy or love makes him stronger.
Btw why does the emotions involve differ for the two? to make one stronger the one has to suffer. Its kinda lame idea.
Sorry I should have said gun powder - explosives. Jack throws a lump of gun powder at saito and Louise intercepts it with an explosion spell just in time.
As for why the emotions differ, I think Louise just doesn't know any better because she's been insecure and bitter all her life until she met Saito. I remember one time she asks herself if there's any other emotion she can use (during the battle with that elf). I think it's obvious what that is and that she will find the answer (yeah yeah I know...). I hope anyway. Getting powered by grief/jealousy/anger can't be healthy in the long run
Anyway I think the plot is gonna pick up now. Vol16/17 were the calm before the storm.
edit: in retrospect I sounded a little obsessed there. not to worry, such obsessions fade quickly and do not control me (but I'd still be pissed if Saito cheats again)
As always, if you want the full story (and a lot better told that I did), you will have to read it yourself. I tried to outline the parts that need focus, so walls of text that didn't matter in the long run (I think), etc. were cut. Also, the quality of the summarizing seems to waver depending on how I felt after reading the chapter...
Thinking back, it wasn't even that eventful of a volume...
Spoiler for Vol.17 Summary:
Satio’s Despair-
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Ah… I remember what happened at the end of the previous volume now. Saito got attacked by two creepy siblings and lost Derf after he chased after Louise running away after she spotted him cheating with Henrietta.
Anyways…
Saito wakes up in bed. Siesta had found him after she got worried about him and brought him back. After remembering everything that had happened, he goes to look for what is left of Derf, but he finds nothing. He goes to Scarron’s Inn, and there is a slightly comedic moment where he and Jessica get fired up over him cheating with the Queen. Saito decides to mail everyone and ask if they had seen Louise. He goes to the Queen himself. She had received a mail from Louise asking her to remove her of her position and asks for an unlimited break.
Saito says he will look for her. It seems that it is likely Louise went to some church/sanctuary type of place. Henrietta asks him to find Louise before a meeting with Gallia.
Saito… Stop thinking about how beautiful and acting heart-struck over Henrietta throughout the chapter… I don’t want you to cheat and cause this whole development again…
…Dame da… I read Namaco as Namco…
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Flight-
Louise is wondering around, thinking of going somewhere where she wouldn’t meet anyone that knew her. She left her horse, so she’s walking now.
So begins Louise’s adventure~
First she stopped at a really broken down place. Louise, already in a rather… bad condition, spends her time drinking alcohol, but she thought that if she stayed there like the way she is, then rumors will fly and she will be found, so she leaves.
In the next inn, Louise (disguising with stuff she had once used during Tabitha’s rescue) gets into trouble with one of the men that was drinking. Of course, she was pretty drunk herself too… She really angers him and he drags her outside and was about to punch her when he was blown away by magic. A girl dressed in a dress and frills appears (see illustration) and scares him away. She invites Louise to drink with her, so they both go back into the bar. Louise gets interested in her and agrees to wait for her siblings to come in three days after she told her that she might know a place she would like to go to live by herself secretly…
By the way, while drunk and talking to the girl, named Janet, Louise’ rant on Henrietta was so right and funny.
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Allies and Friends-
One week later, answers to the mail and the Undines began to arrive at the palace.
Guiche arrives and goes to the garden where he heard Saito was. Malicorne, Leinal, and Gimly were also staring at Saito, who had wrapped a white headband on his head and was seiza-sitting with logs around him. Siesta was sitting and looking at him too.
…*shakes head* Hah… For a moment, I tried to picturize the scene, but Siesta looked like Rola…
Anyways, then Saito does one of those things you see in movies. He cuts all of the blocks so fast, no one even saw his arm move.
After that, the boys went up to him and asked some questions over the attack on Saito. When they ask about if it has any relation to Louise’s disappearing, he ends up shutting up, so Siesta ends up answering for him…
She gets angry and grabs Saito’s neck when they asked why Louise ran away… Really, Saito, listen to her and only cheat with her. How many times do I need to tell you that…
Anyways, she doesn’t tell them the name of the person (of course) and Saito remains silent on it too.
As he is thanking them for coming, Tiffania appears. Then Colbert and… what was her name………….. Kirche! Right, and Kirche appears.
They start asking about who Saito cheated with.
Kirche thinks she might know who Saito cheated with and whispers to Colbert. Realizing what a bad thing Saito did, he calms down the guys who were asking and convinces them to focus on finding Louise first.
On Louise’s side, Louise and Janet is waiting for her siblings. Louise is just drinking and rambling on over Saito’s cheating. Faint --> Wakes up --> Rant --> Faint --> Janet pours water on her and she wakes up.
Anyways, some soldiers searching for Louise arrives, but they were told to search for a single girl with pink hair, so they didn’t suspect them and left.
Also, throughout this part, Janet talks about how she’s found a liking for Louise, etc. Kind of yuri, kind of just creepy/sadistic(?).
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Sulpice-
Saito’s group split into three groups to search for Louise. Kirche to Colbert, Gimly and Leinal, and Saito-Siesta-Guiche-Malicorne-Tiffania. Henrietta wants him to come back in two weeks.
They departed for their search on the 8th morning after Louise left.
They managed to find the poor inn that Louise first visited and Saito managed to gain information that Louise had been there. They mail the other groups and head for Sulpice.
*insert long scene where Malicorne, Guiche, and Saito talk about woman, followed by Tiffania (and Siesta) scolding him. Followed by Saito getting depressed again*
Malicorne! How right you are! Just what is so good about that Louise!?
…Though you yourself have a S girlfriend. Fuh.
As it became morning, two men/boys riding horses appeared. Jack and Dodo, who have come searching for Janet, who was waiting for them. But Dodo forgot the exact name of the place she was staying at.
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First Battle with Jack
The group split up. Siesta and Saito, and the rest. They went through the inns asking if Louise had been there, but no luck. At their fourth inn, after Saito asked and got a no, another group of guys rushed in and asked for a similar person. The barkeeper remarked on how Saito asked something similar, and when the guys turned and looked at Saito, both of them recognized each other. Saito tells Siesta to run to the others.
He turns to Dodo, but Dodo says he doesn’t want to fight today. The barkeeper tells them to do it somewhere else, so Saito tells Dodo to go outside with him, but Dodo hits him with an Air Hammer and runs off. Saito chases.
Dodo runs up to Jack and tells him about Saito. Jack prepares to attack Saito, but realizes that if he killed them, it’d be like working for free, which would be very problematic, so he tries to stop Saito, but Saito slices through all of his dirt golems, etc. Jack and Dodo run away.
Saito chases after them, but in the end, they manage to run away. Guiche and co. arrive. Saito is angry at himself for feeling thankful he did not have to fight the two, because he had been frightened to fight them (partly because Derf and Louise isn’t with him).
From her window, Janet had watched the fight. Realizing who Louise had run away from, she smiled…
And so, the two brothers finally reached the room Janet was in and was surprised to see Louise also there. It seems that Janet has, in the past, controlled the hearts of people (girls?) and turned them into “dolls”?
Anyways, Janet tells her brothers to tell Louise how to get to the convent they once brought a noble’s hidden child to (this… would be the girl that appeared at the end of the previous volume?). Dodo opposed, but Jack wrote a pass of sorts and gave it to Louise. Janet said she would take Louise there, and gave Jack a kiss on the cheek. She asks if Louise really wants to go there, because she will no longer be able to leave, and Louise says yes.
Saito leaves for Earth with a broken heart and Louise forever lived in the convent.
The end.
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Which doesn’t happen, moving on…
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Damian and Lord Gondoran (sp?)
Eleonore received a note to start researching on a magic device that could fire at any time. She was confused as to why they would have her research something like this (recently, there has been quite a bit of strange research --> previous volume’s magic potion, for instance). She goes to the head, Gondoran or whatever, to ask him why. After a rather rough encounter with secretary, she talks to him about the research, but she ends up retreating after he promised to get what she wanted (research material). After she left, a boy around 10 years old appeared from the shadows, calling Gondoran “Lord Grey”(?). They talk about money (Gondoran had to give), and when G asks the boy, Damian, why he wants so much money, he says he has a dream and smiles.
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Nun Louise-
Louise gets to her destination. The priest Machis gives the two a suspicious look, but he changes his mind after he sees Jack’s note. He warns Louise that the place she is going to is filled with girls that, for some reason, had no other place to live, and to not ask investigate them. She is given an accessory that has a disguise magic (Face Change) casted on it, which changes the way she looked.
She bids farewell to Janet, who says she has a feeling they will meet again soon.
At the monastery, Louise went by Soeur Vanessa. She got to know Josette after Josette appeared to stop a few girls from asking Louise questions about Louise’s life. And for some reason, Josette gets attached to Louise.
…The rest of the chapter just has Louise getting along with the other girls, getting depressed again because she can’t forget Saito, getting cheered up(?)/lectured by Josette, and then it ends with her taking out her Founder’s Prayer Book and the book lighting up with a message that tells her that if a Void user dies, the power goes to someone else. It also shows her a spell…
Eh? Louise took the book with her? First time I heard that…
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Josette’s Resolution-
Err… Well, that was quick… Louise’s involvement with the monastery…
The next day, Julio appears and takes Josette away from the place. In love with him and trusting him and all, she easily accepts. As suspicious and plotting as ever though, Julio.
Louise, seeing this, finally makes the decision to go back to her real life and stop running after half of the volume, takes the Ruby of Water and the Prayer Book and uses the magic that appeared last night, Teleport, and escapes the monastery.
So much for the place no one could return from… (-_-)
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Two Staffs, One Crown-
Two days after Julio brought Josette out of the place…
Tabitha, the Romaria Prime Minister (that Isabella didn’t trust, despite, or rather because, of how well he did his job), Isabella, etc. looked up at the new palace that was built, prettier than before.
It seems that Isabella has come to love/like Tabitha and her mom. Her mom is also getting better now. And Tabitha has begun to show more expressions/emotions around her family.
When she gets to her room, we get a scene where she tries on dresses and thinks about Saito. Soon, she hears a knock on her window and when she takes a look, she sees a clone of her staring right back.
!!!
First time this volume brought me back from a monotone feeling…
Anyways, Julio comes in and knocks her out with a sleeping potion. He tells Josette, who had took off her pendant and ended up looking exactly like Tabitha, about how she is Tabitha’s twin sister and tells here to take her place and he will bring the real Tabitha back to the monastery. Then we get one of those moments, you know, that type of girls that will do anything for the person they love. She asks for a kiss and he gives it to her, asking her to be his woman.
The next morning, the Prime Minister arrived and asked Charlotte’s mom to apologize for what she did. She didn’t know what he was talking at first, but he explained it and then she started crying while she explained it/said they had no choice and that many twins died fighting each other over the thrown.
Sorry, not feeling it here…
Anyways, the Prime Minster tells Josette to come in and the two hug and cry over each other. The Prime Minister than reveals what happened to the real Tabitha and shows that there is nothing she could do about the situation, as she could not bear to send her daughter back to the monastery again either.
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Chapter 10- Garden party to Celebrate the Enthronement
Henrietta arrived from her ship and began the long travel to the party. Saito, depressed that he couldn’t find Louise, is as depressed as ever. Even more depressed than before? Siesta and Colbert stayed behind, just in case Louise returned back there.
Then there is a scene where Agnes explains the results of her search on the people that attacked Saito.
Now now, Henrietta, I understand that you’re a bit ticked off that Louise is so selfish and didn’t think about what happens to you now that she ran away, but if you yourself… Nevermind, hahaha.
Troubling times for Henrietta… Trying to figure out if Charlotte (Gallia) plans to help Romaria with their crusade… The nobles in her own country trying to kill Saito… Louise running away and disappearing.
Everyone’s so selfish… <-- Her words, not mine
Henrietta walks to the garden with Saito and sits down and has a talk with him. Anyways, it pretty much results with him thinking about his reason to live and reason to stay in this world, which is Louise.
The party pretty much starts the next day.
When Tabitha (Josette ver.) appeared, a Detect Magic was cast to make sure she was the real person. After she passed that, everyone knew she was the real Tabitha. She announced to the crowd that Gallia would cooperate with Romalia’s crusade, which startles everyone. Henrietta seemed to have collapsed… Here, come to my room.
Putting that aside, Saito lines up to talk to Tabitha. When he finally gets there, he tries to ask her questions on this decision to cooperate with Romaria, but both the prime minster of Romaria and Tabitha wouldn’t really answer him. Guiche has to drag him away from her.
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Bond-
At night, Saito was called into Henrietta’s room. She had finally recovered enough from the shock to speak, it seems. She asks what happened when Saito went to talk to Tabitha.
Then someone taps their windows. A girl calling herself “Underground Water” brings out a letter that was from her master, telling Henrietta that the current Tabitha was not the real Tabitha and asks for a messenger from her side. Saito and Reinal decide to follow UW.
UW brings her to her master. It turns out to be Isabella, who has realized that the current Tabitha isn’t the real Tabitha, but is trying to make sure know one knows she knows Tabitha is fake, She asks Saito and co. to make sure not to let the enemy know they know either.
As they left outside, Jack appeared. He had just passed by and thought about going to the old hidden base of his knight squad and conveniently met up with Saito, his target. With the price on his head finally set (Damian and the Lord, I guess), Jack decides to kill Saito. Saito was losing, but as he screams for Louise, she suddenly appears with her Teleport. Together, they fight.
*insert stuff about a bond of destiny, yaddayadda*
Jack uses up all of his power on one final magic, but Louise dispels the entire thing. With all of this magic used up, he collapses.
I’m surprised no one noticed the fight. It should have been loud, in various meanings.
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Epilogue-
Henrietta-Saito and Louise inform each other on what they know.
Henrietta and Louise gets into a fight.
Louise and Saito makes up. They kiss.
The end.
Tune in to find out when Saito cheats next~
Spoiler for A few other thoughts:
It was an okay volume. To be honest, I read most of it in monotone, because there wasn't really many exciting moments. Most of it was just, for the x amount of time, just Louise and Saito (mainly Louise) thinking about how precious the other person was.
The part with Josette taking Tabitha's place was interesting though, as was the other stuff that involved Romaria's evil schemes.
The illustrations weren't that exciting either...
Also, the boss fight at the end was a bit... Meh. Doesn't help the whole destiny thing that Louise thought about and stuff brought up more "Saito won't go home" flags...
The magic boost the potion gives the siblings feels kind of vague... Dodo uses it and can somehow create a magic enough to shatter Derf, but Jack, who is supposed to be stronger than him, doesn't pose much of a threat and quickly faints.
Also, is it just me, or do I feel the entire Saito cheating on Henrietta incident wasn't really cleared up? H and L got into a fight, Saito goes on about how great Louise is (not denying Henrietta's attractiveness), and then it ends with them kissing.
Anyways, I guess the next volume will focus more on the Romaria story now? I'm sure most people hope something like this and the previous volume happens again...
3 siblings still out on the loose, too, so we have to solve that part too...
I just hope it gets more exciting... Haa, Siesta will be out again for a few volumes, at this rate...
New characters weren't that impressive either. Josette was just one of those girls that will do anything for the person they love, and doesn't really have her own will, doing what she is told. The siblings' don't have noticeable personalities either. At the most, only Janet has a personality, being creepy all the time.
The Pope didn't get any lines this volume, hurrah~ Don't ever come out again.
Henrietta's rather... amusing attitude towards what she did was pretty funny. It left me chuckling, points with me. Though I think it just gives more reason for people that hate her to hate her...?
Thanks man, finished reading this and 16.
As for comments, after the cheating thing I seriously believed that saito (friggin' charlie harper imitator who aparently thinks with his penis instead of his mind) would get ass whoopin or something really deep as indication of louise's hurt feelings. but wtf....I was wondering whether you could, well, summarize a little deeper the epilogue part because I think it got a little too sumarized
Second, wtf is with the princess, I thought she had given up on saito after the bitchslap of louise and, well, making up with her I believe in vol 11. Isn't she a little whorish or what.
This cheating arc kinda led me to believe this novel is getting dangerously close to simply become like the simpsons where characters do not develop (in the important stuff, I know they have gotten more brave and strong and all that **** but dude is like they keep resetting themselves all the time) or Ross & Rachel kinda stuff. I know resolving that thing would make the novel end (I do not believe so, but some people do), but cmon give me a break, a little relationship advancement would not hurt, as in saito getting a little further with louise instead of the usual "oh I got problems that together with yours make both of us unable to co-habit-->you or I run away-->plot problem that makes one save the other---> back to the start (RESET)". IF they are developing, the writer is doing it in turtle steps.
...and seriously what's with that slutty princess I thought louise was her friend (if possible someone could kinda sumarize deeper the whole part in vol 16 where charlie ends up kissing the now slutty princess? I mean what exactly made charlie kiss her or get lovie-wobbie with her?).
I think the author wouldn't dare to the never ending cheating again. The plot is catching up again so it will probably stop their. With both reconciling their love love relation ship of pet and master.
But it didn't really get him back home instead back in history or rather. His memory backtrack to the point of where brimr is still alive and being under his elf familiar.
Just caught up with what's translated and read all of serenade_beta's summaries, which a big thanks for giving them...
At this point I pretty much don't care what happens to either. Ok, well gotta give Saito props on his hero skills but his romance skills suck badly. I agree with pretty much everyone else's thoughts concerning his dog ways. Louise, my god just shut up and go away somewhere for good. The constant whining, then bitching about Saito back to whining and so on and so on. Henrietta, someone earlier said that Saito and her should just be a couple, and I have to admit that sounds about right. They deserve each other, and don't ask me why it must be the needy factor and unlike Louise she doesn't front. Poor, poor Siesta gotta admit she's my favorite and hopefully she comes out with all smiles...
Only thing I care to see before this novel comes to an end is that Julio meets a very painful and hopefully horrible death. Along the lines of being coated in honey then falling into a pit with large red ants, the Indiana Jones kind of red ants...
I don't understand why ppl bitc**ng about saito being unfaithful bla bla bla....... If u don't like it, stop reading it.....Its not like all of you bought the novel anyway. Your complaining for something that you get for free. aishh
I don't mind saito become a casanova... for me his attitude make the novel alive anyway. I was hoping saito can taste all the girl . Just pokemon motto (Gotto get them all) hehehe
I don't understand why ppl bitc**ng about saito being unfaithful bla bla bla....... If u don't like it, stop reading it.....Its not like all of you bought the novel anyway. Your complaining for something that you get for free. aishh
I don't mind saito become a casanova... for me his attitude make the novel alive anyway. I was hoping saito can taste all the girl . Just pokemon motto (Gotto get them all) hehehe
And you no doubt bought novels so you can complain about people complaining, right? Or else you should STFU, since you cannot speak out your opinion as well if we were to follow this retarded logic of yours.
And you no doubt bought novels so you can complain about people complaining, right? Or else you should STFU, since you cannot speak out your opinion as well if we were to follow this retarded logic of yours.
My logic retarded?... i dont think so.... Look, i assume u bought the novel and you don't like the content and bit**ing about it in the forum. Then your u bought the next volume and still bit***ng about it and the cycle continues....look who is retarded you or me? You wasting your money on something u dont like....aishh.
Look i dont want to start a fight here. Its just this last pages of the discussion is like getting nowhere and ppl are bitching like there is no end. Cmon this is a discussion forum not a bitc**ing forum.
Anyway back to the topic.... From the way the that stories continue i got the feeling that the novel is far from over. I dint mind thought, the story could be going for something EPIC.
In other words, just because people complain about Saito doesn't mean they don't like Zero no Tsukaima. This is a forum, we are discussing; discussions don't always have to be positive.
My logic retarded?... i dont think so.... Look, i assume u bought the novel and you don't like the content and bit**ing about it in the forum. Then your u bought the next volume and still bit***ng about it and the cycle continues....look who is retarded you or me? You wasting your money on something u dont like....aishh.
Look i dont want to start a fight here. Its just this last pages of the discussion is like getting nowhere and ppl are bitching like there is no end. Cmon this is a discussion forum not a bitc**ing forum.
Anyway back to the topic.... From the way the that stories continue i got the feeling that the novel is far from over. I dint mind thought, the story could be going for something EPIC.
You still haven't answered how you are allowed to express your opinion if you haven't bought novels if everyone else are not allowed to since the have it for free. This is what I call retarded.
And not liking one character does not mean disliking whole series. I can like series but can dislike a character or their acts. It still does not mean I hate series in general. Imagine that.
This is not appreciation forums, so negative opinion is just as valid as positive one and praising series is just as silly as bitching about it. But again following your logic such forum should only be used by a small number of people of people who bought the material the talk about.
You still haven't answered how you are allowed to express your opinion if you haven't bought novels if everyone else are not allowed to since the have it for free. This is what I call retarded.
And not liking one character does not mean disliking whole series. I can like series but can dislike a character or their acts. It still does not mean I hate series in general. Imagine that.
This is not appreciation forums, so negative opinion is just as valid as positive one and praising series is just as silly as bitching about it. But again following your logic such forum should only be used by a small number of people of people who bought the material the talk about.
Maybe you guyz are right...my mistake.... is just me i think .....i dont like ppl complaining something that their should pay but they get it by free..... its like they are not appreciate it. My 2 cent anyway.
I don't have any light novel and no manga because I can't even read it if I bought it. Your right I get it for free from saint people who's willing to translate it for free. BUT its not like its our fault and all for being can't read it and can't afford it. And just because we don't like a character in the series means I don't like the series. And I know that he conversation died out but still its hits me when I read that post well ow well.
Saito sucks everyone must know. And then the main plot will start again next in the volume.
I don't have any light novel and no manga because I can't even read it if I bought it. Your right I get it for free from saint people who's willing to translate it for free. BUT its not like its our fault and all for being can't read it and can't afford it. And just because we don't like a character in the series means I don't like the series. And I know that he conversation died out but still its hits me when I read that post well ow well.
Saito sucks everyone must know. And then the main plot will start again next in the volume.
maybe saito is suck for you but not for me.... I like the way that he is now,....unsecure....uncertain feeling that make he move on other girlz (or girlz try to make a move on him ).... but that is a "normal" man always do .... trying to find comfort from others...and that bring a little bit originality on the novel
Most of you guyz hate the princess but for me thats what "normal" girl do when they want something..... She is trying to the to find comfort or maybe steal saito from louise. Maybe u can question about the morality but she trying to find her own happiness in her own way although i cant deny her way is cruel.
I am a person who like to combine fantasy with reality of life..... and i dont hate anyone on znt..... each of them have their own reason on doing things.
2009-07-24, 22:46
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. Just pokemon motto (Gotto get them all) hehehe
It left me chuckling, points with me. Though I think it just gives more reason for people that hate her to hate her...?
