(Heartfelt thanks to 'Shao Feng Ye' for the 1888 reward, and to 'Kaede no Chōrei,' 'Seeking Souls,' 'In Love With Anime,' 'Yeyu,' and 'Sui Feng Qi Wu' for their rewards!)
Watching Wu Yan embrace the cheering girls with a helpless yet gentle smile on his face, Purple could not help but smile softly as well. She silently used the system's perception ability to look at Wu Yan, trying to obtain his current information.
However, the very next second, Purple froze.
She had clearly used the system perception ability, yet the power that she had previously wielded so freely, one she could activate with a mere thought, gave no response at all. It was as though it had vanished.
Purple was not the only one. The other girls, who had been holding back their excitement and had not thrown themselves at Wu Yan, noticed it as well. For a moment, they could only stare at one another.
The girls embracing Wu Yan, meanwhile, discovered another abnormality.
"Master..." Astrea stared blankly at Wu Yan and asked in utter confusion.
"Your eyes..."
Almost instinctively, all the girls focused their gazes on Wu Yan's eyes. Then, they saw it.
The color of Wu Yan's pupils had returned!
That was right!
They had returned!
They were neither the wine-red color they had become after he acquired the True Ancestor Bloodline, nor the dazzling gold they turned when the bloodline was pushed to its limit. They were the color that had originally belonged to Wu Yan—black!
Black hair and black eyes!
This was how Wu Yan had looked before he exchanged for a bloodline, back when he had still been an ordinary human!
Of course, it was not only the system perception ability that could no longer be used, nor was it merely the return of