Embrace

"Good thing!?"

Freya was completely baffled and asked curiously.

"Why is that a good thing? Don't you want me to train hard and become stronger?"

Ye Mu looked into Freya's eyes. Compared to everyone else on the ship, Freya's eyes were the brightest.

"Of course I do, but you have to understand that everything comes at a price!"

"A price!?"

"Yeah."

Ye Mu sat up straight, his expression serious as he spoke.

"Everyone on our ship has their own story. Take Enel, for example. Don't be fooled by how he is now—he was an orphan from childhood. He never saw his parents, and before he met me, he lived alone the whole time, suffering all kinds of abuse and not even getting enough to eat. Can you imagine that kind of loneliness and pain?"

At that moment, Freya was truly stunned.

She thought back to Enel, with that defiant look on his face. It was hard to connect him with the image Ye Mu had described.

But it had really happened.

"I thought Enel had always been like this since he was little..."

"Of course not. That's why he especially hates being alone. No matter how impatiently he talks about that little girl Baby-5, whenever someone comes near him, he's actually very happy inside. And to protect that sense of belonging, he has to become stronger."

"As for Tiger's story, if he doesn't want to tell it, I can't tell you either. But you only need to know that the darkness he went through is beyond anything you could imagine."

"That little girl Baby-5 too. Her family was very poor when she was young. After she was born, her parents thought she was wasting food and abandoned her in the forest. She lived there alone. If she hadn't accidentally eaten