𝒔𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏 ୭̥⋆*｡

Asta [i.]

"Oh wow! You're really buff for a small person!" Asta paused his workout at the sudden voice

Wait... voice?

This forest was supposed to be empty..

"Over here, blockhead!"

"AAAAHHHHH!" He screeched when his eyes met a girl in a white dress sitting on a tree branch ahead of him. He stumbled over a rock as he backed away, causing him to land on his ass. The girl stiffled a laugh, while the platinum blonde haired boy stood there dumbfounded.

"Pfft— hope your butt ain't broken, that looked painful" Asta's eyes were still wide. Why are you here? Why didn't he hear you? When did you come here? Were you watching him? Are you some sort of stalker?

He got out of his trance when the mysterious woman cleared her throat. He stood back up, blinking three times whilst pinching himself to make sure he wasn't dreaming.

"I'm Y/N! You must be Asta..." You jumped off the tree branch, knees bending and arms folded a bit when you landed. You had a kind smile on your face as you approached him, and you outstretched your right hand "...right?"

He looked at your face, then at your outstretched hand. After a few seconds of looking back and forth, he finally shook your hand, returning your smile with a grin of his own. "Hi Y/N! Did you also come here to train?" You smiled at his question.

"I guess you can say that." Your eyes scanned around the area, and a certain book caught your attention.you began approaching it as Asta's irises followed you in confusion, but soon knew what you were going for when he saw what you were approaching

It was the grimoire he got yesterday.

You pointed towards the the object with a pleading look, and Asta nodded as he began to approach you and his grimoire. "Heh! I got the grimoire when I saved a friend of mine yesterday! Isn't that cool?" You looked at the pages with shining eyes, and Asta's cheery energy went over the roof.

"It's so....

cool!" You exclaimed with an amazed impression. Asta then joined in the fangirling as he boasted about his grimoire. "I KNOW RIGHT? It has five leaf clovers! Yuno has a four leaf clover, which was the same as the First Magic Emperor's— but mine's really cool!" He mumbled the little part, but you were able to hear some parts of it.

You tilted your head at the mention of a name. "Yuno..? Who's that? Your friend?"

"Yuno's my friend! And my rival when it comes to being the next Magic Emperor " Your eyes widened at this.Rival to being the next magic emperor? "Are you perhaps training to become one?" He nodded his head with enthusiasm. His blood would start to circulate in a quick pace whenever he would tell someone about their dream.

But the positive energy started to disappear when you stayed silent

Were you going to say that he didn't have a chance?

Were you going to laugh at him?

Were you going to discourage and tell him to give up...

𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒆𝒍𝒔𝒆?

"That's really cool!"

Wait what—

"If you keep training and training... then maybe you can becomes the magic emperor! And I'm sure that you're grimoire can help you along the way! Oooohhhh, how about I get your autograph right now? So that I can brag to my friends that 'hey! The Magic Emperor signed this! This was when he was still a kid!" You beamed with excitement as you jumped around, and Asta stood there dumbfounded once again.

He was expecting you to criticize him

He was expecting you look at him in pity

He was expecting you to tell him to stop

But you didn't

"But wait— we need to focus on your training! Autographs can wait, now quick! Let's go back to your training! I wanna see how good you are, and maybe I can help!" You shoved him the grimoire as you climbed back up the tree, plopping down the branch you were sitting on before.

He smiled as his grimoire glowed a dark red, pulling out a thicc sword as he raised it in the sky.

"Yeah!"