"But what interests me... makes me want to take it down."
The guy says as he takes a step forward, trying to look menacing and scary in front of Akalea but Akalea didn't budge and wasn't fazed by the guy's taunts. More so, Akalea was itching to fight since no one was actually aiming for her. But now, that guy is targeting her, Akalea couldn't stop her fingers from fidgeting in their place.
The guy was confused but nonetheless, he came running to her, forming two fireballs in each hand and a roar coming out of his mouth. The four fireballs were thrown towards Akalea who swiftly dodges the fireballs and dodged another attack from the guy after he got near her. Akalea moves to the right to dodge the guy's fist, grabbing his wrist, her other hand supporting the guy's arm, pulling him and flips him to the ground.
The guy landed on his back and lets out a groan after the air got knocked out of him. "I like *coughs* *inhales air* you. My *coughs* name's Emmett." The guy says in between his coughing and inhaling. "Name's Akalea. Are you going to get up or stay down? I'm itching to fight, you know?" Akalea asks bluntly which the guy on the ground laughs, showing teeth and fangs and gets up, struggling. Akalea takes a closer look and find the Emmett guy quite handsome, his long black and curly hair, lean built, tall frame, a bit pale and dark red eyes which could be mistaken for black eyes if you don't look closely.
"Never would I have imagined I'd get flipped to the ground, let alone by a girl doing it." Emmett says while dusting the dirt off of him. "And?" Akalea asks with an eyebrow raised when the guy said his words. "Oh, I'm sorr-" Emmett didn't get to finish when he was kicked on his side, flying away from Akalea. Akalea sees the kicker and saw that it was Dawn.
Emmett flew and fell to his side a few meters away from Akalea and Dawn. "What the fuck, man?!" Emmett exclaims as he landed on the ground again, groaning. Dawn looks at Emmett and then left, running towards the other candidates to fight. Akalea couldn't help but laugh at Dawn's actions. Guessing that Dawn heard Emmett saying those words and took action himself.
"Was that your boyfriend or something? Damn. He kicked me too hard." Emmett says, getting up from the ground again and dusting off his clothes again. "I mean it is an elimination round. Everyone's fighting for their spot, you know." Akalea says as she looks at everyone else who were fighting as the two were just standing there, watching them.
"You're right." Emmett says and lunges for Akalea, his fist aiming the back of Akalea's head. Akalea felt it coming so she tilts her head to the side and sees the arm coming into her view where her head was at. Grabbing his arm and flipped him to the ground again. "Ack!" Emmett groans out as the air was knocked out of him again.
"I can't seem to get used to you dodging and paying it right back." Emmett says as he gets up from the ground again. "Can't we fight like them? I still wanna pay you back to avenge the kid." Akalea asks and reasons as Emmett looks at her with a smirk but groaned from the pain at the end, breaking his confident smirk.
"We could but I gotta go-" Emmet says and didn't finish his sentence before he ran away for his life, lunging for the other candidates. Akalea shakes her head and sighs, waiting in her spot for someone to fight her. For the remaining minutes of the hour of them fighting for their spot, a horn was blown, signaling the end of the hour.
Akalea stood up from the ground just before the horn was blown, sighing again since no one went near her. Am I weak in their eyes or do I look strong? I mean if they think I'm weak, shouldn't they be fighting me to get me eliminated? Akalea kept questioning and thinking what and why it went like it did.
After the horn was blown, the candidates that were left standing all raised their hands in the air, triumphant that they stood until the end after the battle of elimination. The ones on the ground were carried away by the healers and warriors in charge of taking care of the injured.
There were even healers healing those who were left standing since they also suffered injuries. The healers were confused to see Akalea unscathed but didn't dare to ask when they saw her dejected face. Akalea sees her companions walking towards her, smiling from ear to ear as they didn't get eliminated.
"Not bad. Considering most of them were on par with the Shawn from before. Congratulations, you guys. You guys will get a no training pass on the day you guys wished it so." Akalea congratulates her companions, all of them passing the round even when most of them were bloodied and injured but made it out in the end. Akalea's companions were silently celebrating since they got a no training pass. "I'm proud of you guys." Akalea praises them with a smile and the praise made them all smile, happy that they got a praise from Akalea, knowing she was the one training them.
"You also passed. Congratulations." Amy says as she went to hug Akalea, who in turn lost her smile and looks dejected again. "I know but it was boring. I didn't get to fight anyone." Akalea whines like a kid and her companions chuckle at her, knowing she wanted to fight but no one fought nor went near her.
"It's okay, you'll get to fight someone in the next round, I think." Bach says trying to cheer Akalea up, which somehow worked, making Akalea look up with a high spirited expression. "You're right!" Akalea says and pats Bach's shoulder with a smile and her eyes twinkling. Her companions chuckle at her again.
"It seems those who are left standing are all here." The holographic screen came back and the king was shown before saying his words. "Congratulations to those who were left standing. Can I get the head counts of each kingdom's candidates who were left standing?" The king says as each kingdom's candidates were counting themselves.
"10 from Archard Kingdom!" The leader of the Archard's candidates yell, proud of their number. "10 from Ulric Kingdom, too." The leader of Ulric's candidates says, looking at the leader of the elves, taunting him. "11 from IronBreaker Kingdom." The leader of IronBreaker's candidates said bluntly and happens to sneak a glance at Akalea who was watching the other candidates, blushing and turning away when Akalea looks at him.
The leaders of the other two kingdom were crushed that Ironbreaker is 1 candidate higher. "We got 13 from Ambrosia Kingdom!" Emmett says with a smirk as he looks at the other leaders, smirking at them and turns to look at Akalea to do the same, his smirk fades away when Akalea was talking to the guy who kicked him and didn't acknowledge what he said earlier.
Emmet looks away, dispirited. The crowd were going nuts in their seats as the remaining candidates of each kingdom were strong and a lot still stand. The four kingdoms didn't think much of Abernathy Kingdom since they always thought that humans were lesser than them even though they Ranked 2nd out of the 5 Kingdoms, they won't admit that humans were good at what they do.
They didn't bother to listen to the leader of Abernathy is about to say but their jaws drop the moment they heard what the leader said. "15 from Abernathy Kingdom." Akalea's sweet and strong voice came through the whole stadium as if she was using a mic. The crowd went silent, the candidates were shocked and even the king was stunned.
"For the first time in all the years we had this yearly tournament. The first ever kingdom to have all candidates continue to the next round. I say, I'm quiet surprised myself." The king says as his stunned expression turns to a happy one. "Congratulations to all candidates here today. Rest well and await for tomorrow." The king says and the holographic screen shuts off. The crowd cheers once more for the candidates before they were all being lead out of the stadium to go home as it was late in the night already.
The candidates were left in the stadium's field, still in shock of having to hear that Abernathy Kingdom got all 15 candidates continue to the next round. "This must be some kind of a joke, right?" One of the elf candidates asked as he looks at everyone then at the candidates of Abernathy, refused to believe that they all passed.
"You guy's must've cheated." One of the vampire candidates and one of the wolf candidates say at the same time, the two look at each other, eyes squinted at each other then looks at the humans. "If we had cheated, what evidence do you have?" Asked by Dean with a smirk, this irritated the vampire and the wolf. The vampire and the wolf took a step forward due to being irritated, knowing Dean was right but they couldn't admit that.
"You're right. We don't have evidence so why don't we see them prove themselves tomorrow." Emmett stops his fellow vampire candidate as the leader of the wolf candidates stops his fellow wolf. "Let's rest up and fight tomorrow." The leader of the dwarf candidates says with his firm tone, sneaking a glance at Akalea again and saw that Akalea was looking at him again, his cheeks flushed and he turned away.
His fellow dwarf candidates saw their leader blushing by just looking at the human girl and they were all confused but still had their firm expression, not letting the others see them confused. Silence fell all around them and at that moment, Quinn, Dominic and the instructors of each kingdom came in and were clapping their hands to congratulate the candidates for passing the first round.
Then they see the candidates behind them, all healed, were also clapping even though they were eliminated. "Congratulations to you all, especially the candidates from Abernathy." Quinn says with a smile to all the candidates who passed. Abernathy candidates nod their heads, not letting out their smiles of victory.
"Let's go eat and rest afterwards. You guys will need it." Dominic says, stern, since he saw the little bickering between the candidates earlier. Quinn and Dominic lead the way out of the stadium and everyone else follow suit. They all got out of the stadium and head back to their quarters.
As they got out of the stadium, they were met with the crowd, who were cheering and clapping for them but as soon as they see Akalea, their cheering and clapping lowered down and whispers begin to form between them. "Isn't she the one who easily passed the round?" "No one went near her when the round started till it ended." "I guess it was a pretty easy win for her."
All sorts of questions were formulating, being said and heard by everyone, including Akalea. The other kingdom's candidates and instructors never knew that no one fought Akalea so when they heard the crowd talking about it, some felt it was unfair while the others didn't react since they couldn't blame her for no one wanting to fight her in the first place.
Akalea's companions weren't fazed by it but were concerned for Akalea, worried it might hurt her but when they see her calm and relaxed face, they relaxed as well. Emmett seeing Akalea's companions' actions and found it strange as to why they were acting like that to Akalea but he shrugs it off and walked with his fellow companions as well.
As they arrived at their quarters, they head in and were lead into a big room where tables, chairs and food were plastered and shown, like a buffet. "Eat to your heart's content." Quinn says as the candidates and instructors didn't hesitate to go to the food, grabbing what they want to eat.
Akalea and her companions let the other candidates and instructors go first so they'll go last since they're not in a hurry. After waiting for a little while, Akalea and her companions go grab their own as well. They sat down on their table and ate their food, while chatting away. Each kingdom were sitting in their own table, not wanting to mix in with the others.
Akalea and her companions finished their food as did the others. The other candidates and their instructors were heading out to go rest up while Akalea and her companions went to Quinn and Dominic who were eating and talking in their table. "Is it alright if I bring two plates of food to our room? We have two people who haven't eaten, yet." Akalea asks the two politely and Quinn smiles at Akalea at her question, thinking that she was a cute girl as did Dominic.
"Sure. Just make sure to return it to the employees later or tomorrow." Quinn says as Akalea thanks the two and went to grab two plates of food. "Peace, help me, pleaseee." Akalea asks Peace for help, Peace immediately went to her side and helped her, liking that he was the one she called instead of the others, instead of Blood.
Blood was there watching, jealous for not being called to help but she couldn't be mad at her master when she has done a lot for her. The guys who liked Akalea were a bit sad for not being called. After getting the two plates, they all head up to their floor, going to their own rooms after bidding each other good night.
This left Akalea, Peace and Blood going to their room, entering inside with the two plates of food. As Akalea and the two behind her went inside, they saw Kint sleeping on a chair next to the sleeping little kid on Blood's bed. Akalea went to Kint's side and shake his shoulder for him to wake up and eat dinner. Blood quickly went to the kid's side to wake him up as well before Peace could.
Peace arched an eyebrow at Blood's quick action, Blood saw this and stuck out her tongue at him, Peace sighing and looks at Akalea, waiting for her orders. After a few shakes, both Kint and the kid woke up. "Here, Kint. You should eat and then rest up in your room." Akalea says and gives the plate of food to Kint once he regained his conscious state.
Kint takes his plate as he nods his head, understanding what Akalea said, half-awake, bidding good night to each other and stood up, walking towards the door, heading out to go to his room. The kid sitting up, rubbing his eyes as he winced in pain from the almost-healed wounds on his body. "Peace, the food please." Akalea walks to Peace as Peace gives her the plate, Peace trying to hide his happiness from his name being called out of his master's lips.
Akalea went to the kid's side and place the plate of food on the kid's lap. The kid seeing the food, his eyes twinkling and in no time, the kid starts digging into his food, even had to use his hands not knowing how to use the spoon and fork. Akalea and her two companion watch the kid eating to his fill but they see that the kid suddenly stopped eating, the plate of food wasn't even half finished.
"I'm full. Can I take the rest with me?" The kid says, his innocent eyes and stained mouth, made Akalea smile, her heart quenching knowing the kid has siblings he want to feed. "Can I go with you?" Akalea asks permission from the kid, who nods his head smiling, getting up from his spot on the bed as he carefully handles the plate of food, not wanting to let any food fall to the ground.
"Blood, I want you to stay here and protect everyone on this floor if anything happens. Contact me through telepathy that we share if anything happens, okay? Peace, come with me." Akalea says, Blood nods her head, listening to her words but was a little bit jealous that Peace gets to go with Akalea. Peace didn't show it on his face but with one look that Peace and Blood exchanged to each other, made Blood huff in annoyance.
Akalea and Peace head out to leave with the kid while Blood stayed to guard the floor. Akalea, Peace and the kid went down the stairs to the lobby and were walking towards the entrance as they had a little chit chat with each other. They were almost out of the quarters when they bumped into Emmett and his group of friends which are also candidates.
"Ain't that the kid from earlier?" One of Emmett's friends asks as he nudged Emmett's shoulder. Emmett turns to look and saw it was indeed the kid and the girl he started to like. "Hey-" Emmett stops from speaking when Akalea, Peace and the kid ignored him, passing by him and his group and got out of the quarters.
She must still be mad about what I did earlier with the kid. Emmett thinks to himself and shrugs his shoulders, starting to feel remorse of what he made the kid do out of pure fun. Emmett shakes his head once the remorse reeled into him when he never felt this way before. What has gotten into me? Is it because of that girl that I started to regret my actions? Oh, hell na- Emmett thinks to himself and his thoughts were cut off by his heart clenching in pain.
Emmett was confused as fuck as to why his heart was clenching when he's a vampire and vampires' hearts are dead and never beats. Emmett was cut off from his thoughts when his friends kept calling him. "Emmett! What the fuck, ma-" One of his friends slaps his cheek enough to get him out of his thoughts because he wasn't responding to their calls.
"Yeah?" Emmett finally snaps out of it and turns to look at the person who slapped him. "Finally, you didn't respond to us calling you earlier. You were spaced out. man. The first time we saw you like that." One of his friends said and Emmett was also confused. "Anyways, we were talking about what to do that little girl and her friend when you were spaced ou-" One of his girl friends in the group says and Emmett, without thinking, had his hand on her neck, ready to snap her neck.
"Don't touch her nor her friends before the second round and even the rounds after that. Its no fun if we ruin them now. It's getting more interesting and exciting now something got my attention, got it?" Emmett looks at the girl, who was turning purple for the lack of air and nodding her head, before Emmett lets go of her as she fell to the ground, gasping for air.
"Same goes for you guys. No one touches them and the other candidates until I say so." Emmett says giving them a deadly look before looking back at the entrance Akalea and her two companions got out from, back in his thoughts. His friends trembling in fear from his deadly look towards them and from his warning knowing that when he becomes like this, its troubling for them since they know how Emmet acts when he's mad.
"You guys go back to your rooms. I'll go out for a little while." Emmett instructs his friends who listened and quickly scrambles their way to their floor while helping the girl get up and walk. Emmett gets out of the quarters and was quick to run towards them but not near them, just enough to spy on them, thinking he won't be noticed.
Meanwhile, Akalea and Peace were behind the kid, who is leading them to where his siblings are at. Akalea and Peace both felt a strong presence following them but didn't make a move. "Someone's following us." Peace says telepathically to his master. "I know. I think know who it is, too. Let's just pretend to not know and see how it goes."
Akalea says and Peace didn't say anything after, listening to her words. After walking for a while, they were met with an old orphanage building where they could hear crying inside just behind the door. The kid was the first to act, rushing inside the orphanage while handling the plate carefully, knowing he really wanted his siblings to eat.
Akalea and Peace also rush with him to see what happened. "What's wrong? Why do I hear crying?" The kid asks as he got in with Akalea and Peace behind him. They saw three little kids younger than the kid in front of Akalea and Peace. The three little kids were crying for their big brother. "Big brother!"
One of the three little kids notices her big brother and quickly runs to him. The other two little brothers ran to their big brother after their sister. The three little kids cried in their big brother's arms. The kid sighs in relief, was anxious earlier that something must have happened but he analyzed the situation, seeing his siblings missed him and also because he came back late.
"Why are you so late in coming back, big brother?! We thought something had happened to you!" The little sister says as she lightly punches her big brother's chest. The kid played along and feign hurt, groaning in pain. "Oh, no. I'm so sorry, big brother. I forgot you're weak." The little sister says innocently as she cries in her big brother's arms without knowing the big brother stood there like stone as her words, hurt by her words but he lets it go because he loves his little sister.
Akalea chuckles at the little sister's words and the big brother's reaction. As for Peace, he was envious since he had siblings before, too. Peace suddenly missing and thinking of them, pains his heart. Akalea suddenly felt pain in her chest so she takes a look at Peace, who was trying to not show his emotions as he looks at the siblings.
Akalea takes his hand in hers and squeezes his hand, to reassure him of whatever he's feeling, he'll be okay. Peace looks at his master, with no emotions on his face, held his master's hand dearly, appreciating her kind gesture. "Who are they, big brother?" One of the little brothers asks their big brother.
"They're the people who got me out of trouble earlier and gave me food. Here!" The kid lowers the plate of food to his little siblings' height and gave them the food. The little siblings took the plate straight away and sat on the floor, eating the food, hungry as they are.
Akalea and Peace saw the kids eating, Akalea's heart churned in pain seeing the kids being like this. "What's going on here? What's wrong?" A middle-aged lady came out the hallway of the building due to the noise at the entrance and saw what's happening. The middle-aged lady walking to the kids and checking if they were okay as they were eating, worried the two young people did anything to them or the food they were eating.
"It's alright, ma'am. We're actually here to donate." Akalea says as she takes a step forward with her sweetest and warmest smile to the middle-aged lady. The middle-aged lady felt overwhelmed with her pure smile that she instantly relaxed and her nervous and anxious state washed away.
"Really?" The middle-aged lady asks as she stood up. Akalea nods her head. "Can we talk in a more private manner? I don't want to disturb their eating time." Akalea says, wanting to talk to the middle-aged lady, who agrees and led her to her office. "Stay and protect the kids and the orphanage." Akalea telepathically tells Peace who got the message and stood to guard as Akalea and the lady got in the office to talk business.
As Akalea and the lady were talking inside the office, Peace felt the strong presence suddenly beside him. "Didn't think the kid's life was like this." Emmett says as he realized what kind of life the kid was living. "If you try to take a step towards them, I won't hesitate to rip your head off." Peace said, his voice deep and firm, still watching the kids.
The kid, big brother, looks behind him since Peace was talking and saw the same guy who made a bet with him from earlier. "It's you! You still owe me 1 gold!" The kid says, reminding Emmett of the bet and that the kid did what they had betted. "Yeah, yeah. I know. Here." Emmett says as he grabs a money pouch and tosses it to the kid, the kid catching it and looking inside the pouch.
"One, two..." The kid counted and was shocked at how many gold coins there were. "Mister, our bet was for 1 gold, you gave me 10 gold." The kid was confused and wanted to give the 9 gold coins back but Emmett shakes his head. "For what had happened earlier was because of me. That's my compensation for your wounds." Emmett says as he inserts his hand inside his pockets, not used to saying sorry for what he has done.
Peace staying quiet and quietly assessing the situation while guarding the kids and orphanage. "Thank you, mister! I can buy a lot of food with these!" The kid says, excited and happy that he can finally buy enough food for his siblings and the rest of the kids in the orphanage. The kids innocence burned Emmett's eyes, Emmett turning away from the innocence, remembering his past self.
At that moment, Akalea and the lady came out from the office, the lady all smiley and thankful to Akalea who donated 100 gold coins to the orphanage. "Thank you so much, young miss. You don't know how much this can help the orphanage and the kids altogether. This can last us for almost 7 and a half years depending on the costs for the building and the kids' needs. I thank you on behalf of the kids in the orphanage." The middle-aged lady bows her head as she wholeheartedly thanks Akalea, who gently pushes the lady to stand up properly to stop her from continuing to bow.
"No need to be like this. It happens that I stumbled upon the kid and happen to be here. No need for any of these, really." Akalea says innocently and smiles at the lady. Emmett turned to look at where Akalea's voice was at and saw them coming towards them, looking at Akalea, especially her smile. Emmett's dead heart skipped a beat, Emmett becoming totally smitten by her smile.
"Get in line. There are a lot of others who are like you. Don't push your luck." Peace says bluntly, breaking the smitten-like Emmett's heart from beating. Emmett turns to look at Peace, who had no emotions, and squinted his eyes at his words, then turns back to see Akalea looking at him with an arched eyebrow.
"What are you doing here?" Akalea asks the moment they got near them and the kids. Emmett couldn't answer right away and the kid answered. "He gave me what he promised me plus 9 more gold coins! Look! I can buy food for my siblings and the other kids!" The kid says bringing the pouch of money to show Akalea and the lady.
Akalea was skeptical of Emmett but brushes it aside after looking into his eyes, not seeing any hidden intention. The lady looks at the pouch and then at the unfamiliar mister at the entrance. She didn't know what to say but to thank the mister.
"Here, ma. With this, we can have whatever we want and can also fix the orphanage." The kid says, his eyes twinkling as he gave the pouch to his ma, short for mama. Although the lady isn't the kids' real mother but they call her that because she took care of all of them despite their circumstances.
"No, no. That money is yours. Besides, thanks to your friend here, we can fix the orphanage and get what you guys want without using your money." The lady tells the kid with her kind motherly smile and the kid's eyes sparkle from the news and turns to look at Akalea. "Thank you so much, miss." The kid runs to Akalea and hugs her waist.
Akalea hugs the kid back and ruffles his hair. "I'll make sure to come by to visit once in a while if I have time." Akalea says and the kids smile at that. With that, Akalea spent time with the kids for a little while before Akalea and Peace waved goodbye while Emmett watched and bid their good night to the kids and the lady.
Akalea and Peace started walking back to the quarters with Emmett beside Akalea, walking with them. "I-" Emmett starts but choked up on his words, which made Akalea glance at him, making Emmett blush. "You what?" Peace interrupts and Emmett clears his throat. "I'm sorry about what happened earlier. I already settled with the kid-" Emmett tries to apologize for what he had done and nervously smiles at Akalea while doing hand gestures while he talked to show his sincerity.
"It's not me you should be sorry to. It's to Emerson. If you think giving those gold coins can compensate the pain he dealt from earlier, then you're wrong. What you did was plain stupid and horrible." Akalea says, mad at Emmett and at the same time, couldn't stay mad seeing regret in his eyes after a glance to look at him.
"I... I understand. I didn't know how to handle those kinds of things, okay? I'm used to getting away with my actions without consequences. I'll make it up to the kid and to you since you got involved." Emmett says, stopping in front of Akalea to get her attention which worked. Akalea tilts her head and looks at Emmett, closely.
"You better. Cause if you do, then you won't get your ass beat in the second round." Akalea says and walks passed Emmett as Peace walks beside her, passing by Emmett, too. Emmett standing there, watching the two leave as they walk to the quarters that was right in front of them. Emmett smiles, looks down then at the sky.
"Is this what love at feels like?" Emmett asks the sky, silence was what answered him so he stares at the last bit of silhouette of Akalea before his pearly white teeth and fangs showed themselves with his smile, getting excited by the mere idea of his first love. He, too, went into the quarters and rest up in his room.
Akalea and Peace went back to their floor and room, seeing Blood sitting on her bed, silently meditating and also checking the floor's activity thanks to the barrier that Akalea shared ownership with. "Let's get some sleep. We don't know what the second round will be like. Thank you for keeping watch until we came back, Blood."
Akalea says which Blood stopped her meditating and smiles at Akalea's appearance but frowns at Peace's appearance right behind her. "My pleasure to be ordered by my master." Blood says with a smile to Akalea who sighs, letting it go. Akalea could never get used to the two of them calling her master. The two won't change their callings of her no matter how much Akalea told them to. She just lets them be.
"Thank you for coming with me, Peace." Akalea praises Peace. who says nothing but flushed at Akalea's praise, turning himself back to his little dragon form, flying in the air. His clothes transforming into his dragon form's size and frame. "Awe that looks so cute." Akalea says as she goes to the closet and grabs a new set of clothes, changing into them after Peace turns around and lands on his own bed, avoiding seeing his master changing while blushing beet red in his dragon from.
"Alright, I'm done. You guys should get changed, too. Tomorrow's a new day and it awaits us." Akalea says and with this, Peace flicked his hand which made the clothes on his dragon body is taken off and some small sized dragon pajamas came to him and wore it. As for Blood she changed into her pajamas, too. Everyone changed and ready for bed, bidding each other good night. Blood in her bed, already asleep. Peace landing on Akalea's bed and sleeping next to her, cuddled up which Akalea didn't mind since he would always do that back at the academy.
"What will I see tomorrow?"
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Moral of this chapter is to always own up to your mistakes and take responsibility even if you're not used to it. You'll eventually regret your actions when consequences and karma bites your ass.
Also, I think I'll be having a tough time with updating a chapter next week because of schoolwork but I'll do my best to write as much as I can so I can update next week but if I couldn't, then that means I've been busy and will update a chapter next next week.
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- Aki