Leuko : Blind to the Sunshine

Chapter 52: Invitation

Chapter 52: Invitation

I barely had to walk to find Allister. Not that he made himself hard to get back to, as the moment he made it out of the possible field of view of Bea, he pressed his back against the wall and sat while hugging his knee.

His gaze looked lost, and so were his hands that fidgeted together with no real purpose.

I watched him silently before sitting next to him.

He didn't look like he wanted to talk, nor even look at me presently. Still, I picked up the Mimikyu plushie beside him and put it directly on his lap.

Allister didn't look toward it, in fact, he barely moved so I wasn't even sure if he felt it.

But I was proven wrong as Allister still reached for it with an absent look and put it closer to his chest.

He didn't say much after that, so I just waited for him as I looked around. There wasn't really anything interesting, but I grew used to just looking at the hallways for the majority of my day when I was still in the Sanctuary, but at least this one is prettier looking.

I continued to look that way until Allister finally opened his mouth.

"I...I should probably go apologize to her." Allister finally said in a rough voice.

"Why should you go apologize? Did you do something wrong?"

Allister weakly nodded. "Yes...Bea only tried to help me become stronger, she didn't mean anything wrong...yet I still slapped her hand and said something rude to her."

I briefly nodded. This was indeed a valid reason for apologizing. "So it was because you were rude to her...why were you rude then?"

"Eh?" Allister looked at me weirdly, before remembering who he was even addressing to. "I acted rudely...because she kept insisting that I became strong...but I don't want to be strong...I do not want to stand for myself."

"Mmh? But why not? Isn't being strong fun? You get to run away when people are annoyed at you, and they don't dare to pursue."

Allister brow slightly rose at what I said, before pushing a weak scoff. "If Bea were there, she would say that running away when you're strong automatically makes you weak..." He slightly opened his eyes to look at me. "Say Luciel...do you consider yourself as strong?"

I immediately shook my head at such a question. "I'm not strong, I'm dangerous."

"What's the difference?"

"Someone strong gets to choose if he wants to be dangerous or not...I do not get to choose. My progenitor is someone strong, even Volo can be considered as strong, but not I."

"...what about Bea?"

I stopped to consider the questions. I didn't know a lot about her, but from what I saw... "She's foolish, she's kind but she's foolish."

"Why? Because she thinks that protecting the weak is something the strong should do?" Allister leaned more into his knee as his face grew more depressed.

"No, there's nothing foolish in that. The strong have the right to impose their thinking on those weaker. And if someone opposes them, then they simply have to prove they are among the strong...and if they're not, then they are weak."

Alliater looked back at me with widened eyes, even if I ignored the cause of what even made him react this way. "Then...why is she foolish?"

I turned my head to look straight at Allister before uttering my next words. "Because she's weak. She does not have the power or the intelligence to spread her will to others, the proof is that despite protecting you, others kept bullying you. Which means she's weak."