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Jaden nodded in response.

"All right." he replied, standing up.

"Guess... I should put this back." he then said, looking at the sword.

"It's too dull to chop wood... not that it should be used for that, anyway." he reasoned quietly.

He then continued to stare at the blade for another few seconds, almost fixated by it, before he shook himself back to reality, and put the sword back in the box.

Jaden just smiled in response, and wiped his eyes.

"Heh." he chuckled.

"Thanks." he said again.

He was then silent, and yawned slightly.

"Hm." he mumbled.

"Either I should go to bed, or go outside again." he said.

"I either need sleep or to keep myself occupied." he reasoned.

"There anything around that needs to be done?" he asked them.

Jaden looked between Demitra and Racquel, before nodding.

"Okay then." he replied.

"Thank you." he said.

"For everything." he went on.

"For saving me, letting me live here, the room, clothing, food, this blade..." he listed off.

"Just... thank you." he repeated.

"This means so much to me." he said, sounding near tears.

".........30 days." Jaden mumbled.

"Well... guess all there is to do is show it." he said.

He then sighed again, and looked at the two women.

"So we start tomorrow?" he asked.

"When?" he asked further.

"How soon after the sun rises?"

"..............I see." Jaden mumbled.

"Well... I... all right, then." he said, looking at the blade.

'... guess this will take a while...' he thought.

'Even though it is dull, it feels like it can cut right through me.' he realized.

"You're sure this is okay?" he then asked.

"For me to have such a blade?"

"....right." Jaden replied, as he took the blade out of the box.

And recoiled slightly as he held it.

"Oh..." he mumbled.

"Hm." he mumbled further.

"This feels... well... I don't know how to put it." he said.

"It feels... awkward... but at the same time, ominous, too." he told them. "If that makes any sense." he went on. Racquel and Demitra knew exactly what he was trying to say, even if he, himself didn't.

The sword didn't like him.

Yet.

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Jaden was silent as he heard what the females told him.

'....a soul...' he thought.

'More of one than...?' he wondered further, before sighing and shaking his head.

"I see." he replied.

"Not without just cause..." he repeated.

"What does that mean?" he asked Racquel.

"Does that mean only in self-defence?" he asked her. "Or... is it broader than that?" he asked further, looking at the sword again.

"...or is that something the blade and I need to work out together...?"

Jaden was silent, and then nodded.

"All... all right." he replied.

"I'll... I'll prepare for that." he told them.

He then looked at the blade once again, studying it.

"...this blade looks really nice." he commented.

"I can feel the history in it."

Jaden caught the box, a puzzled expression on his face.

He also seemed mildly concerned with the cruel undertone Demitra's smirk had.

But he shook it off, and opened the box.

"Huh?" he muttered.

"A... sword?" he asked, looking at the blade.

Jaden sat down, and pondered the question.

"Well... yes." he replied.

"I do." he said.

"If I'd had known how to fight, maybe I wouldn't have the mark on my back." he went on.

"Maybe... I wouldn't have been left alone in this world." he continued, before pausing.

"N-not to say I'm alone NOW." he then quickly clarified. "But... I mean... alone... as in it wouldn't have happened in the first place." he explained awkwardly.

Jaden nodded when she said that.

"Okay." he replied.

"I'll see you back there." he told her.

When Racquel made her way off, he walked to the pond and got down on his hands and knees, staring at his reflection for an unknown amount of time, as he wasn't paying attention to that.

It was at least an hour, though, as he made his way back to the house after about an hour.

He then stepped inside, and sighed.

"I'm back!" he called into the home.

Jaden was silent for a moment, before sighing.

"I..." he stammered.

"I don't know." he said.

"I feel... weird, like, all of the time." he told her.

"Like... I don't know, like there's this... something... inside me, and it wants to be let out." he went on.

"As in, if I don't expend energy or distract myself, I'll lose my mind."