She put away that cheerful expression, then hugged the ribbon with some self-reproach, gently stroking the patterns on it.
"Next time, I'll really be more careful. Then you won't have to get hurt either."
[Laurentina...]
"I know, Zuo Jian, so..."
[Laurentina?]
"After all... you were worried about me too..."
[Laurentina!]
[Can you let go first? And don't bury your head in there!]
"...No."
[Let go!]
Zuo Jian struggled to break free, but she held him tightly and kept rubbing against him.
Would a C-Language Shark Meet a Bioluminescent Bulb Tentacle?
In the endless wilderness, the sun gradually sank. Cold pale gray-blue slowly swallowed the sunset until chill and darkness completely blanketed the earth.
Compared to the daytime heat, the cold of night seemed as though it came from another world.
The temperature's
drastic shift had created such a harsh environment.
Laurentina walked across the cracked earth and turned her head to look at the half-remains of a human skeleton.
The clothes on the body had long weathered into scraps, while the bones of its lower half had vanished entirely.
They had probably been dragged away by beasts of the wilderness.
The skull was half-buried in yellow soil, and the exposed half of its broken horn seemed to tell them of its origin.
[Sarkaz. They have many racial branches, but regardless of the kind of Sarkaz, their physical capabilities surpass those of most ordinary races. They possess high Originium adaptability and are prone to Oripathy.]
Zuo Jian opened the Terra Guide at Laurentina's waist and found the nation called Kazdel.
"Extremely prone to Oripathy... But when an Infected person dies, doesn't the corpse rapidly crystallize and then explode, becoming a new source of infection? How could he—"
Laurentina stepped forward and looked at the ravaged skeleton before her, yet could not