Bows & Beauty

Chapter 7

Her body hit the ground for the uptenth time. A small disgruntled growl escapes her lip. Although her bruises from whatever happened before had already disappeared, she knows a new bruise will emerge once again. Especially on her back.

Ever since the wrestling instructor chose her earlier to pair up with Kai, the crowd seems to like what they see. Although Seulgi was the one who kept losing, Ares's wild cheering had the mood around them go up and even the instructor is enjoying it herself, what is wrong with this woman, Seulgi thought to herself as she stood up from her fall, spitting dirt out from her mouth, walking out of the white circle to her clan.

The instructor announced that she will choose another 3 pairs and for the closing match of the class, she would—again, pair Kai and Seulgi together. Suho and Sehun argued their disagreement towards Kahi, but she just brushes them off and chose Woozi to pair up with one of those bulky guys from the Ares's clan.

Seulgi sat down beside Choa, who immediately gave a bottle of cold water for Seulgi and she drank like her life depends on it, thus resulting her to choke a little. The match in front of her is happening and all Seulgi can see was the girl from the other side, stealing glances at her a fair few time. Seulgi was sure it was Irene's voice who talked to her in her mind. The velvety voice—it must be her.

Seulgi's gaze was distracted as Woozi—too, landed on his back with a thump and those ear-splitting cheering could be heard once more and for a moment Seulgi kinda wish she was deaf. The bulky guy held out his hand for Woozi to reached but as Woozi grip on his, the guy lets go and he slumped back to the ground, making Sehun suddenly dash forward and push the guy roughly, making him toppled.

From one thing to another, a scene is occurring right in front of her eyes as Sehun and the guy had their hands and legs on each other—rolling around the ground, spitting words of threat such as— 'my father would here about this', and a few punch here and there. They only became stationary when Irene suddenly stood up and yelled "STOP" and everyone became still, including the instructor. And it took a clap, and all of them were back to earth. The power of charmspeak.

Eventually, after the fuss, the instructor calls it a day and let them off slightly early. Not before punishing Sehun and the guy to help the Hephaestus clan do some extra hours of polishing and cleaning in the forge.

They sigh as they walk their way back while listening to Sehun rambling in a low tone on how if he had a bow at that moment, he will streak the guy's face multiple times. "Sounds fantastic..." Suho utters as he patted Sehun's back in an I-feel-you-bro kind of way.

Seulgi starts to feel the sudden soreness on her back and she hung her head low in defeat as she recalled how embarrassingly she did on the match earlier. It was 10 times more embarrassing as it was in front of her—Irene. Not that she wanted to impress the beauty or anything, it's just that....urgh!

"Seulgi!"

The silky voice called her from behind and Seulgi spun around in time to see Irene catching up towards her, with the box under her grip. Seulgi told Choa to go ahead and in a blink of an eye Irene instantly grabbed Seulgi's hand and open her right palm, placing the familiar cube like thing—ambrosia.

"Pringles!" Seulgi exclaimed in delight as she rolled the cube on her palm, suddenly forgetting her previous embarrassing scene. "I won't burn into ashes wont I? I've eaten this yesterday and Seohyun told me that if I—"

"Shut up and eat" Irene spoke, and Seulgi immediately plops the ambrosia to her mouth and chews it enjoyably, earning indescribable gaze from Irene. "Can you stop munching like a bear?"