“Agghhhh, what is this torture!
I was almost back up at full strength a minute ago!” Aki dizzily stumbles to a chair
“Same for me, my magic was coming back then, sapped again
I think the dragon is doing this on purpose Aki”
“uuugjhh!” Aki slaps her forehead and groans loudly
Only two days had passed since their entrapment, and even though it was two alone here things went about like normal, for Aki at least, she barely spoke to young man, and focused solely on small exercising only speaking up to suggest escape plans
“I don’t care, I don’t care, I’ll get down even in this state!” she tries to get back up but crumples instantly
“There has to be a way around this” Shiryu helps her up
“How are you unaffected?” the young woman grumbles
“I’m not unaffected, it does drain my strength and magic but because it’s dark energy used to drain us the mana flowing through my body offsets it a little, if it were just regular human magic I would’ve been just like you.”
“Then transfer me some mana… do something useful”
“I can’t use mana it’s basically my blood,”
“Grow wings or something then and fly us out, aren’t you a dragon?”
“Firstly, I don’t know if I can grow wings, and secondly, I’m not willing to give up my humanity…”
(Am I being selfish?)
“Go away Shiryu”
“What, why?”
“I want to be alone and you are unhelpful.”
“Come on chief, now isn’t the time to start acting exclusive, we should he working together now more than ever”
“I am not your chief and don’t talk to me like we are long time pals either.” Aki barks
“Man I wish I was trapped here with Fuyu instead of you.” Shiryu snaps hack
Aki’s eyes open wide with irritancy
“Go then, jump off the ledge outside you’ll surely find her somewhere,
I should have been trapped here myself instead of having to deal with a disgustingly ugly monster masquerading as a human!”
(Damn)
“…..” Shiryu doesn’t reply to that instead staring sharply into the girl’s eyes, she stares back and the two remain in frowning silence before Shiryu gets up and leaves the room
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(I should, I should….
Aghh
I don’t even know how to react to this,
Why didn’t the education system teach this?
We should’ve definitely had argument theory as a class
I can’t deal with that woman
I don’t think I can spend much more time here with her, all she does is ignore you until she’s ready to talk,
She’s never even seen me as a person, only put up with me because she is stronger,
I am just another weakling to the great chief Aki.)
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In silent annoyance Shiryu stands by the window of a bedroom at the back of the house, the sheets are ruffled with clothes and magic items all over hinting that the room may have once belonged to a teenage child…
But nonetheless Shiryu gazes out the window at the bleak sight though his attention is lost in thought…
Thinking about irrational chief and the little he does know about her his mind flashes back to the words Natsu had said
(They all had to watch their mothers get slaughtered as children,
Maybe it makes sense for her to be this way,
But then again, I don’t think I cared about my parents as a child,
Why would she?)
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Shrugging himself off Shiryu goes back out the door to the main room,
Aki or course is still there laid on the chair in a fume.
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“Aki, did you love your parents?” he asks outright
The woman face turns up as if you’d just cracked in rotten egg in her face
“My father was a weak fool who died, and my mother is also dead.”
“That’s how you feel now, I’m talking about as a child did you love them?”
“Why are you asking these dumbass questions?”
“I want to know, Natsu told me about how you had to watch your mothers get killed as children”
“Natsu needs to learn to speak less often.”
“So did you?”
“I don’t know maybe, I can’t remember.”
“If I loved someone I think I would remember.”
“…..
I don’t see what you’re trying to learn from this, but yes
What kind of child wouldn’t love their mother and father?”
(Me)
“Then, is that why you are like this now?”
“Like what? Strong?
Grandfather did what he had to do so that we wouldn’t grow up soft,
Stop trying to analyse me and focus on using your mind to think of ways of escaping.”
“I will when you tell me why are you like this.”
“You have no business knowing about my life.”
“That is very true but as it stands right now I am the only one capable to get us out of here.”
“Is that supposed to be a threat?” scoffs Aki
“No it is a bargain,
You talk to me, and I try my best to get us down from here.”
“Fair enough.” Aki nods though her eyes glisten slightly impressed by the brazenness
“What do you want know?”
“Why are you obsessed with strength?”
“Because as the chief I need to be strong, the strongest actually.”
“For what?”
“For safety, for security, Bakufu wasn’t always an independent nation we forcefully detached from our motherland and now we spend the rest of lives fighting so that do not try to reclaim us.”
“Your motherland?”
“Have you not heard of the Wu-Tang dynasty?”