[The Unlucky Game Master]

Arc 3.2

He needs to have a talk with Maggie.

Opening the door, he hears Maggie in the back searching for something in a pile of magic tools and walks towards her quietly.

"Maggie." He whispers as he softly nudges her shoulder.

He watches as Maggie shrieks then jumps up and pats her heart when she sees it's him.

"Dammit Ala, are trying to scare me to death?" She says with laughter in her voice.

He starts telling her of his reasons not to go to class.As he can just use the library of the school and learn from Maggie, but he's afraid of causing trouble for her.

"That would actually be better." She muses for a bit, before muttering under her breath vaguely, without changing her expression.

Although the wizard council is wary of Maggie especially when she took in a half Vernook, but their unwilling to pay the great price needed to deal with her if not necessary.Maggie already has a bad record of keeping Vernooks as companions with the council, as a wizard it is seen as an absolute disgrace.

Alastair watches as Maggie continues rummaging around the tall and disordered pile of magic tools before throwing him a gold ring with strange inscriptions engraved on it.

He looks at her curiously.

"You're having trouble controlling your powers aren't you?"

He's momentarily at a loss for words when he sees her teasing expression.

"Oh Ala, you didn't think you could keep it from me did you?"

Nodding, he thanks her and puts on the ring.He can feel that he can use this ring as a medium to better understand and control his powers, but not for suppression.

He eats dinner with Maggie absentmindedly playing with his food and talking, he can't taste the food with his mind preoccupied about the unfamiliar memories in his dreams.

He was isolated from the others, not that he cared.Sitting with red hair and gold eyes filled with a mystical type of power and a small cross marring his skin under his left eye with the same striking shade of red as his hair.He watches in boredom mixed with contempt, as he casually looks at the people coming towards him with unconcealed hostility.

"My wife!Why did you kill her!?"

"Demon!"

"Murderer!"

"Why, why won't you just die?"

He didn't even have to move for such pests, with just his gaze it's enough to kill them if he so willed it.He sees a man walk towards him with the same eyes as him and a black cross under his right eye.

"Why did you do it?"

He asks him softly in a pained voice, how strange.What a stupid question.

"Because I felt like it."

He says naturally, why should he care for such pests?

He sees the man look at him in pity and pain, it irks him terribly.He gracefully jumps down the ledge he was sitting on and walks towards the man to kill him like all the others before him.

"You won't be able to kill me."

He hears him say softly to him with certainty in his voice.

"I won't know until I try."

He says lightly while feeling such unknown irritation, he can't be at peace again until he kills him with his own hands, he confirms intuitively while heading towards the man.

Alastair sits in the library and plays with the ring Maggie gave him after dinner, he wants to better understand how to control his powers.

He starts feeling a sudden burst of drowsiness as the ring falls from his hand and his eyes droop.Laying on the floor, he tries but fails to stay awake and sinks further into the memories.

He can't move his tattered body anymore, he watches as the man picks him up and vanishes to reappear in another place to head inside.

Will he torture him?That's the only reason he can think of, he did express his desire to kill the man after all.

He watches as the man starts to treat his wounds carefully with pained eyes.

"Just kill me."

He states monotonously.

The man pauses, before continuing his actions.

"Why?"

He hears the man ask with a lowly constrained voice.Why does his voice and eyes always contain pity and pain?He doesn't understand nor care.

"At the first chance I get, I will kill you."

He states as if telling a known fact.For his peace again, he won't stop until either he or the man is dead.

He doesn't know what made the man laugh all of a sudden, but he's already warned him.