Danmachi – Card Wizard

The following morning, Aidan woke up early and wriggled out of the tight hug of the girl next to him. "Ais! Ais, it's time to wake up." He whispered as he shook the girl awake.

"Hum? Already? What time is it?" She asked as she didn't bother to open her eyes.

"It's five-thirty. You have half an hour to wash up and go to the entrance of the manor." He answered with a shake of his head as he pulled the covers of the bed and let the slightly chilled air do its magic as she completely woke up while giving Aidan the stink eye and walking directly to the shower.

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"Alright, are you sure you have everything?" Asked the boy as the girl walked to the door, wholly dressed with Aidan in toe.

"Yes, I do. You have to stop asking me this.." She said as she came closer to hug Aidan.

"I asked you four times, and the first three, you found something that you forgot." Answered back Aidan as he hugged her back.

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With a wave of his hand, Aidan saw the back of the girl he spent most of his waking moment with leaving with their slight nardcore teacher. "Really, how does someone teach two children to swim by tying pieces of metal to one of them and having them swim or drown."

With a shake of his head and slight fear that resurfaced after thinking about their previous swimming training, Aidan walked to the dining hall of the manor.

As he entered the large room filled with chefs and adventurers alike, Aidan entered the line and soon ordered his food before sitting at an empty table. As he looked up, he immediately felt something wrong when he remembered that Ais wouldn't be with him for the next two months at the minimum. 'I'll have to work hard until then. I'm sure Riveria will train Ais. I'll have to train a lot as well.' He thought before receiving the food from the chefs who brought it to him.

"Thanks."

"No problem, have a great breakfast." Smiled the chef as he turned around and went back to work.

After taking his time eating, he left the dining hall at seven and went directly to Finn's office on the manor's third floor. His office was on the same floor as the goddess so that he would be able to protect her would the need arise.

*knock-knock-knock*

After knocking and waiting for a moment, Aidan heard a reply from the inside of the room.

"Come in."

After pushing the door and entering the room, Aidan saw Finn sitting behind a large desk with countless documents on it.

"Oh, hello, Aidan." Said Finn got up from behind the desk and sat directly on it, facing the boy.

"Good morning." He nodded as he didn't know what to do from that moment on.

"I had heard from Riviera yesterday. She left with Ais, and you would be working with me for the next two months. Is that right?" He confirmed with a smile as he waved his hand to show him to sit on the couch.

"Yes, Riveria told us yesterday afternoon." He answered with a nod as he looked around the room. It was the first time he entered the captain's office.

"Alright. To confirm, do you know how to write and count?" He asked in confirmation, just in case.

"Yes, I do. I never learned per se, but the memories are there, so there is no problem." He nodded as he had never actively learned it but could do it due to the memories in his mind.

"Alright. In that case, I'll tell you our schedule for at least the next month. From seven to ten, you will be accompanying me to complete these documents. I'll show you how to work on them so don't worry. From ten to twelve, we will go and do combat practises on the training field. Afterwards will be lunch and from one to four you will be with Loki. You will learn what she wants to do with you at that time. Do you have any questions?" He asked as he laid the schedule shortly and concisely.

"Yes, what do I do from four?" Asked Aidan as he wanted to know if he could do whatever he wanted.

"I believe Loki prepared something for you. However, if she didn't prepare anything, you're free to do whatever you want as long as you are present here the next morning." He explained with a smile as he brought him to the chair on the side of his desk.

"We'll start working right now. The documents you will be reading, understanding and answering are essential documents of the familia. They are mainly about the shops affiliated to our familia, its current resources, our force which is the level of each adventurer of the familia and their level up. Afterwards, there are documents linked to the tax we need to pay to the guild, and finally, they are the quests we received.

The quests can differ from escorting someone, whether in the dungeon or outside the city walls, collecting rare resources on the low floors and exterminating monsters outside the borders. Those are the primary and most common quests. However, pay special attention to tasks with the words urgent written in red. The words are enormous so that you won't miss them. However, these quests usually are extremely important such as a familia asking for help to save an adventurer, which became a lot safer and more manageable after having your map card, a juggernaut spawning on a floor after an adventurer somehow destroyed a large part of the dungeon or a strong monster appearing. It includes the Goliath, which occurs once every two weeks." Explained the pallum as he quickly went over all the types of documents he could have to work with.

"Finally, except dealing with the documents, you will have to learn the names of the other adventurers since there are personal quests from time to time, and you will have to bring it to them." He finished as he once again sat behind his desk and pushed a pile of documents to Aidan. "Welcome to the life of a familia's captain." He grinned as he immediately turned his attention to the large pile of papers in front of him, ignoring the lost expression of Aidan.

'Crap, am I going to do this for the next month? I could spend my time in the dungeon and improve myself, but do I have to sign and complete documents? I already miss the minotaurs, sigh.'

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After a few hours of painstaking office work, Finn got up and saw that the pile of Aidan's side was almost completed. "Not bad. It saves me a lot of time as well." He grinned as he motioned Aidan to get up. "Let's go. We're going to train."

'Oh, thank Loki! Wait, no, she's the one who sent me here in the first place!' Thought Aidan stupidly as the two went directly to the training ground and started to practice fighting against each other.

"I heard from Riveria that you had a new move you received from your father?" Asked the pallum as they fought each other. The boy pushed himself to the maximum while the pallum seemed pretty relaxed while fighting back.

"Yes, but I can only use it once before being unable even to get up." Answered Aidan as he blocked the spear strike of the pallum.

"Can't you prepare a stamina and muscle recovering card?" He asked as he was fully aware of the weakness of the move.

"I can, but in a fight, I won't have time to recover, and I'll be directly killed. It's not a problem if there's only one strong enemy since I can recover in about five minutes if I use my card magic, but if there's more than one enemy and I'm dead." He explained as he had also tried to work on the cards the previous day.

"Well, nothing we can do but train harder and improve the cards, I guess." Nodded the pallum as he continued to attack Aidan, who could barely block with his newly increased physical parameters. "You know, with your current parameters, you are about the level of an average level two adventurer if they had perfect parameters before levelling up. It's pretty awesome."