
"Hahaha, next time let's fight at full strength!" Koji raises his right arm and exposes his big muscle to Ryuga.
"Haha well, Koji-san." Ryuga replied with a slight scratch on his head.
"Don't hesitate to come back here again, Ryu-chan." Aiko said with a blink of one eye.
"Then my mom and Ryuga go first." Elena slightly bowed to her father and mother, then she walked over to Ryuga.
"Thank you for the food, Koji-san, Aiko-san. Then I'll be fine, too." Ryuga said that with a slight bow, then he and Elena set foot away from the Mitsurugi residence and headed to the academy.
"Goodway~" Aiko waved her right hand.
"Hah .. are young people today that strong?" Seeing that Ryuga and his daughter had gone away, Koji asked his wife.
"Son Ryu is special." Aiko replied by turning her back, then she left Koji alone.
"Is he still angry?" Koji muttered softly by stroking his chin.
**
On the way back to the academy. "Thank you Elen," Ryuga suddenly told Elena.
"For what?" Elena looked up at Ryuga.
"For a stubborn person like yourself, but you still hold your own words." Ryuga said with a straight look towards the street.
"Is that a compliment?" Called stubborn, of course everyone will feel offended, not least Elena.
"It's up to you to take it." Ryuga slightly shrugged his shoulders, as it was a fact that Ryuga could not refute, if Elena was a very stubborn person.
After that the atmosphere became quiet on the way, the two of them did not seem to want to start talking to each other, because there was indeed nothing important to talk about.
Bruk!
"Why stop?" As Elena walked after Ryu from behind, she bumped into Ryuga's back. Elena did not know why this handsome young man in front of her suddenly stopped his steps.
Not directly answering Elena's question, in his mind Ryuga asked System to open the map feature. "I thought so." Ryuga muttered softly, currently in the System map Ryu could see some people who were scouting him from the top of a tall building.
"What?" Elena could hear Ryuga mutter, so she was curious what this young man was thinking.
"Follow me." Ryuga pulled Elena's hand.
"Where?" Following the cold hand that pulled her in, Elena felt a foreign feeling in her heart.
Without lingering any longer, Ryuga immediately went running by holding onto Elena's hand. Turning his head to the right and to the left, Ryu found a fairly narrow alley.
"Why bring me here— Ah... lest you want to do for the first time here?" Elena was surprised that Ryuga suddenly led her into a narrow alley. Her pretty face flushed red as she thought of the things Ryuga wanted to do next.
Ryu then let go of Elena's hand. "Hey, don't think no." Ryuga could not help but complain in his heart. Besides being stubborn, this girl who is the only daughter of the Mitsurugi family .. really has such wild fantasy thoughts!
"Why go into this narrow alley?" Elena's reddened face disappeared, and was replaced with a serious expression. Elena currently sensed that Ryuga was now not joking.
"We're being watched by someone." Ryuga said quietly while looking at the System map.
"Where? How many people?" As if not something surprising, Elena asked with a flat expression visible on her face.
"They were on top of the building, and then there were five of them." Ryuga did not hide the fact that she had a detection ability, after all Elena had seen some secrets Ryu had, so it was fine for Elena to know about it.
"Do we have to kill them all?" Elena was still speaking with a flat expression, yet this time it was a glare of extremely sharp eyes.
Hearing Elena unhesitatingly say 'kill them all', Ryuga was really made to wonder.
What makes this girl so cruel?
"That's not necessary." Ryuga shook his head, then he continued, "You look pretty calm?" Usually if someone finds out that they are being followed or watched, they will feel anxious, even afraid.
"I'm used to it." Although he still had a flat expression, but there was a sluggish tone from Elena's reply.
Ryuga nodded his head. As the only daughter of the Mitsurugi family and a direct niece of the British royal king, this status was enough to make Elena the target of several enemy parties.
"They're coming." Ryuga took out the Ice Crystal sword from the storage ring, preparing if the few people who followed it would directly attack him as well as Elena.
Elena seemed to be not worried at all, however with the strength Ryuga had displayed, there was hardly anyone who could stand up to her except for a high-level Hunter like her father.
"I just remembered, that in 5 minutes the academy will conduct special training on the student who is the representative in the tournament." Elena suddenly talked about something related about the tournament.
"Why just say it now?" Hearing Elena just say something that was quite important, Ryuga again could only complain in her heart.
There's no other choice.
Ryuga reinserted the Ice Crystal sword into the dimensional ring, he then brought his body closer to Elena. Seeing that Ryuga was only one inch away from her, Elena's heart was beating harder and harder because she was nervous.
"A-what's a–"
Not solving her question, Elena was startled again by Ryuga who suddenly wrapped her right arm around her neck. "Shut up for a second, we'll go." Ryuga whispered softly.
Very close!
Elena could not help it anymore, as Ryuga whispered very close to her ear, her face and her ears were reddened from feeling very nervous and embarrassed.
"Shadow Exchange." -."
The shadow under Ryuga's feet twitched. Seeing that Elena was a little panicked, but the voice of a young man embracing her calmed her down. "Don't worry."
Hearing Ryuga say that with complete confidence, Elena closed her eyes, then buried her head into Ryuga's chest.
The shadow under Ryuga's moving legs widened, until in the next second the shadow surged up and swallowed Ryuga with Elena.
Now in the narrow alley Ryuga was replaced by one of the shadow soldiers. The shadow warrior who was an Orc monster turned his head to the right and to the left, sensing the presence of several people approaching, and, the Orc monster instantly turned itself into a shadow and immediately hid in the shadows of the building.
"Damn, we lost track of them!" Said someone wearing a robe wearing a skull mask on his face.
"No, our job is done." The fellow from someone in robes retaliated.
"That's right, our job is just to keep an eye on and inform the old man" added another colleague.
"Then let's go, I feel that the boy has realized our existence." His voice sounded heavy and hoarse, he wore a horned skull mask to cover his face. It was obvious that the masked man was the leader of the five-man group that was watching Ryuga earlier.
"Good chairman," said another colleague.
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