"Sounds like normal training to me," Zancrow said with a shrug. "Though I'm surprised they didn't have you in training all the time.

"My own training was about a year," he said. "Me and the others Master Hades personally picked." Rusty, Azuma, Kain, Ultear, and himself. Later joined by the older Zoledo and the much younger Meredy. The five of them had endured a lot under Master Hades' personal attention to make them his elite killing squad.

He hadn't thought about those times in ages. He shuddered a bit. They had not been pleasant. And he wasn't keen on sharing that with a near stranger. He cast about for a change of subject but came up blank.