When Luo Zhen returned to the rooftop garden of Saihagakuen Academy, the first person he saw was Yukina, pacing anxiously there.
"Senior!"
Seeing Luo Zhen return, Yukina immediately brightened. Then her brows rose, and she approached him with astonishing force.
"May I ask where you went? Why did you suddenly use Spatial Transfer? Were you hiding something from me? Please explain yourself honestly!"
Yukina fired off several questions in an imposing manner, leaving Luo Zhen completely bewildered.
But perhaps this could not really be blamed on Yukina.
As Luo Zhen's watcher, Yukina had placed a familiar beside him to keep watch in her absence. But once Luo Zhen used Spatial Transfer, the familiar naturally lost track of its target, rendering Yukina's surveillance useless.
Thus, Yukina could only see through the familiar that Luo Zhen had been ambushed here, defeated an unknown enemy's familiars, and then transferred away. After that, she knew nothing.
This had prompted Yukina to rush here at top speed, only to have no idea how to find Luo Zhen once she arrived.
That was why Yukina had been so anxious.
Luo Zhen hurriedly reassured her.
"It's fine, it's fine. I just taught the ambusher a lesson and came back."
Luo Zhen was telling the truth, more or less.
"Really?" Yukina asked suspiciously. "You really didn't do anything else? I just feel like there's a scent on you that's very familiar to me..."
Hearing this, the corner of Luo Zhen's mouth twitched slightly, and he began to feel guilty as well.
A scent?
Had Kousaka Sayaka's scent gotten onto him?
Then again, it was only natural, considering he had activated that strange switch and done something like that...
Of course, Luo Zhen would never admit it.
"You're overthinking it." Luo Zhen put on a solemn expression. "It was