Chapter29

Her eyes stayed on him while her hand gripped the blanket tightly, and before she could decide whether to run again or ask anything at all, her stomach rumbled so loudly that her face went hot.

Hajin laughed a little when he heard it, not in a cruel way but more like he had been waiting for that to happen, then he lifted the stick a bit and looked at her across the fire.

"So you are awake," he said, turning the meat once before pulling one piece free. "Here, you should eat something."

She kept staring at him.

The food smelled good, too good, which only made her more tense because he was still a human no matter how calm he looked sitting there by the fire.

'How am I supposed to trust him?' she thought, watching his hand hold the meat out toward her, 'humans lie, they smile and then kill you when your guard is down.'

Even so, her stomach kept twisting, the smell making it worse with each passing second, and before she could argue herself out of it she found her body moving forward.

She approached slowly, never taking her eyes off him, then stepped close enough to snatch the meat from his hand and backed away right after.

She went straight back to the tree, sat down and started eating while glaring at him over the food like she expected him to try something the second she looked away.

He watched her for a moment, then looked back at the fire.

'Yeah, she definitely went through something bad with humans,' he thought, listening to the way she tore into the meat while still keeping her whole body tense, 'this is not normal fear.'

His eyes drifted back to the system after that, since he still had no idea what exactly he had summoned, and after fumbling through the menus for a few seconds he found a new tab sitting under his status.

[ Summon Status ]

[ Active Summons: 1 ]

[ Juna ]