Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 733

Chapter 733: Chapter 733 - Taming the Fifth Year - Stars of the Past

’WHAT.’

’WHAT DID HE JUST SAY.’

’HE’S GLAD? GLAD I MEMORIZED HIS MANA MARK?’

’THAT’S... THAT’S NOT THE RESPONSE I EXPECTED. THAT’S NOT... HE’S NOT SUPPOSED TO...’

Her thoughts fragmented into incoherence.

Too many emotions hitting simultaneously for rational processing. Relief and joy and disbelief and something warm that made her chest feel too small to contain it.

Her face was not perfectly neutral anymore.

"I..." she started, then stopped.

What could she even say to that?

Ren smiled. A small and gentle one just for her.

The kind of smile that suggested he understood exactly how much that admission had cost. How much courage it had taken to reveal she’d been paying attention from the very beginning.

"I noticed you too," he said softly, still moving in perfect synchronization with her steps.

Luna’s heart did something acrobatic.

’He noticed me? When? How?’

"Hard not too... You were the one with the strongest beast there and the only one who didn’t laugh," Ren continued, his voice carrying that same gentle quality. "The only one who looked... angry on my behalf instead of amused."

’He saw that? I thought I hid it. I thought my mask was perfect and he SAW THROUGH IT?’

"And then the first school day you defended me from Jin’s group, so I thought..." he paused, choosing words carefully, "I thought that if even one person could see me as worth defending, maybe I wasn’t completely hopeless to show my worth."

The words landed heavy with meaning. With the weight of revelation that they’d both been paying attention to each other from the very beginning.

That this connection hadn’t started recently but had roots going back years to that first day when everything had seemed impossible.

Luna couldn’t speak.

Couldn’t do anything except keep dancing and try not to let her expression crack more completely under the weight of emotions threatening to overwhelm.

’He noticed me. From the first day. Just like I noticed him.’

’We’ve been... what? Circling each other? Watching each other? Caring about each other without admitting it?’

’For YEARS?’

The realization hit like revelation.

Like suddenly seeing a pattern that had always been there but she’d been too close to recognize. Like understanding that what she’d thought was recent development had actually been building since the very beginning.

"Luna," Ren said softly, pulling her slightly closer in the dance.

Not inappropriately. Not breaking protocol. Just enough that the space between them decreased fractionally.

She looked up at him, unable to hide the vulnerability in her eyes anymore. Unable to maintain the mask when everything inside was too big to contain.

"I’m glad you memorized my mana mark and saved me first," he repeated, making sure she heard it. Making sure she believed it. "Because it means I mattered to you even when I had nothing to offer and I was worthless... Now let me save you."

’You always mattered... From that first day. From that first moment I saw you refuse to break. You always mattered.’

But Ren knew that...

So she just nodded.

Ren saw it.

And his smile widened fractionally. Understanding his first mission was complete.

Getting her to trust him enough to share. To open up.

"And while you take your time to tell me your full plan... Keep yourself safe, okay?"

The words were simple. Casual almost.

But they triggered something in Luna.

BEFORE

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