Category:Characters

Hiraga Saito
Hiraga Saito is the familiar spirit summoned by Louise. He actually came from earth, Tokyo in Japan and considering the social organization of the fictional land that Zero no Tsukaima presents, he is a plebeian. At the moment of the summoning, he was walking from a computer shop to have his notebook fixed, when he sees a strange green sphere of light ahead his path. Then, he gets closer to check it out, but as soon as he touches the sphere, something pulls him inside. Next thing, he sees himself falling from a great height directly on Tristania's Magical Academy gardens. As he takes a look where he is, he actually surprises himself that he can't understand a word of what people around are saying. He found himself in the middle of the summoning familiar examination and, in front of him, was his master to be: Louise de la Valliere. To confirm the bound between familiar and master, Louise kisses him and the rune of familiar is carved on his left hand. Right at the first episode, Louise is able to cast a spell to make Saito understand their language, so they start communicating normally.

The rune reveals to be a ancient powerful rune, from the Gandalfr, a legendary familiar.

As a Japanese in the middle of a fantasy-magical land, Saito tries to live his life accepting that he is probably no longer seeing home again, but he still have some hopes (1st season). As the story develops, he quickly understand that his role is to protect his master Louise, accepting his duty. Of course he realizes even quicker than that, he actually is falling in love for Louise, which has its ups and downs.

He gains a powerful ability to wield combat swords and fight using them. His powers grow as he learns how to improve and use them. Saito first finds out about his powers in a duel against the aristocrat mage Guiche. After that, he gets known by other plebeians as the "Our sword". After that, Louise buys him a rusty old sword, that reveals to be actually a talking powerful sword called Derflinger, the previous weapon used by the Gandalfr himself in the past. He is also mentioned to the left hand of god and as a result of his status as the Gandalfr learning how to read in the language that is presented in the world he has been transported to.

Being from modern Japan, Saito has little to no knowledge of ettiquete concerning nobles, this lead's him to offend people and embarress Louise when he shows no respect towards others simply because they are nobles. However he is quite firm in his resolve that them being nobles don't matter to him, this attitude is what lead him to fight Guiche when he first arrived.