“I’ll be blunt. I prefer to work alone,” Hayden downright rejected Gerald’s invitation to be taken under his tutelage. “In addition to that, what else can you teach me? My combat aptitude is already reaching its peak, I cannot really learn any other skills and would have to rely on external paraphernalia to further develop my combat power. Your Ability is suitable for combat, mine isn’t. I cannot see how you can teach me anything.”
Hayden didn’t, and would never, at least not now, tell another soul of his dual wielder status. It was already quite a jump for him that he admitted to Eun-ha, his girlfriend, of his status. If that was considered a jump and risk for Hayden, what would telling Gerald be? It was a ginormous chasm that would he would never be able to jump cross!
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