"My father's favorite place?" Liu Nan looked up at He Ao, seeming to sink into memory. "When I was around, he loved sitting in the little garden on the rooftop, basking in the sun."
At this point, she paused. "But when I wasn't around..."
Her gaze shifted toward the staircase. "I think he preferred being alone in the study on the second floor. Every time I came home, I could find him there."
"Alright."
He Ao nodded lightly, lifted his foot, and headed for the second floor.
Liu Nan followed closely behind him.
The instant he stepped onto the stairs, He Ao felt a distinct pressure. That "sense of symmetry" trying to twist his body and movements was affecting him to a clearly perceptible degree.
He instinctively wanted to press his feet together and hop upward.
If it could affect even him so noticeably, this did not seem like something a B-rank transcendent could achieve.
A World Eye Fragment?
He Ao lowered his head, an orange-gray gleam flashing through his eyes.
He lifted his feet and quickly climbed upward.
Behind him, after stepping onto the first stair, Liu Nan's expression also changed slightly. Yet she said nothing, merely gritted her teeth and continued following closely behind He Ao.
Her pace had clearly slowed.
He Ao did not look back. He simply let the girl follow as he continued onward.
Soon, the two of them reached the second floor via the stairs.
The first thing that met their eyes upon reaching the upper floor was a spacious hall filled with various geometric decorations and furniture with a strong sense of design.
Naturally, those geometric forms had all become perfectly symmetrical.
These orderly lines formed the structural style of the entire second floor, their symmetry far exceeding that of the first floor.