After spending a few minutes slaving away in the room Tina slept in Tibaut returned with the smell of cleaner thoroughly permeating him.

"Oh, he's just your errand boy. I thought he was more." Said Tina sounding somewhat disappointed.

Elizabeth completely ignored her statement (which resulted in Tina glaring at her).

"Um, Ms. Tina," Tibaut said before walking closer to her and lowering his voice "I know this is on me but you should probably be more careful with where you put your underwear or at least let me know if you want to clean your own room moving forward. Don't worry I didn't touch it but it felt odd cleaning around it when it was on the floor." He said before trying to quickly walk away.

His face turned a shade of pink quite different from her hair and she grabbed Tibaut and started shaking him.

"You… don't you dare mention this to anyone."

Elizabeth, clearly unamused, grabbed him out of her clutches and began speaking to both of them.

"Ready to get training, today I'll go extra har- oh wait a minute."

"What is it?" Asked Tibaut. He was wondering why she had stopped getting them amped up for training.

She dragged him away a few meters and whispered in his ear which definitely flustered poor Tibaut. Her opening her mouth and her warm breath blowing on his ear caused him to quiver slightly. She looked at him with suspicion before saying what she needed to.

"We're going to have to tone it down today, Tibaut."

Any other day this would have left Tibaut on his knees screaming thank you to the skies, but he was feeling pretty determined today, so he couldn't help but make up his face.

"Why does Ezekiel mean nothing to you?"

"Alright let me speak in a language you can understand. Are you a dumbass, do you know how our training sessions look to the outside observers? If I tried that sort of training with her she'd know some things up with my healing magic."

He looked over to Tina who was feeling quite left out after seeing them whisper to each other and occasionally hearing Ezekiel's name.

"Does that really matter at this point?"

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"If she says the wrong thing to the wrong person I could end up being sent away before we even begin planning on dealing with Ezekiel's killers."

"Tch, at least think about it. We aren't the only ones who want revenge and could benefit from that kind of training." He said while whispering to her face.

"That's something for me to decide at my own discretion."

She soon walked away and went back over to Tina.

Tibaut sighed before joining them.

"Maybe you guys are more buddy-buddy than I thought. I'm surprised Elizabeth, to think you of all people hunted down a man. I know there's somewhat of a gap between us but this is just insulting. Do you think that little of your rival?" She said to Elizabeth.

Tibaut turned to her in shock.

"Rival? (Sorry Elizabeth but I don't think going easy today is going to be an option.)"

Elizabeth looked just as surprised before remembering something.

"Oh yeah, you're always saying something like that, aren't you?" Said Elizabeth with not a single care on her face.

"Why are you downplaying it like that, Liz." Said Tina with a terrifying look on her face.

("Well I suppose I can wait until they've both tired each other out so I can even have a chance in the training after.")

"Listen, Liz, this guy seems pretty alright but if I wanna beat that guy in black, training with you is my best shot."

Elizabeth didn't look too concerned and responded to her.

"The gap between us is not something that could be described as little. Even if we fought 100 times I'm unsure if you'd get a single win. What I would do to you would constitute a crime. Yet..." Elizabeth rolled her eyes before continuing, "There's no point arguing with you over this since you won't listen, so I suppose I'll grant your request. See it yourself." Tina looked anxious yet had a smile on her face when told this. But Elizabeth continued "However you first have to beat Tibaut."

The pink-haired girl clicked her tongue.

"Hey redhead, get your ass over here already." She shouted at him. Her face hid none of the irritation that was currently and Tibaut damned Elizabeth with all his might before walking over to her. "You don't mind if I use my weapon, since you have healing magic and all that, right Elizabeth?"

"Please refrain from taking off his head or stabbing his heart please."

"Woah, WAIT A MINNUUTE, Liz, I agreed to train not a deathmatch." Tibaut had not listened to a single word Elizabeth said to Tina and was currently a few moments away from filling his breeches.

She looked directly into his face before giving a thumbs up and saying "Start."

Tina immediately began rushing towards and Tibaut let loose a fire bolt towards her leg.

("Okay so she'll probably dodge to the left and then I'll have to deal with her inside of my blind spot, plus that spear seems like it'll be a pain in the ass in general-")

Then Tibaut's thoughts came to a halt.

It wasn't because he had been stabbed or beheaded, you could say the opposite happened in fact. The fire bolt he had shot off as a momentary distraction in an attempt to control her movements had actually hit her.

It hit her. How many days had it been since his magic had hit anyone? He stood there dumbfounded at what happened.

Tina winced and moved back.

"Damn, that comes out faster than I thought."

She checked her wound and breathed a sigh of relief since it didn't cause too much damage.

She swung her spear downwards next and Tibaut easily dodged it to the side. He was surprised at how slow the attack came compared to Elizabeth's punches.

After those two interactions, Tibaut had a single thought in his mind.

"Do I actually stand a chance?"