Before the train starts!

Noah's eyes was fixed the huge building, which appeared to be obsidian and shone with the sun hitting. Despite being in ruins, it was a beautiful and new sight for him. The castle looked made of black crystals, and from what he could see from the outside, the inside was as beautiful as the outside, with thousands of monster drawings he had never seen before.

Walking forward, he began to approach the entrance, while Alice followed him and did the same.

But before they could go any further, sounds of footsteps were heard from inside the venue.

Noah looked at it as his eyes began to sparkle red, he was preparing for a possible fight.

The steps were slow when a silhouette appeared in the background, and the sound of a cane joined the sound of the steps.

A few seconds passed, while the air blew and made high-pitched noises. Noah was looking at that slowly approaching silhouette before a laugh came from it.

"Hohohohohoh, Netero sent me two pearls huh..." An old voice came from the silhouette, while the silhouette was shown to be an old man with a long black beard. Despite being hairless, his beard had not lost the color.

'An old man who color his beard black?' Noah thought, while he knew it was a possibility, everyone is very eccentric in this world, coloring the beard isn't the strangest thing. Noah hadn't let his guard down even after the old man talked about Netero, but Noah knew this old man was the person he was looking for.

The old man looked at the two of them, and saw that the girl had lowered her guard upon hearing Netero's name, and turning his gaze to Noah, he nodded in satisfaction at the boy, while thinking internally about the girl.

'She believes in people very easily...' The old man had disapproved of her, but he still knew that if Netero sent them, there must be something special about these two.

Netero said about the girl's possibility go too, and although she was nowhere near as good as Noah, she was still a talent. Those were Netero's words. The old man recognized this and for Netero to find someone a talent was a rarity, and thinking about it, it was even rarer for Netero to speak as good of someone as much as he said of Noah.

The boy was only eight years old and Netero had already said that he could become one of the strongest people in the world in a short time. Noah pass almost without difficulty the test that was meant to be deadly.

And Netero knew noah was holding himself, Netero was experienced, unlike Noah, who until a week ago was a normal person.

The old man shook his head, taking Netero's words out of his head as he looked at Noah.

"You can lower your guard boy, if I wanted you dead, you'd already be." The old man said, while putting one hand on top of the other on the cane.

Noah nodded while returning to a comfortable position. But his eyes shone the same way as he stared at the old man.

'He hasn't let his guard down completely and I see he's still tense...' The old man thought, while acents again in satisfaction. Then he turned to Alice, while his gaze changed to a slight annoyance, but he did not let it show while talking to both.

"I'm sorry to say, but you two are not ready to enter this place." He said, while looking at both of them.

Noah raised an eyebrow, but said nothing, he knew the roar came from this place, if the old man was came out of there, he was as dangerous as the creature, and if he said they're not ready, then it's something to be taken into consideration.

Alice was going to make a negative comment about it, but turned to Noah and saw that he understood what the old man said, so she did the same while looking at the old man.

'It seems that the girl has the boy as the basis for his actions... That's good, the kid looks more mature, despite her age, but she seems to be maturing as well.' The old man thought, while reading the both as books, in such a simple way.

"So how can we get into this place?" Noah asked, looking at the old man's black eyes.

The old man scratched his beard while he smiled. He raised his hand while putting it side of himself.

"Can you see what's in my hand?" He said, while his hand was turned with his palm up.

Noah looked over there and could see many scattered lines, but they were as if they were floating in the air, there wasn't a specific pattern. 'Nen?' Noah thought, he was probably seeing Nen's lines with his eyes, despite not having the ability to use Gyo.

But he didn't know what was there, while Alice had another face.

"How do you want us to see something that doesn't even exist?" She said, as she looked at the old man's hand and thought he was mocking them. Noah looked at her with a frown, while it made it clear that he didn't like her saying it.

She nodded timidly as she closed her mouth.

"Hohoho" The old man laughed as he looked at how the girl acted as the underage person when she appeared to be twice the boy's age. At first, the old man had thought Noah could see, because he was staring as if he could understand what was happening.

But the old man used Gyo and noticed nothing different in his aura, and then for the girl who was the same. He didn't know why Noah had looked at it so much, but it wasn't because he knew Nen.

"Very well. Old Netero told me to train you both, and that's what I'm going to do as a last favor." The old man said, as he bowed with difficulty. "My name is Miota, pleasure to meet you." The old man said, introducing himself.

He knew that the best way to build a good impression was to take the initiative to introduce himself first.

Noah nodded, as he bowed slightly, without taking his eyes off the old man. "I'm Noah." He replied, only to return to his previous position.

Alice didn't bow, while she said. "My name is Alice."

Miota stroked his black beard while thinking about how to introduce them to Nen. He knew he was going too fast, but he knew Noah was in a hurry and probably preferred it that way.

He was briefed on their coming less than two days ago, and they got here so quickly, it could only mean they were in a hurry. More specifically Noah, who seemed to be the leader of this duo.

"And what exactly are you going to train us for?" Noah asked while waiting for it to be Nen. He already knew it was going to be Nen, but he still had to ask.

"You'll understand, but first you both need to take care of this..." He pointed to Alice, who was stained with green blood all over her body. Noah wasn't better either, he was dirty with the blue blood of the huge worm, but it wasn't too much as her, as he didin't take a directly bath from the monster like Alice's.

Noah towered as he looked side to side and saw nothing but a big extention of white sand, beyond the black castle in front of him.

"And how?" Noah asked, not seeing water anywhere to clean up. Alice, contrary to expectations, was not ashamed by this, because she was already in the mood to clean up and was feeling sticky.

The old man scratched his beard as he turned to one side and got away from the black building and headed towards him as he smiled.

Noah shrugged as he followed him, too.

A few minutes walking, they began to distance themselves from the huge castle, while something appeared in his vision.

"An oasis?" Noah asked aloud when he saw a spot in the spouted desert. But it was different from a normal oasis, because the trees around it were gray and looked solid. Its leaves were as white as the sand and the water on the center of the oasis was colorless and someone could pass straight if they did not pay attention, thinking there was no water.

They approached the scene, while the old man pointed to the crystal clear water.

"This is where you're going to clean up, and also here you're going to train." He said, while Noah nodded and went to the water. He had nothing to worry about because he had many means of prevention.

He arrived at the beginning of the water while removing his clothes. Alice stood still for a while, but seeing Noah going there, did the same.

Noah looked where the old man, only to see nothing where he had been.

"He left and I didn't see it?" Noah thought, and before he entered the water, he looked at Alice who was at that moment, without clothes. He had to admit that despite the low height, she had a robust body. Perfect proportions for her size.

Removing these thoughts off, he went into the water as he gradually entered, but he realized something when he was going deeper..

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Author Note:

I'm sorry for being too late, i was with a huge criative block, but it already endded.

I'll try to write more and more chapters. Well, i hope you'll are liking it...

Thanks for reading!