The Search for Freedom

Alicia was laughing when she appeared beside me. She was laughing because of what she saw. Maybe she was laughing because I had gotten some wounds from the enemies. Maybe she was laughing because even though I got some wounds, I was still breathing. Definitely, she was laughing because the two people who were destined to fight me were already dead.

As usual, she would offer their spirits to her master. After that, the bodies of the two suddenly disappeared from the spot where they were lying. Then Alicia invited me to go to a bar and stop killing people for a while, just to relax and drink some wine. Of course, I didn't go with her, because she would only waste time and cause some trouble there instead of doing the job that she needed to finish.This text is property of Nô/velD/rama.Org.

Alicia took me to the other location, where the fourteenth person. She brought me to a very far place. I know that it was far because it took us seconds to reach the place, though we were teleporting.

It seems that the fourteenth person's power was related to nature, because Alicia brought me to the place where there were countable houses. There were some houses, but they all stand apart from each other. The sky was a little bit cloudy, and the wind whispered coldly. There were many trees, plants, animals, and many other things that surround us. There were many high mountains also. Everywhere I'd looked, there were many groves and copses. It was a breathtaking view, and the air was unpolluted.

"Wow, it is such a nice place!" I exclaimed.

"Hey, can you stop thinking that I brought you here just to relax? I already asked you to go to the bar, but you don't want to go with me. So I will let you fight the person that was destined to fight you, while I will be going to the bar. Enjoy," Alice said.

What the hell has happened to Alicia? Was she really going to the bar even though her work was not finished yet? I didn't know why she would go there, though she could not even drink any liquor. I know that she would only cause some trouble, because she could not avoid making trouble, as she was born because of troubles.

"You have freedom to do whatever you want, but don't forget to tell me something about the fourteenth person before leaving. One more thing: do not drink liquor, and come back here at the right time, or else you cannot offer the spirit of the next person to your master."

"Don't worry about that, Kaila. Actually, I am just joking that I will go to the bar, but the truth is that I will not. I will only search for the sixteenth person that was destined to fight you, because you seemed to want to eat me if I did not help you in searching for your enemies."

"Can you please stop telling me that I will eat you, because if I could, I would have done that already. You better tell me something about the fourteenth person first," I replied.

"The fourteenth person is a man who has the power of rocks. Those rocks there can do whatever he wants them to do. Did you see that house there? That is the house of the man." Alica pointed her index finger at the house that was surrounded by the precipice and cliff.

It seemed like a difficult fight was waiting for me and the man that was living there. If his power source were rocks, I'm going to call him the rocks man. Alicia suddenly disappeared from the spot where she was standing. Well, she didn't need to ask my permission before leaving because her speech was so monotonous.

I went near the house where the rocks man lives to see if he was there. There were too many steep rocks around, and they seemed to pierce me with their pointed edges. When I reached the small house, there were no other sounds that I heard, except the sweet chirps of birds that perched above the tall trees.

Perhaps the rocks man was sleeping, because everything around him seemed to be singing a lullaby, cold wind chilled me to the bone and seemed to be making me fall asleep.

I slowly opened the door of the shack, it cried out as if it wanted to wake someone from a deep slumber. Therefore, if it didn't want to quiet down, then I totally slammed it. I seemed to wake up the sleeping house, because it was shaking when I opened the door. When I entered there, I was surprised, because I saw nothing. Then, I was surprised again when I turned to go out. It was the man who was looking directly at me.

That man was already old, but I didn't like his attitude because he scolded me when he saw that I seemed to be destroying his house. Well, I could not judge him if he became angry because he has a reason to be. What was more embarrassing was to be angry without any reason. Maybe it was also because of anger that the rocks man showed his power to me. I was surprised to see the steep rocks were floating in the air.

At that time, I was bewildered and did not know what to do. I was afraid that the rocks man could hit me with those steep rocks because they looked so painful if they could hit me. So I did my best to run quickly and avoid his attacks that went faster than how I could imagine.

My heart beat wildly, and I could even hear it while running. I used my power to move swiftly, but there were too many rocks that were blocking my way, and those rocks made me stumble. I nearly died because the rocks man was just behind me, and there were too many rocks that surrounded him, making him invincible. I was just lucky because I had a magical comb.

I used the comb to kill the rocks man by piercing the right side of his chest. I thought that he was already dead, because he did not move. He seemed to be stuck looking right at me while the prolific blood from his chest streamed down. Expectations hurt and I was surprised when he used all the steep rocks around him. He hit me, and I was totally out of senses.