Sometime before in the Ban and Dit camp.

The principal of the burned orphanage found himself near the mines. He saw people who he had sold here, on the orders of the previous Duke but he also got a hefty price for it. He scoffed at them before going near them. He saw them working away, some mining and some transporting some material he knew nothing about. He was curious before he laid his eyes upon someone he knew. Jack. Jack was there.

He went near him and spoke, “Jack? Is that you?”

Jack stopped mining and looked at the principal before ignoring him and going back to work.

“You are ignoring me? After all, I’ve done for you and...”

He looked around and saw many similar faces, he continued, “all of you people?” while making a face so distraught that you’d think someone stole his life savings.

Jack looked up again and went near the principal with a pick axe in his hand.

“You sold us to slavery. How disillusioned must you be to think that you’ve done anything for us?” said Jack in an odd calm manner trying his best to keep his anger in check.

“You guys grew up so healthy-”

“If we didn’t have these collars on our neck, you’d be dead by now.”

The principal smirked and looked at his collar and smirked before laughing uncontrollably.

“Yes.”

He laughed even more before clapping and walking around the place.

“Yes! Know your place.”, said the principal pointing his fingers to Jack.

Before it could escalate any further, Slav came inside the cave and asked, “What’s going on?”.

The principal scoffed again and replied, “Another slave...”

“You’re not allowed in here.”, said Slav without missing a beat.

“I’m not allowed here? Me? How dare a slav-”

Slav grabbed his hand and threw him to the ground before he could finish his sentence.

The principal stared into the ground for a few moments before getting up, he tried to dust off the dirt on his clothes but he got riled up and started screaming at Slav.

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“You... You can’t do this!”

“Ban and Dit are my masters. Not you.”, said Slav in a calm voice.

The principal looked at all of them in anger but he knew that he couldn’t do anything, so he started to walk away.

“It’s John.”

“What?”, said the principal after turning back.

“It’s not Jack. It’s John.”. replied John.

The principal didn’t reply and scoffed while walking away.

Slav shrugged and sat on one of the boxes near her.

“So, what are you guys doing?”, she asked.

John looked at her and sighed before speaking, “We’re mining.”

He went back to his position to start mining again and continued, “That’s what we always do.”

“Hmm.”, replied Slav before jumping down from the box.

“I’m sure Ban and Dit would give you better roles if you could actually fight. Like me. I’m sure you guys can do it.”, she continued while smiling.

John and the others didn’t reply but kept working.

“Oh. Where’s Median?”, said Slav.

John shrugged.

“He was supposed to supervise over you guys! I’ll go check.”, said Slav before running outside.

John looked at her going outside with pitiful eyes, before going back to mining.

Slav ran as fast as she could, she took pride in being the fastest in her supposed family. She soon found Median, just hanging around, sitting on a rock, and eating an apple.

“What are you doing?”, asked Slav.

Median bit into the apple and looked over towards Slav before speaking, “Eating an apple.”

“You’re supposed to look over the people mining.”

Median stopped looking at Slav and looked over at the distance while continuing to eat his apple.

“It’ll be fine.”, he replied while having no care in the world.

“Fine? You’re not doing your- Wait, where’s-”

“Ogre?”

Slav nodded.

“He was called over by Ban a while ago. Something to do with other ogres or something.”

“You’re correct.”, said Ban who appeared out of nowhere. She shocked Slav and started laughing.

Median got up from his rock and tossed his apple aside.

Dit joined them soon after with Ogre behind them, with ten additional ogres.

“Wow, Ogre! Looks like you had ten children.”, said Median mockingly.

“Ogre!”, replied Ogre.

“They do look way smaller than ogre...”, said Slav while putting a finger on her lips, confused.

Dit sighed and spoke, “We have a plan. Follow us.”

They all stopped talking and asking further questions and followed Ban and Dit who led them towards a cliff.

“So, they’re all there somewhere?”, asked Ban.

“Yes. Doug seems them all.”, replied Dit.

“Good.”, said Ban while laughing mildly.

“You know what to do Ogre.”, she continued.

“Ogre!”

As soon as the ogres heard the scream, they ran down at full force towards the forest. A battle was about to commence.