I woke up in my bed again, but immediately remembered I had been with Finral last night. I'll have to thank him with a big hug. I've never felt so cared for in my life.

I smiled to myself as I swung my feet off the bed just in time to hear a rapid fire knocking on my door. I got up a little confused only to open my door and feel super punny.

"Good morning Magna!" I greeted him with a happy hug, before stepping back and giving a bright smile. "Is everything alright?" I asked with a slight tilt of my head in concern.

"Uh…yeah, Captain Yami wants to talk to you newbies." He said rubbing the back of his neck.

He's not looking at me. Did I do something wrong?

"Magna, seriously, am I in trouble or something?" As soon as the question left my mouth, he threw his hands up in a panic.

"No! Just Yami sir needs to talk you guys is all.."

I nodded slowly, trying to not be sad that he still wasn't sparing me much of a glance.

I must make him really uncomfortable. I'll try to make it up to him later by giving him space.

Magna's POV

A real man would've told her how beautiful she looks first thing in the morning. I mean right? She obviously just woke up, hair all frizzy and I wussed out.

I couldn't even look at the woman because I didn't want her to catch me staring and call me a friggin creep! Even though I know good and well she isn't the type to insult people without a reason, but I also know she seems to be EXTREMELY unaware of how….

Magna had walked her to where the captain and the others were and watched her joyfully greet Asta and Noelle.

I gotta ask that shrimp what the he….what's a real man gotta do to get it it through to her that she is so be…..

"Magna, give'em their mission." Magna snapped out of his trance and went over the mission trying insanely hard not to look at Y/n.

She remained pretty quiet throughout even though Noelle and Asta were much more vocal.

When Yami told them do it or die, those 2 quickly agreed.

"Ya know, Cap, you keep saying you'll kill us and I really wanna start callin your bluff. I'll do it anyway though because Magna respects you and so do I." She exclaimed with an affirming nod.

He didn't even realize he had been staring until he got slapped on his back by Yami tellin him to wake up and get goin.

I have always loved Magna's broom. Don't ask why, I don't know. But I want one.

I walked with them and when he showed the Crazy Cyclone, I gave a simulataneous "cool" with Asta. I touched the horns and walked around it excitedly until I heard Noelle say it was stupid.

I shook my head at her. "Noelle, is it possible you were born with the inability to be kind? Magna is proud of this and all you did is throw an insult at him. No one did that to you when we found out you can't control your magic."

I walked over to her and gently squeezed her shoulder. "Work on being kind." When I saw her open her mouth, I immediately interrupted. "Even though you're royalty." After saying that, I heard a few snickers, but quickly glanced over at the two boys and shook my head.

Magna asked if I needed a ride too and only then did it occur to me that I won't need to ride it because I have wings.

Dang it.

I shook my head and gave a small salute. "Lead the way Magna!"

When they were up in the air, I stretched out my wings, bent my knees, and took off into the air. It feels nice to be able to spread them out like this without having to immediately hide them.

I heard the excitement of Asta at my side and Magna saying to hold on.

Poor Asta.

As I dove to catch Asta, I couldn't help but wonder if Noelle used to be some sort of boxer in a previous life.

I couldn't help but giggle at the thought as I carried Asta the rest of the way.

When we got to a good place to start killing boars, Magna went to the side, and I was going to go after Asta and Noelle.

"Hey, you gonna leave me to be bored newbie?" Magna called out.

The question caught me off guard, as just this morning I was sure something was wrong. I quickly pushed the thought away and happily sat beside Magna. It was nice. He didn't say too much and I didn't try to drag anything out of him. I honestly enjoyed being next to him.

I did want to check something though, but before I could open my mouth to ask, he beat me to it. "You and Shrimpsta seem pretty close." He said softly.

I nodded. "Yeah! He's strong and kind." I said softly.

There was a moment of silence before Magna spoke up again. "So you like strong guys?" He asked without looking my way.

Huh?

I thought about his question before giving an answer to what I thought he meant. "If you mean like muscles and stuff, that's not what I was referring to." I looked up into the trees enjoying the scenery.

"A man could be the most muscular person in the universe, but if he isn't strong of heart, it wouldn't matter to me." I smiled and looked at Magna who I didn't realize had been watching me. I continued to smile.

"You're strong too, Magna." A thought crossed my mind and I couldn't help but blurt it out. "You are a very manly fireball!"

As soon as I spoke the words, I felt the area grow hot. Before I could even question the change, Magna got up and went to Noelle and Asta in an attempt to hurry up the boar hunting process.

I ran after him to try to make sure no one got water bombed or anything.

I began to feel a sudden cold wind blow through what felt like my soul. I hate that I feel like this but can't seem to understand why.

As we made our way closer to the town Magna was telling me about, we came close enough to see it.

Completely covered in mist.