Chapter 88: Chapter 88: What was this person?

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"Urgh..."

Eren felt a terrifying headache. It was even worse than the time he woke up in this world for the first time. Even the worst hangover was not comparable.

He could feel that he was lying on something soft. The sweet scent of flowers was all around him.

Slowly opening his eyes, he realized he was lying on a bed of soft grass.

"Ying!" The moment he came to his senses, his eyes snapped open. He sat straight and looked around him, having a bad feeling.

"Are you up?"

A melodious voice came in response, which made Eren somewhat calmer.

He looked towards the source of the voice and saw Xiu Ying, who was taking a bath in the pond.

"Are you alright?" Eren stood up, only to fall the moment he tried taking a step forward. His body felt even weaker.

Xiu Ying came out of a pond, covering herself with clothes as she rushed over to Eren.

"Shouldn't I be asking you that question?" Xiu Ying helped him sit straight. "You slept for so long."

"I had a terrible nightmare." Eren rubbed his forehead, still feeling as if the nightmare had been too real. "I saw that we entered the Coastal City, and then the Heroes came, and so many things happened."

"In that nightmare, I think I even hurt-"

"By saving my life," Xiu Ying stated. "I don't know what you did, but I know it hurt you a lot."

She could still hear his painful cries, as if they belonged to someone begging for help. She did not know what Eren did, but she thought it was some forbidden skill.

To save her life, he did not hesitate in hurting himself. In the first place, he could have left safely if he had allowed her to die.

Astral had already told him that he could leave. But he was caught in this mess because he tried to save her. It was all because of her, but he still did everything he could to save her.

How could she not love a person like that? How could she not cherish him? In her eyes, he was even more special.

He put his life at risk to save her. So was it really a favor if she did the same? No. Did he need to repay her? No. She did not believe he needed to do anything.

He had already done enough.

Eren lowered his head. For quite some time, there was only silence between the two. But this silence also held a meaning inside.

"Why do you still care about me? Did you not hear him call me a pawn?" After a long time, Eren asked.

Even if he did not want to believe it, he knew that she had realized his identity. There was only one reason someone like Astral would call him a pawn of the Academy. It was because he was a spy.

"I won't ask anything about that. Because I don't believe you mean any harm to the sect." Xiu Ying did not deny his question, but she did not ask anything about it either.

"That is true. I mean no harm to the Sect." Eren nodded, but even he did not know how to explain it.

"Unfortunately, even I can't tell you everything yet. So I can only ask you to believe in me."

He did not know why Ren became a spy for the Academy. He didn't even know how he managed to become an Elder in the sect, without being exposed.

There were a lot of questions in his mind about Ren, and those questions only increased in number with the recent fiasco.

He had only removed the seal for two minutes, and his entire world had fallen apart. He had always thought that Ren used to be very weak, but he was proved wrong.

He could not understand just what this person was?