Chapter 8: Why hate me?

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Akira sighed as he managed to run away from angry Elinara. Then he realized something he was nowhere near combats training.

Suddenly he felt killing intent closer toward him. Akira acts fast as he uses an invincible magic power.

"Nature magic: Invincible from eyes." Akira cast the spells as his body became invisible. Elinara came later with a dark aura looking for him.

Akira tries hiding from Elinara as the female elf turns toward him. Akira's eyes widened as Elinara quickly blew his cover away.

"You think that magic is going to work on me?! I'm a teacher, for good god sake, I higher than golden rank students." Elinara's hands are glowing green aura.

Akira is tired of this chasing and running as he dispels the invincible magic and appears right before Elinara.

"Okay, that's enough! I know you are mad at me, but why this much?!" Akira asks.

"What you did can't be forgiven!" Elinara said.

"That's bullshit! and you know it." Akira said as Elinara took it back. "If I did anything wrong that makes you hate me... Please. Let me know." Akira crosses his arms.

"That doesn't matter!" Elinara said as she pushed the question away. She, without another word, attacks the white hair teen with her green aura punch.

Akira sighed as he didn't hold back as he did at the first counter.

Akira manages to catch Elinara's punch with ease. Elinara was surprised when she saw Akira with a bored face as he caught the fist.

The white hair teen pulls Elinara closer to him and wraps his left arm around her waist.

Akira and the elves are face to face and their nose almost touch each other. Elinara blushed a bit at the closeness.

"L-Let me go, you pervert!" Elinara stutter.

"Not, until you tell me, the reason you hate me..." Akira said as he held, blushing Elinara no room to escape.

"L-Let me go!"

"No," Akira claimed as Elinara watched his eyes. Elinara saw sky blue eyes looking deep inside her.

"I-It's not like I hate you... But I'm just mad at you..." Elinara finally said the first words. "I train so hard for a couple of years just for my sister... So badly that I had to leave her alone, still I failed to save my sister. I was unable to help her when she needed me. I was so mad that I couldn't help her. I hate myself because of it." Elinara muttered as she looks away from Akira's eyes.

"Then you came." Elinara looks at Akira's eyes. "Suddenly, you came out of nowhere and safe her. At the same time, I can't do anything about it. You destroy what I work for all those years to save my sister. You didn't even care about the consequences of helping my sister while I did..." Elinara said.

"What?... What do you mean by Consequences?" Akira asks.

"Did you know what consequences when that bastard you kill is the minister of human King?" Elinara ask.

"Mi-Minister? What is that?" Akira asks.

"Are you kidding me!?" Elinara yells. "How can you be this dumb!?" Elinara ask.

"Uhh, I am light blue rank remember?" Akira point to his three-strip on his shoulder.

"Oh my god... this going to be a lot of explanation... minister is a title that serves under a King," Elinara said as her teacher's instinct shot her up.

"Ohh, I see..." Akira said as he was back in the strict mode, he didn't care about the title.

The day he saved Asuka and Asagi in his mind at that time, he didn't care if he fought the king itself or started a war between himself. He wants his friends to be protected. Save from torture and slavery.

And he didn't know the elf he saved was the youngest elf Princess. Now he makes a decision. He didn't care about the consequences that were about to happen. He will fight million of the enemy if he has to save his friends and make the world a better place.

Akira looks sharply at Elinara's eyes as he says. "Listen to me, Elinara... I don't care what the consequences are and never will. What I care about is my friend's safety. I will fight until last the blood if I have to keep them safe." Akira said.

Elinara didn't know why but she felt a butterfly inside her stomach. Her face gets red because of closeness, and the word he says makes Elinara's eyes tear, not in sadness but in happiness.

"So stop chasing me and hit me. It gets annoyed. And you mentioned 'consequences' a lot. I'm not the most intelligent person alive, but if you are scared, what going to happen? You could let burden on me; let me take all the blame. Let me protect you and the other." Akira said as Elinara blushed even more.

Akira loses his grip around her waist, but Elinara doesn't move away from him; instead, unknown to them, her arms unconsciously warp Akira's waist.

Elinara didn't know this feeling, and she somehow liked it.

Akira, Elinara, blames him because he wastes her plans to save her sister, and she also believes he is Human. The same race that kidnapped her sister and made her mad at him.

But after listening to his words and seeing his blue-sky eyes. Elinara might fall in love as her sister did.

'Akira is a guy... Who will put another person first while taking all the burden and risk his life for the person he didn't know. Is this why my sister choose him?' Elinara thought.

"So please stop this," Akira said as she scoffed blushing.

Two more minutes of silence came. Elinara remembers Emilias words to apologize to Akira, but she felt it so heavy to say that to someone like him.

Elinara took a deep breath as she muttered.

"A-Akira, it might be late to say this... But," Elinara took a deep breath once again, "T-Thank you for saving my beloved sister and So... S-Sorry for putting all the hate on you." Elinara said with her head down in shame.

Akira chuckled at Elinara as the elf girl blushed even more.

"No need to thank me, Elinara..." Akira said that as Elinara looked at him. "I only there in a short time. Asuka and Asagi... They are the ones who help Emilias the most." Akira said.

"But still, without you, three of them can't be free... So don't be a jerk about it and take my apologies. Besides, you are the one who, aside from my family, I apologize to." Elinara muttered the last sentence.

Akira heard that as he smiled at his teacher.

Unknown to them both, their position is quite looking like they were a couple. It seems like Akira and Elinara hug each other in the school ally ways.

"Ahm!" they both turn to the voice as they see Badang with a grinning face. "So this fighting in the morning was an act or something real?"

Both of them when too silent as they looked at Badang and back at each other and back again.

Elinara suddenly when red from head to toe as she screams.

"AHHHH!!! get away from me, you pervert!" Elinara punches Akira right on his face sending him flying toward Badang.

Akira didn't see that coming from her. Badang managed to catch Akira with his right arm.

"W-Why?" Akira said as he fell unconscious on Badang's arm.

Elinara stood there with a red and guilty face. At the same time, Badang laughs at both of them.

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•To Be Continue•

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