That appearance was almost identical to the one in his memories—there was no doubt about it!
"Y-you, could you be..." Phainon looked at Elysia, his voice warped by overwhelming shock. Then that shock was washed away by immense joy. "Cyrene?!!"
"???" Several question marks slowly appeared above Cyrene's head.
"???" Qianyi followed suit with several question marks of his own.
Bro, did you inherit Solomon's EX-rank family blindness too?
The tiny Cyrene right beside you looked exactly like the one in your memories, yet you didn't recognize her. Instead, you went and mistook the much bigger Elysia for her.
Before Cyrene could explain herself, Phainon seemed to recall something. His joy was swiftly replaced by deeper confusion and incomprehension, eventually turning into a nearly painful seriousness and sharpness. "No, that's not right! I remember it clearly! In the burning Aedes Elysiae, my family, friends, kin—everyone fell into the sea of flames. Half a blood-red sun hung in the sky, and that murderer... stood before me and killed Cyrene with his own hands. Cyrene couldn't possibly still be alive!"
"Wow~? Qianyi, you were right. This guy really does resemble Kevin." Looking at Phainon's icy expression and the flames of vengeance suppressed in his eyes, Elysia instantly felt that the comparison fit perfectly.
He was exactly like Kevin Kaslana back when he was with Fire Moth: cold as an icicle every day, always shouting, "Humanity will absolutely overcome the Honkai, no matter the cost."
But...
"Compared to this furrowed-brow look, I prefer that sunny, cheerful expression you had just now~? And besides..." Elysia smiled as she glanced at Cyrene beside her and explained, "I'm not Cyrene. My name is Elysia."
"Elysia, that name..." Phainon repeated quietly. Then his pupils trembled slightly as he blurted out the meaning behind it. "The daughter of