"Not giving me an easy death. Is that so?" Mya said nonchntly. "You should have kept me bound." She kicked a small nk of wood on her left side to the nearest native folks. Out of her sudden aggression, they began to attack her.


    Mya duck as she kicked the left side of the first person who was going to attack her, and that person immediately fell to the ground. Mya nced at the second person who suddenly grabbed her. She jerked her head forward then with one quick motion she hit the man with the back of her head.


    The man stepped backward as he removed his mask. He held his bleeding broken nose.


    "I will not die without a fight."


    "Stop." Oliver''s cold voice resounded. "If you move against my will, this guy will be dead."


    Mya was frozen in her ce as she nced behind her. She almost forgot that she is not alone and there was one person that was still with her.


    Oliver with a small knife on his right hand was pressed to Kayden''s neck, it made a little wound that made a dropped of blood noticeable on his neck. Kayden who remained silent just looked disinterested despite the situation.


    "For a duke''s daughter, I am really impressed with how violent you are."


    "Hah, and despite being defeated by me just a few days ago, you still are a snake for using people as hostages like that." Mya steadied her body. "They are not toys, quit dealing with them as if they are toys."


    "Toys you say? And a few days?" Oliver looked more interested. "It seems you are being confused. It''s been a month now since ourst fight."


    "Month? Don''t make me feel stupid here. " Mya said. "Only four days or a week just passed."


    "Ah, Carolle.."


    Mya stiffened at the mention of her past life name. But she didn''t show any reaction towards Oliver and her face remained stoic.


    "It seems you just woke up from a long dream and based on your current consciousness I think you lost yourself from that dream." Oliver nced towards the native people, and they all stepped back away from Mya. "Our fight, a month has already passed since then." He looked seriously at Mya''s eyes. "And for instance, I didn''t expect you to be here."


    ''A month? Am I gone for really that long? I thought it would only be three days.'' Mya tried to calm herself down. ''No, if you think about it, it could be possible. To the ce where those two lived, time might have been distorted. But for a month, then everyone...''


    Oliver saw the conflicted gaze of Mya as she submerged herself in her thoughts. Oliver retracted his dagger away from Kayden.


    "So you stayed in that ce without knowing how much time had passed," Oliver said with a mild voice this time. He suddenly threw the dagger in Mya''s direction and it plunged to the ground that was just three inches away from Mya''s feet.


    "If I have just my magic, I really want to destroy you right now and slice you into pieces until you are just nothing, " Oliver said, not hiding his hatred. "That damn dragon not only purified the dark magic that I umted for five years but also sealed my natural magic." He scratched the ring that was on his left thumb. " Do you have any idea how it felt, huh? That dragon not only removes my power but also my life."


    "I''mpletely powerless just like you now." Oliver justughed off wryly. It was really very unusual for him to let out all his feelings like this. But seeing the person who destroyed all his ns a month ago.


    After that fight in that strange space with Mya, Oliver woke up on this unknown ind a month ago. He tried to use his magic but it didn''t work. That''s when he noticed again the familiar red ring that was on his left thumb. Then he heard a voice inside his head.


    "Child, this great one will only unseal thou magic back when thou realized thest words of thou mother to thee."


    This left him in great dread and despair. "Realized my mother''sst words?" He gritted his teeth. "You are just used as a tool to stop my ns. Don''t act like you know everything about me."


    He didn''t receive any response from the Great Red Dragon spirit of fire after that.


    Then amidst his inside turmoil, these indigenous people appeared and captured him. But with his extensive knowledge of medicine and herbs, he was able to help these people since, at that time, there was a pandemic that spread throughout the tribes. Andter he found out that it was mria.


    He was able to concoct medicine from the herbs and help to treat the people to heal faster... With his stay here, the tribes started to revere him. Until he was considered as one of the leaders as well. His knowledge and capability led him to achieve a higher position in this tribe. Thenguage they spoke was strangely the same as thenguage spoken at Hacien Empire, that was why it was not hard for him tomunicate with the people leaving from this ce.


    After the ind pandemic was resolved, the next thing he did was to find out what ind he was on. He already reached every nooked of the ind, but it waspletely covered by the sea. And he knows it will be not helpful if he asks people here since the tribe was not that advanced when it came to technology and didn''t have any ships or boats to use for sailing.


    These things left him in a predicament. He intended to continue his revenge. He swore in his life that he would not stop until he saw the emperor begging for his life. But it was all futile right now. He didn''t know the ce where he was and how he would get out of the ind.


    Then suddenly after almost a month now, the two people that destroyed all his ns appeared on the same ind. This was his chance to destroy them too. Especially this girl in front of him. And with all the things he saw in that space about her, it made his blood boil.


    Oliver returned his gaze to Mya. But thetter just simply yawned and sat with her two legs crossed. One thing that infuriated him as she was also the way she acted. Like everything was still normal and nothing happened between them.


    ''No, this is just how she is.''


    "Let''s just forget everything and start over, alright?" Mya nonchntly spoke with a smile. "Your past really doesn''t matter to me or for whatever reason you do every bit of your action."


    "There are only two things that mattered to me when I fought you. First," Mya raised her right index finger. "It was unfortunate that your n would also hinder my ns for my life at hand. So I just needed to destroy it. And second," she raised her middle finger, "You hurt one of my friends. And if I didn''t stop she could have died as well. Everything is just a matter of our own situations that shed with each other."


    Oliver didn''t speak anything as he looked expressionlessly at Mya.


    "And the end result, you lost." Mya pointed towards Oliver then pointed back at herself. "And I win."


    Mya then stretched her arms upwards. "Though I really hate it you already saw everything about me in that space right? I always do everything to crush those who hinder my ns and hurt those I care about."


    "And if you want revenge," Mya just grinned. "Just do what you want, after all revenge is only for those people who lost first. But remember this,"


    Oliver''s still not speaking furrowed his brows at Mya''s words.


    "I will just need to crush you again until you weren''t able to rise again." Mya sighed as shey on the grassy ground.


    "But oh well, since I don''t have my weapons. I''m alone, my moon''s life is in danger and with your new army here, well it would be impossible to win against you again anyway. So just hurry up and do your revenge fast. At least once in your lifetime, be proud that you defeated me."


    Mya closed her eyes and felt the cold wind dampening her cheeks. ''I wonder why I''m always put in these dramatic situations. I have more important things to do and this is just too tiring. But to think I''m gone for a month.'' A heavy feeling emerged inside her. ''I wonder what happened to my crew. And to think I''ll die when I promised to go back to them. I''m really hopeless.''


    ''My moon?'' Kayden''s brows furrowed. That was the only thing that stuck in his mind with all Mya''s words of nonsense to them.


    While Oliver, apletely defeated smile emerged on his lips. ''Revenge are only for those people who lost first.'' Those words strangely rang inside his head and something stung inside his heart.


    "You really know how to make someone want to pull out your tongue to not hear you speak again.." Oliver said.