𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑, j.mori

𝐓𝐄𝐍

—— CHAPTER TEN / brainstorming

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"YOU GOT HER TO GO OUT WITH YOU?" ASKED MIRA, ALMOST DISBELIEVINGLY. Mori nodded furiously, a big grin cutting through his handsome features. "He simply irritated everyone into getting her to say yes. I was there." cut in Daewi.

"How were you there?"

"I work there."

"Oh, yeah." Then Mira turned back to Mori, "So what're you gonna do?" The teenager stopped his mini celebration when Mira popped the question, realizing what he was supposed to do. He visibally paled. What am I supposed to do now?

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"Fancy seeing you here." she remarked, not turning around and dropping Uma to the ground. Jecheondaeseong gripped onto Yeoui harder and sucked on his teeth, his eyes red, having lost all traces of their usual blue hue.

His eyes shifted from Mawang's back to Uma laying on the ground, bleeding profusely. "Don't worry," started the demon, summoning Nalag and turning around to face the Monkey King. "She's not dead, but she's barely alive either." He clenched his teeth, biting back a growl but failing. A smirk danced on her cherry lips as she spoke, "But I'll be sure to kill—"

She couldn't finish her sentence because Yeoui smashed down on her, as thick as two buildings sandwiched together. Jecheondaeseong saw nothing but a cloud of dust from the impact he had created, and waved an arm around to clear as much as he could. Mawang was probably not dead yet, he could tell. She wasn't exactly what you call a weak opponent. They had fought mulitple times before, yes, but all those fights had ended in draws. During those times, the two only stopped when their people begged them to do so and to stop destroying the only place they called home. It wasn't that they hated each other, it was the addiction of feeling the adrenaline when they fought against each other.

They cared not for their surrounding or their people or each other. All that mattered was what was to happen during the fight.

She walked on Yeoui, the base of Nalag who was in the form of a swordstaff clicking against the hard surface of the Monkey King's weapon. She was totally unharmed, her pale skin in prestine shape, smooth as it always was. A scowl replaced her smug smirk, "I wasn't finished, you bastard." The god didn't reply, but only uttered a single command, "Contract, Yeoui." The weapon shrank beneath Mawang's feet and she landed on the ground, a crater forming under her soles. The male attacked again, missing miserably, or maybe his opponent was just fast enough to dodge his attack.

At this point, he was simply swinging Yeoui around, attempting to deliver a hard blow, but the girl wouldn't stop moving at all. She dodged every swing that supposedly held a ridiculous amount of power. She noted every move and didn't fail to notice that his next blow would be slow. "Tired?" she mocked and grabbed onto Yeoui, punching him in the process. The god flew a few hundred yards, his weapon still secure in his opponent's hand.

Jecheondaeseong got up, swaying from the left to the right, dust sticking to the side of his face like glitter and the sweat acting like glue. "You... you talk too much." he huffed, wiping nose and then muttering, "Expand, Yeoui." The staff expanded, too massive for Mawang to hold in her small and seemingly delicate hands. He wasn't surprised when he saw her very much alive and approaching with Nalag in hand. The blade of the sword staff was focused in his direction, but he dodged, resulting in Mawang skidding to a stop behind him.

It was only then that he felt smarting in his side. He clutched the aching area, feeling blood drip onto his fingers and looked down, to see the damage that had been done.

His armor, the oh so indestructible armor had been cut through with something as simple as a blade.

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"What do I do?!" screeched Mori. Mira watched him from where she sat across the table, her eyebrows creasing in something you might call a cross between annoyance and pity. She had unmanneredly excused herself from the "problem" at hand. She didn't know much about love; of course, she had a boyfriend or two, but it wasn't what one would call normally dating like a normal human being. If she hadn't spent her time training and given ear to the girl's at school, maybe she would've known a thing or two about this stuff instead of having an idiot freak out in front of her and the other half-blind idiot pretend he wasn't annoyed by Mori's constant worrying. It wasn't like she cared about that girly stuff but hey, there's always some reward in helping a friend, right?

"Why don't me and Daewi make a list of things for you and her to do?" supplied Mira, no actual experience backing her words. She believed she had seen enough romance movies to know what couples did and did not do on dates. Daewi shrugged, "Seems like a plan."

And so, they began jotting down all the ideas for dates, no matter how ridiculous.

"Ooh, put in 'candle light dinner' too,"

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It was rather irritating to hear somebody ring the doorbell so late at night. No, she wasn't sleeping, but rather didn't want to get up and walk all the way to the door and open it just to see her neighbour, Mrs. Lee inquiring if she'd seen her cat (again). Aella sauntered toward the door, her hands shoved into the pockets of her grey oversized hoodie. With a frown refusing to leave her graceful visage, she opened the door to reveal a tired Mori.

He seemed tired and he had every right to be—brainstorming date ideas all evening took up a lot of mental energy, not that he had much mental energy to spare (the guy was practically braindead in Aella's opinion). "6:30!" he yelped, panting slightly. Aella raised a brow, having seeked some amusement in his outburst. "6:30 at my house Friday." He handed her a piece of paper, "That's my address."

He didn't wait for Aella to say anything. He was rather flustered at the moment to say anything more and just dashed off.

Aella stood there, too preoccupied with the thoughts swirling in her brain to close the door and realize that her feet were getting cold. And just then her neighbour's door swung open.

"Aella, dear, have you seen my cat?"

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