A Thrill Originating from the Bloodline
"Eh?"
At that moment, Asuna seemed to lose all awareness and stood there in a daze.
The familiar voice that reached her ears struck her like a bolt from the blue, leaving her utterly unresponsive.
Yuuki, on the other hand, looked toward the source of the voice. Her eyes widened, and then she cried out in delight.
"Luo Zhen!"
That cry told Asuna she had not heard wrong.
The voice reaching her ears was not a misperception, much less a hallucination. It was reality.
Asuna hurriedly turned her head.
The next second, Asuna saw him.
At the hospital entrance, a young man had appeared at some point. He was looking at her with a beaming smile.
That figure and that appearance were impossible for Asuna to mistake.
"Luo... Luo Zhen?"
Asuna called out uncertainly and nervously, as if she still could not believe everything she was seeing.
Seeing Asuna standing there in such a silly daze, Luo Zhen could not help smiling.
"What's wrong? Don't you recognize me?" Luo Zhen teased deliberately. "I remember I wasn't gone for very long. What? Have you fallen for someone else?"
Luo Zhen found Asuna's reaction rather amusing, but his gaze was also filled with tenderness.
He had been away from this world for more than a month. That might sound like a long time, but in truth it was not long at all. Luo Zhen really had not expected Asuna to be this overjoyed.
That showed how much she had missed him, didn't it?
Thinking this, Luo Zhen felt warmth in his heart.
At that moment, Luo Zhen had no idea that Asuna's reaction was so intense not only because she had missed him, but also because something major had happened.
"Why... why did you only come