Morland - Blood and Sweat [Ongoing✓]

Chapter 7 : Awake, Why The Hell Can't I Control Magic?

- ORIS PRISON -

"Luca? Is that you?" Darrel exclaimed. "Oh am I glad to see you."

Darrel clutched Luca's hand in a brotherly embrace, even though they had barely met a couple of days ago Darrel felt a connection with Luca and was pleased to see a more familiar face. After the sudden greeting, Darrel pulled the note from his ragged pockets and when Luca saw it he quickly pushed it back into Darrel's pocket.

"Hold on," Luca whispered. "There is a time and place for everything."

"Okay, alright."

"Remind me about it tomorrow."

- ORIS PRISON CELL -

The cell was quiet throughout the night, but Darrel was still unable to get a good night's sleep. Whether this was a fault of his anxiety after Luca promised to explain more about the note the next day or the fact that he was trying to sleep in a room while surrounded by criminals.

'A magic user without any spells.' Darrel recalled how he had been stomped earlier. 'The sacred knights huh?'

Darrel chuckled at the thought, to think that he had managed to survive this long out of mere bluff, nothing he had done was real, he had brandished his false intent and events had occurred out of mere coincidence. His lips curled in the low light, only someone with excellent night vision could see his weird grin, and this made his grin even wider.

'It's about time.'

Luca seemed like the only decent person around, however, at times his mood would suddenly change as though someone had flipped a switch in his head and a whole new personality would take complete control of his body.

'Could he have a split personality disorder?' Darrel thought.

Even if this was the case Darrel was starting to get used to Luca's behavior, his mind then recalled a statement that one of the guards had said, about how strange each prisoner was in Oris.

'Well, I was from another freaking world after all.' Darrel smirked at the mutual thought. 'Nothing could be stranger than that...'

That morning Luca woke up early and walked toward the cell door in a drowsy state. He stood there and stared outside through the spaces in the cell door. Darrel jumped down from the bunk bed and walked towards him.

Unlike his previous cell, here Darrel had more room to stretch his legs and swing his arms leisurely.

"What are you looking at?"

"Oh, nothing..."

Darrel could see that Luca was focused on something that lingered outside the cell door, but he appeared uninterested in talking about it.

"So about my magic?" Darrel queried suddenly while leaning his back on the cell door and looking back into his new home.

"What you need to learn first is how to draw out your mana." He explained without turning away from the cell door.

Darrel remained silent for a moment pondering on how he would make go about the task, it was easier back in his former world when all you needed to do was press a button.

"And... how do I do that?"

"Huh? Didn't you summon an exuberant amount of mana during your tussle with the knights?" Luca queried.

Like everyone in Oris, Luca knew about what Darrel had done during his tussle with the knights. However, unlike the rest of them, he had witnessed the strange phenomenon that had occurred.

Darrel wondered why Luca had suddenly brought it up again.

"As I said earlier, it was unintentional," Darrel whispered into Luca's ear.