"Home sweet home , how have i missed you !", Den exclaims smiling as he enters his mansion , in the hall along with Kite and his escorts.

"Welcome home my Lord!", a maid approaches bowing along with the others as Den stares at them , feeling something wrong with the maids .

"Why do i feel something missing here !?", Den turns and asks as the lady maid bows and apologises ," I apologise my lord , some of the maids tried to escape the mansion while you were gone ! ."

"Hm , i see ", Den murmurs smiling as he walks up the stairs and off to his room humming gladly , as he was back home.

"What happened to those who tried to escape !?", a soldier curiously asks as Kite replies calmly ," there is a curse cast on all the workers , if they go against our lord in any will , they will perish!".

The soldier gasps as he replies softly ," i never knew of such thing!". The maids leave the hall for their own chores as Kite speaks softly to the soldier ," of course you wouldn't , the soldiers are responsible for the underground , and theres no escape route in there. So there is no need to cast a curse on you."

The soldier smiles nervously as he goes to the secret door along with the others who came back from the journey , to the underground hideout.

It was evening , as the city tower rang its daily evening bells , Den gets distracted again by the gong echoing through the forests as he speaks to himself softly ,"oh i got lost brooding again."

Hearing a soft sharp knock in his window , he opens it as his black raven flies in his study room , cawing and flapping its wings in his table.

Staring into its eyes , Den smiles and speaks softly ," I see , he will be here soon huh !".

He sits in the chair and from his drawer , picks a handful of peanuts and places in the table for the raven to feed on its hunger .

Grabbing his quill pen from the ink pot besides the heap of books from the table , he starts writing a message in a piece of paper as the raven gulps the peanuts off his table.

"I'm coming in my lord!", Kite murmurs entering the room and notices Den was busy writing.

"What are you writing my lord !?", Kite asks staring at the raven who stared back at her.

"Everything Aur needs to know !", Den replies smiling and staring at the piece of paper , and rolling it gently.

"Yes Kite , what is it!?", Den murmurs as he ties the rolled paper in the ravens claw.

" yes my lord , i wanted to ask if you could help me use my Aest to its full potential ," Kite requests staring at the floor and gripping her hands as Den , swayed by her question , questions ," What bought that up!?".

Kite quiets as Den holding the raven and moving towards the window , he gently frees the raven for its travel and stares at it as it flies away to the west.

"Why , Kite? What happened!?", Den asks softly again turning back as Kite gathering up her strength murmurs ,"I felt so helpless that moment... when we were about to be sealed by the Devour general... "

Den smiles and takes a step forward but is interrupted as Kite continues ,"I wanted to help you My Lord!, i could see you, my lord , struggling to make a decision , that would put your life at risk! I wanted to do something , anything , that would help not burden my lord in any way... !".

Den does not say a word but stares at the guilt filled eyes of Kite's .

"Please my lord!", Kite requests , kneeling down suddenly as Den was left speechless but he takes a breath and replies softly turning back and staring out the window ," i wasn't prepared to train anyone , thats why i send Pika away with Aur , nor was i expecting my experiment would be successful."

Pausing for a moment as Kite stares at the back of her lord , Den continues ,"as you want.. i will train you personally . I don't know much about training different Aests , but i will try with whatever resources i can get."

Kite smiles , gathering her strength , intimidated by her lord , standing as Den continues turning back ," but it will be a hard one. Which i don't want you to endure.. should you be prepared for the worst , i will help you!".

"I am prepared my lord!", Kite murmurs with a serious eyes as Den replies smiling ," Good then! , it is said .... ". Den pauses looking back out the window again , continuing ," young birds are not taught by their parents to fly , but are forced to when they fall out their nests . So the best option is to throw you out of the nest too!".

Kite gulps but was ever ready of the consequences for her training , she replies softly ," i will try not to disappoint you , my lord!!".

"We will start when i am ready! ", Den murmurs and adds ,"See to it that dinner is prepared well tonight! You'll need every ounce of energy you can find!".

"Yes my lord!! ", Kite replies bowing her head and excuses herself out of his study room.

"With stronger powers comes harder responsibilities ! I hope you take good care of your responsibility !", Den speaks softly to himself , staring at the Rosendale city far below the forest.

"Everyone is enemy!", Den whispers softly as he smiles staring at the dark orange skies , as the grayish clouds pass by the southern winds and sounds of cool winds of the sea blowing in the window pane , over the islands forests , carrying withered and dry leaves with it , Den feels the peace and quietness as he sighs, he is suddenly taken aback by a glimpse of his past.

"Mother... Father... Everyone..!... i will bring all of you justice !", He thinks as he grips his hands in anger , in his unlikely frowned face with serious eyes. The walls creeks and the window glasses shakes as anger fills him.

Suddenly a window glass infront of him cracks , which wakes him up from his thoughts , sighing and relieving himself , he goes back to his seat and lights a lamp , starts scribbling again in a book with his pen.