I bid her goodbye and walked back to my room. On the way back I thought about all the stuff I would need to complete my journey. Maybe I should make a move on noona while we were on that trip. But if I was trying to seduce her and her hood came off and I saw all those scenes of death I don't know if I would be able to keep a straight face. Then she may never talk to me again or help me.

I got to my room and fell asleep for the night. The rest of my guard duty for the week went by uneventfully with no demonic beasts coming from the forest. Only regular ones such as wolves and wild boars. But they were no match for me and were quickly dispatched.

It seemed like noona was getting more distant the closer we got to our trip.

Whenever I would try and talk to her she would give me one-word responses and wouldn't look in my direction.

It was the day before we were about to venture into the forest I sat at my guard post bored out of my mind. When suddenly I heard a noise coming from the forest.

Out charged a demon boar it seemed to be wounded. In a frenzied rage it charged me I fired two crossbow bolts one missed but the other lodged in its side. It didn't even falter for a second and kept on with its charge.

I sidestepped and slashed down its side, but in an abnormal movement, it spun its head to my side and stuck its tusk into my arm. I had dealt a lethal blow to it but a cornered beast was the most dangerous and my sword arm had a pretty bad gnash so I sprinted toward were noona was. And I used the gravestones to dodge the beasts charge.

I saw her before she saw me and she was sitting on top of a tall tombstone with her chin in her hand.

I yelled "noona I could use a little help over here"

She saw me and kicked off her tombstone and in a giant leap flew over my head and sunk her emerald dagger deep into the boar's head.

Wasn't she powerfully enough to guard the whole graveyard by herself I thought to myself? Then I came to the conclusion that my post was just to serve as bait and an alarm.

I slumped down on a tombstone and spoke " who knew you could fly through the air so far with just a single kick" she turned around and when she did her hood fell off and revealed her face. It looked like it had been sculpted from a combination of all the beauty in the world. My eyes slowly rose from her slender neckline to her eyes. And the image of an old man with half his face eroded from poison was displayed in my mind. It was so horrendous it made me look away from that face. And in the instant my eyes started to move I saw great sadness in hers.

"Noona you just look so beautiful it seemed like it would be a crime to gaze on your face any longer."

"Dax if you ever get in danger like that don't even fight the creature just run to where I am"

"Do you care about me that much noona" I asked

She walked towards me glancing at my bleeding arm.

"I would care more about you if you threw off your childish innocence and held my gaze"

I didn't expect that answer. She reached out and grabbed my arm and wrapped it with a bandage.

I reached out and held her cheek as I tilted her head slightly upward.

" give me time and I'll be able to do it" I said as I looked into her slightly dilated pupil.

I tested to see if I only looked into one of her eyes if the scenes of despair and death would still be visible. And they were so apparently that cheat didn't work.