We Will Be Able to Leave Soon

"Feitan cursed at me?" Xiao Ai tilted her head in confusion, looking at Chrollo with a thoroughly puzzled expression. "When did that happen?"

How was she supposed to know about this?

Chrollo looked at the utterly clueless Xiao Ai, his smile stiffening slightly before he ultimately changed the subject. "Ah, well, it's just that you didn't look very well."

"Oh, so you thought he yelled at me, and that's why my expression was bad." Xiao Ai finally had a moment of realization and waved a hand. "He didn't curse at me, though. I figured he wanted to, so I just ran away first."

She was hardly a fool; running up to Feitan while he wore a dark expression, bouncing around right next to someone who was already in a foul mood, was simply asking to be yelled at. She certainly didn't enjoy inviting scoldings.

Xiao Ai wore a melancholic expression. "My complexion is bad because the mark I left on Yezi has been completely washed away. I have no idea when we'll see each other again."

Even though Luo Ye had previously left Meteor City, the mark on him remained, giving her a sense of lingering attachment. She had known that they were bound to reunite one day.

Yet now that the trace was cleared, she had no idea whether she and Yezi would ever cross paths again.

It was rare to run into a fellow townsman, only for him to vanish just like that.

Chrollo glanced at her, quite surprised. "I actually thought you'd harbor resentment toward her for ditching you and running out of Meteor City by herself."

For instance, the bitterness of being abandoned.

Being cast aside by someone despite doing nothing wrong, and the resentment born from that.

He didn't understand how, while living in the