52 Counterattack (1/2)

”Hey! You could still talk, huh!”

Slightly apprehensive, Kisig waved his hand to stop his friends from moving close to the boy. He already pocketed the gem they stole but this boy was gathering too much 'mist' that they might have to run fast before he released it, affecting even them, or he absorbed it which would make this boy strong but wild, unable to control his actions.

The previously described tough men stared wide-eyed as the boy still continued to gather the 'mists' around him. Slowly, they stepped back to the alley, ready to dash past it and into the busy market.

”Hey! What are you doing? You could die if you keep gathering all the 'mists'!”

”Sh-should we leave now?”

Meanwhile, the wounds on the boy's body had already healed. He knew that what he was doing was dangerous but he could not possibly defeat all four men in front of him if he had no enough energy.

Besides, his hunger triggered his own emotions, enough to exude his own strong 'mist'. Moreover, he had not eaten for days and the energy he had now was from the remaining gems he had taken with him for this travel.

When he arrived with his companion in this island, they just escaped from a vicious storm that almost wrecked the ship they were sailing with. After the storm, the crew of the ship threw them both into the water, thinking that their bad luck was due to his companion.

Another bad news was that the storm led the ship off their planned course, making them stay in the water longer. They still followed the ship, albeit at a farther distance since the crew kept pelting them with rocks and arrows, saying that their ship would encounter another misfortune if they kept following them.

If only his friend could fly them but its wing was wounded when they encountered a flock of carnivorous birds when they were still travelling on land. When they thought that they could finally rest once they arrived on Kanan Island, they noticed that most of their stuff were replaced by rocks and garbage except for the small pouch hanging on the boy's neck. They realized that the crew actually stole from them and probably planned to throw them off even if they did not encounter a storm. Thinking back on it, the boy should never have trusted a cheap pay for travelling on their ship, except it was the only one who agreed to let his companion onboard.

Currently, the boy's companion was slowly healing on an abandoned hut near the sea. These young ones found it after exploring a little. Since it was near the sea, they thought that it would be easy to get food by fishing because they didn't see any abundant forest in the area for hunting.

That day, before setting off to find other ways to travel or find food in the market, they decided to go fishing for their food. Unfortunately again, most of the fishes were carnivorous and catching one as they dived in the water led to an attack of many. After running away, they now thought of buying food with their remaining gems.