Come out. My spiritual energy locked onto you completely long ago.
From the seventeenth second after you hacked into the traffic surveillance system near Sakura Hill until now,
I had been waiting for you for a long time."
Before he had even finished speaking,
the fallen cherry blossoms rustling beneath the flickering rural lights seemed to freeze in midair, as if someone had pressed pause on time itself.
Until Su Wen lightly snapped his fingers,
in an instant,
boundless pale-golden spiritual energy abruptly contracted like a heavenly net, wrapping up a shabby doll hidden among the country weeds along with the pinhole camera concealed in its chest, then delivering them before him.
In that instant, countless electronic components and bits of stuffing exploded within the vortex of spiritual energy, then condensed into crystalline ice within inches of him, refracting remnants of rainbow neon.
Only then
did a sweet, playful female voice reach Su Wen's ears.
Since the equipment had all been assembled from discarded parts, that syrupy voice, accompanied by electrical static, carried the hazy quality of an old-fashioned radio:
"Oh my,
Mr. Rhine, you really are mean.
You clearly discovered my data afterimage through spiritual energy resonance ages ago, yet you pretended not to know and went to the convenience store to buy limited-edition ramune instead~"
Hearing that,
Su Wen paused slightly in the motion of crushing those mimic ice crystals. Moonlight alone cast handsome, marble-carved lines across his profile.
"Caroline?"
And when she heard that he had recognized her immediately despite such outdated equipment,
the coquettish female voice instantly shifted into a tearful tone, mingling with the soft rustle of falling cherry blossoms:
"Mm-hm,
are you surprised to hear my voice?
Or did I interrupt you and those two girls huddling together inside the house to 'deepen your