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So first exam of like 20 others have just been finished, and oh boy did i have some creative writtings after ive been released from the constant studying, for now at least. Tomorrow and the next 3 weeks until Wednesday will be work work work! so have a treat as i dissapear again!

Cha Hae in Recovered memories AU

Having the full love of the Shadow Monarch had its opportunities as well as its decadence, Hae-In found out about it soon after waking up to her young self 10 years into the past. None of her memories had been altered but her powers had been fully gone, faster than the flicker of light. She guessed that this sudden back in time was due to none other than Jin-Woo himself, after all, he would be the only one strong enough to change time and space itself, and considering the fact that a flashing light had absorbed her world in the past moments, all coming from Japan where he was, she didn't expect anyone else to be the cause of this.

However the result of her keeping her memories was something... unusual, it wouldn't be so far fetched for her had other people also kept their memories, but when she tried to call Choi Jong-In or her only friend in the B strike squad team, Gina, she was greeted with phone calls from very stressed out students who thought she was pulling a prank on them. Apart from that she had no one else to go to, who to talk to, her orphanage seemed as usual and calm as the day she had left it 4 years ago... well 6 years in the future actually. Her home and parents were still missing from her life, her teacher, should she call Song Chi Yul? She had his number but the man was probably going to think the same as Jong-In and Gina. Someone like Bora Lee who could see very clearly the personalities of people throughher glasses, or maybe Min Byung Gyu could have understood her problem as he too was once under the command of Jin-Woo, but she never interacted with them as much, she was alone.

Alone, is that why the Shadow Monarch took a liking to her? because he seemed so much like him? I guess kindred souls do attract.

Right now though, right now she didnt didnt want to be alone in this world, the only one to know what was about to happen for the next ten years. She needed to find a way to spread the news about the incoming attacks, she needed to find a way to stop most of the future events that would kill innocents during those attacks.

So the instant she got out of her house, she immediately got up and went to look for the only person who had all the answers.

Sung Jin-Woo, he is a kid now, a very small kid compared to the man that she met at the caves of that A rank gate. She is also small, a lot more weak than she was as an S rank hunter 10 years in the future, and that's what differentiates them, Hae-In has lost every single one of her powers whereas Jin-Woo has become something unrecognizable, she remembers his death at the hands of the three beasts, then his resurrection and power boost that he gained all of the sudden. She remembers how he fought dragons. Dragons. She remembers the amounts of mana that two forces emitted, powerful enough to destroy the world with a single flicker of their powers, fighting in the outskirts of a deserted Japan. It was... eldritch. That's what Hae-In sees in him now. That is no longer a human, but a god (monster) inside a child's body.

He smells just the same as before, the same as he always did, a sweet alluring smell. And she begins to wonder if he had always been an eldritch god.

Still, its no longer useful to think about what Jin-Woo has become, but rather what he will become next, what he will do next. So she waits until her comes to look at her, she waits until he admits her presence because she knows that Jin-Woo has already spotted her, the 12 year old self sitting on the bench next to his apartments, noticing how Jin Ah has ben playing with a father (one that looks almost like the hooded man that fought the 3 beasts in South Korea. She takes a mental note of that.) and how he too has been overly happy talking to his mother as they both walked through the park. She stays waiting and looks at him from afar as he does the daily training ( no god has a use for that anymore, but he still does it like it's engraved on him for some reason. ) and then when she waits until Jin-Woo finished his classes so that they both ca walk home, one a few blocks down, but she still knows very well that he notices her.

She doesn't want to initiate the contact out of fear of what he will do to her once he finds out his reason for being there, although he might have a pretty good grasp of it seeing that she always smiles a bit when the shadows on her soles move. Still, she even when she dealt with high S rank hunters she had to be careful on her tongue, on her manners, anything that could threaten her life, and despite Jin-Woo's carefree attitude to the world that made relax at these points in her life, her gut told her to still wait, that he will come and explain everything, that she still has time.

2 weeks pass, she has no time, she doesn't wait for a single answer anymore, she can already remember the first cracks that appeared in the Us and Europe, only for the next month to appear at the first gate in Seoul. She runs as fast as he always had, almost tripping by her ankle but somehow still running until she reaches his home. Exhausted, her beating heart ringing in her ears, more than when she was an S rank, more than when she was a third ranked athlete, but it's the thrill of running, of fighting, (of dancing with her sword) that makes her go even faster than she had ever done so before. It doesn't matter if she had just woken up in the middle of the night to run away from her orphanage, or the fact that she had been running barefoot through the streets, rather she wanted -- needed to talk to him now, because something in the back of her mind told her she wouldn't be able to do so otherwise.

And Hae-In was right, Jin-Woo was already waiting for her, there wasn't a single surprise in his face when she arrived at the dark alley where he was planning to escape through the gate. She also didn't seem surprised to find a gate behind Jin-Woo, rather, a bit more pleased, more delighted, something in her eyes burning as she saw the sparkles of purple mana dancing around it.

"You are planning to leave."

He simply stared back at her.

"Without telling me."

Then tilted it head back a bit. " Why should I tell you?"

"Because I know about the gates, the hunters, the people,-- because I know what's coming."

"That's all in a future that will never come to happen."

"How do you know that? Are you going to fight it all by yourself?"

He has his shadows, his army, the weapons of the rulers, and yet something compelled him to leave all of that out and simply say- "Yes."

A thousand emotions resurfaced through her mind, some were praising him for his bravery, to take on such a task by himself, others pitied the state he was in now, and others felt almost clouded her mind with hints of anger at the sudden foolishness of it all. Does he know what it feels like to be truly alone and desperate? He knows right? if he does then why isn't he reaching out, why is he still trying to part ways and deal with everything by himself when... when I'm right here.

Hae-In kept her face cooled until the end, her eyes not parting away with those if Jin-Woo even as the mana cracked and the shadows of a grandiose army all started to look back at her, stare at her, an army of death waiting for a second more until Jin-Woo decided to disturb the silence with his leave.

"Take me with you." But she wasn't going to let him.

"No."

Fear covered all of her bones in her body, it was a fear more gut wrenching then the one she had upon meeting Andre, Liu or Reed at the annual conference alliance, but this time it came with a strong smell of mana, such an intoxicating scent that covered around her, combined with the darkness that started to crack the sky and cover the moon around them, completely. But she didn't move, she swore not to move, she swore to keep on looking, to face the abyss despite all odds, she had done it so before during her first raid, and she will keep doing t again until he understands that her words are not a joke, that she took consideration of this choice, that she wanted to go forth with this since the beginning, that she too is willing to battle against thousands of monsters all alone, or with jinWoo, in order to save this world.

Because she is an S rank, a hunter, and a guardian. She has been those three things ever since she was awakened. Doesn't matter if she never knew how to use a sword, she will learn it, master it, and use it to protect everyone she loves here, even when they don't know it yet.

And Jin-Woo is one of them.

The atmosphere does not calm again, but Hae-In can hear Jin-Woo's voice soften, a bit.

"You can have a normal life, you don't need to battle against them, instead just live however you want."

"I've already forgotten what it is to have a world without monsters for 10 years."

"Let me take away your memories then, you can live peacefully without them."

Hae-In suddenly backs away. "No!" She is the one to put preassure this time, and Jin-Woo closes the fingers that were trying to reach out for her. "I don't want to. I can live with--" She looks at the ground for a while, trying to recollect her words. " It's who I am. Those memories, I don't want to lose them."

And that is all it takes for him to accept that.

"And I don't want to... I want to help you. I want to fight too, I promise not to get in the way. Please, just let me help you."

Before they knew it, the distance had been closed. there was nowhere to look except in front.

The shadows dissipated, the night cleared away. The next morning people disappeared to the ends of the universe itself.

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