Encounter

  Ella and Jony have been walking for days but still no progress. Jony starts to think if she really knows the way out. He wants to ask her but because of her personality Jony would rather just follow then deal with her yapping. As they are walking she slightly turns her head to look at him. She sees how sweaty and out of breath he is despite only walking for an hour. She sighs, stops and turns around to face him.

"Look, I'm going to be honest…. You are slowing me down significantly. If I was on my own I would have reached my village by now. How a guy like you survived in this forest is beyond me."

"Huff huff. I am sorry I am slowing you down. You can just leave me, I am sure I will find my why out eventually." He sits down to catch his breath. She looks at him with an annoyed expression. She remembers how her teammates abandoned him which annoys her even more.

"Dammit…. Rest for 10 minutes then we will continue." She sits down beside him with her eyes closed. He stares at her and smiles. "Thanks."

2 hours later

"So we are going to your village? Thought we were going out of the forest."

"We are getting out of the forest, I am just heading in this direction because that's where my village is and judging by the way you look I doubt you have anywhere to go so I am taking you with me."

"Oh…hurts but thanks I guess."

"My pleasure."

"You know, you are kinder than I thought, why would your friends betray such a kind perso-" he realises he messed up bringing up that topic so he apologises immediately. "S-sorry about that, I didn't mean to bring it up." He nervously says.

She side-eyes him and sees that he really didn't mean it because of how nervous he is. She looks back in front without saying anything for a minute. Jony also stays quiet until Ella finally breaks the silence. "The reason they betrayed me was to take my.... Haaah, it was to take my virgin blood. An elf's blood has special properties. A virgin's blood can make a human live 3x their life."

"Oh…" He doesn't know what to say.

"They didn't get the chance to get my blood because the goblins ambushed us. Some of my team got killed but many escaped leaving me behind to die. I understand why they did it but when I see them again I will….." A scary look appears on her face which sends chills down Jony's spine. She realises he is scared and calms down.

"Sorry about that."

"It's alright, it seems your power is coming back."

"Yeah, it's slowly coming back. [she looks at him], so, who are you really, I know that memory thing is a lie."

He looks into her eyes and looks back in front. "It's true I lied about my memory. Truth is, I can't use any magic and I am not from around here. Can't tell you the whole truth yet, hope you can understand my position."

She is still sarong at him with curious eyes. She looks back forward with a smile on her face. "You know, you are strange, I can sense kindness from you but I can also sense loneliness. I won't try to dig any deeper until you are ready to tell me."

"Thank you." He holds his chest with a surprised look. "My heart feels warm, is this what i was missing out all those years?" He thinks to himself while looking at Ella with a blank expression. "Hey Ella, i want t-" He steps on a rock which triggers a trap which teleports him away. Ella turns around and notices that he disappeared. She quickly looks around but she can't find him. She goes back to the place he disappeared but she still can't find any clue.

"....... daon't tell me he fell into a hidden dungeon?......... that's not it right? .....DAMMIT!!!! I was just beginning to like him." she says with tears in her eyes. "Why is life so cruel?"

Jony wakes up to find himself in a wet room with lit sticks on walls. He stands up holding his head while also looking around. He walks around touching the wall but he can't figure out what he is doing in this room. "Bad things keep happening to me, is it because I am the devil's son?" He continues looking around, this time with a clear mind. He notices drawings of dragons and knights on the wall. The drawing shows that the knights faced off against the dragon but due to its incredible power, all they could do was seal it.

"Huh, don't tell me this is the place they sealed it." The whole room starts shaking causing him to fall down. "Oh hell nah, what kind of bs is this?" He sees the door on the other side of the room slowly opening, letting in a very stinky air that makes Jony cover his nose in pain. "Ugh, what the hell is that stench?" He gets up and slowly walks to the door. After arriving he peeks out and notices that it leads into another larger room with many treasures and at the furthest back is the dragon chained to a magic pillar.

"....That thing looks like it will blow at me and I will be sent flying. I am supposed to beat that thing? Or what exactly is going on here."

"Human….. No need to fear, I won't hurt you even if I wanted to." The dragon says in a deep menacing voice.

"It speaks?.......... Why should I believe you?"

The dragon stares at him and closes its eyes. "I see, you are not of this world, you don't have a single drop of power in you?"

Jony looks confused, "can he not sense the god power inside me?...that's for the better." He looks back at the dragon and slowly walks inside. "So what exactly did you do to get sealed here?" He walked in but he is still close at the entrance just in case things go south.

"Hmmm, humans are such greedy creatures. You asked why I was sealed, because I whipped a whole country." Jony slowly walks back after hearing that. "You are probably thinking that I deserve to be sealed and you are not wrong to think that but I can also say that the humans deserve to be killed. Humans killed my tribe and my family, I am the only survivor I am aware of. So yes, I killed them but they did the same to my people."

"I see." He begins to walk towards the dragon, his heart has reverted to its numbness, at this very moment Jony is not feeling anything at all.