Some early morning training

Early in the morning, Beatrice was thinking about the boy that visited her, she didn't know why but she felt that the boy was different from everyone else. She didn't know why, but she was wondering why he didn't find her again, after all, she gave him advice. She would only annoy those who asked her things with her words, or with how difficult the things she said were, sometimes the things she suggested were almost impossible to achieve. But Kaji instead of getting angry or annoyed, the boy thanked her instead. She was confused, so she decided to go out of her library and look at the boy one more time, maybe this time she could figure out why he was different from everyone else.

She walked out of the forbidden library and walked towards a window. She saw Kaji training with two wooden swords, Beatrice was indifferent for a couple of moments before her eyes widened. She could see the ink-black tattoos, two on each of his wrists and one on his neck, she could see them clearly because his upper body was exposed right now.

Kaji was only wearing a black-colored kimono while training. He would remove his top part while training, after all, when he got sweaty the kimono would stick to his body, making him feel uncomfortable.

Beatrice couldn't believe her eyes, the boy actually made tattoos whit magic that would absorb mana from the atmosphere around him. She couldn't do something like this, but a boy who was merely nine years old created a way to stock up and absorb mana from the atmosphere around him.

Beatrice as an artificial spirit needed a huge amount of mana to sustain herself, so she could exist. She would take mana from the residents of the mansion, she would have taken some from the boy too. But she deemed it an unnecessary risk after all he was only nine, and absorbing mana from a child could do more harm than good sometimes.

Beatrice wanted to know how he did it, and why he did it, after all, she could tell that the tattoos already held a big amount of mana. If she needed to calculate how much it was, she would say that it was around ten times the boy's own mana reserve. He had a really big magic reserve already, she wondered how he would use it.

Kaji while training with his swords, he felt someone looking at him, he turned his head to see Frederica, Ram, and Rem coming towards him. It seems like the girls will be joining him for early morning training. He started waving at them, and they waved back while walking towards him.

But while he looked at them he noticed Beatrice, looking at him through the window of the second floor of the mansion. He didn't think much of it and greeted the girls.

"Good morning!" He said loudly.

"Morning!" Frederica shouted back while showing a big smile.

"Good morning Kaji." Rem said with a small smile.

"Good morning." Ram said while yawning.

"Let's start with a warm-up, we will be running around the mansion, to get all of you warmed up." He said while smiling towards them.

"Yes." The three said at the same time and started running, while Kaji took the lead and made a proper pace so they didn't exhaust themself too quickly.

Beatrice watched as the four kids ran, she had many thoughts inside her head, but the main was why did a nine-year-old kid need to store mana for later usage. She wanted to know, what he will use it for, and how he will utilize such an amount of it.

"He could tell me later, I suppose." She said before returning to the library.

While this was happening Roswall was reading a book with a black covering, he was smiling, but his smile was just creepy.

"Just a little longer, when the time is right I will bring you back. With this book's instructions, I will bring you back, don't worry." Roswall said while showing a creepy smile.

He didn't know why, but the book was telling him to bring Kaji to the capital city. He didn't know why, but he would do as the book said. By how the book would include Kaji, Roswall could only assume that the boy will play a big role in future events.

While Running Kaji felt a chill running up his spine, he looked back to see the girls running behind him, and wondered why did he feel that just now. After they were done running Kaji looked at the girls and started speaking.

"Alright, now that all of us are warmed up, let's have a spar, the three of you will be fighting against me. Your objective is to knock these swords out of my hands, with any means, you can use magic too. Now if you won't go and take a weapon of your choice." Kaji said while pointing towards a rack of different weapons.

There were wooden and iron ones, they weren't all that amazing, but they will do for training purposes. Frederica didn't hesitate and picked up a pair of iron gauntlets, Ram didn't take a weapon, while Rem was hesitant in picking hers.

"Rem, pick a weapon you think would suit you, don't try to think too much about it, just feel it out." Kaji said while looking at the blue-haired oni girl.

Rem nodded while picking up a large steel flail, and nodding her head, but now she hesitated to use it, Kaji could only sigh and start to talk her into using it.