Hunter Academy: Revenge of the Weakest

Chapter 937 215.3 - Finally

Astron stared into her eyes, his own gaze calm, steady—unwavering as the silence stretched between them. He could feel the warmth of her breath against his skin, could still sense the lingering traces of her fangs from where they had sunk into his neck. Yet, he didn't move. He only watched.

Her reaction to his touch had been unexpected. The way she had trembled—not from hunger, not from need, but from something else. Something more fragile. More uncertain.

And as he stood there, feeling the weight of the moment settle around them, memories began to stir.

The first time he met Senior Maya.

It had been nothing out of the ordinary at the time. A simple exchange—though he had thought of her as someone who was a bit different….

But things had taken a turn.

At some point, she had changed.

She had needed his help—and he had given it.

At the time, he hadn't thought much of it. He had simply acted, as he always did, in the most efficient way possible. She had been captured, her life threatened by a vampire. He had intervened, and in the process, she had been turned into something else—a half-vampire, something neither entirely human nor fully monster.

And that had set everything into motion.

Her visits. Her sudden fixation. The way her presence began to weave itself into his daily routine, how she would always look at him with those expectant eyes, waiting—watching.

He hadn't understood it then.

But now, looking back—seeing the way she looked at him now, the way her body trembled not from thirst, but from something deeper—he began to piece it together.

There was something unnatural about the way she gravitated toward him.

Something missing.

And that's when it hit him.

Love.

It was an emotion he had never fully understood. It was something abstract, something foreign—something that had no place in his life. In the past, when people spoke of love, it had always seemed distant, unattainable, irrelevant.

But then, Irina had entered his life.

And Irina—she had begun teaching him things. Things he had never thought to learn.