บท 8: 08 - Getting out and Creation
Beat was looking at the window when someone blocked the moonlight, after trying to look inside the cell and failing the kid began to whisper something in a rushed tone.
|"Kai? Kai! Is that you? answer me, what are you doing? We need to get you out of here.|" Beat recognized the person, although it was dark he could see just fine, perks of being superior in everything physical, he thought.
The person that was restless whispering things while looking at him was the girl he saw robbing food in the market this morning.
'They must have come for him.' Beat thought while walking to the sleeping kid, that was trembling in a cold sweat right now, he seemed to be having a nightmare, shaking him slightly make the kid jump wake.
|"Wha-what! ah yeah, prison."| said the kid groggily while rubbing his eyes, Beat shakes his shoulder to get his attention and points in the window direction.
Looking in that direction and now paying attention the kid saw and heard a familiar voice calling him, quickly running to it he saw his friend's face.
|What, Kai? I thought-"| The girl began to speak but was cut halfway through.
|"Leila! It was about time!| he said with a grin, then he turned to Beat and shouted |"let's go!"|
|"What're the others doing?"|
|"Lilia and Turi are here, Dari is looking out for the guards, he will tell us if someone's around!"|
The kid nodded and after a little chatter the outside kids threw a rope made of rags through the metal bars, the kid quickly climbed up and passed through the bars easily.
'It seems this prison isn't prepared to hold scrawny kids.' Beat mused to himself while on the way to climb the rope, when he put his hand on the hope he heard a voice behind him.
|"What ya brats doin' trying to leave without me?"|
Looking back he saw the ragged men that he thought was passed out all this time, he was walking in Beat's direction with a sly toothless grin, he had dirty humid hair and was using just a thong around his lower parts just like the majority of more poor looking people Beat saw in the city, even the kids were the same.
|"Shit, I thought he was dead!"|
|"yeah, I'm very much alive brat, now hold this damn rope tight for me will ya."| the man said while smiling at the kids.
When the man was about to touch the rope, he felt a powerful force hitting his stomach, he instantly fell to his knees while gasping for air, with bloodshot eyes he looked up to the kid that he had ignored this whole time.
'So it didn't put him out, I will use more strength next time.' Beat casually thought while punching the man in the face this time, with a thudding sound the man's head hit the ground.
|"What the hell! Made me nervous for nothing!"| exclaimed the boy, although his words he had a relieved look on his face. The girl though was frowning.
'Who's this kid, that was fast, and the sound was the same of an adult punch, not like anything we can do, is this because he isn't so thin like us? Could we do the same if we were more strong?' Thought the girl, she was oblivious to how a kid practically knocking out a grown man was almost impossible, as she lived almost all her life in poor physical condition due to malnutrition.
|"Nice one dude now quick, let's go!"| Beat just turned around and looked at the kid.
'Have this kid forgotten that I was supposed to be deaf?' While thinking that Beat climbed the rope until he was facing the bars.
|"I don't think he will pass through, he's bigger than us."| the girl said, with the face against the bars Beat came to the same conclusion, he looked up and saw the worried face of the boy that was with him and smiled at the genuine worry the kid was giving him although they have met a few hours ago.
He gripped the middle bars and pulled them, bending them to the sides, he smiled seeing the surprised expression of the two kids in front of him, after climbing up he pulled the bars back to the right position, then he clapped his hands to get rid of the dirt, this seemed to wake the kids out of their stupor, they began moving trying to not make a sound while still looking at Beat time to time.
|"How did you do that?"| asked the girl after seeing that her friend wasn't going to ask, Beat though didn't even look at her, thinking she was being ignored she insisted until Beat did the same thing he did with the boy.
When Beat was beside the boy he looked at him while pointing at himself and said "Beat".
The boy saw this, quickly nodded and pointed at himself, and mouthed slowly "KAI".
Beat nodded smiling, the kid smiled too and said |"Nice to meet you Beat!"|
"KAI." Beat said slowly, trying to keep his lie.
|"What, so he can hear and talk, with's going on?"|
|"Uh? Ah, but names are easy to say, he should be able to say at least that right?."| Kai explained to the girl, then he tapped Beat shoulder, pointed at the girl at said "LEILA".
Beat again nodded and slowly said her name.
|"I don't think that's how that works..."| the girl now knows as Leila murmured while suspiciously looking at Beat.
Seeing the girl looking at him strangely Beat awkwardly smiled. 'It will be this way for now huh, this's annoying.'
They got out of the alleyway where the cell's windows were, soon they've reunited with two other kids, a boy and girl duo, named Turi and Lilia respectively, they nodded at each other and began running as quick and quiet as possible, while stopping a few times to avoid people, hiding behind houses or trees through the way, when they reached a safe distance of the prison, the other boy that was named Dari whistled in a pattern with pauses, a few seconds later and they heard the same whistle in the distance, all in all, Beat was very impressed with the preparations, and caution those kids had.
'I wonder if they're just that good or someone taught them, they don't seem too old, but I might be wrong with how much they seem starved, it might've obstructed their growth.'
While Beat was in his own world, they stopped in an alley and waited, minutes later another kid arrived, he sat down while huffing for air, after catching his breath he looked to Kai.
|"You got lucky, there were almost no guards tonight because of the celebrations, if it was another day, we might not have been able to get you out."| The boy said sternly.
Kai just smiled and with a cheerful tone said, |"But you did it right, they didn't even check on us after throwing us there, I'm sure they won't notice anything for a few days, you know how they treat their prisoners."|
They kept bickering for a few minutes until the others had enough and stopped them.
|"Alright, let's go! I'm starving, those bastards didn't give us anything all day!"| Kai said while stretching his arms, while the group nodded.
|"Are we going to bring him too?"| Lilia the other girl of the group who was quiet until now spoke while looking at Beat, they all glanced at him and frowned.
|"Of course we are, we dragged him into this, he will have a hard time if he stays alone."| Kai said strongly.
|"But we got him out too, I think we're even, we could just part aways and forget about him."| said Dari with an irritated tone in his voice.
When Kai was about to say something, Leila interrupted him, |"What's this noise, it's coming from... him?"| She said while confusingly looking at Beat, as soon as she spoke the others looked a Beat too.
Beat was bored and irritated, bored because he didn't understand anything that was being said, so he stopped paying attention when those kids started discussing with each other and he was irritated because he was starving, he didn't eat anything the whole day! He didn't know what the kids were saying and he didn't give a shit at the moment, when he was thinking about just leaving them here he felt they stare at him, looking at the kids he saw them frowning.
'What the fuck, did I do something?' Unbeknownst to Beat his stomach had begun rumbling really loudly for a few minutes now, the kids thought that it was an animal or something like that, but when it started to become more frequent and loud, they realized that it came from the kid they were talking about.
|"See, he's hungry too, we will take him with us!"| Kai said after seeing the irritated expression on Beat's face and guessing correctly that he was hungry too, he went to his side and patted him on the shoulder while gesturing him to follow him, Beat looked at the others, two were frowning and the other two just followed Kai, he just shrugged and went along.
They walked a few minutes while avoiding people until they arrived at what Beat could tell was the poor side of the city, they entered an abandoned house, one that Beat was worried was going to fall on their heads, he would be okay but he was worried about the kids, though seeing that they didn't seem to care, he ignored it for now and sat down with them.
He saw Kai going to another room and returning with a few pieces of bread and fruits, he gave a few to everyone and sat down, Beat began to eat after seeing them doing the same, while he thought.
'They seem to have things figured out, time to mind my own business.' He thought while finishing his part quickly, and standing up, the kids saw it and as they looked at him, he nodded his head.
|"What's the problem, do you want more? Just one more okay, this has to last at least two weeks."| Kai said while munching a piece of bread and offering another piece to Beat. The others just frowned, he was giving from his own part so they won't complain, and even if he gave from theirs they wouldn't say much, after all, all of them knew very well the feeling of an empty stomach, besides to them eating just enough to survive was normal, so they could let it slide just one time.
Beat didn't take the bread, he just shook his head and walked to the door, seeing this, Kai stood up and stopped in his way.
|"Where are you going? Do you have a place to stay? I don't think so, I never saw you before around here, you can stay here for tonight, right guys!?"| he said with a smile while looking at the others, they reluctantly nodded while looking at him.
Beat just offered his hand for a shake as this was the only thing could do as thanks, after they shook hands, he exited the house and began to walk to the city gates, although he didn't understand their language he could they that those kids where good people, even too good for what he saw, he wasn't going to take the little they had.
While walking he felt two of the kids following him, he didn't give it much thought and just kept walking, he arrived at the city gates and saw them closed, he just walked close to the wall and jumped, he fell on top of the wall and looked back at his stalkers, he saw Kai and the boy named Dari looking at him with unbelievable looks on their faces, he just laughed and jumped to the other side.
***
Dari was tailing Beat to see if he wasn't going to tell anyone about their hiding place, and Kai was just curious about where Beat was going.
Both were understandable surprised with the superhuman feat that Beat did, jumping the city wall that was more than ten meters tall, from the moment they saw him prepare to jump to when he was gone was a matter of seconds.
|"What the hell was that! You saw it too right?"| Kai said with an excited smile on his face while facing Dari.
|"Who was him, really?"| Dari asked with confusion, to him, Beat was just some random kid that was accidentally caught in the middle of their plan alongside Kai, he didn't think that the mute kid would be anything but normal.
"..."
|"Hey!"| looking at his friend that seemed to be daydreaming he screamed to get his attention.
|"What? Ah, he's name is Beat... at least that's what he said..."|
|"He said? Wasn't he supposed to be MUTE?"|
"|You too? Look, I don't know man, I never talked with someone like him, but even mute people should be able to say their own name with a little help, right?"|
|"Are you sure he was even mute to begin with or he was just playing dumb?"| Dari said looking at his friend, after looking around a bit more they started to walk back.
Kai, on the other hand, remained silent while he walked, Dari didn't get mad as he too was trying to guess who Beat really was but after minutes he came to only one crazy explanation.
|"You saw his clothes right, didn't it remember you of something?"| Kai with a smile asked Dari.
|"Where this came from, his clothes? Those strange-looking things? What does it have to do with anything?"| Dari was confused about what that kid's clothes had to do with what they were talking.
Seeing his friend not understanding his reasoning Kai said, |"You sure is dumb sometimes, have I ever told you that?"|
|"Who you're calling dumb, you idiot! Just say where you're going with this before I beat you up!"| Dari angrily said while pulling Kai on a side headlock while he begged to be free.
|"Stop! I'll tell! I'll tell, damn it! His clothes were kinda like those of the Gods."| Came Kai muffled cries from Dari's side, after being released he grunted.
|"You don't know how to take a joke do you?"|
With a smirk on his face Dari went through his friend's words in his head and the implications of it, thinking that his friend had come to the same conclusion as him, Dari said, |"The only similarities that their clothes have is the way they cover all their bodies, besides that they're completely different."|
"I know they weren't as eye-catching as the Gods, but they were made the same way."|
|"So what? Are you saying he's a God's Champion or something?"| said Dari with a blank face, it was what he was thinking but he wasn't going to say it out loud, as he wasn't confident in his own reasoning.
|"What're those?"| With a confused face, Kai asked.
"|I- you- It's... They are humans that were granted powers by the Gods, there's a lot of tales of those types of people."| Dari responded after looking at his friend's face and seeing that he truly didn't know.
With a surprised look on his face, Kai said, |"I would've said he's a demigod but that works too."|
"|Are you fucking kidding me?"| With a deadpan expression, Dari entered their house, calling Beat a demigod to Dari was a stretch, he wasn't confident in his Champion theory, furthermore a demigod.
There were tales of Champions and demigods, but even with the presence of 'Gods' in their city he still was skeptical, as besides those old stories there was no one of those special humans around, and to him, it was more believable to a God give a few people power as to them having a child with a mortal.
Seeing how irritated Dari seemed, Leila who was still up waiting for them asked what happened.
|This dumbass said that that kid Beat, was it his name? Whatever, he said that that kid was a demigod because his clothes were slightly similar to the Gods, can you believe it?| Dari said while shaking his head.
|"But you saw how he easily jumped the city wall! And what you about what you said, he could be a God's Champion!|"
|What're you talking about?"|
Looking at Leila's confusion Kai explained what they saw and what they thought of Beat.
"It would explain what he did back in the cell."| Leila simply concluded.
|"You guys should ask him what he is when you see him again, he wasn't trying to hide it from us so he might tell."| Dari said nonchalantly while entering the only bedroom in the old house where there is a small fireplace that was lit to keep all of them warm at night.
|"I'll do that!"| Kai exclaimed while thinking about those Gods and their blessings.
|"He will never tell you.|" Leila said looking at Kai.
|"Why?"|
|"You forgot that he's apparently 'mute'."| Leila said with a smirk as she walked out.
"..."
|"Damn it!"|
|"Shut up kai! I'm trying to sleep here."| Came Dari annoyed voice from the room, Kai soon entered there too and laid down beside his two Male friends, Leila had laid down beside Lilia a small distance away from the boys.
Kai slept while pondering how he was going to get answers from Beat the next time they meet.
***
After going out of the city Beat had run to the nearest forest, the first thing he did was lit a bonfire, then he began to bring meat out of his inventory, what the kids gave him wasn't even considered a complete meal to them, imagine to Beat.
"That was just like being put in a school group where you didn't know anyone but they know each other, that awkward feeling of them trying to be nice with you even if you don't know them."
'Fuck! How can I remember those dumb situations but not my family's faces!'
After eating he sat facing the fire, and did what he should have done before coming to the city, the first technique he bought was Magic Materialization, as soon he bought it a stream of information was forcefully implanted into his head, there was just two parts of this ability, Analysis of Materials and Creation.
The Analysis was simple, he would use his ki to brush the material from the inside out to memorize its composition on an atomic level scan that was made subconsciously, so he didn't need to remember the arrangement of the atoms, he would instinctively memorize it, if someone asked how he did it, he wouldn't know how to explain, he could also naturally forget like every other memory if not actively using what he scanned. He also could mess with it to create new elements but it would take extreme amounts of energy, and an intricate understanding of atoms and what he wanted to make.
'Almost like Shirou's ability.'
The Creation was simple but much more energy consuming, he would shape his energy into the things he wanted then transmute the energy -in this case, his ki- into it using his memories of the materials, it seemed he could use other types of energy too, but he didn't have it or didn't know how to use it.
'Wouldn't be more fitting to call it Energy materialization, instead of magic?'
He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, then he opened his eyes picked a rock of the ground, and used his ki to scan it, using his ki on the rock to memorize its composition with the first part of the technique, raising his other palm he tried to use his new ability to create something after seconds energy left his body in the form of white particles, it accumulated in his palm and began to spin in a flate form like a galaxy, a part of the particles at the center of the spiral of energy began to condense in a sphere, while the rest of the particles spinning around dispersed in the air, seeing this Beat frowned and increased the input of energy in the technique after he felt that the energy was enough he began he will it to change shape, he molded it into a dagger of energy and then changed the properties, he used the composition of the rock to transmute the energy, with a harmless explosion of light made by the dispersion of wasted energy his first creation rested in his hand.
It was a simple and crude dagger, like something you would see a caveman using, entirely made of stone.
"It seems the first work of a bad sculptor, not very sharp, but a dagger nonetheless." Beat said with a smile.
"I could use a finalized object to copy from or just go by trial and error until I get good with time." He said while looking at the excuse of a dagger on his hand, then throwing the dagger to a tree.
The dagger spun a few times until it hit the tree with its handle and fell.
"..."
"I'll practice it later." Beat muttered to himself while standing up to pick the dagger.
'But still, I thought that the system's techniques were an instant mastery thing, but it seems that it just give me the theory of how to do it and the necessary abilities to use it if I didn't have, then it let to me to dominate and master the skill.'
Remembering the wasted energy Beat fell in deep thought, 'I used one-fourth of my ki and it used just a bit to make the dagger, the rest was wasted.'
'With better control, I should be able to mold the energy and transmute it quickly and simultaneously, it will be then that it would be like Shirou's magic.'
"Then I'll be going around shouting 'Trace on!' on everything!" Beat said while daydreaming about it.
After that, he bought the ability that will possibly help him learn different languages easily and much more.
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