Devil King

Squad Mate

"Alright," Asta stretches with a pop of his back "first day as a magic knight."

'Hopefully Captain Yami will answer me today.'

"Okay," he breathes "here we go."

He opens the door.

And is immediately met with a brick wall.

Asta was fairly certain that this brick wall did not exist the day before.

He blinks confused, he's pretty sure that wasn't there yesterday, which means that someone had put it there as some sort of prank, or that the hideout moves on it's own.

Asta shrugged, he will have to ask someone else about it.

"Hey newbie," a voice calls down the hall, Magna is making his way towards them "you slept okay?"

"Just fine thanks."  He looks back at the pillar "This may sound strange but I don't think this was here yesterday."

Magna chuckles "It probably wasn't."

"What do you mean?"

"This whole building shifts and moves around all of the time, you'll get used to it."

It was just as he guessed.

That did align with the outer appearance of the hideout, a moving building huh? A conglomerate of other smaller buildings.

"You'll get used to it." Magna shrugs "Come on I'll show you around."

"Is there much of a point seeing as everything will just move again?" Asta reasons but follows him anyways.

"Not really but hey it'll be good for you to know what rooms we actually have here, seeing as this is probably the biggest building you've ever been in right?" Magna explains casually.

Asta hums "Not really."

The Malevolent Arch was way bigger than the hideout.

"Well then, come on newbie," Magna laughs as he suddenly bolts down the hall "see if you can keep up!"

Asta looks after him blankly, he's a bit confused by the childish nature of the Bulls but at the same time it's enjoyable. At least he won't have Noir breathing down his neck for not following proper etiquette.

It's familiar.

Like he is back in the church with his siblings.

Asta liked the lack of formalities between him and his senior.

Asta runs after Magna.

Magna chatters away as he explains the various rooms, nooks and crannies of the base. Magna's not nearly as scary or unruly as Asta had initially assumed, he's actually quite nice; complimenting him every now and again and taking the time to answer any questions Asta may have. His demeanour yesterday was probably just to scare Asta a bit and this is actually his true self.

The tour goes mostly smoothly, the dinning hall is massive especially for a squad with so little members, the bathes are communal and separated by gender, they are also far larger then the ones in Hage, but way smaller than the ones in the Malevolent Arch.

The wreck room is...something, he doesn't know what the Bulls would need with some of the equipment held behind those doors and the sight of the sharp objects makes Asta grow wary.

His father's armoury had a lot more weapons and the Malevolent Arch probably has a room like the Black Bulls' wreck room tucked away somewhere. Asta was glad he was able to avoid it up until now.

After a small incident in the beast room, Asta and Magna continued their tour.

"I was 'bout to ask, how come you have zero mana? How is that even possible, how are you still alive?" Magna asks.