75 Whose? 2 in 1 (1/2)

In the middle of the night, Zoe returned at Edwin's room with the jar of pills. The latter was keeping himself awake by tossing a bouncing ball made of leaves across the room.

”I got the results... and I retraced that there is some sort of herb that was used to create those pills, and that herb's extract matched with the poison in your body.”, Zoe said.

”And I got to say to whoever made these pills is an absolute genius! I almost didn't even notice the herb extract. I don't even know what type of plant was used!”, she added.

”But I will still need the pills to continue studying it, won't you mind...”

Before she could finish her sentence, the boy said, ”I won't mind, actually, you can have it!”

”Really? Thank you!”, Zoe happily replied and left the room.

When Zoe closed the door of the room, she saw the elven lady was standing by the beam of the door.

”You heard our conversation, Ms. Ariel?”, Zoe asked.

”Yes.”, the elven lady whose name was Ariel said.

After a pause, she questioned, ”What more can you say about the person who created those pills?”

”Hmm, probably such a great master, or...”

”Or a cunning poison concocter?”, Ariel interrupted and finished Zoe's sentence.

”Well, yes, after all, if one is a great alchemist, one is also a great poison maker.”, Zoe nodded.

”If you excuse me, lady, I'll be going off now.”, Zoe courteously bid farewell and left the area.

After the little elf left, Ariel carefully took a peek inside the room.

As soon as she opened a bit of it, she heard sobs from inside the room. Peeking inside it, she saw Edwin laid down on the bed crying, while covering his eyes with his arms.

She immediately closed the door afterwards and commented, ”What a weak willpower.”

...

Next morning, Edwin woke up earlier today. No light came from outside the window yet.

Now, he could move his legs, but they were still somewhat numb, making him need the support of the nearby furnitures to steadily move.

He approached his white robe amd inspected the codex to see if he could open more pages, however, the book didn't even budge an inch except for the page that was already shown to him.

Soon, he started putting on his robe and boots; with the codex being placed in his robe. After finishing all the said actions them, he was about to open the door to leave when it was opened by somebody else.

Ariel was surprised when she saw that Edwin was about to leave, ”Leaving so soon?”

”Yes.”, Edwin nodded.

”Aren't you going to wait for Zoe to check you again?”, Ariel asked.

”No, I'm going to leave now.”, he said, then Edwin changed his path to avoid Ariel, but the latter blocked his path again.

”Where are you going?”, she questioned again.

”To the south, I don't know... just let me through.”, he stepped to the side again, but the elf still blocked his way.

”You won't even get out of the forest alive with your current condition.”, she rebuked.

”I should've died long ago, you know!”, Edwin refuted.

Suddenly, Ariel punched him in the face, and with the latter's current condition, he took a few steps back and stumbled to the ground.

”Are all humans hardheaded like you?”, she slowly approached him with an indifferent look on her face.

”Do all elves think highly of their own race as you do?”, Edwin said.

”No, why do you always think we are above you humans you puny...”, while insulting, Ariel repeatedly stomped on Edwin's chest.

”Ow... stop... *cough*...”

...

After finishing what she was saying, the elf stopped stepping on Edwin's chest with her foot.

On the other hand, the boy sighed in relief. Though he was repeatedly stomped on the chest by the elf, most of the force was absorbed by the thick codex on his chest under the robe.

Even if Edwin almost wasn't injured the slightest, Ariel ignored it and even reached out her hand to help him up.

After some time, the boy accepted the elf's hand and stood up.

”So... you're not hungry?”, Ariel asked.

”No, in fact, I don't feel anything after you kicked me a lot of times.”, Edwin joked, starting to smile a bit.

However, there was still no change on her countenance and left the room.

Edwin: ”...”

Going out of the room, he was met with a short corridor, the design was still the same as within the bedroom, but the difference was that the quality seemed worse.

After the corridor, he arrived to what seemed to be like a kitchen.

Everything in the kitchen also seemed to be of below average quality.

”What do you want?”, Ariel appeared and asked. However, she didn't wait for Edwin to answer and said, ”Go sit down, I'll make you the same leaves that you ate last night.”

He followed the elf's instruction and sat down on the chair, which slightly creaked.

'So much for being an elf, I thought they are tidy with their things.', he thought.

'Humans have no respect, doesn't even know basic thanking etiquette.', Ariel sneered within her mind.

Before the elf could even start preparing the needed ingredients, a knock came from the door.

”It must be Zoe.”, she went to the other room where the door leading outside was.

When she opened the door, she saw an elf wearing white robes with green and gold linings in front of her.

Then two other elves with the same robes crashed through the window in the kitchen. After which, they brought out small poles, which turned into double bladed staffs.

One of the elves slashed down at the surprised Edwin, but the latter jumped back, dodging the attack, leaving the chair in two halves.

The other elf then charged him, however, the elf's staff changed into a pole and thrust it towards him.

He easily evaded that attack, but the other elf's weapon also turned into a pole and swifty stabbed Edwin towards his chest.

This time, he didn't get to dodge because he was still recovering from his injuries.

-bzzt-

Faint but painful electric shocks came from the pole and slowly numbed him. Meanwhile, the other elf also attacked Edwin on his back, increasing the intensity of the shock.

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When the elves retrieved their weapons, Edwin collapsed to the ground, almost unconscious.

However, his consciousness started to fade away, and before he was knocked out, he saw a blurry vision of Ariel entering the room beside an another elf.

”Why?”, he muttered, but he passed out afterwards.

***

When Edwin woke up again, he saw himself inside some sort of a closed room without any windows. There wasn't a single source of light inside the room, but his eyes adjusted so he can at least check where he was.

His wrists were secured with chains that was connected to the ceiling, while his feet were also tightly secured on the wall.