[Although strenuous physical training and stimulation is most often associated with the boy, even dogs bred for the art of war require intense mental focus. That's why Null's here in this kitchen today, studying from a book that he received from one of the Big Bosses. In front of him, a stack of
papers he's been working on. His penmanship is pretty crude but it seems he's getting the hang of the alphabet -- or he's simply memorized words that Big Boss has written down for him in the past.]
[The relatively illiterate boy still doesn't know the entire English alphabet. He understands the way each of the twenty-six letters are formed but pronunciation up until the letter "P" is as far as he's managed to get. This doesn't discourage him; he continues to scrawl on the pages, copying the letters from the book.]