"Alright, babe, time for a refresher! What is the firstw of thermodynamics?"


    "I know this has nothing to do with learning, but what do you think it''s like to be inside a cartoon?"


    "Babe!"


    "Sorry, sorry.Energy can change forms but cannot be created or destroyed, entropy of an isted system always increases and entropy of a system approaches a constant as temperature approaches absolute zero."


    "That''s my boy~!"


    Currently, Mchi was sitting at an all ck desk in the open practice room beside Bianca.


    Over the past month that they had been here, Mchi had been receiving lessons to help him understand his power of absolute force maniption.


    Because the power relied on a fundamental understanding of the basicws that make up reality,Bianca had been teaching Mchi physics for an entire month.


    Mchi often joked that he was a psychology major because he was bad at every other subject, especially ones centered around math and sciences.


    Now it no longer felt like a joke.


    Forck of a better description, Bianca was a genius.


    While he knew that before, now he was really getting to see it firsthand.


    Every time that she cracked open the textbook to teach him some new information, he felt like his mind was going to explode by the end of their session.


    He couldn''t believe that she could actually grasp it all and rather firmly for that matter.


    But the bright side was that he finally started to understand different concepts and he no longer had a constant headache at every waking hour of the day.


    So far, he had only learned how to influence sound waves and small amounts of kic energy, leading to his third lesson of the course : thermodynamics.


    But there was a problem.


    Like any good teacher, Bianca was fully capable of recognizing when her student was feeling burned out.


    So now, her challenge lie in finding a good way to motivate her boyfriend so that he was still learning efficiently.


    And as of now, she believed that she might have found the way.


    Bianca closed the book on the table and pulled out Mchi''s chair just a bit.


    She peeled off her jacket and ced it aside before she straddled him and wrapped her hands around his neck.


    "What''s this for, B?"


    "I can tell you''re feeling a bit exhausted from all of the nonstop tutoring so I wanted to make this lesson a little more personal. Are you alright with that?"


    Bianca''s voice was slightly raspy and soft, both of which were terribly alluring to Mal.


    He didn''t know what exactly this lesson was going to be like, but he was absolutely sure that he wasn''t going to be bored.


    "Of course I am... But this might make it a little bit harder for me to focus."


    "Well let''s try to keep this strictly educational for now, shall we?"


    Bianca held out her hand and produced a small ball of orange me that was more warm and inviting than smoldering.


    "Just like we''ve been practicing, try to take control of it, hm? Even though I used my own abilities to ignite it, it still functions the same as a normal heat source. Show me something cool."


    "Ha! I''ll do my best."


    Mchi stared hard at the me dancing around in Biancas palm and focused on the signals he was receiving from it while keeping in mind everything that he had learned about heat and it''s rtion to energy so far.


    First, he opted to funnel air more oxygen into the me, making them bigger and a bit warmer too.


    "You''re doing good, babe... Keep going." Bianca encouraged softly.


    Smiling slightly as he concentrated, Mchi mapped out a path for the mes to follow in the corners of the room where the air was the densest.


    Like a serpent, the mes rose up towards the ceiling and wrapped around every corner until it looked like the room itself was on fire.


    Bianca was clearly mesmerized, but Mal wasn''t done yet.


    He held out his hand to catch the row of mes that had been dispersed throughout the room, and started to absorb the heat from them.


    Unsurprisingly, the mes disappeared not long afterwards with no more heat to keep them going.


    Mchi ced the pads of his fingers across Bianca''s lips and she shivered as she felt a wave of pleasant warmth travel to every corner of her body.


    "I think I got the hang of it." He said pretty proudly.


    "So do I.. Do you want your reward now orter?"


    "What do you think?"


    As Bianca brought her face closer to Mchi''s, the door suddenly opened and Anna poked her head inside.


    She didn''t have any interest in physics either, but it wasn''t umon for her to stop by and observe when Mal was testing his powers for the first time.


    She just liked to see him doing cool stuff sometimes without sitting in for all of the extra lectures and stuff like that.


    But when she saw Bianca sitting on top of Mchi and clearly about to kiss him, she thought that maybe she shoulde to observe these lessons more often.


    "Hey, what are you guys doing?"


    "Studying!"


    "Very intimately."


    Anna''s eyes narrowed in suspicion and she entered the room fully before sitting on the desk and crossing her legs.


    "Alright, tell me what kind of lesson could have led to this scenario."


    Bianca''s eyes immediately lit up.


    "Thermodynamics!See, our boyfriend can use his powers to manipte the energy produced by fire and heat sources for a wide range of-"


    "Okay, okay I believe you!"


    -


    After his lesson was over, Mal sent Anna and Bianca up to their room before he scoured the house to find Nadine.


    Unsurprisingly, he found her in the living room of the mansion; staring out therge ss window in the center of their home and drinking a cup of tea with blood mixed in.


    A delicacy that had been generously donated by one of the girls.


    "You actually came." She said, still trying to uphold her aloof and uninterested attitude from before.


    "Don''t tell me you thought I wouldn''t?"


    Mchi sat down beside her and raised a brow when she immediately scooted away from him.


    "..." Stubbornly, he closed the distance between the two of them again.


    "...!" With a growl, Nadine moved away once more before grabbing a random pillow and cing it between them like a wall.


    "Nadine..."


    "Hmph!"


    Rolling his eyes, Mchi snatched the vampire up before she knew what was happening and pulled her into hisp.


    He thought for a moment that he may have seen a happy smirk on her face, but it disappeared before he could confirm.


    "...What''s with the sudden affection...?"


    "I owe you at least this much after you stuck by me like you have, don''t I?"


    "...Maybe."


    Judging by how hard she was fighting to remain indifferent, Mal figured that she clearly did not dislike it.


    Before he could figure out how to get the conversation underway, Nadine beat him to it.


    "I need to know... Has everything that I''ve done to earn your attraction been in vain..? When you look at me, do you feel... anything?" She asked hollowly.


    After hearing the normally always cheerful Nadine sound so fragile, Mchi finally realized just how much he''d been inadvertently hurting her.


    He also didn''t realize just how much he had grown attached to her usual personality and antics.


    "When I look at you... I feel guilty." He finally said.