The night has begun, as the moon shun it's way to the town of Kortopia. In the room number 10, just at the end of the hallway, the 2nd floor of the Black Bear Inn. A boy starts to approach the room. Before he could reach the door, he sees a woman with glasses and a proper clothes like a noble. As the woman pass the boy, he bow down to show his courtesy to the woman with glasses. The woman nods her head and keep walking through.
The boy keeps on walking to number 10 room, as he arrive to the door, he could see that the door is half open. The boy peek inside the room to see Sheila sitting on the left bed and so is Noir, who is laying on the bed. The boy got curious and start to peek more and get closer. But with his curiosity, also come his clumsiness. As the boy accidently fall down to the floor face plant.
The boy got embarrassed as he stand up and shake off all the dust on his clothes and bow down to apologize and proceed to leave immediately. The boy keep on running till he reach the stairs, he take a little breathing to calm himself down.
"I was just curious! That's all, why did you have to fall, stupid Benny."
Said Benny inside his mind, thinking over and over the scene that he just made. The more he thinks about it the more he got embarrassed.
"I was just curious! Ma told me to check up on him, that's all. Why did you have to embarrassed yourself stupid Benny!"
Said Benny inside his mind once again, trying to shake off the embarrassment from earlier. Benny goes down the stairs and when he pass his mother on the counter, Amanda ask Benny.
"Sooo, how did it goes??"
Ask Amanda with a curious face, knowing that her son did something embarrassing from all the noises she heard upstairs. Amanda smile happily as she tries to hold her laughter, looking at her son that is embarrass. Benny close his face with his hand and just scream out of embarrassment, as he bolted out of the main lobby to the kitchen. Benny could hear a slight laughter from his mother as he left.
When he goes inside the kitchen, there is a big man, with a bushy beard. The man has a green eyes, and a brown short hair. a hair all over his body like a bear, the man has muscle all over his body and a beer belly. The man tap Benny shoulder.
"What are you doing here? Benny..."
Said the huge man as he shook Benny and made him scream even more loudly than before. The huge man got startled as he goes down one knee and hold Benny with both of his hand tightly.
"What happen son? Did something bad happen?"
Ask the huge person who apparently is the father of Benny and the husband of Amanda. His name is Thorin Bearby. As Thorin shake Benny quite strongly, making Benny vision all blurry and his stomach to growl.
"S-stop... Father.. I'm gonna throw.. UP.. If you do that.."
Said Benny as he tries to grasp his father, to make Thorin stop shaking him quite violently. Thorin stops and release his hand from Benny. Thorin got scared for a second as he doesn't know what to do.
"Ah.. Oh! Sorry... Are you okay now me son?"
Ask Thorin as he is worried sick about Benny thinking he messed up. Thorin stand up and tries to give a cookie to Benny. Benny take the cookie, as he take a deep breath.
"N-no.. It's alright father. I was just doing something.. And Ma make me all embarrassed from it."
Said Benny as he pout while eating the cookie. Thorin laugh loudly till tears came out from his eyes. Thorin then pat Benny head, as he goes back to cooking again. Although Thorin Bearby looks huge and intimidating, he is a gentle giant to those who knew of him. Benny eat all the cookie quickly and proceed to help his father on cooking.
Back upstairs, Sheila seems to prepare her bed sheet. As Noir still unable to stand up, he tries to focus on the flow of Ether to regenerate his Ether much faster. As Noir keeps on focusing regenerating his Ether, Sheila slap Noir face to break his concentration.
"Don't even try to use flow of Ether! Even if it's help regenerate your Ether, it will exhaust you even more."
Said Sheila with quite mad tone of voice, she sigh off and proceed to go back to her bed and lay on it. Noir who is in shock on what just happen right in front of his eyes, drop his jaw and got quite surprise on how caring Sheila is right now. Even with how young Noir is, he understood that Sheila cares a lot about Noir. Noir then smile happily knowing that even his first instructor care a lot about him like his mother.
As the night keeps going, the moon shines the Phoenix Guild building. In the 3rd floor of the Phoenix Guild where the Guild Master room is, a figure can be seen. As it seems the Guild Master Solean Pon Phenexia is looking outside from the window.
The door that is carved with 'Guild Master Room' is knocked, as it creak open slowly. It seems the one that knock the door is Nora, as she goes inside and close the door. Nora starts to approach Solean and bow down as a greeting.
"Good night Mr. Solean. It is me, Nora. I am back with a good message."
Said Nora calmly as she fix her glasses and proceed to continue her words.
"It seems, that Ms. Sheila Rakshana and Mr. Noir Bolevante have forgiven you.. Mr. Solean."
As Nora said that, she glares at Solean in a very cold manner. Solean shivers a bit, he turns around. Solean face is filled with sweat and a weird smile, as bruises can be seen all over his face.
"Ah. I see.. Hank Yu (Thank You)"
Said Solean as he has difficulties talking from all the bruises he has on his face. Nora smiles cheerfully, as she leaves the room happily. Nora close the door quite harshly on Solean, as humming with a happy tone can be heard from the other side of the Guild Master room.
Solean then sits down on his desk, he smiles as he feel like it was a very awesome and eventful day today. Solean smirk as he can't wait on what to expect tomorrow, knowing how unique little Noir is.
"I wonder... Wa wil haen tomor (What will happen tomorrow)"
Said Solean inside his mind, as the night goes on to turn into a morning. Little Noir and Solean goes back to the mountain from the teleportation rune circle. It seems this time around, only Noir and Solean is at the mountain.
Solean seems to prepared a blackboard this time around and a normal chalk. Solean writes out 10 unique symbol, he points out to these symbol one by one.
"So! Noir... Do you know these symbol and what they mean?"
Ask Solean calmly to little Noir. Noir tilt his head as he is quite confuse on how to answer it.
"Umm.. Yes I-i know.. But, I don't know.. what they mean..."
Said Noir as his face got more and more confuse. Solean sigh off and laugh off quite loudly.
"Allright then, I will tell you all about it."
Said Solean very proudly to himself, as he raise his head highly out of his pride. He points at the symbol all the way to the left, the first symbol seems to look like an o with a dot in the middle and missing the part below it.
"As everyone know, these 10 symbol are used when you cast a spell. The magic circle that everyone created always uses these 10 symbol. As you know, that the higher the tier of magic being use, the more symbol will be used."
Said Solean, as he continue to explain all the other symbol, the 2nd symbol look like an inverted N with a dot on above and below the slash. The 3rd symbol look like a n but at the top left corner instead of a stripe it's a circle. The 4th symbol look like an L from latin with a dot in the middle of it. The 5th symbol look like an inverted B with dot on both holes. The 6th symbol look like a 90 degree to the left S, with a stripe on top of it. The 7th symbol look like a z with another stripe and line on the bottom of it. The 8th symbol look like a H with a missing line on the top right and bottom left. The 9th symbol look like a p turn 90 degree to the left and another circle on the bottom right. The last symbol look like a <> with a dot in the middle of it.
As Solean proceed to slam the blackboard roughly, he glances toward Noir menacingly...