Yukki walked out of the house holding his sword tightly, he had failed his first lesson yesterday, granted he didn't know what lesson Kazuma was trying to teach him but he couldn't let go of the rope, while Kazuma could do it effortlessly.
Once again he was the last one to wake up and step out of the house, but the moment he stepped out of the house he found himself looking at an entirely different scene from yesterday.
None of the children had left and he could see that Kazuma was pulling the rope away from a group of them before handing it to another group and telling them to let go of it.
He watched as the children tried to grab the rope with both hands but Kazuma stopped them before telling them that if they held it with both hands then they wouldn't be able to feed themselves as they wouldn't have any free hands left.
He watched as the children grabbed the rope with their left hands and looked at each other with confusion until one of them tried to speak and found that he couldn't.
The rest of the group then tried to say something to each other and then the entire group was made up of panicking children that realized that they couldn't let go of a rope and were now desperately trying to get themselves free.
"Okay, let's try something else." Yuki heard Kazuma say to the group of children in front of him.
He watched as the man struggled to come up with the words that made it easy for the children to understand him until he either stooped trying to come up with something or he found the words that he was looking for.
"Okay there are three kinds of things, you can call them what you want but it always comes down to this."
"There are things that you can do without thinking, like breathing no one taught you to breathe, but everyone starts breathing the moment that they are born."
"And if you don't believe me, no one forced any of you to walk you just started doing it out of instinct."
"Then we have things like the stuff that you have to learn, like starting a fire, you need to know what stuff that you need to gather and how to get something to burn and how to keep the fire burning."
"The same thing goes for learning how to use a sword, building a house, learning to write, and hunting an animal."
'All of these are examples of things that you need to learn before you can do them without needing to think about what you are doing anymore."
Yuki tried to understand what Kazuma was trying to explain to everyone but what he just said was common knowledge and even if the ones he was speaking to were children this was something that even they knew.
"Last night you created a ball of light without thinking, now try to make a ball of light appear in front of you."
"Just like last night, imagine a ball of light floating in front of you, only that it's out here and everyone can see it."
Yuki nearly let out a gasp, as the realization hit him, Kazuma had just said what spiritual control was in simpler words, he was trying to get the children to manifest their reiatsu.
"Watch." Kazuma said to the children as he created a ball of red before he created a blue orb that looked as if it had water inside of it and finally he created what looked like a silver sphere that reflected the light of the sun.
"Just like before, it can be any color and it can change colors, just let it happen." Kazuma instructed the children before h looked up and finally noticed that Yuki was watching him.
Yuki watched as Kazuma signaled to him, to follow the children's example and so Yukki eagerly tried to do what Kazuma had said and recreate the same ball of light that he had created last night.
Except he couldn't, no matter how hard he tried he couldn't see it anymore, he couldn't see the tiny red ball of light or its bigger version.
Yuki could feel his frustration growing as the minutes passed and he soon began to hear the sounds of children gasping followed by the excited voices of some of the children who had succeeded.
He was about to give up when he felt a warm hand on his shoulder and the hot breath as someone breathed onto the side of his face.
Yuki opened his eyes and turned around as fast as he could only to find that the only thing there was the wooden house and nothing else.
"Would you look at that you did it." Kazuma said to someone and as Yuki turn to see who Kazuma was talking to he found that he was standing in front of him and between the two of them was a small ball of red light.
Yuki couldn't help but stare at the small ball of light with confusion and amazement, but he could feel himself starting to smile, but before he could say anything he felt something hit the side of his face,
'You idiot!" the voice of someone he knew yelled at him, but Yuki couldn't remember who the voice belonged t because of the pain he was in.