Warm life energy enveloped Su Ming, while the glow of the earth's veins flowed beneath his feet.
Before him stood a girl who was the embodiment of Earth's Will.
Her hands were planted on her hips, and she strained onto her tiptoes, trying to look a little more imposing.
She tilted her head up and deliberately put on a stern face,
narrowing her eyes as she looked Su Ming up and down with an expression that said, I'm scary.
"Hmph!"
She struck first with a huff, trying to make her voice sound harsher,
but its clear, bright tone gave away how little confidence lay behind her bluster:
"Who! Are! You?!"
Deep down, she was a little nervous.
The man before her had just merged with Xiao Gu's origin energy
and forced back the Death Goddess. The depths of his power were impossible to fathom.
Yet, for some reason,
she sensed no malice from him. Instead, she felt a strange... closeness?
That was what had given her the nerve to pull him back and demand an explanation,
though she did not dare act too tough. He had just saved Earth, after all.
Su Ming looked at that familiar, adorable face trying so hard to look fierce,
and froze for a moment.
Then, as if something had come back to him, his face lit up with a warm smile of understanding.
"Oh, right..."
He patted his forehead, sounding suddenly enlightened and familiar with her.
"You don't know me yet..."
As he spoke, he pressed his index and middle fingers lightly to his temple,
then slowly drew them away.
A soft, pure beam of light made up of fragments of memory
trailed from his fingers like a ribbon.
With a casual flick, he sent it floating toward the girl.
She blinked curiously and