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Well if Liam were to be honest, he actually liked the colisseum. It was a tall building, but not too tall. He could see everything from where he sat. But that wasn't the case. Today he was with his class of some of the little children that he was teaching Archery to. The First Cohort had taken the archery range for part of their forty-eight hour drill. Not that he minded. His kids were starting to get better. Though there was always a new edition here and there that would trickle in from Lupa's mansion. Not that he minded. He enjoyed working with the little kids. In a way, he felt like he could relate to them on that level. It was different than working with some of the older demi-gods. The older ones had their own opinions and personalities and quirks. But like the children, he felt like he was figuring out a good deal of the world for the first time. He was learning how to make friends, he was learning how to read, learning how to count, learning how to do things that he should have learned ages ago. If you would have asked about the specs on his rifle or how to best make a shot from a couple of yards away, he could give it to you easy. But learning new things was fun, tiring, but fun.

"Back strait, keep both eyes open." He said as he placed a hand on one of the kids back as she tried to draw the bow. "Use your mouth as an anchor." He said as she complied. "watch your target, wait till the shot feels right." He said, his voice barely a whisper. The girl let the arrow loose and it dully hit the target. "Try to remember, inhale on the draw, deep breath. Then let the arrow loose on the exhale." He said as he then walked down the row, correcting a few stances here and there. One kid was having a hard time figuring out the bow. "Don't worry, it's alright if you don't get it the first time. Be patient. Archery takes time." He said as he ruffled the hair of his new charge. He hummed a faint song to himself as he then walked back down the line. Most of the kids he had were from third, fourth, or fifth cohort. He trained them when they weren't doing cohort training. He didn't want to interfere with the scheduals that had been put in place before he had even got here.

Pausing, he took a long drink from his water bottle. He had started to put on some weight, not the bad kind, mind you, but the healthy kind. He didn't look like a mess of wiry muscle. He was eating right and not just the vitamins and minerals and protien bars that he had been fed for most of his life. He was learning that there were many things that he had never known before. It was quite a wonderful world.

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Notes: XD let's see how this go.

Kenshin had been all night trying to figure out the new set of trainings that he would show Mika. They both were centurions of third cohort and they both had to work together to make good and befecicious drills for their cohort. He wasn't interested on matching first cohort as some of the people under his leadership thought. No, he simply wanted them to be ready for everything, Ready for the moment a monster, a god, a titan or even dumb people from the government of the country that their parents protected, could attack them.

So, after a long, long night of planning attacks and defenses, drills and trainings, he stretched out his arms and back. then he got up and decided to go for a walk, walks were always good to clean the mind and the soul, as to give the body good moves so the circulatory system worked in a proper way after you spent more than 6 hours sitting at a desk. Kenshin walked out and rubbed his eyes at the sight of the sun, then he yawned and walked to New Rome, maybe thee he could find some nice nutricious food.

He left his sakabatou with Terminus and then walked into the city. There he went to pick some delicious Japanese breakfast. Thank the gods that Mercury opened some original Japanese restaurants in the City. Then he finished and was going to look for Mika, but he passed in front of the Coliseum and remembered that he had agreed that some of the youngest ones went there to have a better practice with some weapons. So he walked in there and decided to check on them. He found a large group of kids practicing with Bows and arrows. He smiled at that sight and leaned on the wall.

when he saw the man who was training them he remembered that he had been with that traitor girl... what was his name... Liam. "That is a very good Job." he said as he walked to where the guy was. If his brother Remus trusted him, he could for sure try to trust him too, everyone deserved a second or third chance.

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Liam had truly started to grow. His time spent in a captivity of sorts, well he had been a remorseless and vicious killer with only Eve as his salvation. Avetis had been a father figure to him, Skylar had been someone who shared in the same sort of problems that he had. But New Rome had been welcoming. Even though he had done things against the state of New Rome, the praetors had agreed to let him stay on to help train the kids. So he simply could learn and try to have a chance at a normal life. Things were different here, sure the kids learned to be soldiers and fight against threats that wanted to put these kids and people back into graves. He swore to Apollo that he wouldn't fight. No more killing on his part. He had grown tired of being only useful as a killing machine.

Blinking as someone spoke to him, Liam looked upwards. His throat bound up as he looked at the Japanese kid. With a furrowing brow, Liam opened up his mouth as he wanted to say something, but no words came out. Biting his lip, he nodded at the boy. He had seen him around before, it was Eve's centurion. The boy probably hated him as many other people here did. Not that Liam really cared what people thought about him. He still lacked the social skills that were nessicary to actually deal with the other people that he had come across. There was an awkward silence as Liam looked down at his feet in a sheepish manner. "Thank you." His voice rough and gruff came out.

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for Kenshin it was difficult to be there with someone that would be consider in other times as an aenemy of rome. But as a legacy of Pax, he wanted to give Peace a chance to live among romans. The man in front of him was intimidating. He was tall and with a wide back. Kenshin noticed how strong his back and arms were due the constant paractice with the bow. But must archers had a crucial mistake in training and was to not train the muscles of their legs. Which seemed that wasn't Liam's mistake. The man was a perfect fighting machine.

But if he was such a threat, why he acted so... shy? Kenshin looked at Liam as he looked at his feet and replied a weak thanks to him. Then he remembered how Romans would be to those who attacked Rome. Kenshin sighed and smiled in a soft slight way. his Mars blood told him to fight the other guy, to challenge him, but his Pax blood told him to first stablish a peaceful bridge between them, then he would have time to train wuth that man, maybe to even learn from him. He wanted to know the techniques that he had been taught in the goverment Facility.

"I'm impressed about the developments that the archers from my cohort have since they come and train with you." he said and then grabbed an arrow from the ground and smiled. "My name is Yukiyama, Kenshin... but call me Kenshin or Ken" he said and then grabbed a bow from a pile and put the arrow on his finger as a guide and drew back the string. "I'm centurion in the Third cohort. I believe we never got introducted, right?" he asked as he shot the arrow at a dummy and the arrow hit the dummy's chest. it wouldn't have been a clean death, the imaginary enemy would have suffered a slow death. "Evelyn said your name is... Liam?"

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The smaller male in front of him gave him pause. Not that Liam was scared of him, on the contrary, Liam was using his trained eye at analyzing the boy in front of him. The way he carried himself, the way his posture held him, the boy was strong though in a close combat situation, Liam knew that the demi-god that stood before him would give him a good thrashing even if he were to come out on top, and the fact that Liam was going to come out on top in said fight, well it was debatable. Even though Liam was older, he deffered to the judgement of the younger male. He was a higher rank, a centurion as opposed to just another soldier in the army. But he didn't want to seem like such a jerk towards the younger male but he wanted to figure out how to interact with the people around him. But his eyes returned to the archers that he had been working with. It was true what Kenshin said, they had drastically improved. Some of them by leaps and bounds, others were still marginally better, though some was an improvement.

Liam watched as the other male plucked the arrow from the ground. "Kenshin, it is an... honor? Is that the right word?" He asked with a tilt of his head. No one had bothered to teach Liam proper language. Miyuki was working hard to do so, and he had been able to pick up a few things here and there. "Yes... My name is Liam Brady, Legacy of Apollo and Mars." He said as he took a moment to glance upwards to the sky at the sun. But he brought down the glance once more as the Centurion had spared him a small smile. He watched with a calculating eye about how the centurion had pulled the arrow back and let it go. It was a decent shot, but then it was obvious that he was no legacy or child of Apollo. "You have patience and concentration for the arrows, but you pulled a bit too hard on the string."