Mima was not wrong with how busy it was. She had to wake up early to wash all the cloths she had. While she did use magic to help her with washing and drying, it still took hours to clean it all. After she had dried the cloths, she changed into one of her mages outfits. It was at that time that Marisa woke up.
"So you finally decided to wake up." Mima said to a still sleepy Marisa.
"Good Mor-. How are you?!" Marisa, in her half tired state, did not recognize Mima.
"I know you only been with me for one day, but surly you recognize me? Hold on." Mima summoned her focuser into her right hand and thrust it towards Marisa "That Better?"
Marisa jumped back in freight, and realized what she did wrong. She apologized franticly "I'm sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry Miss Mima please don't punish me!" shaking all the while.
Mima could not help but smirk and talk in a mischievous style "you better not let it happen again. Let me guess, it was the new cloths, wasn't it?" Mima was referring to the blue cloths she was now wearing. She was wearing a blue dress with a white trimming and sleeves. She wore a yellow bow and had a yellow sun, moon, and star at the bottom of her dress. She also wore a blue cape with a purple inside. A blue cap with a yellow sun in its lower right corner rested upon her head. "Well you better get used to it, for this is what I normally wear."
"O-okay." Marisa was visibly quivering.
Mima turned around and began to start replacing her seals, when a thought cross her mind. "How did you keep yourself fed?"
"Hu?"
Mima turned back around and asked the question more directly "Where did you get the food you ate Marisa?"
"Someone brought me food every week."
"You let someone know the location of my home!" Mima said pissed off.
"Epee" Marisa was absolutely terrified.
Mima asked again "Did You!"
"I-I sh-should them w-where the house was, b-but they d-did not b-believe m-me."
"When did they come last?" Mima calmed down a bit, but was still clearly mad.
"T-two days ago."
"Good I have some time to deal with that." Mima started to redo the seals, while Marisa, to frighten to move, just watched.
Mima chanted a spell while waving her staff to dispelled her seals. After getting rid of the seals, she started the arduous process of replacing the seals, while adding seals she learn while in Makai. After an erry silence, Marisa spoke up when the seal was almost complete. "H-hey"
"What is it?" Mima asked while putting the final touches to her seal.
Marisa, still slightly scared, continued "T-the door is d-different now."
Mima was baffled "How can you tell that the seals are different if you can't even use magic… wait." Mima said to herself. She moved closer to Marisa and gave her directions. "I'm going to perform a spell and I want you to pick which rune I used."
Before Marisa could say anything, Mima raised her focuser and cast a bubble spell. After which she showed three runes to Marisa "Now pick one."
To Mimas surprise, Marisa did not pick the bubble or water runes, but instead scuffled over to the fire runes. "T-this one."
"So you chose the fire rune?"
Marisa looked shocked "b-but I'm sure that this is the right one."
"Hahaha, you picked correctly, great job." Mima began to clap.
Marisa, not expecting praise, blushed.
"Ahahahaha, and more importantly, I have gotten the answer to my question."
"What question?" Marisa's stuttering disappeared.
"The question to why you can notice my runes even though you can't use magic."
"W-what! Can't use magic?" Marisa began to tear up.
"More accurately, you don't have any magical affinity, meaning you should not be able to create or manipulate magic. Should not"
Tears roll down Marisa's face as she lowered it down, when she heard the last part "Hu?"
"You have what I will call an almost instinctive understanding of magic. That drastically changes the rules, as well as obliterates one of the magic duel types."
Marisa lifted her face up. It was damp from the tears, and red from her crying, but she had stopped crying "W-what do you mean."
Mima began to explain "the most difficult part of learning magic is knowing what it feels like. Without magical affinity, you don't have that unconscious understanding of magic. It takes to many lifetimes of magic flowing through your body to get an unconscious understanding normally, effectively stopping non magically affinity people from learning how to use magic. With your ability however, magic flowing through your body once is enough to get an unconscious understanding. With a great teacher, you could easily learn magic. So that begs the question, would you like to be my apprentice?"
Marisa ran to and wrap her arms around Mima "yes. I have always wanted to learn magic, but nobody would let me." Tears began to roll down Marisa's face, not of sorrow but of joy.
Mima had a big smile on her face. "All right then. I hope you're ready for a wild ride that will be your life. First, let's get you into some cleaner and more fitting cloths for the roll you just accepted.
The door to the room Marisa slept in opened, reveling a young girl wearing a purple dress that open up at the bottom with a purple witch's hat on top of her head. A white bow wraps around the hat. Marisa looked unsure about the dress.
Mima, who was leaning against the wall across from the door, gave a thumbs up. "Looking good." Mima straighten up and got closer to Marisa to inspect "That apprentice outfit suits you well."
"It feels weird" Marisa mumbled
"Speck up"
"It feels weird" Marisa said just loud enough
"It's the dress with the looser bottom half. Don't worry, you will get accustom to that."
"Do I have to wear this?" The apprentice asked while adjusting the bottom of her dress.
"Whenever you are doing or studying magic. I will not have you wear anything causal while dealing with the forces of magic."
"Okay Miss Mima."
Mima let out a breath "You will address me as Master, or if you need to say my name Master Mima, so long as you are my apprentice, like all the other's I've train."
"Others?" Marisa asked curiously
A small smile escaped Mimas lips "O please, this is not my first time in the ring."
A confused look filled Marisa's face.
"Anyways" Mima decided to change the conversation "Let me give you a proper tour of this place." Mima pointed to the end of the hallway. "That door leads to the master bedroom. You can only enter there with permission, or if it is an emergency. The room you just left is where you will be sleeping, and that door in-between the two leads to the washroom."
Mima grabbed hold of Marisa's hand and dragged her to the corner. Mima pointed to the door that's at the end of the hallway before turning the corner. "That is the room where guest would sleep in. The door just past the corner is the closet, and that door" Mima pointed her arm around the corner "is the vault door. You can go in there at my digression."
While Marisa was taking all that in, Mima moved them to the end of the hallway. "This is the main room, with a nice carpet floor and the Kotatsu in the middle. There's also a chair in the corner to read books in. Across the room is my round dining table with four chairs, and separated by a wall is the kitchen. Now follow me."
Mima lead Marisa to a northern hallway with doors leading left, right, and straight forward. "The left door leads alchemy room, which you're not allowed in yet, and the right door is the library, where you will spend a lot of your time studying. Let's go into the middle door for now." Mima went forward and opened the door. Marisa nervously followed after.
When Marisa entered the room, she saw a space twice as big as the main room, which was already the biggest room that she had seen before. The walls were covered in ash, and the floor was filled with magical circles. Mima was floating in the center of the room.
"This is the room I use to test my magic, and this is the room you will train in. I will not lie to you, over the course of the training you will experience many morally wrong things, and the training itself will be life altering brutal. If you're ready, take my hand and begin your first steps into your new life."
Marisa, though hesitant, moved towards Mima and grabbed her hand, feeling a rush of energy move through her body when she held on.