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Chapter 3: New Meetings and Discoveries

Hello, it is me, Tristan. I am 10 now, and it has been 3 years since I went to the Vatican. My experience here so far can be described as absolute hell.

My life, which was at normal difficulty before, turned up to hell-level difficulty. The training that we do is pretty much bone-wrenching legal torture. I, who had an adult mind, felt like crying after training ended every day. Even though Sister Anna looked fairly kind when I first saw her, I later came to learn that she was a drill sergeant from hell when it came to training.

The intensity of our training and exercises was absurd for any normal child to do, yet somehow it still worked. In just a year, I lost most of my baby fat, and by the next year, I was showing signs of muscles starting to grow, albeit barely noticeable.

For the past few years, the person with whom I most interacted was Sister Anna. Outside of training, she was genuinely kind and occasionally told me stories about Grandma Ava. I must say that Sister Anna genuinely started growing in me, and I have started to see her more and more as a friend since our mental ages seemed similar.

During our training breaks, she took me to the library and gave me a regular grade school education as well as a general understanding of the supernatural world.I guess I got totally lucky with her being assigned as my instructor because she helped me with extra training outside of the regular one.

Throughout the past year, I have found out my strengths and weaknesses. I am very talented in terms of fighting, but it wasn't exactly the same for magic. I was only about average in terms of magic, and I couldn't use anything more than basic spells. Plus, there was also the fact that the amount of magic power I held was below average. So that was a bit of a downer for me, but I guess it makes sense that not everyone is talented at everything.

Today I was walking through the Vatican. Unlike what most people thought, we usually got a break at least once a week to spend our time doing something else, though most still continued to train even in those days. I was pretty much the same way in that regard. But today I tried to explore the Vatican instead of just staying cooped up on the training grounds.

"Kyaaa!" I heard a scream.

I dashed in that direction as soon as I heard the scream. I clearly heard a kid's voice. Were they in trouble?

I rounded the building next to me and headed to the phone. As I went close by, I saw a little girl who looked about my age collapse on the road with a bunch of books lying around her.

"Hey, are you okay?" I asked as I tried to help the girl up.

"Ah, thank you very much," she said, slightly bowing before quickly picking up the books she had dropped.

"Here, let me help," I offered her with a smile on my face.

"Oh no, I don't want to bother you; I can carry these myself," she exclaimed in panic when I offered to carry them for her.

"No, it's fine; I'm not doing anything right now anyway," I said as I grabbed half the books she held.

Holding the books in my hand, I followed her to where she was headed.

"Sooo, my name is Tristan; what is your name?" I tried starting a conversation since it would be too awkward if I just ended there.

"Umm, my name is Asia," she told me in a quiet voice.

'Holy shit, it's this girl. Wasn't she one of Issei's harem members? I didn't expect to meet a main cast member out of nowhere.'

'Yeah, now that I think about it, wasn't it said her sacred gear was discovered when she was a child when she was taken by a Catholic church.'

"Oh, so what do you do here?" I questioned her with a bit of a strained smile on my face.

Not noticing my smile, she answered me with an innocent look on her face.

"I..ah..help people around here, and a kind Sister is teaching me how to heal others."

"Oh, that is very nice."

As we kept talking, we eventually reached a building, and we knocked on the door. After a few seconds, an old-looking man wearing a priest outfit opened the door.

"Hello Asia, "Are you here to drop off the books?"

"Yes, Father Johann, these are the books I got last week."

She handed the books to Father Johann, and I did the same. Holding the books in his hand, he smiled at Asia.

"So, is this a friend of yours?" He looked toward me, questioning her.

"Oh! I dropped the books on the road, and Tristan was kind enough to help me carry them."

"I see, so I guess you can make friends with him now."

"W-what do you mean?"

"It's been almost a year since you've been here, but you haven't made any friends, right? Why don't you talk to this kid then?" He asked, setting down the books and patting her on the head.

"So, boy, why don't you be friends with her?"

'Hey, hey, isn't this going way too fast?'

This was basically just what every parent did to their kids when they were younger. Shoving them into a group with other kids their age and expecting them to become friends.

'I really don't want to get involved with one of the main characters yet. But the pressure this old man is giving off makes me think I probably can't refuse.'

"Yes, yes of course we can; we can be friends." The old man's gaze made my sweat drop.

As I said, I saw Asia's face turn a complete 180 degrees. Even though she was a bit somber a few moments ago, she had a wide smile on her face. Looking at that innocent smile, I knew I probably couldn't refuse now.

"Alright, you guys can go hang out together." Father Johann smiled as he finally closed the door and left both of us outside. We kind of just stood there for a few minutes with an awkward silence between us. So being the man I was, I initiated a conversation with her.

"Soo, do you want to walk around the Vatican then?"

"Yes, let's walk around," she said, noticing what I was trying to do.

That was how I somehow became friends with Asia. This incident came completely out of left field, and I became the first and only friend that she has right now.

After that day, whenever I had free time every week or I got breaks from my training, I would go visit her or she would come visit me. I definitely wanted to avoid her at the start, but after talking with her for a bit, I realized that she was just a lonely kid who wanted someone to talk to.

That's why I decided to interact with her and try to brighten her day. Even though I made this decision, I also know that I will definitely not prevent her from being expelled from the church. Saving Asia was a big trigger for the main character to unlock his power, and she was also somewhat impactful to the main plot. Plus, even if I wanted to protect her, I couldn't really go against Diodora or the church since they have much more influence than I do.

It was certainly depressing to think about, but that was exactly why I was even more determined to train harder so that I could live a peaceful life.

-O-

I had been wondering about one thing since I was born in this do I have Mystic Eyes? Most would just glance over that question and not think about it too much. Instead, I questioned myself about my knowledge of Mystic Eyes.

From the pages of light novels and wikis that I've read, I clearly remember that the acquisition of Mystic Eyes only happens when there is a natural mutation of Magic Circuits around our eyes. So only one natural question came to mind: Does my body have Magic Circuits? If I did, then could other humans in this world also possibly have dormant magic circuits that they haven't discovered yet?

I think the existence of Magic Circuits would change everything. I would have access to more magical energy to use and it would also allow me to use other magical abilities specific to the Nasuverse. The only concern is that I'm not sure how Magic Circuits will interact with the magic in DxD.

From what I know, Magic Circuits are a pseudo-nervous system that is found in the soul, and the lines you see on the body of a Magus are just a physical representation of it. Opening Magic Circuits would usually require one to run magical energy through them.

The problem here is that I already have magic power, even though the amount is low. From the limited information I have about DxD, I am pretty sure all humans have magic power, but it is extremely low, and only those who have a certain amount of magic power can go on to become magicians. In the series, we never got a detailed description of how a person can use magic, so I could only assume that our cells can naturally absorb magic power from the surroundings, which we gather and pour into formulas to create spells. But all of this is just a theory.

In regards to my Magic Circuits I am guessing mine are dormant. The Magic Circuits of my Mystic Eyes are self-sufficient, so I'm pretty sure they won't be affected by my main body's Circuits. So, it just means that now I'll have to run my magic throughout my body to find the Circuits that are attached to my body.

…

I started doing this around the time I met Asia. During the weekly break, I circulated the magical energy in my body, trying to finely control and scan it throughout my body. I've been doing this for six months now, and I finally have some results.

It was an early Sunday morning, and I was circulating my magic like I did every day, and I finally found something unusual. It was something that wasn't visible physically, but I could barely feel a spiritual connection. That's when I realized that those were probably my Magic Circuits. So I slowly moved my magic little by little onto that, and once I did that, I let my magical energy flow through the circuits connecting to that one.

*Tiss*

My whole Magic Circuit opened up, which caused my body temperature to rise and everything in my body to start to hurt. It was so hot that my sweat started evaporating off of my skin. It took my body a few minutes to get acclimated to the opening of my "foreign" pseudo-nervous system before it started to cool down.

This process drained my energy, and I could barely stand after that. I proceeded to lay down and decided to take the entire day off without going anywhere.

It was only in the afternoon that I woke up after I recovered some of my energy and decided to try out my new Magic Circuits.

According to the anime and novels, most Magi require a mental trigger to activate their magic I sat down on my bed with my legs criss-crossed as I closed my eyes and focused on my body. I needed some sort of trigger that could create an instinctive reaction to activate my power.

'Hmm...Trigger Trigger Trigger Trigger Trigger...'

As I started to fall into a trance, I suddenly remembered a strange yet nostalgic memory. The first time I ever got a computer was in high school. My father got me a PC and monitor, which I had wanted for many years. I still remember that moment when I plugged in all the wires and pressed the button to turn on the PC.

*Beep*

I opened my eyes, realizing that I had activated my Magic Circuit. That worked out pretty well. I found my mental trigger, which was me pressing the button to turn on my PC. Now that I think about it, that sounds pretty tame compared to what some of the characters imagine in the Nasuverse.

I know that Magi usually awaken to their Origin and such, but it wasn't the same for me. From the moment I turned on my Magic Circuits for the first time, I subconsciously knew everything about my body. I possessed 22 Magic Circuits of mediocre quality. My Origin was called Cut, and my Elemental Affinity was Fire.

Usually Magus would use some other means to identify the Origin and Affinity but for some reason I just knew when mine had opened. Perhaps this was a side effect of the DxD universe; most creatures in this world can use magic instinctively using their "imagination". I also didn't know if it was a coincidence or not, but somehow I had an Origin that was oddly familiar to Kiritsugu. Was it influenced by a higher being, or was it just a coincidence? I decided to put that thought at the back of my mind for now. I have far more important things to do right now.

I took out a notebook I had under the bed and inspected it. That notebook was something I made when I was still in the orphanage. I wrote down absolutely everything I could remember about DxD and also wrote down all the different magic spells and fighting styles that I've seen in other shows in detail.

Flipping through the pages, I found what I was looking for. It was the Reinforcement spell which was probably the only thing I could train in at this moment.

It is a basic and useful spell to start with if I'm going to practice magecraft from now on. I made a rough plan in my head and decided to get some dinner early so that I could sleep early later.