Where's My Grimoire? || Black Clover

5 - It's Called 'Piercing' Light For A Reason

The man bathed in golden light with yellow eyes took slow steps towards him.
" Humble peasant. "
Asta squinted his eyes to better capture the figure of the man and held his hand up to block the brightness.
" Who are you? " Asta asked quietly.
" The stone you carried yesterday. Where is it? "
How did the man know he had the stone? He guessed they were both talking about the same thing. Asta didn't have time to think as the man crafted objects seemingly made of light and pointed them right at the shorter one.

" You can tell me now and die a peaceful death, human, or I could force it out of you by torturing you. "
Pfft, like anything the man could do to him could ever amount to the torture he's endured all his life.
" I don't know where it is. Someone took it away, I guess, " He lied. Asta wasn't going to rat out Yuno just for some stone.
The man's frown curved into an insane smile. " If you truly do not know, then that makes your life meaningless to me. Someone like you, whom I sense hardly any mana from, has no use.
Of course the darkness in the back of his mind crawled forth at that. Before he could move his feet to run away, one of the light objects pointing at him shot at him and nicked his forearm. It burned through the skin like fire. It was only a cut, but the burning feeling didn't cease until he didn't recognize it as a cut anymore from the way his skin decayed.
Finally, he began to run away from the man, the forest becoming thicker as he ran - his sides brushed against vines hanging from trees with thorns, but it didn't hurt at this point, Asta just wanted to leave. His breathing was heavy as his heart was struck with fear and his body dripping sweat.
' He's chasing me. He's chasing me. '
He felt past memories start to rise as another object striked through the loose of his shirt and ripped it open.
" Master Licht, please calm down. It's just a kid, a mere commoner, so please do not get worked up. "
" You're right, Valtos. Though, if one day I were to see him again, I shall kill him. "

Asta turned around and met with the eyes of a strange man beside the one who'd just attacked him.
" Were they both keeping their eyes on me last night? "
His face contorted into a concerned look before they both walked into some type of portal, one he'd never seen before. Magic is so weird.
The coldness of the air bit at him as he calmed down through the minutes after they left. He shivered while thinking for a moment. He hadn't thought that he got himself lost by running so far. The person with spacial magic could go anywhere they wanted as long as they had mana, but if Asta was lost, he was stuck forever until he found a way out.
His mood lightened slightly when he saw more of the berries he usually ate on trees around him. He picked some, put them in his pocket - he was still so hungry, even if he was used to it, but he needed to find a place to stay, or maybe somewhere familiar he's already been.
When his breathing returned to normal, he attempted to climb a tree. He made it to the top, but there wasn't anything he could easily recognize from there.