Action Confirmed!

The moment he heard Osphia say that they could now only find the Mentor through one person, Fang Ran had been mildly curious about who that person could be.

Then he saw the young man on the laptop screen, handsome behind his glasses yet pale and frail.

The instant his eyes froze in disbelief, Fang Ran suddenly remembered—this was the person he had met on the icebreaker deck before charging into the Arctic!

Huh.

It was him!???

"You know him?"

Noticing that, unlike Qing Ning, Fang Ran had suddenly gone still, Osphia asked softly.

"No, I just happened to meet him once before."

It had been nearly two months since his time in Italy a hundred years ago. Fang Ran had almost forgotten that he had encountered such a person.

But he remembered the dense Sea of Stars stretching through the Arctic's dark, endless expanse, the man he had unexpectedly gotten along with so well, and his one-half-awakened Dual Cards.

Klim.

So that was his name.

Having inadvertently learned the name he had forgotten to ask for back then, Fang Ran's gaze drifted for a moment. Only when he noticed Qing Ning's curious look did he come back to himself and turn apologetically toward Osphia.

"Ah, it's nothing. Go on—why can we find the Mentor through him?"

Without pressing further, Osphia glanced at him with her azure eyes before continuing to explain to the two of them.

"I only learned of his existence after obtaining the White Wings. He is one of the Mentor's few students, as well as one of her experimental assistants."

"So if we catch him, we can find the Mentor?"

Why did that sound like the logic of a kidnapper?

Slightly speechless as he watched Qing Ning grow excited, already switching into the simple, brutal mindset