章節 22: Friend or Foe
The howling once again started.
A few moments ago we barely we're able to subdue the beast and now they all seem to be having fun.
Even though Selene has warmed up to them I still feel hostile towards them.
On the surface, they seem a normal group of students but without being noticed by Selene they are trying to get close to her.
"Selene which class were you in?" a boy named Kurt said to Selene.
"I w-was in 2-E..." Selene already doesn't talk much and now it is even worse since she doesn't know any of them.
"Is that so? Isn't Peter in your class also?" a girl said. I don't remember her name though.
"Hey, isn't it a nice time to have a picnic?" I intervened.
"What? Are you an idiot? Picnic? Here?"
"So why does it seem like you all are having fun? We are in a life and death situation but you all are having fun like a bunch of kids on a picnic."
"You! I w-" Kurt seemed annoyed.
"Why don't you all shut up?" I intervened again.
I don't know whether they have noticed or not but they are talking quite loudly making our presence noticed to those shadows lurking in the dark.
"What?!" Kurt is pissed.
"Do you want me to add some penalty for you too?" the other guy has to pay me 20 additional points so if there is a slight chance arises, I am going to suck out as many points from them and I will gladly do it.
"Listen here. I am not your buddy or something like that okay? If you cause me any more trouble you might need to leave early." I tried warning them but its effect was the opposite.
"W-we won't listen to you! Right?" one of the girls declared.
"Yeah!" the other girl also joined.
"W-wait we shouldn't f-fight..." Selene intervened.
"Selene tell them not me. Also if you say another word a little bit loudly I might have to send you off." they all are idiots.
"He is pissing me off!"
"Grr...."
"!?"
"What was that!?"
"Now are you happy?" he seemed confused by what I mean, but if someone has a little bit of brain would understand that because of noises they all created many wild beasts must be coming here.
They all panicked including Selene.
I put up the fire stick and since it's still night the visibility is almost zero.
"Allen..." Selene called out to me but I still didn't move an inch from the position because I am having a feeling that if I move from here that thing will ambush me.
I felt chills throughout my whole body.
"Grrr....!" the sound felt near this time.
The rustling sound of the bush kept increasing in my front.
I didn't move or even blinked for a second. I have a gut feeling that if I blinked for only one time I am done for.
"I am running away..!" yes go away. It might follow you.
"No!" why are they so obsessed with making more trouble for me?
Slowly I tried moving backward.
I didn't care about others but I just need to make a way out for myself and Selene.
"Aahhhhh!" this time it wasn't the sound of a beast or any animal but a sound of the boy.
"S-shouldn't we help that p-person?" one of the girls said.
"Yeah, why don't you lead the way then. Idiot." I said.
Maybe be due to the sound of the scream the beast which seemed like was about to attack is has moved in that direction.
"..."
"Did it go away?"
"That's it. I am done with all the talking now. You all pay me 30 points right this instant or I am going to do this the hard way."
"Why do we have to pay you more points?"
"Yeah, the majority of us are not going to pay you any points."
"Did you think that with the majority you can defy me? This is not some democracy it's a dictatorship and I am the dictator here. You don't want to pay up okay fine instead I'm going to have to take your points by force." I am starting to get a little irritated by their behavior.
"Allen it's n-not good t-to take their p-points..." Selena again intervened.
"Oh come one, I don't want you too to support them."
"B-but..."
"Y-yeah, Selene is on our side."
"...." Selene nodded.
Okay, so that's your play. Fine if you want to play I am going to crush that game.
"... fine."
...
The slight flicking sound of wood burning was the only sound I could hear.
All the girls were sound asleep in the 'shelter' and the boys were sleeping around the fire.
Why did the girls be able to sleep inside? Selene said that it was okay for them to sleep there.
Now I completely understand why they tried to be on the good side of Selene since earlier. They must have talked about me and Selene's relationship and must have anticipated that I wouldn't disagree with someone with who I am on good terms or close.
"Okay so now what should I do with them?" I am not going to just sit here and let them be.
...
"It's morning Allen..."
"... Huh? Oh, morning Selene." did I fall asleep?
"B-but why d-did you sleep o-outside?"
"It was so cramped inside. Just by looking, I felt like I was out of breath. How did you all sleep?" only the girls were sleeping inside but it was still cramped.
Earlier when I was sitting inside with Selene there was not enough space so I had to put half of my body out but all three slept easily. How?
"Y-yeah it was c-cramped but we m-managed..."
"... now what should we do now?" Kurt said while looking at Selene.
"What do you mean 'what should we do now?' get out of here already. Why are you still here?" I only agreed for them to stay the night.
"Huh?" by his looks I could easily tell that he forgot the deal.
"Don't 'huh' me. You want to stay here pay me another 160 points or else get going already."
"Selene so you really want us to go?" one of the girls whose name I still don't know said with a puppy face.
"Don't. Don't do that before I smash your face."
"..." I know what are they doing. They are going to convince Selene to let the. stay here and eventually I would also give in.
"Allen let. t-them s-stay, please..."
"Fine, you all can stay here but pay me 200 points first."
"What? 200? Didn't you say it was 160 earlier?"
"Yeah, it was. Every minute I am going to add another 10 points so the sooner you pay me up the less the amount will be."
"..." Selene wanted to say something but this time before she could even say a word I scowled at her to which she flinched and didn't say another word.
"What? Selene says something to him." the girl said.
"..." Selene didn't reply.
"Okay, 210."
"Wha!?"
"Time is ticking."
"... fine we will pay 200 points."
"You seem like you heard it wrong. I said it is 210 and is going to be 220 in.... 30 seconds."
"Okay, we will lay you 210 points."
"Don't move your mouth. Walk to that machine and transfer the points before it turns into 220 points."
"..." no one said a single thing and quietly went in that direction.
Why was I so confident that they will pay me?
In the forest, there is plenty number of beasts, and who knows when or where you might encounter one so to be safe a call is the best place.
No matter what others say but we survived the night where we encountered beasts two times which included the one where we were able to subdue it.
So, this is a safe place.
No one is willing to let go of a safe place at any cost.
"... done."
"Okay, you all can stay here for the day. Thank you for your service." the last part was meant as a joke but they didn't look happy about it.
Who can blame them, I just took a total of 370 points from them.
Now I should be having.... 470 points.
But if they want they could have tried to suppress me, I mean they it would be 4 v/s 1 but in the end, they still obeyed me why?
TO BE CONTINUED...
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