"The commonthought ability?" Ezra asks.

"Yes, the ability that has existed in our family from the first generations, Darryl commonthought had it first, becoming a military strategist at an early age. His older brother then became the Grandmaster after Darryl refused his role, shortly becoming the master of the clan, however..."

"However...?"

"However, his brother died in battle and had no children, so while he was mourning the loss of his brother he was promoted to Grandmaster and continued the family line, every member of the family having different abilities or disabilities. The commonthought ability was the first one in the family and thusly named after the family, the ability gives a person superhuman inteligence but it's never been seen outside of the family."

"I see."

"I have eaten Ezra, meet me outside once you're done!" She skips away with a smile.

Ezra looks lost in thought for a second before turning to the food server: "I am done with my food." And running off before the server can say a word.

Ana is outside far from the city in a forest, she is in a shed with a wooden sword in hand while sitting in a chair.

Meanwhile, Ezra boarded a manna powered train in the city and got lost, many are looking at a child in royal attire on public transport, missing every stop and just looking around, confused.

The train stops again, the doors open and Ezra finally leaves out into the city, he is met with a station full of people, old and young, but the station has many children walking around, boarding trains or overall hanging out with friends.

Ezra's brain is overwhelmed by the sight of the gigantic size the station has to offer and while looking around ends up seeing the ceiling made of glass.

'This is indoors!?' He thinks.

He takes of running through the hordes of people while catching strange stares that he ignores, trying to find the exit to the people-filled monstrocity of a train station.

Eventually he finds the exit only to be met with an even more astonishing sight, a giant outdoor maze of manna-powered machinery.

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He asks around for directions and goes out of the city finally, only moments later meeting with Ana who had begun walking to the city thinking he abandonned her.

"finally, took you long enough." She smiles and runs off into the forest with Ezra following her this time.

For someone as petite as her she was able to run faster than Ezra who had indured speed training from a Master spellcaster.

No matter how quickly he tried to run he could not catch up to her and merely stayed a few meters behind her.

"We're here." She says with a bright smile, her hands on her hips.

Ezra, now breathless, Asks her about her speed. To which Ana replies:

"I trained myself personally, breath, speed and strength training. Now, shall we begin?" She picks up the wooden sword and throws Ezra a different but same looking wooden sword.

She assumes a fighting stance with her left arm on the sword and her right arm next to her hip.

Ezra assumes a low stance with both hands on the sword.

They stand across from each other for a while, not shifting their gaze away from each other, upon hearing the caw of a crow Ezra dashes forward with an upwards strike headed for Ana's jaw but nearly missing and getting bonked on the head by Ana.

He falls down on his face but bruises Ana's thigh with the sword before getting up and jumping away.

"You're swift for someone your age! But you should have stood up faster, i could have killed you five times over if i had a real blade." Ana comments.

"Do you think Yuta is a demon?"

"Well that came out of nowhere, why do you ask?"

"I don't know, the rumor just came to my mind so i wanted to hear your thoughts on it."

"I don't care, Ezra. Focus on the fight."

Ezra then stops speaking and with a cold, emotionless glare attacks Ana.

'Her left side will be more difficult to defend, maybe i could hit her!'

He goes for a quick strike to her left side but Ana changes grip split-second, knocking away his blade and dealing a blow to his neck in impressive show of force to which Ezra has no choice but to succumb and fall unconscious.

He wakes up on a bed in a fully white room with healers surrounding him, he looks around frantically to find Ana.

"Where is Ana?!" He asks.

"She is out in the kitchen making her specialty food, it's to apologize for knocking you out while you were sparring."

"Oh? Thank her for me, please. I'll go to the toilet." He stands up and leaves with some urgency.

He goes up the stairs and gets to the toilet with some trouble.

Upon entering he sees a man pinned to the wall with a giant blob of blue and black, it apears constantly in motion even when stagnant.

"Help... Me...!" The man cries out as he is being absorbed.

"I see "you" are here." Yuta says, sprouting tenticles from his right arm that attach onto the blob of miasma on the wall, fusing it into the rest of his body.

"I don't know how, but i expected something like this to happen." Yuta says again.

"So... You're a demon?"

"A half demon, but yes."

"I see you are not hiding it anymore."

"I would see no point, you witnessed it with your own eyes. That said, i can't just let you live." He pins him to the wall with miasma.

"The man i just absorbed was an assasin, not nearly as innocent as you. Don't worry though, i will kill you painlessly."

While they were chatting a disk flies through the wall near the door and cuts the miasma in half.