The Search for Freedom

Learning magic and become powerful like Alicia was what I needed, for I knew it could help me in my next fight, especially since she told me that after every fight, the next enemy would become stronger than the first one. I didn't know what kind of people I would be fighting next, but it was better to be prepared so that I could keep my life safe.

I needed to practice dark magic because I wasn't good on it; I couldn't even grow a leaf from a tree by using my hand. I was still practicing dark magic with Alicia. She had complained many times about why I was so difficult to teach. But it wasn't my problem if I was so difficult to teach, because she once told me that it also took her many years before she mastered all types of magics and power she had.

I didn't know what was happening to my mansion. Maybe they noticed I wasn't there, and they would leave the mansion because of that. I wondered if they were okay. Though I knew they didn't need to work there anymore, especially since they didn't had a boss, I had told Amara to supervise everything if I wasn't there. I could say, I didn't care about them, for I knew I could help myself and survive alone, but sometimes, I couldn't deny, I remembered those moments. They knew how to leave the mansion if they didn't want to be my workers anymore. They had their freedom to do everything they want as long as they were not stepping on others. Unlike me. I realized that my life was even more beautiful if I wasn't thinking about them. It was better to be carefree. Everything would be back to normal if I could finish my mission, but first I needed to practice more dark magic so that I could go back to my normal life. "So have you done your task?" Alicia asked.

"What task?" I pretended not to know what she was talking about.

"Your task to grow the leaves of that small plant. Have you forgotten that I told you to drop its leaves and grow them again using your hand?"

I said, but it sounded a complain: "I can't do this. Look at me! I'm trying to drop the huge tree or even its leaf, but it's the work of a fool."

Alicia told me not to force myself looking at the huge tree because it was difficult for me to drop its leaves and grow them again. She said that I should practice magic on those small plants, for they were easier than those trees. I was the one who made myself a fool. She added that if I could not, then I didn't need to force yourself. I must start with what was easier before moving to the difficult ones, for there was a right time for them. I should always remember that all great things came from small beginnings.

"How can you say it's difficult to grow leaves from those huge trees if I currently have a branch of a tree with full leaves? Did you see that branch and those leaves? I grew them using my fingers only." "Weeh, are you sure you were the one who made that?" Alicia queried.

"You don't believe me? There are five hundred leaves on that branch. Ask me how I knew the number of those leaves if I wasn't the one who made them," I replied seriously, but seemed to laughed. "Good job! But if you really made them, then show them to me now. Try to grow another branch of a tree full of green leaves," she ordered.

If the my powerful vision didn't show me how to grow a leaf on the tree, it would definitely take thousands of tries before I could do it. I saw that I had tried thousands of trials before I made it, but in just a blink of an eye, I made it! My future had changed because of my vision. I didn't need to waste my time practicing dark magic for a long time!

"Look! Now how can you tell me that I cannot grow a branch of a tree full of green leaves?" I asked.

"You're so clever and powerful. It took me a long time before I learned how to make things like that, but you are MIRACULOUS that you can quickly make them. Tell me, what's your secret?"

"I already told you the secret. Have you forgotten that there's something helping me do impossible things become possible?" I replied.

"What do you mean?" She queried.

Had she forgotten that she told me once about the power of vision? Could those abilities help me fight my enemies? Or she was only pretending not to know? I wasn't sure she knew about this thing, and she might just be testing me to see if I would tell her the truth or not.

"Nothing, let's just forget about it. I'm only concerned with doing what you told me to do. My focus helped me to make impossible things become possible. That's my secret."

"That's good! I've never encountered a girl like you before. You are easy to train in how to perform magic."

"Wow! So you quickly changed your judgement?" I asked. "Do you mean that you were teaching other people to perform magic before?"

"Yeah, Go on. I knew I judge you so early," Alicia replied.

"There are many people I tried to teach dark magic before, because I anticipated they could help me go back to the realm of spirits, but I mistook them, because they were very difficult to taught how to perform dark magic. I was lost of hope that there was no one who could help me and my husband to go back to where we should be, until I saw a girl-that was you-you are destined to become powerful."

"Maybe you are right, I can see the signs that I can become powerful, but you mentioned that you have a husband, so where is he?"

"My husband? Just like me, he's searching for someone who can help him going back to our world, I'm also hoping that we can both get rid from the curses and go back together to the realm of spirits."

I could blame not Alicia, because it seemed that she and her husband had a hidden story if why and how they came in this world. I didn't know if what I felt, but I was full of sympathy when I saw her crying though there wasn't a teardrop that coming out from her eyes.