She takes it.

And onward to lunch!

Hopefully they're not too late.

Akira's willing to heat something up for them this time. Next time, she'll be providing them with a watch. Her time is valuable - they need to respect that - but it's important they eat.

Yes, professor.

Yes, sensei. They'll be more cautious next time.

Good.

And, after their late lunch: a primer on first aid, what they absolutely need to know before lab work - of course, over the next few weeks she'll be mixing in more detailed medical lessons. But, for now, proper wound cleaning procedure, proper bandaging procedure, first line of treatment for allergies...

Bellona actually brought one of her notebooks, this time. She's marked it for their medical lessons.

The first few pages end up rather dense with notes.

El also takes diligent notes, with sections marked out for things that seem like they need more attention.

Fortunately, Akira identifies the most important things rather clearly.

Akira wraps the lesson up, then sets them down over dinner - after an evening break for them to spend on their own reading and any review - to discuss lesson patterns.

"Were the times I selected for your morning and afternoon lessons good for you two?"

"It seems like we might need longer before afternoon lessons."

"Yeah. We usually eat lunch pretty late, too, I think?"

"If you wish, I can switch the afternoon lesson with the evening free study period. The difference matters little to me, overall."

"I think that'd work for us?"

"That sounds good."

She nods.

"My intent is to have two blocks for what is essentially book learning - morning and evening - and to, every other day, use your morning break for physical education. Most alchemists neglect their bodies, to the detriment of their minds - on days you have your full break, I expect both of you to still get out of the house and exercise for part of it. We will cover alchemical and scientific topics every morning, and assorted other topics such as history, medicine, philosophy, and language in the evening. I will guide your learning more closely whenever we introduce a new topic, but eventually most of your lessons will involve me giving you questions to answer, an experiment to perform, or an assignment to complete, then leaving you to your own devices."

"Is that overview acceptable to you two?"

"Yeah! Though what's physical education gonna be?"

"Learning assorted martial arts, primarily."

"Oooooo..."

"From Xing?"

"Yes, as well as from elsewhere in the world. A broad base is good, here."

"Okay."

"I wanna learn to knife fight."

"After hand to hand, then after weapons safety."

"Awwwww..."