Elizabeth was pressed against the wall, a hand slammed beside her, pinning her there.
It was Ken.
Her eyes were looking down, not meeting Ken’s.
“Why are you avoiding me?” Ken’s tone was filled with discontent.
“I…
I wasn’t avoiding you,” she lied.
Ever since that day when she felt his presence at the girls’ dormitory in another girl’s room, she had been avoiding him.
She didn’t know how to confront him about it.
She didn’t even know if she wanted to confront him.
What if it was true?
Could she handle it?
She didn’t know, nor did she want to find out.
“You are.
You’re definitely avoiding me.
Did I do something?
Come on, tell me.
I’ll apologize.
In fact, even if I didn’t do anything, I’ll still apologize.
I’m sorry, Cookies.
Please, at least look at me!”
She could sense the hurt in his voice.
It was very familiar since she felt hurt herself.
It was so…
Was it really him?
Maybe she was mistaken.
Yes, it could be.
It wasn’t like she saw him there.
It was just…
She looked up, meeting his eyes that were red.
Wait…
Was he crying?
“Just tell me,” Ken begged.
Before she could even understand, her mouth opened on its own.
“Were you in the girls’ dormitory four days ago?”
Her eyes widened, while Ken’s narrowed.
“No.
Why would I be in the girls’ dormitory?” Ken asked confusedly.
“But I…
I felt it.
The attraction, just like now!”
“No, I wasn’t there.
What would I even do in the girls’ dormitory?
Please, you’ve gotta believe me.”
She didn’t know what to think, so she looked down.
“Cookies, I missed you a lot.”
So did she, she thought.
“I…
I can’t explain it.
It’s like there was a dagger in my heart every time I saw you and you ignored me.”
Her eyes shook.
She felt the same when she was avoiding him.
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Elizabeth felt heartache listening to him.
But just then she felt him coming closer.
Before she knew it, she felt his lips on hers.
Her eyes widened.
It was only for a moment, and he pulled back.
She looked at him in disbelief.
“Why…
what did you…?”
“I feel like this is the only way to prove my sincerity.”
He said with a shallow smile tugging on his lips.
“And I want to prove it a bit more.”
His face came closer to her.
He was about to do it again.
She put her hand on his chest as if about to push him off.
She could if she wanted to, yet her push didn’t have any strength.
So he advanced.
Their lips met again.
This time, the kiss was filled with more passion.
She was probably mistaken.
He was probably telling the truth.
She responded clumsily as best as she could.
A thought suddenly crossed her mind, something she knew yet hadn’t confronted before.
“Ken…
I love you.”
The staff in Elizabeth’s hand glowed brightly in response to her body flickering violently.
The shock of seeing Ken practically unharmed even after she threw everything she had at him was really just too much for her weakened mental state.
Ken laughed, a surprised laugh.
“Was my survival really so surprising?
You might even be shocked to death!
I didn’t know you had this side to you too, Cookies!”
“Don’t call me that!” Elizabeth yelled, her form stabilizing through her sheer anger!
“Why?”
Ken tilted his head.
“Why?”
Elizabeth couldn’t help but laugh, her laugh filled with nothing but anger and disbelief.
“You don’t know why?”
“Come on.
It has been so long.
Are you still hung up on that?”
Her eyes widened with pure disbelief.
She couldn’t fathom how this man had the audacity to say that.
Her flickering intensified even with the staff’s help.
“You think I want to remember it?
You think I enjoyed not being able to forget how you played with me, toyed with my feelings?
You think i want to keep recoiling how you abandoned me after you had your fun playing with me like a broken toy”
“Well…” Ken scratched his head.
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Tears kept falling from her eyes.
She didn’t want to say it, yet her mouth had a mind of its own.
“I tried to forget you.
I tried to forget everything about you, yet I simply couldn’t.
It was too much to forget, too hurtful to just ignore.
It haunts me.
You haunt me, Ken.
I tried.
I tried to use the anger as motivation to grow, to prove that I could be better without you.
“And it worked.
I grew.
I grew more than I ever imagined I ever would.
I got to a position of power few can ever have.
“Yet so what?
“The moment I saw you again, everything came back.
“I threw everything I had at you, and look at you.
Not even a scratch.
No, nothing.
“It was worthless.
“All my effort.
All my anger.
“It was all for nothing.”
Ken blinked, not knowing what to say.
“Hahaha…”
She laughed at herself.
“You know what?
“I hate you.
“But I hate myself more.
“There’s a part of me that always thought it was my fault, that I wasn’t good enough for you.
That’s why you did what you did.
“I know that’s not true, but that voice never stops, and right now it’s laughing at me, telling me, ‘I told you so.’
“You were so much ahead of me.
“That it was right all along.”
“You know what?”
With a look of acceptance, Elizabeth smiled.
“I give up.
“I don’t want to get haunted by you anymore.
“I give up.”
Elizabeth let go of her staff.
Instantly, her flickering intensified.
She was about to get elementalized and disappear for good, and this time she didn’t even fight it.
She let go.
But just then, Gray Flux mana spread from Ken, instantly covering ten meters all around.
Elizabeth felt a suppressing force surrounding her, forcefully stopping her elementalization.
It was Unique Dominance.
Ken’s Unique Dominance.
She looked, and Ken’s smile had vanished.
Instead, an irritated expression was on his face.
He sighed and muttered,
“So troublesome.”