Noah opens the door and he sees...his brother, Jynn, and Parmekia's household first child and first daughter Tiana Parmekia grabbing each other by their collars with expressions of total anger in both of their faces.
- Do you wanna fight, huh, Jynn?!
- It's obviously you that want to fight, Parmekia?!
{Noah}
" Just what in the hell kind of situation did I stumble upon?"
- Parmekia, are you serious right now?
- Obviously, I am!
Behind Noah appears the second daughter, Lumia Parmekia.
-ISN'T IT OBVIOUS THAT MY SISTER IS THE CUTEST, ARCADIOS!
- YOU MUST BE EITHER BLIND OR CRAZY, PARMEKIA! MY BROTHER IS THE CUTEST AND THE HANDSOMEST THAT IS A UNIVERSAL FACT!
{Noah}
" WHAT THE HELL IS THIS BROTHER OF MINE SAYING RIGHT NOW?!"
- Aaaaah, this is embarrassing... SISTER, WOULD YOU STOP IT NOW?!!! yells Lumia Parmekia
Both Jynn and Tiana turn around when my brother sees me, he turns pale as a ghost and passes out. When Tiana sees her sister she runs toward her, jumps, and hugs her.
- Kyaaa! It's my sister! Tell me, Lumia, how did it go? Where were you assigned? Is it the Blue Dorm?
- Let.. me go... I... I can't... breath. You..are ...squeezing me too...hard.
Tiana lets her go.
- So... so how did it go?
- I was assigned to the Blue dorm and I finished in fifth place.
- Kyyaaaa! You were assigned to my dorm! As expected we are inseparable!... But wait! You got fifth place? Who are the ones that are in the top five on the leaderboard?
- This year leaderboard ended up like this. Noah Arcadios got first. In second place is the first daughter of King Galliard, Juliana Fayrak. Third place is Sunev Laos the third child and only daughter of the Laos family. Fourth is Gancelot Fayrak and fifth is me.
- The Arcadios got first place? Doesn't that mean that he dominated everyone in every test? How?
- If you are that curious just ask him he's right next to me.
Tiana turns and faces Noah. Tiana is the first daughter of the Parmekia household. She is about the same height as Noah's second brother, Jynn. She also has dark green hair and eyes. She stares at Noah for a while backs off and hugs her sister.
- I guess your brother is right you are cute BUT not as cute as my Lumia!
- Sis! We were talking about something serious! Did you know he broke the records on every test he's ranked first on our leaderboard and in the school history's leaderboard! FOR EVERY TEST!
- Woooow! Big deal! But you know what he doesn't rank first on... LEADERBOARD FOR THE CUTEST YOUNGER SIBLING! 'cause you are first on that one!
Noah walks up to his brother that seems to still not have come to his senses.
{Noah}
" What the hell is going on? Are all oldest siblings supposed to be a bunch of weirdoes? The image I had of the four ducal families is slowly starting to crumble to more I meet the children that the households have produced."
- Brother! wake up!
No answers
{Noah}
"Don't tell me he died from shock because I caught him acting like a bro con."
- Brother I'll be staying with you for the next week.
As soon as he hears that, color returns to Jynn's face and he regains consciousness.
- You will be what?
- I will be staying with you for the next week.
{Jynn}
" He will be staying with me for the next week... NOAH WILL BE STAYING WITH ME FOR THE NEXT WEEK!!! That means that I will be telling him stories, that I can brag about myself to show him how good of an older brother I am, and that means we will be able to spend some quality time together! BONDING TIME BETWEEN BROTHERS!"
- You are only staying for a week? Why?! Did something happen?
- Well.. something did happen but it isn't something bad... at least I hope it isn't.
- Come on Lumia! Let's go! I wanna see your room! says Tiana
- Fine! you were gonna come anyways so let's just go.
The Parmekia sisters leave and close the door when they do.
- You can talk now. Nobody is gonna hear you.
- It's not a secret anyway. They didn't need to leave since its something that the whole academy is gonna know tomorrow.
- What is it? ask Jynn.
- My badge didn't change color during the third test.
- What?
- I said my badge didn't change color during the assignment stage and because of that Darius told me I could choose the dorm I wanted to join.
- And you chose Blue?
- No. I told him I wanted some time to think about it so he told me I could stay with either you or Yoann.
- And you chose me?
- Yeah, since Yoann is in his last year I didn't want to bother him.
- Eeeeeh... You didn't to bother him, huh?
- Yeah, The dorm master is gonna bring me a bed so I'm gonna unpack.
[A few minutes later]
The dorm master brought a bed and Noah finished unpacking. It's now 11h00.
- Noah.
- Yeah.
- Lunch is at 12h30, on the first floor I'm gonna head to my classes if you want some snacks you can go to the cafeteria on the first floor but you need to pay with some points.
- Points?
- Oh right! You didn't receive your watches and they didn't explain the point system to you guys.
- Watches? Point system?
- Anyways if you are hungry head downstairs and order whatever you want I got a lot of points. When you do order, tell the lunch lady that it's on me.
- Ok!
Jynn takes his bag opens the door and leaves. Noah gets up closes the door go back to his bed and sits down.
{Noah}
" Bright, Dull call me in!"
Noah gets pulled inside his Inner Realm.
[Inner Realm]
- So, you are ready to end the Mind Immersion stage. asks Bright.
- Yeah! It's time for me the finish this training.
- Well you already know what to do. You are able to stay in your Inner Realm for eighteen hours and a half. Break that record and stay for an hour and a half more and you are gonna reach Mind Immersion when you do I'll teach you how to enter your Inner Realm by yourself.
Noah sits down.
- Are you not gonna go and cultivate? ask Noah
- I guess I should tell you...
- Tell me what?
- The last hour is the most difficult. In your terms, it would be like a sudden increase of difficulty like in the games you play.
- What? But Why?
- No one knows. That is the reason why I'm not cultivating today I need to keep an eye on you during the last hour. The pain from the mental strain will be unlike any others you have experienced.
- More than the Causality Trial?
- It seems like you have a misunderstanding of what exactly is the pain you have had after your Inner Realm Mastery training.
- What do you mean?
- The pain you feel after the training is; mental strain, in other words, pain that is caused at a mental level unlike the Causality Trial that you underwent which causes physical pain, depending on the level sometimes mental strain and in the highest levels causes both.
- Wait, wait, wait does that mean that depending on the level of Causality the information has the level of the Causality Trial increases?
- Obviously, doesn't it makes sense to you?
- Well it does make sense but Causality Trials hurts, and when I say they hurt I mean they hurt like hell!
Dull falls from the sky and lands creating a wave of dust.
- That is only because you are weak. A Causality of the highest level was like a massage to us when we had our full power, when we were at our prime.
- Here we go again. Are you not tired of calling me that each and every single time we meet?
- No, I am not and I will keep calling you that as long as you are weak, weakling.
- Whatever, man. Talking to you is just tiring.
- But what he said is right, Noah. In the end, the only way for you to achieve and reach your goals you will need to be much more powerful than you currently are and that you ever were.
- Don't worry about it since it was something that I intended to do anyway.
[19 hours later(Inner Realm time)]
- It's gonna start, Noah! Are you ready!?
- Yeah!
- UUUUUOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Don't worry you are not gonna die from the pain! Resist, Noah! Resist it, Noah! This a new step that you take in order to reach new heights! Surpass yourself! NOOOOAAAAHHH!
[An hour later]
- It's done! You did it, Noah! says, Bright.
- Huh? What is going on? asks Noah
- What do you mean?
- Didn't you tell me that the mental strain was gonna be the worst I ever felt until now?
- Yeah, I did. Wasn't it the strongest?
- No, It wasn't.
- See I tol... Huh.
- Huh.