Selfish Reasons

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"Ioros, am I right?"

The said man nodded slowly, dreading to expect what happened next. "I'm afraid that you misunderstood our words. We broke that wall so we'll easily get out of here. We're trying to get the elderlies to tell us the procedures on resealing a beast."

Shizuka took a small step ahead. "That beast we're talking about is no joke. Please, it's not some sort of lie we made up just to get to your village. We have nothing to gain from attacking you-- we're students, for Gaia's sake!"

The female's words surprised them most. Possibly thinking of the same thing, 'High school students?!'

"We're not asking you to fight. We're not asking you to risk yourselves out there. WE'RE the ones fighting," Shizuka snapped and placed her hands on her hips. She eyed each one of them with slight anger burning inside of her.