District 42-Chapter 136: Alfar’s choice

"H-how can it be, Alfar? I made everything correctly when operating the master key. I am pretty sure of it." Exasperated, Casper entered the elevator looking around.

"How do you discover that something isn’t working man? How can you do it without even activating this thing?"

Alfar looked to Olaf, who was asking him that clever question. That man was still outside the elevator, unlike Casper.

"Let me show you how. I worked in Halden before as a mechanic and electrician. In short, I made most of the maintenance of things around here, and this elevator always gave me the most trouble in its electric circuit."

Olaf looked very dumbfounded but somewhat interested in what Alfar had discovered.

He peeked inside the elevator, and then stepped inside it, looking around.

At that exact moment, the elevator closed all of a sudden behind him, making Olaf turn to look at it.

"D-damn, were you talking about... it...?" Olaf was going to ask but then noticed that the Dark elf just had slowly pulled off his finger from a button from the panel inside the elevator, which not just closed its doors, but also began to go up at a slow pace.

Casper was looking flabbergasted towards Alfar, not knowing even what to say or do. For a moment his mind froze while he tried to process everything that happened.

Once he could let his shock aside and see with wide-open eyes that situation, he rushed towards Alfar and grabbed him from the collar of his shirt, almost lifting him from the ground.

His fury was so big, and all his muscles so tensioned, that Alfar seemed to not have any weight.

The soldier was looking intently into his eyes, gritting hard his teeth. The Dark elf did the same, staring solemnly as if he didn’t regret anything.

That sight made Casper want even more to slam the head of that man on the elevator’s walls until it got all wrinkled.

"Why...? Why did you do that!? Why!?" He yelled, shaking Alfar’s body by the collar. His thunderous voice echoed into the elevator, making it appear even more threatening.

Casper’s head seemed to be boiling, he was about to explode, and he needed just one more reason to make that man pay for what he did.

"Of all the men down there, even in comparison to Olaf, you were the last person I thought that would do something like this! I had suspected even when Anton did, but you!? After we got this far, when we are so close to the victory, you do this sh*t!? Don’t kid around with me, Alfar! You were the one saying to carry an entire prison on my shoulders, weren’t you? And I somehow could pull through it, and that’s what you do!?" Casper pushed him hard against those metallic walls, his hands getting white because of the strength he was exerting to hold his collar.

"You are the one that is not understanding." He spoke in a choked voice. "Just... Just listen to me, Casper, please..."

The White warrior kept looking into his eyes. In Alfar’s expression, he couldn’t see malice at all, and somehow it was something that infuriated him the most.

Olaf seemed to be as angry as Casper, but also somewhat relieved that he wasn’t the one staying outside with the other prisoners.

He walked beside Casper and signaled him to stop and just listen, he didn’t need to talk anything, nor touch the soldier.

The White warrior freed Alfar, and the man could catch his breath finally.

"Ok, relax. I will not kill him, ok?" He assured Olaf, giving a step back and trying to listen without snapping.

"All I did until this point wasn’t to prejudicate you two, nor the prisoners. Everything has a good reason to happen." He stretched his arms in front of his body, trying to show Casper that he didn’t represent any harm.

"Why did you activated the elevator, Alfar?" Olaf asked, wanting to be the one conducting that conversation.

"I did it to separate us from the prisoners. In short, I want us to leave this place, and want them to stay here..."

A vein popped up in Olaf’s neck now, showing how much stressed he got with that answer.

"Don’t worry, the prisoners will be ok. Actually, we should be the only ones outside Halden. Those prisoners need to be here, their worlds are totally different, their conditions, their necessities, everything."

Casper rubbed his hair viciously, walking back and forth. That was the first time that both Olaf and Alfar saw the usually cold and practical soldier lost his mind.

In fact, Casper was always on the verge but never showed it to others. At that moment, though, all he wanted was to rip off Alfar’s head.

It wasn’t just a matter of betrayal, but weeks of planning and struggle being throw into the trash because of reasons he couldn’t understand completely.

"What are you saying, you jerk!? Are you infected by Anton’s ideals? Did that freaking bastard enter your mind again? Because, if that’s it, then I will punch you in the face until you can reason properly!"

Alfar exploded, feeling anger and despair at the same time. If he wanted that things went well, he needed to show to Casper his real intentions as fast as he could.

"No! Stop to think about it just in your

perspective, you idiot! Look to all those prisoners out down there, to all the consequences that Halden caused on their bodies and brains. There is no way that we can put them into society! And even if we do, who will guarantee that there will not be more people being dragged here and tortured cruelly!?"

Faced with that argument, Casper stopped for a while, as if a bit of what the Dark elf said finally had entered his mind.

"Look, what Anton was saying before was true. His intentions weren’t bad at all! The thing here is, is that we can’t change the world to put those man in society, but there is something we can change..."

"Halden..." Casper completed, his angry expression getting more and more at ease as his mind started to think about that. "We can change Halden, and everything that’s made inside here..."

Alfar nodded energetically, looking to Olaf, wanting his approval as well.

"Yes. We can do this. I mean, possibly. I mean... Well, Casper had strong contacts here and outside as well, right? And my family has their influence everywhere, and so am I. Also, even if one of us can get out of this prison, we will serve as concrete proofs of what happened inside there."

"Yeah, that’s it, guys! We can do it, and if we do, we will be saving everyone, anyway." 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Casper had stopped for a while, with his hands inside the lab coat’s pockets.

"Change everything, huh?" He thought in Amelia. "Maybe that’s what that woman really wanted, and not what I had in mind exactly..." He sighed, seeing a new range of possibilities in front of him.

"So, that’s why you were so strange, huh?" He asked, his eyes more playful than before, and somewhat relieved that he didn’t lose one more comrade.

"Yes. That was my choice. It’s painful to end with the dreams of those people, but they will understand us." The soldier could only imagine how Alfar was feeling inside by that time, carrying the weight of that choice alone. The bitterness in his words already said a lot about it, actually.

"I do have a contact that can be crucial to what I planned by now. And, also... a way to change Halden. But, for this, we need to get out of this prison once and for all.

"My first plan to escape from Halden was to be just for two to four people, so we are back in plan A again."

Alfar let the air he was holding before leave his lungs slowly as his shoulders relaxed and the pressure he was feeling left his body.

Olaf and he nodded to the White warrior gathering near him to hear more about what they should do starting from there.

"Sorry for not let you guys know beforehand about what was my choice. But I couldn’t let a fuss start between us with the prisoners around, and it would have to be a sneaky action..."

Casper didn’t answer, nor Olaf. They were still a bit shaken inside, but they couldn’t think too much on that matter, since that elevator wouldn’t stop and soon they would arrive at their destiny.

"Ok, we have just a few things to do once we get into the Third Lab’s lower levels. Most of these things just I will be able to accomplish because of certain situations, so you should just follow me and be attentive to any orders I may have, am I clear?" They agreed.

"Ok, now, the problem is... How will we pull through against the bunch of Ridires that will be waiting for us?"