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I laid upon a bloody mud, my bones fractured in many times places, my lips, eyebrows and skin split, my teeth and nails torn off and chipped off.
But those rulebreakers didn't seem to notice any of that, only that they had already gotten tired from punching, kicking, and stomping me.
"Fuck…Huf! It's enough, huf... Already, Ursus. The boy's… half dead."
"It's enough when I say it's enough, Blizz, you ungrateful wench", Ursus said, taking a sack from his pocket, and eating fresh berries straight from it. Taking the heavy fur coat off his shoulders, he ordered: "Leave us alone, you all."
"What?", this time even the ugly girl who called me a slave seemed uncomfortable.
"Leave. Us. Alone. I won't repeat myself."
"R- Right away, master!", she ran away.
"Huff… If you don't pay us again, huff… I'll make sure my brother makes the same with you, you fuck up", Blizz and her brother marched away too.
Just the two of us alone, Ursus grabbed me by my hair and raised my head to his eye level.
"Let me be clear, since I don't know you've been behaving yourself for righteous fear, or for stupidity. But if you tell anyone about my little deal with Arapaima… You're dead", he said, his free hand starting to rip open my torn-off clothes.
Kill?
Was he threatening to kill me?
Even though I didn't do anything to him?
That wasn't fair.
That wasn't right.
That was… So… so… damn… hateful.
*
I've spent… A long time floating in the darkness.
Glimpses of consciousness revealed beautiful and unimaginable spectacles of world sized fire spheres, light eating black dots, and multi-colored spirals. And there was life too. Much life. Pebbles in which the majority were birdman, like the Council Member Goshalk, and worlds filled with mostly tree people like teacher Grace, and all sorts of other little balls floating in that beautiful darkness. Lost. Just like me.
But something told me that that should be my last memory of such a place.
*
"AAARGH!!"
I approached him, shaking my hands, loosening my wrists and fingerbones to make proper fists, stepping closer to the man who was holding his right arm against his chest. It was but a hair-thin crack in the bones, I suffered that many times and healed from the wounds that night. And he would suffer the same.
"I CAN'T JUST HEAL IT, YOU FUCKING IDIO-"
I shut the fucking asshole up by grabbing his mouth with my right arm, and raising him up. It was an easy job once that I broke another seal, another chain-link… physically and mentally.
Ursus kicked and punched me, but I could barely feel those hits anymore.
Then it was my turn to attack.
"Humph!" I hurled the annoying piece of shit against a tree about six meters away from me, and when his body hit the trunk, it shook the entire thing, many branches falling to the ground, and some of the roots getting exposed as the tree got a little tilted. "I will make you regret ever making an enemy of me."
"Abuah… Duh…", Ursus babbled, saliva mixed with blood dripping from his mouth. "Gelp!", he shouted, and his goons jumped on me from my left and my right.
I stopped Ninebark, the ugly girl on my right, simply by raising the back of my hand up and letting her hit her own face against it, falling down with a bleeding nose.
Trunk, however, I grabbed his immense fist with my left hand. Then, I twisted it 360 degrees, destroying his elbow.
"Retreat!" Blizz ordered her brother, and so he did. "Hold your hurt arm, huff…!""
"What are you fucking useless bitches even doing?!", Ursus got back on his feet, and pointed his wand at me. "Die!", he shouted, as wooden-textured waste engulfed the arm that was holding the wand.
A trio of wooden spears were materialized and flew against me, deadly.
Instead of dodging, however, I grabbed the first two, and used them to destroy the third with an "X" slash. Then I hurled back both weapons at the son of a bitch who'd been torturing me these past few weeks, and they dug right into his thighs, pinning him against the tree until the spears vanished in the same type of energy that created them.
"AAAAHHH!", he screamed loudly, throwing his head back.
"Sorry, but I need his money, huff…!" Blizz said from atop her brother's shoulders, who was now attacking with one arm and his legs as I approached Ursus.
"Do not pretend to be innocent" I said, raising the dirt beneath the massive opponent's feet, and making him fall down. When his sister was at my level, I slapped her right on the left cheek, and there she went flying, ear and nose bleeding, and half of her face three times swollen and purple. A good kick on the head kept her brother silent too.
"Hya!", surprisingly, the ugly girl who called me a slave slashed at me with a knife, cutting the leather clothe beneath my feather's cloak .
I easily disarmed her, and stabbed the gawking surprised girl with the same weapon in her shoulder. "Gyaaah!", she fell down with tears in her eyes.
When I turned around, I was facing not only three, but a whole volley of wooden spears hurled against me.
"I can use magic too", I said. And burned every single one of those spears down to ashes in an instant, as I conjured a scorching wall of flames before me.
"I- Impossible…! Y- You're just a seed in a sand desert!"
"Oh, you haven't seen a thing yet", I grabbed Ursus by his collar and raised him to my eye level. "My 'weak' magic can do… incredible things too. You will see", I conjured just a tiny small flame on top of my right index finger. "Remember. No one's coming to help you."
Then I started to show him how weak magic could be used in interesting ways.
*
It hadn't been too long since the dog told me some new student had killed his form in the cave, and I was playing the role of a bothered spectator of the ongoing struggles in the forest, the game the dog came up with to play with his new toy.
Then, things suddenly turned interesting.
"Ho? Could it be… The one who killed the dog's form was one of my students?"
My crossed arms tensed with excitement.
Perhaps it would be a waste to just let the dog play with that little one.