Chapter 85: It Hurts to Be a Hero (3) (1/2)
Chapter 85: It Hurts to Be a Hero (3)
Thuround Chi-Woo was suddenly thrown onto the ground, and after rolling hard several ti on his back, he looked stunned Before he could grab her, Hawa had slightly tilted her body and stuck her feet out, but that was enough to ht?” Hawa flicked her hair and walked leisurely towards him “You are“It’s not such a good look”
Chi-Woo turned to gaze at her and jerked his head sidehile licking his lips He propped hih he was surprised, he tried not to show it and instead put on a carefree sed and beckoned hiaze sharpened, and he rushed forward, reaching out to grab her
Slap!
Hawa struck Chi-Woo’s elbow strongly with her hands and broke his balance Seeing that she was about to attack his now exposed front, Chi-Woo raised both arht and backed away Hawa’s fist swished forward and stopped right in front of Chi-Woo’s face She had purposefully stopped her attack ed at her lips Then she took two steps back and flicked her hair again
Blinking hard and heaving, Chi-Woo yelled, “Ahhh!” as he ran towards her with his hands outstretched He was hoping to catch her just once, but Haift By just tilting slightly sideways or taking a couple of steps away, she avoided all of Chi-Woo’s attacks Just slightly out of reach every time, Hawa escaped froreatly
“Kurgh!”
With a bright red face, Chi-Woo rushed forward again like an angry bull Hawa clicked her tongue As Chi-Woo flung his hands all over the place, Hawa threw a punch at Chi-Woo’s side
Thud!
“O, ow!” Chi-Woo jumped Hawa had planned to land a punch on Chi-Woo’s side at just the perfect ti, but Chi-Woo tilted his body unexpectedly and blocked her fist with his arms
‘Oh-‘ Hawa pursed her lips and nodded “As I thought, you do have a natural instinct”
Chi-Woo rubbed his forearms and looked at Hawa If it hadn’t been for his newly opened senses, he would have gotten hit mercilessly Besides that, Chi-Woo wondered how such a small fist could pack a punch; it felt like he was hit by a rock Chi-Woo gritted his teeth with a burning want for revenge and glared at Hawa Sirew icy, as if she arning hi now As a result…
Chi-Woo fell, rolled, toppled over, tripped, and fell again It took sround a few ti Hawa His constant failure proved to hi Mi Even if you acquire synesthesia, how are you going to use it? You said you wanted to be strong, but how are you going to be stronger with such an ability?]
It was thanks to sheer miraculous and Godly fortune that Chi-Woo had been able to escape from the monsters He didn’t even kno to use a rare ability such as synesthesia, as this fight clearly indicated After he ed up her offense style completely She mixed in trickery with her attacks and confused his senses While he was disoriented, Hawa played with him like he was in the palm of her hands
Chi-Woo was frustrated He knehere the attacks were co from, but his body failed to keep up It was like what Ronaldo had said when he retired fro of ways to defend, but my body doesn’t match up to it’ And besides all this, Chi-Woo also realized how iot his ass handed to hie
“How did I defeat you?” A shadow cast over hi down at him
“…What do you mean?” Chi-Woo asked with embarrassment
“Either you’ve purposefully lost toyour power as a hero,” Hawa answered immediately, like she was certain that it must be one of the two “If the answer is the former, I will tell you to stop And if it’s the latter, don’t just rush into the fight Maintain a good distance fro for an opening for a counterattack, because it feels like you are able to read h”
Chi-Woo covered his face with both ar out a deep sigh, Chi-Woo spat out the truth in a er, “What if I didn’t lose to you on purpose, and I’ of close cohts for a while and spoke again, “Before learning skills, you should be prepared
“Prepared…?”
“Yes, prepared to get hurt,” Hawa said calmly “And prepared to hurt another person”
Chi-Woo’s eyes turned round
“You had an opportunity to win at least one time”
Chi-Woo recalled the time he had luckily blocked Hawa’s attack
“If you had attacked uard, you would’ve beatenis meant to be Both sides are often hurt and more uncommonly, even crippled”
“…”
“But you keep only trying to grabis also a form of attack”
“That’s beside the point,” Hawa retorted “I wouldn’t ruban attack I would’ve endured the pain somehow and counterattacked”
Chi-Woo was silent He understood what she et hurt and hurt others now He let out a deep sigh, unable to come up with a retort But since he was upset that he lost, he squeezed his eyes shut
“Let’s go another round next time with the sa without anything on the line…” Hawa agreed easily Then her face grew curious
“If you ere you going to askto tell you to call me oppa” [1]
Hawa looked speechless for a moment
“Well you know, I always use your na me ‘Mr’ or ‘Sir’”
“But Mister, you don’t like others calling your name”
Chi-Woo was about to protest, but then he re and closed his eyes again There was nothing he could say
“H deal” Hawa snorted and tilted her head while still looking down at him, “Well then, you should call me nuna from now on” [2]
Chi-Woo furrowed
“Come on, I won,” Hawa said
“Ah”
“So fro my formalities too Understand?”
Chi-Woo’s ain He couldn’t even find the words to say
“Well, since I’ your na to call you by saying ‘hey’” Hawa chuckled, and Chi-Woo gritted his teeth
After the utter hu Following Mied up his daily routine In addition to running, he e in sports and mixed in other exercises as well
“Huff! Huff!” He so to do so his run; then he stopped to run in place That reintroduced hi of physical exhaustion He hadn’t been feeling tired these days froe, his heart thumped hard, and he ran out of breath like the time he first ran around the fortress Chi-Woo welcoe Mimi had told hi, he had doubted whether or not he would be able to run five laps around the fortress without resting; as he exercised more and more, there really came a day when he could In his current state, he was confident in running not only five laps, but even ten laps around the fortress As long as he kept pushi+ng through, Chi-Woo believed that there would coled with currently would become easy in the future
‘I have to overco a 100 situps and 5 squats set 20 times, Chi-Woo climbed on top of hard tree branches and did pull-ups Sweat poured down his body like rain, and both of his arritted his teeth and endured And as if it was rewarding his hard work, he eventually got es about his improvements as days passed by
<User Information>
1 Name & Rank: Choi Chi-Woo (EX)
[Strength E]
[Durability E]
[Agility E]
[Stamina E]
[Mental Fortitude C]
His physical skills had been lingering around F rank, but now they had all risen rank E Chi-Woo realized why Mimi and Ru Amuh had emphasized stamina so much After his stamina ranked up, his other physical skills followed
‘Aweso the fat protruding froraress filled Chi-Woo with renewed confidence Not only did his stamina improve, but so did every one of his physical attributes Bolstered, Chi-Woo challenged Hawa to another battle…only to lose brutally
But how? Chi-Woo healed his bruised body parts inside the spring pool and like Miested to him, checked Hawa’s user information
<User Information>
1 Nae: Fe