87 A Journey II (2/2)

Right before both Ellis and Alexander's eyes, Father and Mother had been struck.

To make matters worse, a loud ringing sound echoed.

The fire arrows bursted into explosions and their bodies soon caught on fire.

Alexander didn't have the heart to look back and continued to ran.

Dean himself could guess the rest of the story

Once escaping the hell that was caused by a person they trusted, they searched for a food source and shortly lived in the wild.

The continent was then severed into two by that mysterious beast with audacity.

Because the academy was very close, they may have attempted to enter the school in order to learn but because they didn't have the ability to pay the tuition fees, they shortly left.

They may have done some odd jobs but finally returned to the school as teachers.

Alexander soon left in a drunken manner, stumbling towards where his igloo was but Dean saw the despair in those eyes.

Dean shortly returned to his own tent but couldn't help feeling an odd emotion.

Jealousy

This teacher has basically lost everything but still has the will to live without any problems while having at least another person to rely on.

Compared to him that lacks a pillar to rely on and can only live for revenge.

During the story, Dean was able to puzzle the reason why Alexander tried to not mention himself.

He was ashamed for being weak!

Physically weakness which was why he most likely never mentioned helping his dad with anything but talked more about his mum.

There was probably a lot of discrimination for that.

At one point, Ellis mentioned about Alexander not being able to use Wind Magic.

Dean guessed the ability to manipulate Wind was the outcome of Alexander working hard to perfect some sort of Spell he could use.

It was something to take pride of but the realization that you are only a failure in that branch of magic makes the pride nullified.

In a way, he was living in Ellis' shadow.

But Ellis had his own problems.

He had finally opened up to the people that would take him as family however soon after that, disaster would follow and as a child, he would suspect it to originate from himself.

It was thought that could permanently scar a child if taken wrongly and not adjusted quickly.

Now, it seems that Ellis is a lot more as he can talk but given the opportunity to say nothing, he'll keep his silence.

But this was only half of Dean's 2 year trip.