"My eyes...? Hmm, I imagine it wasn't you who came up with that question, but rather that little bird on your shoulder, right?"
Smiling, Alyia looked at Hye. However, he somehow sensed—perhaps due to his level evolution and the sharpening of his senses—that she wasn't truly aiming her gaze at him but rather something beyond.
"Little bird...? Ha! Yes, as expected, just as arrogant as your predecessor."
"Yes, yes, you're not the first to say that, and you certainly won't be the last."
Feeling his heartbeat pulse and his eyebrows involuntarily twitch, Hye quickly realized the absence of fear, happiness, or any other emotion he had experienced before. In the end, he concluded that the mixture of such accidental reactions could only be one thing: surprise, considering his current situation.
