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10. HONORIFICS?

『 Yuna's POV 』

I had in my hand the most interesting book ever. All the incantations for practically anything was written. I thoroughly enjoyed everything about this whole training except for the teacher. I had a grudge against him since he annoyingly interrupted my thoughts yesterday.

Huening Kai was annoying and he was extremely strict but I had to admit, he was amazing. His combat skills and speed were amazing. After he and Edlynne had taught us how to use our powers, we went against them as practice and I underestimated him. I felt Edlynne would be a harder target because of her telekinesis but Huening Kai's agility and quick thinking gave him an advantage. It felt like he could sense what spell I would cast or which direction I would go to. Why the hell am I giving this so much thought?

After an extremely long training in an illusion that Bae created which felt way too real, we were going to watch the 'Elementals' do their thing. It was Jiwoo and Jinni versus Jungwon and Sunghoon and I was actually really excited. I saw Jinni talking to Sunghoon and that seemed to rattle him a bit. What did she say?

"Hi, unnie", Kyujin said. She had just gone to Sullyoon to get sone injuries healed. Sullyoon was the busiest among us all. I could've helped her but she kept repeating, "I need the practice".

"Hey Kyu, fully healed now?", I asked, still uncomfortable with all of them calling me unnie.

"Yeah", she answered. We just watched the others peacefully.

Jiwoo and Jinni were actually amazing. Their powers and abilities really shocked me, especially the fact that they could all turn into their very elements. It was weird seeing them turn into a flare or water and appearing out of nowhere. Jiwoo had Jungwon trapped in a ball of water while Jinni had Sunghoon encircled in a ring of fire but only momentarily for Sunghoon and Jungwon also had tricks up their sleeves.

Jungwon somehow even thought he was fully encircled by water and unable to move somehow caused some plants to tie Jiwoo up which eventually led to her losing her concentration and Jungwon was free. Sunghoon was unaffected by the fire, and could easily get out. Jinni kept throwing flares at him but he easily froze them. She brought out a flaming sword, disappeared again as a column of fire and appeared behind Sunghoon shocking him. A battle between fire and ice, and it was so interesting.

"Guys, that's it, enough practice. You might end up killing each other", Huening Kai yelled and he was right. Sunghoon and Jinni's battle was scary and Jungwon and Jiwoo had managed to reach high up in the sky, Jiwoo standing on water and Jungwon standing on floating rocks.

"Let's just give you guys a briefing about what we're going to be facing", Edlynne informed. We were headed inside.

"Jinni, that was so cool. A part of me thought you wanted to murder Sunghoon", I joked.

"Really, thanks. I thought Sunghoon sunbae would use his time freezing powers and it would be the end of me so I became a bit too aggressive, I guess", she sheepishly admitted.

"A bit too aggressive?!", we heard Sunghoon exclaim, "your face when you appeared out of nowhere will haunt me forever".

"I'm sorry", she apologized and went to Sullyoon and Bae.

"You have a burn there", I told Sunghoon.

"Yeah, I was going to go Sullyoon but she seems worn out", he said.

"I could try to heal it. Sullyoon has worked too hard today", I said as I opened the book and found a healing spell. I recited it while putting my hand on the burn and it healed instantly.

"Thanks", he said.

"No problem, by the way why didn't you use your time freezing powers?", I asked because I was curious. He chuckled before answering, "Jinni said it would be unfair because I would have already killed her the second the battle starts if I did and I agreed so yeah".

"Makes sense", I nodded.

"Should we tell the others to get rid of honorifics. Everyone calls me hyung or sunbae or oppa and it's awkward", he brought up the topic.

"Yep, we totally should", I immediately agreed.

"Yuna! Sunghoon hyung!", Sunoo yelled, "get in quick".

"Coming", I said and we went inside.

『 Sunghoon POV 』

Yuna and I went inside where everyone had already sat in their seats. There was a spot beside Sunoo so I sat there and Yuna sighed deeply while muttering an angry, "thanks a lot", and walked past me to sit in the other empty

What did I even do? Then I saw that she sat next to Huening Kai and looked uncomfortable. Does she have beef with Huening Kai?

"Hey guys, can we drop the honorifics?", Yuna suddenly brought up, "you know, no unnies or oppas or sunbaes".

I saw that Edlynne and Huening Kai were confused.

"Yeah, let's be informal, like Jinni, Sullyoon, Bae and Jungwon, you guys don't use honorifics and neither do you and Yuna, Sunoo", I added.

"Well, I guess so. We've all become close enough to speak informally, I guess", Sunoo said.

"Yeah, and it will save Kyujin so much effort", Yuna joked. I remembered earlier when Kyujin was calling us for lunch. At first she called everyone in general and me, Yuna and Sullyoon were the first to arrive. She asked us to help set up and we asked her what yo do. Then she took charge and gave us advice, "Yuna unnie and Sunghoon oppa, set the table and Sullyoon unnie, help Edlynne unnie to bring the food". "Jiwoo unnie! Stop walking do slowly and you guys too Sunoo oppa and Jungwon oppa", she had yelled.

But back to the present, "Yeah, all her sentences become too long", Jungwon laughed.

"Yeah, I guess so. We're all friends now", Jiwoo added.

"Wait, can we give each other stupid nicknames too?", Ni-ki asked, with a smirk.

"Let's leave this topic", Yuna butted in.

Edlynne and Huening Kai just gave each other extremely confused looks from the opposite ends of the table.

"You didn't understand a word, huh?", I asked Edlynne.

"Nope, were you guys talking about the unnie and oppa thing you put after names?", she inquired.

"Yeah", I said avoiding Jinni's eyes because she had a slight smirk on.

After dinner, we split responsibilities and cleaned up.

"Now guys, let's start the briefing. Know what you're up against and start formulating a plan", Huening Kai announced as we gathered in the living room.

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