Alphas Operators

chapter 18

On a deserted island, there's a person who was trying to fix the damaged ship that crashed. But failed to get the ship working.

Then the latter noticed a pirate ship that was approaching the hidden island.

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Meanwhile...

During night time, Jericho's group are in the middle of the jungle where they set a camp for them to rest after their journey.

Sukar and Mele built a tent, Magi put bandages on Yuri to treat her injuries since their time trying to survive from the booby traps, Eelin is fixing her inventions, and Jericho is cooking a fish like alien creature for the others to eat, while feeding Coco.

"Hey guys. Dinner's ready." Jericho calls for the others where they gather around the fireplace.

As the group was eating their meal together and didn't say anything, until...

"Guys." Jericho is the first to speak.
"Sorry I got you all in danger."

Hearing this...

Eelin: Come on, it's not your fault.

Magi: none of us are aware that there are booby traps on this island.

Jericho: well it's my responsibility because I was the one who decided to go to this place.

Mele: well we all understand.

Eelin: you just want to save Lumi from Nefertine's curse.

Jericho: but Lumi wouldn't get cursed by Nefertine if I wasn't careful enough, since it was meant for me... Also, I underestimated Nefertine... I never thought she would come back to life after we turned her into glass.

Sukar: hey, don't beat yourself up.

Mele: none of us do. We never thought Nefertine would come back from nowhere.

Magi: you still help us out in any sorts of situations.

Jericho: I appreciate it, guys. But, I feel like a burden to you all.

Sukar: why do you think that?

Jericho: ... I may easily ace every test in the class when I first got here, but now... Even after we became friends, I started to feel helpless. Now that I have someone who got my back since everything we've been through becomes more difficult to face it. I wouldn't be able to survive anything without you guys. Since you all have powers, I feel so useless just because... I'm a normal human being.

He became more doubtful of his efforts to help his friends, but they denied it.

Sukar: you're not useless, Jericho.

Eelin: power or not, you're a very brave person to help someone. Like when you helped me take off the slave collar and give me the courage to fight back.

Mele: even when you stood up against the army just to defend the dragon.

Magi: I know how you felt, but still... I'm sorry as well, Jericho. I wasn't very helpful at all.

Jericho: what are you talking about? Of course you help us out.

Magi: remember we told you how we got superpowers?

Jericho: yeah. You got it from a power sphere.

Magi: my magic power may be strong but I'm not very skillful. I also doubt myself because it's so strong that I couldn't control it very well. It happens when I once hurt someone back then. This makes me avoid using my powers because I'm afraid I would mess up like before. But still... I'm sorry for not doing something useful for my magic.