"Eh, aren't we waiting for Kiana?"
Yorktown asked in surprise.
"Kiana's previous actions injured her soul. It wasn't serious, but she still needed some time to recover. There's no need to worry."
Gwen smiled.
"Once she wakes up, that foolish Kiana will be back."
"Ha..."
Raiden Mei chuckled softly at that.
"If you talk about Kiana like that, be careful. She might suddenly wake up, sneak behind you, and choke you without letting go."
"Let her choke me, then."
Gwen appeared utterly fearless.
"Breathing is merely a habit for me, not a necessity for survival."
"Then wasn't everything Kiana did before completely pointless?"
Yorktown's expression turned somewhat strange as she walked down the stairs.
"I was just playing along with her."
Gwen revealed a knowing smile, and the others all smiled in understanding.
After leaving the house and successfully meeting up with Anna, who had been waiting by the roadside, the Fire Moth team—short one member—officially began their morning training for the day—
Although Anna's apartment was now very close to Gwen's home after she had switched residences with the other girls, it still was not as close as Gwen and Mei's homes were to each other. Thus, she could only wait by the roadside for their early-morning exercise.
Although simple morning training could no longer provide any meaningful improvement for their physical condition, it was still perfectly fine for warming up their bodies.
Therefore, after half an hour of morning training, while the girls were not drenched in fragrant sweat, faint moisture had appeared on their foreheads, and their subtle body fragrance, once detectable only up close, had quietly spread a little farther.
"This presence... feels strangely familiar..."
Just as Gwen felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity, Yolandale stepped off the treadmill beside him and interrupted his unconscious train