Chapter 81 - Friendless [1] (1/2)

”There is no way you can beat me. See, I won again,” Jiwoo vocalised.

Sweat dripped down her face while her hand tightly clutched on to a dagger. The sharp edge of the dagger was placed against Oh Sookyung's ċhėst, and her lips curved to form a wide victorious smile.

Oh Sookyung's back laid on the ground, and Moon Jiwoo's body was on top of his. Sookyung let go of his grip on the sword, and the sharp metal blade was there beside her.

”You won, but I have made a considerable amount of progress. Don't you think so?” Sookyung raised one of his eyebrows.

”I guess you became stronger than before although you are still a weakling. But considering how you control two elements now, this is to be expected. Damn! With that, you should be stronger than me. Did you slack off at the training,” Jiwoo voiced out.

”What do you mean by that? It's already an impressive feat for someone to unlock two elements within a year and half. I am a genius I am telling you,” he smugly voiced out.

”Even if you have two of your powers unlocked, your second power, the ability to control wind, is too weak. Get up! Let's practice again,” she vocalised.

”Sure, we can do that, but why don't you get off of me before something dangerous happens? That position of yours is quite suggestive,” Sookyung vocalised, wriggling both of his eyebrows at her.

”What suggestive? I really like this position of yours. I can easily kill you by driving this blade through your ċhėst. Thinking about it makes me feel pleasant,” she stated.

”You are such a narcissist at times yet you lack self awareness at times. You are really like a little kid, Shin Daerin,” he voiced out.

A sigh escaped from his mouth as he wrapped his hand around her waist and pulled her body closer to his. A gasp escaped from her mouth as she found herself falling on his ċhėst.

Caught by surprise due to his actions, her face hit the hard surface of his ċhėst, and having her head collide with his neck, a sharp pain went through it.

”What the heck are you doing!?” Moon Jiwoo exclaimed while a irritated groan escaped from her mouth.

As she was about to raise her body, Sookyung pushed her body down upon his once again and said, ”Now that you are on my body like this, Shun Daerin, you feel really small. What's you height, Shin Daerin? Are you at least five foot?”

Raising her head slightly, she stared at his face, and directing a glare at him, she exclaimed, ”Shut up! At least despite my height, I am good at fighting!”

Extending both of his hand towards her, Oh Sookyung stared at Moon Jiwoo and held both of her cheeks by his hand. The way he was gazing at her caused Moon Jiwoo's breath to be stuck, and with slightly widened eyes, she looked at him.

While his hand stroke her cheeks, she found herself frozen. In that instant, it felt that the soft smile Sookyung had on his face completely hypnotized her.

These weird feelings she was starting to go towards Oh Sookyung— Jiwoo blamed the reason behind them to be because of how he strangely treated her these days.

Other than that, it did not make sense to her why she would be finding him pleasing to the eyes all of a sudden when she found himself annoying and ugly previously.

”Daerin, you don't have to worry about anything happening to you. I will be protecting you the entire time. You were my motivation throughout the entire training. It was because of my dėsɨrė to keep you safe I was able to make this such of a progress,” Oh Sookyung confessed.

His words took time to register within Moon Jiwoo. She never thought that she will be ever hearing such words from Oh Sookyung, and the entire thing was too difficult for her to process.

Nonetheless, a wide smile broke out on to her face as warmth spread through her ċhėst. Whether or not those words were completely true, Jiwoo found herself being pleased by those simple words— maybe because of how unused she was to people behaving warmly to her.

The smile on the face caused Sookyung's eyes to widen for a second while his lips curved up slightly. Slight red coloured his cheeks as his heart started to beat at a faster pace.

”Can I kiss you?” he questioned.

Moon Jiwoo blinked thrice at the words he had just uttered before she exclaimed, ”No way!”

Springing up from his body, she jumped a considerable distance away from him and stared at him warily.