Ain von Ishtalica/History

## Current life

At age 5, Ain is sword-training with his father Logas. During the training, Grint and his mother arrive and Logas goes to train with Grint, leaving Ain on his own. Ain, growing frustrated, attempts to cut a suit of armor using his wooden sword, but the sword bounces off and the recoil hurts his hands. Wanting to be acknowledged by his father Ain puts his energy toward studying. After some time, a butler enters the room and after praising Ain for his studies, he informs Ain that his mother has finished her work. Ain goes to see her and she embraces him. He ask about her work and upon learning that hi father isn't involved in her job, Ain is proud at the amount of paperwork his mother took care of. She then gives him a status card, telling him that the average 5 year old has a stamina of 10, much less then his 55. Olivia then suggests that they go on a stroll together while she fufils a request to get some tea. Ain feels bad that Olivia is being relegated to do servant work, but she encourages him. While at the hsop, he picks up a magic stone and is compelled to lick it. Upon doing so, he notes its sweet taste and ends up buying it. After leaving the store, he sees that the stone has lost its color. The next day, he once again attempts to cut through the armor. This time he succeeds, destroying his wooden sword in the process.

Later, Olivia and Ain go to social party, with Olvia being irritated that she and Ain are being intentionally separated from Logas, Carmilla and Grint, as well as the fact that Grint will be made heir of the family. Upon getting to the event, Logas tells Olivia and Ain to go to the Main Hall while he Grint and Carmilla greet the Blueno family, however, upon reaching the main hall, Olivia and Ain are informed that only one child per household is allowed, so Ain cannot participate. Wanting to make his mother feel better, Ain suggests going for a walk in the garden. the servant informs them that its fine, but they will need an escort, to which Claune Auguste arrives and introduces herself. While taking the walk, Ain takes note of the flowers and Claune explains that they are blue fire roses, an extremely poisonous flower. However, she & Olivia explain that if the poison is removed, the flowers turn into beautiful crystals. Ain then uses his Poison Decomposision EX skill to instantly remove the poison and crystalize flower, much to Olivia and Claune's shock. He then offers the flower to a flustered Claune, who accepts it. HE then does the same with another flower which he gifts to his mother. Claune then has to go back inside, but instructs Ain to refer to her informally. Later, while waiting for Logas, they are informed by a servant that Logas had left early, having seemingly forgotten about the two of them. Ain then wonders if his is worthless in Logas's eyes and Olivia asks him if he like his father. Ain confirms that while he's grateful for Logas, he can't forgive how he treats Olivia and disliked him. To his supprise, Olivia is happy to hear this and decides leave Logas and to take Ain to her homeland.

They go to the port where they are met by a massive battleship full of soldiers. One of the soldiers introduces herself as Christina Vernstein and informs them that she has come to pick them up. Before Ain can ask questions, his mother takes him aboard the ship. On the ship, Olivia reveals her true identity as the second princess of Ishtalica. When Christina sees the Star Crystal Olivia is carrying, she revelas that giving one to the opposite gender constitues a proposal, much to Ain's shock as he realizises that he unintentionally proposed to Claune. When Christina explains how they water train they will be taking works, Ain notes how Ishtalica has developed a steam engine, earning praises from both Olivia and Christina fro his knowledge.

Apon reaching the caslte, Olivia casually eneters the meeting room where the king and severla officals are. The King asks who Ain is, leading Ain to introduce himself. Apon learning the In is his grandson, the king happilt introduces himself. This is followed by Lloyd Glacier introducing himself as well.Olivia then reveals that she has gotten divorced. The kinf the postpones the meeting and tells Christina to call Warren Lark & Kadyma von Ishtalica for a full explaination.

After Olivia explains what happened and calms her father down, Warren explains to Ain that the main reason Olivia married Lagos was to get the Sea Crystals that Ishtalica used to power their magic tools and that Ishtalica protecting Hyme and Ain becoming head of the family were part of the agreement. When they question where they can get more Sea crystals, Olivia reveals that she had already looked to possible suppliers on her own. The kind then officially changes Ain's name to Ain von Ishtalica and officially classifies him as crowned prince.

While sword training with Lloyd, Lloyd compliments his swordsmanship. Ain laments that his skill is still inferior to Grint's an wonders if he can be a good swordsmans without the appropriate skill. Lloyd then takes out a sewing kit and repairs a tear in Ain's shirt, revealing that his skill is Sewing, but he is still a powerful swordsman. He then encourages Ain, telling him that he just needs to put forth enough effort. Kadyma then comes and takes Ain o her quarters where Christina serves the tea. Ain gives Kadyma his status card and notes that not only have his stats have increased, but he also gained the Absorb skill. Kadyma then reveals that the skill is a racial trait of dryads, revealing that Oliva and Ain are Dryads. Kadyma then surmises that Ain's status has increased because he's been absorbing power from magic stones. She explains that while monsters can eat magic stones to grow stronger, magic stones have poisons that make humans unable to do the same, but Ain's Poison Decomposition EX skill allows him to do so. While Ain doesn't remember absorbing a magic stone after the one time, Chris suspects that Ain absorbed the magic stone inside of her revealing that she is an elf. Kadyma then tests it by have Ain lick several magic stones she prepared and confirms that that stat increase is proportional to the rarity of the stone. Olivia then arrives and she and the king take Ain to the treasure room. There, they offer Ain the chance to absorb the Dulluhan's magic stone. Ain mages to bypass the poison and absorb the stone, getting a significant increase to his stats. The king tells him not to let his status go to his head and then asks if everything with according to Olivia's plan. Olvia then reveals that she gave birth to Ain as a dryad. The king then takes her Olivia away to discuss something.

Later while with Kadyma and Warren, Kadyma reveals that dryads can only produces children with a single person in their lifetime, but can give birth a single child asexually. Kadyma and Warren then warn him against going into the audience hall, as the demon king's magic stone is there and Ain might absorb magic from it unconsciously. As Warren talks about the first king, Ain declares that he wasnt to be someone who can equal the first king and become known world wide.

8 months later, he goes training with Chris and Lloyd, successfully killing a multiple monsters and using Phantom Hand, the Dulluhan's power.