Tale Of The Half-Blood Wizard

"Falak will not prey anyone who still awake when the light is still high up there. That's the key," Antonie continued. "I have been living here for almost a year and he has known that I will be awake during those hours. That is why he only glances at my cage and then leaves," this statement at least answered my curiosity, about his knowing the schedules of that monster's coming.

Still wondering what made me stay in this prison, I could not speak anything. I was sure that I did nothing that could harm the black witches group or anything so that I deserved to be treated like this.

Antonie asked me to sleep again because the light had not shown up yet. The hissing sound from the bottom floor disturbed me a bit, especially the thoughts that I could die any time any minute prevented me from resting my eyes.

I was drowned in my own wary thoughts. Some questions popping up needed answers. 'Is it all about two witches who have died? Or about that fire lily?'. Everything was so confusing.

I really wished that Mickey or Kerberos would come to pick me up, but then Mika's words reminded me that they might help me because each had his own purpose and it was so coincidence that by working together with me, it would make them reach their target faster and easier.

"Do you like it staying here?" Someone's voice starlet me. I looked around and I saw nobody. But when I tilted my head up I saw the woman I saw when I came here the first time. She was standing on my cage, looking down at me who was behind the iron bars, her eyes were horrifying. "This is the last offer from me. If you want to join with us, I will free you. But if you refuse, I am sure you have known the coming story for you," she spoke so arrogantly.

"I swear, I cannot do any magic or do anything extraordinary," I was determined to convince her again. "I am just an ordinary person who by chance got involved and trapped in confusing and complicated and uncommon problems," I did anything to try to convince her to see my luck.

"How can you say you have no power at all when you killed two great witches from our group?!" She stared at me. "Would you say it was coincidence?"

I refused to reply her. I was mute instead. I did kill one of them with my pistol. But surely the stone birds helped me. And with the second witch, I did not know how I killed her, the Manjis did it I guessed.

"it seems this is all a misunderstanding. I did not kill the second witch. It was so coincident, I was around when she died." I hoped she would understand my explanation. "For the first I did kill her, but she was already weak and dying." But then, I felt like I dig my own grave, I admitted my mistake to Azalea.

That woman laughed loudly for her satisfactory to hear my confession. "Do you think I lock you up here because you are a criminal like the others?" she was so haughty

I nodded and I told her I kept thinking my wrong doing which caused me to be brought here. But, after she told me that the two witches were from her group, I directly understood.

"I did not take you here for that," this reply really confused me. If it was not for the death of her group members, why did she lock me here?. But then she continued her statements, and I was still. "I just want you to be in a place where no one can come and go without my knowing. I really want to learn something special that you have that made you win over them. Apart from the fact that you also hide that doll that has been locked with immortal spells, I want to know you more and perhaps build up a cooperation to make use the power in you that you have not been aware yet." Her gaze was full of interest but it did not affect me at all. "Come and join with me and I will free you from this place."

What else I was supposed to say that it was not me who defeated those two witches. I told her many times but she did not seem to believe me. "I am sorry but this is truly a misunderstanding. I did not kill them. It was just by accident."

She stared at me and intimidated me with her words. "A witch of almost 200 years old knowing all knowledge about us and human, and you said their death was coincidence? Are you mocking us?!"

I did not say anything, but my eyes grew more alerted. My eyes flickered to where Antonie was. He signaled me to move back. Azalea was angry.

It just took a few minutes when I saw strange things happened to the iron bars of my cage, a thin layer of ice wrapped it and the weather around me dropped drastically. I was starlet and held my breath . danger alarm was ringing loudly. I kept on guard against any possibilities while moving back to the edge.

"Don't you think that you need to be extra patient? Remember, she grew up in the human world who knew nothing about magic. So, it is very common if she does things very weird. Her comprehension is different from ours." Antonie tried to calm her down.

And he managed to do it, Azalea looked calmer. I could feel the weather around me gradually shifted to normal. "Join with me, I will make sure they will not chase you for that doll!" it was he the same offer, but I was as stubborn, too.

"I cannot do anything, I will be a trouble for you. I am just an ordinary person. Look at me closely. Don't you think it will be a disadvantage for you?" At this point just took after my mother. We were both undeniably pig headed.

"I Just follow her," Antonie lowered his voice. I glanced at him, did not want to reply back.

"I give you three days to think over my offer." She was still so insistent with her will. I could see she did not want to let me go. "I will be back here, taking you or giving you up to Falak," she warned me before she vanished like smoke.

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That was a lie if I was not nervous when Azalea came. My legs were shaking and when she left, I was sliding down helplessly. "Why? What was it wrong with me so that she wanted so that she wanted to take me with her?" I was very frustrated.

Even Antonie got confused to what had happened with me. He walked back and forth in his cage. "I am still confused," He looked at me seriously. "You are human, aren't you? Do you have magic or any other extraordinary power? How could you kill them?"Antonie pun,

Such questions did not help me at all. "I told you I did not have any power," my voice sounded frustrated. What kind of language I could use so that they understood me that I did not have any strange power or things like that. I was just a student of Mathematics who focused on dynamic, never did something odd such as changing the temperature without using the air-conditioner, and such kinds. "I am not a wizard, let alone having super power to defeat other people without using a gun. Trust me,"

"Tha, I wonder if you are aware that this prison has the best security system?" I shook my head in replying that. "No one can control Falak, but Azalea can. The bottom of this room is the hell where that snake lives. He is very greedy and Azalea uses it to control it. We are his prey. Azalea told him that he can eat anyone in the cage." This shocked me. How possible a woman was so mean like her.

"The snake comes up when the light comes up too so that he can see which cages have tenants. And when the light goes down, he goes down again. I know this very well, Tha." Having lived in this prison for a year, no wonder Antonie knew about all had happened here. "Azalea is one of the smartest among the witches of south. If she wants something, I believe you have something that really attracts her," his eyes looked serious. this was really a burden for me.

The thing that burdening me was I simply wanted a normal life. I hated my father. And not even a glimpse I wanted to be like him, leaving his family and sacrificing anything just for the sake of the acknowledgement from his group.

Besides, I did not have any single thing that was special.. I was worried if I would just disappoint her.