Chapter 35: Green eyes (1/2)

Chapter 35: Green eyes

Dusk at Holy Dawn Academy was extremely beautiful. Huston liked to bring a lunchbox around this time and go to the mountain slopes south of the Lily district.

The Lily district was one of the female residence districts in Holy Dawn Academy. The slopes on the southern side were filled with lavender.

Huston liked to sit in the field of lavenders, watch the night clouds, watch the pretty girls go hither and yon inside the residence, their hairs still dripping wet after their baths.

This was such a perfect scenery. It made Huston remember the spring of his own youth, those beautiful female classmates who already left the academy.

Huston walked to the mountain slopes filled with lavender under skies filled with night clouds, just as was his custom. When he was about to sit down, he suddenly heard someone call beside him, “Teacher Huston!”

“A ghost!”

Huston turned his head. Then all the hairs on his body stood erect and he jumped with a wretched shout.

Most people, when ready to enjoy their scenery and evening meal, then suddenly seeing a ghost-like face come their way, would definitely show the same reaction as Huston.

“I’m not a ghost, teacher Huston.”

Suddenly appearing not far beside him, someone swollen black and blue with a distorted face excitedly told him, “I’m Ayrin.”

“Ayrin!”

Huston had some trouble believing it. On the one hand, he said don’t come over, on the other hand, he asked, “You’re really Ayrin? Why do you look like this?”

“Because I’ve been training in the ball bouncing gym in the body training complex these past few days.” Ayrin said very enthusiastically, “I just came back from there, that’s why I look like this.”

“Since you’re exercising in the body training complex, why did you suddenly run here?” Huston felt he was going to go crazy very soon.

Ayrin said, “Because I just happened to see teacher Huston. Teacher Huston’s guidance is very useful for me, that’s why I came to say hello.”

“…” Huston was still a little dubious. He looked at Ayrin’s eyes: “Then why are your eyes green, a lush green that sends out green light?”

“Maybe it’s because of hunger. I listened to teacher’s words and challenged the thing that makes me the most uncomfortable. Now I only eat a single meal a day. My eyes became this way because I saw teacher’s lunchbox.” Ayrin said in all sincerity, “I still have to thank you though, teacher. This way I truly feel like I can squeeze out my potential. I can feel every minute particle inside my body desperately crying for nourishment. Every time I eat, I can clearly feel warm threads drilling inside the minute particles of my body. Also, if I’m too hungry, it can stop the pain. I just forget the pain when I’m too hungry, then I can train even longer.”

“Are you joking with me?”

Huston wanted to say this. He wanted to cry but had no tears. He didn’t have the guts to say it out loud when he saw Ayrin’s green eyes, however. He merely subconsciously said, “Then you have to keep at it, keep working hard.”

Ayrin firmly brandished his fist and guaranteed, “I will work hard.”

Huston came to his senses only a full minute after Ayrin’s figure vanished from his eyes.

“Who the hell is that guy!”

“He won’t even let me eat dinner in peace!”

Huston looked at the lunchbox in his hands and almost cried, because as soon as he saw the pretty girls and their dripping hairs walk in and walk out of the residences below, he immediately remembered Ayrin’s ghost face smiling at him just now, then the faces of these girls also seemed to transform into Ayrin’s ghost face in his eyes.

…

“It hurts it hurts!”

“I can’t beat it. Ah!”

“…”

Another morning. Ayrin’s pained cries continuously echoed inside the ball bouncing gym.

A long time later, after the pained shouts stopped, laying on the ground in the ball bouncing gym’s doorway, his sweat soaking the floor so much it already drew a human figure, Ayrin weakly cracked his mouth open and asked, looking in Belo’s direction, “Why is it that there aren’t many people coming here even when the body training complex is so useful?”

“That’s because there aren’t many people like you who aren’t afraid of pain, and also so resistant to pain.” Belo smiled coldly. “But now it looks like thick skins and tolerance for beating are also skills. You really have slow reactions, it’s only today you finally understand that you have to protect your face and other vital parts first in here, but you can actually withstand twenty minutes inside thanks to your thick skin and endurance.”

“Still too slow though, I actually can’t dodge that many black balls,” Ayrin shouted, depressed.

“Too slow?”

Belo pushed his glasses and humphed coldly.

Training these past few days, Ayrin was totally reckless and didn’t think about the details or try to figure out a few tricks. Often his face would immediately get hit, then his visibility would turn even lower, then he would withstand the rest of the time thanks to his tolerance for beating. That was why, when it came to dodging, his progress couldn’t be called fast compared to some outstanding students.

But in a mere few days, Belo could clearly feel that Ayrin’s speed and strength had made a giant step forward. The reason he couldn’t avoid most black balls was in great part because he hit the black balls with too much strength, causing the black balls to hit the walls and bounce back with even greater strength and speed than what they started with.

Not knowing to first protect his vital parts, not knowing to control his strength, Ayrin’s recklessness was equal to beating up himself!