12 Like a Rat up a Drain Pipe

Ziade decides to make breakfast this morning while Elizabeth sleeps in.

Ziade is making some bacon and eggs with toast...

'Congratulations Ziade you have mastered the cooking skill.'

'You now can cook anything and everything to taste the best it can be.'

Ziade is still sleepy from waking up and just brushes off this amazing skill by giving no comment on the matter.

Ziade finishes making breakfast for Elizabeth and she seems to wake up from the aroma of the food. He places it on the table they bought from the markets a while back and sits down, Ziade starts eating...

Elizabeth tiredly gets up from her bed and sits herself at the other end of the small table and starts to eat her food after she said thankyou.

"No problem Elizabeth."

Elizabeth eyes are dull and her hair is ruffled and messy... "...I look messy and uncultured..."

"Elizabeth no matter what you look like." Ziade pauses and cracks a smile and leans in. "You will always be beautiful." 'I always wanted to say that to my daughter, but I have left her..."

Elizabeth was staring at him listening but she immediately blushes after hearing such words... she just starts eating quietly with her head down not daring to look him in the eyes...

'I shouldn't of said that, now she's got the wrong idea again.'

Once the two finished their food and cleaned up, Elizabeth wanted to have a bath to clean herself... so Ziade walked outside and went to do some training.

Ziade is in his training ground just warming up by doing some stretches and some battles by using his imagination that people are fighting him.

After what felt like about half an hour... Elizabeth walks out of the house with some practical clothes on since she knew that Ziade was going to show off all his skills and techniques to her today.

Ziade notices her, "Hey Elizabeth! Had a nice bath?"

"...Yes.. Ziade it was nice."

"That's great, now... I want to show you some... things I use to practice." Ziade replies.

"Ok." Elizabeth walks up to him and he smiles.

"Cool, let's get straight into it than. First off I'm going to demonstrate one of fighting styles by using this dummy over here. Ziade had made his own dummy to suit his heigt, the dummy had three arms and 1 leg" He says while pointing at it and walks towards it.

Ziade does his techniques on the dummy slow and steady visualising a real opponent and after a minute or so he starts doing it incredibly fast that it is very hard to see with eye.

'Wow...' Elizabeth is amazed at his moves and she gets excited for when she can finally go and learn magic and how to fight.

After doing his drills and showing off his skills... Ziade turns around, "Was that good Elizabeth?" Ziae says with a confident smile.

"...It sure was Ziade can you show me other stuff you know... because... I want to get to know you better." Elizabeth Nomso replies.

'Get to know me better...? haha oh no...'

Ziade shows off his boxing on his punching bag but it doesn't look that impressive and only would come into it's light when versing a real opponent.

Ziade then has many targets, big and small and pulls out his throwing knife... he throws it and it completly misses the target...

'Congratulations you have mastered throwing knives.'

Ziade is amazed at the new skill he aquired but is embarrsed that he missed the target in front of Elizabeth...

"...I'm... still practising on that... but I'll show you my sword skills..." he unsheaths his Masamune in front of Elizabeth and she is always amazed at how beautiful his sword is...

"Elizabeth... my sword skills would be better against an opponent but I can show you my Masamune and cool skills I have..."

'He... really is strong... I want to have the same power he does...' Elizabeth says inside.

"Ok Ziade can I look at your sword please?"

"Hahaha, you sure can." Ziade passes his sword over and says,"Eliabeth did you know that without my permission, Masamune would weigh ten tonnes." He says with a weird smile leaving Elizabeth staring at all the snakes on Masamune and bewildered on the weight.

"Really? ten tonne? are you lying?" Elizabeth is slightly doubtful of his words.

"Would you like to test it?" Ziade replies with a small laugh.

"No, no... I believe you Ziade... there is no need."

"Ok." Ziade slightly dissapointed.

After Elizabeth inspects Masamune she asks while handing his sword back over to him, "So any other cool things?"

"...Yep I've still got few, Look at that tree over there." Ziade says while pointing at it and sheathing back Masamune behind his waist.

Elizabeth looks at the tree... "What about Ziade..." The tree suddenly has a massive hole in it while Elizabeth's eyes are as wide as they have ever been... "Ziade... how did you do that..."

"Elizabeth I am a Sword Master and the sword is my body and the body is my sword, Masamune and I are one. In simple terms... I am able to pierce anything with my eyes..."

"...Ziade.. that's kind of scary... is it easy to become a sword master..?" Elizabeth is astonished at how powerful Ziade is... and thinks that it must be easy to master weapons because Ziade is only two years old... she thinks that he is incredibly smart and a bit overgrown for his age but that doesn't explain why he can do... that...

Elizabeth cotinues to talk, "Ziade... my father told me basics of this world and it's power levels... but hasn't told me weapon arts..."

"Elizabeth you will be able to learn everything you need to know in the magic academy you attend to later but I will tell you a bit about weapon arts." Ziade replies.

"..." Elizabeth is prepared with a serious face

"Alright... weapon arts are seperated into seven levels with their appropriate names, for different weapons they have different names but it is always seven levels for any weapon." Ziade pauses before continuing on. "My power level is Sword Master and I'm at the seventh level... so the top... I don't know if there is more hidden levels or I have to find my own path from now on.. but I believe... there is more to Masamune..."

"...Ziade.. I know that you are powerful... but that's only in weapons! I'm going to be stronger than you in magic!" Elizabeth voices out her determination.

"Elizabeth you will most probably be better than me in magic but that's only if you work hard... but if you are more powerful than me in magic... then that would be great" 'That means I would never need to look after her again.'

There is silence between the two so Ziade breaks it by talking... "Ok! I've got one more cool thing to show off to you."

"Ready?" Ziade asks.

"...yes..."

He uses 'Lickety-Split walking' and vanishes and walks back to the same spot.

"What did you do?" All Elizabeth was see him turn around... then she hears the sound of him walking...

"hahahaha! Elizabeth I moved that fast all you saw was me turn around, I have a movement skill that allows me to move 4 times faster than the speed of sound so what you just experienced was... You can't see me when I use it... only when I go past, will you hear me walking."

"That's amazing Ziade, you're going to be super powerful when you're older!"

"Hopefully."

"..." Elizabeth thinks on that for some time while Ziade practices some more.

Elizabeth and Ziade spend their days with each other and strenghten their relationship by doing heaps of fun stuff in the kingdom and on the farm land, they did so many that even Ziade with a perfect memory... forgot some stuff...

Ziade did body strength training by cultivating within and training his body and Elizabeth trained in her magic talent, Elizabeth awakened her magic talent... her magic was dual magic and she could manifest dark magic and fire magic and her body had natural strentgh... she had demon, half-beast and human bloodline... she would be immensely powerful when she's older... Ziade was staggered when she awakened her power... she could only manifest fire and dark magic on her palms now but... he could imagine the power she would hold when she's older and adept at using magic.

He guessed that magic... had elements to it... and every person had different elements they could wield and cultivate.

The two's time together pass by in a flash...

6 years go by...