When Kai finally realised that Emma wasn't going to wake up, he nudged her awake. As Emma looked around blankly, Kai gently grabbed her chin and turned her towards him.

"Come on, we're here. We need to go." Emma put her head back on the pillow as she released Kai's hand on her chin. She looked like she was going to go back to sleep. Kai had a hard time not laughing when she spoke half asleep.

"What do I care, I'm going to sleep, you go! " Kai frowned and looked angrily at Emma. He knew that Emma didn't realise the seriousness of the situation at the time. But it wasn't Emma's fault either. Her leg was really hurting and she didn't want to go out. She knew that walking would be like torture. If there was a healer, couldn't she heal her here?

"Should I leave you here alone?" said Kai. Emma turned her head towards Kai with her eyes closed and looked at him for a while.

"No, don't leave me here alone. You stay here too." She didn't seem to realise what she was saying. Kai looked at her and realised she wasn't going to get up. And he could sense the laziness of this child. Apparently Emma didn't want to get up not only because of her leg, but also because of laziness and sleep intoxication.

"I guess that's why I was the one who stayed behind to take you," Kai said. He couldn't help a smile forming on his face. Of course, the one who was most intimate with Emma had stayed behind for the possibility of such a thing happening. Jace had said that injured people could be quite fussy.

Emma was still sleeping when Kai picked her up, noting the wound on Emma's leg. Passers-by were looking at them as they left the caravan and headed into New York. They were all thinking how shameless adolescence and youth had become. Still, they said nothing. Young people's jaws worked much better than theirs. If they got into a conversation, they would have looked like fools.

Meanwhile, Kai was thinking about what he knew about the city.

The city used to be one of the most famous capitals of the world, but in 2116, when America changed to New America in the New Age War, it became a different place than before.

While nothing technological was used, everything else was free. The country could not appoint a governor here. Because it knew what these people could do. This part of the country had a dense population, but the population was not noticed at all because people were established in an absolute order.

Even though Kai lived in Seattle, the new name of that place was New Seattle. Each country had changed in its own way. While no one said that it would never be the same again, there has never been a war between the countries since then. It's been about 800 years.

Although there were still big skyscrapers in New York, Kai heard rumours that the area was much quieter than before. It was probably because there were no vehicles.

Kai and Emma found the way by asking after a while. Although the people who saw them did not want to tell them the way at first, when they saw the wound on Emma's leg, they thought that the blond-haired boy was carrying the girl for this reason. That's why they gave them directions.

When Kai and Emma arrived at their destination, Emma was still sleeping on Kai's lap. Kai nudged her a little and she woke up. When the sun hit her face as soon as she woke up, she covered her face with her hand. She didn't seem to feel the hands wrapped around her legs and waist.

"Where am I?" she asked with a naive look. Kai looked at Emma while laughing.

"You're in my lap." said Kai with a cheeky look. Emma's eyes immediately widened and she tried to slap Kai. But when Kai grabbed her hand with his mouth, she had to pull her hand back. A look of disgust appeared on her face.

"You're disgusting." Kai laughed as Emma wiped her hand with Kai's dress. It was really disgusting. Her drool was all over her hand and she almost cut her hand because of her teeth.

When Kai finally saw his 3 friends, he turned towards them. All 3 of them had a piece of their face falling off. When Kai saw them like this, he knew something was wrong.

"Why are you still out there?" he asked. Jack started to speak in a nonchalant manner as he looked at Kai and Emma hugging.

"It's a miscalculation. What about you? What's going on? I understand that you have a life full of love, but if you do it a little more unobtrusively, others will be pleased." Jack said. Kai realised he was overdoing it and put Emma down. Looking around at the people staring at him, he couldn't help feeling embarrassed. Emma might have had trouble walking, but she could stand.

Turning to Jace, he saw him staring angrily at the door.

"Why didn't you come in?"

"He's not home."

Kai laughed as Jace gritted his teeth in anger. They had come all this way. They had escaped the hunters. But they had lost all the time they had gained by the time they got here. Still, Kai didn't seem to care much about that. If the Hunters' speed was what it had been, they had a little more time.

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"Is that why you're so angry?" said Kai. Jace took a deep breath and relaxed as he stopped gritting his teeth. Then he looked at Kai.

"Yeah."

"Let's wait a bit. We'll go in when we get there." said Kai and they all waited together.

It was getting dark and Kai and the others were still waiting. Emma sat on a stone. So she could wait all this time. She was completely sober now. The men were waiting at the door.

When Kai saw a silhouette coming from the corner of his eye, he turned his gaze there. Seeing the side Kai was looking at, the others also looked in that direction. Jace stepped forward. His eyes widened and his heart began to beat faster. But he didn't change his expression much. He hid his sweaty hands and listened to the sound of her steps with a dull expression. He tried to look at her face.

Although he couldn't see who it was in the darkness, it was obviously a girl, and Jace knew her body shape well enough to memorise it. Even though she had been away from her for years. He recognised her.

When the silhouette appeared in the darkness, Jace was having a hard time keeping a straight face this time. He bit his lip. He used his clothes to wipe the sweat from his hands, which he hid behind his back. It was only when he saw her that he realised how much he missed her.

The girl had blue hair and green eyes. Her height was something like 1,70 cm. She looked 16 years old, just like Jace, and her looks were not much different from Jace.

"Jace?" The girl gave Jace a puzzled look as she dropped the fruit bags in her hand. Who knows what emotions were behind that look.

"Lena?"

The girl jumped into Jace's arms as she ran closer. Unlike Jace, she didn't resist her feelings. This was how she had grown up. This was how she had lived. The others looked at it, but it was strange since they knew absolutely nothing about their story. Jack was poking Kevin and asking what was going on, Kai was picking his ear. Emma was watching them admiringly. Apparently only she could see the atmosphere here.

***

With Lena in Jace's arms, neither of them could think of anything else. They had both been waiting for this moment for a long time and now it was finally here again.

After a while Lena pulled out of Jace's arms and slapped him hard across the face. Jace didn't even realise what had happened. Apparently now he was getting what he deserved.

Jace was sent flying through the air by Lena's strength and the slap and landed a few metres away. Kai and the others trembled. This girl could undoubtedly tear them to pieces with one hand. How weak were those hunters compared to her? She was barely able to stop after being dragged along the ground for a bit. Lena was strong, and even with Jace's strength, he couldn't escape unscathed.

It had been 4 years. Lena couldn't stop her eyes from filling as she looked at Jace. She had hit Jace and while it seemed like Jace had kept her waiting all this time, she really just wanted to make sure it wasn't a dream. Jace was really there for him!

"Do you have any idea how long I've been waiting for you?!"

Jace tilted his head as he looked at Lena. Lena was right. Years ago Jace had pushed Lena away and that day Lena had left the academy without anyone knowing.

Lena was normally a gentle person, but one should never push her buttons.

Her eyes lingered on Emma as she turned her gaze to the others.

"Who are they?" Jace sat on a rock as he forced himself to his feet. His jaw was really hurting.

"The tall handsome one who can control six emotions. You know, the one they say comes in a century or something. That's him." When Lena turned her gaze to Kai, she looked at him carefully. But she didn't say anything.

"He's good enough, but he still hasn't improved his rank. They're going to the academy, they'll be crushed. Let them stay with me for a few days and we'll get them up to speed and then you can go."

Jace shook his head from side to side. He wasn't here for Kai.

"You're coming too."

"Says who? I'm not going anywhere with you."

Jace knew Lena would be stubborn. He acted accordingly.

"Can you heal them?"

He pointed to Jack and Emma. Of course, he wasn't very good either.

Lena nodded. Wounds that small were time consuming but not difficult.

She looked at Kevin. Kevin couldn't even control his aura. The healing energy was leaving his body in small amounts. Lena threw him the key.

"Healer, come here. I'll start teaching you first." Who knows what Kevin was thinking as he opened the door.

Jace was suddenly surprised by the hand holding his ear.

"You're coming too. I beat you good. If I don't heal you, your handsome face will be wasted." As he pulled Jace away, the others lambed in.

Emma sat directly on the couch while the other two were standing.

"I'll heal the girl first. You can all stay. You two watch closely. " Kai and Kevin clapped their hands together as they watched intently, their eyes closed.

Jace was watching intently as a green light formed between his two hands.

When she suddenly opened his eyes, he saw the lightning bolt at the bottom of her eye. It was green. He was at the peak of green lightning. He had definitely made a lot of progress.

The light in both hands was travelling towards Emma's leg.

"This is..... you rewind time. It's the ability of green lightning." Each colour of lightning added a new ability. This was the ability of green lightning in healers, they could rewind time. But there was a limit. They could only rewind a certain area.

Of course, not all of them had the same ability, but this ability was quite common. Since she was far away from the academy, she couldn't find anyone to guide her. That's why Lena had chosen such a skill.

The green light on Emma's foot grew dimmer and dimmer as her foot returned to its original position.

Lena was breathing deeply as she threw herself backwards. She looked really tired.

"I had to do it to one of them first because her wound and that boy's wound were bigger. I applied it to Emma's foot because her wound was bigger." Kai and Kevin looked at each other as they all understood. They were mesmerised.

Lena pointed at Jace.

"Come here. Jack stays here. You two go get some work done. Your body is already ready for a breakthrough, but you can't move up a grade because you don't meditate. Give it a try, maybe you'll meditate. Then you'll be able to make a breakthrough easily. Kai, maybe you'll find it a little more difficult, but you'll do it. Emma, try to meditate with them in the same way. "

Lena knew when they were all capable of making the grade. It was easy even for her to train the little ones who were still in yellow lightning.

Jace sat down on the couch next to Lena as Jack lay down on the couch.

"You'll be asleep in a little while, this will have an effect, the bigger the wound, the greater the pain. Actually... try to meditate. Then you won't feel the pain, and you'll also increase your degree." Jack nodded his head in agreement as he listened to him.

He sat cross-legged. He closed his eyes as he put his hands together at the level of his belly button.

Lena looked at Jace. It was as if she was proud of what she had done. Jace's mouth was bloody and there was a good chance his nose was broken. It was only because he was a repellent that he was able to endure all the pain.

Lena began to heal him. Jace realised that her speed was slower than normal.

"Shouldn't you be healing faster?" she tried to answer without looking at him, but she couldn't. Her voice betrayed how hurt she was.

"Love has diminished. That's why it's like this. That's why I couldn't get through the orange lightning." She still wasn't looking at Jace when he was looking at her.

"Why won't you look at me?"

"Because it hurts me to look at you. It reminds me of how you left me."

Jace lowered his head and looked at Lena's face under her bowed head as if looking under the table. He could see how upset she was.

"I'm sorry. Please let me take your pain away from you."

As his lips met hers, he forgot how it felt. His whole purpose, his whole journey was for this. He came to end his regrets. He came for this kiss.

Even if Lena regretted it, he was going to take her. He was going to kiss her. He would love her.

Lena's eyes glowed green and the whole house lit up with that light. All of Jace's wounds healed. Lena reached the beginning of the orange lightning and her healing power returned. Perhaps Lena had found it difficult to suppress her longing. Maybe her heart was conquered by this longing. But without a doubt, Lena loved Jace.