章 145: Blooming Feelings

When Rune woke up, he was greeted not with sympathy but with a lecture from the girls for falling into his old habits. So what if they were up against impossible odds? They would push through together as they always had. Or that was the idea, at least.

Rune did not seem on the same page as everyone else, so they thoroughly drilled it into his skull.

"Don't do everything by yourself!"

"Rely on us!" they chided. He understood that his way of thinking had been wrong.

Rune was not surprised that Carin had dropped him as her pupil. He probably looked like nothing more than a scared child in her eyes. His shameful behavior and mindset was not the one she had spent so much time nurturing. In fact, he was surprised she let him go on as long as he did instead of beating him just for the pitiful expression he surely had on.

'I'm not quite there yet...' He thought.