Hallways

Ning looked at her weirdly. "You can?" he asked. He thought she was joking, but without answering, the girl closed her eyes and started summoning.

Ning fully expected her to fail. There was no reason for her to be able to summon the giant octopus after all. 

However, to his surprise, a summoning circle formed right in front of him as a beast emerged from it.

Ning looked at the beast with a blank look on his face. "Occy!" the princess shouted and the beast answered.

In front of him was in fact an octopus. However, it was not the octopus that he thought she was talking about.

"This is not Occy," Ning said while pointing to the small octopus that was climbing the side of the princess's bed.

"It is!" the princess said. "I named him Occy yesterday."

"Yesterday?" Ning asked when he realized the first beast she had bonded. It was in fact this very octopus. To think she had given it the same name as the one that Ning had summoned.