chapter6: power

It had been a while since we came to this tower as slaves, after doing the same thing for a few weeks we had already got used to the heavy work we did most of the day. Those who had come with us were the same, but more than one of them still did not accept the fact of being trapped in this place and were looking somehow for a solution.

Everything was fine so far, if it could be said that way. But as always and from the beginning there was a small problem, and that was the food. Although I call that food, whatever we eat, it cannot be compared to real food, rather, it was something to fill the stomach to have some energy and continue working like the slaves that we are.

The rations they gave us were only bread and water, and if the guards were in a good mood they gave us the leftovers of their meals.

At first, in the first days they did that, they gave us their leftovers to eat but as the days went by the supposed good treatment in quotes ended and overnight and they only gave us bread and water for the day.

Only people who worked more during the day were entitled to more food, that is, their leftovers.

It is for this reason, due to the lack of food or medicine, that the people who had been in this place the longest were all malnourished and sick. Some people already had their skin glued to their bones and their appearance was more like zombies than humans and they looked so bad that it seemed that just the slight breeze of the wind would take them flying from so light because of how malnourished they were.

Of course, animals with human skin didn't care about any of that, they didn't care if we died or lived. They only cared that we get on with our business and work on building the tower.

If a person died while working or sleeping in his cell in the middle of the night they would just make a sneer and then throw his body into the sea after insulting him and hitting his corpse a couple of times, after all the lives of the Slaves were worth nothing and they weren't worried because every month a ship would arrive with new captured slaves so the dead were easily replaceable.

Now it was night and I was lying on the cold hard floor of our cell and as always since we arrived in this place, Erza was asleep on top of me using me as a pillow as he clung tightly trying to warm his small body with mine .

Winter was coming soon so at night it was starting to get colder than usual and it is for that reason that the little ones we were with were all huddled in a corner while Erza was with me.

Suddenly, from the front of the cell we were in, some noises could be heard accompanied by annoying laughter from those people who called themselves human, the guards.

Raising my head slightly to see what was happening I saw how the guards were with other of their so-called games, they were with hoses with which they sprayed ice water to the little ones who were all huddled in a corner of that cell.

"Come on, come on what's happening, you want me to stop hahaha ...!"

"Hey, look at that little one who's hiding behind the others, aim for that brat."

"This is what happens when you bump into us and you don't apologize, if they want to blame someone, it's that brat for bumping into me yesterday making me throw away my food!"

"Hey, hey, go get another hose and help me with this, will you."

The children were in a corner huddled in balls in the dark and cold cell, wet from head to toe in this winter time the ice water must hurt and burn on their skin, they cried and screamed begging to stop wetting them but it was useless . They could only wait for the guards to get bored and end this punishment, meanwhile they tried to keep their body heat together and stick with others to endure even a little the cold they felt.

But suddenly something happened that they were waiting for when they stopped spraying them with ice water and then they felt a sharp blow as if something were falling heavily to the ground.

With nervousness and doubt they raised their heads slightly to look at what had happened and outside the cells it could be seen that the three guards who were having fun with them were now lying on the floor apparently unconscious, from their mouths a foam came out while they had the blank eyes.

When they saw that they quickly looked away and huddled in the corner again, they did not know what had happened with the guards so it was better not to pay attention to that or otherwise they would blame them for that incident, but what they did know was that for the moment they were safe.

In front of the cell of those children Yuujiro was seeing everything from beginning to end, after a few seconds he turned his head back and fell asleep after having successfully tried his little experiment and control of his power.

After that day when the guards had inexplicably lost consciousness, it happened that the following days the same thing was happening to many people when suddenly and without warning the guards fell to the ground like puppets with their strings cut, passed out and eyes rolled back foaming from their mouths.

But it was not only with the guards because they were also the prisoners.

And as expected there was a great uproar and uproar where it was said that it was a contagious virus that implied that people who fainted only had a few days to live, others said that it was some kind of curse that had been done to them. guards and then passed them on to slaves.

Therefore, now the people were all scared and afraid that later they would be the next to fall to the ground, although shortly after it was confirmed that it was only fainting and that there were no single deaths because of that, everything returned to normal, only once in a while there were one or two passed out lying on the floor.

It had been four months since we were here as slaves, and I was still continuing my training with my Haoshoku no Haki that was throwing them at the guards and slaves, thanks to that now I have better control with my haki, now I was in the part of the great hole working and training my strength with the rocks that I was removing with my hands.

I was carrying two rocks that were about my size in each hand, then stacking them together with the others, and then breaking them with my hands by punching and kicking them. At first the guards and the other slaves were surprised by how fast he was working, but when the other slaves when they saw how much food he received in return they also began to try harder to do their thing, however, after a while they saw that he did not They were giving them the same amount as me, they just gave up with trying and left it and went on at their own pace.

"Hey you dwarf, don't believe too much for being a bit more hardworking than the others!"

Behind me I heard footsteps accompanied by a somewhat mocking and irritating voice to my ears, and yes, as you can imagine in this place there are also 1 or 2 guys who occasionally look for trouble.

Anyway I stopped what I was doing to see that two slightly older guys came to create problems for me, sigh, what a cliché, what a cliché this is, I would say too much.

"Hey sure you're very strong right?" the man on the left side asked me, he was a skinny guy with long hair, he had a perverted and crazy smile. For now you're going to call him the lackey (B).

"Why don't you do our part of the work and then give us the food." That was said by the other guy on the right side, he was a tall bald guy, well, he wasn't that bald, you could still see about five strands of hair on his head and he also had a messy dirty beard that I don't know anything about a growing teenager, maybe it's a kind of curse. Let's call that guy the lackey (C).

"Since you're doing the 5-man job from what I see, you wouldn't mind doing the 3-of-us job right." And that was the leader of the other two idiots that I just mentioned, he had sharp eyes and he always had his tongue hanging out of his mouth, seriously, you need to do that. That was the leader (A)

"Come on, share a bit with us, I know they give you more food at night." The leader said (A) well, what I mean is that we are bigger, therefore we need to eat more.

Seriously, what about these second-hand criminals who appear as cockroaches as if it were some kind of culture novel where young teachers appear everywhere, maybe that was an intimidation attempt, I just don't understand you guys.

The supposed leader, from what I saw, has a knife hidden in his back, it is obviously made with a rock that is sharpened by scraping it on the ground that they use to intimidate others, it may scare others, but, hey Boy, that's not going to work for me.

But what will I do, hmph, just ... ignore them.

I turned around to leave and continue doing what I was doing but when I barely took a few steps they interrupted me, a hand grabbed my shoulder stopping me, so I turn around and look at the second hand criminals, and what I see is that the leader (A) is pointing the knife in his hand at me.

"Hey idiot why are you ignoring us, we are talking to you." The guy said holding the knife until it touched my chest

"Are you going to give us your food or you know what is going to happen." (TO)

I clenched my left fist and hit the muscle (biceps) of the arm with which I was holding the knife, his arm bent towards him and the knife in his hand ended up on his shoulder, the term stabbing his own shoulder with his knife.

The boy threw himself on the ground screaming in pain from having stabbed his own shoulder, he was rolling on the ground with tears in his eyes and with blood coming out of the wound, the other two guys he was coming with rushed to help them, one of them He turned to look at me but saw that I was already walking the other way, so he started screaming.

You bastard, you won't get away from this one, motherfucker! You will remember you are not going to escape from this one, remember us, we will look for you!

"You heard me you fucking idiot, we will go looking for you again, and you will not be able to escape, after all you are locked up with us.!"

When he said those words to me, I stopped, and said quietly and softly. "It seems you are wrong about one thing."

"I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in with me!"