As @EarthScorpion says above; anything smart enough to be called potentially-sapient will probably be a serialised consciousness, which means that it's more like it "wakes up" every time it's summoned and is running on "sleep mode" when unsummoned.
Actually, it synthesizes well with the way that the canon Wolkenritter are linked to Hayate in Reinforce's absence. (Um...does that mean that a portion of the summoner's magical processing power is constantly being dedicated to maintaining their summons' existence even while disincorporated? That would explain what ES was saying about how they can "level up"...)That's oddly aligned with modern moral sensibilities. I'd expect there to be a sizable faction that considers constructs subhuman and wars to be fought over it and such.
Actually it's more that if you're putting in the effort to make a summon-construct that can think and learn, why would you make it so it can't remember previous times its been summoned for it to learn from?
Is this mistress supposed to be master? Raising Heart usually uses master.
Missing the. "in the hospital"
Wouldn't there be continuity if his experiences were preserved upon dispersal?I think what's creeping me out is continuity of consciousness? "Summon" implies "this critter was over there, and now it's here." But the way Gamesverse summons were explained in the infodumps, they don't exist when they're not present (as opposed to, say, the Wolkenritter, who are theoretically running full-time on Reinforce's systems whether or not they have incarnated mana-construct bodies and are just in "sleep mode" when not in use). So, there's no "Garyuu" per se, but "a series of Garyuus, each of whom has a life span of 'from when I summoned him to when I dismissed him.'"
Ergo, the creepy part. I found Garyuu being a simulated non-sapient intelligence run by the magical program manifested within the spell encoded in the Alpine bloodline sad 'cause I kind of liked Kamen Rider Bug. He was a big sweetie to Lulu. But the idea that he's a sapient program is chilling, since the summoning seems a lot like "I'm creating sapient life! And then I'm snuffing out my creation because it's more convenient not to keep on with the upkeep!" Which, if I remember correctly, is part of canon familiar creation that Gamesverse decided to do away with because, well, it's horrifying.
Edit: Please explain why I'm wrong.
Correct.
Yes, though they might be able to argue for manslaughter if they didn't know that the familiar existed. Still responsible for the familiar's death, though.
The TSAB doesn't devote much effort to making laws pertaining to hypothetical situations that they have no reason to expect will come up. No such reincarnating person exists in the TSAB's jurisdiction at the moment, so it's a legal null area. Presumably it would be litigated against as attempted murder, or something in that vein.
Honestly, at this point you're going to have to more rigorously define what you mean by "human-level". Summons are a bit weird because being summoned to fight things is literally what they're made for; even the smart "learning" ones aren't psychologically human, and so if your meaning is "has goals and aspirations of their own such as wanting to settle down and open a bakery", such things simply don't exist - they're artificial beings made as weapons and servants, and where they have intelligence it's to better serve those functions as a design goal. As a result, judging exactly how "human-like" they are is tricky - and the smart ones don't tend to be cheap. The legal space they occupy is, at present, something I haven't given an enormous amount of thought to, but from Megane (and just for practical reasons) we can conclude that summoning them is at the very least allowable in the line of TSAB duties.
For anyone else who's curious, it's Fanfic: A Familiar Life Ch 1, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha | FanFiction
So it's destruction of private property. We have laws against that, right?
Sein stop daydreaming about Alicia. She's not coming back to Jail.
'Licia decided shortly after leaving that "Alicia" is too long and boring a name to use, and decreed that she will heretofore be known as 'Licia the Magnificent and Awesome to all and sundry.
WoG here. This is canon.
Sein: "What? Can't you just phase ouh... Oh! Right."
