Time travelling with you had to be some kind of torture, in its own way. Not because you were annoying, or because he hated you, but because you were from his world and he.. admittedly, had the biggest crush on you back then. He can barely even remember those days anymore, but the butterflies in his stomach haven't wavered since then. It's been over a thousand years, but he's still as weak for you as he was when he was some university student getting bullied.

It was torture because he didn't have the courage to ask you out. Yes, Yuwon knows, he's a coward, but this friendship is his first, and he'll cherish this as long as he can have it. Even if that means painful long centuries of longing, and now, even more, back in the earlier months of his life. If he wasn't so aware of his own adaptability, Yuwon would've honestly said that they asked him to go back with you because they wanted him to ask you out properly.

Staring at you, though? Walking through the forest with him to another test to the next floor, he knows he can't. Won't, even. Yuwon has you as a friend, his closest, and that'll have to be enough. He has to thank every star out there that he can hide his emotions (somewhat) well, and that you're a little on the oblivious side when it comes to feelings and emotions.