Chapter 81 - Friendless [1]

"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.

Pressing his palms on top of the ground, Sookyung sat up, and releasing a chuckle, he raised his head to stare at Jiwoo.

He then stated, "You don't need to reject me strongly or stare at me in that way. I am not going to eat you up."

"There is no believing that when it comes to you, and I believe that it would be better for you to stop fooling around. You already have someone determined to you by fate, and therefore, stop flirting with others."

At those words, he said, "At least you have the choice to select your own partner. I wonder how this fated one of mine will be turning out to be; I don't even have a say in this. I just wish that I never meet her."

"Sucks for you, but I wholeheartedly wish that you end up with a horrible woman. You deserve someone like that," Daerin stated as a teasing glint appeared in her eyes.

"You are being too rude now. I was politely chatting with you," he pointed out.

"Well there is no reason for me to politely carry on this conversation with you. Now, stop slacking off and get up."

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"Are you drunk already?" Oh Sookyung questioned.

Jiwoo's vision got slightly blurry, and a giggle escaped from her mouth. Her head felt a little dizzy, but that did not affect her. Tilting her head, she looked at Sookyung and flashed him a bright smile.

Shaking her head, Jiwoo said, "No, Jiwoo doesn't get drunk that easily. Jiwoo is a strong girl."

One word caught his attention, and Sookyung raised one of his eyebrows at that. Staring at her with confusion in his eyes, he questioned, "Jiwoo?"

Heading that from Sookyung caused Moon Jiwoo's eyes to widen for a second before a gasp escaped from her mouth. Raising her hand, Jiwoo pressed her palm against the mouth.

"Oops!" she exclaimed, "You found out! Hush! You can't say anyone or Jiwoo would be mad! You don't want Jiwoo to get angry, right?"

The fact that the girl before him was addressing herself as Jiwoo puzzled him, and as curiosity began to brew up within him, creases appeared between both of his eyebrows.

He then asked, "Who is this Jiwoo person? Why are you calling yourself Jiwoo?"

Blinking her eyes thrice, Moon Jiwoo broke out into laughter, and raising her hand, she planted her fist against Sookyung's ċhėst softly before saying, "You silly boy, I am Jiwoo, Moon Jiwoo. You are such a fool you did not know that."

"Aren't you Shin Daerin?" Sookyung asked.

"Oh! I am Shin Daerin too, and I am Jiwoo too! I am also Oh Sookyung and Min Hyungwon! I am everyone!" Jiwoo cheerfully exclaimed.

Hearing the random words and giggles that escaped from her mouth, chuckle left Sookyung's mouth, and bringing his hand closer to her cheek, he pulled on them slightly.

"You get crazy when you are drunk, Shin Daerin," Sookyung stated, finding it foolish how he acted so strongly to the words of the drunk.

"Ouch! It hurts, meanie! Let go of my cheeks before I blast you off. I am not going to get boyfriend at this rate. Leave my cheeks alone!" Moon Jiwoo exclaimed.

Seeing the tears that formed in the corner of her eyes, Sookyung moved his hand towards her and wiped the tears glistening on her eyes.

"You are completely wasted. You will be really embarrassed when you wake up, Shin Daerin," he stated, "Say, Daerin, honestly say what you think about me. Don't be mean to me, alright?"

"Eh? Why? I don't want to talk about you. I want to talk about myself. Do you know how beautiful I am, You Weakling? But why don't I have any men chasing after me? Why don't I have any friends? Am I not beautiful? Everyone is mean!" Jiwoo vocalised while her lips curved to form a pout.

"You are just uttering nonsense now. How many times just your mood changes? No matter how much of a bad person you are, you can't be worse than me, and don't I already consider you a friend of mine. How can you be friendless?"