Unfortunately, by the time she had stood up, Yeni was there, cool gre b into Kiko’s skull.

  “You, are still grounded” Yeni would state, soft a so very hard.

  “B-but, f-fixing my thing!” Kiko excimed, gesturing with the map.

  “It’s not going to kill you in a week, so you don’t o rush around. We are heading in that general dire anyway, so there is o rush off by yourself so early”

  Kiko would stand a few moments, grumbling and then gave up. You didn’t beat Yeni in an argument, she had learhat one very quickly.

  “Fine. If I am stayihen I get to bother her with more questions” Kiko replied, looking to Sagi. “Why are your pupils a normal colour?”

  Sagi would raise an eyebrow, but before she could speak, another voice came up.

  “That, gets into the Azarad that you skipped your lessons oernia’s voice had it’s own qualities at the moment. The teacher vibe was real strht now, and it made Kiko squirm.

  “H-hey, that’s not fair, it’s b as shit” Kiko replied, crossing her arms.

  “HA! True, that it is” Sagi excimed, g softly. Eternia would gre at Sagi for a moment, and then speak again.

  “The footnotes of it is that you are now able to see the Maed from a being and that gives you a general uanding of their capabilities. The eyes are a window to the Soul, so you are able to look through this window aheir e to the Aether, which is visualised in different colours of desdih; Blue, Yellow, Green, Purple and Bck. With variable shade within each. ‘The Azarad Point’ is stated as the point where their raabilities outstripping your ability to peh skill”

  Kiko would nod softly, and then pause for a moment and frown.

  “Yellow is brighter than Blue” she’d state, trying to puzzle that o. Which, brought anh from Sagi.

  “Aye. But some guy he birth of the Universe thought ‘I aint walkin’ around being Yellow all the time’ and so ged the rules. They had yet to ossify, so they were malleable, uoday. He ter learned how to not walk around his mana-coloured hide, but by then the rules had ossified, so couldn’t be ged”

  That bombshell made Kiko blink and stare.

  “H…how do you know what a guy at the birth of the Universe did?” she asked.

  “Ohh, heh. You don’t know how old Va is, huh?” Sagi asked, looking at Kiko and somehow through Kiko at the same time.

  ‘Let’s get off that topic before talking about him….Let’s just get off that topic’ Va would state. Sagi gave another snort, and nodded.

  “Aye, aye. That is kind of high cept. Just fet about it” Sagi would reply, waving her hand.

  “Just fet that you know what happened billions of years ago like you were there” Kiko would reply, sardonically.

  “I wasn’t there. I just know people who were” Sagi replied with a shrug. Kiko stared a few moments more, and then buried her fa Ele’s chest and screamed.

  “A more tame rea than when you found out” Alric put in, having been silent until now.

  “To be fair, it is also a more tame reveal than whan I found out” Sagi replied.

  “That is true, yes. Though ba inal topic; Sagi’s eyes are normal eyes rather than seeing her aetheriion, because she isn’t a Magus. While she has i magical capabilities as well as external magical abilities due to a gift from a friend - hehe yellow eye - she has no true magical capabilities of her own”

  “Sorta like Fox-Fire and Sei-Bushi Mahou” Ele would ent, nodding.

  “Errrr” Alric would stall, apparently not quite so omnist sage as his Queen.

  “Yes” Yeni put in, nodding softly. She seemed to treat Ele with a little softer touch than normal since her Raiju roots had e out, and while Ele wasly pining, it did feel a little awkward at times.

  “Gonna go hit things” Kiko stated. “Or shoot things. Or, I dunno. Do things that are not here, with this” she tinued, getting up and heading off.

  Though, she didn’t get far before she had a tail, and not the fluffy kind.

  “You should totally let me teach you how to do some Plum Blossom Sword Arts. They would fit your whole thing, and you could go to Huayen for further training if you really got grabbed by it” Sagi would excim, grinning broadly. Kiko had learned very quickly not to question how the woman knew everything she knew, and just rolled with it. She could find out what Huayen was afterwards, if she was enticed by this thing she was being offered.

  “Ya gonna tell me more about it, or just use a name of a thing I have no idea about to entice me?” Kiko would ask, looking to Sagi. She acted nothing like a Queen, so Kiko was going to treat her nothing like a Queen.

  “You’ve never heard of it? Hmm, I guess the average person isn’t going to take a two week car drive to another part of the pangea fhtseeing” Sagi would nod, arriving at the training ground and perusing the swords.

  “It’s difficult” Kiko would reply, pulling her chose. “While the five tres are secured and mostly free of i, there is not a lot of travel between them because the highways are too long and too big, so ’t be patrolled properly”

  Sagi would stand up, and look at Kiko’s sword, before shaking her head.

  “If we are going about this, we o go about it properly. Light Sword, then Heavy Sword, then Swift Sword, then Able Sword, then Swordless. So get the lighter sword” Sagi would order

  “You…say that like it means anything to me” Kiko would reply, though obeying and putting the sword away to get a lighter one.

  “The first two, I should hope are self expnatory” Sagi would reply, gesturing for Kiko to follow her as, and going through the basic steps. She skipped past the muscle ge routine, because Kiko was far past needing that at this point. “Light Sword, is being profit with a light sword. Heavy Sword, is being profit with a heavy sword. Swift Sword, is being able to use a heavy sword as swiftly as you a light sword. And I am sure by now you’ve learhat is more than just a muscle thing”

  Kiko would have some issues following Sagi, si was a lot mraceful and fluid than she was used to. While she was ly a muscle-brain, she was fav more heavy teiques than these.

  “I have noticed that, yes” Kiko would agree. Ele would then appear, and ied in what was going o some wordless approval to join in.

  “It’s mostly about momentum and iia trol at that point. Once you have mastered that, Able Sword is the realm where you engrave the nature of the sword into your bones such that you piy sword and use it with skill and grace. And the peak, is Swordlessness, where your essence is Sword shaped, and you need not wield anything anymore, because you are a sword. This is also very tied into Ki manipution and trol, I will admit, so you’ll never reach that without a lot of training. Prohibitive training, given you are learning Magic as well”

  “But not impossible! Za did both” Kiko excimed, getting into the flow of this whole thing, as if she had been doing it for many years.

  “That he was. A Grand man, that one. I taught him just like this, you know? He defrayed himself a little, so as to learn the Earth Defying Array, but his core was always the Plum Blossom”

  “Is that what you used against the Balor?” Kiko would ask, looking over. For the first time, she seemed actually shocked. Not just pyfully curious, but actually surprised enough to misstep her arts.

  “Well” Sagi would state after a moment, with a warm, if a little sad smile. “It seems he has not finished with me just yet. Yes, it is what I used against the Balor. Fruits Flower Across The Mountain”

  Sagi would follow the words with a demonstration of the most elegant movements Kiko had ever seen. Akin to a dance full off heart and soul, with the wind whistling and singing a tune alongside it. The air filled with a beautiful st, and illusionary blossoms drifted from her. And at the end of this dahe dummy in front of her bisected a huimes over and colpsed in a hail of splinters.

  And thewin eyes of red and yellow were ba the awe-struck pair. “Now e on. I’ve not got lo here, so I am going to give you as good of a floor as be done in such a time”