Jayr POV - Greece - 1980

  I once again woke up before the first light of the day could e from the window of my room, the hing I do is get up, go to the bathroom, and do the usual business, peeing, washing, and brushing my teeth, then I started going out of our home, and started doing our "light" warm-up, running uphill barefooted in a zig-zag pattern with a boulder on my back without the support of o.

  'Sometimes I miss Grandpa... he asked to be transferred to the Sicily Training Ground to be near mom, as he told us st year when he went away, we are ready to take care of ourselves, especially me and Shaina since our sensitivity, attu and trol of ost reached the Silver Saint Level... Ohing that happe year that almost broke me... Grandpa was really a spartan... He made me and Shaina gh the st rite of the "Agoge" in which he made us fight an evil criminal alone and kill him, or die trying... While Shaina was able to do it without much problem afterward, showing once again her ruthlessowards what she siders her enemies... To me that I spent all my previous life doing everything to save and protect lives, ending one by my own hands was almost too much...'.

  'Luckily, Grandpa was always with me and helped me in uanding that sometimes to protect many lives or even the whole world we have to be ready to kill, but he also added that is fio feel unwell for it, and that when it happens you have to remember the people you have saved doing so... And to drive the point home, he showed me the victims of the man I killed... And after seeing that calling that thing a man was an insult to mankind... He was a fug ibal who preyed on children! I almost wao revive him to kill him again...'

  As I was lost in thought, I fihe first part of the warm-up, and soon started the set of exercises, jumping down from the cliff, taking hold of some exposed rocks, letting go to fall again, rinse a until you reach the end, then climb up with boulders tied on your body, ankles, and hands, meanwhile I hear Shaina screaming at Geist to move faster.

  '3 Years ago, Geist too joihe Sanctuary, and the harsh training regime of Grandpa together with the character of Shaina, didn't help her, and many times she was on the point of shing out, not only with them but also the others trainee, I think that in the inal timeline she did it and killed a fellow traihat's why she was expelled, but my presence here caused both their character mellowed a lot, Shaina is still ruthless but that is only with her oppo, while Geist leans more on mischiefs and she lost some of her aggressive nature... Still, both my sisters are little tyrants on those who do not gain their favors...'

  Once I reached the top, I jump down once again to repeat the exercise, then once done I looked at the Fire Clod noticed that it was almost time to go to the training ground so I said to my sisters "Shaina, Geist, its time for breakfast let's go home!" hearing that Geist starts to run and scream "The st to e cooks for everyone...and no o!"

  As I was running calmly after them I thought 'She fot that our breakfast needs no cooking as it is made of a wide variety of bread, pastry, fruits, and Greek yogurt...we had to choose a traditional greek breakfast as the Italian's one was too light for the exercise we do in the m'

  After breakfast we have to separate once again as Shaina a as the training ground for males and females are separated so I said "Shaina, Geist, have a good day, we'll see each other once again at lunch" a on my way to the training ground.

  Ohere the trainer gather us all to say a few words "Good m everyooday we will have a few new additions...please e here", and soon a muscur man 1,7, with tan skin, with only the white training pants and brown boots, with shoulder guards held by leather straps in an x shape, with white hair styled in a Mohawk, his eyes are particur as his bck pupils are slitted, the other was a young boy with light skin, brown eyes and hair clearly an Asian.

  'Wait that pair of giant and dwarf...they are Cassios, the future disciple of my sister who is now my fug age and he is already 1,7m tall...well his brother Docrates is right now 2,30m at 14 years old and when he is 20 he reached 4,35m...poor their mother who had t them out, but more important the other is the oh the thickest plot armor of this universe, one of the MCs of this world, Seiya, one of the 100 "orphan" kids of Mitsumasa Kido...God that guy should have learhat there is a thing called a ...'

  (Image Here - Cassios/Seiya)

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  [colpse]Therainer called and told me "Jayr, they will be in your care as you are the stro one here and you speak in both Greek and Japanese" and Cassios in an arrogant tone "What? Why do I have to learn from this runt?" and the trainer "Be more respectful Cassios, this runt as you call it isn't a Sai only because he didn't receive a Cloth yet but he is already qualified for it, and even your brother Docratres, the stro soldier, it isn't his oppo"

  Cassios is stunned by this information and says "That's impossible, my brother told me that he best most of the bronze Saints with physical strength alone..." but before he could tinue I say "Then why don't you try? e..." then I turn to Seiya and say in Japanese "Hello Seiya, my name is Jayr and the trainer asked me to teach you because I speak in Japanese, now I will show you how to fight a bigger and stronger oppo"

  And while Cassios charge toward me I take the pankration fighting stanbsp; face my oppo with a nearly frontal stance, only slightly turned sideways, the left side of the body is slightly forward of the right side of the body and the left hand is more forward than the right one, both hands are held high so that the tips of the fingers are at the level of the hairline or just below the top of the head, and are partially open, the fingers are rexed, and the palms are fag naturally forward, down, and slightly towards each other.

  The front arm is nearly fully extended but irely so, the rear arm is more cambered than the front arm but more extehan a modern-day boxer's rear arm. the back is somewhat rounded, but not as much as a wrestler would be, the body is only slightly leaning forward, and the weight is virtually all on the back with the right foot, with the fro foot toug the ground with the ball of the foot.

  Once Cassios is near me he tries to grab me with his right hand our sizes are very different as I'm 1,1m while he is 1,7 so he has a longer reach, so I take a step forward and duder his stretched arm, and use his arm as a lever and push myself up to his body and then his bad quickly I use a choking teique with my forearm.

  Cassios frantically tries to reach me with his arms but he is uo do it and in the end, he faints, and I let go of my hold, then turn to Seiya and say "As you have seen, I didn't go for a frontal exge, but used my small size as an advantage and then I cut his airflow, that is what you do when you are on the weaker side, you take advantage of your strength and your oppo weakness"

  Then I turn to Cassios and poke him in some pressure point to wake him up, and as soon as he is awake I say "So is this enough to let me teach you the basics, or do you want some other proof" and Cassios still stubborn says "I wouldn't have lost if you fought me head on"

  Then I move to the closest sandbag and pointing at it say "Then show me your stro strike" then Cassios stand in front of the sandbag and punch while screaming "Doryhaa!" and with a strong impact he sends the sandbag up in the air for a sed before it starts swinging bad forth, then with a proud smile he says "See? This is my full strength"

  Then I look around and soon I find a boulder of the right size, I stand in front of it and start lightly burning my o, then I poke it with my finger causing it to explode in many pieces then look at the shocked Cassios and say "See? this is me holding back!"

  Seiya POV - Greece - 1980

  A lot of things happehis year, first, they separate me from my sister and put me in another orphanage where we were told to do physical training all the day while a bald bastard tortured us, then the guys at the Graad Orphahered all of us and did some kind of lottery to decide where to send us to train to bee a Saint, and after that the old bastard Kido promised me that he'll reunite me with my sister, and of all the pce they could sehey throw me here in bloody Greece, where almost nobody speaks Japanese.

  Not eveime to rest that they lead me here to train, just aortuous training after ahen a kid around my age with shoulder-length messy dark blue hair and greealler than me wearing a white training suit with brown boots, belt, hand guard and shoulder guard, said something to the big guy and made him angry and while the guy was charging at him, he turns to me and in Japanese, he said he was going to teach me, then he showed me how to subdue a stronger oppo, easily handling the big scary guy.

  (Image Here - Training Outfit)

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  [colpse]But what happened was even more shog after waking up the big guy, whose name I now learned is Cassios, he lead him near a sandbag, and I have to admit that Cassios is strong, he almost made the sandbag fly, but Jayr-sensei is stronger much, much stronger, with only one finger he made a big rock explode.

  After that Jayr-seaught both me and Cassios the basics of Pankration the basic martial art they teach at the Sanctuary, and after that, he taught us the basics of o, what is it, and how to feel it, but both me and Cassios weren't able to feel even a hint of it, but Jayr'seold me that it is normal as almost no one feel his o at the first try.

  Then he led us to the Academia, where they taught us about Saint, Cloth and there are also basic Greek lessons, and other subjects, here you are free to choose what to learn, but once he lead us here, Jayr-sensei went away as he said that he already learned everything they taught here, and said he was going to meet with some friend.

  Jayr POV - Greece - 1980

  After I was finally free from the kids, I moved up toward the Gold Zodiac 'I have finished memorizing Asklepios Imerológio and while I 't do every teique in it, I'm pretty sure that no mundane doctor be better than me, even if I still have a lot to learn, I must admit that I feel in love with medie and healing the others all ain... and I hate the fact that a lot of good people will die because of Saga's plot, and I do not even know if I'm destio a cloth, right now, all the Gold Cloth but the Sagittarius one are owned, I do not know about the Silver ones but many of them will go to the unlucky geion'

  'Think about them, Misty, Babel, Moses, and the others, to bee a Saint of Athena one must have the will to protect humanity, if not the Cloth won't choose you and if you bee a truly evil individual the Cloth will abandon you, and all these people died while fighting the wrong enemy.'

  'But I digress back to the Cloth, the Bronze ones, some of them will go to the offspring of Mitsumasa Kido the most prolifi after Gengis Khan, while the others I know of do not appeal mue... Oh well, I'll see what fate has decided... Now I have an appoi with one of the few close friends I made in these years'.

  Soon I'm in front of stairs leading to the Aries Temple 'That is one of the major principles of this world... Stairs a fug lots of stairs' once I reached the temple, I didn't hesitate a around it saying "I never uood why, when Seiya and the others had to quickly reach the Athena Colossus, they never went around the Temples to move on, but only went inside risking their lives in fighting the Gold Saint inside... Probably the driving force called plot had a hand in it".

  Right now, Mu of Aries is away, he is one of the few Saints who suspect the fact that the Pope was repced, well if you do not t Shura who found it out but was brainwashed to follow his order, Deathmask, and Aphrodite who knows but doesn't care, as they believe that power is Justid if the current Pope has the power to kill the former Pope he has the right to lead them, and Shaka, who pass most of his time meditating... Anyway, Mu distanced himself ao Jamir hidden in the Himaya Mountain Range 'Well it is easier for him to suspect this as the Pope Shion was his master'.

  After the Aries temple, there is, surprise another lo of stairs leading to the Taurus Temple, my objective, and after a few minutes of running, I'm finally in front of the Tauros Temple, and right uhe bullhead statue on the architrave, there is my friend.

  A muscled young man 1,9m tall with tan skin and long dark brown hair, and thick eyebrows, wearing a simple training gear he is Aldebaran, my grandpa's disciple, he was giveatus of Gold Saint very early, his real name is Tiago, but there is this tradition of taking the name Aldebaran when one bees the Gold Saint of Taurus after the giant star of the Taurus steltion

  (Image Here - Aldebaran)

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  [colpse]We became friends thanks to Grandpa, he is a very humble and friendly guy, and thanks to him I have improved a lot in both martial arts and medical training, let's just say that sparring with the aowledged, most physically powerful Gold Saints, sihe young age of 10, it isn't for most, I think I broke every bone in my body at least twice, but thanks to a teique found in the Asklepios Imerológio, after every break my bones grew stronger and tougher than before as I healed them with o.

  Then as I moved closer to him, I say "O Tiago, o voce esta? (Hello Tiago, how are you?)" and he replies in Greek "I'm fine Jayr, but how many time do I have to tell you to call me Aldebaran now? By the way are you ready for today's spar?"

  Hearing his question, I nod my head and reply "Yeah, I'm ready for another beating, by the way, today came two new kids with some potential, one is that asshole Docrates's brother, he has a good physique, but for now shitty personality, most probably his brother fault..." and Aldebaran then ask "Is he still pig on the guards and weaker soldier? I still do not uand why the Pope keeps him here, if it wasn't for you the number of people he killed during his training would be much higher".

  "Yeah, most of my healing practice, if we do not t on the ones you make me do, came from his "sparring partners", but let's not talk about him now, the other is a Japanese kid 2 years youhan me, he is headstrong, stubborn, strong-willed, and reckless in nature but has the heart in the right pce, and I feel that a Cloth is already destined for him" and hearing that Aldebaran "Ohh? High praise ing from you, now let's stop with the chit chat and start fighting, first warm-up..."

  And so we both take the basikratio fighting stance, and without waiting for a signal, I start with a low kick, but he parries with his shin and ter with a punch which I dodge by side stepping and terattace again, and this exge of offense and defense tinue for a few more seds then he says "Now let's burn some o" and his arms seem to multiply, leaving many afterimages.

  Seeing that I too start burning my o to the max possible and start tering his punches, uo trol myself I yell "Ari, Ari, Ari, Ari, Ari" our blows keep getting faster almost reag the speed of sound and I am slowly getting the upper hand, then Aldebaran speed up even more, and I feel a strong impay right side, and I feel my bones crag.

  And the instant, I hear a soni, and find myself flying toward the wall of rocks that is he temple, and crash into it creating a crater in the mountain, and feeling even more ribs crack, a little stunned I think 'Shit, who got the pte of the train that hit me?' but I quickly recover 'Only a few ribs cracked... I'm improving!' then I hear Aldebaran's voice "e o up, I'm only fighting at the level of a Silver Saint, but heless gratution, in teique alone you have surpassed me... You only need more firepower"

  I the up and start burning my o, even more, I jump out of the crater and once more I start attag Aldebaran, but he easily deflects my attacks 'Time to try the eique' but as I was thinking that my oppo yells "Do not be distracted during a fight!" and this time I feel a strong impa the left side, and I find myself once again in the same crater with a few more ribs cracked.

  "Maybe you need some other iive to improve even more!" said Aldebaran while taking his real fighting stance, he crossed his arm and stood tall, this is a teique simir to the quick draw of an Iaijutsu method of sword fighting 'I still do not uand of he make it work with his arms... Another miracle of o I guess... And shit the Spartan side that grandpa cultivated in him came out!'

  Soon I feel his even more and then he yell "Great... Horn!" and two massive waves of o are ing toward me at the speed of the sound.

  Feeling the immediate threat I once again burn my o letting it explode, then I feel like I broke through some kind of wall holding me back, and the attack that was too fast to evade became a lot slower, and without admiring the phenomenon, I run to the side to evade both the wave and then arrive right in front of Aldebaran and use the teique I came up with taking inspiration from another anime I saw.

  My fist starts shining and a clear blue orb of water gathers around my fist "Tidal unch" and with a punch, I shoot it straight towards Aldebaran and faster than the speed of sound, as the soni that followed soon after indicated, reach my oppo but just as it was about to hit him he raises his hand and catches my blow with ease. (AN: I totally didn't use the name of a cocktail I drank sometimes ago...)

  But with a smirk, I say "Boom" and from the water ball that he is holding in his hand ten deyed strong impacts came oer another, each strohan the previous one, causing a strong shockwave, slowly pushing Aldebaran back leaving a trail in the ground.

  After the effey teique ended he says "Well that is some eique, you densed a ten blow irong punch, if it was someone else in my pce, he would have been seriously injured... By the way gratution, on fully mastering your sixth sense, you have reached the Silver Saint Level, now you only have to master your new awareness, and you start w on the seventh one, and finally reach my level"

  "You talk like it is an easy thing to do...and this teique is still a work in progress, right now I only haen secutive hits" I reply, and Aldebaran "It isn't easy... I reached that level four years ago, and I had the help of the Taurus Cloth, which supported me... Now, let's not talk about that, I think it is better that we stop for today"

  "I agree... Let me see your hand...even if you used your o to protect yourself, you are still made of flesh and bones...without the Cloth you are vulnerable... After all, we all are just human in the end!"

  Then I check Aldebaran's hand and like I suspected, some bones in his hand and arm are cracked, so I went ihe Temple and took the first aid kit I made for occasions like this 'After all every time I e here to train I broke or crae bohen I send some o in the cracks in Aldebaran's hand and then bahe hand while saying "Nothing serious...rest for today and use some of your o to hold mine in pd tomorrow you will be as good as new, in fact, it will be slightly stronger..."

  Hearing that Aldebaran then sms his other arm into the ground causing the same amount of damage to his other hand without hesitation and says "Do the same, as you know my teique works on the bance if one is slightly different something will feel off" and I did so while thinking 'Damn, grandpa really rubbed off him...when he learhat I used my healing arts to make my body stronger as I healed all the damage and fatigue of the training to train more he upped my training schedule even more, and when he learned of this teique he didn't wait for a sed and jumped off a cliff to break every bone in his body to make'em stronger... And he is retired from active fighting...'.

  After I took care of his other hand, I trate on my ribs and as I'm bandaging my torso Aldebaran ask "By the way, did you know that a lot of Gold Saints are on the younger side... from what I know i holy war against Lucifer we lost most of them, and only yrandfather survived, but then he chose to retire, so all of us took the Gold Sai a lot youhan usual, right now the oldest that I know of are Shura and that creep Deathmask who are 17".

  And I reply "Yes I k, but talking of the old Saints who is at the Sanctuary?" and Aldebaran thinks about it and says "Well there is me, Shura, Aio, Milo, Shaka, and Aphrodite, Mu went to Jamir to traihmask is at the training ground in Italy, Camus is in Siberia, Master Dohko is in a, the Sagittarius Cloth is still lost, and I know nothing of the Gemini Saint as he is the most mysterious one, but he has gone missing since Aiolos betrayed the Sanctuary".

  Then I looked at the Fire Clod say "Well it's time for me to go to the Library and then to the Asclepieion(Hospital), where other victims of Docrates wait for me" and then we said goodbye.

  On the Library the first thing I did was che everything on the Seventh Sense, and soon I found a book written by Sagittarius Gestalt in 1743, he is Shion and Dohko porary "o is actually the seventh of the human senses, beyond the normal five senses and the sixth, that is sidered intuition and is used by the Saint to feel, manipute and burn their o. With this awareness, a Saint is able to draw out the true potential of their o and achieve exceptionally powerful feats far beyond those of even a normal Saint, like wielding a power destructive enough to pulverize a star, reach the speed of light, or being able to punch billions of times per sed...There seems to be a level called "Supreme Seventh Sense" or "Extreme Seventh Sehat appears to be the maximum extension of the human o, a level so high as to gee a small-scale Big Bang...Because of the fact that o is actually a human se happens that with a loss of one or more of the other six sehe seventh refiself...Eureka!"

  'To train to reach the 7th sense, I easily temporarily disable my sehanks to the medical knowledge that I acquired from the Asklepios Imerológio... Work smarter not harder... If grandpa heard me he would throw me off a cliff, and then tell me to climb up with only my tongue'.

  Having the solution, I theo the Asclepieion to take care of the various wounded and after that, I went home and after dinner, I started my training, first by removing my sight, by pressing some acupoints 'I choose this method because I undo what I did by using the o' then my hearing, and already the situation started getting scary... Being in total darkness and not hearing anything, but thanks to my sense of smell, taste, and touch I was still able to somewhat feel the surroundings, but the experience was still stressful, I tried trating on my o but the silent darkook all my tration, it is scary, crazy scary... So after what I think is a few minutes I undo everything and the world once again has sound and color then I looked at the Fire Clod noticed that only a few seds passed... W smarter... Not so much... Better start one se the time... And so I once again started t myself... This time disabling only the sight and I was once again in the darkness 'It is all my spartan's blood fault! I wasn't so in my previous life, I was more on the zy kind of guy, it's all grandpa's fault he tricked me into the dark side'.

  Odyin