A Beauty With Multiple Masks

Arielle’s gaze turned soft as she said, “Don’t worry. They’re gone.”

“Gone?” Henry turned to look around, and all he saw was the stall owner cleaning up the mess.

“W-What happened?” he asked quizzically.

Just when Jared was about to say that it was Arielle who chased them away, she spoke first. “Jared’s good. He’d already defeated all of them when I got here.”

Henry immediately turned to look at Jared with admiration. “Oh my gosh, Jared. They had machetes! No wonder you’re one of the Jupiters. I’ll tell your grandfather about this tomorrow. You’re totally born for the military!”

Jared turned away with mixed feelings.

I won’t ever say that I’m good at fighting and that I’m made for the military ever again. Maybe I’m just not talented. Maybe I should listen to Harvey and Granpa and focus on my studies instead.

Not knowing what Jared was thinking about, Henry kept complimenting him.

Arielle interrupted Henry, who was talking non-stop, “It’s late. Let’s go back to campus before the school finds out we had a fight outside.”

he finds out

He has always been

they helped Henry up and went back

was quiet, but Jared felt at

felt ridiculous. He had promised Harvey that he would protect Arielle at all costs, but the truth was, Henry and himself were

they arrived

waved goodbye at both of them. “I’m going to sleep now. Remember to bring Henry to the hospital tomorrow. You don’t want him to have any internal bleeding or anything,”

happen because she had secretly read their pulses earlier.

his mouth as if he wanted to say something,

him to the side and asked, “What’s

say it was me

chuckled. “It’d be too troublesome to

continued, “What are you going to do about this

first. I’ll take care of this. All you have to

take a rest. We should head back,