Chapter 4: 4 – A Major Disagreement

- Months ago -

 

"Treyll, take it down!"

"Got it!"

The archer blasted an enormous magic arrow that looked like a lighting, hitting the twenty feet tall beast on the head as it attempted to get up from the rubbles of a ruined building.

The damage was great but not enough to kill it, instead blinding it and making it lose its balance again. Wasting no time, I dashed beneath it and slashed its neck.

Black blood splashed in my face as the lance went through and the creature roared in pain. I knew that wouldn't be enough to kill it, so I conjured huge ice spikes through the tip of the lance, which pierced the monster from inside out until it looked like it had swallowed a giant hedgehog made of ice.

Bam! I jumped away from its trajectory as the beast collapsed to the ground. Defeated, the creature returned to its original form, at least what was left of it: a muscular man that looked like a barbarian from the wildlands, a pawn from a rival student.

"Good job!" Treyll said while we traded a high five, and continued: "If we could sum our credits I think we would have enough to buy freedom for one of us. If most enemies are like the ones we've been facing up until now, I think we can amass enough credits in a year or so."

I sighed, as this was a subject that I wanted to avoid for now. But I think it's about time I tell him:

"Treyll, listen. I think we shouldn't try to buy our freedom at all."

He looked at me like someone who had just heard something crazy.

"You're joking, right?"

"No. Think about it, even if we buy our freedom, you think they will just let two alien boys roam around their world, a world where most people don't know that magic even exists?! Do you also think that they would really send us back to our world and, by doing so, lose all the the potential resources we could still bring them?! We can't trust their contract because we are seen by them as mere property, so we must keep fighting in the Proxy Wars, at least that way we can predict what will happen with more accuracy and maybe even gain influence from within."

Appaled, Treyll looked down in what appeared to be a mix of frustration and anger. It seems that, as I feared, my arguments fell on deaf ears:

"Have you lost your mind?! Are you really going to submit to our captors and die for them in their pointless war?! And what about finding our friends, how do you intend to do that if you are nothing more than a dog of some stupid bitch?!"

"Calm down, man. Suppose we are free. How would that increase our chances of finding the others, who are most likely being used as pawns just like us? On the other hand, if we are fighting in the Proxy Wars, we are bound to bump into them sooner or later."

"Yeah, but what if they get killed before that? Why aren't they attending our school? Who knows what kind of shit they might be going through right now! Also, this guy we just faced, he too was a hero or a villain somewhere else. About every enemy we will face will most likely be formidable, and not all of us are frontline warriors like you! Adna, for example, she's a support mage, which means her survival will depend on whether or not she's in a good party! The only party she was ever in was ours!"

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"I know that! I'm not saying we must conform to being slaves at all, I hate it as much as you, but we must at least consider more carefully what we--"

"Shut up already!" He interrupted me. "I can't believe you even thought about that!"

At this point, I realized that it would be pointless to try to convince Treyll of not dwelling on his freedom. He is far too proud and thick headed for that.

As we argued, Sanae and Treyll's master, a third year named Usui, came out from the ruined shopping mall were they were hidden for the duration of the fight.

"Well done, Zeph." The black haired girl congratulated me. "You too, Treyll." Likewise, Usui said to my friend.

"Oh, shut up! Don't ever think that I'm doing this for you!" The archer answered aggressively to his master; I, of course, shared his sentiment towards my own too, but decided not to say anything as my friend walked away with heavy steps.

"What got into him?" Usui asked.

 

 

This was the first major disagreement I had with Treyll.

 

A few days later, during class break, he gave me an ultimatum, saying that either I would buy my freedom with him or I would be considered a traitor. I understood his hatred of the masters and this whole proxy war thing, but he appeared way too angry, like if something more was wrong with him.

He didn't gave me any chance to find out, because after I told him that I would not follow his plan, he simply stoped talking to me unless when he was treating me like a rival.

It has been like that since then.

 

 

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