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"Huh."
"Y-you mean like... train under you?!"
"Precisely!"
There's no way he's being serious right now. Train to be a demon slayer?! What kind of bullshit is that?!? All I want to do right now is crawl under the blankets and cry my heart out! And also me? Be a demon slayer? I can barely chop wood! How would I chop literal demons! I don't even know anything about demons, is he insane?!
My face scrunched, I could only imagine what horrid death I'd have. The thought alone was enough to make me shudder.
"I'm sorry but..aah." Just when I was about to deny him the offer (as politely as I possibly could) I looked up from my hands to do it properly...
Well I was, until I faced him. That man's face was eagerness and excitement personified. And did I really have the heart to crush his high spirits so blatantly? No. No, I did not. So I improvised,
"Uhm- I don't really know a whole lot about this demon-slaying stuff.." My fingers grasped my shoulder-length hair,
"That's perfectly fine! I didn't expect you to! Hahahaha!"
His boisterous laughter only created a large lump in my throat.
"B-but-" -but nothing.
I was afraid.
Fuck, I was terrified!
Terrified of leaving behind the tender life I had before.
Terrified of not living up to the expectations he's already set for me. Because deep down in the cavern of my breast I know that if try to be something great, be anything but the nothing I am; I'll fail. Miserably. There's always someone better. Someone who will never be me. Even now I can still feel the burning eyes of disgrace carving their image into the back of my head.
I couldn't hold my tongue like usual, all these emotions bubbling up inside my chest, threatening to spill out. It was only a matter of time until these sentiments spilled out my mouth,
