Chapter 45 A man's team (1)
Chapter 45: A man's team (1)
Hunter could see where Aie was coming from.
After all, she wasn't a woman who would give up on her dreams or make them secondary for the sake of joining soone else's team.
But on top of being ambitious, Aie also had a clear understanding of the world and could see that Hunter had more than enough potential to beco a top dog in the First Hunter Union.
With his gender and strength, he'd draw the attention of many people.
He already did, in fact.
And with more achievents lining up in his wake, people with similar dreams to her would get interested in him. His potential seed boundless, at least for now, but that didn't an Aie would blindly follow him and join his team.
Which was because she wanted more than his strength.
She wanted to ensure their goals and their paths at least crossed a few tis and that there was more than Hunter's interest in her skill and beauty.
Therefore, Aie shared her skill, wanting Hunter to do the sa.
Alas, he remained silent, keeping his origins and innate skill hidden.
If that were the case, wouldn't he keep more of his goals hidden to himself and just go around the world, collecting strong and beautiful won like her to his collection? At so point, he'd forget about her dream, resulting in Aie wasting a lot of ti under his team.
Still, Aie's feelings that she had developed toward Hunter were genuine and warm, enough to lt the cruelty of the hunter world and even her own conscience.
Unaware of it, Hunter was inwardly crafting his next words.
He was before a first serious test.
Perhaps it was the top out of the yearly exam!
'I don't want to let her go… if I do that, the sa thing will happen in the future. I'll et a lot of precious won, only for them to see better alternatives in others, all because I can't share my SSS skills. No, curse that. I don't want Aie to leave ! I've also taken a liking to her.'
Which ant that it was ti to be selfish.
Sothing that Hunter understood well already.
"I told you, didn't I, Aie? I'll hunt monsters, demons, and beautiful won. At that ti, for so reason, I hadn't said to you that I'd also hunt humans. That was naive of , but we had already done that. We killed aspiring hunters on the first and second exams and even a strong descendant from the famous guild. In the demons' invasion, Seraphina and I faced a C-Ranked Monster and an experienced hunter. The monster was so strong that it drew out our strongest skills… and the experienced hunter seed like an unkillable beast whose mace was enough to take down Seraphina and … but I still managed to kill her."
Peeking at Seraphina's shocked face, Aie could read the strength of that experienced hunter. Soone from the Beast Domination Guild had descended to kill them off… yet Hunter ended up overpowering her.
Was he about to reveal his innate skill? His origins?
"It's because of the adaptation dwelling within . As I experience more of the world, I naturally beco stronger. And I will be much stronger than you can imagine. Than I myself can imagine. Which ans you won't waste your ti by joining and building my team by my side."
All of it were still empty words, an empty declaration.
Which Hunter understood well as well.
The experience with Seraphina in the exam taught him that.
As Aie parted her lips to tell him that, Hunter used his thumb to draw a bloody line on his palm, bringing out a red tendril that swiftly blossod into a blood rose.
The coldness sank into the room, seemingly freezing the attention of two beautiful won on Hunter's face.
His eyes were only on Aie, peeking into her hazel hues.
Sealing her lips with the crown of the bloody rose, Hunter shifted to the most important part of his show.
The confession.
"I've taken a liking to you and your dream, Aie! Your royal hunter world holds so many opportunities and challenges that I can't imagine you overcoming them without ! I can't see you without ! Yes! I am that selfish! Your background, too, is just so full of them! I can imagine you returning ho with a new fa, power, and self! I want to be by your side by then and support you as you turn over the image of a laughingstock in your entire family! And you yourself are in your pri, with your curves and pretty lips waiting for opportunities to be claid! I already fondled your chest! First ti, right? I still rember that slap, Aie! And so, I shall claim more of you! Never ever I'll allow so flower boy or so motherfucker even get a chance to enter your heart, to steal all those thrilling opportunities! As you work hard to beco stronger and fulfill all I have just said, I want to be by your side and use what dwells within to make you stronger and happier! You're my opportunity to be him… and I'm your opportunity to be at the top of this world."
As Hunter froze her lips, the sa couldn't be said about her heart.
Which was rocking and beating against her chest, drenched in warm feelings.
Laughingstock she was, Aie was often surrounded by people who never wanted to work with her, and she self-trained herself to reach her current strength. Her life and hobbies were also a lonely voyage, as all attention was stolen by her elder sister, the talented royalty.
And here was soone whose origins and innate skill possibly outmatched her, his eyes only reflecting Aie's frozen face barred by the blood rose.
Worse, the bastard took off the flower and turned it into blood, which returned to his system, having now an entire look of Aie's conflicted face.
As her heart's warmth touched her face, lting her lips, Aie unconsciously said, "Is that all you have?"
"Of course not."
Leaning down, Hunter tucked Aie's hair behind her ear and held her cheek in his palm, looking into her eyes. As she shut them tightly and puckered her lips, Hunter had all the consent he needed.
His drumming heart beca so heavy with emotions and excitent that his face was brought down to Aie's, compelling him to share the happy burden with her, finally kissing her lips.
As it was their first kiss, it was innocent and sweet at first, with their lips pressed together.
Which was not sothing these two were looking for.
Aie was already in her pri, and Hunter was Hunter.
Well, he failed at first as by going further, he struck Aie's tooth, stopping for a second from embarrassnt, which Aie used to get a lead, slithering her tongue around his and winning the advantage.
The friction of their lips, the wrestle of their tongues, and breathless intervals were precious and fraught with imnse warmth and feelings.
Before Hunter noticed, he had Aie's arms wrapped around his neck, drawing him closer to her. She thoroughly healed off her wounds and was now using her strength to keep him rooted to her softness, taking the property of his first kiss and lips.
And he was on board with her feelings, enjoying every second of it, and naturally fought to get more of a lead, practicing to be him!
"You're mine, there's no going back, Aie!"
"If you ss it up, I'll turn tails!"
"No, you won't!"
On that day, Hunter finally got a girlfriend!
It was so exciting!
"Your pearly annoying smile is not so annoying to now!"
"It was never annoying to begin with!"
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