chapter5: michael

Time passed and just as old Rob had said, at noon they gave us a little time to rest where a guard came with food.

You had to form a line to receive food and as we were near the place where it was distributed, we were the first to receive it. Now I know why Rob chose this place to work, we will eat first and receive the best while the worst goes last.

When I got the little food they gave us, I went to sit in the shade to cover myself a little from the sun and rest a little, Erza followed me and then the others came with her.

Then old Rob joined us too.

While we were sitting eating Erza asked me a question in a low voice. "Brother, how long do you think we will be in this place doing this?" When she asked me that, the children who were already here stopped eating and looked at her.

"We will be here forever." The Sho boy commented weakly with his head bowed and sad.

"That's not true, maybe someday someone will come to rescue us, one doesn't know what can happen to us in the future so don't say that." Jeral assured him with a smile and put a hand on Sho's head ruffling his hair.

Simon who was next to him asked curiously. "And what happens if we try to escape?"

When Simon asked the children were silent and after a pause Milliana said. "But escaping is prohibited, if they find you escaping and they catch you, you will receive cruel punishment, they will take you to the torture room."

"Other prisoners have already tried to escape but they are always discovered and faced with punishment." Wally added.

Rob who was listening also added his own. "Besides escaping from this place is almost impossible, they have not realized, we are in the middle of an island that does not appear on the maps. We are surrounded by sea."

"If you don't have a boat or something with which you can cross the waters around us beforehand, you better forget the idea of ​​escaping."

"Suppose you manage to escape successfully from this place, then what ... What will you do next? You cannot swim across the entire sea, since there are sharks and other animals that swim through these waters, before advancing a few meters you will already be someone's food. "

The children who listened turned pale and began to think about what he said.

With one eye open and the other closed while stroking his beard, old Rob continued explaining. "And look," he said pointing to a certain place. "We are being watched at all times, the guards are armed and believe me they will not hesitate for a single second to the nonsense with the intention of killing."

Some of them are wizard and they can freely use their magic while we cannot, we are chained hand and foot with a chain that prevents us from using our magic.

Old Rob kept telling us new things and told us more or less what had happened.

For example: he told us that when a prisoner tried to escape by hitting the guards and tried to riot with the other slaves. But great was his disappointment when none of the slaves followed him with his escape attempt.

The man was sure that after doing that, the attempt to escape, they would all follow and support him, after all he was a two meter tall giant with a robust and strong body, he was a magician who had been recently captured and apparently it was from a famous guild where he was an active magician until he was captured.

Charismatic and trustworthy he thought that his great body and intimidating appearance would help him to have the support of everyone to escape from this cursed place.

The guards knew that something like this was going to happen sooner or later, since they had informed him in advance about the background of that man so they were only waiting for that moment, the moment when he tried to escape.

Being in the middle of nowhere and having almost no fun, the guards waited patiently with malicious smiles on their faces ready to enjoy the spectacle that would take place in a few days. That was one of the hobbies they had, watching the slaves goofing around and making fun of them.

They liked to break the minds and spirits of others to make them like puppets that would obey their orders, the few slaves who tried to make an escape are the ones who most enjoyed torturing, they took their time to break the heroic spirit they had.

So it didn't take long to wait when they saw that the giant had started. None of them moved and they just stared because they knew that none of the slaves was going to support him with his attempt to escape. All they saw was the magician doing the idiot screaming spitting all over the place angry that no one followed his example and gave him support.

Another person who tried to escape by digging a hole in the earth of his cell to reach the sea but was betrayed by his own companions who did not want to receive the punishment of torture if they caught him, and with that in mind with the fear of being labeled as his accomplices did not hesitate to inform the guards of what their cellmate was trying to do.

The slave who tried to escape was caught and taken to the punishment room, meanwhile their companions were rewarded with food for doing their job well, informing them of that fact of which they did not know. The snitch slaves had saved their ass because if one escapes, the responsibility would fall on them and they would be punished with even death, after all they are human scum who do not care about the lives of others.

The other slaves in the other cells, seeing how they were rewarded with food for snitching, began to sell their cellmates unfairly with lies saying that they also wanted to make an escape attempt. But that lie did not pass to the guards, since even if they were a little lazy in their work they were not idiots and they immediately knew that the slaves were lying.

There were some crazy people who had spent a long time locked up who could not come up with a better idea and said that they were kings of some countries that they had never heard of, some women even tried to gain the trust of the guards and they tried to sell their bodies to have better treatment or if they were lucky enough to be free.

But .... who would touch the women in this place who were all dirty and smelled awful, all those attempts were nothing more than failures.

.....

As I thought, there were already people who have tried to escape, and as everyone has seen what happens to those people they buried the idea of ​​leaving this place in their minds and only accepted their fate, those people were the perfect example to sow the seed of fear in their hearts.

"You said earlier that there were wizard, you know who they are." I asked old Rob.

"Yes. And also a year ago some S-class wizards appeared."

'Oh, they even have those wizards.' I Whistle about that, I didn't expect this place to have strong wizards protecting them, so I must assume you already know them right.

"I can't tell you much about them because I've only seen two. Although I can tell you that they are very strong because they emit great magical power from their body ... look, you see that one who is standing on the terrace. "

Rob pointed his finger in one direction, and I looked on and saw someone I know. The magician who had brought us to this place, Michael was there.

"That guy called Michael, he's a very strong S-class wizard who has been working on this tower for a while. His job is to bring more people to forts if possible and lock them up here to be slaves."

"Despite his appearance, he is a man of little patience who is very ruthless with his enemies, he does not care if they are male or female if you make him angry he will kill you without flinching, he has no mercy with anyone and only works for money. If you pay him he does his job no matter what it is, as long as there is money involved he does it. "

Michael was a tall and thin man with long hair tied in a brown ponytail, on the left side of his cheek he had a scar that ran all over his face, he had a white kimono on with flower petals decorating it and At his waist he wears a black Katana and black boots.

He has the appearance of a samurai and is said to like to face strong opponents, he is a man who enjoys the moment when his opponents beg for mercy for their lives when they are bathed in their own blood in front of him.

He sees everyone as trash.

When I was looking at him carefully, feeling that someone was looking at him he turned to look at me.

I noticed that the old man was still pointing his finger in his direction and I calmly commented. "Hey man, it's rude to point your finger at someone."

Old Rob looked at me and placing a hand behind his ear he came a little closer to my side. "Hey, what did you say."

Seriously, now he's acting like an old man with Alzheimer's when he's discovered. I thought and then I told him. "Put your hand down, and you shouldn't be aiming at people."

"Ah, yes… Yes, my mother is fine, what about your life Makarov."

"Tch, forget it, I didn't say anything." The old man was playing the idiot.

"Ah yes Olivia, what happened to her, I remember you and her ......"

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Meanwhile, up in the watchtower, Michael was watching all of that with a smile on his face, after seeing Yuujiro for a while longer, he turned around and called a guard who was nearby.

"Hey you, yes, you, the guard come ... Come closer for a moment."

"Yes, Michael-sama, you need something." The guard asked a bit nervous and scared when he saw who was calling him, everyone knew Michael for being a cold and ruthless man who liked to play with his victims before killing them.

Everyone avoided meeting his path so as not to accidentally offend him

Michael wrapped his arm around the guard's shoulder and told him. "Come and approach this place, look, you see that red-haired boy who is there surrounded by other children." He said pointing at Yuujiro.

The guard saw who Michael was pointing at and responded by shaking his head in affirmation.

"I want you to give that child more food than the others."

"Eh ... Michael-sama is sure, he's just a slave," exclaimed the guard, surprised by what he had heard, but immediately fell silent when Michael looked at him.

"I just want you to do that, you can," Michael said to the guard who was now scared, the unfortunate guard could only nod his head again.

"Perfect, then do that and there's no problem between us," Michael replied and then left the place leaving the guard alone.