"God is good. God is forgiving. God is evil. God is cruel. God is nothing. God is everything. Beware God. For God is unending. Yet embrace God. For God is unending. God is dead. But wasn't God dead all along? We humans have disgraced our makers. Repent for our master's death. God is no more. We shall inherit God's misfortunes. In that sense, aren't we now God?"
-Esoterics of the White Church, by High Priest Angelo the Unending
The dinner and morning after felt strangely awkward, not just to Igo and Daniel, but to the servants as well, who had secretly witnessed the whole ordeal yesterday. As usual, breakfast was the same porridge that Daniel, in a way, has come to like. The usual talkative atmosphere at breakfast was replaced by the clattering of spoons against bowls and the movement of servants around the house with the floorboards of the house creaking with every step. Any attempt at conversation during breakfast was somehow stopped by an awkward pressure, limiting it to a few passing words here and there. Until it was time to head off to the Academy once more.
"See you later, Daniel!" remarked Igo, waving as Daniel passed through the door.
"Yeah!" stated Daniel, but just as he was about to close the door, a thought came across his mind, "Actually, just wait a second or two..."
Daniel sat all the things he was carrying on the ground, where he quickly leaned in with a slight bow, exclaiming, "I promise not to be a little shit!"
Coming from the calm and usually collected Daniel, anyone who saw it and his language would be questioning whether the person in front of him was even who he said he was. But Igo knew who he got that phrasing from, after all, that kind of language and phrasing could only come from one person he knew.
"You might not want to be shouting those types of things, Daniel, but I shall uphold you on your promise" stated Igo, that same soft look in his face and eyes.
"Thank you!" Daniel shouted again, repeating his bow, before picking up his things, and saying goodbye once more to his home. Today was the first time Daniel had actually experienced a full day at the Academy, for the first one was interrupted by the use of Nyn's art and the other replaced by a tiring day of training. Most of the day was the same sort of subject matter he had experience on the first day, the basics of arts and how to use them. First, the day before yesterday's lesson was continued today, taking up most of the day, only allowing them to get to the actual lesson for the day at noon. Despite this, the first part of the day was surprisingly useful for Daniel and Nyn who had both been learning the subject matter for the first time. Parts of arts such as how the awakening process for them works and something as simple as the origin of arts were as confusing as advanced art theory such as Node Transmogrification or FAE (Forceful Art Elicitation). Yet it was even more difficult for Daniel, after all he had no basis of what an art is or feels like to use, making it practically impossible to imagine what these things could do. Despite this, the next lesson was something all of the porcelains could understand; simple history. Major events over both the histories of the Guild and Alandriel itself were covered. From the forming of the White Church, who believed that in the absence of gods we should try to become more like a god ourselves, to the impact the guild member Cameron Coy had when he translated the Redcap language, allowing the average guild member to decipher commands and basic phrases in the battlefield. And before anyone realised, the day at the Academy had finished, everyone ready to go home. But when Daniel began to walk out of the Guild complex, a familiar white-haired boy was waiting for him.
"Sorry... about yesterday, I had to visit my father and his office is in the Guild complex and well, " apologised Sun, visibly nervous, "I didn't go home until it was quite late."
"Don't worry about it too much," said Daniel, coming up behind Sun and patting his back to Sun's shock, "The past is the past and the present is the present. Let's live the present, remember the past, but do not allow it do dictate our future. Something I remember my father saying. Lets just walk home, yeah?"
"Yeah."
"Good. I have to show you where I live so we can wait for each other in the morning before Academy starts. That means you'll be showing me to your place sometime too, " Daniel finished, smirking.
"Sounds good. Sounds very good." agreed Sun, matching Daniel's grin, with a slightly dark glare in his eyes. A glare devoid of animosity or hatred. Rather one of ecstasy and pure gluttony.
"Sorry we haven't been able to meet up in a while, but I thought we should meet up today to discuss something important," a voice said, penetrating the dark room from the door, a man standing in the doorway, looking back.
"Its alright Igo; I wouldn't of been able to attend these last couple days anyway, since I had been recovering after that match with Ender," another voice boomed, with a slight hint of sentimentality, and from behind the man who spoke prior.
"Let's get some light."