Meanwhile, at the other end of the chemical drain, next to the cage that held Yu…

Kanji fell on a completely dry sewer that had not been used recently. The young boy slowly rose up, shaking the dizziness out of his head.

"Ravyn! You're going too far! Oh, ow..my whole body hurts."

Kanji grumbled as he brushed the dust off his clothes. When the boy stroked his hand in the area of his shirt pocket, he felt a foreign paper packet. Kanji hurriedly picked it up and took a look. When he opened it, Kanji saw that it was a packet of crushed herbs for bruising. There’s also a message written on the medicine wrapper envelope.

‘Apply it on your bruise, then go out along the sewer way out of the facility and call someone to help. While you’re reading this, the outside guards should be busy inside here for a while. I’ll try to find a way to get Yu out. —Ravyn ’

Upon reading this message, Kanji remembered that Ravyn had slipped her hand into his pocket before he was dumped down the underground pipe.

######

Ravyn woke up in a new, undamaged glass prison room. She was locked in electric shock remote-control handcuffs and chained the same way with Yu beside her.

"You're finally up."

Yu called for a blood-stained Ravyn from Weiss’s heavy attack as soon as she awoke.

"This guy’s too dangerous that.. this city mayor would never.. refuse our special case mission proposal.. Why don’t you notify.. Airburst about this?.."

Ravyn asked with shortness of breath.

"Weiss was already targeted by AB with a King (K) level threat. But I asked Charles to let me take care of this before the arresting mission was sent to Claretam’s Airburst. I know it will end up like this, but I still can’t help it. I’m really sorry to make you guys go through all of this."

This was the first time Ravyn had seen Yu include personal feelings in work. The evidence of mass life force extraction experiments on escaped prisoners and various creatures for energy generation is far too large for anyone in their right mind to keep it to themselves. And what’s more, is that the products of this project could provide enough energy on a region-wide scale for a year to be used to amplify the Lost Wisdom ability. Certainly, Ravyn couldn’t understand Yu.

"Why?"

The purple-haired girl asked her senior.

"I know I’m being irrational right now. But before Weiss carried on his family business, he was a different person from now. A person who is gentle and compassionate."

Yu began to recount the past that happened between her and Weiss.

######

15 years ago, in a classroom in TM Elementary School…

"Go away, you veiny ugly!" "Don’t talk to us." "Creepy!"

"You glasses freak!" "Get lost!"

A group of students were scolding little Yu, who was looking for a seat on the first day of the semester. No one had let her sit next to them because of her difference in appearance. She ended up on a separate table in the back of the room.

… I didn’t have any friends when I was a kid. For as long as I can remember, I was forced by my father to practice my family's traditional boxing. My body was muscular and veiny. And with very bad eyesight, I have to wear thick glasses, unlike my classmates. I even tried to be funny in front of my classmates, hoping to fit in, but I was still alone…

Later that spring, nothing has changed for Yu except a quiet foreign student who has just moved in and taken a blank seat beside her.

"Hey! Get up ugly. I’ll sit next to Weiss from now on."

One girl walked up to little Yu and her arms crossed as she chased Yu off to sit with the new boy.

"Oh, okay."

Yu, in short bangs, took three books from under her table and put them in a back pack strapped behind her chair. While a little girl was picking up a bag to move to another table, she was pushed so hard that it fell to the ground. Her glasses fell off.

Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.

*flops!*

" Why are you so slow? Come on."

That child who pushed Yu to the ground crossed her arms again in satisfaction. At that moment, little Weiss got up from his seat and spoke to the misbehaving child.

"Apologize to her."

"But that ugly has a weird muscle. Weiss doesn’t have to pay attention.."

"My eyes are yellow, and my hair is gray. Why do you pay attention to me?"

Before the spoiled kid could finish her excuse, Weiss countered.

"No, you're looking very cool."

A mean girl compliments Weiss.

"That girl with big muscles is cool too. APOLOGIZE TO HER NOW."

Little Weiss repeats firmly.

"I..I’m sorry.. wahh!!"

That girl then ran away crying. Weiss walked to where the glasses had fallen and handed them to Yu, who was fumbling around in search of her glasses. Then give her a hand.

"Are you okay?"

…Until Weiss came into my life…

…At first, my friends still didn’t open up. But because Weiss was a popular young man who was good at studying and was also kind, he had many friends. When he became close to me, everyone started to be friends with me…

"Yu, you are very strong."

A friend complimented Yu after she helped him carry workbooks. And some time after that, people around Yu started to change little by little.

"Teacher, please write bigger letters. Yu’s short-sighted."

Another girl sitting next to Yu raised her hand to tell the teacher.

…Weiss changed my world. He taught me, the one that felt like I had nothing good, that I had something good within me, that I deserved to be loved…

After many years of Yu’s and Weiss’s close friendship, they agreed to go on a relationship.

"Every day is a special day when I’m with you."

Yu told Weiss while they held hands watching a movie in the theater.

… But then one day, he changed…

"I hate women like you the most."

Weiss, arm in arm with a lovely slender lady, walked up to break up with Yu.

"Can't we talk about it, Weiss? Whatever I did wrong, we'll gradually correct each other like before, won't we?"

Yu knelt down and asked Weiss desperately in a trembling voice.

"Enough, Yu. Stop bugging me. An heir from the Prism group like me has to date someone who’s dignified and worthy. You’re just a poor person, not a celebrity. Your beefy figure full of veins is so sickening. I am hardly able to keep myself from sneaking away and puking every time I look at it. Who would dare to bring someone like this out in public?"

…He said with cold eyes, an indifferent tone, and a statue-like face without the slightest longing that a 7-year friendship and two more years of a lover’s relationship had to end…

The teen Yu, hugged Weiss’s legs, begging him not to leave. But he shook her off to the ground.

"You’re pathetic. Don't act like you know me anymore."

Weiss walked away with his supermodel fiancée without even turning his eyes back to look at Yu. The broken girl cried there until there were no more tears to shed.

######

"…He might not be a good man. But deep down in his mind, I’m sure he was not an evil person. He was just devastated by the tragedy that happened to his family because of the Donkey Gang. Hmm.. Babbling about my unrequited past like a loser doesn’t suit me at all."

After Yu’s recounted, she saw that Ravyn seemed to be trying to say something, but no sound came out.

…Ravyn’s badly hurt that she can’t speak to me anymore. If I left her like this, she would surely die within a few hours…

Pressured by Ravyn’s life-threatening condition, Yu had to make a decision.

"Forgive me for my selfishness that has caused you trouble. From what he’d done up until now, that guy’s incorrigible."

Yu closed her eyes and took a deep breath before opening her eyes again with determination in her eyes.

*kirik!* *kirik!*

*kirik!* *kirik!*

She ripped the handcuffs and chains that were restricting her legs apart with ease, as if they were made out of paper.

*clang* *clang* *clang* *clang*

All of the shackles hit the cell floor almost simultaneously, along with the stunning brown-haired girl, radiating a golden aura all over her body. Yu then broke Ravyn out of the tethered restraints and supported her to sit down.

"Do you still have the strength to take out some herbs for preliminary treatment?"

Yu asked Ravyn, and received a slight nod from her.

"Great. After that, you should get some rest. I'm going to put an end to this. Don't worry. It won't be long."

Yu finished talking to Ravyn and walked towards the prison wall.

*Smash!*

With just one golden shrouded punch, she broke a half-foot-thick, special crystal-aligned glass cage. And when the alarm siren sounded again, Yu had already run up the stairs at an incredible speed.

######

On the upper floor of the research center, where an enormous energy source was gathered...

"Charge power is 93%. So, if I can use First Kiss to help, it will be ready to activate tomorrow. Well done everyone."

Over the phone, Weiss praised the project leader and commended his scientists. His other hand was stuck inside Freja’s chest, a young executive in a beanie whose gray aura was fading away. The rest of Donkey’s soldiers' dead bodies were lying all over the research center. Survived Weiss’s security guards began to return to their respective positions and…

*bwok!*

Two of them were knocked over and stopped in front of Weiss.

"Go surrender yourself before I drag you along myself."

Yu walked up to Weiss and raised her guard high, with a golden aura radiating out. Weiss pulled out his bloody arm from the Donkey executive's chest, letting that dying body collapse and then release the white flashing lightning atmosphere around him.

"Try me."