"Can you become my tutor?" Justine asked Damon earnestly.
On hearing Her request, Damon gasped in surprise, but he turned his head away and said nervously,
"W-why would I be your tutor? You are called Justine right?-"
,
"Your rank is already good enough to be an elite."
Justine was annoyed at Damon's reply even though he was praising her, she said,
"A good rank isn't enough I want to be the best"
Damon was the kind of person who would avoid responsibilities if he could, but he would take his responsibility seriously if he decided to accept it.
Since Damon wanted to avoid more work he just rejected her request plainly.
All the students in the classroom came rushing to Justine to offer to tutor her but she refused them all saying,
"Only the best can teach me, I won't accept anything less"
Damon's classmates were pissed at him, they were glaring at him, then he realized that if he rejected her, his life in the school would become a living hell.
So he reluctantly accepted Justine's request and became her tutor.
She smiled faintly as she was looking at him and said in a grateful tone,
"Thank you, I will be in your care"
Then she left the classroom quietly in a hurry.
From that day one, she would come to Damon's class every day asking him questions in all subjects, and he would listen to her questions without showing any sign of annoyance.
Rukoro knew all about them, he would watch them converse from afar.
The more he peeked at them the deeper he fell in regret from what he did to Justine in the past.
If he hadn't told her off back then, he would have been in place of Damon right now talking to her.
Nevertheless, Rukoro couldn't give her up like that, so he bullied Damon on a daily basis warning him to stay away from Justine, but Damon wouldn't listen to him and provoke him instead.
Sometimes Damon would have bruises on his face, Justine asked him how he would get those pruises, but he would come up with excuses every time not telling her it was Rukoro.
Justine knew that Damon was fabricating excuses every time, but she didn't dig further into it, as she realized that there must be a reason why he would hide the truth.
Days passed by like that until the unexpected marriage that turned the whole school upside down.