|Aria| Beta Orion had come back from the border and called for my training that I had been missing out on for a while. He had sent a letter the previous evening with a special note to prepare me for catching up on the missed lessons. “What kind of pupil takes the absence of her teacher as a means to stay away from training?” he questioned as I stepped into the training ground the following morning. “Well, the teacher shouldn’t have gone without leaving some instructions,” my mouth pouted cutely as I found my way to his side. He stared at me for a while, the silence making my heart beat fast, but I didn’t make my fear obvious. I thought he wanted to scold me more, so I was preparing myself for the earful he had to dish out, but he just tossed the sword to me. “Are you going to stay the

