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By the way Akumarayne, I'm glad you like it. For a while, I thought that there wasn't many people who liked it after looking at the number of reviews I got. Also I plan on keeping all of my stories alive even if it's a bit hard keeping up to date with all of them.
Chapter 3: After the Fight
After the fight, Hakuryuu and Judal emerged victorious. Hakuryuu started walking off but was staggering due to his wound from Byoln's surprise attack. Hakuryuu used his guan dao as a support to keep him from falling onto the ground.
"Hakuryuu, need a hand." Judal catches Hakuryuu from collapsing.
"Thank you for your concern, but I am fine." Hakuryuu pushes Judal's body away from him.
"Look, you can barely walk. So just accept this one in a lifetime opportunity and let me help you!" Judal couldn't help but feel something strange. Normally he would never offer any assistance to anybody unless they were causing fights or wars, but helping a person out of kindness was something that Judal would never in his entire life ever do.
"Any problems that I encounter are mine and my responsibility alone."
"You'll pass out before you even make it back." What he talking about? All he asked was to help him. Now he's acting like he's shouldering some kind of burden he can't let others have.
"I d rather pass out than let someone help me. Now leave me alone."
"No can do..."
"Huh?"
Judal pulls Hakuryuu's body towards him.
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"What are you doing?" Hakuryuu madly blushes like crazy with embarrassment.
Judal is carrying Hakuryuu like a princess in his arms.
"Our room!"
"What!"
"Quit being a baby, and listen to your elders!"
"You're only older than me by two years!"
Judal drops Hakuryuu on his bed and pushes him down.
"Now be a good little boy and stay quiet."
Judal undoes Hakuryuu's sash so that he could remove Hakuryuu's shirt.
Hakuryuu in response pushes Judal off the bed.
"What the heck was that for! I was just helping you bandage your wound!" Judal nurses his poor bump seeing how he was rudely treated in response to his rare act of kindness.
"I can handle that myself!" Hakuryuu holds his clothes back in place preventing them from sliding off his body.
"Will you stop being so narrow minded! I'm just being nice for once." Now Judal couldn't stand how Hakuryuu was so adamant about not accepting any kind of aid.
"I never asked for your help!" Hakuryuu grabs onto his metal vessel and creates one of his monsters. The creature heads towards Judal. Judal uses his Borg to block the creature but the acid from the monster melts Judal's Borg. Once Judal is sent flying out of his own room, Hakuryuu slams the door in front of Judal. Judal hears a click sound coming from the door.
"Hakuryuu!" Judal bangs on the door pissed at Hakuryuu's cruel treatment towards him.
In his room, Kouen goes through the photo album so far he sees pictures of Hakuyuu as a child. Then Hakuren starts to appear. It seems that the photo album goes according to chronological order. After flipping through the pages, Kouen sees that one of Hakuren and Hakuyuu's younger siblings is born. Under the picture of the baby born, it reads 'Finally a cute baby sister! Hakuei Ren.' Judging from the handwriting, it must have been Hakuren. It looks like the two doted on their baby sister very much. They must have really loved their two baby siblings a lot, but he couldn't see why they would do something like disappear and just leave their two baby siblings alone like that.
Despite her appearance, she isn't very feminine in the least after looking at a picture of her defeating a group of trained warriors and at the age of 4 only. The scary part was that she was making a peace sign while smiling as she is dragging an unconscious man in her other hand. And at the side Hakuren is cheering at his little sister's victory.
"What are those two teaching a little girl..."
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After Kouen turned to the next and final page, he couldn't believe what he had just seen. He scanned the entire page several times to confirm that it wasn't his imagination. Kouen's grip on the book loosen. Allowing it to land onto the hard floor while Kouen is having a hard time processing the new information he just gained.
"If this is true then..."
After 10 minutes, Judal could see that Hakuryuu had no intention of letting him in any time soon. So he decided to do something else.
"Whew." Hakuryuu let's out a sigh of relief when he hears Judal's footsteps walking away from their room.
Hakuryuu begins to undress now that he knows that Judal is gone.
'I should have handled that much more smoothly than that. I'll have to apologize to him later.' Hakuryuu takes off his head garment letting down his long hair. Now that Judal is gone, Hakuryuu starts to take off his bloodstained clothes so that he can disinfect his wound.
"Hakuryuu, is that how you treat everybody who's nice to you! What are you a girl!" An angry Judal storms into his room through the window.
Startled by Judal's entrance, Hakuryuu accidentally let's go off his bloodstained clothes which fall off onto the floor revealing the his half naked body.
What caught Judal's attention was not only Hakuryuu's half naked slender figure and the fact that his hair was much longer than before but his bandaged chest.
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"Kyaaaaaaaa!?" Hakuryuu screams.
"Wait, I-" Before Judal could finish his sentence, Judal was sent flying again but this time out the window.
Only one thought came into Judal's mind as he blanked out at the shocking discovery he just made:
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'Hakuryuu is a girl!?'
Silence~
A heavy silence fills the room making it more tense. Recovering from the nasty fall he had and the shock of finding out about Hakuryuu's gender, Judal rubs an ice pack on his now swollen red cheek that had a handprint on it.
"So you're a girl..." Judal crudely blurts out.
Hearing Judal's words, tears drip from Hakuryuu's eyes.
"Gck!" Judal does no clue as what he should so since he's never dealt with someone crying let alone a girl. Normally he would be the one crying even if they were fake so that he could just laugh at the idiot usually Sinbad for sympathizing with him.
"So are you going to report me to the administration..." For the first time in awhile, Hakuryuu spoke.
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"I don't care if you do. I prepared myself for such an event to happen the moment I enrolled into Alma Torran." Despite Hakuryuu's words, she looks like she's about to crack at any moment.
"So everything was a lie..."
"That's right. I deceived you this entire time. Although it was only for a short period of time, I still did something unforgivable to you. I do not expect any forgiveness from you either."
"Then..."
Hakuryuu braces herself for whatever Judal will say to her.
"Why?" Judal simply asks.
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"Why did you go through all that trouble to do that?"
"I..." Hakuryuu looks down when she hears Judal's question as she grimaces at the thought of her missing brothers.
"If you wanted to see me that badly, then you could have just came in during those stupid family gatherings." What is this fool talking about?
"I never knew my handsomeness was so frightening that I made a girl enroll here disguised as a guy. My charm frightens even me." Judal's smug remark had irritated Hakuryuu.
A large vein pops out on Hakuryuu's head. Talk about conceited.
"I see so you came here with the intention of finding your missing brothers who disappeared from here." Judal cups his chin after hearing Hakuryuu's reason for her admission into Alma Torran despite it being an all boys' school. Judal's words and pose appear cool but with the two red hand prints on his cheeks it didn't make him the least bit cool.
Hakuryuu prepared herself for the worst. To be looked down upon for being a girl. To be told how foolish she was for thinking she could find any hope of seeing her brothers were missing for years. Or worse blackmailed. Whatever will happen, Hakuryuu already accepted her fate the moment she stepped into Alma Torran.
"Good luck then." Judal jumps out the window leaving a confused Hakuryuu.
"Eh?" What could he possibly mean by that. Was he telling her that she would have even more hardships awaiting her.
Leaving Hakuryuu wondering what he meant, Judal takes a stroll in the air for some fresh air. Flying in the air with only one thing in his mind:
Hakuryuu is a girl...
A girl?
A girl!
Just the thought of his roommate being a girl made Judal fluster. Imaging that all this time, he acted like that to a girl. Well not that he cared. Girl or not. Judal acted how he pleased. He even took a bath in one of Kouen's younger sister's, Kougyoku Ren, peach bath casually eating a peach without a care in the world ignoring the fact that he was in a girl's bathroom.
Since Hakuryuu was a girl that did explain why she was obstinate about not wanting Judal to help her when she was injured. After all Alma Torran is an all boys' school, so no women are allowed admission. Now the bigger question is why did he feel so flustered seeing Hakuryuu's half naked body. He has several dirty books in his room so looking at a woman's half naked body should be no big deal to him.
Wait! Where exactly did he put that gravure book he stole from Sinbad?
Judal's words left an imprint in Hakuryuu's mind. Why did he say such things to her? Was he actually a nicer person than she thought?
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"What's this?" Noticing a book that Hakuryuu didn't recognize, she thought it probably belonged to Judal. Surprisingly he was actually the intellectual type. 'It's probably a difficult magic book.'
"Gck?!" What Hakuryuu saw wasn't a magic book but rather a gravure book filled with women with big chests wearing very revealing clothes inside the book. The book was disguised to pass off a regular book due to the cover.
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"He really is a hentai..."
