A Chance Meeting

"You really do know a lot. What were we to each other in the past? Friends?"

Rover asked Lu Hesse, who stood before her.

There was no hostility in her voice.

She sensed none from him, either.

"Let me think. We did know each other, and we were friends, but..."

As Lu Hesse considered his answer, he glanced at Mo Bai beside Rover.

"We were friends, but I didn't spend nearly as much time with you as Mo Bai here. Hmm... 'a chance meeting,' perhaps. That describes us."

After some thought, Lu Hesse settled on a Huanglong expression.

"A chance meeting..."

Rover turned the phrase over in her mind.

"I'll need some time to decide whether that's true."

That was her answer.

She couldn't afford to get things wrong about her past again.

"Haha, of course. We'll have plenty of chances to work together in Lahai Luo."

Lu Hesse offered her a reassuring smile.

Tap...

But just as he took a step toward Napomo to look after her, he stopped.

"Oh, and remember what I told you earlier. Don't tell anyone else about the footage you saw."

At that moment, Lu Hesse looked no different from an ordinary, caring school doctor, reminding Rover once more of something important.

"You know what the Academy is like. Plenty of people want to learn about you or use you. While you were gone, I worried quite a bit about your disappearance."

His words left Rover a little embarrassed.

From what her friends had told her, her departures in the past had apparently always been sudden.

"Thank you, Lu."

From that moment on, Rover truly counted him as one of her own.

Watching her expression change, Lu Hesse smiled faintly.

"You really are a little different now from how you used to be."

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