Following that incident, the bell rang and everyone promptly left the cafeteria, heading outside.
The next class was mandatory physical fitness.
Both the Knight Division and the Mage Division were required to participate in this training.
Why, you may ask?
Knight-types specialized in close-quarters combat, so they needed to stay in shape. Devils were physically stronger than humans, yes, but that didn't mean they could slack off. If they stopped training, they'd get sluggish, slow, maybe even fat and unhealthy. In that regard, they weren't much different from humans.
Mage-types, on the other hand, needed fitness for a different reason: mobility. Their greatest advantage was their ability to manipulate the ambient reishi, allowing them to resonate their inner energy with the world around them and unleash powerful effects.
As long as they kept their distance, they were practically unstoppable.
But if someone closed that distance and began pummeling them?
They were helpless.
