Chapter105

She stopped walking, forcing him to pause and turn around to look at her. 
She stared directly back at him, the cold royal expression she wore earlier completely gone, replaced by a deep and genuine sincerity. 
"You saved my life twice within the span of two days," she said, her voice entirely steady. "I am not going to throw you to the wolves. Your secret is completely safe with me."
"Thank you," he said, his shoulders visibly dropping in relief. 
They started walking down the path again, the silence between them much more comfortable than before. 
'But wait,' she thought, stealing a quick glance at the back of his head as he walked in front of her. 'Kenny said he was thrown out because he had absolutely zero talent.'
She remembered the terrifying pressure of that monster and how it had knocked her completely unconscious without even trying. When she woke up, Gazel was dead, and Hajin had somehow carried her miles away to a safe cave. 
'If he is such a failure,' she thought, her eyes narrowing slightly. 'How did he manage to save me from a monster strong enough to kill Sir Gazel?'
Something was definitely fishy here.
She kept staring at his back while he walked ahead of her. 'I keep feeling a very strange mana coming from him,' she thought, her eyes shifting over to the beastkin. 'And it is the exact same for her, just who are these two really?'
Up ahead, Juna suddenly sped her pace up, arriving right beside his arm. She leaned close to his shoulder, her ears pressing flat against her head.
"Master," she whispered, keeping her voice low enough that only he could hear. "I keep feeling this strange hatred towards the princess, why is that?"
He looked at her with a confused expression, slowing his pace just a little. 'Is my connection with the system leaking somehow?' he thought, glancing briefly over his shoulder at Didi. 
He knew the system hated the princess because of her bloodline, but he had ignored the prompt. 'Does it affect my summons too?'
He really didn't know.