The duo exited the building that was the Queens' residence.

Once again, they got to see the state of the houses around here. They looked awfully primitive, like they never evolved, or couldn't.

'I guess this is the effect of the never-ending attacks that come from the beasts underground?'

Orion was thinking that maybe he could improve their life if he were able to succeed in eliminating those beasts.

'My arm is still burning, so I'd like to prioritize that for now. I have to find out what the 'Arm Lock' does first.'

With that in mind, he searched for a place around the fairy village.

"Amelia, we're going a bit further out the village. You see that place over there, with the rocks?"

He pointed at an open area outside the fairy village, a few hundred meters away. Since the village was a bit elevated because of Tiohr-nam roots under it, it was easier to see further away.

"Yes, I see it."

Amelia suddenly glared at him, and pulled on his shirt.

"Wait, you want to try your ability already? You just unlocked one yesterday, and now that you have another one, you want to train both today?"

"I feel refreshed enough to train. Since the burning isn't going away, it might be best to deal with that first."

"You're unbelievable. Can't you stop and take a day off from time to time?"

As they began moving outside the village, their usual banter came into place.

"It's just so boring not being able to move my body, it is a routine at this point."

"Think about me for a second, do you have any idea how much muscle pain I have after training?"

Orion tilted his head with a smile.

"Muscle pain? It's normal to have that, isn't it? You could even have that while cooking. Don't make me the cause of your problems."

"You've got guts, I'll give you that. Talking to me like that when I'm the one feeding you."

Her gaze wasn't pretty.

"Do you think I'd seriously ignore your condition? I've been looking at your physique, and the moment I see any kind of exhaustion, I stop the training. Did you ever rip a mus- ... yes, you did."

"Don't remind me! I'd like to never be reminded of that."

Amelia showed genuine annoyance at his comment.

"What do you mean? It was so funny, yet absurd."

"You've tried to imitate me jumping from tree branches to the next, but you missed one and caught the one below to avoid crashing on the ground."

"When you grabbed it, you've sprained your right arm's muscle and ended up unable to move it for a week."

"I've never seen you try ever again."

He laughed at Amelia's past mistake, which irritated her more and more.

With a pout, she turned to look away.

"I shouldn't have spoken about the muscle pain. Now you're laughing at me. It's so idiotic to not have any dirt on you."

"You do have one piece of dirt on me now."

His secret, the fact that he kept away his precious stuff near him.

"I won't speak about that to anyone, this is a secret I won't share."

She seemed to have calmed down, as the conversation turned back to a pleasant tone between them.

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"Orion, you said you'd tell me why you want your parents' rings. Maybe now is a good time?"

They were close to their destination, but it was still a few minutes away.

"Yes, I've said I would."

His expression relaxed, before he looked into her eyes.

"But first, I'm sorry to have kept it hidden from you. It was a detail I caught when I watched the recording of their fight, and when I saw my parents. There was a ring missing on their fourth fingers."

With a nod, Amelia smiled.

"I accept your apology."

Now that this was settled between them, she focused on the topic.

"But how did you piece together that the rings were still on the continent? More so, that one of them was with the fairies?"

"It's not difficult, at least it wasn't when I began to gather information."

"It is impossible to remain hidden for two thousand years without being seen at all. There is only one way to do that. Well, two exactly, but the other one is the same as the first."

His words confused Amelia.

"What do you mean? You said that the tree had the power to move between dimensions as it see fit, so the fairies being here isn't surprising, isn't it?"

Orion confirmed her thought with a nod.

"It isn't surprising, but the entrance being sealed certainly is."

"How could anyone figure out that the portal only opens at dusk for about ten minutes, and that you need permission from a fairy to come inside?"

"To push it even further, you have to find a way to walk on water or find a similar option."

Amelia placed her left hand on her chin, and started to analyze with her 'Calm Analysis' ability.

She rarely used it because Orion was more proficient at it, but she also went through great length to learn it from Keith.

'She's thinking, good. Keep thinking and the answer will come by itself.'

Meanwhile, in Amelia's mind, it didn't take long to find the answer Orion came to find.

'Let me arrange what he said.'

'The tree can move between realms, but not seal the entrance to it? So, sealing the entrance of a realm is impossible for the Remnants...'

'If it wasn't sealed, then yes, he is right. The fairies would have been found a long time ago.'

Amelia understood the underlying problem with the gateway.

'The fairies do not seem able to use such forms of magic. To be precise, I think no one was able to-'

"!"

Realization came to her as she abruptly stopped in her tracks.

"Your father created the bracelet! He is the only person who was able to use sealing magic! Orion, how did you realize that?"

Satisfied, he looked forward.

"If I have to be honest, it was pure luck. I didn't fully understand my father until recently, around last year to be exact. I was done with my day's training, when the bracelet's hook broke, and it fell to the floor."

"I crouched to pick it up, and when I grabbed it, a lingering thought kept surfacing in my mind."

"'How did father seal him and mother inside?'. I read many books about magical powers and their uses, but the 'seal' concept never appeared in any kind of elements."

Amelia listened intently, as his parents were equally significant to her. She received her last name from Orianne, which made her keen to learn more about them.

"That's when I realized. I never saw my father's attributes, not explicitly, that is."

"He used a small amount of it during his last fight against Elliott. I had to rewind the scene in my head again and again to finally confirm it. My father is a lightning user, and certainly not an average one."

"Linking his feathers with threads of lightning, making them move however he needed them to, and manipulating a form I have no idea what it is."

Orion seemed lost in his awe toward Reon. The applications he created for his magic were fascinating to him.

"It is most likely how he found a way to seal items, memories, and beings inside those 'barriers'."

This was a lot to absorb. Reon was an incredible magic user, and he could use a magic even Orion was not familiar with, even with all the knowledge he acquired.

Having the blood of remarkable people, it made sense Orion was particularly strong.

Then, everything became clear to Amelia.

"If your father was the only one able to seal, a place hidden from everyone's eyes could be a lead in finding traces of him?"

Noticing how quickly Amelia came to understand what he had discovered put a smile on his face.

"Exactly. I had already planned for a visit to the 'Dead White Forest' before being saved by Monolavir in Eogis, but fate had it we had to wait."

There was still something Amelia was unaware of, which made her question the correlation between everything.

"So why did you hide everything from me? It's not because I wouldn't understand your reasoning, right?"

Orion stared at the large rocks in front of him.

"I didn't find it right to bother you with trifling matters such as these. I want to find my parents' rings because they are the last physical memories I will find of them."

The pride of a son. He will not search the whole continent for the power still emitted by the rings, but as a keepsake of their existence.

"You haven't seen them since the orphanage accident, right? Is it not weighting on you constantly?"

Amelia kept asking sensitive questions, since she realized today might be the only day Orion would speak is mind openly.

A glowing light enveloped him for a split second, as his hair changed color.

'Alcyone'.

A white crossbow appeared in his hands.

"It doesn't necessarily weight on me."

With the light crossbow in hand, Orion glanced at her.

"Yes, I haven't seen them since that time, but I know they are with me as long as I have this bracelet. I will never get separated from them until the day I die."

A smile appeared on her face, knowing how important it was for him. He found his inner peace about this matter at last.

After looking at each other for a minute, Orion finally decided to ask a critical question.

"So... how long do I have to wait until you activate the ability? You know I can't do much if you don't unlock it."

Slight panic appeared on her face, before sweat began to show on her face.

"I'm sorry! I didn't realize! I'll do it now."

His training session began with an unusual lack of seriousness.