Event Story – Escape The Prison, ch.17

[kozvme]

 

Asch: ......
... Kh.
Ng... gaaaaahhhhh...!
Fuck, I've had enough! Who! Who is it that wanted to dig a hole with a knife like this!?
Don't fuck with me! Go to hell, shit! Shit!! Fuck!!
Haah, haah...
... Tch, how long is this charade going to continue?
Aaah, fuck! I get it, I get it, I will dig! I'll dig the damn hole...! 
Better than not doing anything... Dig, dig, keep diggingー 

???: Asch...!

Asch: !?

Gray: Hah, hah... I'm tired...

Asch: Geek...

Gray: W- Wait a second... I ran, so... catch my b...

Asch: You little...

Gray: Heek!?

Asch: ... Why are you here?
You're here to laugh at me?

Gray: L... Laughing, is...

Asch: Oh, this knife? You came to get this back, I see.

Gray: T- That's not...

Asch: Jet told me earlier that you bought this knife to kill me.
Was it during the Academy days? You've been waiting for an opportunity to stab me with this ever since that time, right?

Gray: ......

Asch: "Even if you forgot what you did, who suffered will never forget", huh...?
You're still waiting for an opportunity, right? I can tell by this prison.

Gray: ......



That knife... I bought it when I wounded my forehead...
Immediately after... I was taken to the ruins rumored to be haunted to test my courage, or so I was told... 

Asch: ......

Gray: I had a dreadful experience and I even scarred my forehead...
When I realized it... I ordered that knife online...
I was surprised myself, but... at the time I didn't have Jet yet, so I was certain I needed it...
To run away from my fears, to protect myself... to erase the one hunting me down from the world and become free...
I've always been oppressed, always... I've always wanted to get back at you someday...
I did think... it would have come true with this knife...

Asch: ......

Gray: B- But...
I'm not thinking of using that knife... anymore...

Asch: ......?



Jet: Gray...!
What the hell are you doing!?

Gray: I'm o- opening the cell... To leave this place... quickly and go back to the other world...

Asch: You...

Jet: For fuck's sake, Gray!
I took the trouble to lock him up... I did what you wished forー

Gray: You can't do this!

Jet: ...!

Gray: I clearly remember what Asch and his followers did every day... at the time, even now...
Every time I remember, it's so frightening it almost makes me cry... It feels like I have to live like that for the rest of my life...
The scar on my forehead, too, will remain forever.

Asch: ......

Gray: It's true that I was thinking of getting back at Asch...
I did wish for him to disappear from this world... However...
I am different from back then...! I became a "hero"......!

Asch & Jet: ......!

Gray: I became a "hero" to get stronger... to break out of my weak self...
I can change even without stabbing Ash...
To get back at him... I will just have to repay him with kindness and become stronger than he is, become a better "hero" than him...

Asch: ... Geek...

Gray: Jay-san told me that I understand how the weak feel, that "justice" lies on me...

Jet: ......

Asch: !! Oi, this sound...

Gray: D- Don't tell me... the prisoners again...?

Asch: Do you have the headset!? Let's return to the real world before they charge at us!

Gray: O- Okay...!

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