? playing the devil. || weak hero.

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the girl just sighed and decided to stay awake, she did sleep an extra few hours than how long she'd usually sleep.

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( y/n ) ended up falling asleep too lol.

ha-neul shook ( y/n ) awake, having arrived at their district earlier than expected.

the girl soon woke up, getting off the train with ha-neul as they took time to rest and stretch their stiff limbs.

"so, where do we find aera?" ( y/n ) turned towards ha-neul who was still stretching her legs.

* yall are referring to aera an with his last name (An) but i'll be putting it as his first since his last name might confuse yall with the sentences.

"just a neighborhood away from where you live actually. "

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once they arrived in the neighborhood of aera an, the two immediately spotted several groups of injured students lying on the floor, groaning in clear pain. “oh? there are girls this time?” a voice spoke.

( y/n ) and ha-neul turned to the source of the voice and came in sight with an incredibly tired looking boy, most likely the same age as them judging by his looks. his black hair thin and long, unkept and messy—which slightly annoyed ha-neul- and his bangs going down to his nose, also unkept and thin.

his skin was paler than normal, almost comparable to titanium white. his knuckles were bruised and red, covered with a thin layer of blood. ‘great, we’re dealing with an emo boy.’ ( y/n ) thought, pushing away the annoyed groan that threatened to leave her lips.

( y/n ) opened her mouth to speak, but ha-neul –unfortunately—bear her to it. “we wanna make a union and to do that, we’ll be taking your spot!” she (for some reason) proudly exclaimed, making ( y/n ) sweat-drop.

aera an said nothing as a stared at the two girls for a moment before shrugging, “alright, sure.”

the two girl’s mouths had dropped, almost asking for the male to repeat what he had said. “…just like that?” ( y/n ) questioned, raising an eyebrow. “yeah, having the number one title gets boring and repetitive.”  aera answered, “what? do you want me to fight you first?” he asked, a smug smirk tugging at his lips. “you won’t be able to beat me. I have the number one title for reason.”

( y/n ) thought for a second, weighing the consequences and advantages she could gain before nodding. “I’d like to give it a try. it would feel unfair for me to just take the spot without trying to fight for it at least.”

aera nodded, understanding what the girl’s point was and stood from where he sat on the pavement, stretching his arms to warm up and intimidate the girl. ( y/n ) simply stood, popping the air bubbles in her knuckles L style.

without warning, aera swung his fist, almost catching the girl off guard, but she dodged -barely- by a second. “fuck..” she cursed, she should’ve expected the male to make the first move.

while ( y/n ) was distracted and overwhelmed, aera swung his first and delivered an uppercut to her chin, forcing her to bite her tongue in the process.

( y/n ) groaned as she tasted the familiar metallic taste of blood, sure that she bit her gums in the process. she stumbled back, her teeth gritting. however, before she could counter, her face was met with a fist, almost knocking her out and another set of consecutive punches to the gut.

ha-neul stood by the sidelines, watching, observing, and taking note of every movement the two fighters had. she noted that ( y/n ) was painfully easy to point out as inexperienced and aera barely had any of his guard up, most likely due to the fact that he thought ( y/n ) wouldn’t notice.

but boy was he wrong.

once he had an open spot, ( y/n ) shifted her hips and delivered a kick to his open waist.

he grimaced at the force and power of the kick, recognizing it to be the famous muay thai kick. “ugh..!” he stumbled, feeling the pain shoot throughout his body as he panted. “you have a good kick.” he complimented and took notice of the girl’s tired stance. ha-neul did too, her eyebrows furrowing in concern as she watched her best-friend pant.

her tiredness either came from the long train ride or the kick that she had just delivered, or even both.

aera chuckled, dashing into ( y/n )'s range and went for the liver punch with a low hook.

( y/n ) groaned, her vision shaking for a moment as her body stumbled, feeling as if steel had just made in contact with her side. a few bruises already littered her skin and her legs were about to give up, however she couldn’t waste the opportunity of a straight punch seeing that aera had his guard down.

she ignored her crying liver, her cramping legs and went for the punch, aiming for the middle of his upper chest but her punch landed on his shoulder.

despite the inaccuracy, the punch still had an effect on the male, his shoulder weakening just by a certain amount before he adjusted to the pain. “w-wait. I give up.” ( y/n ) dropped her guard, her back hunching as her hands fell on her knees to support her upper body.

she was at a great disadvantage at this point, she was at the end point of her stamina and she had a strike to the liver.

“you have a good kick, but you need to have better accuracy. I assume you’ve only trained with a punching bag and never did shadow boxing or sparred with another person.” aera stated, rubbing his waist, where he took a kick.

( y/n ) nodded, taking note of his words mentally. “do you think I can beat the other ones?” she asked, earning the attention of aera. “well, the other two love to play dirty so at your level now, no. absolutely not. they’d destroy you within a minute. but with more experience and training, you’d beat them in no-time yeah? so, for now, just take my title and I’ll take care of those who try to take it from you while you train.”

“and as for you, brown hair. you help her with the vital points of the human body. judging from the way she targeted parts of my body, she knows the basic vital points. you just have to teach her the advanced ones. and be there during her training to take notes of her disadvantages and the things she needs to fix if she doesn’t have a current coach.” aera added before muttering words to himself.

“oh yeah, punch me.” he suddenly pointed to himself, earning a confused look from ( y/n ). “just punch me before these morons wake up. easiest way to spread your title as the new number one is to show that you beat me unconscious—which I wont allow so I’ll be playing dead.”

( y/n ) nodded, punching the male as hard as she could, watching in delight as he too, bit his lip by accident, drawing out blood. “that was for revenge wasn’t it?” aera grunted, wincing as he tried not to lick the wound on his lip. “maybe. maybe not.” ( y/n ) snickered, ha-neul following along.

aera rolled his eyes and laid on the ground, pretending to be injured and clutched his stomach. just then, the other students who tried to previously fight aera finally woke up, their gazes landing on ( y/n ) and ha-neul. ha-neul took this chance to deliver a speech that gave ( y/n ) second-hand embarrassment.

“today, ( y/n ) ( l/n ) has beaten the oh-so-great aera an into a poor little pulp. thus, giving her the title of the number one bad bitch in this district, got it?” the brown haired female smirked smugly, resting her hands on her hips as she watched the other students scramble away.

“what was that weird speech for?” both ( y/n ) and aera questioned the brown haired girl, second hand embarrassment almost making them want to erase themselves from the face of the earth.

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not proof-read :’0

what do you guys think?

should I put ( y/n ) and aera together or is ( y/n ) and ha-neul a better ship? or should i not put any of them in a relationship at all?