~STRING to SHADOW~•Solo Leveling•

~Chapter~8

Although she did feel a terrible ache all over, but it was not something new, internal injuries are not very pleasant after all.

Jin woo looked down at her stubborn eyes, she was being noncholont with the truth,

A very uncomfortable truth.

The truth thatt is unpleasant to hear from a child.

Although he knew that she was not a normal child, but it was still a uncomfortable thing to hear from someone so child looking.

"You need to rest."

He said after some thought.

"I know. And you need to level up."

Alora nodded, refusing to back down.

"That's not important right now."

He pressed.

She sighed, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. What to say now? It was better to state the simple truth.

"I'm going to die, that's not going to change. You ....are not strong enough to extract my shadow."

Her voice was slow and hesitant but it didn't lack any truthfulness.

At Jin woo's current level, he won't be able to extract her shadow, even if she was willing to become a shadow soldier.

Jin woo's expression unexpectedly relaxed, wasn't strong enough huh? Guess that makes sense, he did have a hard time extracting Igris's shadow.

The people around him always says, 'you're weak.' and they mean it, because they don't know about the system.

But now Alora is saying the same thing, 'you're not strong enough', but he understood that those weren't same at all.

She hoped he would become stronger.

Just like he does.

He sighed and gave up pursuing her.

"Alright."

But to Alora's surprise, she was suddenly on his back, getting a piggyback ride.

One by one he climbed up the levels.

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They came out of the leveled dungeon after raiding quite the number of levels.

Alora was given a guest room, especially prepared for her in the hunter association headquarters, prepared for by the chairman himself.

Her health did not ditoriate much, though now, her eyes were truly blank without any hint of colour.

Alora was resting when Jin woo came to visit.

He walked inside and took a sit on a chair bedside the bed.

"Heard you went for a revaluation?"

Asked Alora without greeting him. she sat up and leaned on the pillow.

It was not made public yet, but how could she, staying inside the headquarters, not know, with all those employees talking about it?

"I did, I'm at S rank now."

Jin woo replied, looking her over, she looked more skinny, it seemed all there was is skin and bones. He asked with concern.

"How are you feeling?"

"Actually, better than I expected, I thought I would have already kicked the bucket, but hey look I'm still very energetic."

Alora replied with a grin, she really did not feel that bad.

Other than the ache due to internal injuries that cannot be healed no matter what, blindness and tastelessness, she was fine.

What did happen, is that she's having trouble catching up sounds.

First it was blindness and now she's going deaf.

Troublesome.

"Have you not been eating properly?"

He asked.

"I am, don't worry, I'm eating three times meal, simply not being a glutton anymore."

Alora replied, before she used dto eat all day, now she only ate three times a day, but as always, her body refused to accept any nutrition.

"Right you'll meet your one and only in a few days."

Alora said suddenly.