Chapter48

He slammed the back of his head into the pillar behind him, the crack echoing across the guild hall, making more than one person flinch.
"Wrong answer," he said.
The man's body went limp for a second from the hit, then jerked weakly when Hajin dragged him upright again.
Juna stared at them both, and something in her chest twisted in a way she did not know how to name. It was not simple relief and it was not trust, because trust did not come that fast, but watching him keep pressing the issue for her sake made it harder and harder to stay numb.
'He really isn't doing this for show,' she thought, ears twitching once. 'All this is for me? But why, I have done nothing to deserve that kindness from him.'
He brought the man close again until he was facing Juna a second time.
"Try again," he said. "Her name is Juna, apologize for touching her, and mean enough of it that I don't have to keep teaching you."
The man's lips shook once as he finally looked at her properly now, maybe for the first time since grabbing her, and whatever he saw in Hajin's face from the corner of his vision made the last bit of resistance crack.
"S-sorry," he said, voice rough. He swallowed hard, then forced the rest out before fear could choke it off. "Sorry, Juna. I am sorry for touching you."
The room stayed dead silent after that.
Juna did not answer as she did not even know what to say in such a situation. Nobody had ever stopped a human in the middle of a room like this and made him apologize to her. 
'What am I even supposed to say to that?' she thought, eyes flicking from the man to Hajin and then back again.
Her lips parted a little.
"I..."
She was about to say something when someone walked in, making several people turn toward the entrance on instinct.
"What's going on here?"