The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0835 Slowly, Jackson's mouth pulls into a smile as he realizes that this isn't a maze at

all.

It's a cage.

A cage with nothing in it. And if there's something that the Atalaxians have built here that they're either trying to keep in, or protect themselves from? Well. That's something he wants to know more about, isn't it?

Eager for the first time in days to have something to do, a problem to work on, Jackson strides forward.

With his long legs and magic pulsing through his veins, Jackson crosses the Land of Darkness at a pace faster than most people can run. It only takes him about fifteen minutes to reach the first set of iron bars that align with the outer rim of the castle. When he gets there, Jackson frowns, taking the iron in his hands.

Because upclose he realizes that this enclosure is much less impressive than it looks from afar. Jackson shakes the bars and finds that, absurdly, they move - not rigorously rooted in the ground or anchored to each other. He huffs a bit in derision, thinking that whoever made this cage did quick or lazy work with it, and that if he had been in charge -

cages, is he? No, he grew up in a cage - a mental one, if not physical. And the realization of

and takes the bars in his hands, calling on his magic and pulling the metal hard to the

bent bars as he steps through them. "Whoever made these

and moves forward through the maze. Of course, he doesn't bother to try to find his way through or around the maze of cages. Instead he just moves forward, just casually calling on his magic and pulling the bars apart every time he comes to a new fence, as easy as pushing a little branch aside while

in the distance. He sniffs again and then turns, moving faster now through the cages, heading directly for it. Because he's sure - absolutely sure - that it smells like

here - within the past few days, at least,

the pile of dirty white cloth comes into sight because - what

he realizes that it's certainly not her. That it is, instead, a big

down at the dirty duvet and collection of

is this...here, when the rest of the cages are entirely empty?

down at the ground. Because he just doesn't get it why the hell does this elaborate system of eages exist?

just...wasting his time here?