Not too much time passed before all three plates had been picked clean.
[Not bad, but if I was to compare it this would be grade b beef back on earth, like shoulder, or a similar cut it would be great if they used a different cooking method other than just grilling it, but their culinary practices are quite behind those of earth]
"Glad you enjoyed your food"
The waitress returned to bus our plates, Raisa chose that moment to drop payment into her hand as well.
After that we set off back to the street.
"Satou, so are you really ok with me working with you on selling your potions?"
"Yeah I don't see why it wouldn't be"
"That's great! But you've still got your errands to run today, I could always push to make you do them another day but this deal would again be already in my favor so making extra demands would be wrong"
"I see well I get your point but what we're doing isn't really important"
"No no.. You stick to your plans I'll have work to do to prepare anyway, so just come to my place tomorrow morning ok? Viktor told you the way right?"
"Uh yeah he kind of gave me vague directions but I should be alright I think, worst case Kurama could lead me there"
"Huh really but how?"
"That's a trade secret"
[Yeah right like I'm going to brave the level of hell that would come from declaring he could track her by her scent, that's like walking up to someone and saying they stink, making it 100x worse to be saying it to a lady]
"Hmm sounds kind of shady to me, but I'll leave it be for now so I'll see the pair of you tomorrow, make sure he doesn't sleep in ok Kura"
'nod nod'
[Oh for goodness sake]
"Oh actually before you go Raisa, do you have a quick moment?"
"Huh oh uh yeah I should why?"
"Follow me"
I quickly sped off at a fast walking pace to the guild's back square, once there I materialized a kobold summon card into my hand, and handed it over to Raisa
"Huh what's this?"
"It's a magic tool"
"This, piece of paper is a magic tool?"
"Yup if this works then you will have the ability to summon your very own kobold just like Kurama here"
"R.R.REALY!"
"If it works yes…"
[Wow you can almost feel the intensity radiating off of her now, wait is she muttering something? From the sounds of it it's like she's praying, ha ha guess she really really wants this to work]
"Ok so this part could be tricky since you're going to have to learn to say the 'spell' using a different language"
[This is trickier than I thought, if I try to write the word summon, it comes out in Terra language, but if I break it down I should be able to manage the individual syllables and train her to say the full word quickly from those]
Having finished breaking down the words summon, and kobold in my head I then turned to Raisa.
"Ok so before we begin do you know what you'd like to name your Kobold if you get one? This is going to be tied to the summoning itself, so even if you rename it later on the original name is going to be what you'd use to re-summon it if you ever dispel it."
"Hmm well whatever I summon should look pretty close to Kura here right?"
"Uh yeah I've only ever summoned Kurama myself and one other that looked like him so I'm not sure if the next one would be the same or not"
"Well I'll just have to pick something that'll work whether that's true or not"
A couple of intense moments passed with Raisa locked in deep mental warfare with herself.
"I've got it, I'm going to go with Ruby, that way it work's if she's red like Kura, and even if she isn't then she's still going to be a precious gem to me"
[hmmm well I named Kurama after I had summoned him so I was already guaranteed of his gender but this method's different for all I know she could wind up with a male kobold too.]
"Ok if you're sure"
"Yes!"
Securing her approval of her own choice I moved back to the dirt and placed the syllable breakdown of the name in the dirt as well.
"Ok now comes the hardest part, I need you to listen carefully to what I'm about to say memorize it and then say all of it as once when the time comes"
"Mmmm"
A fire blazing in her eyes, hands cupping her ears to listen to every utterance out of my mouth.
Attempt after attempt passed by, as she spoke the words individually and broken at first.
But after nearly an hour of hard practice the individual words sounded just right.
With a visible bead of sweat starting to work its way down from her forehead, I made my announcement.
"Ok that should be more than good enough for the spell, all that's left if to combine everything at once and see if it works"
"it will work! It has to!"
"Ok well Kurama and me will step back then when you're ready hold the paper I gave you in front of you, and speak the words all at once"
Distancing ourselves to the side of the square while Raisa stood in the center gaze fixed upon the card in her hands.
"Koborudo shōkan: Rubī" (Summon Kobold: Ruby)
Hearing her speak out the words, it reflected back to me as a foreign language but what i had taught her was English so I suppose this is what that reverse translate to in her language.
A second passed but nothing happened, with my summons a flash of white light occurs and the summon appears before me, so did this on fail.
As I watched on, I noticed a grimace on Raisa's face until I noticed that the look was caused by pain, her gaze still fixed on the card in her hands.
When I joined her gaze and looked at the card, I could see small flames were burning the card up and scorching her hands briefly.
[So it failed after all]
Once the card had fully burnt up a Raisa's face filled with sadness, tears welling in her eyes.
But then.
'FLASH'