A brother's love. Into the dark

On a Timer

A family camping trip sounds exciting, right?

A few days passed since the shopping trip, and Airi's birthday was just two days away.

Max was eating lunch when Arthur came up with an idea.

"When I was younger, my family and I would visit this waterfall and camp nearby. I think we should do that today, it would be refreshing."

At first, it didn't seem like a bad idea to Max. He would always camp outside when he was part of the Rose family.

"What a fantastic idea, honey. "What do you think, Airis?"

"Yes!"

Then everything was settled.

...

Walking through the forest was a struggle since summer had just begun, and there were so many mosquitoes. Max, with blood type zero negative, had it worse than the rest. Fortunately, the waterfall was nearby, so they arrived quickly.

He had to admit that the waterfall did seem phenomenal. The blue water dropping on the rocks produced a soothing sound, but Max knew it would become annoying over time. With time. Arthur put up the tent.

Tent was not the appropriate term to use. It was gigantic, nearly three meters tall and five meters long and wide.

However, it needed big enough to fit the huge Arthur. It was about double Max's height, so he had plenty of space.

The most enthusiastic person had to be Airis, it's obvious that the noble child had never gone out in nature like this before. Max didn't find it intriguing. And the truly horrible waterfall noise was already becoming annoying, and unfortunately, none of them had a sound drive.

"Hey Max come with me for a bit."

'Huh, why? Im tired.'

"Just do as I say."

Max grumbled.

...

He was guided inside the forest.

'So what is.'

"You have potential, and I hate to see it go to waste. So il train you."

He threw Max's wooden sword at him. Then he got himself one.

Max smiled, at least he would be bored to death.

He used BL on his feet and launched an attack, but he sensed something was off, something is always off when your opponent does not try to dodge your strike. As the sword was ready to strike, a stone pillar stopped it.

Max backed up and attempted some more attacks, but they were prevented by the pillars. Max's exhaustion was setting in, but he tried one more attack.

Arthur sighed and conjured another pillar, not expecting to be pulled to the ground. And because of his confusion and lack of focus, he was unable to block Max's next blow.

He chuckled.

"Looks like you hit me."

Max fell to the ground.

'Yeah, but I'm so tired.'

"You truly did great, I didn't expect you to hit me, this training was just for me to see how long you could use your drive, your soul capacity."

'Soul capacity?'

"Yes soul capacity, your soul seemed to be pretty big for your age."

'Im still pretty confused.'

"When you go in your soul what do you see? Exactly your drive. Every time you use your drive it uses some from your soul, that's soul capacity."

'What happens if your soul capacity is small?'