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Opening the door showed it wasn’t just one or the other but both Thera and Delair arriving at once, letting them both in to start the day, even as he slipped a thought into his girlfriend’s mind.

Make sure you compliment breakfast out loud.

Hmm? You know I always love what you cook. She thought back, catching on to the fact that there was something more to it given he’d decided to keep the thought between them.

Yeah, but Mora gave me a hand today.

Ah, got you.

“Ben, breakfast this morning was even better than usual,” Thera told him brightly, making sure her cousin was nearby enough to hear. “Me and aunty absolutely loved it.”

The clone he was working through watched the young spirit perk up a bit as she said that and he had to work to keep from looking any brighter for the result, happy that Thera played along so well.

“Well actually, Mora helped me out a bit today. He did an excellent job at it too, I’d love to get his assistance again if he’s interested.”

“…I don’t mind,” The spirit said after only a bit of hesitation. “Cooking together was… Nice.”

He patted the child’s shoulder when he said it, now not bothering to hide his smile. “It is, isn’t it kiddo? I’m always happy to get your help whenever you want to give it too. Some things just feel nicer when you do it with others.”

The boy nodded at the comment, giving the impression he was feeling positive and Ben turned to his student from there. “And on that note, Delair, today you’ll be learning with Mora. Seeing as how you’ve got more practice with this stuff than him, I hope you’ll be a good role model because now that he’s learned something from me, he’s my… Huh, you know what? I was teaching him some art before I started training Jake. Okay, Jake’s demoted to my fifth official student, Mora is my fourth, at least so long as you want to keep practicing with us?”

“He does!” Delair jumped, eager to have a new underling after what Ben had told her the day before while Mora eventually nodded.

“I’ll do it today.”

“Fantastic, and while I have clone number one with you guys, time to let student five in.”

He knew they had to be waiting so he went to the back and activated his gate, letting the three through while Amy in particular had to drag one.

“No, I don’t wanna,” Jake yelled. “I spent the entire night having nightmares about chemistry! I haven’t done that since the beginning of high school!”

“You don’t get a choice,” His girlfriend sang at him. “Ben was right, you’re fine which means the lessons from him have officially proven their worth. Now stop being a baby, the sooner we get this done the sooner we can get it over with.”

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“And you won’t be learning alone either,” Ben added. “Thera’s here today too, we’re going to try and get one more level out of her as well before we take on the tower and as for Amy and Yuzu, well, I’m going to be putting both of you to work while you’re here.”

“Work?”

“The good sort of work. Amy, I made identical weapons to the one you already have for all of your clones, they’re just button-activated instead of mana-activated and they replace the blow gun with a bow so you shouldn’t have any issue adapting to it. I did however make you what I’m going to call a preliminary attempt at a new weapon. It’s good so I’m going to have you learn how to use it but I’m not sure if it’s going to be the end product or not, I want to think of something a bit better if I can.”