In the bedroom, Artoria opened her sleepy eyes, and the sky outside the window was not yet dawn, but the biological clock in her body did not allow Artoria to continue sleeping peacefully.

"Well, there's still a lot of work to be done today."

Getting up from her bed, Artoria washed up and went to the stables to prepare fodder for the horses of the Ectors, followed by chopping wood and fetching water, and the sun rose in the east after all this work.

After a short rest, Artoria came to Kai's door and knocked on it.

"Brother Kai is up! It's time for today's morning exercise! The knock was soft, but Artoria's voice wasn't small.

"............" Kai's room was silent for a long time.

Frowning, Artoria knew in her heart that Kai was sleeping lazy again.

"Brother Kai! Brother Kai! If you sleep any more, Ektor will be unhappy. ”

It wasn't until he said that the sound of Kai finally waking up in his room.

"It's coming, it's coming!"

The door opened, and Artoria saw a sleepy Kay.

"I said, Artoria, are you going to do all that menial work again, just leave that kind of thing to your subordinates."

Kai helplessly looked at Artoria, who was full of vitality and looked like she had just exercised, and he really felt a headache for the other party's exuberant energy.

"I just think it's a shame to let time pass meaninglessly, and that's all I can do." Artoria, accustomed to this kind of scene, ignored Kai's wake-up anger from being woken up prematurely.

"Well, forget it." Kai rubbed his drowsy head and said a compromising word to Artoria as usual.

"By the way, Artoria, since Qi Wuce is already our swordsmanship teacher, then we have to call him together!" Thinking that he couldn't be the only one to suffer, Kai planned to drag Qi Wuce into the water as well, but all he got was Artoria's decisive refusal.

"No way!"

"Huh......" Kai was obviously a little disappointed.

"Qi Wuce is still a patient, the patient just needs a lot of rest to recover, if it's just a morning exercise, there is no need to bother him with this kind of thing that we can do by ourselves."

"Patient?!" Kay looked at Artoria with the expression on her face that you were joking with me.

"What's the problem, Brother Kai?" Artoria looked at Kai with an exaggerated expression in confusion.

"What kind of patient could beat me with a wooden sword all morning and all afternoon?"

Kai hadn't forgotten what had happened to him yesterday, and his head, where he had been hit, still hurt to the touch.

"Anyway, let's just not bother Qi Wuru." Artoria completely kills Kai's evil thoughts of dragging people into the water, but the person at the center of the conversation has long since woken up.

"Artoria, then I would like to thank you for your concern for me, but I don't really like to sleep too much, strictly speaking, if it is not for my physical needs, I even want to live a sleepless life."

Qi Wuce got up very early today, from the moment he opened his eyes, the vague but extremely curious dream of last night's sleep had been haunting his heart, but no matter how hard he tried to recall that dream, in the end it was only forgotten because of a small distraction.

In this era without mobile phones, if you don't find something to pass the time after waking up in the morning, the only thing left is to be bored and in a daze.

Qi Wuce didn't want to spend the good morning in a daze, so he got up without being able to recall the dream anyway, and even saw Artoria feeding the horses in the stable after washing.

It's just that Qi Wuce didn't greet Artoria, and before dawn, he went to the nearby woods for a walk, because this time he was lucky enough to have a lot of gains in the woods.

Then, when he returned, he accidentally overheard someone trying to drag him into the water.

"Qi Wuce, you got up very early today, huh? Wouldn't this be a burden on the body? Artoria was just worried about Qi Wuru's physical condition.

"Burden? That's not counting. As for the question of waking up early...... I've always lived a solo life in Hoyck, and if I don't get up early to hunt every day, I'll only be hungry, so I've been in the habit of waking up early for a long time. ”

Hearing this, Artoria didn't say anything more, after all, Qi Wuce's physical condition was only known to him, and if the other party thought it was okay, she wouldn't be able to say anything more.

Qi Wuce was talking to Artoria, but Kai stood aside but was flustered, just because Qi Wuce had been looking at him with a smile from the moment he appeared.

That kind of smile, the heart of the person who laughs is cold, and the heart of the person who laughs is panicked.

"Kai, I didn't say you, you, who are brothers, should be a good example for your sister! So ah......" patted Kai's shoulder, Qi Wuce's smile was a little infiltrating in the sun.

"So ......?" Kai tried to ask.

"So you're going to train a little bit more today."

Kai didn't quite understand what Qi Wuce was talking about, but he knew that he would definitely not have a good time today.

"Speaking of which, how did Artoria practice with the stone sword yesterday afternoon?"

"I have a little feeling, but I still need more practice, and I have something I want to talk to you about." Artoria remembered what Qi Wuce had told her in her dream last night, because the other party's words were a little sudden, so she never understood the question of productivity.

"Well, you've talked about it, then I'll go wash up first, and I'll see you at the training ground later." Kai thought that Artoria wanted to ask nothing more than some questions about training, so he was not very interested, and he planned to wash up first, and by the way, he had to think about how to survive the day while he was alone.

"Then you go, wash your face and sober up and then warm up, and don't say anything about cramps because you haven't warmed up."

"Huh? How is that kind of thing possible?! Tell you, I'm going to survive thirty moves today! Kai, who felt that he was a little looked down upon, actually made a big fuss in front of Qi Wuce.

"Well, it's a good thing that young people are ambitious."

It was just a fluttering sentence, but Kai was almost deflated because of the other party's elder-like tone.

"Bye."

With a wave of his hand, Kai walked towards the well of the house to fetch water and wash up.

"So, Artoria, what are you going to talk to me about?" Qi Wuce turned his head and looked at Artoria curiously.