Training Day Part 3

 We walked outside of his office and we're walking towards the magic elevator, before we got to the elevator, many people had greeted the monk. I was also giving my fair share of greeting but that was only by the people who noticed my blue eyes as that was the only indicator that I was who I was. The monk seemed taller than he was a few minutes ago, until I noticed that he had put on shoes. He had spiky white hair and was wearing a cream robe, with brown leather shoes.I wondered why everybody in this country had a different outfit than mine, In this country everybody seemed to have this traditional style outfit with robes and stuff , and it actually fits the magic trope, but I have a suit ? like not anything special or anything but an actual suit. The ones you wear at weddings and stuff.

"Hey old man, why is my outfit different from everyone else's ?"

"Hmm, good question."

"I'm no scholar in the scripture but I do think there is a passage that says something about you wearing what is from your planet, and is not very popular here."

"But why don't people look at me like I'm weird for wearing this, I mean it doesn't seem normal here ?"

He chuckled.

"well that's because while it's not very popular, people still wear it."

"Mostly teenagers who want to defy culture" He chuckled.

 "That's believable" I said.

 At this point we had already used the Magic-elevator, I didn't know that It could take two people because me and the monk entered the Elevator at the same time. Now we were downstairs about to walk outside the building.

"How ? I thought only one person at a time could use the elevator."

"That was true before, but It was modified last week."

"but people are used to using it as one a person." I said.

"Yes, they've been doing it for months now, of course it's a habit."

 We were outside the building at this point.

"About the scripture ?" I asked.

"What about it ?" He asked

"How come a few people know and the masses seem are clueless ?"

He took a deep breath.

"Hmm it has been a tradition for the scripture to only be held by members of the royal court, or any aristocrat"

"And you are part of the royal court ?"

"Yes." He said.

"Okay well that explains everything."

"Indeed."

"Mind if i know where we're going ?"

"I don't think that would be necessary." He said walking slowly.

He wasn't a fast walker, he kept walking at such a slow pace that anytime I walked past him I had to wait for him. And keeping his pace was impossible, because his pace wasn't even consistent. If i knew where I was going I would have left him a long time ago.

"You don't seem to be at ease." He said after noticing my struggles with keeping his pace.

"um uh."

"You need to calm down and go with the flow, that was the lesson I wanted you to learn before we get there."

"You come across as a tense person, you are not comfortable in silence and when doing nothing you actively doing something physical with your body, most notably tap a part of your body with your hand."

"Hey what's with that ???"

"At least that's what I noticed." He said with a smile on his face, you know that anime old man smile when they close their eyes and smile, that was the smile that he had.

 Back to the matter at hand, I found that a little bit weird, I mean we've barely met for like an hour and he already knew this much about me , I wonder what would happen in a day ?

 I tried my best not to think of anything before we got to where we were going.

[Five minutes later]

 We were getting closer to what seemed like some kind of temple, It had all these weird Artifacts on the walls and outside the temple, and while I called it a temple It wasn't necessarily large, In fact It had no upper floor, so it was more suitable to call it a cave , but the writings on the wall called it a temple. It was not written In English , but I understood it, it read "Tampo Nywova" which means "Temple of the bold" in English, I still found it weird how I could understand this language without ever learning it before, I guess i still haven't adjusted to it.

[In the Temple]

"This is where we shall do our training sessions." Monk Gabu said

"Yeah."

"But first we need to awaken your magic."

"I understand."

"But not here of course , we've barely entered the temple." He said.

"He-he that's true."

 We did some more walking and after a few left and right turns we met a few people.

"Hmm I guess they must also be students."

They were a bout six or seven , consisting of about three boys and four girls.

"J-Jones"

"Maya ?"

"What are you doing here ?" I didn't notice her at first because she wasn't wearing her typical white robe and she wasn't facing me when I saw her. so I all i saw was a girl with white hair and a pretty grey robe.

"Um I study with the monk here." she seemed different from how she usually behaved the few times I met her. She seemed a little bit shy now, or maybe that's just my view of things , because she's never been one to stutter but I don't know her very much to tell."

"I see you've met princess Goldi"

"Goldi ?" I asked

"Maya Goldi, t-that's my full name." she said anxiously.

"Oh you must be the guy Maya has been telling us about, You really do have blue eyes, Is it true like the stories ?" said a girl with blonde hair, she was wearing a blue robe , and was very pretty.

"Uh I don't really know much, still tryna figure It out myself." I said feeling a little bit like an air head.

"Oh , well my name is Serphia , nice to meet you" she brought her hand forward for a handshake.

"I'm Jones , Jones li." I said as I shook her hand

 I noticed she kept looking at me enthusiastically.

"What ?"

"Mind If I call you Zeist ?"

"No ,don't be weird."

"okay -okay fine, mind if i ask some questions ?"

"Fine."

 We had talked for a while , about thirty minutes to be exact and I was the one answering most of the questions, I told them that people on earth are mostly born with clear skin and do not have any red birth marks like they do, but they didn't believe me and were pressing me so hard.

"Take off your shirt, Take off your shirt."

"Huh ?" I said , tongue tied.

"Uh , can you guys leave him alone , he doesn't want to."

They continued to press me and their chants grew louder until.

"Shut up , all of you." said a boy with dark blue spiky hair, he was wearing all black ,except his shoes, and not a robe but more trademark-ish , he had the brown shoes with black trouser and a black shirt that was long sleeve , and a little bit thick , and a sword at his back.I would say we are the same height, although I was slightly taller. I wouldn't say I was Interested in any of this but I was interested about something else, when he told people to shut up people did , without question him, was it that they respected him, or they feared him ? 

"Omar , do you no who you're talki-"

"Yes, and I don't care." said Omar as he interrupted Sephira from completing her sentence.

"What's with him ?" I whispered

Maya did that sign with her hands signifying she was as confused as me.

"Come on bro , you didn't have to do that, do you know who he is , that's the zeist we're talking about." said one of the other boys that were around I hadn't gotten his name though , he also has blond hair, could he be related to Sephira ?

"and so what ?" He said almost a split second after.

"This isn't the Zeist I heard about in the stories, the Zeist is meant to be the embodiment of strength , but this man hear is not it, I mean just look at how puny he is."

"Whoa you have to chill bro." said that same boy again

"I was , but then he decided to ruin it with all his pointless chatter, I came here to train."

[He then paused for about two seconds]

"What's funny is he's the one with all the duty and prophecy and everything but yet I'm more focused than him. How is that possible ?"

 He then looked towards me straight in my eyes and said.

'I don't respect you at all, you have proven to have no honor, how is one like you chosen to be the savior ?"

"I'm sorry . but if I bothered you in anyway just now that it was unintentional."

"Uh where is he ?" I whispered.

He appeared in front of me with his sword pulled out , and ready to hit me , the sword was bringing out red flames. It seemed monk Gabu had blocked it with some kind of void that allowed the sword not to hit me, I thank him because If he didn't I would be knocked out right now.

"U-Uncle" said Omar.

"Why would you do that to your classmate Omar, what has gotten in to you ?"

"I'm sorry uncle." He said as he looked down facing the floor.

He then faced up and looked me straight In the eye again and said.

"Zeist, I challenge you to a duel."

"Hmm" I said.

"Zeist, you don't have to accep-" said monk Gabu

"no monk, that's not how I roll."

"I accept your challenge."

To be honest I had no choice , he already thought very little of me so imagine how he would view me if i backed out.

"Very Well." Monk Gabu said.