After class ended, the trio made their way to the academy's wide-open training fields, where the golden afternoon sun bathed the grass in a warm glow. Students in other corners were already sparring, conjuring elements, or blowing things up far too enthusiastically.
Ezren flopped onto the ground like he'd just escaped prison.
"Finally. I thought Bront was gonna make us run laps for blinking too slow."
"You blink slow all the time," Kagetsu said flatly, arms crossed.
Mira stood beside them, quietly watching a group of upperclassmen hurl lightning bolts at target dummies like it was no big deal.
Kagetsu turned to her, his expression serious.
"Alright, Mira. I've seen you fight a bit, but i still don't really know your ability. You good with sharing?"
Mira blinked. Then, in her usual quiet tone, she spoke:
"...I can shape parts of my body with earth. Any part. If I form an ear, I can hear from it. If I make a hand, I can feel with it. Even a nose... I can smell."
Ezren's jaw dropped.
"Wait, you're like a build-your-own human kit? That's insane."
"No. I'm Mira," she replied blankly.
There was a pause.
"Was... was that a joke?" Ezren asked, wide-eyed.
"I'm not sure," Kagetsu muttered.
He stepped closer, curious now.
"So… have you ever tried making an entire body? Like, a full-body earth clone of yourself?"
Mira shook her head.
"No. That'd take a lot of mana. And control."
"Exactly why you should try," Kagetsu said, giving her a nod. "If you can do this, you could make an army of Clones and if you can make clones of other people, the possibilities will be endless."
Mira looked down at her hands, thoughtful. For a brief moment, the ground near her feet trembled ever so slightly.
Ezren clapped his hands once.
"Alright! Mira's making mud people! What am I doing?"
Kagetsu turned to him with that usual smug expression.
"Portals are flashy, yeah. But right now, you're more support than offense."
"Wow. Way to boost team morale."
"Let me finish, dumbass," Kagetsu grinned. "I've been watching how your portals work. You can alter reality of space, so how about you alter the reality of an object instead of making Portals"
Ezren scratched his head.
"Altering the Reality of an object?"
"Try using your Essentia to imagine a square mid air. Then think of another object and try to alter the reality inside that square to an object like an apple, a rock, anything, to see what happens. You might not just be a teleporter. You might be a Reality bender."
Ezren blinked.
"...That sounds way cooler than support."
"If you can do it, you got yourself a Saint level Ability. But don't think it'll be easy, you'll need to train your body to control the backlash of using it."
"But Ezren, you have to Remember, your ability is Saint not you. Your like Awakened" Kagetsu added
"Got it Boss."
The training began. Mira closed her eyes, breathing deeply as the soil under her feet began to rise, slowly shaping into an outline. Ezren held out his hands, forming a portal square around a stray pebble, his brows furrowed in deep concentration.
Kagetsu stepped back, Training His Ghost pulse by Using it non-stop to Improve Stamina.
"Alright," he murmured to himself. "Let's turn this mess into a real team."