Otherwise, the outcome where she alone survived... was simply too hard for her to accept.
Just then, the dejected girl heard some sort of sound.
It was the sound of something falling from the sky—
She looked up, only to see the figure of someone descending from above.
"...Huh?!"
With a startled cry, Anna instinctively spread her arms, trying to catch him.
With a bang, the girl was knocked to the ground.
"Cough... cough cough..."
Once the dust from the fall had dispersed, Anna finally saw clearly that the person who had fallen from the sky was Ming Yu, the very person she had been looking for.
"M-Ming Yu?"
The girl spoke in surprise.
"Mm... yeah, it's me."
Ming Yu barely managed to lift his head as he answered.
Probably because it was his first time operating the Chariot of Sanctus and he was not yet proficient with it, the coordinates had been slightly off after teleportation. He had ended up somewhere rather high and been forced into a free fall.
With his current physique, even crashing straight into the ground would not have caused any problems... but while falling just now, he had realized that he seemed to have hit someone else.
Only then did he notice that he had knocked Anna to the ground.
This position was, in short, a little inappropriate.
"Uh, sorry."
Ming Yu braced his hands against the ground on either side of the girl, intending to sit up.
But Anna suddenly reached out and hugged him, saying in a remarkably delighted tone,
"That's wonderful, you're alive!"
The girl held Ming Yu tightly, afraid that he would disappear again the next second.
"I was really worried about you. If something had really happened to you..."
"But nothing did."
Ming Yu smiled reassuringly.
"Mm... mm."
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