Compared to the rest of them—Random Passerby A, Random Passerby B, and Mysterious Female Passerby—Phainon clearly had the highest impression score with Qianyi.
Naturally, he was the best person for the job.
Through Aglaea's golden threads, Phainon understood what everyone meant and decided to take the initiative to invite Qianyi to Holy City Okhma.
But just as Phainon drew a deep breath and prepared to formally extend the invitation—
"Hey~? Qianyi—!"
A pink figure suddenly rushed out, puffing out her cheeks as she complained to Qianyi, "Can you stop suddenly disappearing without a word? You make everyone worry about you!"
Though her words sounded like a complaint, they carried a natural intimacy.
"I was doing something very important just now. If I'd arrived a few steps later, I might've had to collect Phainon's body."
Qianyi glanced at Phainon.
"Phainon?"
Elysia instinctively looked around, then spotted the white-haired young man who looked strikingly similar to Kevin. She was instantly stunned. "No—way! There really is one?!!"
What were the odds?!
In Amphoreus, this Eternal Land, there was not only a little Cyrene who looked like her, but also a white-haired young man who looked absurdly like that ice-cold Kevin?!
That was! Ridiculous!
"Destined Encounter is like this. In a seemingly accidental corner, through a chance brush of shoulders, through a meeting no one remembers, ripples of the past can be stirred within the lake of one's heart."
Cyrene suddenly poked half her head out from behind Qianyi, gazing at Phainon. Her eyes held an indescribable tenderness and longing that had settled there across the long years.
"Since ripples from the past have already arisen, why not let them continue to spread, intersect and resonate with other Ripples of Fate, and ultimately weave them into a New Movement that tightly binds their destinies