"Hmm?"
Looking at the girl in his arms, Luo Zhen could not help but freeze for a moment.
It was because the light in her upturned eyes was so bright and intense that even Luo Zhen found himself stunned.
In particular, the emotion revealed in those eyes gave Luo Zhen a feeling of sheer astonishment.
After all, Luo Zhen was not unfamiliar with that kind of emotion.
The Luo Zhen of today was no longer the inexperienced young man he had once been. With a Sword God as his lover, a fiancée brimming with wifely virtues, and a Servant who had always been hazily showing him affection, Luo Zhen had grown far more than he knew—not only in intelligence, but in emotional awareness as well.
Thus, Luo Zhen could be certain that the familiar emotion in Serenity Hassan's eyes at this moment was called—"love."
And it was love directed at him.
"No way...?"
Luo Zhen nearly doubted his own eyes and senses.
There was no helping it. This was his first time meeting Serenity. Before this, he had not even heard of her.
Of course, if it was merely a matter of knowledge, Luo Zhen naturally knew of this Poison Kill expert, one of the successive Old Men of the Mountain. Since the Assassin Class itself was a catalyst for summoning a Hassan, if no other catalyst or method was used to summon a Servant, the Assassin summoned would invariably be one of the successive Hassans. As a result, Hassans frequently appeared in many Holy Grail Wars.
For that reason, apart from the First Hassan, who was said never to have been summoned to this day, the other eighteen Hassans had all appeared in the ritual of a Holy Grail War.
Thanks to that, records of the Hassans existed not