A Luo secretly carried the unconscious Killua back to her bedroom, then applied medicine and bandaged his wounds.
She didn't dare eat dinner with her parents in the dining room. Instead, she took some food back to her room, locked the door, and ate while keeping an eye on little Killua.
When she collected her food, Malena gave her a puzzled look for quite a while. Fortunately, she didn't press her daughter about why she was acting so strangely that day!
After dinner, A Luo glanced at the unconscious little squirt.
Seeing no sign that he would wake up anytime soon, she washed up, then climbed into bed without a care and slept on the outer side.
They were both little kids, after all, and Killua was still unconscious. There was no need to worry about sharing a bed with a boy or feel awkward about it.
Early the next morning, A Luo groggily got up and went to the bathroom to wash up.
Only to jump in fright as soon as she walked in and found the little squirt taking a pee!
Oh, right!
I picked up one badly injured Killua yesterday.
Killua was startled too. His little face flushed as he demanded to know why she hadn't knocked before coming in.
Knock?
This was her room! Since when did she knock inside her own room? Hadn't he noticed that she'd even forgotten she'd brought a little Killua-cat home?
After washing up, A Luo saw that Killua could move around freely, so she simply took him to the dining room to meet her mother, saying he was a new friend she'd met at Heavens Arena.
Malena was delighted.
Her daughter did nothing but train and compete all day. Such a lovely little girl, yet she always kept to herself. This was the first time she had ever brought a friend home!
To welcome her daughter's good friend Killua, Malena specially prepared plenty of delicious dishes and desserts she rarely made because they took so much time and effort.
When Killua tasted them, his big, catlike eyes narrowed in delight. He was so adorable that A Luo went completely dazed.
She felt immensely grateful that she'd brought him home the night before.
If she'd left the kid in that filthy, stinking alley all night, never mind having his wounds heal-she would have been lucky if they hadn't become infected and given him a high fever!
After breakfast, A Luo continued the training regimen Fan En had set for her.
Seeing this, Killua coolly announced that he would join her.
"Killua, don't be ridiculous! Your injuries haven't fully healed yet, have they?"
A Luo tried to stop him.
"Tch! You think I'm like you? Needing to lie around for days over a few little injuries."
Killua mercilessly mocked the cool little girl.
Fifteen minutes later, A Luo and Killua arrived at the training ground on Back Mountain.
Then, for the entire afternoon, the training ground rang with Killua's cutting remarks and personal insults aimed at A Luo.
"Hey, A Luo! We're supposed to punch the sandbag, not stroke it... You don't need to feel sorry for it. Could you put some strength into it?"
"A Luo, you've barely been running! Why are you already panting like a dead dog?"
"You can't even lift this little bit? It's not like you skimped on breakfast!"
Speechless, A Luo sat on the ground, gasping for breath.
If she could, she would have loved to remind a certain ungrateful little brat who repaid kindness with cruelty that dead dogs didn't pant!
Besides, that "little bit" he mentioned weighed a full hundred kilograms. No matter how much she ate, she still couldn't lift it.
By the end of the day's training, Killua's words and actions had battered A Luo's confidence to pieces.
She felt as though her very existence was a waste of air. She was nothing more than a walking poop factory!
Even Laisen, listening from the sidelines, found it a little hard to bear.
That night, before bedtime, in Fan'en Reno's room.
Laisen gave him a detailed report of everything that had happened at the training ground, then respectfully withdrew.
After hearing Laisen's report, Fan En looked somewhat grave.
There was certainly nothing ordinary about the background of the child A Luo had brought home!
It wasn't just his exceptional, one-in-ten-million talent. There was also the harsh training the boy had mentioned, not to mention those razor-sharp moves of his!
With a child like that suddenly appearing at A Luo's side, he truly couldn't tell whether it would be good or bad for her!
At the same time, in A Luo's bedroom.
Killua lay sprawled across most of the bed, occasionally kicking the little girl asleep beside him.
The little girl slept like a log through it all, without the slightest reaction.
The next morning, A Luo stared at the bruises on her arm in the bathroom, utterly baffled.
They definitely weren't there when I took a bath yesterday!
When did I bump into something?
Beside her, Killua looked oddly guilty.
A month later, A Luo's intensive training came to an end.
Killua hadn't gone to Heavens Arena much during that time, and had given A Luo plenty of "help" during her training.
As a direct result, every one of A Luo's plans to slack off had fallen through, leaving her to train diligently for a full month.
To thank him, A Luo specifically asked Malena for advice and made Killua chocolate bars with sweet pepper centers.
What a rare sight! The moment Killua bit into a chocolate bar, the perpetually cool little brat practically turned green!
Of course, afterward, Killua forced A Luo to drink a large bowl of the ginger tea she hated most as payback for her prank.
After a month of intensive training, A Luo's strength, speed, and combat reflexes had all improved noticeably.
Fan En decided to pause the intensive training and have A Luo return to Heavens Arena to compete starting the next day.
In this wondrous Hunter World, Heavens Arena could be called a paradise for every fighter in the world.
According to official figures, the magnificent Heavens Arena had 251 floors and stood 991 meters tall, making it the fourth-tallest building on the human continent of Hunter World.
The entire tower was filled with fighting arenas. Up to the 200th floor, Heavens Arena divided its floors into ten-floor tiers, and only those who won could advance!
A Luo and Killua stepped through the gates of this paradise together.
The difference was that A Luo would compete on the 60th floor, while Killua headed straight to the 100th.
Even though he had only come to fight occasionally during her training, Killua had already reached the 100th floor.
Seriously, why was the gap between people so huge?
Before A Luo transmigrated, the body's original owner had built a solid foundation.
Otherwise, Fan'en Reno wouldn't have placed such high hopes on his daughter!
To a large extent, it was the original owner's talent that had given him that confidence.
In her scattered memories, the original owner had started training at three and begun competing at Heavens Arena around the age of six.
With steady progress over a little more than a year, the original owner had already reached the 100th floor.
Unfortunately, after transmigrating, A Luo needed time to get used to this body. She had lost one match after another lately, dropping from above the 100th floor all the way back to the 60th.
Just before the elevator doors closed, Killua coolly tossed out a remark:
"A Luo, hurry up! I'll be waiting for you on the 100th floor!"
Standing in the ring again, she thought that perhaps this month of intensive training really had worked.
Facing the hulking, muscular man who had previously beaten her black and blue, A Luo found she wasn't afraid at all.
Honestly!
His punch was too slow, his movements weren't fluid enough, and even the way he generated force was wrong.
The attacks she had once been unable to dodge now seemed riddled with openings.
The little girl merely hopped nimbly to the left and evaded her opponent's attack.
Then her tiny figure sprang up, delivering a light strike to a pressure point on the back of her opponent's neck with blinding speed.
The fighter facing A Luo collapsed to the floor with a thud.
Killua had said that this was a vital pressure point... As long as she controlled her strength properly, she could usually knock her opponent out directly.
"Contestant Boro is unconscious. Lola Reno wins!"
After announcing the result, the referee handed A Luo a certificate.
"Miss Lola, please proceed directly to the 80th floor."
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