For the next two weeks, the man continued making me do the leg exercises, and they actually started to show signs of working. This further cemented in my mind the opinion that this man was not a normal commoner.
One day, as the man slapped me out of my meditation, which at this point may show an impact on my dental health, he asked me something that made a shiver of wrath and self-pity run down my spine.
"Tell me about your family, Ustos," he demanded. First, this man took away my academic life, and now he's trying to take away my familial life too. I can't just let him do such a thing.
I have to lie somehow, but what should I say? If I lie and he still doesn't get caught, then who knows what punishment he will inflict on me. But I can't just let this man take my life without at least doing something.
While pondering, I hear the man say, "Well, are you gonna talk, or should I convince you to?."
I frown, "N-No need, I'll talk."
I start talking about our family's general situation, whilst trying to make something up that will make the man get caught. It needs to be something unexpected, I can't just neglect to tell him about my mother or father, lack of such knowledge is sure to make him suspicious, it needs to be someone unexpected, yet who knows me well enough in the Ustos household to notice that something will be off?
I try to think very hard about it, yet only one comes to mind, my little sister. Is my relationship with my family truly only limited to my little sister? Such a thought makes me sad, I only live and breathe to aid my household and family, and to think that I have just now realized that all my relationships are all knee-deep, that all my interactions and bounds over my whole life only come down to my younger sister when truly needed, who will likely be taught her pure blood's superiority and will slowly also drift away from me.
I involuntarily sigh and omit my relationship with my little sister. Maybe she will notice something, but I am not that hopeful.
As I finish telling all there is to tell, the man nods and takes a seat on his bed to meditate.
I promise myself, that if… no, when I escape from my foul capturer, I will create a closer bond with each and every member of my family, and perhaps even people outside my household. Because leaving such a sad and lonely life is worse than death, maybe that's why the gods have cursed me with this fate, thay are punishing me for being content with living a sad and lonely life, where my chronicles won't make it past one generation.
Even more determined to escape the rotten grasp of the man, I put my all into meditation.
One day, two weeks after my burst of inspiration, the man bursts into my dorm, in a great hurry, he removes the ropes binding me to the chair and gives me a white robe and soul-bound necklaces, I look at the items in my hand, I knew this would happen, yesternight, he told me that he would sneak my out of the academy and that I shouldn't make a fuss or act in a "Stupid way", or he would "Chop off those disgusting fingers, and shuwe them down your equally disgusting mouth.". I knew what sneaking me out meant, the defenses of the academy are great there is only one way to sneak me out of here, which means that he would have to take another innocent noble's possessions to pull off such a thing.
looking at the items in my hands, makes a shiver go through me, knowing that another person is going through the same fate as me possibly something even worse.
I put on the robes and necklaces, yet he doesn't stop there, he puts a gag in my mouth and then places a mask on my face. After so he gives me some bags filled with unknown items.
Apparently content, he opens the door of the dorm and makes me walk in front, I reluctantly limp forward, my muscles not fully accustomed to walking. When I finally leave the dorm and venture outside, I realise that this is the first time I have left my dorm in what must be eleven or ten months, however, the man doesn't give me long to appreciate my first semblance of the outside for long, and pushes me by.
I limp along, slowly approaching the only entrance and exit to the academy, I do not see many people on the path, and those that I see seem to not be interested in why a limping masked man is leading the "bastard of the Ustos family.".
Eventually, we make it to the exit. There is no one in line. Usually, there are three to four people constantly in line at the exit, yet now there is no one. It seems that the man chose a time when no one would be around, explaining why I saw barely anyone while coming here.
Well, that doesn't matter anymore. The man tells me to walk up to the doorman.