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.”

out about

has always been

him a faint smile. Then, they helped Henry

quiet, but Jared felt at

Harvey that he would protect Arielle at all costs,

arrived

to bring Henry to the hospital tomorrow. You don’t want him

she knew that was not likely to happen because she had secretly read their pulses

mouth as if he wanted to say something,

pulled him to

it was me who chased them away?” Jared said

be too

He scratched his head and continued, “What are you going

for a while before she replied, “Don’t tell anyone about this first. I’ll take care of this. All you have to

Go back and take a rest. We should head back,