Misfortune

When Ena woke up, her body was sore all over and she didn't even want to move. Luckily, her instructor allowed her to rest for today since it was her first time training, she could only hope that when she would start training in fighting, it wouldn't be as hard as her physical training.

'Yue, how did I do?'

「 Not good at all, your mana barely went up. 」

'"Stat."

『 System Name: Yue 』

『 Host Name: Ena von Quintus 』

『 Birthday: January 13th, 777 』

『 Age: 6 』

『 Sex: Female 』

『 Mana: 31/31 』

『 Magic: Locked 』

All dreams and hopes Ena had shattered to pieces, all that training just to gain one MP, how much would she need until she unlocked her magic?

'Yue, am I only going to gain one mana point every time I train?'

「 No, depending on how much you train, your gaining of mana points will gradually increase. Just leave the complicated math stuff to me, that brain of yours can't even calculate it. 」

'That's quite rude you know? One day it might actually hurt my feelings, what would you do?'

「 Like that would actually hurt your feelings, in your past memories, you'd always be teased and would simply play it off correct? So as you humans call it, I'm teasing you. 」

'You don't need to explain it to me, I know what you mean.'

「 How would I know? I can't tell if you're actually able to decipher what I'm talking about. 」

'I can't argue with you at all, is there anything important I should take note of?'

「 Hmm, aside from the missions you have, I- 」

'MISSIONS?'

「 Didn't you check? Oh right, I forgot to tell you. Just say mission and it'll show up. 」

With a sigh in frustration, she opened up her missions.

「 Mission 」

『 0/25 push ups ; incomplete 』

『 0/25 sit ups ; incomplete 』

『 2 minute plank ; incomplete 』

『 30 minutes of rest in cold bath ; incomplete 』

'What is this...'

「 Due to there being no materials for doing pull ups, you will be doing a 2 minute plank. Do you need me to show you what a plank is? 」

'Nope, I know what it is.'

「 Also there's a bonus of 3 points if you're able to finish this in an hour due to this being your first official mission. 」

'3 points? I'll do it now.'

「 There's no nee- 」

Before Yue could even finish, Ena sprang up from her bed and immediately got ready to train. Wearing more comfortable clothes that was suited for training, she immediately went into one of the open spaces of her room and laid a large mat down.

Ena started stretching her arms and legs so she wouldn't pull anything. The feeling of a cramp in your legs weren't pleasant, it would hurt like shit. Starting the workout, she did the same thing Mary told her to do but this time, she used shorter breaks. The bonus reward of 3 points burned in Ena's mind and determination filled her eyes.

She started doing her sit ups first since it was the easiest. Sit ups helped stabilizing her core and abdominal muscles, it also helped helped work on multiple parts of her body. Moving onto the push ups, she got into the position and bent her arms before straightening it again. Push ups helped build upper body strength as well as the core and shoulders.

After finishing the 2 first missions in 30 minutes, she moved onto the plank. That's when the soreness of her arms invaded her nerves, 30 minutes into the plank, her arms were already trembling as her stomach hit the mat.

"This is..quite difficult." muttered Ena as she panted.

Her knees and shoulders were starting to hurt, however, the 3 bonus points were for more important. After a minute of rest, she immediately got back up again and finished the last minute of the plank. Once she was done, she laid down on the carpet to catch her breath.

'Yue, will the 3 bonus mana points be gone if I don't finish the cold bath within an hour?'

「 Nope, the cold bath is just an extra I added for you so you can rest. However, if you don't take the cold bath, you'll lose 3 mana points. 」

'How does that even work?'

「 I don't want to be in a mind of someone who doesn't take a bath after sweating a whole waterfall and smelly all over. Just imagining that happen makes me feel disgusted. 」

'I didn't even ask...'

「 *DING* The bonus of 3 mana points has been deleted! 」

'OI! I was playing! Hold on!'

「 That's right, now go take a cold bath. You've rested enough and you're getting smelly already. 」

Ena didn't reply to Yue, she was too sore to even pay attention to what she said. Getting comfortable clothes and setting up the cold bath, she hopped in and relaxed.

「 *DING* Mission Completed. Bonus of 3 mana points has been added! 」

「 Mission 」

『 25/25 push ups ; complete 』

『 25/25 sit ups ; complete 』

『 2 minute plank ; complete 』

『 30 minutes of rest in cold bath ; complete 』

「 Stat 」

『 System Name: Yue 』

『 Host Name: Ena von Quintus 』

『 Birthday: January 13th, 777 』

『 Age: 6 』

『 Sex: Female 』

『 Mana: 35/35 』

『 Magic: Locked 』

The bright blue screen appeared before her and she smiled happily, the feeling of gaining 4 mana points relieved her. Even though her extra mission of 30 minutes were completed, she stayed in the cold bath since it was relaxing.

「 Ena, you shouldn't take too long. There's going to be something happening soon. 」

'Eh?'

That caught Ena's attention, Yue's unusual serious tone made her get up from the bath and immediately put on clothes.

'When is it whatever you're talking about going to happen?'

「 About now. 」

*BOOM*

A loud explosion was heard in the big area. Ena immediately ran outside and headed towards the direction of the explosion. What shocked her was that it came from her older brother's room, sprinting even faster, not minding that she had just worked out.

Ena was the first one there, the wooden door was halfway burned, the walls were covered in black due to the explosion, everything in the room was basically burned down.

Suddenly, a scream was heard.

"HELP!" screamed Alex.

Looking over, Ena saw her brother being taken away by people in black cloaks with masks, she didn't recognize who they were and had never seen them before. She always had a keen eye to recognizing people, however, none of these people in cloaks she recognized.

Not wasting any more thoughts, she started running towards Alex as the cloaked figures started to prepare for something. Before she could get any closer, a bright fireball came her way. Ena froze. She didn't train or prepare for any of this, all she did was work on her physical abilities.

Right before the bright fireball hit her, she was suddenly pulled back. Looking over, she saw her sister with a serious expression, another bright fireball erupted and hit the other fireball that was coming at her.

Without a doubt, it was her sister's brilliant magic. But it wasn't enough, it was basically a 5 against 1 since Ena couldn't use magic at all. A slash of wind magic came and cut the 2 fireballs in half.

"Marie!" Ena called out to her maid.

"Stay back princesses, let me handle this." said Marie.

"No, let me stay to help. Ena, you stay behind us." said Alice.

Marie didn't complain since she knew of Alice's talent in magic, but Ena was a different story. She wasn't able to use magic nor had the abilities to fight.

"Where are your parents?" asked Marie.

"I think they're somewhere at a meeting, they'll be here soon." replied Alice.

"Good." said Marie.

Ena could only watch in helpessness as her sister and maid went against the 3 figures.

「 Take notes. 」

Yue's voice immediately rang in her head and her brain went on overdrive. Even if Ena doesn't seem like the intellectual type, she had the ability to become a genius. She knew what to do, she started memorizing the scenes they saw.

The 2 cloaked figures fire fireballs while the other figure shot shards of ice towards them. Alice and Marie immediately knew what to do, ice weak to fire and fire was weak to wind. Alice used her fire magic to burn away the shards of ice as Marie used her wind magic to blow the fireballs away. In the background, she saw the last 2 cloak figures soar in the sky before disappearing shortly after.

'Wind magic.' thought Ena.

The 3 cloaked figures saw that their other party had left, they shot one final attack before disappearing. Even thought Marie and Alice was able to block it, it still did a deal to the house. Multiple parts of the exterior and interior were burned and covered in ice.

Once the scene was over and Ena memorized everything that has happened, everything hit her at once.

Her brother was taken away and she couldn't do anything.

The feeling of helplessness overwhelmed her again.

She wanted to help and take back her brother.

However, she wasn't the protagonist.

She wasn't the main character.

This was real life, this wasn't an anime or a novel.

Ena broke down in tears, she adored and admired her brother a lot, he would always help her in studies since he was a bit smarter than Alice while Alex was smarter than Alice.

Her breathing became ragged as her knees started to buckle, she started hyperventilating as her vision started to black out. She heard noises call her name over and over again but it was starting to fade.

Before Ena knew it, she blacked out.

The last thing she heard was a few words.

「 Initiating Mission Pack, "To Get Stronger." 」