The following morning after Simon finished training Sagar he made his way to a room located on the fourth floor. The room itself was pretty normal covered with different kinds of furniture such as tables, chairs and some sofas but inside was Bella Drak who was currently going over some paperwork. Seeing that her husband walked in she put her work down asking him, "You usually don't visit when I'm working do you need something?"
Simon paid no head to her formal tone as that was just how Bella was whenever she was working or doing something important. She's changes her attitude once she's finished or having a bit of free time to do other things. Wanting to get out of her hair quickly Simon asked, "Where's that little girl I have something to ask her about her boy?"
Bella figured out that Simon was talking about Beatrice as it was sometimes hard to know who he's talking about just based on his nicknames especially for the younger generation. You had to use context clues and try your best to figure out who exactly he was talking about. Bella had known this man for years so it didn't take much to guess who he was talking about, "She actually has the day off today so she's spending time with her family. If you want I could ask someone to bring her here."
Nodding at his wife's request, Bella complied by calling a servant who was told to bring Beatrice here immediately. Five minutes later Beatrice walked into the room grumbling, "Bella I thought I had the day off today.", upon seeing that Simon was there she coughed a bit and changed her tone, "What did you need me for?"
"I wasn't the one that needed something from you, it was my husband here. Apparently it's something about your son.", Bella told Beatrice.
Sitting down on some furniture in the room Beatrice asked Simon somewhat concerned, "Is there something my son did?"
Shaking his head Simon told her, "No, nothing of the sort. He's a good lad, instead what I want to ask about is something I witnessed yesterday?"
Wondering what Simon was talking about she thought about what Sagar said he did yesterday. He said that he trained with Simon in the morning and then went out with the girls bringing Aquilia along with them returning in the late afternoon. Though Sagar didn't come back with the girls as according to Talia he said that he would go out on a walk to take care of some business. He returned a bit late but she didn't question him about it as she figured that whatever he went to do took longer than he thought it would.
Waving his hand Simon made a barrier around the entire room. usually these types of barrier were used to isolate any sort of sound made within it. "Yesterday I saw your boy take out a group of six Experts by himself with only some injuries. If it was just that I wouldn't be talking to you currently, no instead it's what your boy used in his fight that bring you to me right now."
Bella was trying to guess what her husband was talking about but Beatrice knew full well what Simon meant and the fact that he raised this isolated barrier further assured her about what Simon was going to ask her. Seeing the look on Beatrice's face Simon was a bit amused but he still remained serious. "Your son didn't seem all to concerned when I brought up that I was watching the fight the entire time. Either he knew that I would keep his secret for him or maybe he had some other thought in his mind. It doesn't matter really but I want to ask you Beatrice why you kept the fact that Sagar could use both internal energy and mana a secret?"
Hearing the words come out of her husband's mouth Bella couldn't believe what she was hearing but looking at both Beatrice and Simon's face she could tell that he wasn't joking. "Simon, are you absolutely sure about this?"
Nodding his head Simon followed up, "Not only this but I was able to figure out that he was able use a weird unknown element of some kind and was more adept at using it than his other spells even though he only used it a couple of times. Adding onto that he even performed a elemental fusion with this element giving his internal energy it's properties which I guessed allowed nobody to be able to tell he had internal energy, even someone of my power, unless he used it."
'An unknown element.', Bella thought what that really meant. Others would think that it would be a fact that no one has seen every element in existence but it was different for the both them. The two of them had lived for a very long time and had also participated in many battles during that time, even with peace being about for many years it had been a long time before she had seen an element she didn't know of let alone her husband who had been in far more fights than her.
Beatrice remained silent unsure of what to say she didn't think this would be exposed so soon. She eventually planned to tell the two along with James about Sagar's situation but she wanted to do it at a later date. Seeing that Beatrice was in a dilemma of sorts Simon helped her out, "Don't worry Beatrice, I don't plan to do anything bad. If anything you could trust your son's judgement as he didn't even question about what I saw."
Breathing out a bit, Beatrice started talking, "For the longest time Sagar has kept different things to himself. Even though he's told me many things, it still feels like he's hiding things from me. Whenever he was five I was able to tell that he was capable of using internal energy and it was just barely too. He told me himself that after a month of trying he was able to form a mana core as well, which terrified me at the time because he only told me about it after two years had already passed since then. It was also what convinced me to let him enter the forest by the village to allow him to train. I don't know how or when he started learning how to use that unknown element but he finished his elemental fusion whenever he was eleven and almost died from it. I noticed right away that the fusion allowed him to hide whatever type of energy he had so when he became of age we made our way over here."
Listening to her talk Simon and Bella tried to put together the information that she gave out. Even from a mother's stand point she doesn't know about the deeper secrets of Sagar, but she gave out a good amount of information for the two to come to an understanding. "Well, knowing this it seems Sagar is even more impressive than I thought he was. I only saw a couple of things he could do with his internal energy and along with his elemental fusion it was even stronger than his mana. Either way we need to keep this under wraps but I can consider that you were doing a good job at doing that already, I was just an exemption.", smiling to himself a bit, "And anyone Sagar shows what he's capable of and doesn't trust aren't going to have a good time."
Beatrice was wondering what Simon was commenting on but before she could he put down the barrier and made his way out of the room. Bella acted like nothing happened and got back to working on the paperwork on her desk leaving Beatrice awkwardly sitting down until she decided to leave.
On her way back she thought to have her own discussion with Sagar but for now she'll just enjoy her day off rather than bring it up. Unfortunately for her she wasn't going to be able to, as when she got back to her room where previously Garris, Aquilia, and Sagar were waiting for her to return there was now only Sagar waiting there. Wondering where Garris and Aquilia went Beatrice asked, " Where did your father and sister go?"
Answering right away Sagar told her, "Dad decided to take her out for a while and told me to apologize for leaving ahead of you whenever you came back."
"Then why did you stay here unless you already planned to do something else with the girls?", Sagar remained behind instead of going with them, so Beatrice thought he might have other plans.
"You're right mom I do but it has nothing to do with the girls.", becoming more serious Sagar asks his question, "Can you please tell me what happened to my grandparents Anne Drak and Antonio Coca?"