Chapter59

She cut the thought off, turned back to him, and raised two fingers with a small smile.
"Easy work," she said, flashing him a peace sign.
He almost laughed and lifted a hand toward her.
"You did really-"
The boar's corpse jerked upright behind her before he could finish, its neck bent wrong and blood pouring from its face while its dead eyes locked on her.
"Juna, watch out!"
Everything slowed down for him in that second, the words tearing out of his throat while she started to turn, but it was already too late.
Its paw slammed into her side with brutal force, launching her through the air like a rag doll, then she hit a tree with devastating force, enough to make the trunk crack.
Blood burst from her mouth when she dropped to the ground, one hand clutching her side while the other dug into the dirt, trying to stay awake through pure stubbornness.
'What just happened?' she thought, her vision blurring at the edges while pain spread through her ribs and chest in hot waves.
She heard him shouting her name and saw him sprinting toward her, his face tight with panic she had never seen on him before.
Then the world tilted, the trees smearing together as darkness rushed in, passing out before he reached her.
Hajin continued sprinting toward her, panic still spreading in his chest, but before he could even get close, the boar lurched sideways and cut him off before he could reach her.
It slammed both front legs into the ground, sending dirt flying upward, forcing him to jump back and slide to a stop with his teeth clenched.
'What the hell is this?' he thought, eyes locked onto the bear while its body twitched in ugly pulses. 'That monster was definitely dead.'