ɬɧɛ ɱąɖ ƙıŋɠ//℘ʝɱʄʄ

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When she foreseen the ride home to be hell, the God of Foresight gifted her hell. Fortunately the ride was only an hour compared to their long dreadful walk of 3 hours but still was hell when she was forced to share a saddle with her enemy who have been getting himself quite acquainted to her. Due to the uneven pathways, the horses were doing small leaps and hopping to get through the leveled forest and caused their riders to bounce in their saddles. Sadly for Xena, she had to experience those bounces in the same saddle as Park Jimin who seemed very amused with her struggles of trying to decrease friction between their bodies as much as possible.

Jimin would purposely make sharp turns, making the horse stumbled a little and bucked while the girl behind him tightened her arms around his waist. One time, he nudged the horse into an abrupt trot to cross the mud and it caused her to lose balance and almost fell off but she was quick enough to grab onto to him. However, Xena's instinct had brought her some misfortune as well when her hands grabbed onto his thighs near his pelvis where she instantly felt his muscles flexed. She got too annoyed by his stupid tricks that she just hung onto his shirt instead and decided that if she were to fall, she will just let it happen instead of accidentally touching his forbidden areas.

If only she could slice him with her blade.....Then again, she hates to admit it but his power might be powerful enough to shatter her blade and she ain't looking forward to that. Xena sat quietly behind Jimin as her eyes wondered around, engrossed in their surroundings which is now an abandoned garden which was near the forest they just exited. She also failed to notice the absence of the council members who went separate ways to attend to their duties, leaving her with the young king himself. Are they dumb? They literally left their king with an enemy's general. Then again, it's Park Jimin the Psychotelesis and they're practically stuck in their little state of neutralization.

Speaking of which, Xena found herself rather fascinated by the various powers possessed by the Inferno's council. Those shitheads nevertheless impressed her with their hybrid powers and had gained her attention towards them. She remembered being a superpower-enthusiast back when she's young and was years behind the discovery period of her power but she seemed to be the same old's enthusiast now especially after witnessing those cool powers.

She's aware of the silent discrimination of certain powers that didn't make good impression in the history of vessels yet she still find them relatively amazing and sometimes even cooler than common element powers and ancient powers. She didn't understand why the world bash on those powers and unreasonably hurt and outcasted them like trash. Ferns didn't discriminate them but they are still keeping their guards up around them, trying to keep them under their hawk eyes to make sure their hybrid-like powers doesn't cause chaos which she highly doubted they will.

She really hated to admit this but she kinda admired Jimin for taking in such 'monstrous' vessels. Honestly, those council members are pretty cool and after battling along with them just made her even more interest in them. Like she said, a power-enthusiast. Same goes to Jimin's devil-biased superpower; Psychotelesis. She heard it many times from the royalties back in Ferns and how the military and scientists were always in their armor and canons on this, always keeping the palace updated on any discovery of the superpower which til now she never heard a red alarm on it.

Xena sort of understood why Jimin never openly utilized his power outside of the castle just like how he laid back when they fought off the rogues. He knew he could've taken all of them to hell with a snap of finger but even that would carry a heavy risk of him being somehow exposed. She doesn't know why but she's pretty sure Jimin had a good reason behind his lack of power-usage even though he possessed a demon's essence in him. Maybe the world is still more powerful than him, that's why it's not time to reveal himself yet.