Hunter Academy’s Battle God Chapter 194

EunAh was the one who brought YuSung to her room, but the atmosphere felt weird as he sat on her bed.

"Ehem! So... hey, isn't it hot?" EunAh gave him an awkward look.

YuSung scooted closer to her. "No, it's okay. Feel free to talk comfortably, EunAh. There was sothing you wanted to talk about, right?"

"Ah, y-yes..."

YuSung began wondering why she had called him away. Due to her past, she wasnt used to talking about herself, but YuSung was more than just soone else to her. She cared more for him than she did almost anyone else.

"Well, I might be overthinking things and worrying before it even happens... but I once fell into the water when I was seven and my brother saved .

"By the water... do you an the sea?"

"No, no! Just a place like a swimming pool. It doesnt an much now..."

EunAh said it was sothing that happened a long ti ago and tried to play it off as nothing, but that strong act only lasted for a brief mont.

She ended up speaking honestly to YuSung when she saw his serious expression.

"When I was little it seems like that was a bit of a trauma for . I was, of course, scared of the water, but I also beca fearful in general. If the Tower's penalty makes synchronize with my past self..."

She seed embarrassed as she idly scratched the bed. It wasn't just because she was alone with YuSung. She always acted strong before others, so being so honest with him felt weird to her.

"That's why... I might not be of help. Not only will I be unable to fight, but I will also be unable to use my Trait.

EunAh still rembered that day very well.

[That's why I said you shouldn't go to the deep part. Things almost beca serious.]

[Ugh! I... Cough! Didn't know it was... that deep!]

Shed flailed around in the water and only been saved by JunHyuk by a narrow margin.

Shed thought herself over it, but when she thought about it, that childhood trauma was still influencing her. She didnt like the ocean or even the humidity in the air whenever it rained.

She said it was nothing, but she was even affected by those small things and vividly rembered the day shed fallen into the water.

"Haa..." EunAh sighed and gripped the blanket.

If the Tower's penalty synchronized her with her past self, she believed she would be quite annoying.

Shed never tried hard to achieve anything for the past 10 years and had been born with so much that she never had anything like a goal.

"Why do things get so mixed up when I try to put effort into sothing...?"

Right when EunAh thought she wanted to be helpful to the party, life played a different hand.

From the dungeon subjugation to the International Competition She only ever found herself in unfavorable conditions.

"I also wanted to be helpful to the party and do things in a cool way..." EunAh said it in a low voice. After her strong appearance was peeled away, EunAh was just a normal 17-year-old girl.

Such honesty saddened YuSung.

"EunAh..." he mumbled in a low voice.

EunAh raised her head and looked at him. "Y-yes?"

She was nervous. YuSung, who always treated her warmly, looked firm.

"EunAh... you don't know how important you are to us."

For so reason, he seed angry.

EunAh began giving excuses. "E-eh? No! We're obviously party mbers, and your achievents are also mine! But still..."

"You were upset, right?"

Unlike the firm voice he had just spoken with, YuSung's voice turned sweet.

EunAh nodded. "Yes..."

She was feeling strange. It was a reaction she'd experienced before, but it felt different when YuSung showed empathy for her.

In a sense, it was an incredible weapon.

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YuSung, who used to be introverted, had changed after eting many people. On top of that, thanks to her appearance and atmosphere, he was easily able to dig into her and figure out her emotions.

"If you hadn't defeated Angela and slowed down Lorelei, would we have been able to win?" YuSung's asked.

"Well, you have a point in that sense She lowered her guard and was starting to feel better, evidenced by what she said next. "But when you were in Italy didn't you miss ? I an... us?"

YuSung smiled at her question. "Obviously. I wanted to return to you guys."

She couldnt help but start to smile when she heard his reply. "Really...?"

He was the first person of the opposite gender to whom she'd opened herself.

She wasn't aware of it, but she'd also started to feel jealousy, so each of YuSung's emotions had destructive power to her.

"Obviously. You guys are more than simple party mbers to ."

EunAh nodded at YuSung, who was still sitting beside her on the bed. "Okay... then it's okay."

Although she usually spent so much ti with him, seeing him from so close was sothing else.

Still, she didn't want to move away from him. She liked that closer-than-usual distance.

"Hey, should I tell you what happened last ti?" EunAh naturally brought up another topic. Rather than going out to the others again, she wanted to stay in her room with YuSung. "mbers of the Shin-oh family ca the other day. I made sure they didn't get the contract!"

YuSung laughed as she clenched her fists. He was surprised that shed stood up for him like that, but he knew it wasnt because her personality had changed.

He rembered how she had cried for her brother.

'As expected, she has a soft heart.'

She was the sa as him in that sense and couldn't stand watching the people she cared for getting hurt. Rather than seeing that, she would prefer to get hurt first.

That was, in a sense, weak, and in another sense, pure.

When you peeled away her hard exterior, EunAh cared a lot about others and was very sensitive.

"Was that for ?" YuSung asked while silently getting close to her.

She nodded, her face stiff. "Of course... those people have abandoned you. Who do they think they are?"

EunAh began scratching her head before speaking to him in a low voice. "Hey, YuSung..." EunAh hesitated a bit but then continued. "What's family...?"

She didn't avoid looking at him anymore. Instead, she stared directly into his eyes.

"Abandoning soone just because you don't have the ability they wanted isn't what soone would call a family... If family are people you want to treat well unconditionally..." EunAh took a deep breath and slowly added, "Are we also... family?"

She hadnt even heard his answer yet, but her eyes were already trembling. She was so nervous that she bit her lips.

They were just talking, but why was her heart trembling so much? Because of her nervousness, EunAh gathered strength from the tips of her toes. It was a habit shed had since she was a child and was anxiously awaiting an answer.

'Ah, what am I saying this early? Why did I get so serious...'

Her body began to stiffen as she waited for his reply. It was as if her blood was circulating poorly.

"Agh!" Like a fish jumping out of water, EunAh fell to the bed. "Ugh! Ouch...!"

Had she been tensing her legs too much? She got a cramp during such an important mont.

"YuSung! I! I got a cramp! A cramp..." It seed like it really hurt. EunAh was hitting the bed and tearing up.

"EunAh! Are you okay?!"

"Aghh! I'm not okay! My leg! No! Tight! I'm dying..."

YuSung stretched out her leg to lessen the pain.

"EunAh, in situations like this, you have to relax and"

"It hurts, I cant do it... Try to massage it a bit lightly!"

When EunAh's screams started to change to tears, the door opened.

"What are you guys doing...?" EunAhs mother, YunHa, smiled at them. "I ca here because the noise could be heard from outside... but youve been in here together since the sun was out!"

"Mom! It isn't anything like that!"

YunHa laughed while looking at EunAh's blush. "Fufu. EunAh, you really act like your father and . It seems like you really are your mothers daughter."