Jack(Pov)
I had been trying to catch fish for hours and was so close to catching one but that guy had to come and disturb me.
I wanted to fight him but sadly if we fought I would be the one getting my ass kicked, Dustin started to tease me when he saw I couldn't do anything against him.
He was a strange guy in my eyes, at first when I saw him doing his so-called training I was convinced he was a lunatic.
I still do think he is a lunatic but now I at least know he wants to join the academy, I have started to understand him better after all the time we have spent.
One minute he acts like someone who hates the world other times he acts completely different.
I mean a guy who one second cares deeply about you and the other second cuts all connections with you is not normal by every standard of the world.
In fact, at first, I had even thought he was mentally ill.
It's normal for someone who is despised by everyone all his life to become like this.
I didn't understand things like this when we were younger but now I look at the past we including the villagers are the bad guys. This is the reason I started to care for him aside from him being a funny guy.
Our friendship slowly became stronger, I could not notice these small things but now I can figure out his mood just by looking at his back.
In fact, I could be considered the closest person to him in the village right now aside from the village chief.
Of course, I don't think our friendship would last forever even if he didn't think of going to the academy. He is the guy who cut his relationship with Leila over a small matter.
When I heard what happened between these 2 from Adrian I felt pity for Leila.
But to be honest I was not surprised.
The only way to have a long-lasting relationship with him is to not try to break the walls in his heart but instead have a business relationship with him.
This was the reason I had given him a sword from my father's collection, I wanted him to know I was useful to him.
Even if he becomes a legendary figure in the future my image would remain clear in his mind.
Me giving him a sword worked as he came to me to ask for help.
Of course, it would have been easier if he didn't just draw stuff on the ground and actually give it to me on paper.
He ran away after leaving me with everything.
Seriously saying I would dance in joy when I am happy with just being able to talk to you like this.
But if he is saying this then I can at least expect a little, a guy with a superpower is different from us village folks.
If It was someone else other than him then I would be drowned in jealousy but when I saw him training while vomiting made me lose all desire to have a superpower.
I am happy being a village nobody.
I don't know what kind of superpower he had but I think it's related to superstrength considering his abnormal constitution.
I started to draw the structure he had given me on paper which I brought from my home.
I reached my house after some walking, I walked near the furnace and started to look and examine the tools I would need to make it.
Suddenly my father came in and looked at the paper which was kept on the floor.
He looked at the paper with his narrow eyes.
"Why do you need this?"
I ignored his words and didn't pay him any heed.
We had fought when I told him I gave his sword to Dustin, at first I didn't want to tell him but when Dustin asked what would happen if the sword was found on him I changed my mind.
I didn't want him to be thought of as a thief because of me.
My father was calm when I told him I had given his sword to Dustin but afterwards, he told me to not have any kind of relationship with Dustin.
He didn't mind me giving his sword but my friendship with Dustin irked him.
"Did that kid give you this? I don't hate your relationship with him but I am worried about you. This design might look simple but I can tell it's just a part of a bigger machinery. Do you understand what I am saying?"
"What do you mean?"
"SIGH-I mean there is no way a kid came with it. If someone tells me someone in this village came up with this I would spit on their face, so where did it come from? Even though he says he doesn't know his origin is it really true? I don't want you to get in trouble because of him"
"I think you are wrong about that! Dustin is a genius. It's not hard for a genius to come up with new things"
My father scratched his head and looked at me with a troubled face, only in situation it reminds me how similar we are in our habits.
"Stop doing anything! I would do it instead of you."
He started to pick up tools to make this thing, I became happy as my father would make it of an excellent quality.
I could imagine Dustin being shocked by my skills.
I didn't make it but there was no one to tell him that, sometimes lies are better than truth at least that's what Dustin taught in one of his philosophical talks.
There is nothing wrong with applying your teacher's teaching.
The old man had completed the structure in a very short time, if I had been the one making it I would have taken thrice the time.