CH 8

Katia's POV

"Hah... this isn't good..."

Katia muttered alone.

Lying on her bed at home, she simply watched the setting sun sink into the city walls.

For Katia it was really rude of her to leave without responding to Zekudo.

He is not old enough to be called an adult, but Zekudo is two years younger than her.

That's why for her what she did was very immature.

"Tomorrow... I should go and apologize to him."

Slightly determined, she remembered once again the fight of Zekudo.

Zekudo, clad in jet-black armor, manipulates a myriad of silver slashes.

He easily defeated the dragon.

Just remembering it made my heart beats faster.

I wonder what this feeling is?

...I think surely this is despair due to the overwhelming difference in ability that I felt toward him.

It was not a gap that could be filled by effort alone, and I feel like I don't even want to fill that gap.

That's how far I felt the gap between my ability and his.

Probably I'm feeling this way due to the fact that he's younger than me.

If we are of the same age and trained for the same amount of time and we had that difference in ability, I will still have hope.

But he was two years younger than me.

Maybe if it had been Rohee who had been defeated, she would have used that regret as a determination to train hard again.

I hadn't seen Zekudo's strength up close, I could have doubted that he had defeated a dragon in 20 seconds.

There will still be a way out.

But I actually saw it, with my own eyes.

Just remembering that scene makes my heart pound again.