'finally that bastards gone!'
seeing that i have a few minutes of rest i laid on the floor for about a minute before i got back up again, even if my injuries are all healed my body still needs to rest
standing up i headed towards Eleanor who was currently sitting in the barrier i created, i had to place her correctly so that she could see my battle
even now she's unable to move her body, that's what so disgusting about the poison rectal needle, its paralysis would last for about a week and there's no antidote to it too
you have to wait naturally for about a week before your okay, the only thing that's not worrying is the fact that the poison only works on origin level 5 or below, if Eleanor had her original power then this wouldn't have happened
walking closer towards her i could see her looking at me, her eyes looking me up and down, trying to search for any injuries, i could only smile and wave at her, when i reached her i got rid of the barrier, before i could speak Eleanor did
"i'm sorry"
as she said that tears started to fall from her eye's, i have never i mean NEVER seen her shed any tears and now she did, before I could even ask the answer she already started answering
"becau-beacuse of m-me you had to drain yo-your potential, bec-because of m-m-meee"
the more I heard her talk the more confused i became, it took me a moment before i understood what happened and when did, i was speechless, it seems that she misunderstood my burst in strength as a forbidden technique
she taught that i had used a technique to draw in my potential to earn more power, hence reducing my potential, i was about to refute her when it hit me
'wait?'
'why should I remove the misunderstanding?, i could used this to my own advantage'
putting on a 'bitter' smile, as if trying to hide my pain but I couldn't, i knelt in front of Eleanor, i took her hand and came face to face with her, using my other hand i washed away her tears
"why are you crying teacher?, how could my great master whom i respect and admire with my whole heart cry?"
"why?"
this time Eleanor responded, she couldn't understand, why?, why is he going this far, to her who worked alone to have such support, she couldn't hold in the guilt, she the teacher caused her disciples potential
"Why did you not run away, you could have survived more easily.....why. didn't I tell you to run"
i 'smiled' to her words holding her face, I looked directly into it
"Why?"
"it's quite simple actually it's because i love you Eleanor"
my words were soft but in this silent world it was thunder that rang into Eleanor's ears, for a moment she couldn't respond, she was totally floored
"you mean as a teacher ri-right?"
this was the first time that I had called Eleanor her directly instead of teacher or master, this was the first time that something like this happened, she as a reputed imperial had many suitors that chased after her
when she had become famous and her beauty had spread, there were several men that wanted to take her hand in marriage, but she had not paid any attention to them
she who had gotten to her position alone, due to the issues she faced to grow, she had huge distrust to others especially men, no matter how much sincerity the others had showed her she still stood silent
as such time had passed by and she was still single, she could have never bring herself to trust anybody, she knew that this was a problem but she couldn't solve it, even among other imperials she was not lax
time passed by and the feeling of loneliness set into her life, that's when she thought of taking a disciple to fill that void, that's when she had met Austin, a boy who kept claiming that he would be like her
it's from then that she found out an outlet to supply her 'love', he had filled up the hole left in her life, so she had sweared to protect him no matter what, to her, her disciple is always right
she had seen him just as a child but right now right here when that child had unhesitatingly fought to save her life, when he did not hesitate to sacrifice his potential for her, even after he had won, the first think he did was check upon her
And right now all bloodied up he knelt in front of her and confessed, for a moment her heart started beating faster and her body heated up, it was the first time this had happened so she didn't know what to do
seeing the flustered appearance of Eleanor i really wanted to laugh but i held it in, putting on a playful smile I shook my head, then i held one of her hands and put on the most serious expression i could
"the first time i saw you Eleanor was when i was a child and i was in awe of you, i had always admired you and I had always loved the bow"
"then by a stroke of luck..."
'which i manipulated'
"you became my master, you don't know how happy i was back then, i couldn't sleep for day's"
'because I wanted to get stronger'
"slowly but surely the more i spend my time with you the more I was infatuated with you, at first I thaught it was bad and wanted to supress it but when i had spend the time away from you there wasn't a moment i didn't think of you"
"so i decide no matter what happens in the future i would make you mine"
Silence, there was total silence, the wind blew the sand on the ground away and the timer for the next round ticked, there appeared 2 individuals within the sand, a women and a young man who held the women's hand
Yup that's me alright, i stood still in my position looking directly into Eleanor's eye's, it was trembling, I knew that I had hit a sweet spot in her heart, to my confession there can only be 2 response's and I knew which one she would choose
Eleanor's eye's trembled for some time before it got back to normal, she closed her eye's and took a deep breath, when she reopened her eye's only calmness remained
"Austin, as much I am happy to hear your those word's, you must know our relationship, it's better you forget those feeling as such a thing will not happen"
Hearing her word's I was not surprised, after all it's not easy to accept those feeling's readily, even if there is a seed of love right now, it's just a seed, the only way to push forward was to keep pressuring her, so I just smiled at her answer
"Eleanor"
just when I called her name again I could see it, her eye's trembled and a foreign emotion of happiness flowed through her, with the most gentle voice I could I speak of, I spoke
"I know that my feeling's are not orthodox and it might even seem taboo but these are my feeling's and I won't let them go, even if it takes thousand's of year's I will wait for you to accept me, even if it means to be branded as illicit disciple"
'Damn those are such good word's!, hey system continue to say them to me'
[Yes, host]
Yup that's right these are the words that I had saved into the system, I had to sit alone and burn through my brain cells to remember about different master-disciple love stories I read to get some heart turning words
And it looks like they came in handy, looking at the non-stop trembling eyes of Eleanor I couldn't help give a thumbs up to those author's who think of such words, the best way to get this teacher of mine is to keep dishing up those words
"Austin you!!"
Eleanor was completely speechless, she didn't know what to do, even if she didn't want to she couldn't help but have her heart fasten at those words, it's at this time the sound of that demon was heard
"Wow what a romantic situation, I couldn't help but shed a tear"
The demons words was filled with sarcasm and disdain
"This stupid love of yours is destined to be unfulfilled, lets see how you survive the next round, I will make sure that only your corpses remain"
As soon as the demon said those words he snapped his finger, the scenery started to change and the space stated to twit huge amount of mana was being used and the next thing I know I am in a forest area
I could clearly feel the wind and the roars of monsters, this world was no longer clearly just an illusion, I took my bow out and stood in front of Eleanot to protect her, it's at this time the demon spoke again
His voice was blurry and his figure to looked illusionary, it seems that the demon had used up a significant level of his power to create this world
"The next round is simple it's either hunt or be hunted, in this forest there are millions of monsters the minimum level being that of origin level 5, to win this challenge you just have to hunt down the 5 overloads of this forest"
Hearing his words i snorted there's no way that the challenge would be this simple and I was right too
"Ohhhh there's also the fact that the each of the overload monsters are in the imperial rank"
"Fuck you"
Hearing that bastards words I couldn't help but curse. just imperial rank your mother!!, looks like the bastard is hell bent on killing us both but his words were not over
"Oh ya!!, there's also the fact that once every day your location would be transmitted to the different monsters and you would have to face a huge wave of monsters, who have complete intelligence"
As soon as the demon finished speaking he laughed happily and disappeared, I could see that Eleanor's face was a bit more pale, the last condition he placed is basically a push to separate me from Eleanor
After all leaving the difficulty of hunting the overlord's just the fact that I would have to face a huge wave of monsters in the forest with Eleanor every day would surely drain me
"Austin"
crouching down I came upon the determined eye's of Eleanor, i could see that she had decided to do something but before she spoke I did
"Impossible no matter what you say I would not abandon you, even if i lost my life"
'of course I won't lose my life'
without listening to her protest i scooped her up in a princess carry and started running after all monsters already stated to come after us
Eleanor lay in Austin's arm her heart unsettled, she wanted to protest she wanted to deny but in the end she couldn't, no matter how much she said that she didn't care, deep within her heart she knew that she was becoming attached to Austin and this frightened her
Eleanor is a women of action, once she makes up her mind over something she makes sure to follow through with it to the end, them why is she now unable to follow that principle?
Why does her heart rejoice at the fact that she's with her disciple?, why does her anger not flow for him calling her name?, why does her body rejoice in his touches?
She wanted to protect her disciple from her, she wanted to give him a better life by cutting herself from him, cutting those feeling away
But then why?, why did she rejoice when he had rejected to comply to her?
Why does her heart race to be with him?
Why does her heart beat like this?
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