Ace walks home as he finished his training with Hansel.

Ace: Man, that was one tough training. I finally awakened my inner magic, but after that, I wasn't able to use it again. We tried every item we found in the training ground to use my magic again, but it was no luck.

Ace looks at the sky as he thinks about the future.

Juniper suddenly appeared out of knowhere and talked to Ace as they walk.

Juniper: You should think of the present first before thinking of the future.

Ace was startled.

Ace: Where did you come from?!

Juniper: You wanna know? After you saw us naked at the river.

Ace: *blush* What are you talking about?! I didn't do that on purpose you know. And by the way, WHY ARE YOU WEARING A SWIMSUIT WHILE WALKING WITH ME ON PUBLIC.

Juniper: Oh this? I went to the river using this.

Ace's POV
  She could've use that earlier.

Juniper: And also because the weather's too hot.

Juniper was feeling hot, and she was about to remove her bra.

Ace(pissed): Will you please stop what you're doing, you're making me really uncomfortable.

Juniper(chibi): Okay..

Ace: Anyway, because you're here, I know you want to talk about something.

Juniper: *smirk* You got sharp senses. Very well, I was gonna tell you about you using your magic.

Ace: What about it?

Juniper: Well, you see, that magic is necessary for you to live in this world. Without it, you're defenseless.

Ace: Your point?

Juniper: My senses tell me that in the near future, you'll depend on your inhuman ability more than your magic.

Ace was speechless on what Juniper has said.

Juniper: Some magic can be appear useless without its source, and I'm talking about IMM users like you.

Ace: Wait?! How did you know?!

Juniper: Doesn't matter... What I'm telling you is that you should have the courage in your abilities more than depending on something that was temporarily given to you.

Ace: Temporarily given to me? What do you mean?

Juniper: *smiles* You should find the answer for yourself.

Juniper dashed to the guild.. Still in that outfit.

Ace: Sheesh, she is one complicated master.

As 10 minutes pass by, Ace saw someone standing outside of his room. That person is wearing a hood, so Ace couldn't see the person's face.

Ace: Huh? Who're you?

The person looked Ace directly in the eyes.

Ace felt a black aura with killing intent straight at him. The person walked silently through him.

Ace couldn't move even a muscle, feeling that when he move just a little bit, the person might kill him.

After a second, the stranger disappeared in thin air.

Ace: T-This is the first time.... I felt fear struck deep inside me. I feel that that person is on a whole new level...
   Wait a minute?! What did he do to my room?!

Ace quickly went inside his room and saw that nothing completely changed.

Ace: Who was that?!

***
The next day...

Ace is deeply in thought on what he had experienced yesterday...

Hansel: Yo Ace!

Ace was startled.

Hansel: What're you doing? We are already in training session and you're spacing out for three times now. What's wrong?

Ace: Oh N-Nothing. *stands up* I'll stop training here for now...

Hansel: Huh? What're you saying?! Aren't you the one who asked me to train you to pass the master's test!?

Ace: I'm already wasting time on this training.

Ace walked away and headed back to town.

Hansel: What's wrong with him?

***

Ace: It feels like I know who's that person already...

Ace had a flashback on being experimented in a room... A room filled with a lot of other children just like him.

Juniper: Who?

Ace was startled once again.

Ace: Stop popping out like that!

Juniper: So? Who's this person you're talking about?

Ace: *sigh* He's one of the delinquents that was part of a certain experiment... Kiba.

Juniper: Tell me more about this so-called experiment that you were involved in.

Ace is about to decline, but he saw that Juniper's eyes are filled with seriousness.

Ace: Ok, I'll tell you...

To be continued...