I slowly woke up to see Aurora's face looking down at me. "You're awake," she said, my head resting on her lap. I must say, this is comfortable.

It's been about 5 months by now, and every day Elizabeth has been helping me with my magic, while Aurora has been assisting with my sword training since she's more experienced than me.

"Your legs must be getting numb. I should..." Before I could get up, she grabbed my shoulder and pulled me back down onto her lap.

"It's only been 10 minutes; you should be recovering," she said with a serious look on her face.

I slowly nodded. "This is good progress, Art. It's now only happening once a month now," Elizabeth said, looking down at me with a smile.

By now, I've only fainted once a month.

"I can lay on the grass, you know, so your legs don't get numb," I suggested, as much as I enjoyed this lap pillow, it felt sort of weird that we aren't, you know, married.

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"Fine, you have a point," she relented. With that, she helped me lay on the grass, and my view was the sky right now.

"May I ask why you never tried magic before?" Rose said curiously.

"I do say, it is impressive how well you fight without the use of mana," Aurora chimed in.

Elizabeth didn't say anything, but she also had a curious look, wanting to know as well.

"I trained at the age of 5; my first sword was a short sword. Then at seven, I used a regular sword. By the age of 10, I was able to lift the great sword, and I trained to use it as if it were a normal sword," I explained.

"You used a great sword?" Aurora asked.

"He did, about almost a year ago," Rose answered.

"What happened to it?"

"I lost it..." I admitted. "I lost it when I found Luna." That managed to put a smile on her face.

Later, Eva had to tell me something; we were in the forest.

"I'd like to share some information with you, my Master," Eva said with that devilish smile of hers.

"This better be good; I want to visit them before you rudely called me here," I replied. It had been about 2 days since I last visited, so I wanted to get this over with quickly.

"Do you remember that dungeon you found over a year ago?" she questioned.

The dungeon? Yeah, I think I remember what she's talking about. It was the one I forgot about, I think, 11 months ago. The one where I had my first kill...

"It wasn't a dungeon, but in fact a labyrinth," Eva clarified. A labyrinth? That actually makes sense, since I did remember seeing markings at the entrance.

"You'll find something very interesting if you go there," she continued.

"Like what?" I questioned.

"It's someone. You don't know them, but they do have information that you might want to hear." She followed up by saying, "He might help get rid of that curse of yours."

"How?" I asked.

"He's lived for thousands of years. He was there when your curse was active," Eva explained.

Even now, I'm still not at 100% with my magic, but if my curse was gone, I'd be stronger—stronger to protect them, all of them. With that, I agreed and set off to that labyrinth.