"We were drugged. Before I lost my consciousness, I heard them talking happily about having more meat to use in their feast when they previously had a shortage." Charles explained.

And of course the new meat was us. This eleven year old had quicker wits than I did.

"Where do we go? There was a person who entered the tent earlier in the afternoon and she said she was bringing dinner for the both of us"

It was almost dinner time as the sun was almost setting and Charles stayed silent as if he was trying to come up with a plan to get out of this place as soon as possible.

I skimmed through the later pages of the book from the dimensional library for any clues to where we could go. When I flipped to the last page after my impatience from finding no clues from the earlier pages, I found a map with the latest information.

There was a 'x' in the place on the map with lots of tents. This was probably where we were currently located. I interrupted Charles' train of thought and quickly showed Charles the map as he seemed to form better ideas than I did.

He briefly seemed to question where I got the map from, but soon focused on forming a strategy to get us to a safer place.

"I have a plan to get us to the facility where the people of the other districts reside. But, you really need to listen and follow my instructions carefully Rika." Charles said while looking exhausted.

"I will, what do you see me as?" I said annoyed.

"My plan is to steal some weapons from this tent and run away quickly to get out of this village as soon as possible. When we're out of the village, there's a cave we can spend a night in."

Charles pointed to the cave on the map and then continued, "After spending a night, we will walk towards these caves next as it will take us more than five days to get to the facility."

"How about food? Without food there's no way we can survive, especially during the winter." I said to point out a weakness.

"The sixth district has flowers that grow in the winter that are edible. We can pick them along the way to the caves," Charles answered while pointing to the painting of flowers on the map.

I did faintly remember learning about edible flowers in the sixth district from my exam in kindergarten when I had a huge amount of minus points while studying with Luke.

"Well when does this plan start?" I queried.

"Now!" Charles shouted while quickly grabbing onto my hand while he prepared to sprint.

We ran outside the tent to the entrance of the village and quickly found the villagers chasing after us.

Unfortunately, the villagers were really fast. They were catching up to us very quickly.

"What do we do now?" I yelled.

Charles arruptly lifted me while running, "Throw the arrows!"

With the mana I had left, I embraced my mana into the flimsy arrows and shot the villagers in their arms and legs.

"Capture them! Bring more reinforcements!" The bulky villager yelled.

The bulky villager continued the chase while abandoning his comrades. I shot more arrows to put more s.p.a.ce between the villagers and us.

However, Charles was starting to slow down as he was gasping for more air while he was still running intensely.

Eventually we ran out of arrows while the villagers fiercely continued to chase after us liked they possessed an abundance of energy while I felt there was no way Charles could remain running at this speed for more than a few minutes.

"Charles!" I pushed Charles into the snow when I spotted a sharp dagger heading towards his head.

We were now surrounded by the villagers with ropes in their hands probably to use to capture us.

"Come out! Exphaxia!" Charles screamed.

A long sword glowed in Charles' hands. It resembled Alex's katana that he used to carry around when he was younger.

Alex's katana had gold and silver lilies imprinted around the handles. However, Charles' sword was decorated with imprinted marigolds and the sharp blade was coloured platinum rather than silver.

The villagers that briefly froze from the appearance of the foreign sword began to quickly start to move again.

"Close your eyes and cover your ears Rika." Charles warned.

I get that Charles was trying to protect me but there was no need as I was mentally older than him anyways.

"Why? I'm not scared of blood" I answered.

I wanted to help rather than standing helplessly behind Charles.

"Rika. Listen to me!" Charles yelled.

Fine. I closed my eyes and covered my ears. When Charles shook me a few minutes afterwards, I removed my hands from my ears and opened my eyes.

The bright sword was gone and the bodies of the villagers were unmoving and devastated in their own blood.

"Run Rika! Before the others start chasing after us again." Charles pulled me towards the direction of the cave.

Charles and I ran towards the cave non-stop. When we finally confirmed that we were a good distance away from the village, we started to pick the flowers on the way to the cave.

"What was just that?" I asked Charles when we had the luxury to talk.

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"What?" Charles tried to pretend that event never happened.

"The sword the came out from your hand and how you were suddenly able to overpower the villagers." I sternly replied.