Eric and Orph ran and found themselves to be in a hall of some sort, they hid behind the many chairs found there.

“What is this place?”, asked Eric.

Orph didn’t reply, he was lost in his own thoughts. He recalled a memory...

It was the first time Orph came to this orphanage, he was put alongside a couple of other children inside the hall. The principal came in, along with the other helpers, and spoke,” Welcome to your training grounds, loyal subjects of the duke!”.

“Orph, you alright?”, spoke Eric trying to get Orph’s attention.

“Yes, I’m fine.”

Before Orph could say anything else, the two knights came in through the hall doors. One of them spoke and said, “So this where you were hiding.”

“I didn’t recall the knight academy teaching us the tricks of cowards.”, said the other.

“Anything’s fine if it means survival!”, screamed Eric as he threw one of the chairs at the knight.

It stunned them enough for both Orph and Eric to make a run for it.

“You sure are not average at screaming your lungs out.”

“What? Am I finally above average at something?”

“That was one of the lowest screams I’ve ever heard.”

As soon as they got out of the halls, the other knight who didn’t get stunned by the chair tackled Orph and said, “I finally got the troublesome one”

“Just run!”, screamed Orph, while looking at Eric with fear in his eyes.

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Eric hesitated for a moment but decided to follow through.

The knight looked at Eric and started to get up from the tackle while saying, “You’re not going awa-”

Orph kicked him with both of his legs before the knight could finish what he was saying.

The knight fell over while Orph got up.

“You’re really not disciplined enough, are you sure you’re a knight?”, said Orph.

The knight groaned and didn’t say anything, he unsheathed his sword. He charged at full force at Orph.

Orph barely had time to unsheathe his sword but he barely managed to do it. They traded blows, and Orph started to get pushed back, he knew he couldn’t beat him.

“Is this the end?”, he thought to himself.

“NO! I will not die in this place... at least not like this.”

Orph threw his sword right at the knight, which the knight dodged but that gave Orph enough time to tackle him, making the knight drop his sword. Orph didn’t give the knight a chance to recover and kept punching him in the face. It didn’t really affect the knight, he pushed Orph off, grabbed him, and threw him out of the window.

Thankfully it was the first-floor window. Orph managed to survive that with some minor injuries. He got up, with no sword. The knight picked up both his and Orph’s swords and jumped down.

“So, this is the training grounds. Where I trained... where you trained as well, I assume?”, said the knight.

“I haven’t come back in years, it doesn’t bring back good memories.”, he continued.

Orph had another memory come back to him...

The principal came to visit the orphans during their training that day.

He saw three people stand out.

He called three of them to him and said, “I still haven’t named you guys. The performance of you three has inspired me to do so right now.”

The principal looked at the first one and said, “I’ll call you Orph...”

He looked at the one beside him and continued, “I’ll call you Anage”

He chuckled to himself, looking proud. He then looked at the third child and spoke, “I'll call you John.”

The knight kicked Orph right in his face, causing him to fall over.

“This is not the time to blank out.”, said the knight.

“Wait, where’s the other knight...”, thought Orph to himself still trying to recover from a kick to the face.

Meanwhile, Eric was busy running from the other knight.

“Get here you little...”, exclaimed the knight before getting a vase thrown at him.

Eric had destroyed most of the furniture of the orphanage by throwing it at the knight while escaping for his life.

“You’re a really good thrower, ever wondered that you may be in the wrong field?”, said the knight while trying his best to control his rage.

“No, I’d just consider myself to be average at it.”, replied Eric.