The Training Ground Wall Can Wait Until We Get Home

"Yuan Yu! Don't you think you owe me for my Training Ground wall?"

Yan's voice carried over the city gate. Even the Royal Knights at the front heard him clearly.

Yuan Yu jumped down from the carriage and first looked behind Yan.

Six years had passed. Yan had grown much taller and broader in the shoulders, though his red hair was as eye-catching as ever. Xie Yue stood to his left with two Moon Blades at his waist, looking just as composed as he had when they were children.

Hu Liena stood a little farther forward in Spirit Hall Academy's platinum-colored team uniform, her auburn hair tied back.

All three of them were there.

"You still haven't fixed that wall?" Yuan Yu asked.

Yan's face darkened. "It was fixed three days after you left!"

"Then why do I still owe you for it?"

"I waited six years. I had to find some excuse to yell at you first."

With that, Yan strode up to Yuan Yu. He looked ready to punch him, but halfway through the motion, he changed course and gave Yuan Yu's shoulder a thump instead.

"So you remembered how to come back."

Yuan Yu swayed, and his face went a shade paler.

Hu Liena caught his wrist at once. "You're hurt?"

"Something happened on the road. I'm mostly better."

"If you're mostly better, why did one tap from Yan nearly knock you over?"

"Mostly because he hits hard."

Half of Yan's newfound concern vanished on the spot. "You're still asking for a beating."

Hu Liena ignored them both. She sent her Soul Power through Yuan Yu's wrist and into his meridians, soon finding several places where the damage from a shock had yet to heal. Her brow furrowed as her gaze moved to his right hand, where