The Frost Heart

Happened Again...

The sky is orange and the sun is tilted slightly to the west. In the part of the forest, which was close to the flowing waterfall, there were 2 men who were sitting cross-legged while closing their eyes and there was one woman who was guarding them both. 2 The man is Jack and Dian who are training to feel mana, while the woman is Mary.

When Dian and Jack meditated the atmosphere was so quiet and peaceful. There were no birdsong or other small animal sounds. There were only endless sounds coming from the waterfall near them.

While waiting for them to meditate, Mary did many things such as eating snacks and reading books. On the first day, he was bored just waiting for the two of them to finish without doing anything, which was why he did something like this while looking after the two of them.

Mary could not leave them, for if there was something as dangerous as a snake, their lives would be threatened. It is likely that it could happen, as they are close to moist areas that are the habitat of sloping animals.

"UAHHH!!!" Amidst the meditation, Jack shouted loudly with a trembling body.

Mary was not surprised by what happened to Jack and walked up to him and stood beside him. Jack regained his senses as he squirmed a few times on the ground and looked up at the sky afterwards.

"Ah, I don't think you're just a witch Jack."

Mary saw firsthand Jack's agony, so couldn't bear to see it that way. Moreover, he had once saved himself once, making their relationship a little close.

Jack was silent and sat down again. He meditated again after taking a short rest. Moments later when Mary was still standing and wanted to return to her place, Jack again shouted the same as before. He wriggled like a worm and finally regained consciousness.

"Just give up Jack. Being a witch isn't the only way to save the world, you can be a doctor or a war warden.."

Jack did not grumble and went back to meditating. A few moments later, he screamed again. This time harder than before. After the screams stopped, Jack sat down cross-legged with his face still in pain.

Moments later and for the third time, Jack again shouted. This time Jack's face looks sluggish, he seems to have reached his limit. Jack did not care and went back to meditating.

"Enough!!!" Mary didn't let Jack get tortured and hugged Jack.

"Enough.enough.hisk...hisk..." As a sensitive woman with feelings, seeing such suffering made Mary unable to hold back her tears.

The hugged Jack could do nothing, he just let himself be hugged by Mary. Unknown to Mary, Jack's face was actually hardened and stiff at the time.

After a while, Jack gently pushed Mary's body to release her embrace. Then Jack stood up from his place, making Mary look at him confused.

"Jack..." Jack ignored Mary's call and walked to the front of the tree trunk where they were training. Jack was silent for a moment in front of the tree with his face down. Then his hands clenched and Jack briefly hit the tree in front of him.

SHIT!!!

Mary was surprised when Jack hit the tree with a trunk width of almost 1 meter. The punch made a hole that was not so deep and made a loud noise until Dian woke up from his meditation.

Dian who just woke up was confused by happening. He saw Jack facing the tree trunk and saw Mary who was swollen from crying.

"What exactly happened?" Dian asked Jack.

"I want to be strong.." Jack replied, but that was not the answer to Dian's question.

Dian looked back at Mary, hoping to have an answer to what had happened. But Mary was unaware of Dian's gaze and focused only on Jack.

"But, why are so many preventing me from becoming strong?!" Then Jack again hit the tree and made the hole made first to be deeper.

The loud noise caused Dian to cover her ears and mouth. This was the side of Jack that Dian had never seen before, the grumpy and grumpy side.

"There's too much time left to find what I need, but what I get is endless pain and bullies."

Dian was offended when Jack mentioned the endless bullies, even though he didn't really understand what Jack was saying.

In Dian's mind, Jack who was too much silent turned out to have a great ambition to regain their world. He is a passive person and looks very relaxed for an ambitious person. Usually they will look so firm and hasty, even though every action looks calm.

After Jack hit the rod a few times, Jack was silent for a moment and raised his head.

"When did I forget it?" Jack muttered, but was quite heard by Dian and Mary.

After that, Jack turned around and left the place. There is a tall tree but a trunk width of no more than 3 cm that blocks Jack when walking. Jack snorted and put away the tree. However, it made the tree collapse.

After that Jack goes away and disappears from Dian and Mary's sight.

"What the fuck?" Dian felt a direct look at Jack's dark side and it was really surprising.

Then Dian walked up to Mary and woke Mary to stand up to a spot cleaner than Mary now sits.

"What's really going on?" When she calmed down, Dian asked Mary about Jack's strange behavior.

Mary then tells Jack who three times meditated and three times shouted it. When telling the part that hugged Jack, Mary's cheeks flushed red because she realized what she was doing was so embarrassing. Dian was unaware of Mary's attitude and thought while stroking her chin.

"Ehm, yesterday he only did it once and gave up on the pain. Jack is so different now, is it because of that?" Dian said while thinking, connecting the events of a moment ago with the present.

"What is that, anyway?" Ask Mary.

"Before we got here, Jack was acting weird at first. He suddenly left without cause and was in a place that I thought was a little ..hidden. In addition, there are 2 people, women and men are alone in that place that they may be lovers. Jack peeked at the two of them with a longing look at something, and I estimated from the way he looked that he was reminiscing about the past with one of them.

Then, we both walked away when Jack suddenly slapped himself and made a noise to get us caught. I was at first confused about what Jack was doing at the time and often muttered that he wanted to be strong or something. But now, I finally know the reason behind all that."

Mary was a little curious about Dian's opinion of the current Jack. Then Dian sighed deeply, as if preparing for the worst and said, "The woman with the man is Jack's ex-lover, that's what I guess."

"Whoever Jack? But he's a scavenger." Mary doesn't believe what Dian said.

"Even though he was now a scavenger, he used to be a rich kid, that's what he used to say."

"So he used to be the son of a rich man?" Dian nodded.

"I have good reason for that statement. When I look at the way Jack looks at the two of them, Jack is like reminiscing about the past. In my estimation, Jack was actually reminiscing about the happiest times with that woman back when bound in love. Then, he sank himself to forget his past and when we ran he continued to mutter to be strong so that maybe he could avenge the pain left by the woman, so."

Mary thought of all the words Dian said and thought it made little sense. Dian added, "Ah, maybe also the Jack became a scavenger, because he could not forget himself and treat the pain of his breakup until he continued to follow it until it became like that."

"Well, can a breakup be like that?"

"May, there are even people who lost their lives because of a breakup."

Mary became afraid of her name as romance. He thought about not getting married and becoming a single old man. But immediately dismissed his thoughts.

Then he stared at Jack's former punch and his countenance suddenly changed. Half-running, Mary approached the marks of the blow and touched it

"What's up, Mary?" Dian was astonished by Mary's behavior.

"Here it..."

And after Mary spoke something, Dian stood up with a look of disbelief.