Hellbents
Chapter 50: Drunk, Love

It was true that Rina rejected it.

It was true that he could not bear to see the woman crying.

But that doesn't mean Hao shouldn't be angry.

He picked up another bland beer that he had been upright since an hour ago. His eyes were unfocused, the man's white face was also flushed red.

Hao drunk.

"You guys say, women like strong men!" his screams no longer startled the other two people in the room.

Gu Yong, the big brother of Hao, looked at the pity of his heartbroken sister. Unlike Rai, the vice-head of the Canthan guild, as well as a sidekick from Yong. "What did you tell him?" half-heartedly Rai asked.

Although his eyes were watery and hazy, Hao took the time to glance at the cynical man sitting beside his left. "As you said, Takahashi-san, so I said that I will be guaranteed to become a ranker in two years!" Hao and Rai's relationship is actually not so close, which is why Hao called him formal with a surname. The two of them were too competitive to make friends, the glue of the two was only Yong.

"Your more important means of delivery, otherwise the woman will consider her arrogant," the big brother carefully corrected, ready to give advice, even though romance is not a field that he mastered. Things like this are better suited to Rai, who is famous as a male player and continues to flirt with girlfriends every two weeks.

"Eh, women like confident men! He might still be selling expensive! So keep chasing!"

... Come to think of it again, taking advice from Rai was like a bad idea.

Or did he deliberately intend to mess up Hao's chance?

"Which part of it was when I said "he's crying" that you don't understand?!" Perhaps due to the influence of alcohol, Hao's bad temper only got worse.

"Just relax, it's one of their ways to look weak, so that men will instinct to protect them," Rai did not stop to poke him with questionable suggestions.

Yong even narrowed suspiciously at his friend, "What are you talking about? No, better give him some distance for a while. If you keep following him even after he rejects you, you'll only be considered a stalker."

"Why is that? Better to chase it until you can!" Rai almost cheered, his smile that had melted dozens of girls hearts was brightly plastered.

"No! You're processing your relationship too fast, so introduce yourself slowly, as a friend."

"But that way he'll think of you as a friend forever!"

"Argh! Quiet down!" Hao could not stand it. The beer glass was crumbled due to the excess force. Dozens of scratches hurt by alcohol. "All your advice is rubbish! Because of you I was rejected!" Hao was like a fire, exploding hot and red.

Aggressively he got up, successfully breaking down the chair he had just sat in. Hao wavered, his body staggering just to stand up. Yet he remained stubbornly darted out.

"Yes! Where are you going?" Yong did not believe his sister could take care of herself when drunk heavily like that.

"Don't trip!" Rai beside him was even out loud playfully.

When Yong had just wanted to catch up, Rai blocked his hand, "Your sister is an adult, she can solve her own problems."

"Not when drunk like that!"

"We should still be dealing with the search for the missing person, not your sister's romance," Rai suddenly became serious.

But he has a point. The original purpose of the Canthan Guild here was to be a source of assistance from passenger ships that a few days ago were attacked by the phenomenon of black storms, this time many survived and could be used as eyewitnesses.

"Hao said many times that he was an adult, so it was time for him to learn to take responsibility for his own actions, and you as a big brother should no longer spoil him, for the good of your own sister," inversely proportional to his cock earlier, Rai slapped Yong with the fact that he had ignored, or rather pretended not to see.

"But it shouldn't interfere with your work as guild leader, should it?" If it was said like that, Yong could not argue. The burden itself was already a lot as the head of a large guild.

"Alright, but there should be someone to keep following him," Yong finally compromised.

"Me alone," an instant the atmosphere turned relaxed along with the rapid attitude of Rai who now returned to play.

Yong shriveled loudly, feeling unfair, "Then what about your duties as vice-chairman?"

"I'm done with that."

Yong played, of course.

Rai could not help but grin at the look of disbelief from Yong, "I'm also curious about your sister's dream woman!"

A second later, Rai's figure had already disappeared from the room.

***

The crowd automatically split as Hao passed by unbalancedly, even though his official position in the guild was only a newcomer, everyone knew that the young man was the proud younger brother of their famous chairman. Plus, no one doubted Hao with his guarantee to become a ranker in the next two years, most likely it could happen. So no one wants to look for a relationship with the temperamental boy, especially when he is clearly drunk. It is the same with disasters waiting to happen.

Hao was still unable to walk straight, but he urgently needed to vent his incompetent chest contents. His head was hot, and it was as if he was about to explode. So when the sea breeze hit him outside the ship's hull, under the shade of the moon's purple light, he dragged a step into the forest.

"Foolish love" he muttered half-consciously.

"Rina is stupid," Hao pouted.

"Sister fool. Stupid guild!" his voice was getting louder and higher. He took out a sword from his scabbard, then began to swing, cutting through the wind. His sword ability still peaked even though his blood was filled with alcohol.

"Stupid rai!" in the end he screamed. Rotating energetic, his skill automatically activated, cutting a tree in his sword path.

"Wow!" There's someone else here.

Hao turned back, ready to attack anyone who dared to disturb him at this moment.

But the face he found made his anger instantly melt away.

Rina.

***

Since the failed synchronization that made Ava prefer to cut her hand, the girl's body fit and healthy, the crumbling bones that she got from her fight with the giant banderhobbs also no longer felt. Ava's healthy. But it's impossible for River to believe it, even though the man believes, he won't stop nagging if Ava says he wants to hunt to unwind and move his body.

That was why he went silently to the midnight forest, looking for the wild little monsters to roam around to add to his status points savings.

But instead of monsters, Ava instead finds Hao. The man he had just rejected this morning.

... Lousy.

Unfortunately, neither Hao nor Ava, who had sensitive senses, felt the presence of a third person in the forest.

"Eve?" Rai whispered in disbelief behind his hidden artifact.