The Search for Freedom

I walked towards Alicia and shouted on her ear to wake her up from being dead to the world. She opened her eyes and looked at me. I didn't know what happened to her. She might had fallen into reverie and hadn't noticed what was happening. It would become difficult for me if she'd always be like this; she couldn't help me when I'd be in danger.

I should practice magic to become powerful, so that I wouldn't rely on this demon, and I would be more powerful than her. After that, I didn't care about her anymore and I would let her do everything she'd wanted. "Kaila! Where's the speedy man now?" Alicia asked.

"Good to know that you came back to the real world," I replied. "Can I know where you had been that you were just standing there?"

"Sorry, uh, I did not saw what happened a while ago, I had just remembered something about my past. So, can you tell me what happened and where's the speedy man now?"

"He already eluded." I sighed.

"Eluded? But why did not you stopped him? Why you let him escape?"

"What the hell! You dare to asked me that? Though it was you who didn't even know what exactly happened. That man was so strong that he just slung me across the air and thrown away. Do you think I could stop him?"

"So you got your lesson? That's why I told you to kill him quickly. Now look what happened, he already eluded because of your negligence."

"My negligence or your negligence? You told me that you would help me in killing that man, but what did you do? You were just standing there while my bones were broken because of your negligence!"

"Sorry to hear that, but it's your negligence that your bones were broken, and did I told you that I would help you in killing that man? Have you forgotten about what we have talked about? It was your mission to kill the hundred of people who were destined to fight you, not mine."

"Okay, it was my mistake and not yours, it already happened, what we shall do is to search for the speedy man again."

"It was actually your mistake and because of your mistake we needed to search for that man again."

"I know that, but don't make me feel that it was all my mistake, because you were the root of everything. It's not only my mission, have you forgotten that you were the origin of this mission?"

Alicia emit a long, deep, audible breath and replied, "We should not talk about these things, let's search for that man again, because he's our enemy not each other." She tried to change the topic as if she was avoiding us to discuss where and how everything started.

"Why won't you use the power of vision to know where he went? So that we won't need to travel the whole world searching for him."

"But how? Have you forgotten that the power of my vision won't show me anything about the hundred of people who were destined to fight me? The speedy man is powerful and it's impossible to see where he is."

Now I knew that the reason why the power of vision could not show me anything about the speedy man, it was because he was so speedy. I also wanted to have a power like that, I could move quickly, and I could join with the lightnings. "No, you're wrong, if you remembered the semblance of that man, the power of your vision won't hesitate to show him to you."

"Are you sure that it will work?" I asked.

"Of course, believe me, believe it, believe yourself, because something won't exist if you're not believing in it."

"But, I tried to use it many times and I failed," I told her.

"Why won't you try again? There's nothing to lose if you will."

"Okay, I'll try." I closed my eyes and asked the power of vision to show me where the speedy man went.

"Don't say you'll try, do it," Alicia added. "So, did you see him?"

"Can't you just wait? I'm doing it," I replied.

Many times, I tried to asked the power of my vision if where the speedy man went. I didn't know why, but I failed, it was showing nothing, but a void, the same with the place I always dreamed of. Until now, I didn't had any idea about why I'm always seeing that void. I had been thinking it wasn't a normal place because since Alicia demonstrated to me, I was repeatedly seeing it. Sometimes I'm having the same dream, but it wasn't as always as before.

"The power of vision isn't showing me anything," I informed her.

"Maybe you don't know how to use that power?" Alicia interrogated.

"If you're right, then how to use it?" I queried.

"Why won't you sketch the semblance of the speedy man in your mind, once you're sketching his semblance, you can also see his atmosphere, and even you don't know the place where he is, that's so simple because his surroundings will be a guide for us to trace him."

What kind of spirit was Alicia that even I would tell her that the power of vision wouldn't show me anything, she still coerced me to do it. But I could not blame her, because she was only trying her best to help me, so I must thank her instead. So I did what she told me to do, I closed my eyes, and sketch the semblance of the speedy man in my mind. I eventually, wasn't failed. Alicia was right, that if I sketched his semblance I could also define the atmosphere or place where he was. However, there was something wrong, the power of vision could not show me his exact location. Perhaps because he was shifting anywhere.

"So did you see the speedy man?" Alicia asked.

"I can see him, but I can't define his atmosphere, maybe it's because he's not staying at one place?"

"I see, but what shall we do if we cannot trace him?"

"If we cannot trace him, there's one more thing we can do. Why you're thinking very far if the answer to your question is just by us?"

"You're right, why am I, but what's the answer to my question?"

"I thought you already knew it?" I mumbled. "We don't need to search for him in the far places, because not long, he'll be back to his house."

"So, do you mean we will wait for him to comeback here?"

"That's exactly what I mean, we'll only waste our time if we search for that man in the other places, he moves quickly, he'll only escape and escape from us."

"You have a point, we'll waste our time in pursuing him, someone said that 'the more you pursued something, the more it would be hard to gain,' so we should stay here and prepare for his return."

I had been thinking if it was true that the more I pursued something, the more it would be harder for me to gain. Sometimes I thought that if I really wanted to gain something, I would do anything to gain it. If I was doing anything for my pursuits, then it would be easier for me to gain it.